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BR 1 YISRAEL B'ARTSO (ISRAEL IN HIS LAND) TABACK, BEN TZION STORIES OF THE JEWS IN ISRAEL, FROM JOSHUA TO YEHUDA HANASI. EACH CHAPTER HAS OWN DICTIONARY.
BR 2 MA'ASIYOT ALEF SCHARFSTEIN, ZVI A COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S STORIES, CONTAINING TALMUDIC LEGENDS AND OTHER TALES IN EASY HEBREW WITH TRANSLATION OF SOME WORDS.
BR 3 MA'ASIYOT DALED SCHARFSTEIN, ZVI A COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S STORIES, CONTAINING TALMUDIC LEGENDS AND OTHER TALES IN EASY HEBREW WITH TRANSLATION OF SOME WORDS.
BR 4 MA'ASIYOT HEH SCHARFSTEIN, ZVI A COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S STORIES, CONTAINING TALMUDIC LEGENDS AND OTHER TALES IN EASY HEBREW WITH TRANSLATION OF SOME WORDS.
BR 5 SIPURIM K'TSARIM (SHORT STORIES) U.A.H.C., ED. SHORT STORIES ADAPTED FROM HEBREW LITERATURE, FOR INTERMEDIATE READERS. INCLUDES EXERCISES AND A DICTIONARY.
BR 6 LEGENDS AND TALES COHEN, ISABEL E. A COMPILATION OF PROSE AND VERSE ON JEWISH SUBJECTS, INCLUDING THE BIBLE.
BR 9 LET'S READ HEBREW KOCH, ANNA PARMET AN EASY HEBREW READER WITH VOCABULARY.
BR 10 BOY PROPHET FLEG, EDMOND AN IDEALISTIC BIOGRAPHY OF A YOUNG JEWISH BOY IN PARIS.
BR 11 HAY'HUDI HARISHON GIMEL-DALED; TARGILON GREENBERG, EVELYN CONTAINS MANY AIDS AND SUPPLEMENTARY EXERCISES FOR TEACHING HAY'HUDI HARISHON GIMEL-DALED.
BR 16 LINGUAPHONE, MODERN HEBREW WARTSHI, ISADORE A MANUAL TO ACCOMPANY A RECORDED HEBREW SELF-TEACHING COURSE.
BR 17 LINGUAPHONE CONVERSATIONAL HEBREW YELLIN, DAVID A MANUAL TO ACCOMPANY A RECORDED HEBREW SELF-TEACHING COURSE.
BR 20 SFAT YISRAEL ALEF (THE LANGUAGE OF ISRAEL PART I) SHEINSON, B. A HEBREW PRIMER WITH TWO AIMS: TEACHING WITHOUT ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND IMPARTING JEWISH VALUES.
BR 21 SFAT YISRAEL - TARGILON SHEINSON, B. WORKBOOK SUPPLEMENT FOR SFAT YISRAEL.
BR 24 MY PORTION KOHUR, REBEKAH THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A REMARKABLE AMERICAN JEWISH WOMAN OF THE HIGHEST CULTURE.
BR 25 HAIVRI BOOK TWO: TARGILON MARENOF, S.; SCHULTZ, E. WORKBOOK FOR HAIVRI SEFER SHENI
BR 26 HAIVRI BOOK TWO MARENOF, S.; SCHULTZ, E. A CONTINUATION OF MATERIAL FOR HAIVRI, SEFER RISHON.
BR 28 HAIVRI, BOOK ONE MARENOF, S.; SCHULTZ, E. ILLUSTRATED HEBREW TEXT. A DICTIONARY WITH ALL NEW WORDS USED IN BOOK INCLUDED.
BR 31 HASEFER HASHLISHI L'MAT'CHILIM: TARGILON (THE THIRD READER FOR BEGINNERS: WORKBOOK) BRIDGER, DAVID THE WORKBOOK FOR THE THIRD READER FOR BEGINNERS.
BR 32 HASEFER HELEK SHENI THE READER, PART TWO BACHRACH, KALMAN
BR 33 RABBI TAKES STOCK GOLDMAN, SOLOMON A DISCUSSION OF SOME OF THE RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL QUESTIONS WHICH TROUBLE MODERN AMERICAN JEWRY.
BR 37 HAIVRI SEFER SHENI MARENOF, S., SCHULTZ, E. A CONTINUATION OF MATERIAL COVERED IN HAIVRI, SEFER RISHON.
BR 38 DAVID COOPER, DUFF A DETAILED BIOGRAPHY OF DAVID, KING OF ISRAEL, IN WHICH HE IS TREATED AS THE HISTORICAL KING RATHER THAN THE RELIGIOUS FIGURE.
BR 39 IMUNIM L'HAIVRI, SEFER SHLISHI MARENOF, S., SCHULTZ, E. DRILLS FOR 'HAIVRI' BOOK THREE
BR 42 HAVERI HEHADASH, HELEK ALEF (MY NEW FRIEND, PART ONE) SCHARFSTEIN, SOL & EDYTHE JUVENILE READER,
BR 43 HAIVRI, SEFER SHLISHI MARENOF, S.; SCHULTZ, E. A CONTINUATION OF MATERIAL COVERED IN HAIVRI, SEFER SHENI.
BR 48 RESHIT HAKRIAH GROSSMAN, JACOB DOV AN EASY HEBREW READER WITH VOCABULARY
BR 54 DREAMERS OF THE GHETTO ZANGWILL, ISRAEL BIOGRAPHIES OF SIXTEEN EMINENT JEWS FROM THE 16TH CENTURY TO THE CLOSE OF THE 19TH CENTURY.
BR 55 HASEFER HELEK SHENI; TARGILON BACHRACH, KALMAN THE WORKBOOK FOR HASEFER HELEK SHENI
BR 56 N'VIYIM RISHONIM MIKTZORIM, HELEK RISHON THE EARLY PROPHETS, PART ONE SCHARFSTEIN, ZVI THE ABBREVIATED BOOKS OF JOSHUA, JUDGES (INCLUDING RUTH) AND SAMUEL I, WITH SHORT HEBREW EXPLANATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF THE DIFFICULT WORDS.
BR 57 DAPE EZER L'HUMASH, HELEK SHENI JEWISH EDUCATION COMMITTEE EXERCISES FOR BIBLE SELF-STUDY.
BR 60 SEFER HAKRIYAH AL PI HASHITAH HAKOLIT (A READER ACCORDING TO THE AUDIO METHOD) SCHARFSTEIN, ZVI A MODERN ALPHABET BOOK DESIGNED TO TEACH READING USING THE AUDIO METHOD.
BR 62 HAVERI, SEFER LIMUD L'MATHILIM PERSKY, ELIAS, SCHARFSTEIN, SOL A HEBREW TEXTBOOK FOR BEGINNERS.
BR 63 MAVO DIVINSKY, O. INTRODUCTION FOR CHILDREN'S STUDY OF HUMASH. (B'RESHIT-CHAYEH SARAH) IN SIMPLE HEBREW, RETAINS SPIRIT OF ORIGINAL WITH QUESTIONS AT END OF EACH CHAPTER.
BR 64 N'VI'IM RISHONIM L'TALMIDIM, SHUMEL BET POLLACK, I.H. THE BOOK OF SAMUEL II, WITH QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES FOR SELF STUDY.
BR 65 TORATI RAISKIN, MAX AND GERALD AN INFORMATIVE STUDY GUIDE TO THE BIBLE, DESIGNED ESPECIALLY FOR CHILDREN.
BR 67 FANNY HERSELF FERBER, EDNA THE STORY OF FANNY BRANDEIS, A JEWISH GIRL OF ENERGY AND SPIRIT, WHO IS CAUGHT BY THE GLAMOUR OF BIG BUSINESS AND WORKS OUT HER DESTINY ALONG ORIGINAL LINES.
BR 69 HAY'HUDI HARISHON ALEF-BET; TARGILON LATALMID KLEIN, MIRIAM CONTAINS STORIES FOR COLLATERAL HEBREW READING, GAMES, EXERCISES, AND MANY OTHER AIDS FOR THE EFFECTIVE TEACHING OF THE TEXT.
BR 70 HAVERI HEHADASH BET RUBENSTEIN, S. A CONTINUATION OF MATERIAL COVERED IN HAVERI HEHADASH HELEK ALEF.
BR 71 MOSES MENDELSSOHN SELECTIONS FROM HIS WRITINGS EVA, JOSEPH, EDITOR WORKS BY THE 18TH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHER WHO HELPED TO BRING THE GHETTO JEW INTO THE INTELLECTUAL LIMELIGHT OF THE TIMES.
BR 73 HAIVRI, SEFER RISHON; TARGILON MARENOF, S., SCHULTZ, E. CONTAINS EXERCISES FOR HAIVRI, SEFER RISHON.
BR 75 HEBREW MUSIC EWEN, DAVID A HISTORY OF JEWISH MUSIC FROM 70 C.E. UNTIL THE 1930S.
BR 77 HASHAAR PALAY, SARAH, SUGARMAN, LILLIAN A BOOK DESIGNED TO TEACH PRAYERS TO CHILDREN. STARTS WITH BASIC PHONETIC SOUNDS AND WORKS UP TO SIMPLE PRAYERS. CONTAINS ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS.
BR 79 RESHIT BINAH FISH, SIDNEY, M. AN ELEMENTARY HEBREW PRIMER.
BR 92 HEBREW PRIMER AND HEBREW MANUAL, PART ONE REICHLER, MAX CONTAINS THE ALPHABET, VOWELS, PRONUNCIATION AND TRANSLATION.
BR 93 TFILAT ARVIT L'HOL SCHARFSTEIN, TSVI THE COMPLETE EVENING SERVICE FOR WEEKDAYS, TAKEN FROM THE SHILO PRAYER BOOK.
BR 98 ELDAD HADANI CHOMSKY, WILLIAM (ZE'EV) THE STORY OF THE JEW ELDAD, WHO LIVED 1100 YEARS AGO, HIS TRAVELS TO MANY DISTANT LANDS AND THE WONDERFUL STORIES HE TOLD.
BR 99 THAT MAN HEINE BROWNE, LEWIS THE BIOGRAPHY OF HEINRICH HEINE, FAMOUS GERMAN-JEWISH POET OF THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY.
BR 104 HUMASHENU B'RESHIT, HELEK SHENI POLLACK, I.H. A CONTINUATION OF THE MATERIAL COVERED IN PART ONE OF THE BOOK.
BR 105 HAVERI BET; TARGILON SCHARFSTEIN, SOL A SUPPLEMENTARY EXCERCISE BOOK TO CHAVERI BET CONTAINING MATERIAL TO REINFORCE SUBJECT MATTER COVERED IN THE TEXTBOOK.
BR 106 GREAT MEN IN ISRAEL WEISS, RABBI J. MAX THE BACKGROUNDS OF GREAT JEWISH MEN AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIETY.
BR 108 ONE WHO LOVED HOBMAN, D. ADLER THE STORY OF RACHEL LEVIN AND HER FAMOUS SALON IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY, BASED ON CONTEMPORARY LETTERS, MEMOIRS AND HER DIARY.
BR 112 BILSHON AMI SCHARFSTEIN, ZVI A READER BASED ON TALMUDIC LEGENDS AND MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN.
BR 115 ETERNAL ROAD, THE WERFEL, FRANZ IN SELECTED EPISODES, THIS DRAMA TELLS THE STORY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT FROM ABRAHAM TO THE PROPHETS.
BR 116 N'VIIM RISHONIM L'TALMIDIM; M'LAKHIM ALEF POLLACK, I.H. THE BOOK OF KINGS I, IN THE ORIGINAL HEBREW WITH QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES FOR SELF STUDY. CONTAINS A HEBREW-ENGLISH DICTIONARY.
BR 119 HAMITLAMED RAPPAPORT, I.B. A FIRST YEAR HEBREW INDIVIDUAL PROGRESS SERIES TEXT. EACH SERIES IS DIVIDED INTO GOALS, OR POINTS OF ACHIEVEMENT.
BR 122 N'VIIM AHARONIM HEBREW PUB. CO., ED. WRITTEN IN THE ORIGINAL HEBREW ONLY. INCLUDES ISAIAH, JEREMIAH, AND EZEKIAL.
BR 124 DAY OF ATONEMENT GOLDING, LOUIS THE STORY OF LEAH AND ELI, TWO RUSSIAN JEWS, AND THEIR SON REUBEN--DEALING WITH THE CLASH BETWEEN TRADITIONAL JUDAISM AND APOSTASY.
BR 127 HAIVRI, BOOK THREE; TARGILON MARENOF, S., SCHULT, E. AN EXCERCISE BOOK FOR HAIVRI, SEFER SHLISHI.
BR 128 REBECCA GRATZ OSTERWEISS, ROLLIN G. THE LIFE OF REBECCA GRATZ (1781-1869), AUTHENTICALLY BELIEVED, AGAINST A BACKGROUND OF THE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE OF PHILADELPHIA DURING THOSE YEARS.
BR 129 BLIND CHILDREN POEMS ZANGWILL, ISRAEL A COLLECTION OF VERSES IN MANY MOODS WRITTEN OVER A PERIOD OF TWENTY YEARS.
BR 130 ET LIKRO SCHARFSTEIN, ZVI AN ELEMENTARY HEBREW READER, CONTAINING EASY SHORT STORIES.
BR 132 RESHIT T'FILAH CHANOVER, HYMAN AND SUSSMAN EVELYN AN ELEMENTARY PRAYERBOOK, CONTAINING PRAYERS FOR THE SABBATH AND WEEKDAYS.
BR 133 SIFRI, HELEK SHLISHI POLACK, J.X. A THIRD YEAR HEBREW READER. CONTAINS SELECTIONS FROM HEBREW LITERATURE. EXERCISES AND A DICTIONARY INCLUDED.
BR 136 B'ERETS S'FARAD, HISTORIAH L'TALMIDIM, HELEK SHENI, SHAAR, SHLISHI POLLACK, J.X. A HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN SPAIN.
BR 138 HUMASH L'TALMIDIM, HELEK SHENI, SHMOT-VAYIKRA POLLACK, J.X. A SELF-TEACHING BIBLE COURSE, CONTAINING QUESTIONS, EXERCISES AND A HEBREW-ENGLISH DICTIONARY.
BR 142 MAIMONIDES THE STORY OF HIS LIFE AND GENIUS MUNZ, DR J. THE LIFE OF THE JEWISH MEDIEVAL PHYSICIAN AND PHILOSOPHER WHO LIVED FROM 1135-1204 AND A PORTRAIT OF THE TIMES IN WHICH HE LIVED.
BR 144 AVOT UVANIM HERTKIN, SHALOM DRAMATIC STORY OF HITLER PERIOD AND THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA. THE HERO IS A YOUNG BOY. HE MEETS SOME HALUTZIM, JOINS THEM IN THE UNDERGROUND.
BR 145 HAS'FARIM HABOKHIM CHOMSKY, WILLIAM A LEGENDARY CHARACTER PLOTS TO DESTROY ALL HEBREW BOOKS IN HIS HATE FOR LEARNING. THE PLOT IS FOILED AND THE MAN HIMSELF BECOMES A SCHOLAR.
BR 146 AMOK ZWEIG, STEFAN A GERMAN DOCTOR IN THE DUTCH EAST INDIES RUNS AMOK, OVERCOME WITH REMORSE AT HAVING REFUSED TO HELP A WOMAN IN NEED.
BR 147 HAIVRI BOOK TWO ; SEFER IMUNIM MARENOF, S. AND SCHULTZ E. AN EXCERCISE BOOK FOR HAIVRI, SEFER SHENI.
BR 149 BIRKAT, HAMAZON, ZMIROT, UBRAKHOT (GRACE, HYMNS & BLESSINGS) UNKNOWN CONTAINS LITURGY AND RITUAL BENEDICTIONS FOR THE JEWISH CALENDAR YEAR.
BR 153 MOSHE V'SHULAMIT KOPS, VICTOR AN ILLUSTRATED READER ARRANGED ACCORDING TO SUBJECT MATTER. DIFFICULT WORDS ARE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH. INCLUDES EXERCISES.
BR 156 HUMASHI, HELEK ALEF RAISKIN, MAX D. AND GERALD A STUDY GUIDE FOR SIDROT, B'RESHIT, NOAH, AND LECH L'CHA. A CAREFUL ABRIDGEMENT OF THE BIBLICAL TEXT. CONTAINS A VOCABULARY.
BR 157 FAMILY NAME LUNN, ARNOLD THE STORY OF THE MARRIAGE OF AN ENGLISH JEW TO THE DAUGHTER OF AN IMPOVERISHED BRITISH EARL, AND WHAT HAPPENS THEREAFTER.
BR 158 HAIVRI, HELEK SHLISHI; TARGILON MARENOF, S. AND SCHULTZ, E. AN EXCERCISE BOOK FOR HAIVRI, SEFER SHLISHI
BR 160 L'SHONI BET PERSKY, ELIAS & SCHARFSTEIN, SOL ELEMENTARY HEBREW TEXT. USES A VARIETY OF THEMES DEALING WITH JUDAISM, ISRAEL, HOLIDAYS AND AMERICAN JEWISH EXPERIENCES. FIVE NEW WORDS PER PAGE.
BR 161 B'RESHIT; TARGILON LATALMID KAPLAN, LOUIS A COLLECTION OF EXERCISES TO ENHANCE THE STUDENT'S UNDERSTANDING OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS.
BR 169 HEBREW MELODIES LORD BYRON THIS BOOK, WRITTEN IN 1815, CONTAINS SOME OF BYRON'S BEST KNOWN WORKS INCLUDING 'SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY'.
BR 171 AUTOEMANCIPATION PINSKER, LEON, DR. WRITTEN IN 1882, THIS BOOK ESPOUSED THE CAUSE OF ZIONISM AND THE RIGHT OF JEWS TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN LAND. PINSKER, WHO LIVED FROM 1821-1891, WAS ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE HIBBAT ZION MOVEMENT. THIS BOOK IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MAJOR WORKS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF ZIONISM.
BR 172 GREAT REFUSAL,THE PINE, HENRY A STORY DEALING WITH ZIONIST PROBLEMS IN PALESTINE.
BR 174 SIDDUR SELECTIONS WISE, JOSEPH SELECTED PRAYERS FOR WEEKDAYS, SABBATH AND HOLIDAYS.
BR 176 HUMASH LATALMIDIM; BAMIDBAR-DVARIM POLLACK, I.H. A SELF-TEACHING BIBLE COURSE, CONTAINING QUESTIONS, EXERCISES AND A HEBREW-ENGLISH DICTIONARY.
BR 177 LEGEND CALLED MERYOM, THE GAER, JOSEPH MERYOM WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE TAILOR IN A POVERTY-STRICKEN LITTLE JEWISH VILLAGE IN RUSSIA.
BR 182 SIDDUR T'FILOT L'Y'LADIM CHANOVER, HYMAN AND SUSSMAN, EVELYN A COMPLETE PRAYER BOOK, DESIGNED ESPECIALLY FOR JUNIOR CONGREGATIONS.
BR 186 EARLY AMERICAN JEWS FREIDMAN, LEE M. A DISCUSSION OF THIS LONG-NEGLECTED SUBJECT.
BR 191 JEW IN AMERICA, THE PHILLIPSON, DAVID BRIEFLY DISCUSSES THE EARLIEST JEWISH PIONEERING ON THIS CONTINENT.
BR 192 GLIMPSES INTO LIFE GROSSMAN, RABBI LOUIS FIFTY-THREE SERMONETTES ON RELIGIOUS AND ETHICAL SUBJECTS.
BR 193 JEWISH PRAYERBOOK, THE FREEHOF, SOLOMON B. THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE JEWISH PRAYERBOOK.
BR 194 BIRTH OF JEWISH STATESMANSHIP NEUMANN, EMANUEL A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THEODOR HERZL, THE FATHER OF POLITICAL ZIONISM.
BR 195 HAFTORAH PARSHAS SHOFTIM (HAFTORAH BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY) SHILO PUB. , ED. HAFTORAH ON WRITINGS OF JUDGES FROM BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY.
BR 197 OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL WOLF, EMMA PRESENT DAY SOCIAL LIFE OF THE AMERICAN JEWS, THE LESSON DERIVED BEING THAT A JEWISH GIRL, ALL OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL, MAY MARRY A CHRISTIAN.
BR 198 HAM'SADER (THE ARRANGER) REICHLER, MAX AN ELEMENTARY HEBREW MANUAL.
BR 203 DANCE GOES ON, THE GOLDING, LOUIS THE STORY OF MIRANOWA, IDOL OF THE RUSSIAN BALLETOMANES, DEALING WITH HER IMPRISONMENT AND ESCAPE FROM THE U.S.S.R. AFTER THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION.
BR 204 TRUMPET OF JUBILEE LEWISOHN, LUDWIG A NOVEL OF PRESENT-DAY LIFE IN GERMANY; AN EPIC TESTIMONIAL TO ONE OF THE GREATEST SOCIAL CRISES IN HISTORY.
BR 205 STORMERS OF HEAVEN FREEHOF, SOLOMON B. A SERIES OF SKETCHES OF MEN WHOSE PERSONALITIES AND TEACHINGS HAVE INFLUENCED THE DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGIOUS THINKING.
BR 207 QUEST FOR PEACE, THE CRONBACH, ABRAHAM A THOUGHTFUL DISCUSSION OF THE HORRORS OF WAR AND THE ETERNAL SEARCH FOR PEACE.
BR 208 INTRODUCTION TO THE BIBLE ALPERS, A. THIS BOOK DISCUSSES THE RELATION BETWEEN THE BIBLE, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND THE HOLIDAYS.
BR 213 HUMASH L'TALMIDIM, B'RESHIT POLLACK, I.H. A SELF TEACHING BIBLE COURSE, CONTAINING QUESTIONS, EXERCISES AND A HEBREW-ENGLISH DICTIONARY.
BR 219 MIKRA ' AT YISRAEL BLICH, M. PERSKY, N. A COLLECTION OF SIMPLE HEBREW LITERARY SELECTIONS.
BR 220 LOST HERITAGE FRANK, BRUNO MUCH OF THE STORY DEALS WITH THE FATE OF JEWS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
BR 222 MORTAL STORM, THE BOTTOME, PHYLLIS HELEN WEINGART THE STORY OF AN INTERMARRIAGE BETWEEN A CULTURED GERMAN JEW AND A CHRISTIAN DURING THE TIME OF THE NAZI REGIME.
BR 223 HITLER OVER EUROPE HENRI, ERNST THIS IS A POWERFUL INDICTMENT OF NAZISM AND ITS AIMS, IN WHICH HITLER IS SHOWN AS A TOOL OF THYSSEN AND OTHER GERMAN INDUSTRIALIST.
BR 224 B'NAI ARAV SMILANSKY, MOSHE A COLLECTION OF SIX STORIES ABOUT THE ARAB POPULATION OF PALESTINE AROUND THE TURN OF THE CENTURY.
BR 227 JEWISH PIONEERS IN AMERICA LEBESON, ANITA LIBMAN THE ROLE OF THE JEWS IN SETTLING THE NEW WORLD IN THE YEARS PRIOR TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
BR 228 N'VIYIM RISHONIM, SELECTIONS FROM SCHARFSTEIN, ZVI SECTIONS FROM BOOKS OF THE EARLY PROPHETS, SHORT HEBREW EXPLANATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF DIFFICULT WORDS.
BR 229 NAZARENE, THE ASCH, SHOLEM A NOVEL BASED ON THE LIFE OF JESUS, DESCRIBING THE CUSTOMS AND THE RELIGIOUS IDEAS OF THE TIME.
BR 230 FROM ANOTHER WORLD UNTERMEYER, LOUIS AMERICAN POET AND COMPILER OF ANTHOLOGIES IS CHIEFLY DEVOTED TO ANECDOTES AND COMMENTS ON THE AUTHOR'S MANY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES AMONG LITERARY MEN AND WOMEN.
BR 232 BEATING SEA AND CHANGELESS BAR LAZARRE, JACOB A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, EACH PORTRAYING A DIFFERENT HISTORICAL PERIOD, DEALING WITH THE SAME MAIN THEME--THE LOVE OF A JEWESS FOR ONE OUTSIDE HER FAITH.
BR 233 PLAYS OF JEWISH LIFE ZIMMERMAN, HARRY A COLLECTION OF PLAYS BY JEWISH WRITERS.
BR 234 HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME KOBER, ARTHUR THE SCENE OF THIS COMEDY IS CAMP KARE-FREE IN THE BERKSHIRES.
BR 235 HAYEHUDI HARISHON CHELEK GIMEL, DALED (THE FIRST JEW PART C-D) GREENBERG, SIMON BIBLICAL AND HAGGADIC STORIES CENTERING AROUND ABRAHAM. IT CONTAINS DRAMATIC POEMS AND A COMPLETE VOCABULARY.
BR 236 BET HAMIKDASH HARISHON, HELEK GIMEL-DALED GREENBERG, SHLOMO A CONTINUATION OF MATERIAL COVERED IN PARTS I AND II.
BR 237 SKEPTIC IN THE HOLY LAND OURSLER, FULTON THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES HIS REACTIONS UPON VISITING BIBLICAL SITES, AND FRANKLY DISCUSSES VIEWS OF ARAB-JEWISH RELATIONS.
BR 238 JEW LOOKS AT WAR AND PEACE GITTELSOHN, ROLAND B. CONTAINS A SERIES OF FIVE STUDIES ESPECIALLY PREPARED FOR DISCUSSION GROUPS OF THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF TEMPLE SISTERHOODS.
BR 239 GOING HOME HARTHERN, ERNST AN EXCELLENT BOOK FOR ITS FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF A STRANGE HISTORIC TRUTH, AND AS A GUIDE FOR THOSE WHO KNOW LITTLE OR NOTHING ABOUT PALESTINE. IT IS ALSO EXCELLENT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN THERE.
BR 241 VOICE OF JERUSALEM, THE ZANGWILL, ISRAEL A COLLECTION OF MR. ZANGWILL'S ESSAYS ON JEWISH SUBJECTS WRITTEN IN THE COURSE OF THE LAST 25 YEARS OF HIS LIFE.
BR 245 SHTIMMER (THE DUMB) MYERS, ROBERT THE STORY OF A JEWISH IMMIGRANT FROM RUMANIA AND HIS ROLE IN THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT.
BR 247 SELIHOT BIRNBAUM, PHILIP THE COMPLETE SELICHOT, TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED.
BR 248 EAST OF EDEN SINGER, I.J. A NOVEL ABOUT MATLES RITTER, A POVERTY-STRICKEN JEWISH PEDDLER LIVING IN POLAND AND HIS SON WHO LEANS TOWARDS COMMUNISM AND RUSSIA AND IS INTENDED FOR THE RABBINATE.
BR 249 HASHEUR HARISHON GREENBERG, SHLOMO AN ELEMENTARY HEBREW PRIMER. GRADED VOCABULARY COMBINED WITH JEWISH SCHOOL CURRICULUM AND CHILD'S INTERESTS.
BR 252 CHUMASH SIDRAH BREISHITH (THE GENESIS SECTION OF THE BIBLE) JEW. ED. COMM. ED. INCLUDES VERSES 6 THROUGH 17, WITH EACH VERSE WRITTEN ON A SEPARATE LINE.
BR 256 SH'ARIM L'RAMAH (GATEWAY TO RAMAH) CAMP RAMAH, ED. A PRIMER.
BR 257 SAVAGE SYMPHONY LIPS, EVA THE AUTHOR, TELLS OF HER HUSBAND'S AND HER OWN EXPERIENCES UNDER THE THIRD REICH, UP TO THEIR SAFE ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK.
BR 260 LEON BLUM, POET TO PREMIER STOKES, RICHARD L. THIS IS A STIMULATING BIOGRAPHY, ALSO A LUCID ACCOUNT OF 'LE NEW DEAL FRANCAIS'.
BR 262 S'FAT YISRAEL, GIMEL (THE LANGUAGE OF ISRAEL, PART III) SHEINSON, B. A CONTINUATION OF S'FAT ISRAEL, PARTS ONE AND TWO.
BR 263 CAVERN OF DESTINY ARONIN, BEN THE ROMANTIC STORY OF A QUEST FOR THE AGE OLD TEMPLE TREASURES, AND OF A MAN WHO FOUND HIMSELF THEREBY.
BR 264 SHAAR HAKRIYAH, BOOK I, WORKBOOK SCHARFSTEIN, SOL PROVIDES MANY DRILLS AND EXERCISES FOR SHAAR HAKRIYAH, AS WELL AS SUPPLEMENTARY GRADED READING EXERCISES.
BR 265 CHUMASH M'FORASH, II PERSKY, ELIAS PREPARES STUDENTS FOR STUDY OF CHUMASH IN ORIGINAL. INTERPRETS CHUMASH ETHICAL, MORAL CONCEPTS. HAS SHORT STUDY UNITS, TEXT COMMENTS, VOCABULARY.
BR 267 SIFRIYAH LANOAR, ALEF (YOUTH LIBRARY, I) OFFIT, J. & BENSON, M. AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES FOR CHILDREN.
BR 269 SIFRIYAH LANOAR, BET (YOUTH LIBRARY, II) OFFIT, J. & BENSON, M. AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES FOR CHILDREN.
BR 270 CHUMASH LATALMID SHMOT-VAYIKRAH, CHELEK SHENI (THE STUDENT BIBLE - PART TWO) LEWITTES, MORDECAI, ED. A CONTINUATION OF PART ONE.
BR 271 RIVER BREAKS UP, THE SINGER, I. J. THE IMPRESSION OF SHEER, RELENTLESS POWER IS MAINTAINED IN THESE THIRTEEN SHORT STORIES.
BR 272 BOY OF CORDOVA, THE BURSTEIN, ABRAHAM RUTH BERKELE A BIOGRAPHY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT MOSES MAIMONIDES, THE MEDIEVAL JEWISH SCHOLAR, PHILOSOPHER, AND PHYSICIAN.
BR 275 ESSENTIALS OF BIBLICAL HEBREW YATES, KYLE M. 59 LESSONS TREATING ALPHABET, VOWELS, DIPHTHONGS, TENSES, STEMS, DECLENSIONS, MODES, PREPOSITIONS, ADJECTIVES, PRONOUNS, NUMERALS. BIBLE READINGS, AND EXERCISES.
BR 276 ANTHOLOGY OF HEBREW LITERATURE BREVIS, HARRY J. ED. COLLECTED WORKS, FICTION AND NON-FICTION, PAST, PRESENT AUTHORS.
BR 277 ONEG SERIES IN EASY HEBREW DAVID MARCUS, GIBBOR; TO THE CHILD ARONIN, BEN & AARON MEGED. ZEV CHOM THREE BOOKS WRITTEN IN EASY HEBREW: THE LIFE OF COLONEL DAVID MARCUS AND HIS HEROIC DEEDS IN THE 1948 WAR OF INDEPENDENCE IN ISRAEL; A STORY ABOUT THE CHILDREN OF YEMEN; AND A STORY ABOUT A YOUNG BOY WHO COMES TO AMERICA FROM EUROPE IN SEARCH OF A BIBLICAL VERSE ABOUT PEACE.
BR 278 EL TOCH HA-ESH (INTO THE FIRE) YARDENI, GALIA THE ADVENTURES OF ISRAELI PARACHUTISTS WHO RISKED THEIR LIVES BEHIND NAZI LINES. BASED ON TRUE STORIES. FROM THE 'GESHER' SERIES: READINGS IN EASY HEBREW.
BR 280 SH'ON HAZAHAV MICHAELI, MEIR STORY OF A GOLD WATCH, HEIRLOOM OF 19TH CENTURY RUSSIAN FAMILY, RETURNED TO THEM IN ISRAEL AFTER WORLD WAR II. (O00 YEARS OF JEWISH HISTORY)
BR 281 CHACHEMI CHELM ARONIN, BEN A SIMPLE RETELLING OF THE PERENNIALLY FAVORITE STORIES OF THE WISE MEN OF CHELM.
BR 282 DAVID LUBIN EISENBERG, AZRIEL WORLD FAMOUS FARMER'S CHAMPION. C CREATOR OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE IN ROME. TELLS OF RUSSIAN BOYHOOD, TRAVELS IN U.S.A., ITALY, AND ISRAEL.
BR 283 SEFER HAMAKABIM, BET (THE BOOK OF MACCABEES PART 2) CHOMSKY, WILLIAM THE STORY OF THE MACCABEES, FROM THE DEATH OF ANTIOCHUS TO THE DEATH OF SHIM'ON BAR YOCHAI--THE LAST OF THE MACCABEES.
BR 285 BONEH MIKDASH M'AT ALEPH BK 1 (BUILDER OF THE UNIVERSITY) ZAHAV, ARI ZIBEN THE STORY OF THE FIRST BUILDING OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY ON MOUNT SCOPUS.
BR 286 B'LI SHAMAYIM SAHAV, ARI AN EXCITING SCIENCE FICTION STORY ABOUT THE 22ND CENTURY.
BR 288 BAYAMIN HAHEM STEINBERG, JUDAH STORY OF 11 YEAR OLD SHMUEL TAKEN BY FORCE TO SERVE IN CZAR NICHOLAI I'S ARMY AND LATER REUNIFICATION WITH HIS FAMILY AFTER THE WAR.
BR 289 IN STEPS OF MOSES THE LAWGIVER GOLDING, LOUIS A TRAVEL BOOK IN WHICH THE FAMOUS ANGLO-JEWISH AUTHOR FOLLOWS IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MOSES IN HIS WANDERINGS.
BR 291 YALDAI HAMACHTERET INDELMAN, ELCHANAN THE STORY OF THE WARSAW HHETTO REVOLT.
BR 292 ELCHANAN, HAAPIFYOR HAYHUDI TABACH, BEN-ZION A FOLK LEGEND ABOUT RABBI SHIMON THE GREAT AND HIS SON ELCHANAN.
BR 293 HAIVRI, BOOK 4 MARENOF & SCHULTZ A CONTINUATION OF MATERIAL COVERED IN SEFER SHLISHI.
BR 294 TORAH LATALMID; SHMOT BRIDGER, DAVID THIS BOOK FOLLOWS THE GENERAL FORMAT OF TORAH LATALMID; B'RESHIT, INTRODUCING THE READER TO THE BOOK OF EXODUS.
BR 295 MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE EPSTEIN, ZELDNER ED. STORIES, POEMS, ESSAYS BY MODERN HEBREW AUTHORS. FOR 4TH YEAR HIGH SCHOOL OR 1ST YEAR COLLEGE. DRILLS, EXTENSIVE HEBREW-ENGLISH DICTIONARY.
BR 297 CHUMASHI, CHELEK ALEF; TARGILON RAISKIN, GERALD AND MAX CONTAINS VOCABULARY EXERCISES, QUESTIONS, SPELLING EXERCISES AND GAMES TO ACCOMPANY CHUMASHI.
BR 300 HACHALOM V'HITGASHMUTO BEN YEHUDAH, ELIEZER A WELL-KNOWN WORK BY THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR REVIVING THE HEBREW LANGUAGE ALMOST ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
BR 301 SIPPURIM (SHORT STORIES) SHACHEM, NATHAN A COLLECTION OF FIVE SHORT STORIES ABOUT THE ISRAELI WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, KIBBUTZ LIFE, & THE THIRD ALIYAH.
BR 302 ORECH DIN HAHAGANAH M'SAPER (THE HAGANAH'S DEFENSE COUNSEL RELATES) HOTER-ISHAY, AARON THE STORY OF THE HAGANAH--THE JEWISH DEFENSE FORCE IN PALESTINE DURING THE BRITISH MANDATE.
BR 303 N'VIIM RISHONIM L'TALMIDIM ; YEHOSHUAH POLLACK, I. H. THE BOOK OF JOSHUA WITH QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES FOR SELF STUDY.
BR 305 K'RIYAH U'T'FILAH L'MATCHLIM PERSKY, E. & SCHARFSTEIN, S. TEACHES THE STUDENT SIDDUR READING PHONETICALLY TO FAMILIARIZE HIM WITH WORDS AND PHRASES FROM THE SIDDUR. CONTAINS A SFARDI PRONUNCIATION GUIDE.
BR 311 SIPPURIM KALLIM HOROWITZ, EDWARD A COLLECTION OF SHORT HEBREW STORIES FOR THE THIRD-TERM STUDENT.
BR 313 LEV CHOD (A NEW HEART) -LADOR SERIES PERETZ, I.L. THE STORY OF A POOR JEW WHO BECOMES RICH AND GREEDY, IS PUNISHED BY GOD AND AFTER REPENTING, IS RESTORED TO HIS WEALTH.
BR 314 HAM'GILOT HAGNUZOT (THE HIDDEN SCROLLS) MICHAELI, MEIR L. A STUDY OF THE APOCRYPHA.
BR 315 SEFER TOVIYAH V'SEFER Y'HUDIT (THE BOOK OF TUVIYAH AND THE BOOK OF YEHUDIT) INDELMAN, ELHANAN, ADAPTED BY CONTAINS TWO SEPARATE STORIES. ONE ABOUT A PIOUS JEW TESTED BY GOD AND THE OTHER ABOUT THE BRAVE GIRL YEHUDIT WHO SAVED THE JEWS FROM KING NEVUCHADNEZAR.
BR 316 RAMBAM (RABBI MOSES BEN MAIMON) LADOR SERIES INDELMAN, ELCHANAN THE STORY OF ONE OF THE WISEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL JEWS THAT EVER LIVED. BORN IN SPAIN IN 1135, HE EXCELLED IN MANY FIELDS OF HUMAN ENDEAVOR FROM PHILOSOPHY TO MEDICINE.
BR 318 OH SAY CAN YOU SEE BROWNE, LEWIS A RUSSIAN SCIENTIST, YOUNG AND A COMPLETELY INDOCTRINATED COMMUNIST, COMES TO WORK IN AMERICA AND REMAINS TO WONDER AT OUR INEXPLICABLE AMERICA.
BR 321 HASEFER HARVI'EE L'MATHILIM; TARGILON (WORKBOOK) BRIDGER, DAVID WORKBOOK FOR THE FOURTH READER FOR BEGINNERS.
BR 324 HAGOLEM MIPRAG (THE GOLEM FROM PRAGUE) LADOR SERIES BORTNIKER, ELIJAH; ADAPTED THE STORY OF RABBI YEHUDAH LUJAH, WHO CREATED A GOLEM WHICH SAVED THE JEWS FROM THE BAD DECREES OF THE CHRISTIANS.
BR 326 KINOR HAMELECH DAVID (THE HARP OF KING DAVID) LADOR SERIES CARMI, HANNAH THE STORY OF THE LOSS AND REDISCOVERY OF AN ANTIQUE PIANO OF KING UMBERTO OF ITALY.
BR 327 MA'ASEH B'MAKEL (THE ADVENTURES OF A STICK) LADOR SERIES RABINOWITZ, ZINA THE ADVENTURES OF A STICK, AND THE MANY JEWISH LIVES IT SAVED IN EUROPE.
BR 328 DAVID'L FRIEDLAND, H.A. AN ONLY SON, HIS MOTHER DIED WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. A TREASURE HE FINDS ENABLES HIS FATHER TO BE BURIED IN ISRAEL. HE GAVE MUCH MONEY TO THE POOR.
BR 329 MEGILOT YAM HAMELACH EISENBERG, AZRIEL STORY OF DISCOVERY AND HISTORY OF MOST IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT FINDS, THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS. APPENDIX DETAILS SCROLLS IMPORTANCE FOR STUDY WITH BIBLE.
BR 331 CHANAH SENESH MAGID, ARON THE TRUE STORY OF THE BRAVE HANNAH SENESCH WHO PARACHUTED BEHIND THE NAZI LINES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, WAS CAUGHT AND SENTENCED TO DEATH.
BR 332 HASOCHER MIVENETZIA (SHYLOCK'S STORY) LADOR SERIES IBN-ZAHAV, ARI THE FAMOUS MERCHANT OF VENICE STORY, WRITTEN IN EASY-TO-READ HEBREW.
BR 334 HASEFER ALEF BET (THE BOOK, PART ONE AND TWO) BACHRACH, KALMAN AN ELEMENTARY HEBREW TEXTBOOK. FOR TEACHING READING, WRITING, SPEECH AND JEWISH VALUES.
BR 335 SOLOMON SCHECHTER (ONEG SERIES ) ISENBERG, EZEKIEL AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LIFE OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND DRAMATIC JEWISH FIGURES OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
BR 337 HAYELED SHEDVAD (LOST BOY) RABINOWITZ, ZINA THIS BOOK IS ABOUT A BOY WHO BECOMES SEPARATED FROM HIS PARENTS DURING THE NAZI HOLOCAUST AND HOW HE FINDS HIS WAY BACK TO THEM THROUGH A UNIQUE CLOCK.
BR 339 BEN HA'ANNUSIM (THE MORRANOS) MICHOLAI, MEIR THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF AMATO, PHYSICIAN TO KINGS AND COMMONERS WHO SPENT MUCH OF HIS LIFE FLEEING FROM THE INQUISITION. TIRED OF WANDERING, HE SETTLES AMONGST FELLOW JEWS.
BR 340 FELIX MEDELSOHN-BATHOLDY ROCKSTRO, W.S. THE LIFE STORY OF THE GREAT ROMANTIC COMPOSER, AND REDISCOVERED OF THE 'LOST' WORKS OF JOHANNE SEBASTIAN BACH.
BR 342 INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM COHEN, BERLY D. A PRESENTATION OF THE BASIC TENETS OF JUDAISM IN A MANNER DESIGNED TO CAPTURE THE INTEREST AND IMAGINATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 345 KAZEH HAYA AMIR-PINKERFELD, ANDA TEN DRAMATIC EPISODES FROM THE LIFE OF ENZO-SERENI.
BR 348 BENJAMIN CARDOZO HELLMAN, G.S. NOT A COMPLETE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY BUT A LOVING MEMORIAL TO A GREAT AMERICAN--- A DISTINGUISHED LAWYER AND AN ABLE JUDGE.
BR 349 HU AHAV ET HA-YARDEN (HE LOVED THE JORDAN) SMILANSKY, MOSHE A STORY ABOUT A RUSSIAN JEW WHO COMES TO PALESTINE AND FALLS IN LOVE WITH THE LAND.
BR 351 METHOD OF FREEDOM, THE LIPPMAN, WALTER A STATEMENT OF THE PRINCIPLES BY WHICH A NATION POSSESSING A HIGHLY DEVELOPED ECONOMY CAN MAKE FREEDOM SECURE AMONG THE DISORDERS OF THE WORLD.
BR 353 MIKRAAH (READER IN MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE) RUBENSTEIN & BENARI, ED. ADVANCED SELECTIONS IN HEBREW WITH EXERCISES AND VOCABULARY AT THE END OF EACH SELECTION.
BR 354 GREEN WORLDS HINDUS, MAURICE A BOOK FILLED WITH SIGNIFICANT CONTRASTS BETWEEN AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN LIFE, FOLKWAYS AND HUMAN RELATIONS.
BR 356 MAN WHO STAYED IN TEXAS, THE COHEN, ANNE & HARRY THE LIFE STORY OF RABBI HENRY COHEN WHO FOR 52 YEARS HAS LITERALLY BEEN 'THE FRIEND OF MAN'.
BR 359 MID-CHANNEL LEWISOHN, LUDWIG CONTINUING HIS SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY BEGUN IN UPSTREAM, LUDWIG LEWISOHN RECORDS SOMEWHAT EASIER GOING IN THIS BOOK.
BR 361 JEWISH LIFE IN SOUTH AMERICA COHEN, J. X. AN EASILY READ RAMBLING TRAVELOGUE OF THE PRINCIPAL AREA OF JEWISH OCCUPANCY IN SOUTH AMERICA.
BR 364 PERES FAMILY, THE SHANKMAN, SAM BIOGRAPHY OF THE REMARKABLE AMERICAN-JEWISH FAMILY, THE MEMBERS OF WHICH HAVE WORKED MIGHTILY IN THE GREAT FIGHT FOR HUMAN BETTERMENT.
BR 365 SIPPUREY CHASIDIM PERETZ, I.L. STORIES OF THE HASIDIM, ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY I.L. ERETZ, AND ADAPTED FOR EASY READING BY JUDAH STEINBERG.
BR 367 ABIE'S IRISH ROSE NICHOLS, ANNE A SATIRICAL AND HUMOROUS PLAY ABOUT THE PROBLEMS OF INTERMARRIAGE THAT TAKES PLACE IN THE JEWISH GHETTO ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE.
BR 368 HOLIDAY SERVICE FOR TEMPLE YOUTH REFORMED CONG. OF MERRICK, ED. A PRAYERBOOK CONTAINING SERVICES FOR PASSOVER, SUKKOT, PURIM AND CHANUKAH.
BR 369 CHAVERI, TARGILON (WORKBOOK WITH SIDUR WORD SUPPLEMENT) SCHARFSTEIN, SOL EXCERCISE BOOK TO CHAVERI WITH MATERIAL TO REINFORCE SUBJECT MATTER COVERED IN THE TEXTBOOK.
BR 370 SELECT READINGS IN HEBREW LITERATURE LEWITTES, M. & BLUMBERG, H. STORIES AND POEMS FROM CLASSICAL AND MODERN AUTHORS FOR THIRD YEAR HEBREW STUDENTS. INCLUDED ARE: ENGLISH INTRODUCTIONS, VOCABULARIES, AND EXERCISES.
BR 373 SCHOOL FOR BARBARIANS MANN, ERIKA NAZI DESTRUCTION OF TRADITIONAL GERMAN CULTURE, ITS PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS, AND ITS SUBJUGATION OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL TO THE MILITARY MACHINE.
BR 374 ELIJAH SEGAL, SAMUEL GIVES A MUCH NEEDED PORTRAIT IN ENGLISH OF THE THREE ELIJAHS KNOWN IN JEWISH TRADITION.
BR 376 BREATHE UPON THESE LEWISOHN, LUDWIG A NOVEL BASED ON NAZI BRUTALITY AND THE BRITISH TREATMENT OF ZIONISTS IN PALESTINE.
BR 377 PROZDOR (THE GATEWAY) STEINER, M. & MIKLISZANSKI, J. A READER FOR HEBREW HIGH SCHOOLS. DIFFICULT WORDS ARE EXPLAINED WITH OTHER EASIER HEBREW WORDS. A HEBREW-ENGLISH DICTIONARY IS INCLUDED AT THE END.
BR 378 NEW MARRANOS CITRON, SAMUEL I. A POIGNANT PLAY ABOUT A YOUNG JEW WHO SUFFERS FROM THE ANTI-JEWISH DISCRIMINATION OF HIS JEWISH EMPLOYERS.
BR 381 PURIM (THE FEAST OF ESTHER) DOMBACH, N.S. A DETAILED TREATMENT OF THIS GREAT FESTIVAL OF ESTHER.
BR 382 CHAVERI, BET (MY FRIEND - BOOK II) SCHARFSTEIN, SOL A CONTINUATION OF BOOK I.
BR 384 FAITH AND MESSAGE OF PROPHETS BUTTENWEISER, MOSES A SHORT PRESENTATION OF THE ROLE WHICH THE PROPHETS PLAYED IN THE SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 388 FIVE SHORT STUDIES FREEHOF,S. MANN, L. BETTAN,I. JEWISH PRAYER BOOK; BETTAN, POST-BIBLICAL JUDAISM; MANN, A RABBI LOOKS AT CHRISTMAS; THE BUSINESS OF RELIGION AND THE RELIGION OF BUSINESS; PARADOX OF PROGRESS.
BR 390 JULIUS ROSENWALD WERNER, M. R. THE LIFE OF A PRACTICAL HUMANITARIAN.
BR 392 HEBREW SCRIPTURE IN THE MAKING MARGOLIS, MAX L. ROSE KAPLOWI THE STORY OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES.
BR 394 HASHEUR HARISHON; TARGILON KOHN, REBEKAH THIS BOOK CONTAINS A WEALTH OF AIDS IN TEACHING THE TEXT, INCLUDING MANY SUPPLEMENTARY HEBREW READINGS, EXERCISES, GAMES, ETC.
BR 395 CHAYIM PUMPERNICKEL ARONIN, BEN THE PRESIDENT AND OTHER DIGNITARIES COME TO CONSULT WITH CHAYIM PUMPERNICKEL WHO, BY HIS WISDOM, BRINGS EVERLASTING PEACE TO THE WHOLE WORLD.
BR 396 MODERN JEWISH PREACHING FREEHOF, SOLOMON B. A BOOK GEARED TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO STUDY JEWISH PREACHING. BASED ON ALUMNI LECTURES PRESENTED AT HEBREW UNION COLLEGE.
BR 397 HISTORY OF BIBLE TRANSLATIONS MARGOLIS, MAX IN THIS BOOK, THE TERM 'BIBLE' REFERS ONLY TO THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES.
BR 398 DE VRIENDT GOES HOME ZWEIG, ARNOLD AGAINST A BACKGROUND OF INTRIGUES AND CLASHES BETWEEN ORTHODOX JEWS, ZIONISTS AND ARABS IN 1939, THE STORY OF DE VRIENDT, A LEARNED JEW, IS TOLD.
BR 399 HANUKKAH SOLIS-COHEN, EMILY, ED. ESSAYS, STORIES, POETRY, RABBINIC COMMENTARY, PLAYS, AND PROGRAMS ABOUT HANUKKAH FOR BOTH CHILDREN AND ADULTS.
BR 402 BARNEY BARNATO LEWISOHN, RICHARD LIFE STORY OF THE WHITECHAPEL JEWISH LAD WHO MADE AN ENORMOUS FORTUNE IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMOND MINES.
BR 403 HEARKEN UNTO THE VOICE WERFEL, FRANZ A PRESENTATION OF JEREMIAH'S STORY IN WARNING THAT HE WHO TAKES THE SWORD SHALL PERISH WITH THE SWORD.
BR 404 GREAT GOLDWYN, THE JOHNSTON, ALVA ANECDOTES ABOUT SAMUEL GOLDWYN, THE MOVING PICTURE PRODUCER.
BR 407 OLAMI, SEFER SHLISHI BACHRACH, KALMAN A HISTORY OF THE JEWS, WRITTEN IN EASY HEBREW.
BR 408 JEWISH HISTORY IN 1000 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ZACHER, A. S. BASED ON DUBNOW'S HISTORY AND OTHER SOURCES, THIS IS A COMPILATION OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT JEWS FROM BIBLICAL TIMES TO THE 1930'S.
BR 410 WATCH ON THE RHINE HELLMAN, LILLIAN A PLAY IN THREE ACTS ABOUT A FAMILY LIVING NEAR WASHINGTON AND THE REFUGEES THEY HARBORED.
BR 411 BOOK OF PSALMS, THE FREEHOF, SOLOMON B. THE HEBREW PSALMS WERE THE FIRST TO GIVE EXPRESSION TO THE CONVERSATION OF THE HUMAN HEART WITH GOD IN MORE LYRICAL LANGUAGE THAN WAS EVER BEFORE UTTERED.
BR 413 MOTHER, THE ASCH, SHOLEM A POLISH FAMILY COMES TO NEW YORK, CHANGES THEIR SURFACE HABITS BUT KEEPS TO ANCIENT TRADITION.
BR 416 RENEGADE LEWISOHN, LUDWIG THE FRANCE OF DUBARRY, VOLTAIRE AND LOUIS XIV IS THE BACKGROUND OF THIS STORY OF A WEALTHY JEW WHO DESERTED HIS PEOPLE.
BR 417 MAGIC FLIGHT GAER, YOSSEF 'MAGIC FLIGHT, JEWISH TALES AND LEGENDS' ARE CHILDREN'S STORIES AS TOLD BY GRANDMA.
BR 420 TORAH READINGS; A BOOK OF EPSTEIN, MORRIS HERE ARE SOME SELECTED READINGS FROM THE BIBLE.
BR 426 M'GILAT ESTER (THE BOOK OF ESTER) SCHARFSTEIN, ZVI THE BOOK OF ESTHER, IN HEBREW, WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS.
BR 427 KINOT L'TISHA B'AV HEBREW PUB. CO., ED. THESE LAMENTATIONS ARE RECITED EVERY YEAR ON THE NINTH DAY OF THE MONTH OF AV, IN MEMORY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE SOME TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO.
BR 428 ROMANCE OF A PEOPLE, THE FAST, HOWARD A SIMPLY WRITTEN HISTORY OF THE JEWS FROM THE TIME OF ABRAHAM TO THE PRESENT. THE BOOK IS INTENDED FOR JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
BR 429 BIBLE AND SPADE CAIGER, STEPHEN THIS BOOK PRESENTS AN ACCOUNT OF RECENT DISCOVERIES IN ARCHEOLOGY WHICH PERTAIN DIRECTLY TO THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND AN ANALYSIS OF THEIR IMPORTANCE.
BR 433 SZOLD,HENRIETTA(MOTHER IN ISRAEL) GLENN, MENACHEM G. THIS BOOK TELLS THE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN BRINGING HOMELESS JEWISH CHILDREN TO ISRAEL AT THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
BR 436 REBIRTH IN LIBERTY LIPS, EVA AN ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S NATURALIZATION AND HER ENTHUSIASTIC 'REBIRTH' AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
BR 437 BOOK OF DELIGHT AND OTHER PAPERS ABRAHAMS, ISRAEL ESSAYS ON GEORGE ELLIOT, SOLOMON MAIMON AND OTHERS.
BR 439 CHILDHOOD IN EXILE LEVIN, SHMARYA. MAURICE SAMUEL, TRAN STANLEY R. B THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR, WRITER, AND ZIONIST LEADER WHO LIVED FROM 1867-1935 AND WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE REVIVAL OF HEBREW LITERATURE. THE BOOK DEALS WITH THE AUTHOR'S CHILDHOOD IN A SMALL TOWN IN WESTERN RUSSIA.
BR 440 ALBERT EINSTEIN REISER, ANTON AN EXAMINATION OF EINSTEIN'S PERSONALITY RATHER THAN AN INVESTIGATION OF HIS SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS.
BR 441 YALKUT PERETZ (PERETZ MISCELLANY) RABIN, C. SELECTED READINGS BY THE FAMOUS JEWISH AUTHOR, ADAPTED FOR EASY READING BY C. RABIN.
BR 442 ANSWER LEWISOHN, LUDWIG AN APPEAL TO AMERICAN JEWS TO ABANDON THE 'SERVILE ASSIMILATIONS' HITHERTO IN FASHION AMONG THEM.
BR 444 HISTORY OF PALESTINE RAPPAPORT, ANGELO S. A COMPLETE HISTORY OF A COUNTRY WHICH IS PERHAPS THE MOST INTERESTING AND FASCINATING IN THE WORLD.
BR 445 GLUCKEL VON HAMELIN WINSTON, MARGOS A DRAMATIZATION OF THE LIFE OF THIS WELL-KNOWN PIOUS JEWISH WOMAN OF THE 17TH CENTURY.
BR 447 ANI LOMED HUMASH, BET (I LEARN BIBLE, BOOK TWO) PERSKY, ELIAS A CONTINUATION OF BOOK ONE. COVERS UP TO THE LIFE OF SARAH.
BR 448 SIDDUR SHVIL CHADASH (A NEW PATH) WEISBERG, ISIDOR A COMPLETE PRAYERBOOK FOR WEEKDAYS AND SABBATH.
BR 450 TORAH LATALMID, HUKIM UMISHPATIM (BIBLE FOR THE STUDENT; RULES AND LAWS) BRIDGER, DAVID THIS BOOK FOLLOWS THE GENERAL FORMAT OF TORAH LATALMID; B'RESHIT, INTRODUCING THE READER TO JEWISH LAWS AND CUSTOMS.
BR 454 ODYSSEY OF A FAITH, THE HELLER, BERNARD A HISTORY OF JEWISH CULTURE SET FORTH IN ESSAYS DEALING WITH SEPARATE EPISODES OR CRISES IN HISTORY.
BR 456 TORAH LATALMID; B'RESHIT (BIBLE FOR THE STUDENT; GENESIS) BRIDGER, DAVID DESIGNED FOR FIRST YEAR OF HUMASH INSTRUCTION IN ELEMENTARY HEBREW. CONTAINS EXPLANATIONS OF DIFFICULT PASSAGES AND RASHI EXPLANATIONS IN ENGLISH.
BR 457 GROWTH OF GOOD WILL, THE CLINCHY, E. R. THE STORY OF INTOLERANCE DURING THE PAST HUNDRED YEARS AGAINST RELIGIOUS AND RACIAL MINORITIES IN THIS COUNTRY.
BR 458 AMERICAN JEW JANOWSKY, OSCAR A SYMPOSIUM ON THE CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC LIFE OF THE JEWS IN THIS COUNTRY.
BR 460 OLAMI, SEFER RISHON BACHRACH, KALMAN A HISTORY OF THE JEWS, WRITTEN IN SIMPLE HEBREW.
BR 461 CHELM -- IR HACHACHAMIM (CHELM--THE CITY OF THE SAGES) ARONIN, BEN A SIMPLE RETELLING OF THE PERENNIALLY FAVORITE STORIES OF THE WISE MEN OF CHELM.
BR 464 SHIMSHON BENDERLY (SAMSON BENDERLY) INDELMAN, ELCHANAN THE GREAT JEWISH EDUCATOR, BORN IN PALESTINE, WHO GAVE UP THE STUDY OF MEDICINE IN BEIRUT AND AMERICA TO PURSUE A TEACHING CAREER.
BR 465 MORDECHAI EMANUEL NOACH (MORDECHAI EMANUEL NOAH) GLENN, MENACHEM G. THE STORY OF A DOCTOR'S GRANDSON FROM PORTUGAL, WHOSE FAMILY WAS CHASED BY THE INQUISITION AND WHO LATER CAME TO THE UNITED STATES AND BECAME FAMOUS.
BR 466 SHEVAH, MENOROT (THE SEVEN LAMPS) MICHAELI, MEIR SEVEN INDIVIDUAL STORIES ABOUT LAMPS BROUGHT BACK FROM THE DARK--THE CENTURIAN LAMP, THE LAMP FROM PRAGUE, THE LAMP FROM VENICE, AND MORE.
BR 467 IN THOSE DAYS STEINBERG, JEHUDAH A TRANSLATION OF A HEBREW NOVEL ABOUT A RUSSIAN JEW WHO WAS DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY OF CZAR NICHOLAS I IN THE 1850S.
BR 469 EL HAY'LADIM B ' TEMAN (TO THE CHILDREN IN YEMEN) MEGED, ARON A STORY ABOUT THE ADVENTURES OF TWO CHILDREN FROM ISRAEL WHO EMBARK ON A JOURNEY TO SAVE THE JEWISH CHILDREN OF YEMEN. A THIRD YEAR READER.
BR 470 BAR KOCHVAH DINSKY, SAMUEL H. THE STORY OF THE REVOLT OF THE JEWS AGAINST THE ROMANS, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF BAR KOCHVAH.
BR 473 JEWISH PIONEERS AND PATRIOTS FREEDMAN, LEE M. THIS BOOK TELLS THE STORY OF JEWISH CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FOUNDING, BUILDING AND PRESERVATION OF THE UNITED STATES.
BR 474 DIALOGUE WITH GOD DOPPELT, FREDERICK A STUDY OF PRAYER CONTAINING SUCH TOPICS AS 'WHAT PEOPLE PRAY FOR,' 'WHY PEOPLE PRAY,' 'ARE PRAYERS ANSWERED?', ETC.
BR 475 HISTORIAH L'TALMIDIM, HELEK SHENI (HISTORY FOR STUDENTS II) POLLACK, I.H. A CONTINUATION OF MATERIAL COVERED IN PART I.
BR 482 SEVENTH CROSS, THE SEGHERS, ANNA A NOVEL THAT LOOKS AT REPRESSION IN RURAL GERMANY BEFORE FASCISM RAGED ACROSS EUROPE.
BR 484 PALESTINE, LAND OF PROMISE LOWDERMILK, WALTER CLAY WRITTEN BY A LAND CONSERVATIONIST WHO VISITED PALESTINE IN THE 1940S, THIS BOOK CONTAINS SURVEYS OF LAND USE FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN TIMES. IT INCLUDES A PROPOSAL FOR AN AUTHORITY OF THE JORDAN VALLEY.
BR 485 IVRIT LAMITLAMDIM (HEBREW FOR BEGINNERS) RUBENSTEIN, SIMCHA A SELECTION OF SHORT EASY STORIES WITH EXERCISES AND A DICTIONARY AT THE END OF EACH CHAPTER.
BR 487 NITZOTZAI GVURA (SPARKS OF COURAGE) PRAGUER, MOSHE THIS BOOK CONTAINS SIX STORIES ABOUT BRAVE JEWS WHO UPHELD THEIR RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS AGAINST THEIR ENEMIES.
BR 488 ABRAVANEL AND THE EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM SPAIN MINKIN, JACOB S. A BIOGRAPHY OF THE TORAH COMMENTATOR, LEADER OF MEDIEVAL JEWRY IN SPAIN, AND ADVISOR TO THE SPANISH COURT, WHO LIVED FROM 1437-1508.
BR 489 BIRHOVOT NEW YORK (IN THE STREETS OF NEW YORK) MICHAELI, MEIR THE STORY OF TWO BOYS WHO FOILED AN ATTEMPT OF THE 'BLACK SNAKE' YOUTH GANG TO BURN A LIBRARY, AND WHO WERE LATER KIDNAPPED AND FINALLY SAVED.
BR 490 BAT SHLOMO (SOLOMON'S DAUGHTER) INDELMAN, ELCHANAN THE STORY OF THE LOVE OF A SHEPHERD FOR BUA--SOLOMON'S DAUGHTER, AND HIS SEARCH FOR HER.
BR 491 TWO AMERICAN JEWISH PIONEERS OF NEW HAVEN KISCH, GUIDO BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY OF SIGMUND AND LEOPOLD WATERMAN.
BR 493 TEN COMMANDMENTS ROBINSON, A.L., ED. TEN SHORT NOVELS DEALING WITH HITLER'S WAR AGAINST THE MORAL CODE AS SET FORTH IN THE BIBLICAL TEN COMMANDMENTS.
BR 494 GERMANY'S STEPCHILDREN LIPTZIN, SOLOMON AMELIA MINTZ A SERIES OF CHARACTER SKETCHES DEALING WITH GERMAN JEWS WHO SURRENDERED THEMSELVES COMPLETELY TO GERMANY AND ITS CULTURE, IN HOPES THAT THEY WOULD BE ACCEPTED AS EQUALS.
BR 496 SOLOMON SCHECHTER BENTWICH, NORMAN JOSEPH JACOBS WROTE THAT IF THERE WAS A JEWISH GENIUS IN OUR TIMES IT WAS SOLOMON SCHECHTER.
BR 499 BOOSTANAI LEHMAN, DR. M. TELLS OF THE REVOLT OF THE JEWS AGAINST THE PERSIANS IN BABEL WITH THE BOY BOOSTANAI THE ONLY ONE REMAINING ALIVE FROM THE HOUSE OF DAVID.
BR 500 ZIP A NOVEL OF THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT APPLE, MAX JUDITH HOFFM ZIP, OR MOTIVATION, IS WHAT IRA GOLDSTEIN NEEDS TO GO OUT AND FIND A NICE JEWISH GIRL TO MARRY. WHAT HE GETS INSTEAD ARE A PUERTO RICAN BOXER, A RADICAL STUDENT AND A DETROIT JUNK KING. THE GRAND FINALE TAKES PLACE AMID A BLEND OF SPORT AND IDEOLOGY IN THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY IN CUBA.
BR 502 BLESSED IS THE MAN ZARA, LOUIS THE STORY OF JAKE KRAKAUER, AN IMMIGRANT JEW WHO COMES TO AMERICA IN THE LATE 1890'S AND FINDS RICHES AND PROBLEMS BEYOND HIS IMAGININGS.
BR 503 WELCOME STRANGER HOFFMAN, AARON A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS, BASED ON ANTI-JEWISH BIAS IN A SMALL NEW ENGLAND TOWN.
BR 505 ZOT HAARETZ (THIS IS THE LAND) BIALIK, MANOGH L. A HISTORY OF ISRAEL FROM THE 1948 WAR OF INDEPENDENCE TO THE PRESENT. A DICTIONARY IS INCLUDED AT THE END OF THE BOOK.
BR 506 NIGHTINGALE'S SONG, THE ALOFSIN, DOROTHY THE STORY OF A JEWISH-AMERICAN GIRL AND HER STRUGGLES TO BECOME AN AUTHOR.
BR 509 JEW IN OUR DAY, THE FRANK, WALDO AN ARGUMENT THAT JEWS ARE DIFFERENT FROM OTHER AMERICANS NOT RACIALLY BUT BY THEIR INHERITANCE OF THE GREAT BODY OF JEWISH TRADITION.
BR 510 LEKET AGADOT CHAZAL, BET YARDENI, GALIA CONTAINS STORIES ABOUT HILLEL, RABBI YOCHANAN BEN ZAKAI, RABBI AKIBA AND MORE.
BR 511 BOOK FOR JEWISH PRAYERS FOR HOME DEVOTION JEWISH BRAILLE INSTITUTE INCLUDES PRIVATE PRAYERS FOR EVERY SEASON AND OCCASION.
BR 516 DOWNFALL SCHNEIUR, ZALMAN THE STORY OF A WELL-TO-DO MERCHANT FAMILY OF POLISH JEWS IN WARSAW IN 1915.
BR 517 IT HAPPENED ONCE BEFORE SMITH, ROY L. THE AUTHOR SHOWS THAT THE WRONG PATHS WHICH NATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS TAKE IN OUR OWN TIMES ARE THE SAME PATHS WHICH LED TO DISASTER IN THE EARLY CENTURIES.
BR 518 BERNARD BARUCH FIELD, CARTER A FULL LENGTH, ROUNDED AND SYMPATHETIC BIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED AND RESPECTED ELDER STATESMEN.
BR 519 CANDLES IN THE NIGHT JEWISH TALES BY GENTILE AUTHORS BARON, JOSEPH I., ED. SISTERHOOD E A COLLECTION OF STORIES WITH JEWISH CHARACTERS WRITTEN BY NON-JEWISH AUTHORS.
BR 521 YISRAEL B'AMIM (ISRAEL AMONG THE NATIONS) BAER, YITZCHAK AN ESSAY ON THE PERIOD OF THE SECOND TEMPLE, OF THE MISHNAH AND ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF HALACHA AND JEWISH RELIGION.
BR 522 PATHWAYS THROUGH THE PRAYERBOOK EFRON, BENJAMIN INTEGRATES KEY RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS WITH HEBREW READING AND VOCABULARY STUDY. ENGLISH SECTIONS WITH HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY MATERIAL.
BR 524 HARVEST IN THE DESERT SAMUEL, MAURICE A PORTRAIT OF THE SELF-SACRIFICE AND DEDICATION OF ISRAEL'S PIONEERS AND SETTLERS WHO HELPED REBUILD THE HOMELAND OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES.
BR 526 GEMS OF HEBREW VERSE FEIN, HARRY H. A COLLECTION OF HEBREW POEMS.
BR 527 DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN JEWS LOTZ, PHILIP CONTAINS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF: ADOLPH S. OCHS, LILLIAN WALD, FANNIE HURST AND OTHERS.
BR 532 WORLD OF YESTERDAY ZWEIG, STEFAN THE GERMAN-JEWISH AUTHOR DESCRIBES HIS DEVELOPMENT AS A WRITER AND THE TIMES IN WHICH HE LIVED.
BR 533 CHAVERI (MY FRIEND) SCHARFSTEIN, SOL A HEBREW PRIMER INTEGRATING THE STUDY OF THE HOLIDAYS AND CUSTOMS WITH THE STUDY OF HEBREW.
BR 534 PRELUDE TO DELILAH JABOTINSKY, VLADIMIR AN INTENSELY DRAMATIC NOVEL BASED ON THE BIBLICAL STORY OF SAMSON AND DELILAH, CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST FASCINATING BOOKS OF HISTORICAL FICTION.
BR 535 CHUMASHENU B'RESHIT, HELEK RISHON; MILON POLLACK, I.H. A DICTIONARY TO ACCOMPANY CHUMASHENU B'RESHIT.
BR 537 PARTISAN GUIDE TO THE JEWISH PROBLEM STEINBERG, MILTON THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF JEWS AND GENTILES ALIKE.
BR 540 KAZRIEL THE WATCHMAN LEARSI, RUFUS SKETCHES OF EAST SIDE NEW YORK PORTRAYING JEWISH LIFE, CUSTOMS AND IDEAS.
BR 542 FIGHTING JEW, THE NUNBERG, RALPH THE AUTHOR BRINGS THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO LIFE AND SHOWS BY THEIR DEEDS THAT THEY ARE AS GOOD FIGHTERS AS NON-JEWS -- A POINT WHICH NEVER NEEDED DEMONSTRATION.
BR 544 FIGHTING ANGEL LEVINGER, ELMA THE BIOGRAPHY OF HENRIETTA SZOLD, PERHAPS THE GREATEST JEWISH WOMAN PIONEER WHO WORKED FOR THE NEW PALESTINE.
BR 546 EL HADOD B'AMERICA V'OD SIPPURIM (TO THE UNCLE IN AMERICA AND OTHER STORIES) YARDENI, GALIA A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, IN EASY-TO-READ HEBREW.
BR 552 DREYFUS CASE, THE DREYFUS, A. P. CONTAINS AN ACCOUNT BY HIS SON OF DREYFUS' FOUR YEARS ON DEVIL'S ISLAND, AND HIS SUBSEQUENT LIFE IN FRANCE.
BR 554 SON OF THE LOST SON, THE MORGENSTERN, SOMA MRS. SEYMOUR A NOVEL SET IN EASTERN EUROPE AND VIENNA DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS.
BR 557 PEACE OF MIND LIEBMAN, JOSHUA LOTH ESTHER ARBEI THIS BOOK, WHICH WAS ON THE BEST-SELLING NON-FICTION LISTS OF THE LATE 1940'S, DEVELOPS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NEW SCIENCE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE WORLD OF RELIGION.
BR 558 SONGS OF JEWISH REBIRTH NEWMAN, LOUIS I. RABBI NEWMAN'S POEMS 'REPRESENT THE THOUGHT OF A FEW PRECIOUS LEISURE MOMENTS OVER A PERIOD OF TWO YEARS'.
BR 559 LETTERS FROM THE DESERT MOSENSON, MOSHE THE AUTHOR WAS A JEWISH VOLUNTEER WHO FOUGHT WITH THE BRITISH FORCES FROM EL ALAMEIN TO TRIPOLI.
BR 561 BERNARD BARUCH SHUMWAY, HARRY A FRIEND'S EULOGY ON ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED AND RESPECTED ELDER STATESMEN.
BR 563 LEKET AGADOT CHAZAL, ALEF (AN ANTHOLOGY OF RABBINICAL LEGENDS, I) YARDENI, GALIA CONTAINS THE STORY OF CREATION AND NARRATIVES ABOUT THE PATRIARCHS AND OTHER BIBLICAL PERSONAGES SUCH AS MOSES AND KING DAVID. IN EASY-TO-READ HEBREW.
BR 565 MIMTULAH L'NYU-YORK (FROM METULAH TO NEW-YORK) KANIUK, YORAM THE STORY OF A TRIP FROM ISRAEL TO THE UNITED STATES. WRITTEN IN EASY-TO-READ HEBREW.
BR 566 BESIDE THE STILL WATERS KOHUT, GEORGE ALEXANDER A COLLECTION OF POEMS WHICH INCLUDES LEGENDS, LOGIC AND ELEGIES.
BR 567 ELEF MILIM, VIRIT B'CHAI YOM YOM (RASHIT Y'DEATH HALASHON LIMUGARIM) SHAFER, JOSEPH BEN & ROSEN, A. A VOCABULARY FOR THOSE BEGINNING TO LEARN TO SPEAK HEBREW. OVER 1,000 WORDS.
BR 568 GIBORAY HATANACH HATSIRIM VERNER, GAY-EEN A NOVEL.
BR 573 SHANA L'AIN KETZ (YEAR WITHOUT END) SUNDBERG, MOSHE A NOVEL.
BR 575 IVRIT LIMVUGARIM UL'NOAR (HEBREW FOR ADULTS & YOUTH PART ONE) BRIDGER, DAVID A TEXT DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ADULT BEGINNERS IN HEBREW STUDIES.
BR 576 ANSHEI B'RESHIS (READINGS IN EASY HEBREW) SMOLY, ELIEZER FOR BEGINNERS, AN ELEMENTARY READER, EASY WORDS.
BR 577 MASADA LAMDEN, YITZHAK THE STORY OF THE MASADA FORTRESS BUILT UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF BAR KOCHBAH AND ITS HEROIC STAND DURING THE SECOND REVOLT OF THE JEWS AGAINST THE ROMANS.
BR 578 FINAL JUDGEMENT BERNSTINE, VICTOR H. A WELL-WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE NUREMBERG TRIAL BY A CORRESPONDENT WHO WAS THERE. AN INDESCRIBABLY APPALLING ACCOUNT OF HOW HITLER DID IT.
BR 579 BLESSED IS THE MATCH THE STORY OF JEWISH RESISTANCE SYRKIN, MARIE EVELYN SIMON A HISTORY OF THE JEWISH RESISTANCE MOVEMENT AGAINST GERMANY DURING WORLD WAR II.
BR 581 ALBERT EINSTEIN EISENBERG, JUDAH M. A BIOGRAPHY FOR CHILDREN, WRITTEN IN SIMPLE HEBREW, ABOUT THE PROMINENT PHYSICIST. A COLLECTION OF HIS LETTERS AND DIARIES REVEAL HIS KIND, MODEST, AND HUMOROUS PERSONALITY.
BR 582 KACH NOLDA MEDINAT HA-YEHUDIM (THUS WAS BORN THE JEWISH STATE) MEGED, MATHI AN EASY HEBREW READER ABOUT THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL.
BR 583 IN MY FATHER'S PASTURES MORGENSTERN, SOMA A YOUNG AUSTRIAN JEW DISCOVERS HIS CULTURAL HERITAGE WHILE VISITING AN UNCLE IN POLISH GALICIA.
BR 584 EINSTEIN, HIS LIFE AND TIMES FRANK, PHILIP BIOGRAPHY BY AN OLD FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE OF EINSTEIN'S, IN WHICH THE MAN AND HIS WORK ARE EXPLAINED ABOUT AS WELL AS THEY COULD BE FOR THE LAY PUBLIC.
BR 585 MODERN PROBLEMS OF JEWISH PARENTS KOHN, JACOB A STUDY IN PARENTAL ATTITUDES OF VITAL INTEREST NOT ONLY TO JEWISH PARENTS BUT TO ALL STUDENTS OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE.
BR 586 CHAVER LIN'VIYIM, RISHONIM (MY FRIEND, A READER FOR BEGINNERS) PERSKY, ELIEZER ELEMENTARY HEBREW READER.
BR 588 RABBI ISRAEL SALANTER INDELMAN, ELCHANAN A BIOGRAPHY.
BR 589 EARTH COULD BE FAIR VAN PASSEN, PIERRE RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE IN THE TOWN OF GORCUM WHOSE CITIZENS WERE CATHOLICS, JEWS AND DUTCH REFORMED PROTESTANTS.
BR 590 CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM GORDIS, ROBERT A CLEAR AND AUTHORITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PHILOSOPHY, THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM.
BR 591 GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT HOBSON, LAURA Z. ESTHER GERST A NOVEL ABOUT A NON-JEWISH JOURNALIST WHO POSES AS A JEW FOR A FEW WEEKS IN ORDER TO LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT ANTI-SEMITISM.
BR 593 LOUIS BRANDEIS DE HASS, JACOB A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH; WITH A SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO JEWISH AND ZIONIST HISTORY.
BR 595 IVRIT LAMVUGARIM PART I (HEBREW FOR ADULTS) BRIDGER, DAVID AN ADULT PRIMER WITH DRILLS, EXERCISES VOCABULARY.
BR 596 MACCABEES BICKERMAN, ELIAS HISTORY OF THE MACCABEES 'FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE FALL OF THE HOUSE' IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN RESEARCH.
BR 597 MESSAGE OF THE TORAH, THE EFRON, BENJAMIN THE CENTRAL THEMES OF THE TORAH ARE PRESENTED.
BR 598 SELECTED STORIES PERETZ, I.L. PERETZ IS REGARDED AS ONE OF THE FOREMOST NAMES IN YIDDISH LITERATURE.
BR 600 LESSONS FOR RAMAH, NO. 2 SOSHUK, LEVI, ED. A HEBREW PRIMER.
BR 601 HASHOMER (THE GUARD) YARDENI, GALIA THE EXCITING STORY OF THE ISRAELI GUARD. WRITTEN IN EASY-TO-READ HEBREW WITH VOWELS.
BR 603 PARSHAS SHAVOUTH PREP.-BET HAMIDRASH LAMORIM WRITINGS ON THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY.
BR 604 HASIFRUT Y'HACHAYIM ROTBLAT, C.M. AN ANTHOLOGY OF HEBREW LITERATURE.
BR 605 KAL LILMOD (IT IS EASY TO LEARN) LERMON, ROSEN, EGOSI ELEMENTARY HEBREW. NEW WORDS EXPLAINED AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH LESSON. VARIED AND NUMEROUS EXERCISES AND COMPREHENSIVE TESTS.
BR 606 IVRIT CHAYEH, PART II (MODERN HEBREW) BLUMBERG & LEWITTES HEBREW GRAMMAR FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
BR 608 COMPOSITION VOCABULARY JEW. ED. COMM. BEGINNERS BOOK WITH EASY WORDS TO LEARN TO WRITE IN HEBREW.
BR 609 HATZIPORIM BAMIDBAR (THE BIRDS IN THE DESERT) SEGAL, BERYL A NOVEL.
BR 610 SHALOM ALEICHEM (YALKUT) PELLI, MOSHE EIGHT SHORT STORIES BY SHALOM ALEICHEM. THE HEROES ARE SMALL PEOPLE WHO LEAD HARD LIVES, NOT TOO SUCCESSFUL, BUT THEY DON'T GIVE UP.
BR 613 COMPANION TO THE AUTHORIZED DAILY PRAYERBOOK ABRAHAMS, ISRAEL HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES ON LITURGY AND RITUAL.
BR 615 PIRKE AVOT, A COMMENTARY BUNIM, IRVING M. AN ECLECTIC, WIDE-RANGING COMMENTARY ON PIRKE AVOT
BR 617 SEFER HA'AGADAH SCHECTER, JOSEPH VOWELED HEBREW SHORT STORIES.
BR 618 BROKEN LIGHTS AARONSOHN, MICHAEL ELAINE LEE THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A RABBI WHO BECAME BLIND DURING WORLD WAR I.
BR 619 HEBREW LEVEL III - REGENTS REVIEW BOOK HEBREW CULTURE COUNCIL, ED. REVIEW BOOK FOR STATE REGENTS EXAMINATIONS.
BR 620 CHAVER LASIDDUR SOVIV, AARON SIMPLE LESSONS WITH HISTORY OF ALL PRAYERS. PRAYERS IN BASIC HEBREW. CONTAINS HEBREW-ENGLISH DICTIONARY, RABBINICAL QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.
BR 622 STUDIES IN THE WEEKLY SIDRA, 5718 ANNUAL LEIBOWITZ, N. A COMMENTARY OF THE PENTATEUCH.
BR 623 AXE OF WANDSBEK, THE ZWEIG, ARNOLD A NOVEL DEPICTING DAILY LIFE IN GERMANY UNDER THE HITLER REGIME.
BR 624 VICTIM, THE BELLOW, SAUL A STORY ABOUT A SOLEMN AND TOUCHY JEW ACCUSED BY A FANATIC GENTILE OF RUINING HIM.
BR 625 PROFESSOR HAFFKINE (THE JEW WHO SAVED INDIA) PRAEGER, MOSHE A BIOGRAPHY.
BR 626 HAMISHA SIPPUREI S.Y. AGNON (FIVE STORIES OF S.Y. AGNON) CHOMSKY, MICHAL ED. FIVE STORIES BY THE FAMED ISRAELI AUTHOR INCLUDING, 'HONORING PARENTS,' 'FROM AN ENEMY TO A LOVER,' AND 'FACE TO FACE.'
BR 629 ALL GOD'S CHILDREN COHEN, ARMAND E. A FRANK EXPLORATION OF THE OFTEN NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN JEWS AND GENTILES.
BR 630 BETH AGULAR (THE HOUSE OF AGULAR) LEHMAN, M. A NOVEL.
BR 631 PANIM AHEROT (OTHER FACES) AGNON, S.Y. A NOVEL BY THE FAMED NOBEL PRIZE WINNER.
BR 632 YAD ACHAT L'YOSEF (THE ONE ARMED HERO) MENUSSI, YEDIDYAH THE LIFE STORY OF JOSEF TRUMPELDOR.
BR 633 HAYM SALOMON FEUERSTEIN, EMIL STORY OF THE AMERICAN JEW WHO RAISED FUNDS TO FINANCE THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN.
BR 634 GALUT BAER, YITZHAK F. A HISTORICAL ESSAY WHICH EXAMINES THE GALUT HEBREW FOR EXILE) AS THE CENTRAL THEME OF JEWISH HISTORY FROM HELLENISTIC-ROMAN DAYS TO THE RECENT EUROPEAN EXODUS.
BR 635 ODYSSEY THROUGH HELL DAVIES, RAYMOND ARTHUR A CANADIAN-BORN TRAVELER AND CORRESPONDENT DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED TO THE JEWS OF POLAND, ROMANIA, YUGOSLAVIA AND THE PARTS OF RUSSIA WHICH THE GERMANS OVERRAN.
BR 637 LEKET MIN HASIFROOT HAIVRIT BA'AMERICA (SELECTIONS FROM HEBREW LITERATURE IN AMERICA) INDELMAN, ELCHANAN STORIES AND POEMS.
BR 639 UNDERSTANDING THE PROPHETS BLANK, SHELDON H. AN ANALYSIS OF THEIR TEACHINGS AND THE MANNER IN WHICH THEY CONVEYED THEIR PROPHECIES TO A SKEPTICAL PEOPLE.
BR 640 SHIUREI K'RIAH K'TIVAH UTFILAH EHRLICH, ABRAHAM J. A HEBREW PRIMER IN READING, WRITING AND PRAYER.
BR 641 WORLD OF EMMA LAZARUS, THE JACOBS, H.E. A BIOGRAPHY OF THE NOTED AMERICAN-JEWISH POET, WHO CAME FROM A RENOWNED SEPHARDIC FAMILY, AND WHOSE INTERESTS IN THE POOR OF EASTERN EUROPE, PROMPTED HER TO WRITE POETRY OF WHICH THE MOST FAMOUS IS THE POEM INSCRIBED ON THE BASE OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY.
BR 643 IVRIT PART I TARGILON (WORKBOOK) TEICHMAN, MILTON THE EXCERCISE BOOK FOR IVRIT PART ONE.
BR 648 N - OORIM KOHEN-ZEDEK, Y. & SHITRAI, D. STORY PRIMER.
BR 649 SHALOM YISRAEL BET PERSKY & SCHARFSTEIN A THIRD YEAR BASIC HEBREW TEXT. CONTINUES AMERICAN FAMILY'S VACATION THROUGH ISRAEL AND THEIR STORY.
BR 650 HISTORY OF JEWISH ART, A LANDSBERGER, RABBI FRANZ THIS BOOK CONTAINS A DISCUSSION OF MODERN JEWISH CEREMONIAL ART AS WELL AS AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF ITS DEVELOPMENT.
BR 652 OLAM GADOL BET (A BIG WORLD, PART II) SHUMSKY, ABRAHAM & ADAIA SHUMSKY A HEBREW TEXTBOOK DESIGNED TO GIVE THE STUDENT INSTRUCTION IN JEWISH ETHICS, HISTORY LANGUAGE AND CUSTOMS IN STORY FORM.
BR 655 OLAM GADOL. ALEF (A BIG WORLD. PART I) SHUMSKY, ABRAHAM & ADAIA SHUMSKY A TEXTBOOK FOR BEGINNERS THAT TEACHES HEBREW THROUGH THE VALUES OF JUDAISM.
BR 658 SPINOZA KAYSER, RUDOLF THIS BIOGRAPHY OF BARUCH SPINOZA OFFERS MUCH TO THE CONTEMPORARY MAN WHO IS FACED BY A SIMILAR SPIRITUAL CONFLICT TO THE ONE WITH WHICH SPINOZA WRESTLES.
BR 660 FROM THE LAND OF SHEBA TALES OF THE JEWS OF YEMEN GOITEN, S.D., ED. A COLLECTION OF FOLK TALES, LEGENDS, AND SONGS OF THE YEMENITE JEWS.
BR 663 FAMILY LIFE OF HEINRICH HEINE VON EMDEN, BARON L. A BIOGRAPHY OF THE DOMESTIC LIFE OF THE GREAT GERMAN POET.
BR 664 JERUSALEM ROSMARIN, TRUDE A VIVID PICTURE OF THE HISTORY OF JERUSALEM AND OF THE UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THIS IMMEMORIAL CITY.
BR 668 WHISPER MY NAME DAVIS, BURKE MERCHANT GOES TO LIVE IN THE SOUTH, LATER REVEALS HIS ANCESTRY. FAMILIAR THEME OF DENIAL OF JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 675 PROMISE AND FULFILLMENT KOESTLER, ARTHUR A BRILLIANT AND THOROUGH ANALYSIS OF THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FORCES WHICH CONFLICT IN ISRAEL.
BR 678 LEGEND OF LOUISE WISE, JAMES WATERMAN THE LIFE STORY OF MRS. STEPHEN WISE AS TOLD BY HER SON.
BR 681 SAADYA GAON CHAMPION OF JUDASM DRUCK, DAVID A POPULAR BIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT MEDIEVAL SCHOLAR AND PHILOSOPHER. HE ESTABLISHED THE CALENDAR AND BITTERLY OPPOSED THE KARAITES.
BR 685 LITTLE SLEEP, A LITTLE SLUMBER KATKOV, NORMAN POTRAIT OF A GOOD MAN, LEV SIMON, AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF HIS FOUR SONS AS HE LIES ON HIS DEATHBED.
BR 686 ETZEM BAGARON KISHON, EPHRAIM HUMOROUS ESSAYS ON CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI LIFE TOUCHING ON LOVE, SEX, AND MARRIAGE. WRITTEN BY THE WELL-KNOWN ISRAELI PLAYWRIGHT AND HUMORIST.
BR 688 SIDEWALKS ARE FREE, THE ROSS, SAM THIS IS A STORY ABOUT A JEWISH BOY IN CHICAGO, AND ABOUT HIS FAMILY'S EFFORTS TO BECOME AMERICANIZED AND TO BEAT THE POVERTY WHICH ASSAILS THEM.
BR 693 GENTLEMAN AND THE JEW, THE SAMUEL, MAURICE THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITER, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE MORAL PROBLEMS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 697 BERNARD BARUCH WHITE, W. L. THE FIRST IMPORTANT BIOGRAPHY OF BERNARD BARUCH. IT GIVES A PICTURE OF A FINANCIAL GENIUS.
BR 701 YOUNG HEARTS MALETZ, DAVID A NOVEL OF LIFE ON AN ISRAELI KIBBUTZ.
BR 704 ONE FOOT IN AMERICA SUHL, YURI DOROTHY HALL AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL OF A GALICIAN JEWISH BOY WHO CAME TO BROOKLYN IN 1923. THE BOY'S IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCES ARE PORTRAYED WITH WARMTH AND HUMOR.
BR 709 INTRODUCING SHIRLEY BRAVERMAN WOLITZER, HILMA THE NARRATIVE OF A YOUNG GIRL GROWING UP IN BROOKLYN AGAINST A BACKDROP OF WORLD WAR II AIR RAID DRILLS, BLUE STAR FLAGS, AND THE EVER-PRESENT DREAD OF TELEGRAMS.
BR 713 CHAIN AND THE LINK, THE MILLER, DAVID THIS BOOK RECREATES THE ATMOSPHERE OF LIFE IN THE JEWISH-LITHUANIAN TOWNS, DRAWING FREELY FROM TALMUDIC LORE.
BR 715 SPIRIT RETURNETH, THE STERN, SELMA A STORY BASED ON THE TRAGEDIES AND HEROISMS OF THE JEWS IN GERMANY DURING THE 14TH CENTURY.
BR 718 HOLLYWOOD'S IMAGE OF THE JEW FRIEDMAN, LESTER D. AN OVERVIEW OF THE PORTRAYAL OF JEWS IN FILMS FROM THE EARLY SILENTS TO THE 1980S. THE BOOK IS ARRANGED BY DECADE AND INCLUDES A COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.
BR 727 HILLEL PILCHIK, ELY E. BIOGRAPHY OF RABBI HILLEL, ONE OF THE GREATEST OF THE INTERPRETERS OF THE TORAH. A MIXTURE OF FACT AND FICTION.
BR 733 IN THE ABSENCE OF ANGELS CALISHER, HORTENSE A NOVEL OF MODERN COLLEGE LIFE WITH ITS ATTENDANT DOUBTS AND CONFUSION.
BR 734 PEDLOCKS, THE LONGSTREET, STEPHEN A NOVEL ABOUT A JEWISH FAMILY LIVING IN AMERICA SINCE CIVIL WAR TIMES.
BR 736 NO TRAVELER RETURNS SHOSKES, HENRY THE STORY OF THE DEATH OF THE JEWS OF WARSAW, MUCH OF IT TOLD BY EYEWITNESS REPORTS BY JEWS WHO MANAGED TO ESCAPE OR SEND WORD BY OTHERS. NOT PLEASANT READING.
BR 740 GIANT WAKES, THE HUGHES, RUPERT A NOVEL ON SAMUEL GOMPERS, THE JEWISH LEADER AND FOUNDER OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR. IT PRESENTS IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT ORGANIZED LABOR IN AMERICA.
BR 741 FIVE JEWISH LAWYERS OF COMMON LAW GOODHART, ARTHUR THE NOTED PROFESSOR OF JURISPRUDENCE AT OXFORD DESCRIBES THE CHARACTERISTICS OF FIVE JEWS WHO MADE SEMINAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMON LAW.
BR 743 POOR COUSIN EVELYN YAFFE, JAMES A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES ABOUT WELL-TO-DO JEWISH PEOPLE LIVING ON NEW YORK'S WEST SIDE.
BR 745 LORE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE GAER, JOSEPH NAOMI LIPMAN A COLLECTION OF THREE HUNDRED STORIES BASED ON THE BIBLE.
BR 746 WILL OF IRON ROSEN, ISADORE NOVEL OF A JEWISH MATRIARCH LIVING WITH HER FAMILY IN BROOKLYN'S BROWNSVILLE SLUM DURING THE '20'S AND THE DEPRESSION YEARS.
BR 747 GROOVES OF CHANGE SAMUEL, VISCOUNT MEMOIRS AND COMMENTARIES OF A NOTED BRITISH POLITICAL LEADER.
BR 748 SUN IS SILENT, THE LEVITT, SAUL AN ENTERTAINING AND EXCITING WAR BOOK, AND YET REALISTIC. IT IS A DEEPLY-FELT, GENUINE NOVEL IN WHICH THE JEW IN THE AIR FORCE IS SEEN AT FIRST HAND.
BR 749 MEDICINE FOR A SICK WORLD LEFKOWITZ, DAVID ESSAYS ON MODERN JUDAISM AND THE PLACE OF THE SYNAGOGUE IN JEWISH LIFE.
BR 755 JUGGLER, THE BLANFORT, MICHAEL ROSE BOSESS A NOVEL ABOUT A CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVOR WHO COMES TO ISRAEL FOR ASYLUM.
BR 756 TREASURY OF JEWISH HUMOR, A AUSUBEL, NATHAN, ED. VERA LEHRMAN AN ANTHOLOGY OF HUMOROUS STORIES, POEMS, EPIGRAMS, AND SAYINGS CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES WITHIN JEWISH LITERATURE.
BR 769 TREASURY OF JEWISH HOLIDAYS, A GOLDIN, HYMAN E. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EACH OF THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS, AS WELL AS LEGENDS AND CUSTOMS ASSOCIATED WITH EACH IMPORTANT EVENT OF THE JEWISH CALENDAR.
BR 770 ABRAHAM WHO SOUGHT GOD ROTHBERG, ABRAHAM THE STORY OF ABRAHAM, FATHER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, TOLD IN A SIMPLE STYLE FOR YOUNG READERS.
BR 771 ONE DESTINY ASCH, SHOLEM THE HISTORY OF ANTI-SEMITISM FROM EARLIEST TIME TO HITLER AND ASKS FOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF 'ONE DESTINY' FOR THE INHERITORS OF THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION.
BR 772 WALKER IN THE CITY, A KAZIN, ALFRED THE AUTHOR TELLS OF HIS NEW YORK CHILDHOOD IN BROWNSVILLE, AT THAT TIME A NEIGHBORHOOD OF EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWISH IMMIGRANTS. THE BOOK EXPLORES HIS SEARCH FOR POLITICAL AND SPIRITUAL VALUES.
BR 775 CHILDREN OF FREEDOM BRAVERMAN, LIBBIE L. THE STORY OF A FAMILY, WEARIED FROM PERSECUTION, AND THEIR PURSUIT OF A NEW LIFE IN ISRAEL.
BR 776 SELECTED ESSAYS HA AM, AHAD ESSAYS ON RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS.
BR 779 STRANGE LANDS AND FRIENDLY DOUGLAS, WILLIAM O. A DISCUSSION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNIST AGITATION IN ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, BASED ON TRIPS TO THESE REGIONS MADE BY THE AUTHOR.
BR 786 EVERYMAN'S HISTORY OF THE JEWS ISH-KISHOR, SHULAMITH A POPULAR HISTORY OF THE JEWS WHICH PLACES SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON JUDAISM'S IDEOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTION TO HUMANITY.
BR 787 HASIDISM BUBER, MARTIN A HISTORY OF THE HASIDIC MOVEMENT AND ITS CREATOR WHO WAS KNOWN AS THE BAAL SHEM-TOV. WRITTEN BY THE PROMINENT JEWISH PHILOSOPHER.
BR 788 ROAD OF AGES NATHAN, ROBERT A NOVEL IN WHICH THE JEWS OF ALL NATIONS ARE DRIVEN OUT OF THE WESTERN WORLD AND INTO THE GOBI DESERT.
BR 802 LAYS OF ISRAEL BOSHWITZ, MAX A BOOK OF POETRY ON JEWISH THEMES.
BR 805 FESTIVALS OF THE JEWISH YEAR A MODERN INTERPRETATION AND GUIDE GASTER, THEODOR H. AN INTERPRETATION OF JEWISH FESTIVALS COMPARING THEIR ORIGIN, EVOLUTION AND MEANING WITH THE RITES AND CUSTOMS OF OTHER PEOPLES.
BR 806 REAL ENJOYMENT OF LIVING, THE SCHACHEL, HYMAN JUDAH AN ATTEMPT TO INDICATE HOW THE REAL ENJOYMENT OF LIVING CAN BE MASTERED IN A TURBULENT ERA.
BR 808 JEW AND HIS DUTIES, THE GOLDIN, HYMAN E. DISCUSSION OF THE JEW'S ETHICAL AND RELIGIOUS OBLIGATIONS TO GOD AND HIS FELLOWMEN.
BR 810 WHAT'S YOUR JEWISH I.Q.? RIBALOW, HAROLD ENJOYABLE, ILLUMINATING QUIZ BOOK FOR ALL AGES.
BR 811 RACHEL LEWITAN, MINA A DELIGHTFUL STORY OF A CLOSE-KNIT JEWISH FAMILY ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE.
BR 813 WONDERFUL SHABOS, A SOL, ROBERT THE SABBATH OBSERVANCE IN A MODERN, ORTHODOX JEWISH, AMERICAN HOME.
BR 815 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS OF ANCIENT HEBREWS GEWURZ, ELIAS SELECTIONS FROM THE TALMUD AND ARAMAIC WRITINGS.
BR 817 WEDDING, THE STEIN, HANA FINE, FLAVORSOME NOVEL STEEPED IN THE TELLING OF A WEDDING DAY'S EVENTS AND THEIR MEANING ON THE JEWISH EAST SIDE GHETTO OF NEW YORK.
BR 818 BELIEFS AND PRACTICES OF JUDAISM, THE FINKELSTEIN, LOUIS IS THE JEWISH CONTRIBUTION TO THE RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOK 'RELIGIONS OF DEMOCRACY'.
BR 819 VALLEY OF VISION, THE FISHER, VARDIS AN IMPRESSIVE NOVEL OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KING SOLOMON, HERE LINED AS A MAN OF MAGNITUDE, RICHNESS AND WISDOM BY ONE OF THE FOREMOST NOVELISTS OF OUR TIMES.
BR 820 ARROW IN THE BLUE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY KOESTLER, ARTHUR HELEN BELINK IN TELLING HIS OWN LIFE STORY, THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES THE PERIOD WHEN MANY YOUNG JEWS, IN SEARCH OF A BETTER WORLD, EMBRACED THE IDEOLOGIES OF COMMUNISM.
BR 821 BITING ON GRANITE NEWMAN, LOIS I. AN EXAMINATION OF THE ATTEMPT BY ORTHODOX RABBIS TO EXCOMMUNICATE RABBI MORDECAI M. KAPLAN AND THE DESTRUCTION OF HIS RECONSTRUCTIONIST SABBATH PRAYERBOOK.
BR 823 KETTI SHALOM MURDOCK, JAMES A NOVEL OF FRESHNESS AND INTEGRITY ABOUT 'KETTI', A YOUNG JEWISH REFUGEE INTERNED IN A PRE-INDEPENDENCE CAMP NEAR HAIFA.
BR 829 MILK AND HONEY MIKES, GEORGE A GENUINELY ABSORBING BOOK OF ESSAYS ABOUT ISRAEL, INFORMATIVE AND REFRESHINGLY HUMOROUS.
BR 830 LET LAUGHTER RING MENDELSOHN, S. FELIX MINNIE ELINS A COLLECTION OF HUMOROUS ANECDOTES WHICH MIRROR THE MANY-FACETED LIFE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 831 WANDERING STAR ALEICHEM, SHOLOM EVE GREEN A BOOK ABOUT THE MINSTRELS WHO WANDERED FROM TOWN TO TOWN SINGING OF DAYS LONG GONE.
BR 832 YOU NEVER LEAVE BROOKLYN CELLER, EMANUEL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE U.S. CONGRESSMAN FROM BROOKLYN. IT IS A RECORD OF HIS PERSONAL FIGHT FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, AND HIS STAND ON CIVIL RIGHTS, AND IMMIGRATION.
BR 834 SIGMUND FREUD BAKER, RACHEL A CALM, SENSITIVE BIOGRAPHY WHICH MAKES FREUD UNDERSTANDABLE TO BOTH YOUNG AND ADULT READERS. IT IS NARRATED IN A STRAIGHT FORWARD, SYMPATHETIC, LUCID STYLE.
BR 835 GREAT HOUDINI, THE WILLIAMS, B. & EPSTEIN, S. A JUVENILE BIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT JEWISH MAGICIAN AND ESCAPE ARTIST.
BR 840 LOST MENORAH, THE FREEHOF, LILLIAN S. ENJOYABLE LITTLE STORY OF CHANNUKAH FOR CHILDREN.
BR 841 DREIDEL HERO, THE ROSS, SHARON L. A STORY OF A CHANNUKAH DREIDEL NAMED DAVID.
BR 844 SPARK AND THE EXODUS, THE FREEDMAN, BENEDICT & NANCY BRILLIANT, EVOCATIVE NOVEL OF THE HARDSHIPS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS ENCOUNTERED BY A BAND OF POLISH JEWS ESCAPING TO JERUSALEM IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
BR 848 PASSAGE IN THE NIGHT, A ASCH, SHOLEM HELEN LEVINE THE STORY OF A MAN'S SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING.
BR 854 PILGRIM PEOPLE LEBESON, ANITA LIBMAN A HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN AMERICA DESCRIBING THE PART THEY PLAYED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW CONTINENT AND THE NEW NATION.
BR 855 EARLY AMERICAN JEWRY MARCUS, JACOB R. A DISCUSSION OF THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND AND CANADA.
BR 865 HISTORY OF THE JEWS GOODMAN, PAUL A FINE SUCCINCT HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOR ALL AGES.
BR 866 LANDSMEN, THE MARTIN, PETER A NOVEL OF THE HEARTACHES AND HUMOR OF AN OPPRESSED JEWISH COMMUNITY IN A TINY CZARIST VILLAGE IN RUSSIA, IT REVEALS THE ROOTS OF JEWISH AMERICA.
BR 868 WORLD'S FAIR DOCTOROW, E. L. IN A NOVEL APPEARS TO BE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, THE AUTHOR CAPTURES THE UNIVERSALS OF CHILDHOOD, AND THE SPECIFIC CONDITION OF BEING A JEWISH CHILD.
BR 870 MINK ON WEEKDAYS LAMPORT, FELICIA PLAYFUL NOVEL OF UPPER-CLASS UPBRINGING IN NEW YORK.
BR 872 CHALLENGING YEARS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF STEPHEN WISE WISE, STEPHEN WISE, A REFORM RABBI WHO DIED IN 1949, CO-FOUNDED THE WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS AND FOUNDED THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA AND THE FREE SYNAGOGUE IN NEW YORK CITY. IN HIS BOOK, HE RECOUNTS THE EVENTS THROUGH WHICH HE LIVED, THE CAUSES IN WHICH HE LABORED, AND THE BELIEFS WHICH IMPELLED HIM TO ACT.
BR 874 DESTINATION PALESTINE GRUBER, RUTH A JOURNALIST PROVIDES A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE MOST CRITICAL PERIODS IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 876 ISRAEL WITHOUT TEARS GRUBER, RUTH THE STORY OF NEW ISRAEL: ITS HUMOR, THE REVIVAL OF HEBREW; ITS CULTURE; THE 'INGATHERING' OF EXILES.
BR 878 ALL-OF-A-KIND-FAMILY TAYLOR, SIDNEY THE STORY OF A JEWISH FAMILY LIVING IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY NEW YORK.
BR 879 RELIGION AND HUMANITY KOHN, EUGENE A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN OUR MODERN CULTURE.
BR 881 TREASURY OF JEWISH FOLKLORE, A AUSUBEL, NATHAN, ED. MILDRED H. P A COMPILATION OF THE STORIES, TRADITIONS, LEGENDS, WIT, WISDOM AND FOLK SONGS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHICH SPANS SOME 2,000 YEARS FROM THE DAYS OF HILLEL UNTIL THE PRESENT.
BR 884 FIRST BOOK OF ISRAEL, THE KUBIE, NORA BENJAMIN AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY AND REBIRTH OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. AGES 10-13
BR 886 UNCLE JULIUS AND THE ANGEL WITH HEARTBURN ROSENBERG, ETHEL JUDITH HOFFMAN A NOVEL ABOUT THE CHARACTER, UNCLE JULIUS, WRITTEN WITH HUMOR AND JEWISH FLAVOR.
BR 887 JOURNEY, THE SMITH, LILLIAN A PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF AN IMAGE OF MANKIND WHICH FITS MAN'S MOST NOBLE ASPIRATIONS.
BR 888 POEMS 1940-1953 SHAPIRO, KARL CONTAINS 106 POEMS, WHICH REPRESENT THE AUTHOR'S OWN CHOICE FROM HIS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED COLLECTIONS.
BR 889 TRIAL OF A POET SHAPIRO, KARL THIS BOOK INCLUDES VERSES OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CONTENT, BARBED SATIRE AND CHALLENGING POINTS OF VIEW.
BR 891 IN TIME AND ETERNITY GLATZER, NAHUM N. A RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL EXAMINATION OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND PRACTICE AS A VITAL FORCE IN THE MODERN WORLD.
BR 892 MORE YESTERDAYS KOHUT, REBEKAH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF ONE OF THE FIRST LADIES OF AMERICAN JEWRY WHO KNEW THE GREAT OF HER AGE AT FIRST HAND.
BR 893 YOUNG PEOPLE'S HEBREW HISTORY WALLIS, LOUIS MODERN SCIENCE HAS REVEALED A GREAT DEAL REGARDING HEBREW HISTORY AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO MODERN IDEAS OF GOD AND MORALITY.
BR 896 MAIMONIDES' CREED PILCHIK, RABBI ELY E. A THOUGHTFUL SCHOLARLY INTRODUCTION TO THE GREAT MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHER.
BR 897 AS ONCE WE WERE PERETZ, I.L. A YIDDISH CLASSIC BY GIANT OF YIDDISH LITERATURE, EVOKES THE LIFE OF THE JEWISH COMMON PEOPLE WITH TENDERNESS, SIMPLICITY AND FORCE.
BR 900 LOST PARADISE, A CHOTZINOFF, SAMUEL BIOGRAPHY OF A JEWISH-AMERICAN PIANIST, MUSIC CRITIC.
BR 903 ROCK OF REFUGE TEGAY, BETTY S. NOVEL OF HOW A DAUGHTER, AFTER HER ENGAGEMENT TO A RABBI, RECONVERTS HER MOTHER TO JUDAISM.
BR 909 EAGLE AT MY EYES KATKOV, NORMAN MRS. MILTON A NOVEL ABOUT INTERMARRIAGE BETWEEN A JEW AND A GENTILE, TOLD FROM THE VIEW OF THE YOUNG JEWISH HUSBAND.
BR 912 STORM OVER PARIS LEMPEL, BLANCHE ANNA, A YOUNG POLISH-JEWISH IMMIGRANT IN PARIS, FALLS IN LOVE WITH A GERMAN WHO LATER SERVES IN THE NAZI ARMY. THE AUTHOR POSES THE CRUCIAL QUESTION: IS HUMAN LOVE POSSIBLE IN A WORLD OF FORCE, HATRED AND THE MADNESS OF GENOCIDE?
BR 914 MAGIC RING, THE AND OTHER MEDIEVAL JEWISH TALES GOLDIN, HYMAN E. TALES OF MEDIEVAL JEWISH LIFE, PORTRAYING COMMUNITY FOLKWAYS AND LIFE IN THE GHETTOS OF THAT TIME.
BR 915 AWAKENED ABRAMS, MARGARET MARIE RUBENF THIS NOVEL DESCRIBES JEWISH LIFE AND THE PROBLEMS FACED BY AN IMMIGRANT RABBI AND HIS WIFE IN A SMALL AMERICAN TOWN.
BR 916 KID FOR TWO FARTHINGS, A MANKOWITZ, WOLF LONDON'S EAST END SEEN THROUGH THE WONDERING AND TRUSTFUL EYES OF A SIX YEAR OLD JEWISH BOY SURROUNDED BY KINDNESS AND UNDERSTANDING IN THE MIDST OF POVERTY.
BR 917 MY OWN PARTICULAR SCREWBALL SCHACT, AL LAUGH-PROVOKING ACCOUNT BY THE CLOWN PRINCE OF BASEBALL OF HIS TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS IN THE BIG LEAGUES.
BR 918 GOLDEN WATCH, THE HALPER, ALBERT A SERIES OF STORIES ABOUT THE SAME CHARACTERS. A COMPACT SOCIAL HISTORY NARRATED ARTFULLY WITH A SOFT, FOLK-LIKE QUALITY, IT IS RICH IN HUMOR.
BR 920 ISRAEL THE ETERNAL IDEAL MILLER, IRVING SHOWS THE INGENUITY OF THE ISRAELIS IN ACHIEVING MIRACLES IN BUILDING A STATE, AND SETS FORTH ISRAEL ITSELF AS A PROFOUND HISTORICAL IDEA.
BR 921 FLAME IN THE SKY BOTHWELL, JEAN STORIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE CENTERED IN ANCIENT ISRAEL DURING THE TIME OF THE PROPHETS.
BR 923 PILGRIMS TO PALESTINE LEVINGER, ELMA E. SHORT STORIES DESCRIBING THE ADVENTURES OF AMERICAN JEWISH BOYS AND GIRLS ON A VISIT TO PALESTINE.
BR 927 NAG, THE MENDELE MOCHER SEFORIM B. AHRENS/F. A NOVEL BY THE WELL-KNOWN YIDDISH WRITER THAT FOCUSES ON THE STRUGGLES OF THE COMMON PEOPLE.
BR 928 BAS MITZVAH TREASURY, THE EISENBERG, AZRIEL, ED. MARION SCHWA AN ANTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN JEWISH LITERATURE, WRITTEN FOR JEWISH GIRLS OF BAS MITZVAH AGE.
BR 930 SOLE SURVIVOR FALSTEIN, LOUIS NOVEL OF AN IDEALISTIC SURVIVOR OF A NAZI DEATH CAMP WHO KILLS THE CAMP GUARD OF HIS CONCENTRATION CAMP YEARS LATER WHEN HE SEES HIM IN NEW YORK.
BR 931 COASTS OF THE EARTH, THE LIVINGSTON, HAROLD A FAST PACED ADVENTURE STORY MADE MEANINGFUL BY THE INTERWOVEN THEMES OF THE GENTILE SEEKING SELF-REALIZATION AND THE JEW TRYING TO FIND IDENTITY.
BR 933 ROOM FOR A SON ABRAHAMS, ROBERT D. THE DAILY EXPERIENCE OF A 17 YEAR OLD REFUGEE, AARON LEVY, ADOPTED BY AN AMERICAN JEWISH FAMILY, WHO LOST THEIR SON IN THE WAR.
BR 934 UNAMBO BROD, MAX A STRANGE NOVEL OF THE WAR IN ISRAEL, IT TELLS OF THE FIGHTING BETWEEN ARAB AND ISRAELI AND AN HEROIC SACRIFICE.
BR 935 JEWISH GAUCHOS OF THE PAMPAS GERCHUNOFF, ALBERTO A SERIES OF SKETCHES OF JEWS WHO SETTLED IN THE BARON DE HIRSH COLONIES IN ARGENTINA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 938 WHITE CITADEL, THE NEIDER, CHARLES A DEEPLY FELT AND PROVOCATIVE STUDY OF A MIDDLE-AGE PROSPEROUS BANKER IN ROMANIAN WHO IS A COMMUNITY SUCCESS, BUT A FAMILY FAILURE.
BR 939 CANDLE FOR YOUR CAKE BAILEY, CAROLYN S. TWENTY-FOUR BIRTHDAY STORIES OF FAMOUS MEN AND WOMEN.
BR 940 IDEAS AND OPINIONS EINSTEIN, ALBERT JULIUS HLAVA AN ANTHOLOGY OF ESSAYS BY THE NOBEL PRIZEWINNING PHYSICIST.
BR 942 LITTLE NEW ANGEL WEILERSTEIN, SADIE ROSE THIS IS A CHARMING CHILDREN'S STORY.
BR 944 INMOST LEAF, THE KAZIN, ALFRED TWENTY-EIGHT ESSAYS ON EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LITERARY FIGURES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; EACH UNFOLDS EXPERIENCES IN THE STYLE OF MACAULAY.
BR 945 MARRIAGE AND JEWISH TRADITION BRAV, STANLEY R. THIS IS A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS BY DIFFERENT WRITERS ON MODERN FAMILY PROBLEMS FROM THE JEWISH VIEW.
BR 946 OUR RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS LAMPRECHT, STERLING P. AN INTERPRETATION OF THREE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF THE WESTERN WORLD: JUDAISM, CATHOLICISM AND PROTESTANTISM, A HELPFUL AND ENLIGHTENING BOOK.
BR 947 OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE BILDERSEE, ADELE CHILD'S BIBLE STORY TEXTBOOK BEGINNING AFTER THE DEATH OF JOSEPH.
BR 950 HOUSE OF DOLLS KA-TZETNIK FACT-BASED NOVEL ABOUT THE DEBASEMENT OF JEWISH GIRLS BY THE NAZIS.
BR 952 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY GOLDSTEIN, ISRAEL THE IDEA OF HAVING A MAJOR UNIVERSITY UNDER JEWISH SPONSORSHIP IN THE UNITED STATES, AND HOW IT BECAME A REALITY.
BR 954 LIFE WITH GROUCHO MARX, ARTHUR AFFECTIONATE AND IRREVERENT BIOGRAPHY OF GROUCHO MARX BY HIS SON. IT HAS BOTH THE SHOW BUSINESS AND HOME LIFE ANGLES ABOUT A COMIC AND HUMAN FATHER.
BR 955 CONQUEST OF DON PEDRO FERGUSSON, HARVEY EXCELLENT LANDSCAPE DEPICTION OF DON PEDRO, A FRONTIER TOWN IN NEW MEXICO AFTER THE CIVIL WAR; HERE LEO MENDES A NEW YORKER COMES IN SEARCH OF A NEW LIFE.
BR 957 MAN'S QUEST FOR GOD HESCHEL, ABRAHAM JOSHUA THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF PRAYER, RELIGION AND WORSHIP, AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF GOD AND MAN.
BR 958 BOOKS OF TWENTY YEARS FREEHOF, RABBI SOLOMON B. BOOK REVIEWS ON SIGNIFICANT LITERARY WORKS, BASED UPON LECTURES GIVEN OVER A TWENTY YEAR PERIOD FROM 1934-1954.
BR 960 FOR THE SAKE OF HEAVEN BUBER, MARTIN SYLVIA SCHMU THIS BOOK INTERPRETS THE SPIRIT OF HASIDISM THROUGH THE SACRED LEGENDS OF THE RABBI KNOWN AS THE SEER OF LUBLIN.
BR 961 ANIMALS AND OTHER PEOPLE BROMFIELD, LOUIS THIS BOOK IS ABOUT ANIMALS AND PEOPLE WHO HAVE THAT MYSTICAL FEELING WHICH MAKES THEM ONE WITH NATURE.
BR 962 BRIDGE OF PRAYER LEVITT, D.M. THIS MATERIAL, WRITTEN AS A SABBATH SERVICE FOR A TEMPLE SISTERHOOD, PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO PRAYER AND OTHER RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
BR 963 LEARNING LAUGHTER SPENDER, STEPHEN A NON-FICTIONAL TOUR OF ISRAEL, FULL OF GEM-LIKE VIGNETTES, CRISP REPORTS, AND INTELLIGENT PERCEPTIONS THAT PROVOKE THOUGHT ON ISRAEL AND ITS PROBLEMS
BR 965 FALASHA ANTHOLOGY LESLAU, WOLF SAMPLING OF THE LITERATURE OF THE FALASHAS, THE ETHIOPIANS OF JEWISH FAITH WHO LIVE NORTH OF LAKE TANA. INCLUDES DESCRIPTION OF THEIR WAY OF LIFE.
BR 969 OUT OF THESE ROOTS MEYER, AGNES E. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A JEWESS WHOSE LIFE EXPRESSES THE CREDO THAT THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE IS MOST FULLY REALIZED BY A TRULY ACTIVE COMMITMENT TO DEMOCRACY.
BR 971 MAGIC CARPET BARER, SHLOMO THE STORY OF THE IMPROVISED AIRLIFT KNOWN AS 'OPERATION MAGIC CARPET,' WHICH BROUGHT 30,000 JEWS FROM YEMEN TO ISRAEL IN 1949.
BR 972 ISRAEL AND THE WORLD BUBER, MARTIN PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF ISRAEL AMIDST THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
BR 976 LEADER OF THE GARMENT WORKER, A HASKEL, HARRY SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE GARMENT TRADE.
BR 978 WHAT'S THE BIG HURRY? YAFFE, JAMES A NOVEL ABOUT A MAN WHO MADE HIS FORTUNE IN CHICAGO AND LOST HIS FRIENDS IN THE PROCESS.
BR 981 MERRY HEART, THE MENDELSOHN, FELIX S. AN ANTHOLOGY OF WIT AND WISDOM FROM JEWISH FOLKLORE.
BR 982 WITH SINGER AND SAGE GAMORAN, MAMIE G. A SELECTION OF PSALMS, PROVERBS AND THE FIVE SCROLLS AND OTHER BIBLICAL MATERIALS FOR BOTH THE YOUNG READER AND ADULT.
BR 985 PHARISEES AND OTHER ESSAYS, THE BAECK, LEO STUDIES ON COMPARATIVE RELIGION AND CULTURE BY THE GERMAN-JEWISH RABBI AND RELIGIOUS THINKER WHO LIVED FROM 1873-1956. AFTER WORLD WAR II, BAECK BECAME CHAIRMAN OF THE WORLD UNION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM AND WAS PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF RELIGION AT HEBREW UNION COLLEGE.
BR 989 LAWGIVER, THE LEIBERT, JULIUS A. A PSYCHIATRIC NOVEL IN WHICH THE AUTHOR INTERPRETS THE MOTIVATION OF MOSES AND THE HEROIC FIGURES OF THE PAST.
BR 990 YOUNG CHAMPION, THE ISAACS, ABRAM S. SENSITIVE, FICTIONALIZED BIOGRAPHICAL STORY OF A YEAR IN THE GIRLHOOD OF GRACE AGUILAR, THE FAMOUS JEWESS.
BR 991 BENJAMIN DISRAELI ROTH, CECIL A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF DISRAELI; READABLE, INTERESTING AND CONCENTRATING ON HIS JEWISH BIRTH AND ITS EFFECTS ON HIS CAREER AND HIS POLICIES.
BR 992 CUP OF LIFE, THE FOKMAN, JEROME D. A MANUAL TO HELP THE YOUNG BRIDE AND GROOM ANTICIPATE AND SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF THEIR MARRIAGE.
BR 994 JACOB'S WELL COHEN, BERYL A STUDY IN THE PARALLEL ASPECTS OF THE TEACHINGS OF JUDAISM AND THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
BR 997 SIEGE, THE KAEZER, ILLIS NOVEL OF JEWISH LIFE IN A SMALL VILLAGE IN NORTHERN HUNGARY IN THE 19TH CENTURY.
BR 999 MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR WOUK, HERMAN EVE GREEN A ROMANTIC NOVEL ABOUT A JEWISH GIRL GROWING UP ON NEW YORK CITY'S UPPER WEST SIDE AS AN ASPIRING ACTRESS WHO LATER BECOMES A TRADITIONAL JEWISH WIFE AND MOTHER WITH A HOME IN THE SUBURBS.
BR 1001 COLLECTED STORIES BABEL, ISAAC AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY ONE OF THE ACKNOWLEDGED MASTERS OF THIS FORM.
BR 1002 IN SEARCH LEVIN, MEYER ROSE COHEN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S QUEST FOR IDENTITY AND THE MEANING OF LIFE.
BR 1003 COLLECTED POEMS ROSENBERG, ISSAC ONE OF THE MOST PROMISING AND HIGHLY GIFTED POETS OF A GENERATION THAT PRODUCED D.H. LAWRENCE AND T.S. ELLIOT.
BR 1005 MOSES AND MONOTHEISM FREUD, SIGMUND A PSYCHOANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE BIBLICAL STORY OF MOSES AS IT IS FOUND IN EXODUS.
BR 1006 GHETTO AND THE JEWS OF ROME, THE GREGOROVIUS, FERDINAND A DESCRIPTION OF LIFE IN THE JEWISH GHETTO FROM THE TIME OF CAESAR TO THE 1850S.
BR 1009 HARVEST OF HATE POLIAKOV, LEON INCISIVE ACCOUNT OF THE NAZI PROGRAM FOR THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWS OF EUROPE.
BR 1010 AWAKENING OF MOTEK, THE ROTH, ISAAC E. ESTHER ARBEI THE STORY OF A CHILDHOOD BEFORE WORLD WAR I, SET IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LODZ, POLAND.
BR 1011 TEN COMMANDMENTS MODERN LIVING WEITZ, A. MINDA AND M.M. THIS BOOK OFFERS A MODERN ETHICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
BR 1012 LEGENDS OF THE BAAL SHEM, THE BUBER, MARTIN DOROTHEA BER STORIES ABOUT THE FOUNDER OF HASIDISM, COMPILED BY THE GERMAN-JEWISH SCHOLAR AND PHILOSOPHER.
BR 1014 TO NEXT YEAR IN JERSALEM MARCUS, DAVID A JEWISH BOY AND A CATHOLIC GIRL STRUGGLE WITH THE PROBLEMS OF INTERFAITH MARRIAGE.
BR 1015 ASH ON A YOUNG MAN'S SLEEVE ABSE, DANNIE RECOLLECTION OF A JEWISH BOY'S CHILDHOOD IN CARDIFF, WALES, AT A TIME WHEN HITLER'S EVER LENGTHENING SHADOW WAS DARKENING EUROPEAN SKIES.
BR 1016 WAY OF VALOR SYRKIN, MARIE A BIOGRAPHY OF GOLDA MEYERSON, THE GIRL FROM MILWAUKEE, WHO BECAME THE FIRST MINISTER OF LABOR OF ISRAEL.
BR 1019 DRAMA OF ALBERT EINSTEIN, THE VALLENTIN, ANTONIA A BIOGRAPHY OF EINSTEIN, WRITTEN BY A CLOSE FRIEND, WHICH PORTRAYS THE PHILOSOPHICAL, MODEST, AND COMPASSIONATE NATURE OF THE PROMINENT PHYSICIST, AS WELL AS HIS CONCERN FOR THE OPPRESSED AND PERSECUTED.
BR 1020 CAPTAIN DREYFUS THE STORY OF A MASS HYSTERIA HALASZ, NICHOLAS FREDA WILKOF THIS BOOK, WRITTEN BY A FORMER HUNGARIAN JOURNALIST, DETAILS THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND THE PERSONALITIES INVOLVED IN THE DREYFUS AFFAIR.
BR 1021 PRIVATE LIVES OF THE PROPHETS, THE AND THE TIMES IN WHICH THEY LIVED CHURCH, BROOKE PETERS THE STORY OF THE PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE, THEIR BACKGROUNDS, THEIR FAMILY LIFE, AND THE FRAMEWORK OF THE TIMES IN WHICH THEY PROPHESIED.
BR 1024 YEHUDI MENUHIN MAGIDOFF, ROBERT A BIOGRAPHY OF THE CHILD PRODIGY WHO BECAME A WORLD RENOWNED VIOLINIST.
BR 1025 WHEN I WAS A BOY IN BOSTON ANGOFF, CHARLES LEE SEAMAN A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES WHICH COMBINE THE FLAVOR OF JEWISH BOSTON AND A YOUNG BOY'S COMING OF AGE.
BR 1026 MY PROMISED LAND BAR-DAVID, MOLLY LYONS A WARM AND SINCERE ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE SINCE LEAVING CANADA IN 1935 TO MAKE HER HOME IN PALESTINE; OF HER STRUGGLES IN THE NEW LAND.
BR 1027 GOING TO JERUSALEM ETHRIDGE, WILLE SNOW A NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM, DEALING WITH THE ARAB-ISRAEL PROBLEMS AND THE PALESTINE SITUATION.
BR 1029 CHAIM WEIZMANN BUILDER OF A NATION BAKER, RACHEL STORY OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE. FOCUSES ON WEIZMANN'S DEDICATION TO TWO MAIN VOCATIONS: CHEMISTRY AND THE FOUNDING OF A JEWISH HOMELAND.
BR 1031 MAKING OF THE MODERN JEW, THE STEINBERG, MILTON MIRIAM BENDE AN ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS, BEGINNING WITH MEDIEVAL TIMES, AND PRESENTING AN ANALYSIS OF THEIR POSITION IN THE MODERN WORLD.
BR 1033 TREASURY OF COMFORT, A GREENBERG, SIDNEY AN ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS AND INSPIRATIONAL READINGS FROM GENERAL AND RELIGIOUS SOURCES PERTAINING TO DEATH AND SUFFERING.
BR 1034 TRIAL AND ERROR WEIZMANN, CHAIM ELAINE LEE THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL, ENCOMPASSING THE STORY OF THE WORLD ZIONIST MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF THE JEWISH STATE.
BR 1035 ROLE OF JEWS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THE HELLER, BERNARD A DISCUSSION OF JEWISH SETTLERS WHO HELPED AMERICAN COLONISTS DURING THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE WHICH ALSO ASSURED THE RIGHTS OF JEWS IN THE UNITED STATES.
BR 1037 YOUR DAUGHTER IRIS WEIDMAN, JEROME THE LETTERS OF IRIS DODD OF THE BRONX, WRITTEN TO HER MOTHER WHILE SHE IS LIVING IN ENGLAND WITH HER PHYSICIAN-HUSBAND.
BR 1038 STRONG HAND, THE BLANKFORT, MICHAEL ROSLYN LEFFE A NOVEL ABOUT A RABBI AND A DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER WHO FALL IN LOVE BUT CANNOT MARRY BECAUSE SHE IS AN 'AGUNAH,' A WOMAN WHOSE FIRST HUSBAND HAS NOT GIVEN HER A JEWISH DIVORCE CALLED A 'GET.' WITHOUT A 'GET,' A WOMAN IS NOT ALLOWED TO REMARRY.
BR 1039 WORDS OF JUSTICE BRANDEIS GOLDMAN, SOLOMON A TRIBUTE TO A GREAT MAN WHO, DESPITE POWERFUL OPPOSITION, CHAMPIONED THE CAUSES IN WHICH HE BELIEVED.
BR 1040 LEVEL SUNLIGHT SAMUEL, MARICE A CRITICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL'S POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SINCE 1948.
BR 1044 HOLIDAYS FOR AMERICAN JUDAISM GOLDBERG, RABBI DAVID AN INTERESTING RELIGIOUS SCHOOL TEXT ON JEWISH HOLIDAYS FOR JEWS IN AMERICA.
BR 1046 FIVE SCROLLS, THE BETTAN, RABBI ISRAEL THIS BOOK CONTAINS MODERN COMMENTARIES ON THE FIVE SCROLLS.
BR 1047 IT HAPPENED TO HANNAH ROUNDS, RUTH A DELIGHTFUL STORY THAT PROMOTES INTERFAITH UNDERSTANDING AMONG CHILDREN BEFORE THEY ACQUIRE ADULT PREJUDICES.
BR 1050 SONGS OF CHILDHOOD EINSTEIN, JUDITH & FRIEDA PRENSKY A COLLECTION OF JEWISH CHILDREN'S SONGS.
BR 1051 KEEP YOUR HEAD UP, MR. PUTNAM! PUTNAM, PETER A YOUNG MAN, BLIND AT AGE 21, TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCES AND HIS ADJUSTMENT TO BLINDNESS.
BR 1052 MATERIAL FOR CONFIRMATION STEINBACH, RABBI A. ALAN SENSITIVE COLLECTION OF MATERIAL FOR THE ADOLESCENT APPROACHING MATURITY.
BR 1053 JOEL IS THE YOUNGEST ISH-KISHOR, JUDITH JOEL IS THE YOUNGEST MEMBER OF HIS FAMILY AND IS THE HERO OF THIS NOVEL OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 1055 WHAT DANNY DID WEILERSTEIN, SADIE ROSE DELIGHTFUL ADVENTURES OF A LITTLE AMERICAN BOY WHO CELEBRATES ALL THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS.
BR 1060 YOUNG HEROES OF THE LIVING RELIGIONS GAER, JOSEPH YOUNG HEROES OF THE LIVING RELIGIONS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES COVERING THE CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH OF THE MEN WHO FOUNDED THE TWELVE RELIGIONS CURRENTLY PRACTICED.
BR 1062 CHILD'S HISTORY OF JEWISH LIFE ZELIGS, DOROTHY F. WORKBOOK TO ACCOMPANY THE TEXTBOOK.
BR 1063 GHOST OF CAMP J., THE GARVEY, ROBERT H. ELKAN C AN ADVENTURE STORY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE FEATURING JEWISH PATRIOTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
BR 1068 BREAKFAST WITH THE BIRDS STEINBERG, JUDAH TWELVE SHORT STORIES FOR CHILDREN, TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL HEBREW BY EMILY SOLIS-COHEN.
BR 1069 BIBLE STORY FOR BOY AND GIRLS BOWIE, WALTER RUSSELL RETELLING OF THE STORIES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
BR 1071 CHILD'S BOOK OF PRAYER, A ARONIN, BEN A PRAYER, IN VERSE, FOR EACH DAY OF THE YEAR.
BR 1072 YOUNG PEOPLE'S SABBATH SERVICE UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF AMERICA ABRIDGED SABBATH SERVICES FROM THE STANDARD PRAYER BOOK.
BR 1075 DICK, HORSE THAT KEPT SABBATH WEILERSTEIN, SADIE ROSE A PORTRAYAL OF JEWISH HOME LIFE IN THE NEAR PAST CONCERNING THE TRADITIONAL OBSERVANCES OF THE SABBATH WOVEN THROUGH WORD AND PICTURE.
BR 1076 DREIDEL WHO WOULDN'T SPIN, THE KLAPERMAN, LIBBY M. A HUMOROUS TALE OF DANNY THE DREIDEL. AN INTRODUCTION TO CHANNUKAH FOR YOUNG READERS.
BR 1078 TWO IN ONE HOLIDAY BOOK, A GARVEY, ROBERT A HOLIDAY BOOK FOR THE YOUNGSTERS.
BR 1082 JUNIOR JEWISH COOKBOOK FANNIE, AUNT PRESENTED HERE ARE SOME JEWISH RECIPES ARRANGED AND COMPILED FOR EASY REFERENCE.
BR 1083 COURTROOM REYNOLDS, QUENTIN A BIOGRAPHY OF JUDGE SAMUEL LEIBOWITZ, TOLD BY MEANS OF THE EXCITING AND FASCINATING CASES HE HAS TRIED.
BR 1086 JEREMIAH WELCH, A.G. A DRAMA OF AUTHENTIC GRANDEUR AND BEAUTY; DISGUISED IN BIBLICAL SYMBOLISM TO ELUDE THE GERMAN CENSORS OF 1915.
BR 1087 QUEEN ESTHER MARSHALL, EFFIE L. BIOGRAPHY OF QUEEN ESTHER AND HER BACKGROUND AND TIME.
BR 1096 OCTOBER '43 BERTELSON, AAGE STIRRING, FAITH-RESTORING STORY OF A MEMORABLE MONTH IN HISTORY WHEN THE NAZIS WERE FOILED IN THEIR PLAN TO KILL OR ENSLAVE DANISH CITIZENS WHO WERE JEWISH.
BR 1097 PULPIT TREASURY OF WIT AND HUMOR WEISFELD, ISRAEL H. AN AMUSING BOOK OF HUMOR FROM THE PULPIT.
BR 1098 ESSENCE OF JUDAISM, THE BAECK, LEO AN ANALYSIS OF JEWISH THOUGHT AND RELIGIOUS INSIGHT BY THE GERMAN-JEWISH SCHOLAR AND RABBI.
BR 1099 INTIMATE STORY FRANKEN, ROSE MRS. GARRY, A WIDOW, IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS INTERESTING NOVEL.
BR 1100 SIGN ABOVE THE DOOR, THE CANFIELD, WILLIAM W. THIS IS A FASCINATING NOVEL ABOUT THE JEWS IN EGYPT DURING THE TIME OF MOSES AND THE TEN PLAGUES.
BR 1101 CHANGELINGS, THE SINCLAIR, JO EVE HABERMAN MISS SINCLAIR'S PARTICULAR AIM HERE IS TO PROBE DEEPLY INTO RACIAL PREJUDICE. SHE TELLS THE STORY OF A SINGLE STREET IN HER BIG OHIO CITY AND THE FERMENT THAT ENSUES WHEN THESE EMPTY APARTMENTS ARE LEASED TO BLACK TENANTS.
BR 1102 DIARY OF DAVID S. KOGAN LEVIN, MEYER THE INTIMATE LIFE OF A YOUNG JEW.
BR 1103 SELECTED STORIES OF ALEICHEM ALEICHEM, SHOLOM A COLLECTION OF THE AUTHOR'S WONDERFUL STORIES.
BR 1105 GO FIGHT CITY HALL ROSENBERG, ETHEL ESTHER HARRI A NOVEL OF JEWISH LIFE IN A BIG CITY TENEMENT, PORTRAYING ALL ITS JOYS AND MINOR SORROWS. WRITTEN IN A HUMOROUS AND WITTY VEIN.
BR 1106 SYMBOLS AND VALUES BRYSON, LYMAN A BRILLIANT COLLECTION OF RELIGIOUS AND CRITICAL ESSAYS BY SOME FOREMOST CONTEMPORARY THINKERS.
BR 1107 DAVID AND BATHSHEBA ZAHAV, ARI IBN HISTORICAL FICTION, RETELLING THE LOVE STORY OF KING DAVID AND BATHSHEBA.
BR 1108 EMMA LAZARUS MERRIAM, EVE HISTORY OF THE DISPLACED PERSONS IN GERMANY WHO SURVIVED NAZISM DURING THE YEARS 1945 TO 1952, WHO TURNED DEFEAT INTO VICTORY, AND FOUNDED THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 1109 REDEEMERS, THE SCHWARTZ, LEO W. THE STORY OF THE DISPLACED JEWS IN GERMANY WHO TRIED TO BUILD A NEW LIFE FOR THEMSELVES AFTER THE HORROR OF THE NAZI REGIME.
BR 1111 LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS GITTELSOHN, ROLAND B. SEEKS TO STIMULATE INDEPENDENT THINKING AND AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE ABIDING VALUES IN JEWISH LIFE. FOR ADOLESCENTS AND OLDER READERS.
BR 1112 JOSHUA THE REDEEMER WEYNE, AUTHUR THE TRIUMPHANT ROLE OF JOSHUA AS A MILITARY LEADER AND RULER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AFTER MOSES.
BR 1113 GIDEON GOES TO WAR MOSLEY, LEONARD A THRILLING BIOGRAPHY OF GENERAL ORDE CHARLES WINGATE, THE MOST INCREDIBLE AND CONTROVERSIAL MILITARY FIGURE TO EMERGE FROM WORLD WAR II.
BR 1114 UNFAITHFUL, THE MAND, EWALD A NOVEL BASED ON THE BIBLICAL STORY OF THE PROPHET HOSEA.
BR 1115 GUIDEPOSTS IN MODERN JUDAISM AGUS, JACOB B. A MAP OF AMERICAN JEWISH THOUGHT FOR THE MODERN JEW AND HIS JEWISH COMMUNITY.
BR 1116 WASTELAND SINCLAIR, JO THE STORY OF JACOB BRAUNOWITZ, WHO, IN HIS ZEAL TO ASSIMILATE INTO AMERICAN CULTURE, DENIES HIS JEWISH HERITAGE. PSYCHOANALYSIS HELPS HIM REDISCOVER HIS ROOTS. THE BOOK ALSO EXPLORES THE STRONGER JEWISH IDENTITY OF JACOB'S SISTER WHO IS A LESBIAN AND A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST.
BR 1117 LIVING WITHOUT HATE MARROW, DR. ALFRED J. NON-FICTION STUDY OF WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT PREJUDICE, AND A HEARTENING PICTURE OF WHAT IS BEING DONE TO PREVENT AND SOLVE IT.
BR 1118 ISRAEL AND HER NEIGHBORS ELATH, ELIAHU SCHOLARLY READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE PROBLEMS OF THE IMMIGRANTS, THE ARAB MINORITY IN ISRAEL AND THE ARAB LANDS.
BR 1119 LAST DAYS OF SHYLOCK, THE LEWISOHN, LUDWIG AN IMAGINARY RECONSTRUCTION OF THE LAST DAYS OF THE LIFE OF SHYLOCK, TELLING WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM FROM THE POINT WHERE WE LEFT HIM IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAY.
BR 1120 THEODOR HERZL LEWISOHN, LUDWIG SELECTIONS FROM HERZL'S WRITINGS WITH A VITAL INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR.
BR 1122 ABYSS OF DESPAIR HANOVER, NATHAN, RABBI IN HIS ACCOUNT OF THE CHMIELNICKI MASSACRES OF 1648-58, IN WHICH TENS OF THOUSANDS OF POLISH AND UKRAINIAN JEWS WERE KILLED, THE AUTHOR ASSERTS THAT A PRECEDENT FOR HITLER'S HOLOCAUST WAS SET. HANOVER ALSO DEPICTS HOW THE JEWS REBUILT THEIR LIVES AND DEVELOPED NEW WAYS TO EXPRESS THEIR HERITAGE AND CULTURE.
BR 1124 COLLECTED POEMS RASKIN, PHILLIP M. POEMS ON JEWISH THEMES.
BR 1125 PERSONAL LETTERS STEPHEN WISE POLIER, J.S. & WISE, J.W. A SELECTION OF LETTERS WRITTEN BY RABBI AND ZIONIST LEADER, STEPHEN S. WISE.
BR 1126 OLD FAITH IN THE NEW WORLD, AN DE SOLA POOL, DAVID & TAMAR DE SOLA STIRRING PORTRAIT OF SHEARITH ISRAEL, THE FIRST SYNAGOGUE IN THE UNITED STATES, FOUNDED BY THE JEWS WHO LANDED IN NEW YORK OVER THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
BR 1127 MICHAEL TURNS THE GLOBE PESSIN, DEBORAH EXCELLENT CHILDREN'S BOOK ON JEWISH CHILDREN IN MANY LANDS.
BR 1133 BOOK THAT IS ALIVE, THE PATERSON, JOHN THE AUTHOR SETS FORTH SOME IMPORTANT CURRENTS OF JEWISH THOUGHT AS RELATED TO THE OLD TESTAMENT.
BR 1134 RISE OF THE JEWS ENGLEMAN, URIAH ZEVI A FOREMOST EDUCATOR HERE CONTRIBUTES A SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNT OF JEWISH PROGRESS IN THE NATIONS.
BR 1136 KING SOLOMON'S HORSES KUBIE, NORA BENJAMIN THE STORY OF A BOY'S DEVOTION TO HIS HORSE, SET IN THE DAYS OF KING SOLOMON. EXCELLENT JUVENILE FICTION WITH ADVENTURE, FUN, AND DIFFICULTIES AS WELL.
BR 1137 WALL, THE HERSEY, JOHN LILLIAN SPIE THE STORY OF THOSE WHO WERE CONFINED WITHIN THE WALLS OF THE WARSAW GHETTO DURING THE HOLOCAUST. THE BOOK, BASED ON A DIARY, INCLUDES THE INTENSE BATTLES FOUGHT FOR SURVIVAL AND THE RESCUE OF THE FORTY JEWS WHO MANAGED TO ESCAPE THROUGH THE CITY'S SEWER SYSTEM.
BR 1139 WORCESTER ACCOUNT, THE BEHRMAN, S.N. FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY THAT IS A RENDEZVOUS WITH JEWISH BOYHOOD IN WORCESTER, RECALLED IN GRACEFUL AND COMPASSIONATE PROSE.
BR 1140 JEWS FROM GERMANY IN THE U. S. HIRSCHLER, ERIC E. EDITED BY A STUDY OF THE WAY IN WHICH JEWS FROM GERMANY HAVE NOT BECOME FULLY ASSIMILATED INTO AMERICAN CULTURE.
BR 1142 SABBATH QUEEN STEINBACH, ALEXANDER ALAN DELIGHTFUL STORIES FOR ALL PORTIONS OF THE PENTATEUCH RECITED ON THE SABBATH.
BR 1144 GO BACK AND TELL RASKIN, SAUL A MYSTIC NOVEL BY A DEVOTED STUDENT OF THE KABBALAH.
BR 1147 DAVID BARGELLINI, PIERO A FICTIONALIZED PORTRAIT OF THE GREAT KING DAVID.
BR 1154 MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES MUSIL, ROBERT AN EXTRAORDINARY NOVEL OF IDEAS AND SATIRE. IT IS A HIGH COMEDY OF THE INTELLECT WHICH PROBES OUR MODERN CONFUSION OF VALUES WITH GAY IRONY AND WITTY EARNESTNESS.
BR 1158 KERSTEN MEMOIRS, THE 1940-1945 KERSTEN, FELIX BY HIMMLER'S PERSONAL PHYSICIAN, THIS IS A FASCINATING DISCLOSURE OF THE NAZI MENTALITY AND INSIGHTS INTO HIMMLER'S VIEWS OF GERMAN DESTINY AND THE JEWS.
BR 1159 TELL ME ABOUT GOD AND PRAYER EPSTEIN, MORRIS THROUGH STORIES OF FAMILY SITUATIONS, THE AUTHOR INTRODUCES YOUNG CHILDREN TO THE RUDIMENTS OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
BR 1160 CHILD'S HISTORY OF THE HEBREW ZELIGS, DOROTHY F., M.A. CHILD'S HISTORY OF THE HEBREW PEOPLE, PUPILS ACTIVITY BOOK. PROJECTS TO ENRICH AND ENLIVEN THE STUDY OF THE TEXTBOOK.
BR 1162 COP KARNEY, JACK A FRANK, FORCEFUL NOVEL OF A YOUNG JEWISH POLICEMAN IN NEW YORK. THE CORRUPTION AND DESTRUCTION OF HIS CAREER IS A STRAIGHT-FORWARD AND DISHEARTENING PICTURE.
BR 1163 LONG IS THE ROAD TO FREEDOM MERIDOR, YA'ACOV STIRRING ACCOUNT OF THE ESCAPE AND RETURN TO ISRAEL OF 241 ISRAELIS EXILED BY THE BRITISH MANDATE GOVERNMENT TO THE SUDAN TO END THE IRGUN TERRORIST ACTIVITIES.
BR 1164 BURNING LIGHTS CHAGALL, BELLA THE WIFE OF ARTIST MARC CHAGALL RECALLS HER CHILDHOOD AND THE JEWISH IDEALS WHICH SHE INHERITED FROM HER PARENTS.
BR 1165 I SAW ISRAEL GOLDBERG, RUTH AN AMERICAN JEWISH WOMAN PRESENTS A SENSITIVE REPORT OF HER VIEWS AND EXPERIENCES IN ISRAEL.
BR 1169 SACRIFICE WISEMAN, ADELE AN EPIC NOVEL OF A JEWISH IMMIGRANT FAMILY BASED ON THE BIBLICAL STORY OF ABRAHAM AND THE SACRIFICE OF HIS SON, ISAAC. © 1956
BR 1170 PERSONALITIES AND EVENTS ROTH, CECIL A SCHOLARLY WORK ON PERSONALITIES AND EVENTS IN JEWISH HISTORY.
BR 1173 RUMOR AND REFLECTION BERENSON, BERNARD DIARY ENTRIES BY THE FOREMOST AUTHORITY ON ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART OF HIS TIME. INCLUDES HIS WORLD WAR II EXPERIENCES AND REVEALS A BRILLIANT AND CIVILIZED MIND.
BR 1174 JEWS OF GERMANY, THE LOWENTHAL, MARVIN HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE JEWS IN GERMANY FROM THE LAST QUARTER OF THE THIRD CENTURY TO THE PRESENT.
BR 1175 THREE CITIES A TRILOGY ASCH, SHOLEM A NOVEL OF THREE CRITICAL PERIODS IN RUSSIAN HISTORY, AND HOW THE JEWS WERE AFFECTED BY THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. TRANSLATED FROM THE YIDDISH NOVEL, 'FAREN MABUL' ('BEFORE THE FLOOD').
BR 1177 JOHANNESBURG FRIDAY SEGAL, ALBERT AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES AND REMINISCENCES OF FOUR MEMBERS OF A JEWISH FAMILY DURING ONE FRIDAY, THE DAY BEFORE YOM KIPPUR.
BR 1179 MOSES ASCH, SHOLEM A HISTORICAL NOVEL WRITTEN WITH THE NOTED ASCH ARTISTRY. IT IS A PANORAMIC VISTA OF THE EXODUS WITH MOSES THE EPIC HERO.
BR 1180 STORIES OF KING SOLOMON FREEHOF, LILLIAN S. SISTERHOOD THE LEGENDS OF KING SOLOMON, INTERWOVEN WITH MAGIC AND WISDOM. WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN.
BR 1182 ON JEWISH LAW AND LORE GINZBERG, LOUIS ANITA LIEF L INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS TO THE PALESTINIAN TALMUD, THE AGGADAH, THE HALACHAH, AND THE KABBALAH.
BR 1185 WHERE JUDAISM DIFFERED SILVER, ABBA HILLE THIS BOOK DISCUSSES THE RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN JUDAISM AND OTHER RELIGIONS.
BR 1187 TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF BENJAMIN THE THIRD, THE MENDELE MOCHER SEFORIM PHYLLIS DEMB A HUMOROUS STORY BY THE WELL-KNOWN YIDDISH WRITER, SOLOMON JACOB ABRAMOWITSCH, WHO WROTE UNDER THE PSEUDONYM OF 'MENDELE MOCHER SEFORIM.'
BR 1189 IF THE PROPHETS WERE ALIVE SINGER, RICHARD AN INSIGHTFUL, PERCEPTIVE APPLICATION TO MODERN LIFE AND ITS PROBLEMS OF THE ETHICAL PRINCIPLES OF THE HEBREW PROPHETS.
BR 1194 GREAT MORAL DILEMMAS MAC'IVER, R.M. GREAT MORAL DILEMMAS IN LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT. A DISCUSSION OF THE MORAL ISSUES PRESENTED IN WELL-KNOWN LITERARY WORKS.
BR 1197 ANTI-SEMITE AND JEW AN EXPLORATION OF THE ETIOLOGY OF HATE SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL THE FRENCH AUTHOR AND PHILOSOPHER, WHO DEVELOPED THE THEORY OF EXISTENTIALISM, PRESENTS AN ANALYSIS OF ANTI-SEMITISM AND PROVIDES ADVICE TO ITS VICTIMS.
BR 1198 BAR MITZVAH FOR BOYHOOD. . . MENDES, RABBI H.P. BAR MITZVAH FOR BOYHOOD, YOUTH AND MANHOOD. IT GIVES YOU A DEEP SENSE OF KINSHIP WITH ALL MANKIND AND AN ABIDING SENSE OF TRUST AND FAITH IN GOD.
BR 1202 CARROT CANDLE FREEHOF, LILLIAN S. A CHANNUKAH CELEBRATION IN WHICH A RABBIT IS AN IMPORTANT PARTICIPANT.
BR 1208 HERE TO STAY KOMAIKO, S.B. AN ENJOYABLE, SENSITIVE AND NOSTALGIC COLLECTION OF JEWISH SHORT STORIES.
BR 1212 THIS IS MY GOD MACHTER, MAX A SERIES OF BIBLE LESSONS FOR THE LAYMEN.
BR 1217 HIDDEN BOOKS, THE BILDERSEE, ADELE DOROTHY RAPP SELECTIONS FROM THE APOCRYPHA, A GROUP OF BOOKS EXCLUDED FROM THE HEBREW CANON.
BR 1219 WHY I AM A JEW DE SOLA POOL, DAVID A DECLARATION OF DEEP PERSONAL CONVICTION BY THE RABBI OF A SPANISH, PORTUGUESE SYNAGOGUE OF MY. IT EXPLAINS FOR JEWS AND CHRISTIANS, ANCIENT JUDAISM.
BR 1220 YUDEL LEVIN, RACHEL NOVEL OF A RUSSIAN JEW AND HIS ADJUSTMENT TO LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES.
BR 1222 BREAKING POINT, THE PRESSER, JACOB THIS NOVELETTE IS A MASTER OF NAZI DOCUMENTATION DURING THEIR OCCUPATION OF HOLLAND. IT PORTRAYS HUMAN BEINGS TRAPPED IN CIRCUMSTANCE, HELPLESS.
BR 1223 ESSENES AND CHRISTIANITY HOWLETT, DUNCAN REAPPRAISAL IN THE LIGHT OF INFORMATION NOW PROVIDED BY THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS OF THE HISTORICAL ROLE OF THE ESSENES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO CHRISTIANITY.
BR 1230 CHAYENU SCHARFSTEIN, ZVI AN ELEMENTARY HEBREW TEXT. HEBREW ACCORDING TO THE PROJECT METHOD, BASED ON THE JEWISH CALENDAR.
BR 1232 RAQUEL FEUCHTWANGER, LION THIS HISTORICAL NOVEL IS SET IN 12 CENTURY SPAIN, INTERMINGLING SPAIN'S CRUSADE AGAINST THE MOSLEM AND THE PLIGHT OF THE SPANISH JEWS, AND THE LOVE OF RAQUEL.
BR 1234 HENRIETTA SZOLD RECORD OF A LIFE ZEITLIN, ROSE BASED ON PUBLISHED MATERIAL, PERSONAL LETTERS, AND INTERVIEWS WITH FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES, THIS BOOK PROFILES HENRIETTA SZOLD, THE FOUNDER OF HADASSAH. DESCRIBES THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORGANIZATION AND ITS ESTABLISHMENT OF WELFARE CENTERS, HOSPITALS, AND CLINICS, AMONG OTHER INSTITUTIONS AND PROGRAMS IN ISRAEL.
BR 1241 GREAT RABBI LOEW OF PRAGUE THEIBERGER,FREDERICK A BIOGRAPHY, SPICED WITH LEGENDS, OF AN IMPORTANT RABBI OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
BR 1242 TESTAMENT OF THE LOST SON, THE MORGENSTERN, SOMA A NOVEL ABOUT RUSSIAN-JEWISH LIFE IN THE UKRAINE, BASED ON A LETTER A FATHER LEFT FOR HIS SON DESCRIBING HIS OWN LIFE AND RETURN TO RELIGION.
BR 1247 AMERICAN JEWRY AND THE CIVIL WAR KORN, BERTRAN WALLACE MRS. MICHAEL BEST A PORTRAIT OF AMERICAN JEWS FROM BOTH THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH DURING THE CIVIL WAR.1951, REVISED 1961
BR 1248 FIRST LADY, THE SEEING EYE CLARK, FRANK AND BLAKE THE STORY OF THE DOG WHO PIONEERED THE GUIDE DOG PROGRAM IN THE UNITED STATES.
BR 1249 ON THIS DAY WISE, JUDAH L. BAR MITZVAH ADDRESSES FOR USE BY CANDIDATES FOR BAR MITZVAH.
BR 1250 UNION HAGGADAH, THE CENTRAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN RABBI THE COMPLETE PASSOVER HAGGADAH, WRITTEN IN HEBREW WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION. ALSO CONTAINS, ENGLISH, PASSOVER IN HISTORY, LITERATURE AND ART.
BR 1252 ESTHER LOFTS, NORAH A RETELLING AND REINTERPRETATION OF THE LIFE OF ESTHER, QUEEN OF PERSIA, BASED ON THE BIBLICAL STORY READ IN THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE HOLIDAY OF PURIM.
BR 1253 BELOVED, THE DELMAR, VAINA FRIEDA WILKO A BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL BASED ON THE LIFE OF JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, A JEW WHO SERVED AS SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE CONFEDERACY. DEPICTS LIFE IN THE SOUTH AT THAT TIME.
BR 1254 GOOD AND EVIL BUBER, MARTIN TWO PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE PROBLEM OF GOOD AND EVIL: ONE DEALING WITH RIGHT VS. WRONG AND THE OTHER WITH IMAGES.
BR 1255 THEY FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM LEVINGER, ELMA EHRLICH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF JEWISH LEADERS IN THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM.
BR 1256 LOT'S WIFE PISCATOR, MARIA LEY A HEROIC BIBLICAL NOVEL OF PANORAMIC SWEEP AND CONCEPT, IT TELLS THE STORY OF ABRAHAM, HIS NEPHEW LOT, AND THEIR WANDERINGS FROM TYRE TO EGYPT AND SODOM.
BR 1258 END OF AN EXILE PARKES, JAMES AN ANGLICAN CLERGYMAN WHO HAS WRITTEN EXTENSIVELY ON JUDAISM AND JEWISH PROBLEMS, DISCUSSES ISRAEL, THE JEWS AND THE GENTILE WORLD.
BR 1259 JOURNEY WITHOUT END SPERBER, MANES NOVEL SET IN YUGOSLAVIA AND POLAND IN THE LATER DAYS OF WORLD WAR II.
BR 1260 STORY OF GENESIS, THE BILDERSEE, DR. ADELE, ED. HOW THE WORLD BEGAN, IN AN INTERESTING EXPOSITION.
BR 1262 THINK AND THANK COOPER, SAMUEL W. THE INTRIGUING STORY OF MOSES MONTEFIORE, THE GREAT JEWISH LEADER AND PHILANTHROPIST. EXCELLENT FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 1263 SECOND SCROLL, THE KLEIN, A.M. THIS NOVEL IS ABOUT THE SEARCH OF A MAN FOR UNDERSTANDING; THE YEARNING OF A PEOPLE FOR FREEDOM FROM FEAR, TOLD THRU THE SEARCH FOR A LOST RELATIVE.
BR 1267 HEBREW LITERATURE BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS BENSHALOM, BENZION AN INSIGHTFUL CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF HEBREW LITERATURE DURING THE YEARS OF THE MANDATE, TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW.
BR 1268 SYNOGOGUE AND ITS PEOPLE, THE HOLISHER, DSIDER A STUDY OF THE STRUCTURES AND ACTIVITIES OF SYNAGOGUES IN LARGE U.S. CITIES.
BR 1270 KEY TO THE BIBLE WATON, HARRY AN EXPLANATORY KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THE BIBLE.
BR 1274 LITTLE TRACTOR WHO TRAVELED GREENBERG, EVELYN L. A CHILDREN'S STORY OF A LITTLE TRACTOR WHO HELPS BUILD A JEWISH COLONY IN THE NEGEV. THE TRACTOR EARNS THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN CELEBRATION OF THE KIBBUTZ.
BR 1276 PARASITES, THE SEFORIM, MENDEL MOSHER THE FIRST NOVEL OF THE GREAT YIDDISH WRITER. IT TELLS THE STORY OF A MAN WHO DEMEANED THE POOR AND DEPRIVED HIMSELF OF LOVE.
BR 1277 SABBATH, THE ITS MEANING FOR MODERN MAN HESCHEL, ABRAHAM JOSHUA NANCY SCHIER AN EXPOSITION OF THE SABBATH AND ITS EMBODIMENT OF THE SPIRITUAL REALITIES OF JUDAISM.
BR 1278 GOOD FOR NOTHING, THE YAFFE, JAMES A NOVEL ABOUT A NEW YORK JEWISH FAMILY WHOSE ELDER BROTHER, NORMAN HAS SPENT YEARS KEEPING LEO, HIS CHARMING, BUT NO-GOOD BROTHER OUT OF TROUBLE.
BR 1282 ADVENTURE IN FREEDOM THREE HUNDRED YEARS OF JEWISH LIFE HANDLIN, OSCAR THE HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY OF THE JEWS IN NEW YORK CITY. INCLUDES ISSUES OF INTEGRATION AND INTERGROUP AND MINORITY RELATIONS.
BR 1285 JUDAISM AND MODERN MAN BOKSER, BEN ZION ESSAYS IN JEWISH THEOLOGY, COVERING ITS PROBLEMS AND HOW JUDAISM OFFERS HELP AND INSIGHT FOR A GOOD LIFE.
BR 1288 JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS PETERSHAM, MAUD & MISKA BIBLE STORIES RETOLD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT JOSEPH AND HIS FAMILY.
BR 1289 GOLDEN EGG, THE - VOL. I GOLDHAFT, ARTHUR D. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE LEVINSON HOLLYWOOD DYNASTY, THIS NOVEL IS AN INSIDER'S ACCOUNT OF THE INDUSTRY, AND A MORAL JUDGMENT OF MEN WHO WERE IN CHARGE.
BR 1290 TEN COMMANDMENTS, VOL. 1. GOLDMAN, SOLOMON AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF THE BIBLICAL TEXT AND ITS MEANING FOR MODERN CIVILIZATION.
BR 1291 AMERICAN JUDAISM. VOL. 3 GLAZER, NATHAN A HISTORY OF AMERICAN JUDAISM FROM A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE.
BR 1295 SABBATH IN THE SYNAGOGUE KATZ, SHOLOM THE BRAILLE TEXT FOR THE FULL LENGTH SABBATH SERVICE RECORDED BY SHOLOM KATZ; ORTHODOX RITUAL.
BR 1296 JEWISH WAY OF LIFE, THE ARONSON, RABBI DAVID DEALS ADEQUATELY, THOUGH ON A SMALL SCALE, WITH MANY FACETS OF THE JEWISH RELIGION.
BR 1299 DAVID PETERSHAM, MAUD AND MISKA SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF KING DAVID, BASED ON THE BIBLICAL STORY AND USING SOME BIBLICAL QUOTATIONS.
BR 1303 SHIP OF HOPE, THE ROTHGIESSER,REUBEN EXCITING STORY OF THE ADVENTURE OF 92 BOYS, REFUGEES FROM EUROPE WHO ESCAPE TO NORTH AFRICA AND ARE RESCUED BY A SHIP OF HOPE' AND TAKEN TO ISRAEL.
BR 1304 OPEN EVERY DOOR -V. 1 POPKIN, ZELDA IT ILLUMINES THE INNER BEING OF A WOMAN WHO WORKED AS A REPORTER AT 16 FOR $3.00 A WEEK IN PENNSYLVANIA AND THE DOORS SHE HAS OPENED DURING HER 40 YRS. OF LIFE.'
BR 1306 THIS WAS MY WORLD ST. JOHN, ROBERT AN EXCELLENT NEWSPAPERMAN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. POIGNANT, ENTERTAINING, VALUABLE COMMENTS ON PEOPLE AND EVENTS BY A MAN WHO HAS BEEN A FRIEND OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 1311 JEWSH COMMUN. IN ROCHESTR. ROSENBERG, STUART E. AN EVALUATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COHESIVE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN A SMALL CITY BETWEEN 1843-1925.
BR 1312 JESSICA, MY DAUGHTER IBN ZAHAV, ARI A NOVEL OF GHETTO LIFE IN VENICE.
BR 1313 STORIES FROM THE RABBIS COLLECTION OF MEDIEVAL ANECDOTES, ISAACS, ABRAM S. FASCINATING TALES FROM ELIJAH, SOLOMON, AND OTHERS, INCLUDING EXAMPLES OF RABBINICAL HUMOR, ETC.
BR 1319 LIFE IN A KIBBUTZ WEINGARTEN, MURRAY A YOUNG AMERICAN JEW WHO WENT TO LIVE IN ISRAEL, RELATES HIS EXPERIENCE IN A COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURAL SETTLEMENT, AND GIVES A PERSONAL EVALUATION.
BR 1321 MYSTERY OF THE SILVER FISH FREED, ELEAZER TWELVE STORIES OF JEWISH ADVENTURE BASED ON RECORDED JEWISH EVENTS.
BR 1323 TREASURY OF JUDAISM, A BIRNBAUM, PHILIP SELECTIONS FROM THE BIBLE AND OTHER GREAT CLASSICS OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
BR 1324 FAMILY MOSKAT, THE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS MR. SALO MIN A NOVEL ABOUT JEWISH FAMILY LIFE IN WARSAW FROM THE TURN OF THE CENTURY TO THE BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR I.
BR 1326 STORY OF CHANUKA, THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON CEREMONIES UAHC&C A SIMPLE RETELLING OF THE CHANUKAH STORY BASED ON THE MATERIAL IN THE FIRST BOOK OF MACCABEES, THE TALMUD AND THE LITURGY.
BR 1327 MEMOIRS OF AMERICAN JEWS 1775-1865 VOL. 3. MARCUS, JACOB R. THE THIRD VOLUME IN A SERIES CONSISTING OF ESSAYS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS FROM JEWISH SETTLERS AND PIONEERS WHO HELPED BUILD AMERICA DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE CIVIL WAR, 1775-1865.
BR 1329 THIS IS ISRAEL HUEBENER, T. & VOSS, C. H. THIS BOOK DISCUSSES THE EMERGENCE OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL OUT OF ITS PALESTINIAN BACKGROUND.
BR 1330 GREAT DISCOVERY, THE EISENBERG, AZRIEL THE NARRATIVE FOLLOWS THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS FROM THEIR DISCOVERY IN A CAVE BY AN ARAB BOY INTO THE HANDS OF SCIENTISTS. IT HELPS UNDERSTAND THE 2000YR. OLD SCROLLS.
BR 1331 THOUGHTS OF THE PROPHETS, THE MATTUCK, RABBI ISRAEL A STUDY OF THE ANCIENT RIGHTEOUS MEN OF GOD AND THEIR IDEAS WHICH HAVE GIVEN THIS WORLD SO MUCH OF ITS SPIRITUAL STATURE IN CIVILIZATION.
BR 1332 EVERYDAY LIFE IN OLD TESTAMENT TIMES HEATON, E.W. A PORTRAYAL OF LIFE IN BIBLICAL TIMES, INCLUDING DETAILS ABOUT THE FOOD, OCCUPATIONS, CLOTHING, AND LIFESTYLES OF THE PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE.
BR 1333 GRUMPY TELEVISION, THE FREEHOF , LILIAN A NEW APPROACH TO THE STORY OF CHANUKAH FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 1350 GUIDE FOR JEWISH YOUTH, A SUSSMAN, S. & SEGAL, A. THIS BOOK IS DESIGNED TO HELP THE YOUNG READER PREPARE FOR FULL-FLEDGED MEMBERSHIP IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY.
BR 1353 WIT AND WISDOM OF THE TALMUD PETERS, MADISON C. AN INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE COLLECTION.
BR 1356 TREASURY OF JEWISH POETRY, A AUSUBEL N. & M. A COLLECTION OF ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF JEWISH POETRY WRITTEN BY POETS IN MANY LANDS THROUGHOUT.
BR 1358 DIARIES OF THEODOR HERZL, THE LOWENTHAL, MARVIN, TRANS. AND ED. THE DIARY OF THE MAN WHO WAS CALLED 'THE FATHER OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.' THE JOURNAL COMBINES HISTORICAL DATA ALONG WITH HERZL'S OWN ADVENTURES AND HIS PERSONAL HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS.
BR 1359 ALBERT EINSTEIN LEVINGER, ALMA E. THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE BOY WHO HATED SCHOOL BECAUSE HE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO ASK 'WHY,' AND WHO WENT ON TO BECOME THE NOTED SCIENTIST.
BR 1360 INTO THE PROMISED LAND SCHWARZ, J.D. A RELIGIOUS TEXT COVERING THE PERIOD IN JEWISH HISTORY FROM JOSHUA TO SOLOMON.
BR 1361 WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT JEW. REL., HIST., ETHICS AND CULT. MARKOWITZ, SIDNEY L. A MANUAL OF JEWISH HISTORICAL, RELIGIOUS AND SOCIOLOGICAL INFORMATION.
BR 1362 THEY DID NOT FEAR SINGER, P.E. A STIRRING, TENSE FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF A GROUP OF JEWISH VIENNESE PARTISAN FIGHTERS WHO JOINED THE POLISH UNDERGROUND TO FIGHT FOR ISRAEL.
BR 1366 CHILDREN'S HISTORY OF ISRAEL. BK. 3. ISH-KISHOR, SHULAMITH THE THIRD BOOK IN A SERIES ON THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, FROM JOSHUA TO THE SECOND TEMPLE.
BR 1369 STORY OF THE JEWISH CALENDAR EISENBERG, AZRIEL THE ORIGIN OF THE JEWISH CALENDAR, ITS USES IN MODERN JEWISH LIFE AND THE WAYS IN WHICH IT DIFFERS FROM THE GENERAL CALENDAR.
BR 1370 RACHEL AND HERMAN LEWITON, MINA THIS SEQUEL TO RACHEL FOLLOWS THE FAMILY'S MOVE TO THE BRONX. IT IS SUFFUSED WITH FAMILY UNDERSTANDING AND THE FLAVOR OF NEW YORK FORTY YEARS AGO.
BR 1371 LIFE AND WORK OF SIGMUND FREUD, THE. VOL. III THE LAST PHASE, 1919-1939 JONES, ERNEST AN INSIGHT INTO THE PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT OF THE PSYCHOANALYST WHO CHANGED TWENTIETH-CENTURY THINKING. WRITTEN BY AN ANALYST.
BR 1375 HAPPINESS FOR SALE ALOPSIN, DOROTHY STORIES OF JEWISH LIFE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 1376 PRAYER, HUMILITY AND COMPASSION DRESNER, SAMUEL H. AN EXPRESSION OF THE CONCEPTS OF PRAYER AND RELIGION.
BR 1377 FAITH OF ISRAEL, THE ROWLEY, H.H. THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF HEBREW ALLOWS ROWLEY TO LEND US INSIGHT INTO ISRAEL; HE DISCUSSES QUESTIONS LIKE; DEATH AND BEYOND, INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITY...
BR 1379 BIBLE STORIES IN BIBLES WORDS GAMORAN, MAMIE THIS BOOK, ONE IN A SERIES OF BIBLE READERS, PRESENTS SELECTIONS FROM THE PROPHETS IN BIBLICAL LANGUAGE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 1383 OLD BUNCH, THE LEVIN, MEYER A REALISTIC NOVEL DEPICTING LIFE IN CHICAGO AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY.
BR 1389 MR. BENJAMIN'S SWORD ABRAHAMS, ROBERT D. SONYA ROTH/R AN ADVENTURE ABOUT JUDAH P. BENJAMIN AND HIS ESCAPE FROM HIS PURSUERS AT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR. FOR CHILDREN AGE FIFTEEN AND UP.
BR 1395 NOW WE BEGIN ROSENZWEIG, M. & E. A HANDBOOK FOR TRANSMITTING KNOWLEDGE OF HIS JEWISH HERITAGE TO THE VERY YOUNG CHILD AT HOME AND IN SUNDAY SCHOOL. AGES 3-4.
BR 1399 VISIONS RISE AND CHANGE VAN PAASSAN, PIERRE A REPORT ON THE PLIGHT OF RELIGION IN SOVIET RUSSIA AND THE OFFICIAL ATTITUDE TO ZIONISM AND THE HEBREW LANGUAGE.
BR 1401 THEY MOVE WITH THE SUN TAYLOR, DAVID THE FIRST NOVEL IN A SERIES WHOSE THEME IS A HUMANIST APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN MAN IN HIS SOCIETY.
BR 1403 NEW ZIONISM, A KAPLAN, MORDECAI N. A DISCUSSION, BASED UPON A LECTURE SERIES GIVEN BY THE AUTHOR, OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT AND THE DIRECTION IN WHICH IT SHOULD GO IN THE FUTURE.
BR 1404 JOEL FINDS OUT SUGARMAN, J. & FREEMAN, G. JOEL'S EXPERIENCES PLACE HIM IN CONTACT WITH JEWISH RELIGIOUS VALUES. IN SOLVING HIS PROBLEMS, HE COMES TO LEARN ABOUT ABRAHAM, MOSES, JOSHUA, RUTH AND OTHERS.
BR 1405 MOSES, PRINCE OF EGYPT FAST, HOWARD ELAINE LEE A HISTORICAL NOVEL BASED ON THE LIFE OF MOSES, BEGINNING WITH HIS EARLY CHILDHOOD. SET DURING THE REIGN OF RAMSES II.
BR 1406 AARONSBURG STORY LEWIS, ARTHUR H. AN ADVENTURE IN HUMAN UNDERSTANDING OCCURRED AT A CELEBRATION OF THE CITY'S FOUNDING WHERE LEADING FIGURES OF MANY RACES AND RELIGIONS DISCUSSED BROTHERHOOD.
BR 1407 QUEEN OF PERSIA COTTON, ELLA EARLS A FICTIONAL RETELLING FOR ADULTS OF THE STORY OF QUEEN ESTHER.
BR 1408 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE JEWS RIBINGER, NAPHTALI J. CAROL SLOTE,, JOY GERSTEN A STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF HOW ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HIS TIMES AFFECTED AMERICAN-JEWISH LIFE.
BR 1410 FERTILE SOIL VOGELSTEIN, MAX HISTORY OF ANCIENT ISRAEL
BR 1411 ROCKET TO MARS SCHWARTZMAN, SYLVAN A UNIQUE METHOD TO HELP RECOGNIZE AND READ HEBREW CHARACTERS. USES STORY OF BOY'S ROCKET-SHIP TRIP TO MARS TO TEACH METHOD.
BR 1414 PLACE OF UNDERSTANDING, THE WEINSTEIN, JACOB A STUDY OF THE RELEVANCE OF THE BIBLE TO EVERYDAY LIFE.
BR 1417 NOT BY POWER TARSHISH, ALLAN THE STORY OF THE GROWTH OF JUDAISM FROM THE TIME OF THE PROPHETS TO MODERN REFORM.
BR 1419 FRECKLE-FACE FRANKEL KEIR, LEOTA HARRIS STORY OF DEBBIE FRANKEL, A TOMBOY TEEN-AGER GROWING UP IN A MODERN MIDWESTERN JEWISH HOME. AGES 10-14
BR 1423 EVA LEVIN, MEYER THE TRUE STORY OF A YOUNG POLISH-JEWISH GIRL AND HER DARING MASQUERADE AS A GENTILE AMONG THE NAZIS.
BR 1424 FOR TWO CENTS PLAIN GOLDEN, HARRY ANOTHER OF HARRY GOLDEN'S WITTY COMMENTARIES ON AMERICAN-JEWISH LIFE.
BR 1431 JEWS TO REMEMBER ISH-KISHOR, SULAMITH SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES FOR YOUNG READERS OF JEWS WHO HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIETIES IN WHICH THEY LIVED.
BR 1438 ONE HUNDRED CHILDREN KUCHLER, SILDERMAN, LENA A NOVEL DISCUSSING THE SITUATION IN POLAND DURING THE NAZI OCCUPATION AND THE ATTEMPTS TO BRING JEWISH CHILDREN TO SAFETY IN DENMARK.
BR 1442 BEGGAR'S PARADISE BILENKISS, GASTON STORY OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE RUSSIAN VILLAGE OF KOLOMKA.
BR 1443 ISRAEL, LAND AND PEOPLE BENEVENISTI, DAVID A PICTURE OF MODERN ISRAEL.
BR 1444 JEREMIAH, PROPHET OF DISASTER MILLIKIN, VIRGINIA GREEN A BIOGRAPHY WRITTEN IN A CONTEMPORARY LITERARY STYLE, OF THIS GREAT PROPHET.
BR 1449 APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ, THE RICHLER, MORDECAI BEATRICE TRO A HUMOROUS NOVEL ABOUT A JEWISH BOY GROWING UP IN MONTREAL WHO IS DETERMINED TO MAKE A NAME FOR HIMSELF.
BR 1450 CONFIRMATION READER, THE EISENBERG, AZRIEL, EDITOR A COLLECTION OF CAREFULLY CHOSEN INSPIRATIONAL READINGS, STORIES, ARTICLES AND QUOTATIONS FOR THE JEWISH ADOLESCENT OF CONFIRMATION AGE.
BR 1453 MAN WHO WOULD BE GOD, THE CHEVALIER, HAAKON A PORTRAIT OF SEBASTIAN BLOCH WHOSE PERSONALITY WON MANY FRIENDS AND ADMIRERS BOTH FOR HIM AND FOR THE CAUSE HE SERVED.
BR 1455 RABBI IN AMERICA KNOX, ISRAEL A BIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC M. WISE THE JEWISH LEADER WHO, AS A PRODUCT OF THE OLD WORLD, WAS ABLE TO HELP HIS FELLOW JEWS FACE THE PROBLEMS OF ADJUSTING TO AMERICA.
BR 1456 QUICK YEARS, THE ARISS, JEAN MEMOIRS OF A YOUNG GIRL LIVING WITH HER GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDFATHER ON THEIR FARM DURING A PERIOD OF CONVALESCENCE.
BR 1458 ROAD TO CONFIDENCE, THE ROSENBERG, DR. STUART ADVICE ON HOW TO ACHIEVE SELF-CONFIDENCE AS A MEANS OF ACHIEVING GOALS.
BR 1459 AMERICANS BOORSTIN, DANIEL A VIEW OF AMERICAN SOCIETY IN COLONIAL DAYS AS A GUIDE TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LIFE.
BR 1460 JEWISH HERITAGE, THE NEWMAN, RABBI J. & GOSS, I. A PRESENTATION FOR YOUNG READERS OF THE CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES WHICH COMPRISE OUR JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 1461 KING SOLOMON'S NAVY KUBIE, NORA B. THIS STORY, SET IN KING SOLOMON'S TIME, DESCRIBES THE ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG BOY WHO LEFT HOME TO SEEK WORK IN JERUSALEM.
BR 1462 CREEDS IN COMPETITION PFEFFER, LEO COMPETING RELIGIOUS FORCES INTERACT TO SHAPE AMERICA'S CULTURAL LIFE. THIS INTERACTION AND ITS RESULTS IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS EXCELLENT BOOK.
BR 1463 BODY OF LOVE, THE KEATS, CHARLES A NOVEL OF A YOUNG MAN, SUFFERING FROM TUBERCULOSIS AND AWARE THAT HE DID NOT HAVE LONG TO LIVE, WHO DECIDES ON 'UNE VIE BRAVE MAIS INTENSE' IN PARIS.
BR 1465 COURSE OF MODERN JEWISH HISTORY, THE SACHAR, HOWARD M. A THOROUGH EXAMINATION OF MODERN JEWISH HISTORY.
BR 1468 DOCTOR HARRY BARNETT, ADAM THE STORY OF DR, HARRY LORBER AND HIS LIFE AND WORK ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE IN NEW YORK CITY.
BR 1469 PIECE OF BLUE HEAVEN MARGOLIAN, ABRAHAM A NOVEL OF LIFE IN AMSTERDAM DURING THE NAZI OCCUPATION.
BR 1472 SECRET OF LUCA, THE SILONE, IGNAZIO THE POIGNANT STORY OF LUCA, THE 'STRANGE' MAN WHO SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE IN PRISON AFTER BEING CONVICTED OF A CRIME WHICH HE DID NOT COMMIT.
BR 1476 SOLOMON AND SHEBA WILLIAMS, JAY AN HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE TIME OF KING SOLOMON.
BR 1478 ANNE FRANK A PORTRAIT IN COURAGE SCHNABEL, ARNST A BIOGRAPHY OF THE YOUNG GIRL WHOSE DIARY DESCRIBED HER LIFE WHILE HIDING IN AN ATTIC DURING THE NAZI ERA. BASED ON ANNE FRANK'S OWN WORDS AS WELL AS GERMAN DOCUMENTS AND EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS.
BR 1479 ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH BELLOW, SAUL ROBERTA POLL THE AWARD-WINNING NOVELIST'S PORTRAYAL OF JEWISH CHICAGO.
BR 1481 ISAAC MAYER WISE PIONEER OF AMERICAN JUDAISM GUMBINER, J.H. A BIOGRAPHY OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY RABBI WHO INFLUENCED THE LIVES OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN JEWS. ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF REFORM JUDAISM, WISE ADVOCATED THE USE OF A COMMON PRAYER BOOK, A UNION OF CONGREGATIONS, AND A COLLEGE TO TRAIN AMERICAN RABBIS.
BR 1482 GOLDEN SHOES AND OTHER STORIES, THE KRANZLER, GERSHON SEVENTEEN SHORT WORKS SET DURING THE DECADES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND WHICH MAKE FASCINATING READING FOR THE YOUNG.
BR 1483 VOICE OF THE PROPHETS, THE GAMORAN, MAMIE THOSE PASSAGES FROM EVERY PROPHET WHICH THE AUTHOR CONSIDERS MOST APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN.
BR 1484 TELL ME WHY BOBROW, DOROTHY RUDIMENTS OF THE JEWISH FAITH PRESENTED IN EASY-TO-READ FORM FOR YOUNG READERS.
BR 1485 YEARS FOLLOWING AFTER LEFTWICH, JOSEPH AN ANTHOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS POETRY.
BR 1486 FIRST TEN YEARS, THE EYTAN, WALTER A DIPLOMATIC HISTORY OF ISRAEL.
BR 1487 FAREWELL TO SAMARIA FEIN, HARRY H. A NOVEL DEPICTING JEWISH LIFE IN SAMARIA UNDER ASSYRIAN RULE.
BR 1490 DESIGN FOR JEWISH LIVING FOLKMAN, RABBI JEROME D. THIS VALUABLE GUIDE-BOOK PROVIDES A FEASIBLE PATTERN OF RELIGIOUS LIFE WHICH CAN BE ALTERED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF DIFFERING FAMILY SITUATIONS.
BR 1491 ELEF MILIM PART ONE--1000 WORDS SCHACTER, CHAIM PARTS ONE AND TWO CONTAIN ONE THOUSAND BASIC STREET WORDS EACH. PART THREE CONTAINS MORE ADVANCED WORDS, WITH ADVANCED READING MATERIAL AND GRAMMAR.
BR 1493 PORTRAIT OF A RABBI SILVER, SAMUEL M. AN AFFECTIONATE BIOGRAPHY OF RABBI BARNETT M. BRICKNER.
BR 1494 HABIMA BEN-ARI, RAIKIN THE INSPIRING STORY OF THE STRUGGLE TO FOUND THIS JEWISH THEATRE.
BR 1498 WITH THE JEWISH CHILD... LEVINGER, ELMA EHRLICH THE CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES PRACTICED IN THE JEWISH HOME, IN THE SYNAGOGUE AND IN THE RELIGIOUS SCHOOL ARE EXPLAINED.
BR 1499 BIBLE BACKGROUND SMITH, J.W.E. AN EXAMINATION OF THE PARALLELS BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND THE RESULTS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
BR 1502 WHEN JEWISH PEOPLE WAS YOUNG SOLOFF, MORDECAI I. WHEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE WAS YOUNG, PUPIL'S WORKBOOK. A HISTORY OF THE JEWS FOR USE IN THE LOWER GRADES OF SABBATH SCHOOL.
BR 1506 STORY OF IRVING BERLIN, THE EWEN, DAVID A BIOGRAPHY OF THE IMMIGRANT BOY WHO BECAME A GREAT AMERICAN COMPOSER.
BR 1507 JOURNEY TO THE DAWN ANGOFF, CHARLES THIS NARRATIVE FOLLOWS THE DAILY LIFE OF THE POLONSKY FAMILY AFTER ITS EMIGRATION FROM A SMALL RUSSIAN VILLAGE TO TURN OF THE CENTURY BOSTON.
BR 1508 REBEL AGAINST THE LIGHT RAMATI, ALEXANDER THIS HISTORICAL NOVEL IS SET DURING THE ARAB ISRAELI WAR OF 1948. WE FIND ARTHUR WEISS, POLISH REFUGEE CONSCRIPTED INTO HAGANA AND HIS LOSS OF ROMANTICISM.
BR 1509 HAYEHUDI HARISHON, CHELEK ALEPH, BET (THE FIRST JEW PART A-B) GREENBERG, SIMON A BASIC HEBREW TEXT. CONTAINS GRADED VOCABULARY, DRAMATIC POEMS, A MILON (DICTIONARY).
BR 1510 SINCE EVE BRAV, STANLEY R. A GUIDE, IN RELIGIOUS TERMS, TO SEXUAL MORALITY.
BR 1513 COMPULSION LEVIN, MEYER ROSE COHEN E A HISTORICAL NOVEL BASED ON THE 1924 LOEB-LEOPOLD MURDER CASE.
BR 1514 MY LIFE CHAGALL, MARC OBSERVATIONS ON CHILDHOOD IN A JEWISH HOUSEHOLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ARTIST, AS A YOUNG BOY. HE WAS ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN.
BR 1515 ANNA TELLER SINCLAIR, JO THE STORY OF ANNA TELLER, A 74 YEAR OLD PEASANT WOMAN WHO ESCAPED FROM HUNGARY DURING THE REVOLUTION OF 1956 AND CAME TO AMERICA TO JOIN HER SON AND HIS FAMILY.
BR 1516 HONEY FROM A DARK HIVE KAVINOKY, BERNICE SET IN A SMALL PENNSYLVANIA MINING TOWN, THIS IS THE LOVE STORY OF A JEWISH GIRL AND A CATHOLIC BOY, WHICH IS DOOMED FROM THE FIRST.
BR 1517 ISAAC BABEL COLLECTED STORIES MORISON, WALTER THIS BOOK CONTAINS SHORT STORIES, VIGNETTES AND EXCERPTS FROM A WAR JOURNAL FROM BABEL, THE EX-PATRIOT FROM THE TRADITIONAL. MIDDLE-CLASS LIFE OF ODESSA.
BR 1518 LIGHT FROM THE WEST, THE SCHACHNOWITZ, SELIG AN ACCOUNT FOR YOUNG READERS OF THE LIFE OF RABBI MOSHE (CHASSAM) SOFER, FATHER OF HUNGARIAN ORTHODOXY.
BR 1519 RELIGIONS OF AMERICA ROSTEN, LEO A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES WHICH APPEARED IN THE 'LOOK MAGAZINE' SERIES ON THE MAJOR RELIGIONS PRACTICED IN AMERICA.
BR 1520 BETWEEN GOD AND MAN AN INTERPRETATION OF JUDAISM HESCHEL, ABRAHAM JOSHUA BENJAMIN WER A SELECTION OF WRITINGS ON CONTEMPORARY JUDAISM BY THE JEWISH THEOLOGIAN.
BR 1521 RESPONSA LITERATURE, THE FREEHOF, SOLOMON B. HILDRED E. G AN ANALYSIS OF THE BODY OF LITERATURE THAT EMERGED FROM THE QUESTIONS ABOUT JEWISH LAW SUBMITTED TO RABBIS OVER THE CENTURIES AND THEIR WRITTEN RESPONSA.
BR 1524 CLASH OF DESTINIES, A KIMCHE, JON & DAVID A DISCUSSION OF THE PALESTINE WAR: THE SURFACE MILITARY ENGAGEMENTS AND THE LESS OBVIOUS MORE SIGNIFICANT, MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS WHICH SHAPED THE WAR.
BR 1525 LAUGH LOUDER LIVE LONGER HIRSHFIELD, HARRY JOKES AND ANECDOTES BY THIS FAMOUS HUMORIST.
BR 1526 ENGINEER OF THE SOUL COHEN, SADIE ALTA THIS RABBI'S WIFE TELLS THE STORY OF HIS TRANSITION FROM A HIGHLY TRAINED ENGINEER TO AN 'ENGINEER OF THE SOUL', AS A N.Y. RABBI.
BR 1527 SUBWAY TO THE MET CRICHTON, KYLE THE STORY OF THE CAREER AND PERSONAL LIFE OF THE GREAT OPERA STAR, RISE STEVENS.
BR 1531 GHOST OF GARINA STREET, THE FREEHOF, LILLIAN S. THE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENS TO A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD BOY INTRIGUED BY A 'HAUNTED HOUSE'.
BR 1532 I SAW BATTLE OF JERUSALEM LEVIN, HARRY THIS DIARY IS A RECORD OF THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF THE AUTHOR DURING THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM.
BR 1535 PATTRNS OF FAITH IN AMER. TDAY JOHNSON, F. ERNEST BASED ON A SERIES OF LECTURES, THIS IS A DISCUSSION OF DIVERGENT VIEWS ON IMPORTANT SPIRITUAL ISSUES HELD BY MAJOR RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN AMERICA.
BR 1536 LAND IN SEARCH OF GOD ROWLAND, STANLEY J. JR. A DISCUSSION OF MEANING AND IMPLICATION OF RELIGIOUS INTEREST WHICH HAS BEEN MANIFEST IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LIFE.
BR 1537 UNDERSTANDING THE OLD TESTAMENT ANDERSON, BERNHARD W. AN EXPLORATION OF THE UNIQUE HISTORY RECORDED IN THE BIBLE.
BR 1538 LIFETIME OF A JEW, THE SCHAUSS, HAYIM SHEILA SHAFE THIS DISCUSSION OF THE MAJOR EVENTS IN THE JEWISH LIFECYCLE CONTAINS THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND THE CEREMONIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SUCH OCCASIONS AS WEDDINGS, BRIS MILAH (CIRCUMCISION) AND BAR MITZVAH.
BR 1539 AMOS, PROPHET OF JUSTICE JENKINS, SARA A BIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT HEBREW PROPHET.
BR 1540 JEWISH CUSTOMS AND FOLKLORE LEHRMAN, S.M. A GUIDE TO JEWISH CUSTOMS WHICH ENCOMPASSES THE CEREMONIES AND FOLKWAYS ASSOCIATED WITH ALL ASPECTS OF JEWISH LIFE.
BR 1542 REFORM JEWISH PRACTICE AND ITS HISTORIC BACKGROUND FREEHOF, SOLOMON B. AN EXPLANATION OF THE PRACTICES AND OBSERVANCES OF THE JEWISH REFORM MOVEMENT AND ITS HISTORICAL BACKGROUND.
BR 1543 GROVE, THE BERNSTEIN, BURTON SET IN A SUMMERTIME VACATION COMMUNITY, THIS SEMI-FICTIONAL CHRONICLE IS A VIEW OF MIDDLE CLASS JEWISH FAMILY LIFE AS SEEN THROUGH A BOY'S EYES.
BR 1544 REQUIEM FOR NA'AMAN TAMMUZ, BENJAMIN A FAMILY SAGA INVOLVING A CONFLICT BETWEEN THOSE WHO CLING TO ZIONISM AS AN INDIVIDUAL ROMANTIC DREAM AND THOSE WHOSE NATIONALISM INVOLVED IDEOLOGY, MATERIALISM, AND THE DESIRE FOR POWER.
BR 1548 REFORM RESPONSA FREEHOF, SOLOMON B. DR. FREEHOF DISCUSSES THE POSSIBILITY OF BROADENING THE BASE OF CONTEMPORARY REFORM JUDAISM THROUGH REFERENCE TO THE RESPONSA.
BR 1550 FOCUS MILLER, ARTHUR A ALLEGORICAL STORY ABOUT ANTI-SEMITISM. LAWRENCE NEWMAN, OFFICE WORKER AND ORDINARY ANTI-SEMITE, STARTS WEARING GLASSES AND IS SUDDENLY MISTAKEN FOR A JEW. HE BEGINS EXPERIENCING THE BIGOTRY OF THE NEIGHBORS HE'D BEEN FRIENDLY WITH BEFORE; AND IN DUE COURSE HE FINDS SUPPORT AND UNDERSTANDING FROM ONE OF THE VERY JEWISH IMMIGRANTS HE HAD PREVIOUSLY SO DESPISED.
BR 1552 L'SHONI BET TARGILON PERSKY, E. AN EXCERCISE BOOK TO ACCOMPANY L'SHONI BET.
BR 1553 ARCHEOLOGY & THE OLD TESTAMENT PRITCHARD, JAMES A SCHOLARLY DISCUSSION OF THE LIGHT WHICH ARCHAEOLOGY SHED UPON THE BIBLE.
BR 1556 DISCOURSE WITH SHADOWS MALCOLM, JEAM WRITTEN IN STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS, THIS NOVEL IS ABOUT THE RETURN OF A BOY FROM WAR, HIS ALTERED VIEW OF LIFE AND WHAT HE FINDS WHEN HE RETURNS HOME.
BR 1557 SIPPURI, KRIAH B'IVRIT L'MATCHILIM CHOMSKY, WILLIAM A COLLECTION OF EASY STORIES, EACH INTRODUCING NEW WORDS. A DICTIONARY IS INCLUDED AT THE END.
BR 1559 HOME BEFORE DARK BASSING, EILEEN A NOVEL ABOUT THE WIFE OF A COLLEGE PROFESSOR AND HER STRUGGLE TO ADJUST AFTER SHE RETURNS FROM A MENTAL INSTITUTION.
BR 1563 WEEKEND WAR, THE BARER, SHLOMO THE EVENTS OF THE SINAI CAMPAIGN IN A FICTIONALIZED FORM.
BR 1564 BREAD FOR BEAUTY LEVINGER, ELMA A JEWISH YOUTH LEAVES HIS ULTRA-RESPECTABLE JEWISH FAMILY, THEN MARRIES AND RETURNS TO MIDDLE-CLASS RESPECTABILITY.
BR 1566 RELIGION IN ISRAEL TODAY BADI, JOSEPH A DISCUSSION OF THE WAYS THE LAWS AND PRACTICES IN MODERN ISRAEL BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN JEWISH TRADITION AND THE NEEDS OF A MODERN DEMOCRACY.
BR 1569 SMALL SANCTUARY, THE FREEHOF, SOLOMON B. AN INTERPRETATION OF THE JEWISH PRAYER-BOOK WHICH REVIVES THE IDEAS AND IDEALS OF JUDAISM.
BR 1570 SABBATH DELIGHT RUBENSTEIN, RABBI A.L. THIS BOOK TELLS CHILDREN ALL ABOUT THE SABBATH AND ITS OBSERVANCE
BR 1571 GHETTO, THE WIRTH, LOUIS A STUDY OF LIFE IN THE GHETTO AND THE PEOPLE WHO WERE FORCED TO LIVE THERE.
BR 1572 KILOMETER 95 RUSSCOL, HERBERT & MARGALIT BANAI A LOVE STORY SET IN THE DRAMATIC GAZA BORDER REGION OF ISRAEL. THE PLOT AND INCIDENTS ARE SUBORDINATE TO THE ISSUES INVOLVED.
BR 1573 MR. SEIDMAN AND THE GEISHA MOLL, ELICK A NOVEL DESCRIBING THE EXPERIENCES OF A NEW YORK DRESS MANUFACTURER ON A VISIT TO JAPAN. BASED ON THE TRUE EXPERIENCES OF THE AUTHOR AND HIS WIFE.
BR 1574 ALBERT EINSTEIN CITIZEN OF THE WORLD WISE, WILLIAM JEAN SIFF THE LIFE STORY OF ALBERT EINSTEIN TOLD WITH SIMPLICITY AND WARMTH.
BR 1575 UNPOSSESSED, THE HYAMS, EDWARD A NOVEL OF WORLD WAR II.
BR 1578 TREASURY OF BIBLE STORIES, A GOLDIN, HYMAN E. BIBLE STORIES RETOLD, IN MODIFIED BIBLICAL STYLE, FOR YOUNG READERS.
BR 1580 HEROD KING OF THE JEWS MINKIN, JACOB S. A HISTORICAL NOVEL BASED ON THE LIFE AND REIGN OF KING HEROD.
BR 1581 TO HALLOW THIS LIFE BUBER, MARTIN AN ANTHOLOGY OF WRITINGS BY THE TWENTIETH CENTURY PHILOSOPHER.
BR 1583 REBEL AND STATESMAN SCHECTMAN, JOSEPH B. THIS IS THE STORY OF VLADIMIR JABOTINSKY: SOLDIER, LINGUIST, DIPLOMAT WHO CONTRIBUTED GREATLY TO MODERN JEWRY.
BR 1585 GROUCHO AND ME MARX, GROUCHO REMINISCENCES BY THE COMEDIAN ABOUT HIS CHILDHOOD, SHOW BUSINESS, TELEVISION, AND MOVIES.
BR 1586 PILGRIMS IN A NEW LAND FRIEDMAN, LEE H. A STUDY OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF JEWS TO THE GROWTH OF AMERICA, AND THE EFFECT OF AMERICAN LIFE UPON THE JEWS.
BR 1590 FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT ST. JOHN, ROBERT AN AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCES ON ASSIGNMENTS IN PARIS, ISTANBUL AND OTHER CITIES.
BR 1591 JEWS SETTLE IN NEW AMSTERDAM 1654, THE GRAND, SAMUEL THE STORY OF THE SETTLEMENT OF JEWS IN THE NEW WORLD. WRITTEN FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 1594 GUIDE TO SHAVUOTH, A PEARL, CHAIM A COMPLETE DISCUSSION OF THE FESTIVAL INCLUDING ITS VARIOUS NAMES, THE INTERPRETATIONS, AND THE CUSTOMS TO GUIDE OBSERVANCE.
BR 1595 GUIDE TO JEWISH KNOWLEDGE, A PEARL, CHAIM INCLUDES THE BIBLE, CALENDAR OF FESTIVALS, HIGH HOLY DAYS, HOW TO OBSERVE SABBATH, DIETARY LAWS.
BR 1596 REACHING FOR THE MOON MARK, JULIUS A COLLECTION OF SERMONS AND ADDRESSES DELIVERED BY DR. MARK OVER A TEN-YEAR PERIOD AT TEMPLE EMANU-EL IN NEW YORK CITY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOLOMON B. FREEHOF.
BR 1601 MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE BIRT HALKIN, SIMON A STUDY OF JEWISH LIFE DURING THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES AND HOW IT IS PORTRAYED IN MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE. WRITTEN BY A FORMER PROFESSOR OF HEBREW LITERATURE AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY IN JERUSALEM.
BR 1612 HOLY AND THE PROFANE, THE EVOLUTION OF JEWISH FOLKWAYS GASTER, THEODORE H. A STUDY OF THE DIVERSE FOLKWAYS AND FOLKLORE THAT HAVE DEVELOPED AS JEWS BECAME PART OF THE VARIOUS CULTURES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, WITH AN ANALYSIS OF THE ORIGINS OF THE DIETARY LAWS AND THE SHIELD OF DAVID.
BR 1613 WANDERING BEGGAR, THE SIMON, SOLOMON A DELIGHTFUL BOOK EMPHASIZING PARABLES OF JEWISH LIFE AS MANIFESTED THROUGH THE FAITH AND WISDOM OF THE HERO.
BR 1614 ASSIGNMENT IN ISRAEL MANDELBAUM, BERNARD, ED. ISRAEL'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND HOPES FOR ITS FUTURE ARE CHARACTERIZED BY PROFESSIONALS FROM VARIOUS FIELDS.
BR 1617 SEX AND FAMILY IN THE BIBLE PATAI, RAPHAEL A DISCUSSION OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE IN BIBLICAL TIMES.
BR 1618 FAITHFUL CITY, THE THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM JOSEPH, DOV THIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF ISRAEL IN 1948, AND OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE COUNTRY'S HISTORY.
BR 1619 LAST ANGRY MAN, THE GREEN, GERALD ELLEN KANNER THE STORY OF A NEW YORK CITY DOCTOR IN THE EARLY PART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WHO IS TOTALLY DEDICATED TO HIS PROFESSION, BUT IS ANGRY AT THE IGNORANCE AND PREJUDICE HE ENCOUNTERS.
BR 1620 DUSK IN THE CATSKILLS WALLENROD, REUBEN A STORY OF LIFE IN A CATSKILL MOUNTAIN RESORT.
BR 1622 CAIN, SON OF THE SERPENT EICHORN, DAVID M. A MIDRASH WHICH INTERPRETS THE CREATION STORY AND OTHER PARTS OF BERESHIT.
BR 1624 JEWISH PEOPLE, THE - BOOK II PUPIL'S ACTIVITY BOOK PESSIN, DEBORAH TEMPLE EMANU THE SECOND IN THE SERIES OF STUDENT ACTIVITY BOOKS ACCOMPANYING THE TEXT OF THE SAME NAME.
BR 1627 TAKE MY LIFE CANTOR, EDDIE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF EDDIE CANTOR IN WHICH HE FONDLY REMEMBERS FAMILY, FRIENDS AND SHOW BUSINESS PERSONALITIES WHO PLAYED A BIG INFLUENCE IN HIS LIFE.
BR 1629 HELLENISTIC CIVILIZATIONS AND THE JEWS TCHERIKOVER, VICTOR RUBELLE SCHA THIS BOOK EXAMINES THE CULTURAL CONFLICT BETWEEN JUDAISM AND HELLENISM IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST. DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS, THE FIRST PART LOOKS AT THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE JEWS IN PALESTINE AS THEY CAME UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF ALEXANDER'S SUCCESSORS AND THE SECOND PART DEALS WITH THE JEWS IN THE LANDS OF THE DIASPORA.
BR 1630 KIND OF JUSTICE, A SIEGEL, BENJAMIN A NOVEL OF JEWISH LIFE IN EUROPE AT THE TIME OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION.
BR 1632 VILLAGE BY THE JORDAN THE STORY OF DEGANIA BARATZ, JOSEPH THE HISTORY OF ONE OF THE FIRST COLLECTIVE SETTLEMENTS IN ISRAEL BY ONE OF ITS FOUNDERS.
BR 1636 ANGRY HARVEST FIELD, H. & MIEZENSKI WRITTEN BY TWO FORMER PRISONERS OF THE POLISH COMMUNISTS, THIS IS THE STORY OF A YOUNG JEWISH GIRL FLEEING FROM THE GERMANS IN POLAND.
BR 1637 LEGENDS OF KING SOLOMON SKULSKY, S. STORIES OF KING SOLOMON AND HIS TIMES FOR YOUNG READERS.
BR 1638 LAST TEMPTATION, THE VIERTEL, JOSEPH THE HEROINE, A SURVIVOR OF NAZISM NOW LIVING IN JERUSALEM, PROVIDES AN ACCOUNT OF LIFE IN ISRAEL.
BR 1639 CAVE OF RICHES STORY OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS HONOUR, ALAN M. SCHWARTZE THE AUTHOR, WHO LIVED FOR A PERIOD OF TIME WITH A BEDOUIN TRIBE, WRITES ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF THE SCROLLS BY A YOUNG BEDOUIN BOY IN A CAVE NEAR QUMRAN. HE INCLUDES A DISCUSSION OF THE VALUE THE SCROLLS HAVE TO RELIGION AND WORLD HISTORY.
BR 1641 CINDY AND I ADAMS, JOEY A WITTY, FOLKSY ACCOUNT OF THE PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE OF JOEY ADAMS AND HIS WIFE.
BR 1642 JEWS IN MINNESOTA, THE PLAUT, W. AN HISTORICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF JEWISH LIFE AND CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.
BR 1643 WEST OF THE NILE BURSTEIN, ABRAHAM A STORY OF THE JEWISH SCHOLAR SAADIA GAON OF THE FIRST CENTURY, LEADER OF THE JEWS IN MEDIEVAL BABYLON.
BR 1645 FOR THE LIFE OF ME BRISCOE, ROBERT & A. HATCH THE FIRST JEWISH LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN RECOUNTS HIS EXPERIENCES DURING HIS COUNTRY'S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE.
BR 1648 REMEMBER ME TO GOD KAUFMAN, MYRON S. A YOUNG BOSTONIAN'S ANGUISH IN COMING TO TERMS WITH HIS JEWISH HERITAGE. RICHARD AMSTERDAM, HARVARD UNDERGRADUATE AND SON OF A BOSTON JUDGE WANTS TO JOIN THE PROTESTANT CHURCH. HIS STRUGGLE IS HAMPERED BY HIS FATHER'S INTEGRITY.
BR 1650 JEWS OF CHARLESTON REZNIKOFF, CHARLES A HISTORY OF AN AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY.
BR 1653 LET'S TALK -- RIGHT & WRONG KRIPKE, DOROTHY K. AN INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS FOR THE VERY YOUNG READER.
BR 1656 GERSHWIN YEARS JABLONSKI, EDWARD; STEWART, LAWRENCE THE STORY OF THE GREAT COMPOSER WHOSE SONGS WERE INFLUENCED BY HIS TIMES AND WHO IN TURN LEFT A LASTING EFFECT ON HIS ERA AND OURS. © 1973
BR 1661 PROFESSOR AND THE FOSSIL, THE SAMUEL, MAURICE THIS IS A CRITIQUE AND CHALLENGE OF TOYNBEE'S STUDY OF HISTORY. SAMUEL CONTENDS THAT JEWISH CIVILIZATION HAS BEEN SLIGHTED.
BR 1663 STRANGERS MEMMI, ALBERT A DOCTOR RETURNS TO HIS HOME IN AFRICA WITH HIS FRENCH WIFE AND BOTH TRY TO ADJUST TO A NEW WAY OF LIFE.
BR 1666 NIGHT OF THE MIST HEIMLER, EUGENE A NOVEL DEPICTING LIFE IN THE GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS. THE TITLE OF THE BOOK WAS DERIVED FROM THE GERMAN SLOGAN, 'NACHT UND NEBEL,' WHICH REFERS TO THE NAZI PROGRAMS FOR SUPPRESSING OPPONENTS BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
BR 1667 JEWS IN AMERICA, THE LEARSI, RUFUS WRITTEN IN CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE, LEARSI TRACES THE TRICKLE OF JEWS FROM VARIOUS EUROPEAN COUNTRIES (WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THOSE OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE ORIGIN) WHO HELPED SWELL THE STREAM OF AMERICAN COLONIAL MIGRATION.
BR 1668 MINISTER OF DEATH REYNOLDS, QUENTIN A MEMBER OF THE INFAMOUS NAZI SS, ADOLF EICHMANN WAS ASSIGNED TO CARRY OUT THE EXTERMINATION OF SIX MILLION JEWS. THIS BOOK TRACES EICHMANN'S LIFE FROM HIS GESTAPO YEARS TO HIS CAPTURE BY ISRAELI AGENTS IN SOUTH AMERICA.
BR 1669 POEMS OF A JEW SHAPIRO, KARL IN THESE POEMS, SHAPIRO REVEALED HIS INNERMOST FEELINGS ABOUT HIS JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 1673 ISRAEL CARARIVAS, DAVID AN EXCITING DISCUSSION OF THE NEW STATE OF ISRAEL: ITS CREATION AND GROWTH AND ITS ROLE AS AN EASTERN NATION WITH A WESTERN CULTURE.
BR 1674 GIANTS ON THE EARTH PESSIN, DEBORAH STORIES OF JEWISH MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED SIGNIFICANTLY IN MANY FIELDS TO THE BETTERMENT OF MANKIND.
BR 1676 ISRAEL, FIRST DECADE AND THE NEXT BEN-GURION, DAVID THIS DISCUSSION OF THE BIRTH AND GROWTH OF ISRAEL INCLUDES A LECTURE BY DR. NAHUM GOLDMAN.
BR 1677 BERNICE, PRINCESS OF JUDEA KOLB, LEON AN HISTORICAL NOVEL BASED ON THE STORY OF A JUDEAN PRINCESS'S ATTEMPT TO SAVE THE JUDEAN KINGDOM AND THE JEWS.
BR 1684 STAR IN THE WIND, A NATHAN, ROBERT BEVERLY COHE A NOVEL ABOUT AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST IN SEARCH OF HIMSELF IN POST-WORLD WAR II ROME AND IN ISRAEL DURING THE 1948 WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, AND THE TWO WOMEN WHO HELP HIM.
BR 1686 REFUGE MEIER, MAURICE THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MAN WHO AFTER HIS EXPERIENCES IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP AND THE LOSS OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN AT THE HANDS OF THE GERMANS, CAME TO AMERICA TO BEGIN A NEW LIFE.
BR 1688 JEWISH DANCE, THE BERK, FRED AN ANTHOLOGY OF VARIOUS ARTICLES.
BR 1690 TRIP INTO TOWN RUBIN, MICHAEL IN THIS NOVEL, POLLEGE STUDENTS FACE THE CONFLICT BETWEEN MIDDLE CLASS VALUES AND THE OTHER VALUES WHICH THEIR COLLEGE ENVIRONMENT HAS IMBUED IN THEM.
BR 1691 BIBLICAL RELIGION AND THE SEARCH FOR ULTIMATE REALITY TILLICH, PAUL A DISCUSSION BY THE CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE ONTOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF BIBLICAL SYMBOLS.
BR 1694 SAGA OF AMERICAN JEWRY 1865-1914 SIMONHOFF, HARRY THIS SEQUEL TO JEWISH NOTABLES IN AMERICA PROVIDES SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF JEWS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICA DURING THE LATTER PART OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND THE BEGINNING OF TWENTIETH.
BR 1697 RETURN OF HYMAN KAPLAN, THE ROSTEN, LEO A HUMOROUS ACCOUNT OF KAPLAN, HIS IMMIGRANT FRIENDS AND THEIR ATTEMPTS TO LEARN ENGLISH AT NIGHT SCHOOL. A SEQUEL TO 'THE EDUCATION OF HYMAN KAPLAN.'
BR 1702 ANCIENT LIBRARY OF QUMRAN CROSS, FRANK MOORE JR. A DISCUSSION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL TREASURES WHICH HAVE BEEN FOUND IN QUMRAN AND OTHER AREAS OF THE JUDEAN WASTELANDS.
BR 1705 I AND THOU BUBER, MARTIN KENNETH J. B A PHILOSOPHICAL WORK ON MAN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD BY THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY THINKER.
BR 1706 STAR IN JUDEA'S CROWN LONG, LAURA A RETELLING OF THE STORY OF ESTHER FOR TEEN-AGE READERS.
BR 1710 WHITHER? FEIERBERG, MORDECAI ZEEV IN THIS NOVEL, A SCHOLAR MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN THE FAITH OF HIS FATHERS AND THE IDEAS OF WESTERN CULTURE.
BR 1711 FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN JEW, THE KAPLAN, MORDECAI THE AUTHOR'S VIEWS ON HOW THE JEWISH PEOPLE CAN BUILD A NEW JEWISH SOCIETY RATHER THAN BECOME COMPLETELY ABSORBED AND ASSIMILATED INTO THE NATIONS IN WHICH THEY LIVE.
BR 1712 ENEMY CAMP, THE WEIDMAN, JEROME PHYLLIS BERK A NOVEL ABOUT A JEW WHO IS HAPPILY MARRIED TO A NON-JEW, YET FEELS THAT THE GENTILE WORLD IN WHICH HE LIVES IN IS AN 'ENEMY CAMP.'
BR 1713 GOD HELP ME! SILVERMAN, WILLIAM THIS BOOK ATTEMPTS TO HELP THOSE SEEKING SOLUTIONS TO THEIR PROBLEMS THROUGH FAITH IN GOD.
BR 1714 STILL SMALL VOICE TODAY, BK 1 SILVERMAN, WILLIAM B. JEWISH ETHICAL LIVING, A SEQUEL TO THE STILL SMALL VOICE CONTINUES TO PROVIDE MATERIAL ON JEWISH LIFE AND ETHICS FOR THE STUDENT OF CONFIRMATION AGE.
BR 1715 BIBLICAL ZOO, THE NEVIL, SUSAN A DISCUSSION FOR YOUNG READERS OF THE JERUSALEM BIBLICAL ZOO WHERE SPECIMENS OF ANIMALS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE HAVE BEEN GATHERED.
BR 1722 IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FREEHOF, SOLOMON B. A TEXTBOOK DESIGNED TO HELP THE YOUNG CHILD UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND STRUCTURE OF PRAYER.
BR 1723 FRANZ KAFKA A BIOGRAPHY BROD, MAX TRUDY CUTLER A BIOGRAPHY OF FRANZ KAFKA INCLUDING THE INNER STRUGGLES OF THE WRITER, HIS ILLNESS, AND HIS LAST DAYS.
BR 1726 AMERICAN JEW FELDMAN, ABRAHAM A BRIEF STUDY OF THE BACKGROUND OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH POPULATION.
BR 1727 JEWISH LEADERS 1750-1940 JUNG, LEO, EDITOR AN EXPOSITION OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY DISTINGUISHED JEWISH LEADERS TOWARD THE PRESERVATION OF TORAH-TRUE, TRADITIONAL JUDAISM.
BR 1729 JUNIOR JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA, THE BEN-ASHER, N. & H. LEAF, EDITORS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INFORMATION ON CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 1734 JEWISH POST BIBLICAL HISTORY BILDERSEE, ADELE A SURVEY OF THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF THE JEWS BEGINNING WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE IN 70 OF THE COMMON ERA.
BR 1735 ARCHEOLOGY AND THE OLD TESTAMET THOMPSON, J.A. A SCHOLARLY DISCUSSION OF THE LIGHT WHICH ARCHEOLOGY HAS SHED ON THE BIBLE.
BR 1738 ROAD TO INNER FREEDOM, THE THE ETHICS SPINOZA, BARUCH HELEN FRANKE A SIGNIFICANT WORK BY ONE OF THE MAJOR PHILOSOPHERS OF THE 17TH CENTURY.
BR 1740 ILLUSTRATED JEWISH KNOWLEDGE TARCOV, EDITH & OSCAR AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JEWISH INFORMATION.
BR 1743 IMMORTAL PIANO, THE CARMI, AVNER AND HANNAH THE STORY OF THE QUEST FOR THE SIENNA PIANOFORTE, THE IMMORTAL PIANO, WHOSE HISTORY MAY DATE BACK TO ANCIENT JERUSALEM AND THE PART THAT THE AUTHORS PLAYED IN THE SEARCH.
BR 1744 ISRAELI TALES AND LEGENDS POSY, ARNOLD ISRAELI TALES AND LEGENDS OF JEWISH LIFE ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG ADULTS.
BR 1745 MY JEWISH ROOTS SIMON, SOLOMON MARJORIE ASC THE STORY OF A BOY GROWING UP IN A GHETTO IN RUSSIA.
BR 1747 ISRAEL ZANGWILL LEFTWICH, JOSEPH MR. LEFTWICH, A FRIEND OF ISRAEL ZANGWILL DURING THE LAST TEN YEARS OF ZANGWILL'S LIFE, PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THIS IMPORTANT WRITER.
BR 1751 PRINCE OF THE GHETTO SAMUEL, MAURICE STORIES ABOUT THE STRUGGLES OF POLISH JEWS AS MIRRORED IN THE WRITINGS OF ISAAC LEIB PERETZ. © 1948
BR 1752 AFTERGROWTH AND OTHER STORIES BIALIK, HAYYIM NACHMAN A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY THE WELL-KNOWN HEBREW POET. TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW BY I. M. LASK. ©1939
BR 1754 RABBIS IN UNIFORM THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH M BARISH, LOUIS THE STORY OF THE EFFORTS OF JEWISH CHAPLAINS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TO HELP JEWISH MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AS WELL AS THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AT LARGE.
BR 1756 MY VILLAGE IN ISRAEL GIDAL, S. & T. A YOUNG BOY TELLS OF HIS LIFE ON THE KIBBUTZ; SCHOOL, WORK, RECREATION; INCLUDING FACTS OF HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, MODERN FARMING AND LIVING ARRANGEMENTS.
BR 1757 KEYS TO A MAGIC DOOR THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ISAAC LEIB P ROTHCHILD, SYLVIA A BIOGRAPHY OF THE YIDDISH WRITER ISAAC LEIB PERETZ.
BR 1762 WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A JEW SHULMAN, CHARLES E. MURIEL M. GO A BOOK DEALING WITH THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY: THE BELIEFS, THE FRUSTRATIONS AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE PAST AND PRESENT.
BR 1764 SONS OF AVROM, THE IKOR, ROGER A NOVEL ABOUT THREE GENERATIONS OF A RUSSIAN-JEWISH FAMILY'S FLIGHT FROM THE POGROMS IN QUEST OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
BR 1765 GALLERY OF ZIONIST PROFILES, A LIPSKY, LOUIS MIRIAM BENDE THE AUTHOR, A LEADER IN THE AMERICAN ZIONIST MOVEMENT, PROFILES THE LIVES OF THIRTY ZIONIST LEADERS WITH WHOM HE WAS ACQUAINTED.
BR 1768 NINETEEN LETTERS ON JUDAISM, THE HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL, RABBI THESE LETTERS RAISE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS FOR 20TH CENTURY JEWRY. THOUGH WRITTEN BY RABBI HIRSCH AS PART OF A BATTLE AGAINST THE REFORM MOVEMENT, THEY ARE EQUALLY RELEVANT IN OUR OWN TIME.
BR 1769 THREE PILLARS, THE MELAMED, DEBORAH M. ESPECIALLY FOR JEWISH WOMEN, THIS BOOK PROVIDES INSIGHTS INTO GENERAL CONCEPTS UNDERLYING JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE AND INTERPRETS JEWISH CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES.
BR 1772 SCIENCE AND JUDAISM LEIMAN, H. & J. ELIAS ESTHER COHEN THE AUTHORS CONTEND THAT RELIGION PLAYS A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN THE MODERN WORLD DESPITE THE CONTEMPORARY PREFERENCE FOR REASON.
BR 1773 ART OF BEING A JEW, THE KERTZER, MORRIS N., RABBI THE AUTHOR GIVES THE JEWISH VIEW OF SUCH IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS AS INTERFAITH MARRIAGE, SOCIAL JUSTICE, ETC.
BR 1774 BIBLE LEGEND BOOK FREEHOF, LILLIAN S. A PRESENTATION FOR CHILDREN OF THE RABBINIC LEGENDS BASED ON THE BOOK OF GENESIS.
BR 1775 HISTORY OF JUDAISM, A A RELIGIOUS HISTORY CHOURAQUI, ANDRE A RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF THE JEWS WHICH ANALYZES THE DEVELOPMENT OF JUDAISM, ITS SYMBOLS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO ISLAM.
BR 1777 BACK TALK WEIDMAN, JEROME A WRITER TALKS OF HIMSELF, OTHER WRITERS AND THE WRITING TRADE IN GENERAL.
BR 1778 WINDOWS TO MY SOUL ADELMAN, SAMUEL THIS BOOK OF POEMS EMBODIES THE VALUES OF JUDAISM AND A FERVENT PLEA FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE.
BR 1784 MYSTERY ON THE MOUNTAIN DRAMA OF THE SINAI REVOLUTION REIK, THEODOR A PSYCHOANALYST'S RESEARCH INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE REVELATION ON MOUNT SINAI AND THE PUBERTY RITES AND OTHER PRACTICES OF PRIMITIVE TRIBES.
BR 1787 TIME TO SEARCH, A BRIN, RUTH F. A BOOK OF SPIRITUAL POETRY RESULTING FROM THE POET'S SEARCH FOR GOD.
BR 1788 NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL JEW, THE COHEN, ARTHUR A. ANITA ROSENG A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JUDAISM AND HISTORY THROUGHOUT THE AGES.
BR 1789 HAND IN HAND HARMON, SIDNEY A DELIGHTFUL SHORT STORY OF THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN A JEWISH GIRL AND A BOY OF ANOTHER FAITH.
BR 1790 BURNT OFFERING SPICEHANDLER, DANIEL THE STORY TELLS OF THREE DAYS DURING THE ISRAELI WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AND HOW THE ISRAELI ARMY CAPTURED AN ARAB HELD MONASTERY.
BR 1791 CHAIM WEIZMANN YAHRBLUM, MOSHE THE STORY OF CHAIM WEIZMANN, THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 1795 SMALL PATIENTS GOLDBLOOM, ALTON A JEWISH DOCTOR TELLS HIS STORY, BEGINNING WITH HIS FATHER'S ARRIVAL IN CANADA FROM LITHUANIA, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS UPON HIS WORK AS A PEDIATRICIAN.
BR 1796 IN HIS IMAGE BELKIN, SAMUEL A GUIDE TO RELIGIOUS LIVING.
BR 1797 AND WE ARE NOT SAVED WDOWINSKI, DAVID THE AUTHOR CRITICALLY EXAMINES THE ATTITUDES OF JEWISH LEADERS WHICH, IN HIS OPINION, ENABLED THE NAZIS TO CARRY OUT THEIR PLANS.
BR 1798 SATURDAY SECRET RINN, MIRIAM L. BURIN JASON SIEGEL THINKS HIS STEPFATHER HAS GONE FAR ENOUGH. FIRST ONLY KOSHER FOOD AT HOME. THEN HE FORCES JASON TO WEAR A KIPPAH. NOW NO BASEBALL ON SHABBAT! JASON HAS A SECRET PLAN TO MAKE SURE HE PLAYS, BUT WILL IT BACKFIRE? WHAT IS JASON'S "SATURDAY SECRET?"
BR 1803 HISTORY OF JEWISH LIFE IN MODERN TIMES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, A ZELIGS, DOROTHY A SURVEY OF JEWISH HISTORY FROM THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT. THE MATERIAL IS PRESENTED THROUGH THE EXPERIENCES OF CHILDREN WHO LIVED DURING THAT TIME PERIOD.
BR 1804 JOIN US FOR THE HOLIDAYS ABRAMSON, LILLIAN AN ACTIVITY BOOK, IN STORY FORM, TO INTRODUCE JEWISH HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS AS THEY HAVE BEEN CELEBRATED AT DIFFERENT TIMES BY JEWS IN VARIOUS LANDS.
BR 1805 PRAYER STUDIES IN TORAH JUDAISM BERKOVITS, ELIEZAR THIS MONOGRAPH, PART OF A SERIES PUBLISHED BY YESHIVA UNIVERSITY, DISCUSSES THE SUBJECT OF PRAYER.
BR 1810 JEWISH WAY OF LIFE, THE ESSAYS ON JUDAISM KARP, ABRAHAM J. DESPITE THE HARDSHIPS TO WHICH THE JEWS HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED THROUGH THE CENTURIES THEY HAVE REMAINED TRUE TO THEIR FAITH. WITH THIS IDEA THE AUTHOR BEGINS HIS EXPLORATION OF JEWISH LIFE.
BR 1813 BREAKWATER, THE MANDEL, GEORGE A NOVEL CONCERNED WITH THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF A FAMILY RELATIONSHIP AND ITS EFFECT ON A YOUNG BOY.
BR 1817 LOST LEGENDS OF ISRAEL RUNES, DAGOBERT D. MRS. STEPHEN A COLLECTION OF TALES FROM MANY SOURCES DEALING WITH THE JEW'S STRIVING FOR THE SUPERNATURAL, THE MYSTICAL, THE ETHICAL, AND THE DIVINE.
BR 1818 SLANTING LIGHT, A CHARLES, GERDA THIS IS THE STORY OF A WOMAN WHO LEAVES HER HUSBAND TO WORK FOR A PLAYWRIGHT AND HIS FAMILY. SHE COMES TO SHARE A SPIRITUAL INTIMACY WITH THE WRITER ONLY TO DESERT HIM ALSO IN THE END.
BR 1820 DAUGHTERS FROM AFAR PROFILES OF ISRAELI WOMEN STERN, GERALDINE PROFILES OF ISRAELI WOMEN FROM ELEVEN COUNTRIES ON FOUR CONTINENTS. THEY INCLUDE GOLDA MEIR, MIRIAM BARATZ, WHO HELPED FOUND THE FIRST KIBBUTZ, DEGANIA, AND ANNE MARIE LAMBERT, A HEROINE OF THE FRENCH RESISTANCE.
BR 1822 BUNGALOW NINE OBER, NORMAN THE AUTHOR DEPICTS LIFE IN A TYPICAL BUNGALOW COLONY IN SPRING VALLEY, NY.
BR 1831 PROMISE, THE KELLNER, ESTHER THIS NOVEL IS BASED UPON THE STORY OF ABRAHAM, FATHER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 1841 THIRTEEN MANDEL, MORRIS AN ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE A CAPSULE SUMMARY OF JEWISH LAW AND LORE FOR TEENAGERS IN A MANNER WHICH WILL BE MEANINGFUL TO CONTEMPORARY READERS.
BR 1842 NIGHT WIESEL, ELIE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL IN WHICH THE AUTHOR RECOUNTS HIS CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE IN NAZI DEATH CAMPS AND HIS LOSS OF FAITH IN GOD.
BR 1846 ZION IN THE JEWISH LITERATURE HALKIN, ABRAHAM S. THIS BOOK SURVEYS THE EFFECT OF THE ZION (THE JEW'S HOPE OF RETURNING TO HIS HOMELAND) UPON JEWISH LITERATURE.
BR 1847 ORCHARD STREET SCHWARTZ, J.R. MRS. IRVING A NOSTALGIC PORTRAIT OF LIFE ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE.
BR 1850 ETERNAL FLAME, THE BRASCH, R. A DISCUSSION OF THE SYMBOLS AND BELIEFS OF JUDAISM, ITS ANSWERS TO CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO CHRISTIANITY.
BR 1853 MOZART LEAVES AT NINE, THE GREENE, HARRIS A FICTIONALIZED ACCOUNT OF THE WAY OF LIFE IN SALZBERG UNDER ITS MILITARY CONQUERORS.
BR 1854 BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD, THE DAVIS, MOSHE & VICTOR RATNER A POETIC STUDY OF THE OPPORTUNITIES GIVEN TO MAN THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE FOR THE GROWTH OF HIS CHARACTER.
BR 1855 KINGLY CROWN, THE GABIROL, S.I. FROM ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS POETS DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF JEWRY IN SPAIN, A BEAUTIFUL POEM, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY BERNARD LEWIS.
BR 1857 THREE PATHS OF GOD AND MAN DRESNER, SAMUEL H. MODERN MAN HAS ERECTED MANY BARRIERS BETWEEN HIMSELF AND GOD. THIS BOOK INSTRUCTS US HOW TO REMOVE THOSE BARRIERS.
BR 1858 ADAM BOLT, DAVID A RENDERING, IN NOVEL FORM, OF THE BIBLICAL STORY OF ADAM AND EVE.
BR 1859 MYER MYERS SILVERSMITH OF OLD NEW YORK WISE, WILLIAM EDYA ARZT THE STORY OF AN ARTIST AND PATRIOT IN COLONIAL AMERICA. THE BOOK INCLUDES A DESCRIPTION OF LIFE IN THE YOUNG COLONY OF NEW YORK AND PORTRAYS JEWISH LIFE AT THE TIME OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
BR 1861 PROBLEM OF THE JEW, THE BRUER, ISAAC THIS BOOK DEFINES THE JEWISH PROBLEM AND DISCUSSES ZIONISM AS A POSSIBLE SOLUTION.
BR 1862 GOD AND MAN IN JUDAISM BAECK, LEO SUMMARY OF THE BASIC TENETS OF JUDAISM, WRITTEN BY A NOTED JEWISH LEADER, WHOSE HEROIC CONDUCT IN THE THERESIENSTADT CONCENTRATION CAMP WON THE ADMIRATION OF ALL.
BR 1865 EARTH IS THE LORD'S, THE THE INNER WORLD OF THE JEW IN EAST HESCHEL, ABRAHAM JOSHUA RUBELLE SCHA A WORK ON THE LIVES OF EAST EUROPEAN JEWS, WRITTEN AS AN ACT OF DEVOTION RATHER THAN AS A HISTORICAL OR CRITICAL ACCOUNT.
BR 1866 BOOK OF DELIGHT, THE ZABARA, JOSEPH BEN MEIR INCLUDES ESSAYS ON: 'GEORGE ELLIOT AND SOLOMON MAIMON', AND 'HOW MILTON PRONOUNCED HEBREW', ETC.
BR 1867 SOCIAL ORDER-JEWISH VIEW ELIAS, JOSEPH A DISCUSSION OF THE EXISTING SOCIAL SCENE WHICH PARTICULARLY EMPHASIZES THE JEWISH VIEW OF PROBLEMS AND UTILIZES JEWISH TEACHING FOR FINDING SOLUTIONS.
BR 1869 GOOD TO BE A JEW KOHN, EUGENE THIS BOOK IS ADDRESSED TO THOSE JEWS WHO HAVE LOST TOUCH WITH THE JEWISH LIFE AND WISH TO REGAIN A MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 1871 PEOPLE OF 'EXODUS', THE PERLOV, YITZCHOK A NOVEL OF THE EXPERIENCES OF THE 4,500 REFUGEES ABOARD THE SHIP EXODUS IN 1947.
BR 1872 ROAD TO SODOM REES, JEAN THIS NOVEL DEALS WITH THE STORY OF ABRAHAM AND HIS EFFORTS TO PROMOTE WORSHIP OF GOD.
BR 1874 JEWISH EXISTENCE MAYBAUM, IGNAZ A SCHOLARLY ARTICULATION, FROM BOTH A SOCIOLOGICAL AND BIBLICAL VIEWPOINT, OF JEWISH EXISTENCE.
BR 1875 WHAT'S ON MY MIND LEVITSKY, DR. LOUIS M. THIS BOOK OFFERS SHORT INSPIRATIONAL PIECES PREPARED FOR HIS CONGREGATION'S WEEKLY PUBLICATION.
BR 1877 STERN FRIEDMAN, BRUCE J. THIS STRANGE NOVEL IS A CHARACTER STUDY OF STERN, A JEWISH MAN DENIED ANY SIGNIFICANT CONTACT WITH HIS HERITAGE.
BR 1879 GOLD-RIMMED SPECTACLES, THE BASSANI, GIORGIO THIS NOVEL IS THE STORY OF AN ITALIAN DOCTOR PRACTICING DURING THE PERIOD WHEN THE FASCISTS ROSE TO POWER.
BR 1880 STREAM OF JEWISH LIFE, THE ALOFSIN, DOROTHY A FICTIONAL PRESENTATION OF JEWISH INSTITUTIONS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 1883 YEAR OF HEROES, A MEYER, MABEL H. MRS. HERMAN A BOOK ABOUT JEWISH HEROES FOR YOUNG READERS.
BR 1885 STORY OF ALBERT EINSTEIN, THE FREEMAN, M.B. A BIOGRAPHY FOR YOUNG READERS OF THE 'SLOW BOY' WHO PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED MATHEMATICAL AND SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT.
BR 1886 STORY OF JUDAISM, THE BAMBERGER, BERNARD J. JUDITH HOFFM A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF THE JUDAISM ALONG WITH AN EXPLANATION OF JEWISH LIFE, OBSERVANCES, CONCEPTS, AND INSTITUTIONS.
BR 1887 DOCTOR ZHIVAGO PASTERNAK, BORIS THIS IS A NOVEL OF THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF A MAN WHO STRIVED TO PRESERVE HIS OWN SPIRITUAL INDEPENDENCE.
BR 1889 SABBATHS AND FESTIVALS IN THE MODERN AGE STUDIES IN TORAH JUDAISM RACKMAN, EMANUEL A DISCUSSION OF THE APPROACH WHICH OUR MODERN WORLD SHOULD TAKE IN DEALING WITH OUR RELIGIOUS HERITAGE.
BR 1890 AT THE WALLS OF JERICHO TASLITT, I.I. A PRESENTATION, IN NOVEL FORM, OF THE SIEGE OF JERICHO AS REPORTED IN THE BIBLE.
BR 1893 GREAT MERCHANTS, THE THE STORIES OF 20 FAMOUS RETAIL ME MAHONEY, TOM SHORT SKETCHES OF TWENTY GREAT RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTS AND THEIR FOUNDERS. THE BOOK COVERS THE FIELDS OF DEPARTMENT STORES, FOOD CHAINS, SPECIALTY SHOPS ETC.
BR 1894 BITTER HERBS A LITTLE CHRONICLE MINCO, MARGA A NOVEL OF JEWISH LIFE IN HOLLAND DURING THE NAZI OCCUPATION.
BR 1897 BIBLE CHILDREN DOANE, PELAGIE STORIES OF THE CHILDREN WHO WERE RELATED TO PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE; CAIN AND ABEL, ABRAHAM ETC. FOR VERY YOUNG READERS.
BR 1899 LIFE AND WORK OF SIGMUND FREUD, THE. BK. 1. JONES, ERNEST. EDITED AND ABRIDGED THE FIRST PART OF A THREE-VOLUME BIOGRAPHY OF THE FATHER OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, COVERING HIS FORMATIVE YEARS. ABRIDGED FROM THE ORIGINAL WORK, THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN BY A FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE OF FREUD.
BR 1902 FAITH OF A JEW, THE SELECTIONS FROM RABBI MOSHE BEN MA SPERO, SHUBERT, ARRANGED BY A STUDY OF THE BELIEFS AND TEACHINGS OF MAIMONIDES.
BR 1903 STORY OF REFORM JUDAISM SCHWARTZMAN, SYLVAN D., RABBI WERNER WEINS A HISTORY OF REFORM JUDAISM FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 1904 STORY OF REFORM JUDAISM, WKBK SCHWARTZMAN, RABBI SYLVAN D. EXERCISES TO BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ACCOMPANYING TEXTBOOK.
BR 1907 EVER SINCE SINAI A MODERN VIEW OF TORAH PETUCHOWSKI, JACOB JOSEF A DISCUSSION ON THE TORAH BY A REFORM RABBI, SCHOLAR, AND THEOLOGIAN, IN WHICH THE AUTHOR PROFESSES A BELIEF IN REVELATION AND HALACHA, THE JEWISH LAW, WHILE INTERPRETING THEM AS PART OF THE EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT OF JUDAISM.
BR 1910 ENJOY, ENJOY! GOLDEN, HARRY HANNAH GOLDS HUMOROUS ANECDOTES ON CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LIFE. WRITTEN BY THE EDITOR OF 'THE CAROLINA ISRAELITE.'
BR 1911 FAILURE OF THE AMERICAN RABBI, THE GELBER, S. MICHAEL A CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN RABBIS ANALYZING THEIR ABILITIES TO SERVE THE SPIRITUAL NEEDS OF THEIR CONGREGANTS.
BR 1912 VICTRY THRU DARKNESS & DESPAIR LIPSCHUTZ, NORMAN A NOVEL DESCRIBING THE EFFORTS OF SURVIVORS OF THE NAZI HOLOCAUST TO REBUILD THE LAND OF ISRAEL AND BRING GOOD FROM AMIDST THE EVIL OF OUR TIME.
BR 1916 TIME FOR LIVING, A SCHLEIER, GERTRUDE A NOVEL OF JEWISH LIFE IN NEW YORK.
BR 1919 RECORD AND TRIAL OF ADOLF EICHMANN, THE RUSSELL, W. AN ACCOUNT BASED UPON THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE TRIAL OF ADOLF EICHMANN.
BR 1920 LAMENTATION A TESTAMENT PIMSLEUR, SOLOMON A COLLECTION OF SONNETS WHICH DESCRIBE THE AUTHOR'S PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND FRUSTRATIONS AS A CREATIVE ARTIST.
BR 1925 JEW IN AMERICAN SPORTS, THE RIBALOW, HARRY U. PERSONALITY SKETCHES OF FAMOUS AMERICAN JEWISH ATHLETES AND RECORDS OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE ATHLETIC WORLD.
BR 1927 GOVERNMENT & POLITICS, ISRAEL KRAINES, OSCAR AN OBJECTIVE, ANALYTICAL PICTURE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL BASES OF MODERN ISRAELI GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS.
BR 1931 YOUNG LUCIFER TORDAY, URSULA A NOVEL OF FRENCH LIFE AFTER WORLD WAR II, DEALING ESPECIALLY WITH THE EFFECTS OF THE HOLOCAUST UPON THE YOUNG SURVIVORS.
BR 1933 JEW AND HIS RELIGION, THE FEUER, LEON, RABBI & RABBI B.GLAZER A CONFIRMATION MANUAL FOR CONFIRMANTS WHO ARE 15 OR 16 YEARS OF AGE FOR WHOM THE STANDARD CONFIRMATION MANUALS ARE NOT ADEQUATE.
BR 1935 BAR MITZVAH COMPANION GREENBERG, S. AND ROTHBERG, A. A BAR MITZVAH TREASURE WHICH LASTS A LIFETIME.
BR 1936 BIBLE TALES FOR VERY YOUNG CHILDREN - BOOK II COHEN, LENORE AN ELEMENTARY READER FOR THE THIRD GRADE.
BR 1939 BORDER HAWK AUGUST BONDI ALEXANDER, LLOYD AN HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT THE JEWISH PIONEER FROM KANSAS, AUGUST BONDI, WHO RODE WITH JOHN BROWN, AND RISKED HIS LIFE FOR FREEDOM.
BR 1942 LOOK BACK MRS. LOT KISHON, EPHRAIM RALPH GILBER A HUMOROUS AND SATIRICAL PORTRAIT OF LIFE IN ISRAEL BY THE WELL-KNOWN ISRAELI WRITER.
BR 1944 RAMBAN HIS LIFE AND TEACHINGS CHAVEL, RABBI CHARLES B. THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF RABBI MOSHE BEN NACHMAN WHO BRIDGED THE GAP BETWEEN JEWISH SCHOLARSHIP AND THE PERSECUTION WHICH FOLLOWED.
BR 1949 LEGENDS OF JOSHUA SKULSKY, S. LEGENDS OF THIS FAMOUS WARRIOR AND LEADER WHO TOOK JERICHO AND LED HIS PEOPLE TOWARD THE PROMISED LAND.
BR 1951 PASSIONATE SHEPHERD, THE YELLEN, SAMUEL A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LIFE.
BR 1952 SIGMUND FREUD FOUR CENTENARY ADDRESSES JONES, ERNEST, M.D. FOUR ADDRESSES DELIVERED IN 1956 TO COMMEMORATE THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF FREUD'S BIRTH.
BR 1954 CYRUS THE GREAT LAMB, HAROLD BIOGRAPHY OF THIS GREAT KING OF ANTIQUITY
BR 1955 ECLIPSE OF GOD BUBER, MARTIN A DISCUSSION, BASED ON LECTURES GIVEN BY THE AUTHOR AT SEVERAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES, OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY.
BR 1956 AMERICAN JEW IN SEARCH OF HIMSELF A PREFACE TO JEWISH COMMITMENT HERTZ, RICHARD C. AN EXAMINATION OF THE THOUGHTS AND IDEAS OF THE MODERN JEW IN AMERICA AND HOW THEY ARE REFLECTED IN HIS RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT.
BR 1957 JEWISH NOTABLES IN AMERICA SIMONHOFF, HARRY SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF JEWISH LEADERS IN THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY OF THE 18TH CENTURIES.
BR 1959 PORTRAIT OF MAX BEHRMAN, S.N. MEMORIES OF THE FRIENDSHIP WHICH MR. BEHRMAN SHARED WITH HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM.
BR 1960 ZIONISM UNDER SOVIET RUSSIA GOLDMAN, G.G. A DISCUSSION OF THE EFFECTS WHICH THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN RUSSIA HAD ON THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT DURING THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF THE COMMUNIST REGIME.
BR 1961 IN THE GRIP OF CROSS CURRENTS LISITZKY, EPHRAIM I. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A POET WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS UPON HIS SPIRITUAL CONFLICTS.
BR 1965 BOOK OF JOB A COMMENTARY FREEHOF, SOLOMON B. A COMMENTARY ON THE BIBLICAL BOOK OF JOB, BASED ON THE MIDRASH AND OTHER TRADITIONAL SOURCES. WRITTEN BY THE REFORM RABBI AND SCHOLAR.
BR 1966 MAGIC BARREL, THE MALAMUD, BERNARD AURELIA MINT A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES ABOUT JEWISH LIFE IN AMERICA.
BR 1968 SILVER WING AND GOLDEN HARP FEDERATION OF WOMEN ZIONISTS FAIRY TALES OF JEWISH LIFE.
BR 1970 ADVENTURE ON MANHATTAN ISLAND BURSTEIN, ABRAHAM A NOVEL OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE DUTCH COLONY OF NEW AMSTERDAM.
BR 1971 JOSEPH THE STORY OF TWELVE BROTHERS KLABER, FLORENCE W. THE BIBLICAL STORY OF JOSEPH, RENDERED IN SIMPLE MODERN PROSE FOR YOUNG READERS.
BR 1972 YELLOW STAR, THE UNSDORFER, S.B. MEMOIRS OF A BOY WHO GREW UP IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS OF AUSCHWITZ AND BUCHENWALD.
BR 1973 I FLEW THEM HOME MARTIN, EDWARD TRUEBLOOD THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF A PILOT WHO FLEW YEMENITE JEWS TO THE PROMISED LAND.
BR 1974 ONLY IN AMERICA GOLDEN, HARRY IN A HUMOROUS, YET SERIOUS VEIN, AUTHOR GOLDEN COMMENTS ON HIS YEARS GROWING UP ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE, THE PLIGHT OF THE BLACKS IN THE SOUTH, AND THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. GOLDEN WAS WRITER AND EDITOR OF THE NORTH CAROLINA-BASED NEWSPAPER, 'THE CAROLINA ISRAELITE.'
BR 1975 LOST EUROPEANS, THE LITVINOFF, EMANUEL THIS NOVEL EXPLORES THE EFFECT OF THE NAZI REGIME UPON EUROPEAN JEWS.
BR 1976 FROM SHYLOCK TO SVENGALI ROSENBERG, EDGAR INSIGHTS INTO THE USE OF JEWISH STEREOTYPED CHARACTERIZATIONS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, BEGINNING WITH THE PORTRAIT OF SHYLOCK PROVIDED BY SHAKESPEARE.
BR 1977 ANATOMY OF ME A WANDERER IN SEARCH OF HERSELF HURST, FANNIE IN THIS BOOK, THE AUTHOR ASSESSES HER LIFE BY EXAMINING HER SPIRITUAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNEYS.
BR 1979 GREAT JEWS SINCE BIBLE TIMES LEVINGER, ELMA E. FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, THE BOOK INCLUDES PERSONALITIES IN POLITICS, THEATRE, RELIGION, SCIENCE, THE ARTS: COLUMBUS, ISAAC WISE, JUDAH TRURO ETC.
BR 1980 JEWISH CHILD'S BIBLE STORIES ALTMAN, ADDIE RICHMAN BIBLE STORIES WRITTEN IN SIMPLE LANGUAGE IN WHICH THE ETHICAL VALUE OF THE STORIES IS EMPHASIZED.
BR 1981 MAN OF MONTMARTE LONGSTREET, STEPHEN AND ETHEL A NOVEL OF NINETEENTH CENTURY FRENCH LIFE WHICH DEALS WITH THE WORLD OF ARTISTS AS SEEN BY A YOUNG GIRL TRYING TO ENTER THAT WORLD.
BR 1983 GIANTS OF JUSTICE VORSPAN, ALBERT SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN JEWS WHO MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO HUMANITY IN THE FIELD OF SOCIAL JUSTICE.
BR 1984 JEWISH PRAYER JACOBS, LOUIS A DISCUSSION OF VARIOUS ASPECTS OF PRAYER AND WHAT IT MEANS IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF THE INDIVIDUAL.
BR 1985 LEAVETAKING, THE WEISS, PETER A PARTLY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAIT OF FAMILY LIFE AND THE LACK OF COMMUNICATION AND UNDERSTANDING AMONG THOSE WHO SHOULD BE MOST INTIMATE.
BR 1986 TWO TYPES OF FAITH BUBER, MARTIN THIS GREAT PHILOSOPHER DELINEATES TWO TYPES OF FAITH AND THEN PROCEEDS TO SHOW THE CONTENTS AND INFLUENCE OF THE RESULTING RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGIES.
BR 1992 STORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE - BK. 3 FROM THE GOLDEN AGE THROUGH THE EU KLAPERMAN, GILBERT AND LIBBY KLAPERM MARY PERLOW A HISTORY TEXT BOOK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WHICH SPANS THE GOLDEN AGE IN SPAIN TO THE EUROPEAN EMANCIPATION.
BR 1994 SOL MYERS STAMPFER, JUDAH A NOVEL ABOUT TWO FRIENDS FROM A FIRST-GENERATION IMMIGRANT JEWISH NEIGHBORHOOD IN NEW YORK.
BR 1995 JOSEPH SLAVE AND PRINCE LONG, LAURA THE BIBLICAL STORY OF JOSEPH WHO, REJECTED BY HIS BROTHERS AND SOLD INTO SLAVERY, RISES TO POWER IN PHARAOH'S COURT AND, WITH THE FATE OF THOSE WHO WRONGED HIM IN HIS HANDS, RETURNS GOOD FOR EVIL.
BR 1997 STEP BY STEP IN THE JEWISH RELIGION EPSTEIN, ISIDORE, RABBI A SIMPLE PRESENTATION OF THE ESSENTIALS OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS TEACHING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 1999 JEWSH PROBLMS IN SOVIET UNION GOLDBERG, B. Z. THE CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS DILEMMA OF RUSSIAN JEWRY TODAY.
BR 2000 CROSSING POINT, THE CHARLES, GERDA RELATES THE DAY TO DAY EXPERIENCES AND SOME OF THE PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY A GROUP OF MEMBERS OF A MODERN ENGLISH JEWISH COMMUNITY.
BR 2006 SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS... EPSTEIN, BENJAMIN R. & ARNOLD FORSTE A SURVEY OF DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND SOCIAL CLUBS. THE AUTHORS BOTH SERVED IN EXECUTIVE POSITIONS OF THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF B'NAI BRITH.
BR 2008 EPSTEIN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY EPSTEIN, JACOB THIS GREAT TWENTIETH CENTURY ARTIST DESCRIBES HIS PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND DEVELOPMENT AND DISCUSSES WHAT IS INVOLVED IN PRODUCING A WORK OF ART.
BR 2010 DOWN HOLIDAY LANE GOLUB, ROSE W. STORIES ABOUT THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS, CUSTOMS, AND CEREMONIES. FOR CHILDREN IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
BR 2012 HOUSE OF HOPE BANKS, LYNNE REID THIS NOVEL DEPICTS THE LIFE OF A CONTEMPORARY JEWISH GIRL.
BR 2014 HIS BROTHER, THE BEAR ANSELL, JACK A BOOK ABOUT THE WEAKNESSES AND FRUSTRATIONS THAT FACE JULIUS BLACK, AND HIS CHRISTIAN WIFE WHO HAS TAKEN TO DRINK TO CONCEAL HER LOATHING OF EVERYTHING JEWISH.
BR 2017 GOD'S ANGRY MEN COHON, B.D. A STUDENT'S INTRODUCTION TO THE HEBREW PROPHETS BY THE RABBI OF TEMPLE SINAI, BROOKLINE, MASS.
BR 2023 FAITH AND REASON INTRODUCTION TO MODERN JEWISH FAIT BERGMAN, SAMUEL HUGO HELEN M. ROS THE AUTHOR EXPLORES THE WAYS TO RESOLVE THE TENSION BETWEEN FAITH AND REASON AND ENDEAVORS TO FIND A NEW JEWISH APPROACH TO GOD.
BR 2028 HEAR THE WORD ZADOR, HEINRICH A NOVEL OF LIFE IN JUDEA DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN JEZEBEL.
BR 2029 LEONARD BERNSTEIN EWEN, DAVID A BIOGRAPHY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE THAT GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF BERNSTEIN'S CHILDHOOD AS A FRAIL, ASTHMATIC, ANTI-SOCIAL LONER TO HIS SUCCESS AS A BRILLIANT COMPOSER, PERFORMER AND CONDUCTOR.
BR 2031 JEWISH ADVENTURES IN AMER. LEVINGER, E.E. A SURVEY OF THE LIVES AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF AMERICAN JEWS SINCE COLONIAL TIMES. FOR THE YOUNG READERS.
BR 2032 HANUKKAH LATKES AND ROTHCHILD'S MILLIONS SCHWARTZ, DAVID A COLLECTION OF SHORT, WITTY ARTICLES DEALING WITH MANY JEWISH TOPICS. ORIGINALLY WRITTEN AS A WEEKLY COLUMN IN THE JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY.
BR 2036 WHEN YOUR CHILD ASKS A HANDBOOK FOR JEWISH PARENTS GLUSTROM, SIMON A BASIC STUDY OF JEWISH IDEAS TO HELP JEWISH PARENTS ANSWER THEIR CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS. AMONG THE SUBJECTS COVERED ARE THE JEWISH VIEW OF GOD, THE BIBLE, CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES, HOLIDAYS, JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND THE JEWISH VIEW OF DEATH.
BR 2037 LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE KAMM, JOSEPHINE STORIES OF THE MEN WHO WERE LEADERS OF THE JEWS FROM THE TIME OF MOSES TO THE PRESENT.
BR 2040 IT HAS COME TO PASS FARRELL, JAMES T. THE AUTHOR OF THE FAMOUS STUDS LONIIGAN TRILOGY TRAVELED THROUGH ISRAEL AND WROTE THIS ACCOUNT OF HIS IMPRESSIONS AND THE CONCLUSIONS TO WHICH THEY LED HIM.
BR 2045 BEAT OF LIFE, THE SOLOMON, BARBARA P. A NOVEL DEALING WITH CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FAMILY LIFE.
BR 2047 HITTITE, THE GERSON, NOEL B. AN HISTORICAL NOVEL CONCERNING A COMMANDER IN THE ARMY OF THE HITTITES IN THE TIME OF JOSHUA.
BR 2049 ERNESTINE L. ROSE SUHL, YURI ARLENE RICHA A BIOGRAPHY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE POLISH-BORN DAUGHTER OF A RABBI WHO BECOMES AN AMERICAN SUFFRAGETTE AND BATTLES AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE, SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH, AND FEMININE INEQUALITY IN THE NORTH.
BR 2050 GIMPEL THE FOOL SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS BIRDIE SAFIO A COLLECTION OF STORIES BY THE NOBEL PRIZEWINNING NOVELIST. SET IN EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY POLAND, SINGER'S CHARACTERS DEAL WITH DEMONS AND DYBBUKS AND REFLECT THE HUMOR AND PATHOS OF GHETTO LIFE.
BR 2051 HANUKKAH IN SONG AND STORY WENGROV, CHARLES, RABBI THE COMPLETE STORY OF HANUKKAH, FROM ALEXANDER THE GREAT TO THE MACCABEAN VICTORY, AS WELL AS HANUKKAH SONGS FOR CHILDREN.
BR 2052 SOUND OF BOW BELLS THE STORY OF SIR DAVID SALOMONS ABRAHAMS, ROBERT D. A BIOGRAPHY FOR YOUNG READERS OF SIR DAVID SALOMONS, AN ENGLISH JEW WHO FOUGHT FOR THE RIGHTS OF HIS FELLOW JEWS IN ENGLAND AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
BR 2056 COMPLETE POETIC WORKS OF HAYYIM NAHMAN BIALIK EFFROS, ISRAEL, ED. A TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL HEBREW OF THE POEMS OF BIALIK, AS WELL AS HIS SHORTER LYRICS, FOLKSONGS, AND NATURE POEMS.
BR 2057 KIDDUSH HA-SHEM AN EPIC OF 1648 ASCH, SHOLEM A NOVEL ABOUT ORTHODOX JEWISH LIFE AND THE PERSECUTION OF JEWS IN RUSSIA DURING THE 1648 COSSACK ATTACK LED BY CHMIELNITZKI.
BR 2063 MILA 18 URIS, LEON NOVEL ABOUT THE POLISH JEWS WHO FOUGHT DESPERATELY TO DIVEST THEMSELVES OF THE NAZIS.
BR 2064 TEN RUNGS HASIDIC SAYINGS BUBER, MARTIN: EDITOR A COLLECTION OF TALES, LEGENDS, APHORISMS, SAYINGS, ETC., THROUGH A GOODLY MEASURE OF HASIDISM IS CONVEYED BY ONE OF THE WORLD'S LEADING JEWISH PHILOSOPHERS.
BR 2069 SPINOZA OF MARKET STREET, THE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS AMY STIVELMA PORTRAITS OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE SHTETLS AND CITIES OF EASTERN EUROPE IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES, AS TOLD BY A MASTER STORYTELLER.
BR 2071 GUIDE TO THE PROPHETS, A HOENING, SIDNEY B. & SAMUEL H.ROSENB AN ATTEMPT TO LINK PROPHETIC TEACHINGS TO MODERN LIFE.
BR 2073 HISTORY OF THE MARRANOS, A ROTH, CECIL GERT ZUCKERM AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGINS AND THE FATE OF SPANISH JEWS WHO PUBLICLY PROFESSED CHRISTIANITY IN ORDER TO ESCAPE PERSECUTION, BUT CONTINUED TO PRACTICE JUDAISM IN SECRET.
BR 2074 HUMANE SOCIETY, A ROSENBERG, STUART E., EDITOR AN ATTEMPT TO APPLY TRADITIONAL ETHICS TO THE SOLUTION OF MODERN PROBLEMS.
BR 2076 FIRST RAINBOW, THE A BOOK OF RHYMES FROM BIBLE TIMES ORLEANS, ILO A POETRY BOOK FOR YOUNG CHILDREN ON BIBLE THEMES. THE POEMS EMPHASIZE RELIGIOUS AND ETHICAL IDEALS.
BR 2078 WEDDING BAND, THE YELLEN, SAMUEL FAMILY LIFE, ESPECIALLY THE PORTRAIT OF MAMA, IS WARMLY PRESENTED IN THIS SHORT NOVEL.
BR 2079 ELEGY IN MANHATTAN JESSEL, GEORGE GEORGE GESSEL REMEMBERS BROADWAY GREATS WHO, THOUGH DEAD, STILL LIVE FOR HIM.
BR 2080 DEBORAH THE WOMAN WHO SAVED ISRAEL JONES, JUANITA & JAMES MCKENDRY A BIOGRAPHY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE OF DEBORAH, THE JUDGE WHO SAVED ISRAEL.
BR 2081 PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS ELIAS, JOSEPH, RABBI: EDITOR THIS BOOK EXPLORES CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY, ITS DEFINITIONS OF HAPPINESS AND THE WAY IN WHICH HAPPINESS MAY BE ACHIEVED.
BR 2086 AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE IN ISRAEL HIRSCH, SHULA A WITTY, INFORMATIVE ACCOUNT OF ISRAEL AS SEEN BY AN AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE AND HER FAMILY DURING A TWO MONTH VISIT.
BR 2088 JEWISH PRAYER BOOK, THE ITS IDEALS AND VALUES GREENBERG, SIMON A GUIDE TO AN UNDERSTANDING AND EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF THE PRAYER BOOK AS A MEANS OF FINDING SPIRITUAL SECURITY.
BR 2089 GOODLY HERITAGE, THE YAARI, AVRAHAM A DISCUSSION OF THE HISTORY OF PALESTINE AND ITS CHANGE FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN SOCIETY.
BR 2093 JEW IN AMERICAN LIFE, THE DRESNER, SAMUEL H. A STUDY OF THE ROLE PLAYED BY JEWS IN AMERICAN LIFE.
BR 2096 VOICE OF LIBERTY, THE STORY OF EMMA LAZARUS MERRIAM, EVE FAY COHEN A BIOGRAPHY OF EMMA LAZARUS, A JEWISH-AMERICAN POET AND A CRUSADER AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM. WRITTEN FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 2097 THREE LITTLE BREADS PERETZ, ISAAC LEIB FROM THE YIDDISH STORY DREI KIKHELEKH. A LEGEND OF LIFE IN THE TIME OF KING SOLOMON, MASTERFULLY TOLD BY AN EXPERT YIDDISH STORYTELLER.
BR 2098 MOSES AND THE ORIGINAL TORAH SILVER, ABBA HILLEL VIOLET HECHT A STUDY OF THE TORAH AND ITS ORIGINS WRITTEN BY THE RABBI AND ZIONIST LEADER.
BR 2099 PITZEL HOLIDAY BOOK, THE JAFFE, LEONARD DELIGHTFUL STORIES FOR VERY YOUNG READERS OF JEWISH HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS.
BR 2100 THESE ARE MY PEOPLE GERSH, HARRY A HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE PRESENTED THROUGH THE LIVES OF FORTY-SEVEN SAGES, MARTYRS, AND MEN OF ACTION.
BR 2106 JUDAISM A PORTRAIT ROTH, LEON A SCHOLARLY APPROACH TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF JUDAISM. THE BOOK DISCUSSES THE PRINCIPLES FOR WHICH JUDAISM STANDS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO CONTEMPORARY LIFE.
BR 2107 JOEL KUBIE, NORA BENJAMIN CLAIRE K. LE A YOUNG JEWISH REFUGEE COMES TO AMERICA IN 1775 AND TAKES PART IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AS ONE OF WASHINGTON'S SOLDIERS.
BR 2108 CHANUKAH IN SONG AND STORY WENGROV, CHARLES, RABBI THE COMPLETE STORY OF CHANUKAH, FROM ALEXANDER THE GREAT TO THE MACCABEAN VICTORY, AS WELL AS CHANUKAH SONGS FOR CHILDREN.
BR 2112 GOD'S FIRST CHILDREN BIBLE STORIES FROM THE OLD TESTAME SALMIE, ESTHER STORIES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT RETOLD IN A SIMPLE FASHION FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.
BR 2117 LATIN AMERICA & PALESTINE PROB GLICK, EDWARD G. THE AUTHOR BRINGS TO THE FORE THE ISRAELI ISSUES BEFORE THE U.N. BETWEEN 1947-1952, IN THE YEARS WHEN LATIN AMERICA COMPRISED ONE-THIRD OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
BR 2120 MAX GORDON PRESENTS GORDON, MAX NORMAN KINGS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PRODUCER OF BROADWAY SHOWS.
BR 2125 COWBOY ON A WOODEN HORSE SUHL, YURI A NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG JEWISH IMMIGRANT BOY FROM GALICIA. IT DESCRIBES HIS DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS FOR SUCCESS.
BR 2132 EXCLUSIVENESS AND TOLERANCE KATZ, JACOB A HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE ATTITUDES WHICH INFLUENCED JUDEO-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS BETWEEN MEDIEVAL TIMES AND THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
BR 2133 JEWISH CHILD IN HOME AND SYNAGOGUE, THE LEVINGER, ELMA EHRLICH INTRODUCES IN A MANNER EASILY INTELLIGIBLE FOR THE CHILD THOSE THINGS WHICH MAKE UP THE LIFE OF THE JEW. AGES 10-14.
BR 2134 THREE DAYS SHAREF, ZEEV AN ACCOUNT OF THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 2135 MISTER MARGOLIES YAFFE, JAMES THE STORY OF MISTER MARGOLIES AND HIS DEFENSES AGAINST THE PRESSURES OF THE BUSINESS AND SOCIAL WORLD.
BR 2137 CHANUKAH FUN AND STORY BOOK SCHARFSTEIN, BERNARD CHANUKAH STORIES AND GAMES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.
BR 2140 LAND OF THE LIVING HEARNE, JOHN THE STORY TAKES PLACE IN CAYUNA, AN IMAGINARY WEST INDIAN ISLAND. A YOUNG JEWISH REFUGEE SCIENTIST IS BROUGHT BACK INTO SOCIETY BY TWO WOMEN AND AN OLD MAN.
BR 2142 THIEVES' ROAD SUSSAN, RENE A NOVEL ABOUT FRENCH IMMIGRANTS TO ISRAEL AND THEIR LIVES IN KIBBUTZIM. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY RICHARD HOWARD.
BR 2143 PROPHECY AND RELIGION ROWLEY, H.H. THIS IS A STUDY AND COMPARISON OF PROPHECY AND RELIGION OF ANCIENT CHINA AND ISRAEL.
BR 2144 JEW IN OLD AMERICAN FOLKLORE, THE GLANZ, RUDOLPH, DOCTOR THIS BOOK IS BASED UPON THE THEME OF THE WANDERING JEW THROUGH CENTURIES, CREATING FOLKLORE IN THE OLD AND NEW COUNTRY.
BR 2145 FAITH FOR MODERNS, A GORDIS, ROBERT A PROPOSED RECONCILIATION BETWEEN TRADITIONAL JUDAISM AND MODERN LIFE.
BR 2147 STORY OF THE JEW FOR YOUNG PEOPLE LEVINGER, ELMA & LEE LEVINGER GLORIA LEMPK A CHILDREN'S HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM EARLY BIBLICAL TIMES TO THE MODERN ERA.
BR 2148 DAVID BEN-GURION LITVINOFF, BERNARD A SHORT CONCISE BIOGRAPHY OF BEN-GURION.
BR 2150 ELIJAH THE MAN WHO WENT TO HEAVEN MUTH, DON, JR. THE STORY OF THE PROPHET ELIJAH TOLD IN SIMPLE FORM FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.
BR 2151 TALES OF THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS AS TOLD BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON BRONSTEIN, CHARLOTTE TALES OF THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS FOR VERY YOUNG READERS.
BR 2153 MAINSIDE MANDEL, PAUL A NOVEL OF LIFE IN THE NAVY, ESPECIALLY AS IT IS VIEWED BY LT. SAMUEL MARKS, A JEW.
BR 2156 MOLLY AND ME THE MEMOIRS OF GERTRUDE BERG BERG, GERTRUDE & CHERNEY BERG RECOLLECTIONS OF GERTRUDE BERG'S BACKGROUND AND PERSONAL LIFE, PRESENTED IN A VIVID BUT SIMPLISTIC WAY.
BR 2157 NEW JEWISH HISTORY - ACTIVITY BK. 1 GAMORAN, MAMIE G. THE PUPIL'S ACTIVITY BOOK WHICH ACCOMPANIES BOOK I, THE PERIOD FROM ABRAHAM TO THE MACCABEES.
BR 2159 STORIES MADE FROM BIBLE STORIES CRONBACH, ABRAHAM A COLLECTION OF TALKS GIVEN TO JEWISH TEENAGERS. THE STORIES ARE FREELY ALTERED FOR SPIRITUAL INTEREST.
BR 2162 ROOT AND THE BRANCH, THE JUDAISM AND THE FREE SOCIETY GORDIS, ROBERT A STUDY OF THE RELEVANCE OF JUDAISM TO MODERN LIFE.
BR 2164 EXODUS URIS, LEON JANE WEISS A HISTORICAL NOVEL WHICH RECREATES THE STORY OF THE JEWS WHO SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST AND HELPED TO BUILD THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 2168 SHORT HISTORY OF THE JEWS, A PART 3 - THE MODERN AGE GOLUB, JACOB S. & ALAN GREEN A HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE CONCISELY AND COGENTLY PRESENTED FOR THE ADOLESCENT AND ADULT READER.
BR 2169 SHORT HISTORY OF THE JEWS, II GOLUB, J. & GREEN, A. THIS IS THE SECOND IN A THREE VOLUME SET, COVERING THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS DURING THE MIDDLE AGES.
BR 2170 MYSTERY IN THE APPLE ORCHARD ORTON, HELEN FULLER A LITTLE GIRL'S SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN THE FAMILY ORCHARD BRINGS UNEXPECTED ADVENTURE.
BR 2171 YOUR NEIGHBOR CELEBRATES GILBERT, ARTHUR, RABBI & OSCAR TARCO A BOOKLET ABOUT THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS FOR CHILDREN AGES 10-14 WHO ARE NOT OF THE JEWISH FAITH AND WOULD LIKE TO LEARN ABOUT IT.
BR 2172 BUND, GALUTH, NATIONALISM, YIDDISHISM SHERMAN, C. BEZALEL A STUDY OF SEVERAL SIGNIFICANT JEWISH MOVEMENTS WHICH AROSE DURING THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY IN THE DIASPORA.
BR 2173 RELIGIOUS FACTOR, THE LENSKI, GERHARD A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF RELIGION UPON POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND FAMILY LIFE.
BR 2174 REPORT ON ISRAEL SAMUELS, GERTRUDE A DISCUSSION OF VARIOUS ASPECTS OF MODERN ISRAELI LIFE BY A STAFF WRITER AND PHOTOGRAPHER FOR 'THE NEW YORK TIMES' MAGAZINE.
BR 2176 ACROPHILE KANIUK, YORAM NANCY SCHIER THE INTERNAL AND SPIRITUAL STRUGGLES OF PANN, AN ISRAELI ARCHEOLOGIST, WHO KILLS AN ARAB CHILD DURING THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT.
BR 2179 JEPHTA AND HIS DAUGHTER FEUCHATWANGER, LION JEPHTA, THE FIFTH JUDGE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VICTORY OF THE ISRAELI TIES OVER THE JORDANIANS, 1000 B.C. AND ACCORDING TO CUSTOM MUST MAKE A SACRIFICE.
BR 2180 MAN'S BEST HOPE GITTELSOHN, ROLAND B. AN EXPLORATION OF PERSONAL AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY.
BR 2182 J.B. A PLAY IN VERSE MACLEISH, ARCHIBALD THIS IS A POETIC DRAMATIZATION OF THE BOOK OF JOB IN 20TH CENTURY TERMS. IT'S 'COSMIC-COLLOQUIALISM' SMACKS OF WAITING FOR GODOT.
BR 2184 TALES OF THE HASIDISM THE LATER MASTERS BUBER, MARTIN OVER A THOUSAND TALES AND LEGENDS ABOUT THE HASIDIC SAGES--THEIR VIEWS AND WAY OF LIFE.
BR 2186 TALES OF RABBI NACHMAN BUBER, MARTIN MRS. STANLEY A STUDY OF THE LIFE AND LEGENDS OF RABBI NACHMAN OF BRATSLAV WHO LIVED FROM 1772-1811.
BR 2187 IN THE DAYS OF THE FIRST TEMPLE GOLUB, JACOB THE STORY OF ISRAEL'S FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH NATIONHOOD AFTER THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT AND THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN. .
BR 2188 JUDAISM FOR TODAY CRONBACH, ABRAHAM A SIMPLE YET PROFOUND EXPOSITION OF CONTEMPORARY JEWISH RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
BR 2189 WHAT WE MEAN BY RELIGION EISENSTEIN, IRA A MODERN INTERPRETATION OF THE SABBATH AND FESTIVALS BASED ON MORDECAI KAPLAN'S 'THE MEANING OF GOD IN MODERN JEWISH RELIGION'.
BR 2190 FAR COUNTRY, A DENKER, HENRY A PLAY BASED ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF SIGMUND FREUD.
BR 2191 STORY OF MODERN ISRAEL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ZELIGS, DOROTHY F. THIS BOOK INCLUDES A TOUR THROUGH ISRAEL, A BRIEF HISTORY OF ZIONISM AND THE THRILLING STORY OF THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 2192 PIONEER FROM PEORIA MARCUS, ALAN A PLAY ABOUT KIBBUTZ LIFE AS IT IS VIEWED BY AMERICANS WHO FAIL TO UNDERSTAND IT.
BR 2195 JEWISH LIFE MIDDLE AGES ABRAHAMS, ISRAEL A STUDY OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES; THE RELATIONSHIP OF JEWISH CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENTS AND CHRISTIAN HISTORY.
BR 2196 LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS WEINSTOCK, M.D. TALES OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWS BY THE NAZIS IN WHICH PHYSICAL TORTURE IS SUBORDINATED TO THE SPIRITUAL EXALTATION OF MARTYRDOM.
BR 2197 CANDLE LIGHT STORIES FREEHOF, LILLIAN S. A COLLECTION OF EIGHT CHANUKAH STORIES, ONE FOR EACH NIGHT OF THE FESTIVAL, WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR PARTIES.
BR 2198 MARKED ONE, THE AND TWELVE OTHER STORIES PICARD, JACOB A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES WHICH RECREATE THE PAST TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF JEWISH VILLAGE LIFE IN GERMANY.
BR 2199 HOLY CITY, THE WILLIAMS, ALBERT N. A HISTORY OF THE ISRAEL AND IN PARTICULAR THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM.
BR 2200 TIME OF FORTUNE, A APPEL, BENJAMIN A NOVEL OF THE FORCES WHICH DROVE PEOPLE TO AMERICA AND WHAT THEY FOUND WHEN THEY ARRIVED.
BR 2201 TALE OF TEN CITIES, A THE TRIPLE GHETTO IN AMERICAN RELI LIPMAN, EUGENE J. & ALBERT VORSPAN A DISCUSSION OF URBAN AND SUBURBAN LIFE WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS UPON INTERFAITH RELATIONS.
BR 2203 JEWISH HEROES. BK. I WEILERSTEIN, SADIE ROSE RITA KING A BOOK ABOUT JEWISH HEROES FROM THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM TO THE TIME OF KING SOLOMON. WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN.
BR 2205 COAT UPON A STICK FRUCHTER, NORMAN HELEN DIAMON A NOVEL ABOUT ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ELDERLY MAN AND HIS FRIENDS ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE.
BR 2208 ON STAGE EVERYONE SEGAL, SAMUEL M. A COMPILATION OF PLAYS WITH JEWISH THEMES PARTICULARLY APPROPRIATE FOR SCHOOL PRESENTATION.
BR 2209 JEWISH MIDDLE AGES, THE GOLUB, JACOB S. A HISTORY FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT OF THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE DURING THE MIDDLE AGES.
BR 2211 LAST OF THE JUST, THE SCHWARTZ-BART, ANDRE RITA CHASE A DRAMA OF JEWISH SUFFERING AND MARTYRDOM BEGINNING IN 12TH CENTURY ENGLAND AND ENDING WITH THE DEATH OF ONE OF THE THIRTY-SIX JUST MEN IN A WORLD WAR II GAS CHAMBER.
BR 2213 SECRET ROADS, THE KIMCHE, JOHN AND DAVID A STORY OF THE FOUNDING OF MODERN ISRAEL: THE MIGRATION TO BRITISH PALESTINE BY JEWISH REFUGEES FROM NAZI-OCCUPIED EUROPE, 1938-1948 INCLUDING ACCOUNTS OF HEROISM IN EVADING BRITISH CAPTURE DURING THE LANDING OF THE OVERLOADED BOATS ON THE BEACHES.
BR 2215 THIS BELIEVING WORLD, BOOK 6 BROWNE, LEWIS VOLUME 6 OF THIS SURVEY OF THE GROWTH OF RELIGION DEALS WITH JUDAISM.
BR 2217 TEHILLA AND OTHER ISRAELI TALES AGNON, S.Y. AND OTHERS NINE STORIES WRITTEN BY DIFFERENT ISRAELI AUTHORS ON JEWISH THEMES AND LIFE IN ISRAEL. INCLUDES SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THE AUTHORS.
BR 2219 MY OWN STORY BARUCH, BERNARD MEMOIRS OF THIS FINANCIER WHO ENTERED PUBLIC LIFE AND HELPED SHAPE THE DESTINY OF HIS COUNTRY.
BR 2220 BUILDING, THE MARTIN, PETER A NOVEL FILLED WITH CREDIBLE PEOPLE AND EVENTS DESCRIBING THE FORTUNES OF A JEWISH IMMIGRANT FAMILY FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY TO THE 1930'S.
BR 2228 JEWS--A CHRISTIAN VIEW, THE FOERSTER, F.W. ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENON OF THE JEWS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF WORLD HISTORY FROM A CHRISTIAN STANDPOINT.
BR 2230 FOUR PROPHETS PHILLIPS, J.P. THIS BOOK PROVIDES A MODERN TRANSLATION FROM THE HEBREW OF THE BOOKS OF AMOS, HOSEA, ISIAH, AND MICA. IT ALSO INCLUDES A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THEIR HISTORY.
BR 2231 TAIBELE AND HURMIZAH AND OTHER STORIES SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR WHICH CAPTURES THE FLAVOR OF EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWISH LIFE.
BR 2234 STORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE - BOOK 2 KLAPERMAN, GILBERT & LIBBY KLAPERMAN NANCY SCHIER THIS VOLUME COMMENCES WITH THE BUILDING OF THE SECOND TEMPLE AND CONTINUES THROUGH THE AGE OF THE TANAIM.
BR 2236 DISPLACED DOCTOR BERCZELLER, RICHARD ADVENTUROUS MEMOIRS OF AN AUSTRIAN PHYSICIAN WHO AFTER RELEASE FROM NAZI IMPRISONMENT, FLED TO PARIS AND RETURNED TO HIS PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AND WORK.
BR 2237 FIREBORN, THE SAFRAN, ANNE A NOVEL PRESENTING THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A YOUNG FRENCH ACTRESS.
BR 2241 JEWISH SYMBOLS CONE, MOLLY AN EXPLANATION FOR YOUNG CHILDREN OF THE SYMBOLIC OBJECTS USED IN JEWISH CEREMONIES.
BR 2243 ALAS BABYLON FRANK, PAT A VIVID STORY OF THE FOLLIES AND COURAGE OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING A SUPPOSED RUSSIAN NUCLEAR MISSILE ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES, OFF THE COAST OF FLORIDA.
BR 2244 WHAT THE GREAT RELIGIONS BELIEVE GAER, JOSEPH A SURVEY OF THE BELIEFS PRESENTLY HELD BY ADHERENTS OF LIVING RELIGIONS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THOSE ESPOUSED BY THE FOUNDERS OF EACH MOVEMENT.
BR 2245 EVOLUTION AS REVELATION KOHN, JACOB A THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL RE-EXAMINATION OF DARWIN'S CONCEPTS WHICH HAVE SUCH A SIGNIFICANT PLACE IN CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT.
BR 2248 TWO AGAINST ONE KAUFMAN, SYLVIA THE STORY OF A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL WHO LEAVES AN ORPHANAGE TO LIVE IN THE HOME OF AN AUNT WHO DOES NOT WANT HER.
BR 2249 MEMOIRS FROM GHETTO TO ISRAEL BRODETSKY, SELIG, PROFESSOR THIS NOTED PROFESSOR TRACES HIS LIFE FROM THE EUROPEAN GHETTOES TO THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND HIS IMPORTANT WORK FOR HEBREW UNIVERSITY.
BR 2250 ALIYAH THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL SACHAR, HOWARD MORLEY SELMA JACKSON SELECTED BIOGRAPHIES OF FIFTEEN PEOPLE WHO SETTLED IN PALESTINE BEFORE 1948, TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FERMENT IN THE YOUNG NATION.
BR 2252 AT THE GATES OF MOSCOW MANN, MENDEL A NOVEL OF RUSSIAN JEWISH LIFE WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE PLIGHT OF YOUNG JEWISH BOYS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE FIGHTING DURING WORLD WAR II.
BR 2257 FATE AND FAITH THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH SCENE PILCH, JUDAH A DISCUSSION OF THE FUTURE OF JUDAISM WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON DIASPORA JEWRY.
BR 2258 CAUTION TO THE WINDS HIRSCHMANN, IRA STORY OF THE AUTHOR'S SECRET MISSION TO TURKEY ON BEHALF OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, TO NEGOTIATE WITH EICHMANN'S AGENTS FOR THE RESCUE OF JEWISH CHILDREN.
BR 2259 STREET OF STEPS, THE HANDEL, YUDIT A NOVEL OF MODERN ISRAELI LIFE DEALING PARTICULARLY WITH A SMALL GROUP OF CONFUSED, SEEMINGLY AIMLESS, YOUNG ADULTS CROWDED TOGETHER ON A BLOCK OF TENEMENTS.
BR 2260 DISCOVERING ISRAEL TOR, REGINA THE AUTHOR RELATES PAST TO PRESENT AND OFFERS HER INTERPRETATION OF MODERN ISRAEL WITH ITS ANCIENT CULTURE. ALSO INCLUDED ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF FESTIVAL HOLY DAYS, RECREATION AND INDUSTRY.
BR 2261 GIFT OF LIFE, THE BOKSER, BEN ZION THIS VOLUME IS REPLETE WITH SHORT, MEMORABLE COMMENTS ON LIFE AND LIVING AND INSPIRATIONAL NOTES BY A LEADING AMERICAN RABBI.
BR 2267 BREAKTHROUGH A TREASURY OF AMERICAN JEWISH LITE MALIN, IRVING & STARK, IRWIN, EDS. MRS. SIDNEY A COLLECTION OF SERIOUS AMERICAN JEWISH LITERATURE WHICH MARKS THE RISE OF THE AMERICAN JEW TO INTELLECTUAL PROMINENCE IN THE FIELD OF LETTERS.
BR 2268 ANNO DOMINI STEVENS, GEORGE A COLLECTION OF THREE STORIES DEALING WITH VARIOUS ASPECTS OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE.
BR 2269 PASSOVER ANTHOLOGY GOODMAN, PHILIP AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF ARTICLES CONCERNING THE ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PASSOVER.
BR 2273 FAITH IS A STAR GAMMON, ROLAND SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY AMERICANS FROM VARIOUS WALKS OF LIFE TO WHOM RELIGION IS AN IMPORTANT SOURCE OF INSPIRATION.
BR 2277 NAVY MAVERICK URIAH PHILIP LEVY FITZPATRICK, DONOVAN CHARLOTTE MA A BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA'S FIRST HIGH-RANKING JEWISH NAVAL OFFICER.
BR 2278 JUDAISM AND MODERN MAN HERBERG, WILL DAISY ELKAN A DISCUSSION OF THE FUNDAMENTALS OF JEWISH FAITH AND THEIR RELEVANCE TO MODERN LIFE AND THOUGHT.
BR 2280 UNDERSTANDING ISRAEL GARTLER, MARION & JUDITH LAIKIN A DISCUSSION OF MODERN ISRAEL: ITS HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, EDUCATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL LIFE AND ITS PLACE IN WORLD AFFAIRS.
BR 2281 HURRAY FOR ME WILSON, S.J. A FUNNY NOVEL OF A SMALL, JEWISH BOY AND HIS FAMILY IN NEW YORK DURING THE 1930S.
BR 2282 SINS OF THE FATHERS, THE GEISSLER, CHRISTIAN A HOLOCAUST NOVEL WHICH BITTERLY CRITICIZES THE GERMAN PEOPLE AS WELL AS THE GERMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY; A CLEAR HUMANIST'S WARNING AGAINST NEO-NAZISM.
BR 2283 BECAUSE I WAS FLESH DAHLBERG, EDWARD THE STORY OF AN ILLEGITIMATE CHILD, HIS YEARS IN A JEWISH ORPHAN ASYLUM, STUDENT DAYS AT BERKLEY AND HIS MOVE TO NEW YORK WHERE HE BECAME A NOVELIST, POET, AND CRITIC.
BR 2284 MY FATHER'S COURTHOUSE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS FOUR SHORT STORIES OF JEWISH LIFE IN EASTERN EUROPE.
BR 2288 MARA JOURNEYS HOME WITHERIDGE, ELIZABETH P. AN ADVENTURESOME, SUSPENSEFUL NOVEL OF THE RETURN TO JERUSALEM AFTER THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY WHICH VIVIDLY PORTRAYS THE PEOPLE AND CUSTOMS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT ERA.
BR 2289 MIGHTY VOICE OF ISAIAH, THE POET AND PROPHET GILBERT, MIRIAM PAULA BRAVER A BIOGRAPHY OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH IN STORY FORM FOR CHILDREN.
BR 2290 FAR OVER THE SEA BIALIK, CHAIM N. A COLLECTION OF ENTERTAINING POEMS AND JINGLES FOR CHILDREN BY THE FOREMOST HEBREW POET.
BR 2291 OTHER SOCIETY, THE DRABKIN-DARIN, H. A STUDY OF THE DAY-TO-DAY LIFE ON A KIBBUTZ IN MODERN ISRAEL.
BR 2292 FIVE ROOTS OF ISRAEL PARKER, JAMES A COGENT PRESENTATION OF THE HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS ARGUMENTS FOR THE STATE OF ISRAEL PARTICULARLY RELEVANT IN LIGHT OF ARAB OPPOSITION TO ITS EXISTENCE.
BR 2293 DUST DAYAN, YAEL MRS. DUITCH/ A POIGNANT NOVEL OF MODERN ISRAEL IN WHICH A YOUNG PIONEER GIRL TRIES TO BRING A CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVOR OUT OF HIS PAST THROUGH HER LOVE.
BR 2294 LATER OLD TESTAMENT STORIES SMITHER, ETHEL BRIEF, SIMPLE NARRATIVES OF BIBLICAL CHARACTERS SUCH AS RUTH, DAVID, SOLOMON AND JEREMIAH.
BR 2296 LONG VOYAGE, THE SEMPRUN, JORGE A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE TORMENT AND THE ANGUISH OF A FIVE DAY TRAIN VOYAGE IN 1943 FROM FRANCE TO A GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMP TOLD BY ONE OF THE 120 PIONEERS PACKED IN THE BOX CAR.
BR 2298 EDGE OF THE SWORD, THE ISRAEL'S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE LORCH, NETANEL A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF ISRAEL'S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE FOR MILITARY HISTORIANS AND POLITICAL THEORISTS.
BR 2302 NIGHT IN LISBON REMARQUE, ERICH MARIA TWO SHELL-SHOCKED SURVIVORS OF THE NAZI TERROR MEET IN LISBON AND TALK THE NIGHT AWAY.
BR 2303 JEWISH HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS EDIDIN, BEN M. THE TRADITIONS, CUSTOMS, AND MEANINGS OF ALL OUR HOLY DAYS AND FESTIVALS.
BR 2304 SIGN UPON MY HAND, A ADLER, MARJORIE DUHAN A NOVEL OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE IN NEW YORK CITY.
BR 2305 WITH GALL AND HONEY GOURSE, R. LESLIE A BITTERSWEET LOVE STORY ABOUT A 19 YEAR OLD AMERICAN GIRL AND HER FIRST FEW WEEKS IN ISRAEL.
BR 2307 FOREIGNER, THE MALVERN, GLADYS THE STORY OF RUTH RETOLD AS A NOVEL.
BR 2308 NORTHERN PALMYRA AFFAIR, THE SALISBURY, HARRISON AN EXCELLENT DEPICTION OF RUSSIAN CHARACTERS AND STALINIST PARTY POLITICS PRESENTED AS A SPRINGBOARD TO THE PAST WITH DETAILS ABOUT THE MYSTERIES OF SOVIET POLITICS.
BR 2309 STORY OF THE JEW GERSH, HARRY & LEE LEVINGER A JEWISH HISTORY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 2310 MOSES SHIPPER, KATHERINE A BIOGRAPHY OF MOSES ESPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 2311 GOLDA MEIR WOMAN WITH A CAUSE SYRKIN, MARIE A BIOGRAPHY OF THE PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL DESCRIBING HER EARLY YEARS, HER STATESMANSHIP, AND HER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COUNTRY.
BR 2312 CALL IT SLEEP ROTH, HENRY RUTH FRANKFO A NOVEL OF A NEW YORK CHILDHOOD IN BROWNSVILLE AND MANHATTAN'S LOWER EAST SIDE AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A SENSITIVE JEWISH BOY WHO FEARS HIS FATHER AND ADORES HIS MOTHER.
BR 2315 MEMOIRS OF A SPECIAL CASE RAPHAEL, CHAIM AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY FILLED WITH THE AUTHOR'S MEMORIES OF HIS LIFE BEGINNING WITH HIS BOYHOOD IN A NORTHERN INDUSTRIAL CITY AND HIS STUDIES IN A JEWISH PUBLIC SCHOOL IN A CATHEDRAL TOWN. THE BOOK COVERS HIS EXPERIENCES IN INTERMENT CAMPS DURING WORLD WAR II.
BR 2316 HARP OF DAVID, THE LEGEND OF MT. ZION SILVERMAN, ALTHEA O. LORAINE FRIE WHEN THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD DAVID COMES FROM NEW YORK TO SPEND A SUMMER IN ISRAEL, HE LEARNS A LOT ABOUT THE COUNTRY AND ITS LEGENDS.
BR 2319 HE WHO FLEES THE LION KLEIN-HAPARSH, J. FLORENCE KRA A HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT JEWISH LIFE IN CENTRAL EUROPE. THE AUTHOR RECOUNTS THE STORY OF THE JEWS UNDER SOVIET RULE AND THEIR EVENTUAL MIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES.
BR 2321 MODERN JEWISH LIFE IN LITERATURE EISENBERG, AZRIEL STORIES DEPICTING JEWISH LIFE IN EUROPE, AMERICA AND ISRAEL.
BR 2324 HOMECOMING AT TWILIGHT GLATSTEIN, JACOB ADELE STEIN A TALE OF POLISH JEWRY AND OF A BY-GONE ERA.
BR 2325 MESSIAH'S CHAINS POSY, ARNOLD AN EPIC BASED ON JEWISH FOLKLORE IN WHICH ELIJAH THE PROPHET, THE MESSIAH, AND THE REDEMPTION OF ISRAEL ARE THE CENTRAL THEMES.
BR 2326 PUREST DEMOCRACY IN THE WORL, THE BEN-YOSEF, ABRAHAM C. A STUDY OF THE KIBBUTZ AND ITS ROLE AS A DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTION.
BR 2327 YESTERDAY'S CHILD KERN, JANET AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S CHILDHOOD.
BR 2329 I, RACHEL COST, MARCH AN INTERPRETATION OF THE LIFE AND CAREER OF A GREAT FRENCH ACTRESS FROM HER CHILDHOOD TO DEATH WITH SOME OF THE STORY NARRATED BY RACHEL HERSELF.
BR 2330 ONCE UPON A DROSHKY CHARYN, JEROME EDNA GREENSP A NOSTALGIC AND HUMOROUS NOVEL OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE.
BR 2331 ACT ONE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY HART, MOSS LYNN LAPMAN THE LIFE STORY OF THE AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT AND DIRECTOR, WHO EVEN AS A YOUNG CHILD DREAMED OF FAME ON BROADWAY.
BR 2332 MAHASCHAVI IN PEACE AND WAR ZELIGS, DOROTHY F. A TEXTBOOK OF JEWISH HISTORY FOR THE BEGINNING STUDENT.
BR 2334 MEET THE AMERICAN JEW MENKUS, BELDEN A BOOK WRITTEN ESPECIALLY FOR CHRISTIAN READERS THAT CONTAINS INFORMATIVE ARTICLES DEALING WITH THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN JEW.
BR 2335 HISTORY OF THE JEWS. VOL. V AND IT WAS MORNING BORCHSENIUS, POUL TEMPLE ISRAE THE FIFTH VOLUME IN THE SERIES PRESENTS A DRAMATIC HISTORY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 2336 LIFE AND WORK OF SIGMUND FREUD, THE. VOL. 2 YEARS OF MATURITY 1901-1919 JONES, ERNEST THE SECOND VOLUME IN A DETAILED BIOGRAPHY OF FREUD.
BR 2338 OUR JEWISH NEIGHBORS ZERIN, EDWARD THE RESULT OF A RELIGIOUS SCHOOL'S EXPERIENCE IN EXPLAINING JUDAISM TO NON-JEWISH STUDENTS, THIS BOOK IS A SIMPLE EXPOSITION OF JEWISH DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE.
BR 2339 TREASURY OF RESPONSA, A FREEHOF, SOLOMON A SAMPLING OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS LEGAL WRITING FOR BOTH THE STUDENT AND GENERAL READER.
BR 2340 AMERICANS ALL LEONARD, OSCAR THE STORY OF JEWS WHO HELPED BUILD AMERICA.
BR 2345 ONCE UPON A LIFETIME SCHWARTZMAN, RABBI SYLVAN THE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF REFORM JEWISH CHILDREN TREATED BY MEANS OF STORIES OF YOUNG PERSONS WHO PARTICIPATE IN THESE EVENTS.
BR 2346 I WILL SURVIVE PAWLOWICZ, SALA & KEVIN KLOSE A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF A POLISH JEW'S EXPERIENCES DURING THE NAZI OCCUPATION.
BR 2347 SLAVE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS GERT ZUCKERM THE STORY OF JACOB, A JEW LIVING IN 17TH CENTURY POLAND, WHO BECOMES THE SLAVE OF A POLISH PEASANT AND FALLS DEEPLY IN LOVE WITH WANDA, THE PEASANT'S DAUGHTER.
BR 2348 DAWN WIESEL, ELIE HELEN M. ASC THIS NOVEL REVOLVES AROUND EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ELISHA WHO HAS BEEN DESIGNATED TO KILL AN ENGLISHMAN. TAKES PLACE IN PRE-STATE PALESTINE, WHEN ORDERS WERE ISSUED THAT FOR THE HANGING OF EVERY JEWISH FIGHTER, AN ENGLISHMAN WOULD BE EXECUTED BY THE JEWISH UNDERGROUND.
BR 2349 KING'S PERSONS, THE GREENBERG, JOANNE EDNA SILVERS A NOVEL DESCRIBING THE JEWISH MONEY LENDERS WHO WERE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE KING OF ENGLAND. TAKES PLACE DURING THE MASSACRE OF THE JEWS OF YORK IN 1190.
BR 2352 FISHKE DER KRUMER (FISHKE THE LAME) MENDELE MOCHER SEFORIM A NOVEL ABOUT TWO CRIPPLED BEGGARS WHO FALL IN LOVE.
BR 2353 JEWISH CONTRIBUTIONS TO CIVILIZATION ROTH, CECIL ROTH, AN EMINENT HISTORIAN, OUTLINES THE ROLE OF JEWS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
BR 2356 TREASURY OF HOLIDAY THOUGHTS TABAK, ISRAEL A JUVENILE COLLECTION OF THE THOUGHTS AND CONCEPTS UNDERLYING JEWISH RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES.
BR 2357 THIS IS MY GOD WOUK, HERMAN AL REIWITCH A BOOK ABOUT JUDAISM FOR JEWS AND NON-JEWS THAT EXPLAINS AND CLARIFIES BELIEFS AND TRADITIONS, LAWS, HISTORY, LITURGY, AND OBSERVANCES.
BR 2359 BIBLE TALES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE - BOOK II CALISCH, EDITH LINDEMAN BIBLE TALES RETOLD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, BEGINNING WITH THE STORY OF JOSHUA.
BR 2361 GOLDEN THREAD, THE DAVIS, S. & M. KAYE A RELIGIOUS TEXT FOR JEWISH CHILDREN.
BR 2366 BIBLE STORIES FOR JEWISH CHILDREN FROM CREATION TO JOSHUA SAMUELS, RUTH BIBLE STORIES ENCOMPASSING THE PERIOD FROM CREATION TO JOSHUA, RETOLD IN SIMPLE LANGUAGE FOR YOUNG READERS.
BR 2367 WHAT THE JEWS BELIEVE BERNSTEIN, PHILIP S., RABBI SARA WEINBER THIS BOOK PRESENTS THE RELIGIOUS IDEAS AND OBSERVANCES OF JUDAISM, ALONG WITH EXPLANATIONS OF MANY OF ITS CUSTOMS, RITUALS, AND BELIEFS.
BR 2370 TEN AND A KID WEILERSTEIN, SADIE ROSE A DELIGHTFUL PORTRAIT OF FAMILY LIFE IN A LITHUANIAN TOWN WHICH EXUDES A WARM SENSE OF FAMILY UNITY AND FESTIVE HOLIDAY SPIRITS.
BR 2371 ANATOMY OF FAITH STEINBERG, MILTON A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ANALYZING THE PHILOSOPHIES OF KIERKEGAARD, SARTRE, NIEBUHR, DEWEY AND JAMES. EXAMINES THE CONFLICT BETWEEN FAITH AND REASON IN CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM.
BR 2373 JEWISH HUMOR HASSID, LILA JEWISH ANECDOTES TRANSLATED FROM YIDDISH AND THE CHELM STORY IN EPISODES.
BR 2376 BEAUTIFUL GARDEN AND OTHER BIBLE TALES LEVINGER, E. EHRLICH THESE BIBLE TALES ARE RETOLD AND INTERPRETED IN SIMPLE WORDS, EVOKING SPIRITUAL LESSONS.
BR 2379 BIBLE TALES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN CALISCH,E.L. BOOK I TELLS THE STORY OF THE BIBLE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF CREATION UNTIL THE DEATH OF MOSES.
BR 2380 FORGOTTEN PIONEER GOLDEN, HARRY A HUMOROUS ACCOUNT OF THE JEWISH PEDDLERS WHO ALSO BECAME PIONEERS IN SETTLING AMERICA.
BR 2381 DILEMMA OF THE MODERN JEW, THE PRINZ, JOACHIM AN ANALYSIS OF JEWISH LIFE SINCE THE EMANCIPATION OF 1791.
BR 2384 ACCIDENT WIESEL, ELIE A SURVIVOR OF AUSCHWITZ, NOW A CORRESPONDENT FOR AN ISRAELI NEWSPAPER, IS RUN OVER BY A TAXICAB IN NEW YORK CITY. THIS IS THE STORY OF HIS TORMENTED CONFLICT WITH LIFE AND DEATH.
BR 2385 ZULU AND THE ZEIDE, THE JACOBSON, DAN BETTY WILK FIFTEEN SHORT STORIES PORTRAYING THE TENSION AND GENERAL UNEASINESS OF LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA. INCLUDES TALES OF MORAL CONFLICT BETWEEN THE RACES: BLACKS, AFRIKAANERS, AND JEWS.
BR 2388 UNDERSTANDING JUDAISM DAVIS, DANIEL L., RABBI AN EVALUATION, FROM A PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWPOINT, OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE'S JOURNEY THROUGH TIME, THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS, AND THEIR SPIRITUAL DESTINY.
BR 2391 SON OF THE STAR, THE KRUEGER, CARL JANE N. WEIS A NOVEL WHICH MOVES FROM MODERN TO ANCIENT TIMES: FROM THE EMBATTLED ISRAELIS IN 1948 TO THE JEWS REBELLING AGAINST THE ROMAN CONQUEST IN THE 2ND CENTURY C.E. UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF BAR KOCHBA, THE 'SON OF THE STAR.'
BR 2392 CHILDREN'S HISTORY OF ISRAEL. BK. 1. ISH-KISHOR, SHULAMITH THE FIRST VOLUME IN A SERIES ON JEWISH HISTORY WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN. THIS VOLUME COVERS THE PERIOD FROM CREATION TO THE DEATH OF MOSES.
BR 2393 JEWISH PEOPLE, THE. BOOK III PESSIN, DEBORAH NANCY SCHIER THIS THIRD VOLUME CONTINUES THE STORY OF THE JEWS AFTER THEIR EXILE FROM SPAIN. THEIR LIVES IN HOLLAND, TURKEY, POLAND, RUSSIA, GERMANY AND EVENTUALLY IN AMERICA ARE DEPICTED. INCLUDES THE FOUNDING OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 2399 FANATIC, THE LEVIN, MEYER ISABELLE WEI THIS IS THE STORY OF A YOUNG RABBI WHO, AS A CHAPLAIN IN THE U.S. ARMY, WAS EXPOSED TO THE HORRORS OF WORLD WAR II. HE WRITES A PLAY BASED ON THE TESTAMENT OF A CZECHOSLOVAKIAN JEWISH YOUTH, BUT IS PREVENTED FROM BRINGING IT TO THE PUBLIC.
BR 2400 BELMARCH DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER A SYMBOLIC NOVEL OF A GUILT-RIDDEN SOLDIER OF THE FIRST CRUSADE WHO IS FINALLY PURGED OF HIS VIOLENT ACTS AGAINST THE JEWS.
BR 2401 GUIDE FOR REFORM JEWS, A DOPPELT, F. & D. POLISH AN INFORMATIVE GUIDE TO JEWISH LIVING FOR REFORM JEWS. IT DEALS WITH THE RELIGIOUS ISSUES AND PROBLEMS WHICH ARE ENCOUNTERED IN DAILY LIVING.
BR 2403 HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN AMERICA PUPIL'S ACTIVITY BOOK PESSIN, DEBORAH WORKBOOK FOR TEXT OF SAME NAME. HIGHSCHOOL LEVEL.
BR 2405 JEWELS FOR A CROWN THE STORY OF THE CHAGALL WINDOWS FREUND, MIRIAM HARRIETT ASC THE STORY OF THE CHAGALL WINDOWS IN THE SYNAGOGUE OF THE HADASSAH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM. BEGINNING WITH THE ARTIST'S CHILDHOOD IN EASTERN EUROPE, THE BOOK INCLUDES CHAGALL'S TRAVELS IN THE NEAR EAST AND DESCRIBES HOW HE CONCEIVED THE IDEA AND CREATED THE STAINED-GLASS WINDOWS.
BR 2409 MY FATHER'S HOUSE LEVIN, MEYER A NOVEL ABOUT THE ADVENTURES OF A BOY WHO ESCAPES FROM NAZI-OCCUPIED POLAND AND MAKES HIS WAY TO PALESTINE.
BR 2416 HENRIETTA SZOLD VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PIONEER HALFERN, MINNIE W. & BESS S. KATZ A SHORT EXPLANATION OF THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS MISS SZOLD DEVELOPED FOR ISRAEL AND THEIR EFFECT ON EDUCATIONAL TRENDS IN THE UNITED STATES.
BR 2418 INFINITY OF MIRRORS, AN CONDON, RICHARD SALO MINKIN A DOCUMENTARY NOVEL ABOUT A FRENCH JEWESS AND A YOUNG GERMAN OFFICER WHO FALL IN LOVE, BUT ARE HINDERED BY HITLER'S RISE TO POWER.
BR 2419 COMING HOME BEN-ZVI, RAHEL YANAIT THE STORY OF BOTH A GIRL'S EXPERIENCES IN ISRAEL AND OF ALL THOSE WHO HELPED CHANGE THE DREAM OF A HOMELAND IN ISRAEL INTO A REALITY.
BR 2420 PROMISE IS A PROMISE, A CONE, MOLLY BEBE HOLTZMA A HUMOROUS STORY ABOUT A GIRL APPROACHING ADOLESCENCE AND HER NEW AWARENESS OF HER FAMILY, HER NEIGHBORHOOD, AND HER JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 2421 STONE OF PEACE, THE FEDER-TAL, KARAH A STORY ABOUT A JEWISH BOY FROM MOROCCO WHO EMIGRATED TO ISRAEL, AND HIS ADVENTURES ON A KIBBUTZ IN THE NEGEV.
BR 2423 KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE, THE GRAU, SHIRLEY ANN A DRAMATIC NOVEL OF THREE GENERATIONS OF A SOUTHERN PLANTATION FAMILY WITH EMPHASIS ON THE ABSURDITIES AND CRUELTIES OF PREJUDICE.
BR 2428 ON YOU IT LOOKS GOOD LEE, MARJORIE AN ENTERTAINING NOVEL WITH A JEWISH FLAVOR ABOUT A GIRL'S EXPERIENCES IN HER DEPARTMENT STORE JOB AND HER HOME LIFE.
BR 2429 NEW JEWISH HISTORY, THE. BK III GAMORAN, MAMIE G. A HISTORY TEXTBOOK DEALING WITH THE PERIOD FROM THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA TO MODERN TIMES.
BR 2431 DON'T STOP THE CARNIVAL WOUK, HERMAN THE HUMOROUS ADVENTURES OF AN AMERICAN JEW WHO RUNS A HOTEL ON A CARIBBEAN RESORT ISLAND.
BR 2433 SHAPING OF THE MODERN MIND. MINKIN, JACOB S. THE LIFE AND THOUGHT OF 21 FOREMOST JEWISH PHILOSOPHERS AND LEADERS.
BR 2434 ELI LIVES IN ISRAEL RIWKIN-BRICK, ANNA & LEA GOLDBERG THE EXCITING ADVENTURES OF AN ISRAELI BOY AND GIRL WHILE ON A TRIP WITH THEIR FATHER EXPLORING AN ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE.
BR 2435 STORY FOR THE YOUNG AND OLD COHEN, LOUIS AS A CHILD OF TEN, THE AUTHOR VISITED RUSSIA DURING WORLD WAR I. HIS EXPERIENCES AND ADVENTURES IN WAR-TORN EUROPE ARE RELATED HERE.
BR 2436 BOX FOR BENNY, A BERG, VIOLA SYLVIA SCHMU A FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF A BOY GROWING UP IN THE JEWISH QUARTER OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.
BR 2437 JEWISH PEOPLE, THE. BK. II PESSIN, DEBORAH TEMPLE EMANU A TEXTBOOK, THE SECOND IN A THREE-VOLUME SERIES, WHICH TRACES THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE RETURN TO JUDEA TO THE EXPULSION FROM SPAIN.
BR 2438 TWO BY TWO, A BIBLE STORY KRENTEL, MILDRED A DELIGHTFUL RE-TELLING OF THE STORY OF NOAH AND THE ANIMALS ON THE ARK.
BR 2439 OFF THE CAPES OF DELAWARE TALES OF AMERICAN JEWISH PIONEERS BLANDFORD, BENJAMIN W. WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF HISTORICAL FACT, THE AUTHOR HAS WOVEN STORIES OF THE JEWISH MEN AND WOMEN WHO HELPED TO BUILD A GREAT DEMOCRACY.
BR 2442 G'DEE FINE, HELEN AN EXCITING STORY OF JEWISH LIFE IN WHICH G'DEE, A GOAT FROM ISRAEL, COMES TO LIVE WITH DEBRA AND DAVID MANN IN AMERICA.
BR 2443 ASSISTANT, THE MALAMUD, BERNARD REALISTIC AND MOVING NOVEL OF A JEWISH GROCER, MORRIS BOBER, HIS FAMILY AND HIS ASSISTANT, A NON-JEW WHO FALLS IN LOVE WITH THE GROCER'S DAUGHTER.
BR 2444 NINE GATES TO THE CHASSIDIC MYSTERIES LANGER, JIRI A CHRONICLE OF HASIDIC LIFE BASED UPON THE EXPERIENCES OF A WESTERNIZED JEW WHO WENT TO LIVE AMONG HASIDIM IN EASTERN GALICIA SHORTLY BEFORE WORLD WAR I.
BR 2445 FAIRY TALES FROM GRANDFATHER'S BIG BOOK CALISCH, EDITH LINDEMAN JEWISH FOLK STORIES FROM MIDRASHIC AND TALMUDIC SOURCES. WRITTEN FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 2447 BOOK OF PSALMS FOR THE MODERN READER, THE HADAS, GERSHON, TRANS. A NEW TRANSLATION OF THE BOOK OF PSALMS REFLECTING A WIDE RANGE OF HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES, DIVERSE ATTITUDES AND VARIED MOODS.
BR 2449 NEW AMERICAN JEW, THE TIME MAGAZINE ESSAY THE ARTICLE DEALS WITH THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THE AMERICAN JEW WILL RETAIN HIS FAITH WITH HIS ACHIEVEMENT OF THE FREEDOM HE HAS SO LONG SOUGHT.
BR 2450 HITTITE WARRIOR WILLIAMSON, JOANNE THE ADVENTURES OF A HITTITE BOY WHOSE PEOPLE ARE WIPED OUT BY INVADERS AND WHO ESCAPES TO CANAAN.
BR 2452 HEART OF WISDOM A THOUGHT FOR EACH DAY OF THE JEWI RASKIS, BERNARD S. A BOOK OF INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHTS FOR EACH DAY OF THE JEWISH YEAR INCLUDING HOLIDAYS, GLEANED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
BR 2456 TEETH, DYING, AND OTHER MATTERS STERN, RICHARD G. A COLLECTION OF 13 STORIES, AN ESSAY, AND A PLAY WHICH ARE WITTY AND FULL OF SHREWD AND CAUSTIC INSIGHT.
BR 2459 MANY WORLDS OF LEO ROSTEN, THE ROSTEN, LEO MARY PERLOW HUMOROUS STORIES, SATIRE, AND SOCIAL COMMENTARY ABOUT AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE.
BR 2462 JOHN F. KENNEDY ON ISRAEL BARBARASH, ERNEST E. THE LATE PRESIDENT'S VIEWS ON ISRAEL AND OTHER JEWISH ISSUES, WITH EMPHASIS ON HIS LOVE OF JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY AND HIS BELIEF IN THE DIGNITY OF MAN.
BR 2463 UNCOMMON SOLDIER, THE MAJOR ALFRED MORDECAI ABRAHAMS, ROBERT D. GERTRUDE MIN THE BIOGRAPHY OF MAJOR ALFRED MORDECAI WHO ACHIEVED PROMINENCE IN THE MILITARY WHILE ADHERING TO JEWISH TRADITION DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE 19TH CENTURY.
BR 2465 STORY OF THE SYNAGOGUE, THE (ACTIVITY BOOK) LEVIN, MEYER & KURZBAND, TOBY THIS PUPIL'S ACTIVITY BOOK IS TO BE USED WITH THE TEXT OF THE SAME NAME.
BR 2468 NEW JEWISH HISTORY - ACTIVITY BK. 3 GAMORAN, MAMIE G. THIS IS A PUPIL'S ACTIVITY BOOK TO ACCOMPANY THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE TEXTBOOK WHICH DEALS WITH THE PERIOD FROM THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA TO OUR OWN DAY.
BR 2469 THEY LIVED LIKE THIS IN ANCIENT PALESTINE NEURATH, MARIE EVERYDAY LIFE IN ANCIENT ISRAEL IS DESCRIBED FOR CHILDREN IN THIS VERY SIMPLE TEXT. FOR AGES 7 - 9.
BR 2473 UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE KAUFMAN, BEL A NOVEL ABOUT LIFE IN A LARGE CITY HIGH SCHOOL, INCLUDING HUMOROUS MEMOS, LETTERS, AND STUDENT COMPOSITIONS. WRITTEN BY THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF SHOLOM ALEICHEM.
BR 2474 WORLD OF JOSEPHUS, THE WILLIAMSON, G.A. A STUDY OF THE CHARACTER AND WRITING OF THE 1ST CENTURY JEWISH HISTORIAN WHO CHRONICLED THE REVOLT OF JUDEA AGAINST ROME.
BR 2475 WORKS OF ANNE FRANK FRANK, ANNE COLLECTED HERE ARE THE CONTENTS OF TWO NOTEBOOKS LEFT BY ANNE FRANK - ONE CONTAINED HER DIARY; THE OTHER CONTAINED ESSAYS, STORIES, AND REMINISCENCES.
BR 2479 DAVID AND JONATHAN BEARMAN, JANE THIS IS THE STORY OF THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE YOUNG DAVID AND JONATHAN, THE SON OF SAUL, THE FIRST KING OF ISRAEL.
BR 2480 RECONSTRUCTING JEWISH EDUCATION ALPER, MICHAEL THE AUTHOR PRESENTS AN EDUCATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN JEWISH YOUTH DESIGNED ALONG RECONSTRUCTIONIST LINES IN ORDER TO PREPARE THE STUDENT FOR CONTEMPORARY LIFE.
BR 2483 STRONGHOLD, THE LEVIN, MEYER A NOVEL, SET IN A NAZI-OCCUPIED COUNTRY, WHICH EXPLORES THE QUESTIONS OF WAR AND THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE.
BR 2484 WORLD IS A WEDDING, THE KOPS, BERNARD ROSLYN LEFFE THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BRITISH POET AND PLAYWRIGHT BORN IN THE SLUMS OF LONDON.
BR 2486 NEXT GENERATION TRAVELS IN ISRAEL PRYCE-JONES, DAVID AN ACUTE, EVOCATIVE PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL AND THEIR LIVES.
BR 2488 FIGHTER FROM WHITECHAPEL THE STORY OF DANIEL MENDOZA RIBALOW, HAROLD U. DANIEL MENDOZA, AN EDUCATED JEW, WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST PRIZEFIGHTERS OF HIS TIME. HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING HIS JEWISH COUNTRYMEN FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN 18TH-CENTURY ENGLAND.
BR 2489 DAVID'S HARP MUSIC IN BIBLICAL TIMES SENDREY, ALFRED & MILDRED NORTON THE ORIGINS, FORMS, AND INSTRUMENTATION OF HEBREW MUSIC FROM BIBLICAL TIMES, DESCRIBED THROUGH THE STORIES OF THE PEOPLE WHO COMPOSED AND CREATED THEM.
BR 2499 REDEEMED CHILDREN, THE LAPPIN, BEN A MOVING, ABSORBING CHRONICLE OF THE ODYSSEY OF 1,116 WAR ORPHANS RESCUED FROM THE NAZIS.
BR 2500 VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL ROSS, LILLIAN THE AUTHOR CARICATURES A NARROW, MIDDLE-CLASS SEGMENT OF THE MEDICAL-PSYCHOANALYTICAL FRATERNITY, REDUCING IT TO THE POINT OF HELPLESS LAUGHTER.
BR 2502 EARLY OLD TESTAMENT STORIES SMITHER, ETHEL L. BIBLE STORIES ABOUT THE PATRIARCHS WRITTEN IN A MODERN LANGUAGE AND STYLE FOR READERS IN GRADES 7-9.
BR 2504 STORIES OF KING DAVID FREEHOF, LILLIAN S. TWENTY STORIES FROM THE MIDRASH, EACH FOCUSING ON AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF DAVID.
BR 2505 WORLD OF DAVID DUBINSKY, THE DANISH, MAX D. THE STORY OF DAVID DUBINSKY, AN IMMIGRANT YOUTH WHO BECAME HEAD OF ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST POWERFUL UNIONS; THE INTERNATIONAL LADIES' GARMENT WORKERS.
BR 2506 LET'S TALK ABOUT GOD KRIPKE, DOROTHY K. DIANE MARCH/ A RELIGIOUS SCHOOL TEXT WHICH MAY ALSO BE HELPFUL TO PARENTS WHO WISH TO EXPLAIN IDEAS ABOUT GOD TO THEIR CHILDREN.
BR 2507 PATHS TO JEWISH BELIEF FACKENHEIM, EMIL L. LOIS LINEAL THE AUTHOR OFFERS A RATIONALE FOR JEWISH BELIEF AND DISCUSSES THE QUESTIONS OF GOOD AND EVIL, IMMORTALITY, PRAYER, AND THE ONENESS OF GOD.
BR 2508 LEGENDS OF BAR-KOCHBA SKULSKY, S. USING MIDRASHIC SOURCES, THE AUTHOR RETELLS THE LEGENDS OF BAR-KOCHBA, THE TALES OF THE OLD ZEALOTS TO THE LAST FIGHT.
BR 2509 AT CAMP KEE TOV FINE, HELEN EXPERIENCES AT CAMP SERVE AS A POINT OF DEPARTURE FOR STUDY AND DISCUSSION OF ETHICAL PROBLEMS.
BR 2510 PORTRAIT OF A FATHER SIMON, JOAN A FICTIONAL PORTRAYAL OF A MILLIONAIRE ART-COLLECTOR AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF HIS DAUGHTER.
BR 2511 JEWISH PEOPLE, THE. BOOK II PUPIL'S ACTIVITY BOOK PESSIN, DEBORAH FLORENCE BER THE ACTIVITY BOOK THAT ACCOMPANIES THE TEXT OF THE SAME NAME.
BR 2512 ON THE DARKENING GREEN CHARYN, JEROME MRS. LEON FE THIS IS A NOVEL ABOUT GROWING UP IN NEW YORK IN THE 1940S. THE AUTHOR ADDS COLOR BY HIS PORTRAYAL OF A NUMBER OF EXCITING AND GROTESQUE CHARACTERS.
BR 2513 GENERATION OF DECISION JEWISH REJUVENATION IN AMERICA LIPTZIN, SOL A STUDY OF THE ATTITUDES OF AMERICAN WRITERS, BOTH JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH, TOWARD JEWS, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE JEWISH WRITER'S CULTURAL DUALITY.
BR 2514 HUNDRED HOURS TO SUEZ, A HENRIQUES, ROBERT AN ANALYSIS OF ISRAEL'S 100 HOUR CAMPAIGN IN THE SINAI PENINSULA IN OCTOBER, 1956 WHICH PROVIDES DEFTLY DRAWN PORTRAITS OF INDIVIDUAL SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS.
BR 2515 SCHOOL WITH A DIFFERENCE, THE MEYNIER, YVONNE THIS STORY OF FRENCH GIRLS INCLUDES AN ACCOUNT OF SARAH, WHO, DURING THE GERMAN OCCUPATION OF VICHY, DISAPPEARS ONE DAY IN A NAZI ROUND-UP OF JEWS.
BR 2516 TABLES OF THE LAW, THE MANN, THOMAS A NOVELETTE BASED ON THE LIFE OF MOSES, DESCRIBING HIS HERITAGE, YOUNG MANHOOD, THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT AND THE ENGRAVING OF THE TABLETS OF LAW ON MT. SINAI.
BR 2517 SCHATTEN AFFAIR, THE MORTON, FREDERIC ESTELLE JERO A NOVEL ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICAN JEW IN POST-WAR BERLIN.
BR 2519 HERZOG BELLOW, SAUL AS A CHARACTER WHO REFLECTS THE WORLD IN WHICH HE LIVES, HERZOG IS A JEWISH COLLEGE TEACHER FROM MONTREAL, NEW YORK AND CHICAGO WHO CAME OF AGE IN THE SHADOW OF THE HOLOCAUST. NEARING THE END OF HIS LIFE HE CONTEMPLATES HIS FAILURE IN RELATIONSHIPS AND IN HIS CAREER.
BR 2520 YOSHE KALB SINGER, ISRAEL JOSHUA FLORENCE KRA A CLASSIC NOVEL WHICH TELLS THE STORY OF A SAINT WHOSE ILL-STARRED LOVE ALMOST CAUSED A RELIGIOUS WAR AMONG THE JEWS.
BR 2522 HISTORY AND JEWISH HISTORIANS ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES BARON, SALO W. JUDITH HOFFM AN ANALYSIS OF THE DISCREPANCIES AND RELEVANCIES IN THE WORK OF JEWISH HISTORIANS BY THE FORMER PROFESSOR OF JEWISH RELIGION AND HISTORY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.
BR 2525 LAST ESSAYS MANN, THOMAS THE FOUR ESSAYS OF THIS WORK PROVIDE SIGNIFICANT BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL AND PENETRATING CRITICAL COMMENTARY ON SCHILLER, GOETHE, NIETZSCHE AND CHEKHOV.
BR 2528 NIGHT OF THE GENERALS, THE KIRST, HANS HELLMUT AURELIA MINT THIS BOOK, A MYSTERY AND A SATIRE ABOUT THE OFFICER CLASS OF GERMANY, ALSO SERVES AS A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE NAZI ERA.
BR 2531 NATION OF IMMIGRANTS, A KENNEDY, JOHN F. THE LATE PRESIDENT, DURING HIS YEARS IN THE SENATE, REVIEWS THE HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION SHOWING THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICA'S ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL LIFE.
BR 2533 DANIEL DIALOGUES ON REALIZATION BUBER, MARTIN MRS. DANIEL PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUES ON THE INDIVIDUAL'S REALIZATION OF HIMSELF AND HIS WORLD.
BR 2535 LEGENDS OF JUDAH THE MACCABEE SKULSKY, S. USING MIDRASHIC SOURCES, THE AUTHOR TELLS THE EXCITING STORY OF THE MACCABEES.
BR 2536 LITTLE GIRL IS DEAD, A GOLDEN, HARRY AN ACCOUNT OF THE LEO FRANK CASE, IN WHICH FRANK WAS ACCUSED, TRIED, AND LYNCHED FOR THE MURDER OF A YOUNG GIRL IN THE SOUTH IN 1913.
BR 2537 NEW JEWISH HISTORY, THE--BOOK I GAMORAN, MAMIE G. THIS HISTORY TEXTBOOK DEALS WITH THE PERIOD FROM ABRAHAM TO THE MACCABEES.
BR 2539 COLLECTION OF YIDDISH POEMS, A PERETZ, LEIVICK THEMES OF LIFE, LOVE, RELIGION, HATE, DESPAIR, JOY, AND BEAUTY ARE EXPRESSED IN THIS COLLECTION OF POETRY.
BR 2541 FOLK-ROCK THE BOB DYLAN STORY RIBAKOVE, SY AND BARBARA THE STORY OF BOB DYLAN (ROBERT ZIMMERMAN), THE JEWISH BOY WHO SET THE WORLD OF FOLK MUSIC ON FIRE.
BR 2544 SIXTY-EIGHT SCAEVOLA, PETER A POLEMIC NOVEL OF PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS ABOUT AMERICANS FACED WITH DEPRESSION, RACIAL TURMOIL, AND A COMMUNIST ADVANCE. WILL BLACKS AND JEWS BE SCAPEGOATS?
BR 2547 AMERICAN JEWISH HEROES LURIE, ROSE G. A CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT THE LIVES OF WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN JEWS.
BR 2548 CAT AND MOUSE GRASS, GUNTER SET IN WORLD WAR II DANZIG, THIS IS A TRAGIC STORY OF A PATHETIC CHARACTER CAUGHT IN A PARADOX.
BR 2549 PEOPLE IN PALESTINE COOLIDGE, OLIVIA E. A SERIES OF SHORT STORIES THAT PORTRAY DAILY LIFE IN PALESTINE DURING AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TIME OF JESUS.
BR 2551 HOLOCAUST KINGDOM, THE DONAT, ALEXANDER TILLIE DREZN A MEMOIR OF LIFE IN THE WARSAW GHETTO DURING WORLD WAR II, FOCUSING ON THE HORRORS OF GHETTO LIFE AND THE TORMENT OF JEWS IN THE DEATH CAMPS, ALL OF WHICH WERE WITNESSED BY THE AUTHOR.
BR 2553 GERMANS, THE TEMPEL, GUDRUN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF A WOMAN WHO GREW UP DURING THE NAZI REGIME IN GERMANY. AN UNCOMPROMISINGLY CRITICAL BOOK.
BR 2554 ESCAPE SENJE, SIGURD AN EXCITING DRAMATIZATION OF THE ACTIVITIES OF TEENAGERS ON BEHALF OF THE UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT DURING WORLD WAR II.
BR 2555 BEN-GURION OF ISRAEL LITVINOFF, BARNET THE STORY OF A MAN WHO DREAMED OF AN INDEPENDENT JEWISH STATE AND WHOSE EFFORTS CONTRIBUTED TO THE REALIZATION OF THAT DREAM.
BR 2556 SUMMER IN GALILEE LEVY, JULIETTE DE BAIRACLI THE AUTHOR TELLS OF THE EXPERIENCES SHE AND HER CHILDREN SHARED DURING SUMMERS SPENT NEAR THE LOVELY LAKE OF GALILEE.
BR 2558 STORY BIBLE, THE. Bk. 2. ZELLIGS, DOROTHY F. RHODA PLOFSK A RETELLING OF THE STORIES FROM THE BIBLE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. HIGHLIGHTS THE RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE HEBREW PEOPLE.
BR 2559 COVENANT, THE YAARI, YEHUDA A COLLECTION OF TEN SHORT STORIES ABOUT THE YOUNG STATE OF ISRAEL AND THE CHALUTZIM WHO HELPED BUILD IT.
BR 2560 DIAMOND GLANVILLE, BRIAN A NOVEL PORTRAYING THE BATTLE OF GENERATIONS IN A MIDDLE-CLASS JEWISH FAMILY IN LONDON.
BR 2562 TOWER OF DAVID REICHERT, VICTOR SOME OF THE BEST POEMS OF A NOTED RABBI AND POET AS WELL AS HIS TRANSLATIONS OF SEVERAL CLASSICAL HEBREW VERSES. THE THEMES RANGE FROM THE SECULAR TO THE RELIGIOUS.
BR 2565 TREASURY OF JEWISH THOUGHTS SILVER, SAMUEL M., EDITOR A SMALL GOLD MINE OF JEWISH WISDOM TAKEN FROM THE BIBLE, TALMUD, MIDRASH AND OTHER CLASSICAL SOURCES THAT OFFERS SUCCINCT THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF LIFE.
BR 2569 WITHIN THY HAND ORLEANS, ILO A BOOK OF SPIRITUAL POETRY AND PRAYERS FOR YOUNG AND OLD.
BR 2571 LIMITS OF LOVE RAPHAEL, FREDERIC THIS NOVEL BY A SATIRIC YET COMPASSIONATE OBSERVER OF MODERN SOCIETY PRESENTS THE COMPLEX DEVELOPMENNT OF A JEWISH FAMILY IN POST-WORLD WAR II LONDON.
BR 2575 LEGEND OF ISRAEL LEVNER, J. B. A COLLECTION OF RABBINIC THOUGHTS AND LORE RELATED TO THE LIFE OF MOSES.
BR 2576 SWORD AND THE PROMISE SIEGAL, BENJAMIN A HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD DURING THE REIGN OF THE ROMAN EMPEROR HADRIAN, IN THE SECOND CENTURY C.E.
BR 2579 LONYA REMINISCENCES LAZAR, ALBERT O. THE STORY OF A MAN'S MULTI-DIMENSIONAL LIFE PRESENTED AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE HISTORY OF AN ERA OF CHANGE CENTERED IN RUSSIA.
BR 2580 TEN DAYS TILL HARVEST BALL, ELSIE A BOY'S ADVENTURES IN THE DAYS OF THE PROPHETS IN ANCIENT ISRAEL.
BR 2581 ALL-OF-A-KIND FAMILY UPTOWN TAYLOR, SYDNEY FURTHER ADVENTURES OF A LARGE JEWISH FAMILY GROWING UP IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 2582 DEATH OF THE ADVERSARY KEILSON, HANS AN ATTEMPT BY A DUTCH AUTHOR VICTIMIZED BY NAZI PERSECUTION TO COME TO TERMS WITH THE PROBLEMS OF HIS PERSONAL LIFE AND DEATH.
BR 2584 CHILDREN'S HISTORY OF ISRAEL - Book 2 ISH-KISHOR, SHULAMITH THE SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES DEALS WITH THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM JOSHUA TO THE SECOND TEMPLE.
BR 2585 ROAR LION ROAR AND OTHER STORIES FAUST, IRVIN AN EXCELLENT COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY A TALENTED YOUNG JEWISH WRITER WHO WRYLY PRESENTS CONTEMPORARY AMERICA.
BR 2588 CONVERSION OF CHAPLAIN COHEN, THE TARR, HERBERT CAROL SLOTE/ THE HUMOROUS EXPERIENCES AND ADVENTURES OF A JEWISH CHAPLAIN SERVING IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY.
BR 2589 INCIDENT AT VICHY MILLER, ARTHUR JEWEL LIEBER THE PLAYWRIGHT DESCRIBES THE VICHY GOVERNMENT'S TREATMENT OF THE JEWS DURING WORLD WAR II.
BR 2590 DEBORAH HOGAN, BERNICE AN INTERESTING BIOGRAPHY OF THIS GREAT JUDGE OF ANCIENT ISRAEL.
BR 2591 DAVID THE STORY OF BEN-GURION EDELMAN, MAURICE A CLEAR, LIVELY, INTELLIGENT STUDY OF DAVID BEN-GURION. A CONVINCING PORTRAIT OF THIS POWERFUL AND PARADOXICAL WORLD FIGURE.
BR 2592 JONAH DOSS, HELEN AN EXCELLENT FICTIONAL TREATMENT OF THIS HEBREW PROPHET.
BR 2596 ACRES AND PAINS PERELMAN, S.J. HUMOROUS STORY OF A CITY-DWELLER BUYING AND REMODELING A COUNTRY HOUSE.
BR 2597 TREASURE HUNT IN JUDAISM SMITH, HAROLD C. A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH THE ENTIRE TREASURE HOUSE OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE.
BR 2599 STRENGTH PILCHIK, ELY E. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS WHICH PORTRAYS THE RISE OF NAZISM.
BR 2601 TO NUMBER OUR DAYS VAN PAASSEN, PIERRE AN EXCELLENT, TIMELY AND PROVOCATIVE BOOK OF MEMOIRS AND OPINIONS, IT IS A SEQUEL TO THE FAMOUS BOOK DAYS OF OUR YEARS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
BR 2603 LIFE AND THOUGHT OF A.D. GORDON, THE ROSE, HERBERT H. SYLVIA SCHMU A BIOGRAPHY OF THE PIONEER AND PHILOSOPHER OF MODERN ISRAEL WHO FOUNDED THE FIRST KIBBUTZ IN 1905.
BR 2606 GEMS FROM JEWISH LITERATURE TEITELBAUM, ELSA AN ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES BY YIDDISH AUTHORS AVRAHAM REISEN, MENDELE MOCHER SEFORIM, AND OTHERS.
BR 2607 BIRTHDAY KING, THE FIELDING, GABRIEL THE STORY OF THE WEIDMANNS, A PARTLY JEWISH FAMILY WHO, BECAUSE OF THE NAZIS, ARE SPLIT INTO RIVAL FACTIONS OF OPPORTUNISTS, EXPLOITERS AND MORALISTS.
BR 2610 WHOLE LOAF, A STORIES FROM ISRAEL KAHN, SHOLOM J., ED. MARILYN KRAM A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY HEBREW WRITERS THAT MIRRORS THE EXPERIENCES AND TRADITIONS OF MODERN ISRAEL AND ISRAELIS.
BR 2611 ABOAB, FIRST RABBI OF THE AMERICAS HAHN, EMILY A FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST RABBI IN THE NEW WORLD AS WELL AS AN INTERESTING PORTRAIT OF HIS PERIOD.
BR 2612 HOLLOW GLORY SHIHOR, SAMUEL A COMPLETE, FRANK ACCOUNT OF CHAIM WEIZMANN'S LAST FIVE YEARS DURING WHICH HE SERVED AS ISRAEL'S FIRST PRESIDENT.
BR 2615 MENDLEMAN FIRE, AND STORIES MANKOWITZ, WOLF AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES WITH A CHARACTERISTICALLY JEWISH FLAVOR.
BR 2617 TO MOTHER WITH LOVE A TRIBUTE TO GREAT STORIES UNGAR, FREDERICK, ED. LYNN LAPMAN A TRIBUTE TO MOTHERHOOD AND TO THE DEVOTION OF MOTHERS OF ALL TIME.
BR 2618 PASSOVER STORY BIAL, MORRISON DAVID THE STORY AND MEANING OF PASSOVER IS EXPLORED FOR YOUNG READERS.
BR 2621 MOSES WHEELER, OPAL THE STORY OF MOSES' LIFE FOR CHILDREN. AGES 8 TO 12.
BR 2624 FAMILY MAN SULKIN, SYDNEY THE STORY OF A JEWISH FAMILY LIVING IN BOSTON FROM 1932 THROUGH THE MCCARTHY ERA.
BR 2625 SOUND OF THE WALLS, THE TWERSKY, JACOB THE STORY OF A BLIND MAN WHO TOOK HIS PLACE IN THE SIGHTED WORLD AS A TEACHER, FAMILY MAN AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, HUMAN BEING.
BR 2627 MOTHER'S KISSES, A FRIEDMAN, BRUCE JAY A COMEDIC NOVEL DEALING WITH THE PICTURESQUE ADVENTURES OF A MOTHER AND SON.
BR 2629 BETWEEN TWO WORLDS GORDIS, ROBERT ANTHOLOGY OF SERMONS FOR ROSH HASHANAH AND YOM KIPPUR DELIVERED BY THE FAMOUS CONSERVATIVE RABBI.
BR 2632 TEVYE STORIES AND OTHERS ALEICHEM, SHOLOM STORIES ABOUT TEVYE THE MILKMAN AND OTHER ENTERTAINING PERSONALITIES WITH THE TYPICAL FLAVOR CHARACTERISTIC OF THE 'YIDDISH MARK TWAIN.'
BR 2633 HILLEL'S HAPPY HOLIDAYS GAMORAN, MAMIE A RELIGIOUS TEXT FOR CHILDREN CONCERNING THE CELEBRATION OF THE JEWISH FESTIVALS.
BR 2634 CONTEMPORARIES KAZIN, ALFRED ESSAYS OF LITERARY CRITICISM AND ANALYSIS TREATING BOTH CLASSIC AUTHORS--MELVILLE, THOREAU, EMERSON--AND MODERN WRITERS--FAULKNER, SALINGER, BELLOW AND OTHERS.
BR 2639 JUSTICE ON TRIAL THE CASE OF LOUIS D. BRANDEIS TODD, A.L. THE STORY OF THE CONTROVERSIAL APPOINTMENT OF LOUIS D. BRANDEIS TO THE SUPREME COURT. THE ACCESSION OF BRANDEIS, THE FIRST JEW TO SIT ON THE HIGHEST COURT IN THE COUNTRY, MARKED A TURNING POINT IN THE BATTLE FOR EXPANDING FREEDOM.
BR 2641 GLASS ROSE BANKOWSKY, RICHARD WHILE SITTING AT A POLISH WAKE, THE MORTICIAN REFLECTS UPON THE DECEASED'S DAUGHTER AND HIS ENCOUNTER WITH HER THE PREVIOUS SUMMER.
BR 2642 CARPET OF SOLOMON, THE A HEBREW LEGEND ISH-KISHOR, SHULAMITH MRS. A. MOTO THE RETELLING OF A HEBREW LEGEND IN WHICH KING SOLOMON DREAMS HE TRAVELS ON A MAGIC CARPET FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH TO THE OTHER.
BR 2643 FAITH AND LOVE STEINBACH, ALEXANDER ALAN A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS GIVING STANDARDS AND DIRECTIONS FOR A MEANINGFUL, SPIRITUALLY ILLUMINATING LIFE.
BR 2645 MARA OF OLD BABYLON WITHERIDGE, ELIZABETH A STORY OF THE HEBREWS DURING THE LAST TENSE DAYS OF THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY AND THEIR RETURN TO JERUSALEM. MARA RISKS HER OWN FREEDOM TO AID OTHERS.
BR 2646 CHOSEN, THE RIBALOW, HAROLD U. ELAINE LEE AN ANTHOLOGY OF 23 SHORT STORIES, DEPICTING VARIOUS ASPECTS OF AMERICAN-JEWISH LIFE. AMONG THE CONTRIBUTING WRITERS ARE MALAMUD, ANGOFF, AND GOLD.
BR 2647 STREET OF CROCODILES SCHULZ, BRUNO A NOVEL, BASED ON THE AUTHOR'S LIFE, DESCRIBES SCHULZ'S CHILDHOOD YEARS IN A TOWN ON THE PLAINS OF SOUTHWEST POLAND.
BR 2648 BOW IN THE CLOUD, A FANCHIOTTI, MARGHERITA AN IMAGINATIVE NARRATIVE OF A CHILD'S EYE-VIEW OF THE GREAT FLOOD AND LIFE ABOARD THE ARK.
BR 2649 LEADING A JEWISH LIFE IN THE MODERN WORLD MARKOVITZ, S. H., RABBI THIS BOOK IS ESPECIALLY INTENDED FOR PARENTS SEEKING ANSWERS FOR QUESTIONS WHICH ARISE IN THE ADJUSTMENT TO JEWISH LIFE IN A MODERN WORLD.
BR 2650 HUSBAND OF DELILAH LINKLATER, ERIC SAMSON IS DEPICTED AS A GREAT FOLK HERO WHOSE FEATS OF STRENGTH MAINTAINED A THREATENED FAITH AND THE FLAME OF LIFE IN AN OPPRESSED PEOPLE.
BR 2653 HATZKEL THE WATER-CARRIER DUVEDON, A. A NOVEL OF JEWISH LIFE IN POLAND DEPICTING BOTH THE DESPERATION AND INSPIRATION OF A LIFE-STYLE WHICH HAS BEEN OBLITERATED.
BR 2654 CEREMONIES OF JUDAISM, THE IDELSOHN, ABRAHAM Z. A POPULAR DESCRIPTION OF THE ESSENTIAL RITUALS AND CUSTOMS OF JUDAISM.
BR 2655 IT'S GOOD TO BE A JEW KOHN, EUGENE ESSAYS ON THE UNIVERSAL ASPECTS OF JEWISH VALUES AS LIVED IN THE JEWISH HOME AND COMMUNITY, AND AS FOUND IN JEWISH CULTURE AND RELIGION.
BR 2656 ANYBODY'S SPRING MURRAY, A.A. IN THIS NOVEL, ISAAC FONK, ALWAYS TRYING TO PROSPER, FINDS THAT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FAMILY IS A THORN ON HIS PATH, MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO FIND HAPPINESS.
BR 2657 SHAPES OF CLAY HALLER, DINAH THE LOVE STORY OF NIRAH MERON, A YOUNG ISRAELI OFFICER AND BERT DARZIDON, AN AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN, BOTH PRODUCTS OF NAZI EUROPE AND CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY.
BR 2658 MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN DRAZIN, NATHAN A RABBI, CONCERNED WITH THE FATE OF THE JEWISH FAMILY, PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO ALL ASPECTS OF MARRIAGE AND DETERMINES HOW MARRIAGES CAN BE MADE TO LAST.
BR 2659 MIGHTY WARRIOR, THE KLING, SIMCHA AN EXCELLENT JUVENILE BIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF THE GREAT ZIONIST PIONEERS, MENACHEM USSISHKIN.
BR 2660 BIBLE IS FOR YOU, THE ROSENBERG, STUART E. A GUIDE FOR THE ADULT READER ON HOW TO USE THE BIBLE AS A KEY TO UNDERSTANDING ONESELF AND ONE'S ENVIRONMENT.
BR 2661 I NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY CHILDREN OF THERESIENSTADT THE OBSERVATIONS IN VERSE AND ART FORM OF YOUNG CHILDREN IN THE THERESIENSTADT CONCENTRATION CAMP.
BR 2662 STREAMS IN THE WILDERNESS ZELDIS, CHAIM THE ADVENTURES OF AN ENTERPRISING GROUP OF AMERICAN JEWS WHO DECIDE TO SPEND A YEAR IN A ZIONIST PIONEER TRAINING CAMP.
BR 2663 IN THE THICKET SIMON, SOLOMON AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL ABOUT AN ADOLESCENT YESHIVA STUDENT AND HIS PRIVATE WAR WITH HIMSELF, HIS JEWISH HERITAGE, AND TWENTIETH CENTURY POLITICAL-SOCIAL IDEAS.
BR 2665 HIGHWAYS THROUGH JUDAISM REICHERT, VICTOR E, RABBI ESSAYS DEALING WITH OUTSTANDING PERSONALITIES WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 2667 BEGINNERS, THE JACOBSON, DAN FRANCES COAH A NOVEL ABOUT LITHUANIAN JEWS WHO EMIGRATED TO SOUTH AFRICA AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS THEY MADE TO THE COUNTRY'S HISTORY.
BR 2668 FAREWELL TO FEAR KEITLEN, TOMI & NORMAN LOBENZ THE INSPIRING STORY OF HOW THE AUTHOR OVERCAME HER BLINDNESS AND BID FAREWELL TO THE SEGREGATED WORLD OF THE BLIND.
BR 2669 BEYOND THYSELF DONIN, HAYIM A COLLECTION OF SERMONS ON JEWISH THEMES DEALING PARTICULARLY WITH THE APPLICATION OF TRADITIONAL JEWISH ETHICS TO MODERN LIFE.
BR 2670 SERVICE OF THE HEART, THE A GUIDE TO THE JEWISH PRAYERBOOK GARFIEL, EVELYN A GUIDE TO THE JEWISH PRAYER BOOK WHICH COMMENTS ON THE HISTORY AND STRUCTURE OF THE PRAYERS, AS WELL AS THE ORTHODOX, CONSERVATIVE, AND REFORM VIEWPOINTS.
BR 2671 LOXFINGER WEINSTEIN, SOL ESTHER ARBUT THE ADVENTURES OF SECRET AGENT OY-OY-7, A HUMOROUS SATIRE ON THE JAMES BOND SPY NOVELS.
BR 2672 BLESSED IS THE DAUGHTER WAXMAN, MEYER, ISH-KISHOR, SHULAMITH THIS BOOK NOTES THE CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY JEWISH WOMEN AND PROVIDES A GUIDE FOR THE BAT MITZVAH GIRL TOWARD ASSUMING HER PLACE IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY.
BR 2673 TREASURY FOR MY DAUGHTER, A BATIST, BESSIE M., EDITOR HERE IS A REFERENCE BOOK OF JEWISH FESTIVALS WITH INTERESTING MENUS AND RECIPES FOR THE BLIND JEWISH GIRL AND WOMAN.
BR 2674 EMMANUEL VIDAL, NICOLE A POWERFUL NOVEL OF A JEWISH BOY WHOSE MOTHER BELIEVES HIM TO BE THE MESSIAH. IT MOVES FROM THE CAIRO GHETTO TO A PROFOUNDLY MOVING CLIMAX IN ISRAEL.
BR 2675 TO DIE WITH HONOR THE UPRISING OF THE JEWS IN THE WA TUSHNET, LEONARD A DRAMATIC ACCOUNT OF THE RESISTANCE AND UPRISING IN THE WARSAW GHETTO FROM 1940-1943.
BR 2676 BASIC JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA COHEN, HARRY A., RABBI A BOOK FOR THE GENERAL READER IN WHICH RABBI COHEN PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO THE CONCEPTS AND ISSUES UNDERLYING THE JEWISH FAITH AND TRADITION.
BR 2681 HEROES OF JEWISH HISTORY--BOOK I LEWITTES, MORDECAI H. A RELIGIOUS SCHOOL TEXTBOOK OFFERING SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF JEWISH HEROES FROM ABRAHAM TO MOSES.
BR 2682 STORY OF THE SYNAGOGUE LEVIN, MEYER & TOBY KURZBAND NANCY SCHIER A BASIC INTRODUCTION TO THE FUNCTION OF THE SYNAGOGUE IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY.
BR 2683 YEARS OF URGENCY (1938-1941) BLUM, JOHN MORTON SOLIDLY RESEARCHED PRESENTED BIOGRAPHY OF HENRY MORGENTHAU, THE ABLE JEWISH SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY UNDER FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
BR 2684 ASSIMILATION IN AMERICAN LIFE THE ROLE OF RACE, RELIGION AND NAT GORDON, MILTON AN IMPORTANT WORK PRESENTING THE AUTHOR'S INTEREST IN ETHNIC AND CLASS STRATIFICATION IN AMERICAN SOCIETY.
BR 2685 PATHWAYS THROUGH PRAYERBOOK EFFRON, BENJAMIN A DISCUSSION OF BOTH THE ORIGIN AND MEANING OF THE COMPLETE JEWISH LITURGY.
BR 2686 ATONEMENT OF ASHLEY MORDEN, THE BODSWORTH, FRED A NOVEL ABOUT AN EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD BOY WHO JOINS THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE IN WORLD WAR II.
BR 2687 I AM THE BEAUTIFUL STRANGER DREXLER, ROSALYN A HUMOROUS NARRATIVE OF JEWISH FAMILY LIFE BY A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL.
BR 2688 RIGHT WAY, THE ETHICS FOR YOU FREEHOF, LILLIAN S. ETTA EPSTEIN A COLLECTION OF STORIES WHICH CAN SERVE AS A TEXTBOOK ON ETHICS FOR RELIGIOUS SCHOOL STUDENTS.
BR 2689 MODERN JEWISH STORIES CHARLES, GERDA, EDITOR SHORT STORIES OF JEWISH INTEREST CHOSEN FROM THE LITERATURE OF THE PRESENT AND OF THE IMMEDIATE PAST.
BR 2690 TALKS ON JEWISH PRAYER CASPER, BERNARD M, RABBI DISCUSSIONS OF THE VALUE AND MEANING OF PRAYER.
BR 2691 SPOKEN CHOICE, THE BLANK, AMY K. RUTH PARTER/ THESE POEMS, WRITTEN BY AN ENGLISHWOMAN, ARE COMPOSED OF DIALOGUES ON BIBLICAL THEMES AND LYRICS ON NATURE AND CHILDHOOD.
BR 2692 CUCUMBER KING AND OTHER STORIES, THE SAMUEL, EDWIN MRS. LEWIS M A NUMBER OF HUMOROUS TALES, MANY OF WHICH DEAL WITH LIFE IN ISRAEL.
BR 2693 LIFE IN MY HANDS, A EHRLICH, J.W. THIS IS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS CRIMINAL LAWYERS ON THE WEST COAST.
BR 2694 STORY OF JEWISH HOLIDAYS ZELIGS, DR. DOROTHY F. A PRESENTATION OF THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS AND THEIR RELATED PRACTICES APPROPRIATE FOR 9-13 YEAR OLDS.
BR 2696 WISDOM OF THE TALMUD, THE BOKSER, RABBI BEN ZION A POPULAR INTRODUCTION TO THE TALMUD, MEANT FOR THE GENERAL READER.
BR 2699 COMMISSAR, THE VINOKUR, GRIGORY SHERRY BREND THE PLIGHT OF A RED ARMY COMMISSAR DURING WORLD WAR II, WHO DESIRES TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS AS A GOOD COMMUNIST BUT IS PREVENTED BECAUSE HE IS JEWISH.
BR 2700 HOLIDAY NIGHT DREAMS POSY, ARNOLD THIS BOOK RELATES A SERIES OF FICTIONAL EVENTS THAT OCCURRED TO THE FOUR SONS OF THE HAGGADAH. IT HAS VARIOUS METAPHYSICAL AND SYMBOLIC ASPECTS.
BR 2701 IN THE LAND OF KINGS AND PROPHETS SCHWARTZ, JACOB D., RABBI SELECTIONS FROM THE TITLE APPROPRIATELY EDITED FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO PROVIDE A GLIMPSE OF THIS PERIOD IN JEWISH HISTORY.
BR 2702 GOD AROUND US, THE BRISHTO, MYRA A COLLECTION OF POEMS AND PRAYERS ESPECIALLY SUITED FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.
BR 2703 TREASURY OF JEWISH SEA STORIES, A SOBEL, SAMUEL, ED. A COLLECTION OF STORIES OF THE SEA WRITTEN BY OR ABOUT JEWS.
BR 2704 LOVE MAMIS, JUSTIN A JEWISH SHOPKEEPER'S LIFE IS SHATTERED BY THE RETURN OF HIS NON-CONFORMIST SON.
BR 2706 SCALPEL'S EDGE WEINSTEIN, ALFRED A., M.D. A NOVEL ABOUT A MEDICAL STUDENT'S JOURNEY FROM HARVARD TO A BOSTON HOSPITAL. ANTI-SEMITISM, ETHICS, AND CONSERVATISM VERSUS LIBERALISM ARE THE DOMINANT THEMES.
BR 2707 WHO IS MAN? HESCHEL, ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL CONSIDERS THE TIMELESS PROBLEMS OF EXISTENCE, MEANING, VALUE AND MAN'S RELATION TO GOD AND OFFERS ANSWERS FROM A FRESH PERSPECTIVE ON TRADITIONAL THEOLOGY.
BR 2709 DAVID A BIBLE HEROES LIBRARY BOOK BEARMAN, JANE MRS. HARRY G THE STORY OF KING DAVID FOR VERY YOUNG READERS.
BR 2710 BOY OF OLD PRAGUE, A ISH-KISHOR, SULAMITH A NOVEL OF SIXTEENTH CENTURY LIFE ON A MANORIAL ESTATE NEAR PRAGUE.
BR 2713 YEAR OF THE RAT, THE ZARUBICA, MLADIN A STARTLING TALE OF THE ESPIONAGE AND INTRIGUE OF ALLIED INTELLIGENCE AND THE ATTEMPT TO PLANT FALSE PLANS OF THE NORMANDY INVASION IN NAZI HANDS.
BR 2714 MANY LIVES OF OTTO KAHN, THE MATZ, MARY JANE A BIOGRAPHY OF THE INVESTMENT BANKER WHO SERVED AS AN ADVISER TO PRESIDENTS AND WAS A MAJOR PATRON OF THE METROPOLITAN OPERA. KAHN, WHO LIVED FROM 1867-1934, WAS ALSO ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK.
BR 2716 DISRAELI KOMROFF, MANUEL A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF DISRAELI WHICH CONCENTRATES ON HIS JEWISH BIRTH AND ITS EFFECT ON HIS CAREER AND POLICIES.
BR 2717 EXTREME MAGIC A NOVEL AND OTHER STORIES CALISHER, HORTENSE AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES BY A NOTED WRITER WHICH EXPLORES THE MAGIC OF HER WRITING AND THE MARVEL OF HER RANGE.
BR 2718 LIFE AND TIMES OF HEROD THE GREAT, THE PEROWNE, STEWART A SOPHISTICATED SUMMARY OF KING HEROD'S LIFE AND A BACKGROUND HISTORY OF ISRAEL AT THIS TIME.
BR 2719 PROPHETS FOR THE COMMON READER, THE CHASE, MARY ELLEN THIS BOOK CONTAINS A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ABOUT SIX BIBLICAL PROPHETS.
BR 2720 PILLARS OF SALT EPSTEIN, SEYMOUR A SYMPATHETIC PICTURE OF WELL-INTENTIONED PARENTS ALONG WITH THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE WHICH FAILS.
BR 2721 STORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE - BK. 1 KLAPERMAN, GILBERT & LIBBY FROM CREATION TO REBUILDING OF 2ND TEMPLE, COMBINES DEEP RELIGIOUS REVERENCE WITH VIVID RETELLING OF IMPORTANT EVENTS.
BR 2722 WHITE MARBLE LADY OTTLEY, ROI THE STORY OF AN INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE IS THE BASIS OF THIS NOVEL OF CONTEMPORARY HARLEM AND MODERN SOCIETY.
BR 2723 RETURN TO FREEDOM KAMM, JOSEPHINE EXCITING ADVENTURE STORY OF A JEWISH BOY LIVING A MARRANO-LIKE EXISTENCE IN CROMWELL'S ENGLAND. A SPLENDIDLY RESEARCHED DRAMATIZATION OF THE JEWS' STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM IN ENGLAND.
BR 2724 BIALIK TREASURY, A SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF HAYYI SEGAL, JACOB E., RABBI, EDITOR TRANSLATIONS OF CHILDREN'S POETRY, SONGS, VERSES AND PROSE BY THIS GREAT MASTER OF HEBREW LITERATURE.
BR 2725 UNDERSTANDING THE TALMUD TRATTNER, ERNEST A STUDY OF THE CONTENTS AND MEANING OF THE TALMUD AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER AREAS OF JEWISH LIFE AND LAW.
BR 2727 HUNTER, THE FRIEDMAN, TUVIA RICHARD HARV THE DIRECTOR OF THE HAIFA INSTITUTE FOR DOCUMENTATION OF NAZI WAR CRIMES TELLS HIS LIFE STORY WITH EMPHASIS ON THE CRUCIAL ROLE HE PLAYED IN LOCATING ADOLF EICHMANN.
BR 2729 SOLDIERS IN JUDEA FREULICH, ROMAN STORIES AND VIGNETTES ABOUT THE JEWISH LEGION WHICH FOUGHT WITH THE ALLIES DURING WORLD WAR II AND ALSO HELPED FIGHT FOR THE CREATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 2732 STORY OF THE JEWISH WAY OF LIFE LEVIN, MEYER & KURZBAND, TOBY A DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS AND CEREMONIES WHICH ARE PART OF THE JEWISH LIVING.
BR 2734 JEWISH CHILD EVERY DAY, THE COVICH, S., EDITOR A BOOK OF STORIES DESIGNED TO TEACH BASIC IDEAS OF JUDAISM TO CHILDREN AGES 3-5.
BR 2736 WHO KNOWS TEN? CONE, MOLLY A COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S STORIES THEMATICALLY RELATED TO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
BR 2737 KIBBUTZ THAT WAS STERN, BORIS THE AUTHOR SHOWS THE CHANGES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE ORGANIZATION AND ACTIVITIES OF THE KIBBUTZ, THE RESULTING PROBLEMS, AND THE ATTEMPTS TO RESOLVE THEM.
BR 2738 CUSTOM AND SURVIVAL A STUDY OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF RA STEIMAN, SIDNEY A STUDY OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF RABBI JACOB MOLIN, KNOWN AS THE 'MAHARIL,' WHO AUTHORED A BOOK ON JEWISH LAWS AND CUSTOMS AND HELPED INSURE THE SURVIVAL OF HIS PEOPLE DURING THE PERSECUTIONS OF THE 14TH AND 15TH CENTURIES.
BR 2740 ROLL JORDAN ROLL THE LIFE STORY OF A RIVER AND ITS ST. JOHN, ROBERT ELAINE SUSSM THE STORY OF THE JORDAN RIVER: ITS ORIGINS, PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND THE PEOPLE AND EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH IT. ALSO DISCUSSED IS THE RIVER'S ROLE IN THE MODERN HISTORY OF ISRAEL AND JORDAN.
BR 2741 MY MEMOIRS PERETZ, ISAAC LEIB PERETZ'S MEMOIRS PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO HIS LIFE AND WORK.
BR 2742 STRANGE WIVES BARKER, SHIRLEY A NOVEL DEALING WITH THE PRIVATE LIVES AND ATTITUDES OF FAMILIES LIVING IN EUROPE DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
BR 2743 ENVY THE FRIGHTENED DAYAN, YAEL THE STORY OF A SENSITIVE SMALL BOY WHO IS MADE TO FEEL BY HIS FATHER THAT HE MUST NEITHER FEEL NOR SHOW FEAR.
BR 2744 LISTENING HEART, THE GOLDFARB, SOLOMON, RABBI A STUDY OF THE PROPHETIC PORTIONS (HAFTOROT) RECITED ON SABBATHS IN THE SYNAGOGUE.
BR 2745 TRIAL AND TRIUMPH MORRISON, L.M. AND R.G. HUBLER A NOVEL ABOUT MAIMONIDES, HIS LIFE AND THE POLITICAL SITUATION OF THE TIME WRITTEN FROM THE POINTS OF VIEW OF HIS FATHER AND SON.
BR 2748 ISLANDS OF COMPASSION LEVITAN, TINA THE STORY OF MAJOR JEWISH HOSPITALS IN NEW YORK AND THE PIONEERING ROLE THEY PLAYED IN ACHIEVING IMPROVED MEDICAL CARE IN THE CITY AND INFLUENCING OTHER COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.
BR 2750 ISRAEL NEW PEOPLE IN AN OLD LAND EDELMAN, LILY AN INFORMATIVE STUDY OF MODERN ISRAEL, WHICH TOUCHES ON EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE WITHIN THE COUNTRY.
BR 2752 JUSTICE IN JERUSALEM HAUSNER, GIDEON THE PROSECUTOR OF THE EICHMANN TRIAL HAS COMPILED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS AS WELL AS THE GERMAN PLAN FOR JEWISH GENOCIDE.
BR 2753 PAINTED BIRD, THE KOSINSKI, JERZY NANCY SCHIER ALTHOUGH IT EXPOSES BRUTALITY, THIS SAGA OF A HOMELESS BOY IN A NIGHTMARE WORLD GLOWS WITH HUMANITY AND COMPASSION.
BR 2754 MY FATHER AND I SCHILDKRAUT, JOSEPH A PORTRAIT OF HIS ACTOR-FATHER, RUDOLF, BY THE SON WHO ALSO BECAME A RENOWNED PERFORMER.
BR 2755 GREAT MARCH, THE POST-BIBLICAL JEWISH STORIES - BOO LURIE, ROSE G. A SEQUEL TO BOOK I, THIS TEXT PROVIDES ADDITIONAL STORIES AS AN INTRODUCTION TO JEWISH HISTORY.
BR 2756 BEHOLD MY MESSENGER SILVERMAN, ALTHEA O. A DISCUSSION OF THE LIVES AND TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHETS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 2757 SO STRANGE MY PATH A SPIRITUAL PILGRIMAGE CARMEL, ABRAHAM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ANGLICAN AND CATHOLIC PRIEST WHO CONVERTED TO ORTHODOX JUDAISM.
BR 2758 RESTLESS SPIRIT SELECTED WRITINGS OF ZALMAN SHNEOU SHNEOUR, ZALMAN. MOSHE SPIEGEL, TRA BIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS AND SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF THE NOTED HEBREW-YIDDISH LITERARY FIGURE WHO LIVED FROM 1887-1959. TOGETHER WITH BIALIK AND TCHERNICHOWSKY, SHNEOUR WAS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MAJOR HEBREW-YIDDISH POETS OF HIS GENERATION.
BR 2759 LOOK BEYOND TOMORROW MUDRA, MARIE A JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT DISCOVERS HOW TO GET ALONG WITH PEOPLE BY DISCUSSING HIS FEELINGS WITH HIS CLASSMATES AND THEREFORE ATTAINING A BETTER AND MORE MATURE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES THAT EXIST.
BR 2760 ONCE MORE FROM THE BEGINNING MERRILL, ROBERT AND SANDFORD DODY A MOST ENGAGING AUTOBIOGRAPHY MADE SO BY MERRILL'S AFFECTIONATE BUT PERCEPTIVE PORTRAYAL OF HIS FAMILY LIFE.
BR 2761 RIGHT BURGER, THE LEE, HENRY THE SOCIAL MIX OF THE UPPER CRUST, BOTH JEW AND GENTILE AT THE HOUSATONIC YACHT CLUB AND RACIAL PREJUDICE AS THE UNDERLYING EVIL.
BR 2762 COUNT OF COUCY, THE LEHMANN, MARCUS A HISTORICAL NOVEL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE SET IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE DURING THE AGE OF THE FRENCH-JEWISH TALMUDIC SCHOLARS.
BR 2763 EXOTIC JEWISH COMMUNITIES STRIZOWER, SCHIFRA AN ACCOUNT OF REMOTE JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN ASIA.
BR 2764 HISTORY OF ISRAEL, A JOHNSTON, LEONARD AN OUTLINE OF JEWISH HISTORY FROM ANCIENT ISRAEL TO THE CONQUEST OF POMPEY. A BRIEF HISTORY WHICH IS ESPECIALLY VALUABLE TO THE UNINITIATE.
BR 2767 CHOSEN SPARROW, A CASPARY, VERA A SUSPENSE NOVEL ABOUT A JEWISH WAR ORPHAN WHO GREW UP IN A NAZI PRISON.
BR 2768 WAY TO GOD, THE SILVER, MAXWELL THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE RELIGIOUS VIEWS OF THE HEBREW PROPHETS IN MODERN TERMS.
BR 2770 SIGNAL FIRES OF LACHISH, THE GUBER, RIVKA A SENSITIVE NARRATIVE SET IN ISRAEL AFTER THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE IN 1948. THE FOCUS IS ON AN IMMIGRANT FAMILY AND THE HARD ECONOMIC SITUATION AT THE TIME.
BR 2771 WAITING FOR THE END FIEDLER, LESLIE A. A VIEW OF THE PRESENT AMERICAN CULTURAL SITUATION AS EVIDENCED IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE.
BR 2773 UNFINISHED MEMOIR BARROWAY, HARRY L. THE AUTHOR'S DIARY FROM 1884-1965, HIS LIFE AND TIMES.
BR 2775 SELECTED POEMS OF HAYYIM NAHMAN BIALIK, THE EFROS, ISRAEL, TRANS. A SELECTION OF POEMS BY HAYYIM NAHMAN BIALIK WHO WAS AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE HEBREW LITERARY RENAISSANCE AND WHO BROUGHT MODERNITY TO THE ANCIENT LANGUAGE.
BR 2777 BOOKS OF THIRTY YEARS FREEHOF, SOLOMON B. A SYNOPSIS OF MODERN LITERATURE LECTURES GIVEN AT RODEF SHALOM TEMPLE, PITTSBURGH, PA OVER THE PAST 30 YEARS. TOPICS INCLUDED ARE NOVELS, AMERICA, POLITICS, AND MAJOR FIGURES.
BR 2778 GOD OF THE BEGINNINGS, THE ARON, ROBERT THIS PREHISTORY OF THE GOD OF THE BIBLE AND HIS FIRST MANIFESTATIONS INCLUDES SOURCES FROM THE TALMUD, MIDRASH AND DISCOVERIES OF ETHNOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY.
BR 2779 PORTRAIT OF A JEW MEMMI, ALBERT THE AUTHOR ANALYZES HIS LIFE AS A JEW AND EXAMINES FACTS AND FALLACIES REGARDING THE HISTORIC, ECONOMIC, AND BIOLOGICAL TRAITS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 2780 DISCOVERY AT ASPEN RUSKAY, SOPHIE A NOVELETTE FOR TEEN-AGERS ABOUT A SUMMER AT THE COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL AND A JEWISH GIRL'S DISCOVERY OF HERSELF AND HER HERITAGE.
BR 2781 WITH A CAST OF THOUSANDS A HOLLYWOOD CHILDHOOD ZIMMER, JILL SCHARY BY THE DAUGHTER OF THE FAMOUS DORE SCHARY, THIS IS A FAMILY CHRONICLE PRESENTING A CHILD'S LIFE IN A WEALTHY JEWISH HOME.
BR 2782 LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, A CHOTZINOFF, SAMUEL GERT ZUCKERM A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS WITH WELL-KNOWN COMPOSERS AND CONDUCTORS: JASCHA HEIFETZ, VLADIMIR HOROWITZ, RICHARD RODGERS, AND OTHERS.
BR 2783 IS CURLY JEWISH? JACOBS, PAUL A SELF-PORTRAIT OF A JEWISH RADICAL ILLUMINATING THREE TURBULENT DECADES OF SOCIAL UNREST (1935-1965).
BR 2784 VATICAN II AND THE JEWS CARTERS, F.E. POPE JOHN'S STATEMENT ON JEWISH PEOPLE AND CATHOLIC SPIRITUAL POLICY. A DEFINITIVE STRIKE AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM.
BR 2786 INSECURITY OF FREEDOM, THE ESSAYS ON HUMAN EXISTENCE HESCHEL, ABRAHAM JOSHUA RUBELLE SCHA A STUDY OF MODERN MAN: HIS SOCIAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS, AND THE SOLUTIONS WHICH MAY BE DERIVED FROM RELIGION. WRITTEN BY THE TWENTIETH CENTURY SCHOLAR AND THINKER.
BR 2787 NORTH TO FREEDOM HOLM, ANNE BEA GERSTENS A STORY ABOUT A 12-YEAR OLD'S ESCAPE FROM A PRISON CAMP AND HIS WANDERINGS AROUND EUROPE.
BR 2788 COURT FACTOR, THE APSLER, ALFRED THE STORY OF SAMSON WERTHEIMER (1658-1724), CHIEF RABBI OF HUNGARY, SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN, FINANCIAL ADVISOR, AND STUDENT OF TALMUD.
BR 2789 WHAT IS THIS JEWISH HERITAGE? LEWISOHN, LUDWIG AN INFORMATIVE STUDY OF JEWISH CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION.
BR 2790 LEGACY OF MAIMONIDES, THE BOKSER, BEN ZION A BIOGRAPHY AND ANALYSIS OF THE THOUGHT OF MAIMONIDES, THE TOWERING FIGURE OF MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY.
BR 2791 WORLD-OVER STORY BOOK, THE BELTH, NORTON AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES ON JEWISH HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, CUSTOMS, AND CEREMONIES COLLECTED FROM THE 'WORLD OVER' PERIODICAL FOR CHILDREN.
BR 2792 WORLD AS I SEE IT, THE EINSTEIN, ALBERT THROUGH A SELECTION OF ADDRESSES, LETTERS AND WRITINGS, THE FAMED AUTHOR/SCIENTIST PRESENTS HIS VIEWS ON EDUCATION, PEACE, WAR, WORLD POLITICS AND THE JEWS.
BR 2793 BIBLE STORY ZELIGS, DOROTHY A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN BOOK FOR AGES 9-12 PRESENTING THE PERIOD FROM JOSHUA THROUGH THE LIFE OF SOLOMON.
BR 2794 FAVOR THE RUNNER KENNEDY, J.R. AN ENTERTAINING, POWERFUL NOVEL ABOUT SHOW BUSINESS AND THE WRETCHEDNESS OF A DIFFICULT JEWISH BOYHOOD.
BR 2796 DEAD SEA SCROLLS, THE A NEW HISTORICAL APPROACH ROTH, CECIL ROTH, A PROFESSIONAL HISTORIAN, WRITES ABOUT THE FINDINGS, ORIGIN, AND BACKGROUND OF THE FAMOUS DEAD SEA SCROLLS. CONTAINS EXTENSIVE APPENDICES.
BR 2798 THIS PEOPLE ISRAEL THE MEANING OF JEWISH EXISTENCE BAECK, LEO SALO MINKIN THIS BOOK, WRITTEN BY THE WELL-KNOWN GERMAN RABBI AND THEOLOGIAN, WAS BEGUN WHILE THE AUTHOR WAS IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP, AND PRESENTS BAECK'S THOUGHTS ON THE ETHICAL AND SPIRITUAL BASIS OF JUDAISM.
BR 2799 COMPANION TO THE BIBLE FELDMAN, A.J. A HANDBOOK OF BIBLE INFORMATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS.
BR 2800 LIVING FAITH KLAPPHOLZ, KURT, RABBI A PHILOSOPHICAL WORK DEALING WITH THE JEWISH SENSE OF AWARENESS OF THE OMNIPRESENT GOD AND HOW RELIGION MAY BE APPLIED TO THE REALITY OF OUR DAILY EXISTENCE.
BR 2801 RABBI AND THE MINISTER VOSS, C.H. THIS BIOGRAPHY OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF STEPHEN S. WISE AND JOHN H. HOLMES IS AN INSPIRING ACCOUNT OF FRIENDSHIP AND RELIGIOUS SERVICE.
BR 2802 JEWS IN AMERICA GAY, RUTH THIS BOOK BEGINS WITH THE FIRST JEWISH IMMIGRATION IN 1654 AND FOLLOWS EACH MAJOR GROUP OF JEWS - THEIR ADAPTATION TO AMERICA, IMPACT ON AMERICAN LIFE, ETC.
BR 2805 AMERICA IS DIFFERENT ROSENBERG, STUART E. HOW AMERICAN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT HAS IMPACTED ON JEWS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY.
BR 2806 GREAT JEWISH WOMEN LEVINGER, E. E. THIRTY-FIVE STIRRING BIOGRAPHIES OF HEROINES OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, WRITTEN WITH FINE CARE FOR HISTORICAL DETAIL.
BR 2807 LITTLE DID I KNOW RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS SAMUEL, MAURICE YETTA MOTOLI A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON BEING A JEW. THE AUTHOR ALSO RECREATES WORLDS THAT NO LONGER EXIST.
BR 2809 BUILDERS OF JERUSALEM, THE HYMAN, FRIEDA CLARK A NOVEL BASED ON THE STORY OF NEHEMIAH THE PROPHET AND HIS NEPHEW, BONI, WHO WANTS TO REMAIN IN PERSIA. WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN.
BR 2810 GATES OF THE FOREST, THE WIESEL, ELIE MRS. IRVING A NOVEL OF A CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVOR WHO IS BESET BY THE QUESTION OF HOW TO LIVE IN A WORLD WHICH HE BELIEVES HAS BEEN ABANDONED BY GOD.
BR 2811 MENORAH TREASURY SCHWARZ, LEO W., ED. AN ANTHOLOGY OF ARTICLES ABOUT JEWISH LIFE FROM THE MAGAZINE 'THE MENORAH JOURNAL.'
BR 2812 PRESCRIPTION FOR HEARTACHE HERTZ, RICHARD C. A GUIDE ON HOW TO BATTLE WORRY, FEARS, ANXIETY AND TO ACHIEVE HAPPINESS USING JEWISH ETHICS.
BR 2814 TEACHING OF CONTEMPT, THE CHRISTIAN ROOTS OF ANTI-SEMITISM ISAAC, JULES A FRENCH HISTORIAN SHOWS THAT THE ANTI-JEWISH TREND IN CHRISTIAN PREACHING HAS NO BIBLICAL JUSTIFICATION.
BR 2815 STORY OF SAUL THE KING WADDELL, HELEN THE STORY OF SAUL, THE FIRST KING OF ISRAEL. WRITTEN FOR PRE-TEEN READERS.
BR 2816 HOW TO BE AN ALIEN MIKES, GEORGE A SATIRICAL ANTHOLOGY OF TRAVELOGUES IN WHICH THE AUTHOR ENTERTAININGLY COMBINES CONTINENTAL WIT, SUAVITY AND BRITISH UNDERSTATEMENT.
BR 2817 DEPUTY, THE HOCHHUTH, ROLF THE TRANSLATION FROM THE GERMAN OF THE CONTROVERSIAL PLAY WHICH RAISED THE ISSUE OF POPE PIUS XII'S SILENCE WHILE SIX MILLION JEWS WERE MURDERED.
BR 2818 LEADERS OF OUR PEOPLE. BK. I GUMBINER, JOSEPH H. BLANCHE HALP BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SOME WELL-KNOWN LEADERS IN JEWISH HISTORY, BEGINNING WITH MATTATHIAS AND HIS SONS.
BR 2819 EDUCATION OF HYMAN KAPLAN, THE ROSS, LEONARD Q. LOU JACOBI IN A SERIES OF HUMOROUS SKETCHES, ROSS DEPICTS HYMAN KAPLAN AND HIS STRUGGLES WITH THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AT THE AMERICAN PREPARATORY NIGHT SCHOOL FOR ADULTS.
BR 2820 FILL A BLANK PAGE A BIOGRAPHY OF SOLOMON SCER EISENBERG, AZRIEL SIDNEY BIEGE A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FOUNDER OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM WRITTEN ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 2821 MAMA MADE MINKS SANDBERG, SARA MARIAN WARSH A HUMOROUS MEMOIR OF LIFE IN THE FAMILY FUR BUSINESS.
BR 2822 CHILDREN AT THE GATE, THE WALLANT, EDWARD LEWIS LYNN WEINER A MODERN PARABLE IN WHICH THE AUTHOR COMBINES JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN IDEOLOGIES TO EXPOSE THE INDIFFERENCE TO HUMAN SUFFERING.
BR 2823 BEN-GURION ST. JOHN, ROBERT A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL, HIGHLIGHTING HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE FROM ITS PIONEER DAYS TO MODERN TIMES.
BR 2824 WHAT THE MOON BROUGHT WEILERSTEIN, SADIE ROSE A COLLECTION OF STORIES FOR CHILDREN HIGHLIGHTING ALL THE SIGNIFICANT DAYS ON THE JEWISH CALENDAR.
BR 2825 THEY ALL ARE JEWS FROM MOSES TO EINSTEIN DAVIS, MAC A SERIES OF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES PRESENTING PERSONALITIES FROM MOSES TO EINSTEIN.
BR 2828 STORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE - BK. 4 KLAPERMAN, GILBERT & LIBBY KLAPERMAN NANCY SCHIER THIS FOURTH BOOK IN THE HISTORY SERIES COVERS THE PERIOD FROM THE FIRST JEWISH SETTLEMENTS IN AMERICA TO ISRAEL IN THE 1950S.
BR 2829 WOMAN OF VIOLENCE COHEN, GEULA CAN A NOBLE END JUSTIFY IGNOBLE MEANS? THIS QUESTION IGNITES THIS MEMOIR BY A WOMAN WHO FOUND HER ANSWER AS A MEMBER OF THE STERN GANG FIGHTING FOR ISRAEL.
BR 2830 SOMETHING ABOUT MY FATHER ANGOFF, CHARLES EVELYN SIMON A COLLECTION OF CHARACTER SKETCHES PORTRAYING JEWISH PEOPLE IN AMERICA.
BR 2833 JOEL OF THE HANGING GARDENS EDMONDS, I. G. THE STORY OF A YOUNG HEBREW SLAVE WHO HELPS HIS EXILED PEOPLE ESCAPE FROM BABYLON. APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN AGES 9-12.
BR 2834 LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS GORDIS, ROBERT A SELECTION OF SERMONS PREACHED ON THE HIGH HOLY DAYS BY A NOTED RABBI AND PROFESSOR AT THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
BR 2836 WISE MEN OF HELM AND THEIR MERRY TALES SIMON, SOLOMON RICA FEIL, L A COLLECTION OF FOLK TALES ABOUT A MYTHICAL VILLAGE OF WELL-INTENTIONED SIMPLETONS WHO INVARIABLY MEET WITH MISHAP AND CALAMITY.
BR 2837 ESSONS IN JEWISH LIVING COLODNER, SOLOMON AN OUTLINE OF LAWS AND CUSTOMS.
BR 2840 HOW THE JEWISH PEOPLE GREW UP SOLOFF, MORDECAI I. DORIS CARVER A PANORAMIC HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND JUDAISM OVER THE AGES.
BR 2841 BIBLE TALES FOR VERY YOUNG CHILDREN, BOOK I COHEN, LENORE BIBLE TALES SELECTED AND RETOLD FOR VERY YOUNG CHILDREN.
BR 2842 ABC BIBLE AND HOLIDAY STORIES ARONOFF, DAISY PHILIPS BIBLE TALES AND STORIES OF JEWISH HOLIDAYS FOR VERY YOUNG READERS.
BR 2843 ADVENTURES WITH ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN SELLEW, CATHERINE F. LEE KEIL STORIES FOR CHILDREN WHICH TELL OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS AND FAILURES OF THE DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM IN THE EVOLUTION OF THEIR BELIEF IN ONE GOD.
BR 2844 SIMPLE IN HEART, THE SAMUEL, MAURICE THIS WORK IS AN EXCERPT FROM PRINCE OF THE GHETTO. IT REVEALS THE FOLKLORE AND FOLKWAYS OF THE POLISH JEWS AS REFLECTED IN THE WORKS OF I.L. PERETZ,
BR 2846 INSIDE THE SYNAGOGUE FREEMAN, GRACE & JOAN SUGARMAN A HISTORY OF THE SYNAGOGUE FOR PRESCHOOL AND PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS. RITUAL OBJECTS ARE INTRODUCED AND EXPLAINED. THE ROLE OF THE RABBI IS ALSO DISCUSSED.
BR 2847 SUMMER STORM ANGOFF, CHARLES A TENDER NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG TEENAGE AMERICAN GIRL, HER HOPES AND DREAMS, AND HER CONFLICTS, A SEQUEL TO THE BITTER SPRING.
BR 2848 SONS OF ABRAHAM KRITZECK, JAMES THE AUTHOR EXAMINES THE RELIGIOUS, CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES AMONG THE THREE GREAT WORLD RELIGIONS.
BR 2850 FIXER MALAMUD, BERNARD NANCY SCHIER MALAMUD BASED THIS NOVEL ON THE BEILIS BLOOD LIBEL COURT CASE IN KIEV IN 1913.
BR 2851 GOD AND HIS PEOPLE BASSAGO, HAROLD, EDITOR A GOOD, COHERENT, RE-TELLING OF THE OLD TESTAMENT WHICH IS EXCELLENT FOR READING ALOUD. APPROPRIATE FOR AGES 6-12.
BR 2852 ALL ABOUT THE DESERT EPSTEIN, SAM ; EPSTEIN, BERYL NATALIE STRA COMPREHENSIVE, STRAIGHTFORWARD INFORMATION ABOUT DESERTS AROUND THE WORLD.
BR 2853 LIVING TALMUD, THE THE WISDOM OF THE FATHERS AND ITS GOLDIN, JUDAH A TRANSLATION OF PIRKE AVOT WHICH INCLUDES THE TEACHINGS OF THE SAGES ON THE CONDUCT OF HUMAN LIFE AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN RELATIONS.
BR 2854 CONCEPTS OF JUDAISM SAVIN, JACOB THE CONCEPTS OF THE VARIOUS INTERPRETATIONS OF JUDAISM - ORTHODOXY, CONSERVATISM, REFORM, RECONSTRUCTIONISM, CHASSIDISM - ARE CLEARLY EXPLAINED.
BR 2855 INGATHERING GAMZEY, ROBERT ISRAEL'S KIBBUTZ LIVING AND THE INCREASE OF THAT COUNTRY'S POPULATION FROM THE IMMIGRATION OF PEOPLE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES.
BR 2856 TRADITION SPRING 1963, VOL.5 NO.2 RABBINICAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA SCHOLARLY ARTICLES RELATED TO JEWISH ORTHODOXY WHICH INCLUDES RECENT HALAKHIC LITERATURE AND BOOK REVIEWS. SOME SAMPLE TOPICS: WELFARE, ETHICS, AND TRANSLATING THE TORAH.
BR 2857 TRIAL BEGINS, THE TERTZ, ABRAM A SATIRE ON THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST 'ROOTLESS COSMOPOLITANS,' WHICH RESULTED FROM THE ANTI-SEMITISM AND PARANOIA IN RUSSIA DURING THE LAST YEAR OF STALIN'S LIFE.
BR 2858 ISRAEL COMAY, JOAN AND MOSHE PEARLMAN A COMPREHENSIVE PROFILE OF THE NATION, ITS GOVERNMENT, ECONOMY, HISTORY AND PLACE IN THE MODERN WORLD.
BR 2859 MISSION, THE HABE, HANS MARIAN BAER BASED ON THE AUTHOR'S ACTUAL REPORT OF THE EVIAN REFUGEE CONFERENCE WHICH TOOK PLACE THE SUMMER OF 1938 ON LAKE GENEVA, THIS NOVEL IS A CONDEMNATION OF WORLD APATHY WHICH RESULTED IN THE DEATHS OF THOUSANDS OF AUSTRIAN AND GERMAN JEWS.
BR 2860 NOAH'S ARK WIESNER, WILLIAM THE BIBLE STORY OF NOAH'S ARK RETOLD FOR YOUNG CHILDREN IN A FAIRY-TALE STYLE.
BR 2861 CAN FAITH SURVIVE? EISENDRATH, MAURICE N. A SPOKESMAN FOR REFORM JEWRY, A PRESIDENT OF THE UNION OF AMERICAN HEBREW CONGREGATIONS, SPEAKS HIS MIND ON A VARIETY OF SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS.
BR 2863 EDUCATION IN ISRAEL BENTWICH, JOSEPH S. THIS BOOK DEALS WITH THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, THE LEGAL BASIS FOR STATE EDUCATION, THE VARIOUS FORMS OF EDUCATION, KIBBUTZIM, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND ARAB EDUCATION.
BR 2867 THELMA YELLIN PIONEER MUSICIAN BENTWICH, MARGERY THE FAMOUS CELLIST-VIOLINIST WHO WENT TO PALESTINE FROM AMERICA TO BECOME A MAJOR SPOKESMAN FOR ISRAEL THROUGH HER MUSIC.
BR 2868 THAT DAY WITH GOD PINE, WILLIAM M., ED. A COLLECTION OF SERMONS FROM JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN LEADERS ON THE DAY OF THE FUNERAL OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY.
BR 2869 ROYAL RESIDENT LEHMANN, MARCUS A HISTORICAL NOVEL SET IN THE MEDIEVAL JEWISH COMMUNITY OF HALBERSTADT, GERMANY. WRITTEN FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 2870 DAVID'S STRANGER SHAMIR, MOSHE A POWERFULLY WRITTEN HISTORICAL NOVEL OF KING DAVID AND THE DEATH OF URIAH THE HITTITE WHICH BRINGS TO LIFE THE WORLD OF DAVID'S REIGN IN ISRAEL.
BR 2871 PROFILES OF ELEVEN EPSTEIN, MELECH MARGE TEPPER PROFILES OF SOME OF THE LEADERS IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY WHO PROVIDED ASSISTANCE AND GAVE DIRECTION TO IMMIGRANT JEWS DURING THEIR FIRST YEARS IN AMERICA.
BR 2872 AMERICAN PROMISE ISH-KISHOR, SULAMITH A WELL RESEARCHED ACCOUNT OF THE ROLE OF THE JEWS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW WORLD.
BR 2875 ISRAEL TODAY ESSRIG, HARRY; SEGAL, ABRAHAM A TEXTBOOK FOR RELIGIOUS SCHOOL STUDENTS ON ISRAEL OF THE PAST AND OF THE PRESENT INTERSPERSED WITH SIMPLE HEBREW PHRASES. PRODUCED BY THE UAHC (REFORM MOVEMENT). © 1964
BR 2876 ANGUISH OF THE JEWS TWENTY-THREE CENTURIES OF ANTI-SEM FLANNERY, EDWARD H. ZOE BELTH A STUDY OF ANTI-SEMITISM, WRITTEN BY A CATHOLIC PRIEST, COVERING CENTURIES OF CONFLICT BETWEEN JEWS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND EXAMINING DISCRIMINATION AND GENOCIDE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 2877 BRONZE BOW, THE SPEARE, ELIZABETH GEORGE RENEE GOODMA A NOVEL OF JEWISH REBELLION DURING ROMAN TIMES.
BR 2878 SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION, THE WEBER, MAX THIS STUDY AIMS AT THE CORE OF THE RELIGIOUS PROBLEM AND AS SUCH IS A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIOLOGY.
BR 2880 CHOSEN, THE POTOK, CHAIM MRS. ALBERT A NOVEL OF TWO ORTHODOX JEWISH YOUTHS WHOSE BOND OF FRIENDSHIP GROWS DESPITE DIFFERENCES IN THEIR BACKGROUNDS AND VIEWS.
BR 2882 RELIGION IN ACTION DIRKS, LEE E. A DISCUSSION ON HOW AMERICA'S FAITHS ARE MEETING NEW CHALLENGES.
BR 2883 JEWISH MARRIAGE ANTHOLOGY, THE GOODMAN, PHILIP & HANNAH GOODMAN AN ILLUSTRATED ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES, RITUALS, POETRY, AND FOLKLORE SURROUNDING THE JEWISH WEDDING CEREMONY.
BR 2884 MANDELBAUM GATE, THE SPARK, MURIEL A NOVEL OF HIGH ADVENTURE AND INTRIGUE SET AT JERUSALEM'S MANDELBAUM GATE INVOLVING A BROAD CANVAS OF CHARACTERS.
BR 2890 BEN GURION LOOKS BACK PEARLMAN, MOSHE ELAINE LEE A PORTRAIT OF THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL, BASED ON A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS.
BR 2891 FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL SACHAR, HOWARD MORLEY THIS BOOK ABOUNDS ABOUT ISRAEL AND PROVIDES THE READER WITH AN INTELLIGENT AND SENSITIVE INSIGHT INTO ISRAELI LIFE.
BR 2892 HE WHO SAW EVERYTHING FAGLES, ANITA A RETELLING OF THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH, THE LEGENDARY BABYLONIAN KING, AND THE ACCOUNT OF THE FLOOD. WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN AGES 9 TO 12.
BR 2894 WORLDS LOST AND FOUND EISENBERG, AZRIEL & ELKIN, DOV NATALIE STRA A COLLECTION OF 13 STORIES OF GREAT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES WRITTEN IN A SIMPLE, UNDERSTANDABLE STYLE.
BR 2895 FAMOUS MUSICIANS OF JEWISH ORIGINS SALESKI, GDAL AN ANTHOLOGY OF BIOGRAPHIES OF FAMOUS JEWISH MUSICIANS, INCLUDING ISAAC STERN AND OTHERS WHO MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN MUSIC.
BR 2896 DIARY OF THE SINAI CAMPAIGN DAYAN, MOSHE HERBERT PELS A DAY-TO-DAY ACCOUNT OF THE 1956 ISRAELI CONFLICT WITH EGYPT, WRITTEN BY THE GENERAL WHO MASTERMINDED THE CAMPAIGN.
BR 2897 AMERICAN JEWS THEIR STORY HANDLIN, OSCAR A HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THEIR EUROPEAN BACKGROUND AND IMMIGRATION TO AMERICA. INCLUDES PORTRAITS OF FAMOUS AMERICAN JEWS.
BR 2898 MOST OF S.J. PERELMAN, THE. PART 2 AND PART 3. PERELMAN, S.J. A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES WRITTEN BY THE HUMORIST.
BR 2899 AGRIPPA'S DAUGHTER FAST, HOWARD A STORY ABOUT HEROD'S DAUGHTER, BERENICE, DURING THE ROMAN CONQUEST OF JUDEA. CAUGHT BETWEEN OPPOSING FACTIONS, SHE BEARS WITNESS TO THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND INTERACTS WITH THE NOTED PERSONALITIES OF THE ERA. REMAKE OF HAZEL GREENE'S 1972 RECORDING.
BR 2900 LET MY PEOPLE GO FINEGAN, JACK THIS HISTORICAL NOVEL RECREATES THE STORY OF THE EXODUS AND DEMONSTRATES THE UNIQUENESS OF THE MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS.
BR 2901 CAPTIVE RABBI, THE THE STORY OF RABBI MEIR OF ROTHENB FREEHOF, LILLIAN S. MILDRED RAKO THE LIFE OF RABBI MEIR OF ROTHENBERG, A WELL-KNOWN TALMUDIST OF 13TH CENTURY EUROPE. THIS BOOK ALSO PROVIDES A PICTURE OF JEWISH LIFE AT THE TIME.
BR 2902 JEWS OF SILENCE, THE A PERSONAL REPORT ON SOVIET JEWRY WIESEL, ELIE BERTHA WOLLI THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES HIS VISIT TO FIVE RUSSIAN CITIES WHERE HE TALKED TO HUNDREDS OF JEWS, YOUNG AND OLD. THE BOOK BROUGHT TO LIGHT BOTH THE FEAR AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION, AND ALSO THE STRONG DESIRE FOR JEWISH IDENTITY, ESPECIALLY AMONG RUSSIAN YOUTH.
BR 2906 TREASURY OF JEWISH QUOTATIONS BARON, JOSEPH L., ED. SALO MINKIN A BOOK CONTAINING 18,000 QUOTATIONS CULLED FROM JEWISH SOURCES.
BR 2907 JERICHO SLEEP ALONE/BERL MAKE TEA BERMANT, CHAIM TWO COMIC NOVELS DRAWING ON THE AUTHOR'S RABBINICAL BACKGROUND.
BR 2909 EDGE, THE MEZVINSKY, SHIRLEY THE STORY OF ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF A YOUNG MARRIED WOMAN WHO IS DISILLUSIONED WITH LIFE AND WANTS TO PUT IT BEHIND HER.
BR 2910 MILESTONES IN THE LIFE OF A JEW A BASIC GUIDE TO BELIEF AND RITUAL FRIEMAN, DONALD G. A GUIDE TO THE CUSTOMS AND RITES WHICH FOLLOW EACH MILESTONE IN LIFE SUCH AS BIRTH, MARRIAGE, DEATH, ETC.
BR 2912 FROM SABBATH TO SABBATH FISHMAN, ISIDORE A GUIDE TO THE CUSTOMS AND LAWS OF THE SABBATH.
BR 2913 BOY'S QUIET VOICE, A COHEN, RUTH KOLKO THE MOVING STORY OF HOW A FAMILY COPED WITH SERIOUS ILLNESS BY TURNING TO THEIR JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 2916 HEROES OF JEWISH THOUGHT KARP, DEBORAH ESTELLE SILV BIOGRAPHIES OF SIGNIFICANT JEWISH PERSONALITIES FROM THE TIME OF THE MISHNAH TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT.
BR 2918 JEWISH IDENTITY A DOCUMENTARY COMPILATION LITVIN, BARUCH THE QUESTION OF 'WHO IS A JEW?' IS THE INTRIGUING SUBJECT OF THIS VOLUME.
BR 2919 NIGHT HILSENRATH, EDGAR BEA GERSTENS A NOVEL ABOUT THE UPROOTED JEWS OF THE UKRAINE DURING THE NAZI INVASION.
BR 2922 STORY OF ISRAEL, THE LEVIN, MEYER ELEANOR BEN THE CREATION OF THE JEWISH STATE AS TOLD BY LEADERS OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT.
BR 2923 HIGHER FREEDOM, THE POLISH, DAVID THE MEANING OF ISRAEL FOR THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WORLD IS PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR, AN ORDAINED RABBI.
BR 2925 STORM THE GATES OF JERICHO FEINBERG, ABRAHAM L. PERSONAL REVELATIONS OF THE AUTHOR'S MINISTRY AND HIS INVOLVEMENT SPIRITUALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY WITH THOSE HE SERVED.
BR 2926 DISSENT OF DOMINICK SHAPIRO, THE KOPS, BERNARD THE STORY OF A YOUNG JEWISH BOY LIVING IN A LONDON SUBURB WHO REBELS AGAINST HIS AFFLUENT FAMILY.
BR 2927 STARTING OUT IN THE 30'S KAZIN, ALFRED JEAN MESSING A MEMOIR OF A CRUCIAL ERA IN AMERICA'S MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY BY THE NOTED LITERARY CRITIC.
BR 2928 ON TRIAL THE SOVIET STATE VERSUS ABRAM TERT HAYWARD, MAX L. HOLLANDER THE PROSECUTION, DEFENSE, CONVICTION AND SENTENCING OF ANDRAI SINYAVSKY (ABRAM TERTZ) AND YURI DANIEL (NICOLAI ARZHAK), SOVIET AUTHORS WHOSE BOOKS WERE PUBLISHED ANONYMOUSLY IN THE WEST.
BR 2929 MOTHER IS MINNIE UNTERMYER, SOPHIE & ALIX WILLIAMSON THE COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY OF MRS. CHARLES GUGGENHEIMER WITH AMUSING INSIGHTS INTO THE WORLD OF MUSIC IN NEW YORK CITY.
BR 2930 PENNY FOR CHARITY, A EPSTEIN, SEYMOUR MERRILY WALL A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES DEALING WITH THE PROBLEMS OF AGING PARENTS, CHILDREN AND DIVORCE, AND THE SEARCH FOR MEANING IN DAILY LIFE.
BR 2932 HALFWAY TO 1984 GLADWYN, JEBB & LORD GLADWYN A VALUABLE ANALYSIS OF RECENT WORLD HISTORY WHICH MAKES USE OF GEORGE ORWELL'S '1984' AND ITS PREDICTIONS.
BR 2934 JEWISH HERITAGE READER EDELMAN, LILY, ED. ZOE BELTH A SELECTION OF ARTICLES ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF JEWISH LIFE AND THOUGHT. FROM B'NAI BRITH'S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE, 'JEWISH HERITAGE.'
BR 2936 JEWS AND ARABS GOITEIN, S. D. A COMPREHENSIVE, SCHOLARLY STUDY OF THE SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND INTELLECTUAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JEWS AND ARABS.
BR 2937 STORY OF THE PROPHECY GOODMAN, HANNAH GRAD THE STORY OF THE BIBLICAL PROPHETS, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE CONTINUITY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THE RELEVANCE OF THE PROPHETIC MESSAGE.
BR 2939 REDISCOVERING JUDAISM WOLF, ARNOLD JACOB, ED. A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS CONTAINING ANSWERS BY AMERICAN JEWISH THEOLOGIANS TO CONTEMPORARY JEWISH PROBLEMS.
BR 2940 NEGRO-JEWISH RELATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES EDITORS OF JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES A REPRINT OF THE PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE ON JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES WHICH REVEALS A FRANK APPROACH TO THE NEGRO-JEWISH PROBLEM.
BR 2941 HEIRS OF CAIN, THE ROTHBERG, ABRAHAM MRS. SIDNEY A NOVEL THAT PENETRATES THE TORTURED SOUL OF AN ISRAELI ASSASSIN TORN BETWEEN HIS BELIEF IN THE TENETS OF JUDAISM AND HIS DEADLY MISSION IN SWITZERLAND.
BR 2942 RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY A GROUP OF ESSAYS WOLFSON, HARRY AUSTRYN A BOOK DESCRIBING THE STRUCTURE AND GROWTH OF PHILOSOPHIC SYSTEMS FROM PLATO TO SPINOZA, AND THE EFFORTS OF CERTAIN SCHOOLS OF PHILOSOPHY TO FREE THEMSELVES FROM THE INFLUENCE OF THE BIBLE.
BR 2943 JEWISH FESTIVALS, THE HISTORY AND OBSERVANCE SCHAUSS, HAYYIM DETAILS THE STORY OF THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT, THEIR ORIGIN AND BACKGROUND, THEIR SYMBOLISM, RITUAL PRACTICES, AND USE OF CEREMONIAL OBJECTS.
BR 2944 BYGONES UNTERMEYER, LOUIS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN AMERICAN POET, AUTHOR, AND ANTHOLOGIST, WHO PUBLISHED MORE THAN 70 VOLUMES OF SHORT STORIES, POETRY, ESSAYS, AND TRAVEL BOOKS.
BR 2945 HISTORY OF JEWISH CRAFTS AND GUILDS, A WISCHNITZER, MARK MRS. MILTON A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MEDIEVAL JEWISH CRAFT GUILDS.
BR 2947 SUN AT NOON, THE ANGOFF, CHARLES TEMPLE ISRAE THE THIRD NOVEL IN A SERIES WHICH DEALS WITH THE POLONSKY FAMILY AND THEIR ASSIMILATION INTO AMERICAN LIFE AFTER THEIR EMIGRATION FROM RUSSIA. THIS VOLUME SPANS THE YEARS 1919 TO 1923.
BR 2948 BESIEGED SEVEN CITIES UNDER SIEGE BELL, J. BOWYER SONYA ROTH/R THE AUTHOR GIVES DETAILED ACCOUNTS OF SEVEN MAJOR SIEGES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE DURING MODERN TIMES, INCLUDING THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM FROM 1947-49.
BR 2949 GIANTS OF FAITH GREAT AMERICAN RABBIS GOLDMAN, ALEX J., RABBI PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN RABBIS FROM THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF JUDASISM OVER THE PAST CENTURY.
BR 2952 DOROTHY AND DAVID EXPLORE JEWISH LIFE CONOVITZ, MICHAEL A BOOK DESIGNED TO TEACH YOUNGER CHILDREN ABOUT VARIOUS ASPECTS OF JEWISH LIFE, INCLUDING A DAY NURSERY, JUVENILE COURT, THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE AND THE JEWISH HOSPITAL.
BR 2953 WORLD HISTORY OF JEWISH PEOPLE ROTH, CECIL ED. THIS SECOND VOLUME OF A SERIES COVERS JEWS IN CHRISTIAN EUROPE FROM 711 AD THROUGH 1096.
BR 2954 FACE ON THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR, THE SCHUMACH, MURRAY A DESCRIPTION OF THE RISE OF CENSORSHIP IN MOVIES AND TELEVISION AND THE COURT CASES ON THE ISSUE.
BR 2955 JEWISH PEOPLE, THE - BOOK I PESSIN, DEBORAH THE FIRST IN A HISTORICAL SURVEY SERIES, THIS VOLUME PRESENTS THE PERIOD FROM ABRAHAM TO THE BABYLONIAN EXILE.
BR 2956 TALMUD, THE INTERMAN, ISAAC A POPULAR INTERPRETATION, FOR LAYMEN, OF THE ORIGIN, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND INFLUENCE OF THE TALMUD.
BR 2957 CHRISTIAN BELIEFS AND ANTI-SEMITISM GLOCK, CHARLES Y. & RODNEY STARK TEMPLE SISTE A STUDY OF THE ROLE PLAYED BY CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN TEACHING IN SHAPING ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE JEWS.
BR 2958 SPICE BOX OF EARTH, THE COHEN, LEONARD A COLLECTION OF LYRICAL POEMS, INCLUDING BIBLICAL AND JEWISH THEMES.
BR 2959 JEW AND HIS WORLD HELLER, ABRAHAM MAYER AN INTRODUCTION TO JEWISH LIFE, BELIEFS, AND PRACTICES.
BR 2960 NAZI PROPAGANDA ZEMAN, Z. A. B. AN EXAMINATION OF THE MANIPULATION AND CONTROL OF PUBLIC OPINION IN NAZI GERMANY. THE IMPACT OF NAZI PROPAGANDA OUTSIDE OF GERMANY IS ALSO PRESENTED.
BR 2963 JEW IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, THE LIPTZIN, SOL THE AUTHOR EXAMINES THE IMAGE AND SELF-IMAGE OF THE JEW, AS REFLECTED IN BELLES-LETTRES FROM THE COLONIAL ERA TO MODERN TIMES.
BR 2964 FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS SCHARY, DORE MRS. H. BURS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY THE WELL-KNOWN THEATRICAL AND POLITICAL FIGURE WHO SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE.
BR 2967 MAY I HAVE A WORD WITH YOU? ADLER, MORRIS SELECTIONS FROM WRITINGS AND SERMONS OF THE LATE RABBI OF DETROIT WHO LOST HIS LIFE AT THE HANDS OF A DERANGED STUDENT.
BR 2969 ALBERIC THE WISE AND OTHER JOURNEYS JUSTER, NORTON GERTRUDE LEVIN THREE TALES, WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN, OF JOURNEYS FOR A QUEST. IT IS DISCOVERED THAT WHAT IS FOUND IS FAR DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY SOUGHT.© 1965
BR 2970 AWAKE AND SING! ODETS, CLIFFORD A PLAY OF MIDDLE CLASS LIFE IN THE BRONX.
BR 2971 HEBREW MYTHS THE BOOK OF GENESIS GRAVES, ROBERT & RAPHAEL PATAI RUTH ZAIMAN A COLLECTION OF 61 STORIES FROM THE BOOK OF GENESIS WITH COMMENTARIES AND PARALLELS FROM ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN OR CLASSICAL SOURCES.
BR 2973 RAGE TO NOSH, A GROSSMAN, RUTH & BOB A COOKBOOK WRITTEN WITH A HUMOROUS TOUCH WHICH FOCUSES ON RECIPES FOR SNACKS AND LIGHT SUPPERS.
BR 2975 MORRIS ROSENFELD GOLDBERG, ITCHE, ED. SELECTIONS FROM THE POETRY AND PROSE OF MORRIS ROSENFELD.
BR 2976 FRONTIERSMEN OF ISRAEL SMOLI, ELIEZER MRS. MYRON M A NOVEL WRITTEN FOR YOUNG READERS ABOUT THE PIONEER DAYS IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 2977 NATION REBORN, A CROSSMAN, RICHARD H. S. A REPORT ON THE ROLES PLAYED BY WEIZMANN, BEVIN AND BEN-GURION IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 2978 LITTLE QUEEN OF SHEBA GOLDBERG, LEAH THE FASCINATING STORY OF A WITHDRAWN, YOUNG MOROCCAN JEWISH GIRL IN A YOUTH ALIYAH VILLAGE AND HER EVENTUAL ADJUSTMENT TO HER NEW LIFE.
BR 2979 FAITH THROUGH REASON SCHWARTZ, CHARLES AND BERTIE A MODERN INTERPRETATION OF JUDAISM WHICH ATTEMPTS TO PROVE THAT FAITH AND REASON ARE NOT CONTRADICTORY OR INCOMPATIBLE IDEAS.
BR 2980 HISTORY AND TORAH ESSAYS ON JEWISH LEARNING NEUSNER, JACOB, RABBI EIGHT ESSAYS WHICH PRESENT THE JEWISH ATTITUDE TOWARD HISTORY AND JEWISH SCHOLARSHIP.
BR 2981 SECOND HOME, A GLANVILLE, BRIAN AN AMUSING NOVEL OF THE LONDON TV LITERARY SET REVEALED THROUGH AN ACTRESS'S HOPELESS LOVE AFFAIR.
BR 2982 YIDDISH TEACHER, THE GOLDIN, H.E. AN ELEMENTARY PRIMER ON THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE.
BR 2984 AND IT CAME TO PASS BIALIK, HAYYIM NAHMAN CHARMING LEGENDS BASED ON THE LIVES OF KINGS DAVID AND KING SOLOMON.
BR 2985 POPES FROM THE GHETTO A VIEW OF EARLY CHRISTENDOM PRINZ, JOACHIM BEATRICE AHR THE TRUE STORY OF THE THREE JEWISH POPES WHO RULED THE MEDIEVAL CATHOLIC CHURCH.
BR 2988 CHILDREN, THE BLACKSTOCK, CHARITY EDNA WEINBER AN ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCE WITH HUNDREDS OF JEWISH CHILDREN WHO SURVIVED THE NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
BR 2989 POSITION OF WOMEN IN JUDAISM, THE LOEWE, RAPHAEL AN ANALYSIS OF THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN JUDAISM. WRITTEN IN RESPONSE TO A COMMISSION APPOINTED BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ON THE QUESTION OF WOMEN AND HOLY ORDERS.
BR 2990 STOP HERE, MY FRIEND GERBER, MERRILL JOAN A COLLECTION OF POIGNANT STORIES ABOUT AMERICAN JEWS AND THE WORLD IN WHICH THEY LIVE.
BR 2991 LIFE OF GEORGE GERSHWIN, THE RUSHMORE, ROBERT AN ACCOUNT OF THE COMPOSER AND HIS ERA FROM HIS INITIAL MUSICAL EXPERIENCES TO THE DAYS OF HIS GREATEST SUCCESSES.
BR 2992 SO WHAT ELSE IS NEW? GOLDEN, HARRY SANFORD M. L HUMOROUS AND SATIRIC OBSERVATIONS ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN AMERICAN-JEWISH LIFE BY HARRY GOLDEN, AUTHOR AND EDITOR OF 'THE CAROLINA ISRAELITE.'
BR 2993 ANCIENT JEWISH PHILOSOPHY A STUDY IN METAPHYSICS AND ETHICS EFROS, ISRAEL I. A DISCUSSION OF THE JEWISH PHILOSOPHERS AND THEIR PHILOSOPHY DURING THE MIDDLE AGES.
BR 2996 O THE CHIMNEYS SACHS, NELLIE JULIE TOKSVI A COLLECTION OF HOLOCAUST POEMS, INCLUDING THE VERSE PLAY, 'ELI,' FOR WHICH SACHS RECEIVED THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN 1966.
BR 2997 KIND OF MAGIC, A FERBER, EDNA THE AUTHOR'S SECOND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL BOOK WHICH CONTINUES HER STORY FROM 1939-1963 AND PROVIDES CHARMING GLIMPSES OF A FASCINATING LIFE.
BR 3002 STAR AND THE SWORD, THE MELNIKOFF, PAMELA IN THIS HISTORICAL TALE OF ADVENTURE SET IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND, TWO JEWISH CHILDREN ARE SUDDENLY ORPHANED AFTER A POGROM. THEY SET OUT FOR RELATIVES IN OXFORD AND MEET ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MEN ON THE WAY.
BR 3003 STAR OF DANGER LEVIN, JANE W. A MOVING STORY OF TWO JEWISH BOYS WHO WERE SMUGGLED INTO SWEDEN IN 1943 BY THE DANISH GOVERNMENT.
BR 3004 THROUGH DOOMS OF LOVE KUMIN, MAXINE A STORY OF JEWISH FAMILY LIFE DESCRIBING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE PRAGMATIC FATHER AND HIS REBELLIOUS, IDEALISTIC DAUGHTER.
BR 3005 YOU SHALL BE AS GODS A RADICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE O FROMM, ERICH VERA LEHRMAN THE NOTED PSYCHOANALYST PRESENTS A RADICAL, NON-THEISTIC INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE AND LATER WRITINGS.
BR 3006 ERGO LIND, JAKOV ELEANOR BUSM A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES ABOUT GERMAN SOCIETY AND ITS POST-WAR NAZI REMNANTS.
BR 3008 SECRET WEAPON AND OTHER STORIES OF FAITH AND VALOR, THE EISENBERG, AZRIEL & LEAH AIN GLOBE EDITH PERMAN AN ANTHOLOGY OF SELECTED STORIES OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF, FAITH, AND COURAGE SHOWN BY MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN THROUGHOUT MORE THAN 3,000 YEARS OF JEWISH HISTORY. FOR CHILDREN FROM THE AGES OF 12 AND UP.
BR 3009 CHILDREN OF LIGHT EYRE, KATHERINE W. A JUVENILE NOVEL ABOUT THE ARAB WHO DISCOVERED THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS, AND THE 'CHILDREN OF LIGHT' - THE ESSENES.
BR 3011 HEAVEN ON YOUR HEAD SILVERMAN, MORRIS, RABBI INTERPRETATIONS, LEGENDS, PARABLES AND COMMENTS ON THE TORAH AND THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS.
BR 3012 PIUS XII AND THE THIRD REICH A DOCUMENTATION FRIEDLANDER, SAUL AN EXCELLENT STUDY ON THE POPE'S SILENCE DURING HITLER'S MURDER OF SIX MILLION JEWS IN EUROPE.
BR 3013 TWO TALES AGNON, S.Y. WALTER LENS, TRANS. TWO SHORT NOVELS STRESSING THE UNIVERSAL FAILURE OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN GOD AND MAN, AND MAN AND MAN. TRANSLATED FROM HEBREW.
BR 3014 COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF GENESIS, A PART ONE - FROM ADAM TO NOAH CASSUTO, U. TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW BY ISRAEL ABRAHAM.
BR 3015 IN THE HEART OF THE SEAS A STORY OF A JOURNEY TO THE LAND O AGNON, S.Y. A POETIC NOVEL ABOUT A GROUP OF PIOUS EUROPEAN JEWS ON THEIR WAY TO THE HOLY CITY, JERUSALEM.
BR 3016 HOME IS WHERE YOU START FROM HOROWITZ, GENE A NOVEL ABOUT TWO ORTHODOX JEWISH FAMILIES AND THEIR HOPES, SORROWS, AND TRIUMPHS.
BR 3017 SLEEPWALKERS, THE BROCH, HERMANN AN PROPHETIC NOVEL OF THE YEARS 1888-1918 WHICH PREDICTS THE DISSOLUTION OF GERMANY.
BR 3018 IN THE BEGINNING STORIES FROM THE BIBLE ASCH, SHOLEM LILLIAN KORN A SIMPLE RETELLING FOR YOUNG READERS OF THE STORIES OF GENESIS, FROM THE CREATION TO THE DEATH OF JACOB.
BR 3019 MURDERERS AMONG US THE SIMON WIESENTHAL MEMOIRS WEICHSBERG, JOSEPH, EDITOR THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF SIMON WIESENTHAL AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE DETECTION AND PROSECUTION OF NOTORIOUS NAZI CRIMINALS.
BR 3020 TO THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS LITVINOFF, BARNET A HISTORY OF ZIONISM FROM ITS FIRST GLIMMERINGS IN THE WORK OF MOSES HESS IN THE 19TH CENTURY TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN 1948.
BR 3021 MURANOWSKA VII THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING LITAI, CHAIM LAZAR AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING DURING THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 3023 JEWISH YOUTH COMPANION KRANZLER, GERSHON MRS. MORTON STORIES AND POEMS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 3024 UNDERSTANDING THE MIDRASH MILLER, AMOS W. A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING THE BIBLE AND THE MIDRASHIC TEXTS AS WELL AS THE WAY THE RABBIS OF OLD SAW LIFE THROUGH THESE TEXTS.
BR 3025 PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS FROST, STANLEY BRICE THE PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS PRESENTED IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN BIBLICAL KNOWLEDGE AND RESEARCH.
BR 3026 YOUNG DAVID, THE GROOM, ARTHUR THE LIFE OF KING DAVID AS A YOUNG MAN.
BR 3028 SUN STOOD STILL, THE ISRAEL AND THE ARABS AT WAR MACLEISH, RODERICK MARY PERLOW AN ACCOUNT OF THE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR BY AN AMERICAN RADIO COMMENTATOR WHO REPORTS THE FACTS AND DESCRIBES THE EMOTIONS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE CONFLICT.
BR 3029 KOUFAX KOUFAX, SANDY MRS. MARTIN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE WELL-KNOWN JEWISH BASEBALL PLAYER WHO SERVED AS PITCHER FOR THE DODGERS.
BR 3030 IRVING AND ME HOFF, SYD THE ADVENTURES OF BROOKLYN-BORN ARTIE GRANICK IN NEW YORK AND IN FLORIDA.
BR 3031 NEGRO AND JEW AN ENCOUNTER IN AMERICA KATZ, SHLOMO PERSONAL EXPLORATIONS INTO BLACK-JEWISH RELATIONSHIPS AND THE NATURE OF BLACK ANTI-SEMITISM.
BR 3033 MASTER MAGICIANS, THE THEIR LIVES AND MOST FAMOUS TRICKS GIBSON, WALTER HARRIET ROSE THE BIOGRAPHIES OF NINE MAGICIANS, INCLUDING HOUDINI, WHO WAS JEWISH.
BR 3034 AFTER AUSCHWITZ RADICAL THEOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY RUBINSTEIN, RICHARD EDITH SCHMID ESSAYS IN CONTEMPORARY JEWISH THEOLOGY WITH AN INTERPRETATION OF 'RADICAL THEOLOGY' FROM A JEWISH STANDPOINT.
BR 3035 GIANTS OF THE SPIRIT TAUBENHAUS, EPHRAIM TWENTY BIOGRAPHIES ABOUT RABBIS AND JEWISH SAGES.
BR 3036 ITINERANT, THE HERRICK, WILLIAM A NOVEL OF THE THIRTIES DESCRIBING SOME UNUSUAL CHARACTERS AMONG ETHNIC GROUPS ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE.
BR 3037 ISRAEL INTERLUDE DICKSON, MORA THE PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S VISIT TO ISRAEL AND ALL HIS ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES.
BR 3038 TO THE PRECIPICE ROSSNER, JUDITH A NOVEL ABOUT THE LIFE, STRUGGLES, AND TRIUMPHS OF A JEWISH FAMILY LIVING ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE.
BR 3039 SCIENCE AND RELIGION STUDIES IN TORAH JUDAISM ROTH, SOL, DR. MRS. HARVEY A PENETRATING ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF KNOWLEDGE IN RELIGION AND SCIENCE.
BR 3040 ATHENS AND JERUSALEM SHESTOV, LEV AN EXAMINATION OF THE ROOTS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION. WRITTEN BY THE RUSSIAN-JEWISH EXISTENTIALIST PHILOSOPHER.
BR 3041 TORAH THOUGHTS, BOOK III GARTENBERG, LEO THIS BOOK OFFERS SOME LEGENDS, STORIES AND ANECDOTES REVOLVING ABOUT THE BIBLE AND JEWISH LITURGY.
BR 3042 OLD TESTAMENT WORLD ROTH, MARTIN AN EXCELLENT SURVEY OF THE GEOGRAPHY, ARCHAEOLOGY, THE DOMESTIC LIFE, POLITICS, OCCUPATIONS AND CULTURES OF THE LANDS AND PEOPLES OF THE BIBLE.
BR 3043 MODERN VARIETIES OF JUDAISM BLAU, JOSEPH L. ANNABELLE BR THE AUTHOR TRACES THE SUCCESSIVE EMERGENCE OF THE REFORM, NEO-ORTHODOX, AND CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENTS IN ORDER TO PROVIDE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE DIVERSITY IN TODAY'S JEWISH WORLD.
BR 3044 JUDAISM ROSENBERG, STUART E. MARIAN SCHWA A BOOK ABOUT JUDAISM AND ITS PRACTICES, INTENDED FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE JEWISH RELIGION.
BR 3045 PATHWAYS THROUGH THE BIBLE COHEN, MORTIMER J., ED. HERTA GOTTSC A SIMPLIFIED VERSION OF THE TORAH, THE PROPHETS, AND THE WRITINGS.
BR 3046 AMERICAN STORY KAUFMAN, ELIZABETH A HORATIO ALGER STORY ABOUT THE SON OF A RABBI WHO FLED THE POGROMS IN RUSSIA, WORKED HIS WAY THROUGH UNIVERSITY, AND BECAME A MILLIONAIRE AT AN EARLY AGE.
BR 3047 THREE FREE AND OTHER STORIES SHAMES, RHODA ZAHAVIE GERTRUDE KLA A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, ALL OF WHICH REFLECT A POETIC AND SPIRITUAL VIEW OF LIFE.
BR 3048 CHERRY IN THE MARTINI, THE JAFFE, RONA RUTH COFFMAN WRITTEN IN THE FORM OF A MEMOIR, THIS BOOK FOLLOWS A YOUNG GIRL'S EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT FROM CHILDHOOD TO EARLY MIDDLE AGE.
BR 3049 DAVID AND GOLIATH SCHENK DE REGNIER, BEATRICE THE AUTHOR MANAGES TO IMPART A FOLKLORISTIC FLAVOR TO A COMMONLY KNOWN BIBLICAL EVENT WHILE RETAINING THE LANGUAGE OF THE BIBLE.
BR 3050 WHERE I STAND GREENSPUN, HANK WITH ALEX PELLE THE DRAMATIC STORY OF A FIGHTER WHO RAN GUNS FOR ISRAEL'S HAGANAH DURING THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE AND WHO FOUGHT AGAINST JOE MCCARTHY'S POLITICS AND NEVADA'S GAMBLERS AND HOODLUMS.
BR 3051 CARPENTER YEARS, THE COHEN, ARTHUR A. MRS. M. ASHE A NOVEL ABOUT A DISCONTENTED JEW WHO TRIES TO ABANDON HIS FAMILY AND HIS JEWISH HERITAGE IN AN ATTEMPT TO FIND A NEW IDENTITY AS A CHRISTIAN.
BR 3054 LAST JEW IN AMERICA, THE FIEDLER, LESLIE A. MRS. I. WOLL THREE UNUSUAL STORIES ABOUT AN ALIEN JEW, A WHITE, ANGLO-SAXON PROTESTANT, AND A BLACK MAN.
BR 3056 TALES FROM THE BAGEL LANCERS EVERYMAN'S BOOK OF JEWISH HUMOR BLUMENFELD, GERRY JUDITH HOFFM A BOOK OF JEWISH HUMOR FOR ALL AGES.
BR 3057 MOSHE SHARETT, STATESMAN ROSENSAFT, MENACHEM Z. A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ZIONIST LEADER WHO BECAME ISRAEL'S FIRST FOREIGN MINISTER.
BR 3058 HAPPY ENDING, A DETRE, JEAN A SENSITIVE NOVEL ABOUT ISIDORE ROSE WHO AT 79 DECIDES TO ESCAPE THE BOREDOM OF OLD AGE BY TRAVELING ABROAD.
BR 3059 AS I REMEMBER THEM CANTOR, EDDIE A SERIES OF WARM AND TOUCHING SKETCHES BY ONE OF VAUDEVILLE'S BEST ABOUT SHOW BUSINESS AND ITS PEOPLE.
BR 3060 CHALLENGE AND ENCOUNTER BISGYER, MAURICE IN THIS MEMOIR OF 45 YEARS OF JEWISH SOCIAL-WELFARE WORK, THE BEHIND-THE-SCENES STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL IS REVEALED.
BR 3062 LONELY YEARS, THE BABEL, ISAAC MRS. REUBEN NINE SHORT STORIES AND LETTERS DESCRIBING BABEL'S LIFE AND LONELY POLITICAL EXILE IN HIS NATIVE RUSSIA, WRITTEN WITH HUMOR AND IRONY.
BR 3064 INHABITANTS, THE HOROWITZ, JULIUS IN FICTIONALIZED FORM, THIS FORMER SOCIAL WORKER DESCRIBES NEW YORK CITY'S WELFARE SYSTEM AND ITS EFFECT UPON THE WORKER AND ITS RECIPIENTS.
BR 3066 JEWISH WEDDING BOOK A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE TRADITION ROUTTENBERG, LILLY S. & RUTH R. SELD THE AUTHORS PROVIDE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE RITUALS OF THE JEWISH WEDDING, ACCORDING TO THE VARYING PRACTICES OF ORTHODOX, CONSERVATIVE, AND REFORM JEWS.
BR 3067 PRESIDENT I ALMOST WAS, THE BRONSTEIN, YETTA SISTERHOOD O A HUMOROUS AND LIGHT NOVEL DESCRIBING HOW YETTA RAN FOR PRESIDENT.
BR 3068 ISRAEL THE VIEW FROM MASADA SANDERS, RONALD A HISTORY OF ZIONISM AND ITS RELEVANCE TO THE WORLD JEWISH COMMUNITY, AS WELL AS THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE FOUNDING OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. THE AUTHOR ALSO EXAMINES THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN THE STATE.
BR 3069 YAEL AND THE QUEEN OF GOATS BANAI, MARGALIT RUTH RAPPAPO THE ADVENTURES OF YAEL AND HER RED-HAIRED TWIN BROTHERS AS THEY TRY TO ENTER THEIR PET GOAT IN A CONTEST IN EILAT. THEY TRAVEL THERE BY PLANE, BY TRUCK, BY MOTOR BOAT, AND BY FOOT.
BR 3070 ISRAEL'S SACRED SONGS GUTHRIE, HARVEY H. A STUDY OF THE DOMINANT THEMES IN THE BOOK OF PSALMS.
BR 3071 TALES OF A TAILOR LIPTZIN, SAM HUMOR AND TRAGEDY ARE PORTRAYED IN THE STRUGGLES OF THE EARLY IMMIGRANTS IN THE SWEATSHOPS.
BR 3073 JEWISH TALES AND LEGENDS GLENN, MENDL G., TRANSLATOR STORIES SUPPLEMENTING THE ACCOUNTS OF BIBLICAL EVENTS AND CHARACTERS WRITTEN FROM TALMUD AND MIDRASH.
BR 3074 LABAN'S WILL LEBOWITZ, ALBERT MRS. B.J. EI A NOVEL ABOUT JEWISH FAMILY LIFE PATTERNED ON THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE OF LEAH AND JACOB AS DEPICTED IN THE BIBLE.
BR 3075 LEGENDS OF JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS SKULSKY, S A COLLECTION OF LEGENDS ABOUT JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS FOR JEWISH YOUTH.
BR 3076 EIGHT LIGHTS, THE ROSENBLOOM, ROBERT THE STORY OF CHANUKAH AND ITS MESSAGE OF UNIVERSAL SIGNIFICANCE ABOUT THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY IN EVERY AGE.
BR 3078 SOLDIER AND THE SAGE, THE HUBLER, RICHARD AN EXCELLENT HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT THE GREAT RABBINICAL SCHOLAR, AKIBA, WHO LED A REBELLION AGAINST ROME.
BR 3079 BROWN WAS THE DANUBE HILSENRAD, HELEN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF LIFE IN PRE-HITLER VIENNA AND THE HORRORS WHICH BEFELL THE JEWISH COMMUNITY DURING THE NAZI TAKE-OVER.
BR 3080 BAD MAN ELKIN, STANLEY A NOVEL ABOUT A JEWISH DEPARTMENT STORE OWNER AND CONVICT, WHICH BLENDS SATIRE AND MORALISM.
BR 3081 CROWDS AND POWER CANETTI, ELIAS AN ANALYSIS OF POWER, ESPECIALLY AS IT MANIFESTS ITSELF IN OR OPERATES THROUGH CROWDS. ILLUMINATED BY EXAMPLES FROM HISTORY.
BR 3082 LEGENDS OF KING DAVID SKULSKY, S. & I. M. LASK LEGENDS ABOUT KING DAVID AND HIS TIME.
BR 3083 SEARCH IN THE DESERT ALLEGRO, JOHN M. AN ACCOUNT OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION IN THE JUDEAN DESERT IN THE VICINITY OF QUMRAM DURING 1962-1963.
BR 3084 ODYSSEY OF AN OPTIMIST, THE WEISGAL, MEYER W. AN ANTHOLOGY BY HIS CONTEMPORARIES SELECTED IN HONOR OF THE 70TH BIRTHDAY OF THE MASTER BUILDER OF THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE IN ISRAEL.
BR 3085 MOROCCAN JEWISH FOLKTALES NOY, DOV LILLIAN ZWEI A COLLECTION OF TALES FROM THE ONCE-THRIVING MOROCCAN JEWISH COMMUNITY.
BR 3086 BLOOD FROM THE SKY RAWICZ, PIOTR AN ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN A UKRAINIAN TOWN AND OF THE STRUGGLE OF ONE OF ITS SURVIVORS TO REMAIN ALIVE.
BR 3087 TWENTY-FIFTH HOUR, THE GHEORGHIU, C. VIRGIL CEIL ROSEN A NOVEL ABOUT A ROMANIAN JEW TORTURED DURING THE NAZI REGIME BECAUSE A POLICE CAPTAIN DESIRED HIS WIFE.
BR 3088 INTERMARRIAGE AND JEWISH LIFE CAHNMAN, WERNER J., ED. VERA LEHRMAN A SYMPOSIUM EXPLORING VARIOUS ASPECTS, OPINIONS, AND THEORIES RELEVANT TO THE SUBJECT OF INTERMARRIAGE.
BR 3089 SWIFT SWORD MARSHALL, S.L.A., BRIGADIER GENERAL AN HISTORICAL RECORD OF ISRAEL'S VICTORY IN JUNE 1967 BY THE FAMOUS MILITARY ANALYST.
BR 3090 PROVERBS OF MANY NATIONS KELEN, EMERY THESE PROVERBS GLEANED FROM NUMEROUS SOURCES REVEAL THE UNIVERSALITY OF MAN'S EXPRESSION OF WISDOM.
BR 3092 JOSEPHUS THE MAN AND THE HISTORIAN THACKERY, H. ST. JOHN AN EVALUATION OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JOSEPHUS, HIS WRITINGS AND HIS RELATIONSHIP TO JUDAISM, HELLENISM AND CHRISTIANITY.
BR 3093 NOTES FROM THE FRONTIER NISSENSON, HUGH SARAH ROSENS A STORY ABOUT THE KIBBUTZIM WHICH GUARDED ISRAEL'S BORDERS PRIOR TO THE JUNE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR. THE BOOK ALSO GIVES A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF KIBBUTZ LIFE.
BR 3094 LIGHTNING OUT OF ISRAEL THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT ASSOCIATED PRESS A DAY-BY-DAY CHRONICLE OF THE JUNE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR BETWEEN ARABS AND ISRAELIS. WRITTEN BY A TEAM OF REPORTERS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. INCLUDES MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE WAR.
BR 3098 LEGENDS OF DANIEL TAL, R. LEGENDS OF DANIEL AND HIS TIMES.
BR 3099 YEHUDI MENUHIN WYMER, NORMAN MRS. PHILIP A BIOGRAPHY FOR CHILDREN ABOUT THE LIFE OF THE VIOLINIST, WHO BEGAN AS A CHILD PRODIGY AND BECAME A WELL-KNOWN MUSICIAN IN WORLD MUSICAL CIRCLES.
BR 3100 INTERMARRIAGE INTERFAITH, INTERRACIAL, INTERETHN GORDON, ALBERT I. A WELL-RESEARCHED BOOK OF ATTITUDES, PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES OF INTERMARRIAGES.
BR 3101 LEGENDS OF ELIJAH TAL, R. THESE ARE STORIES OF ELIJAH THE PROPHET TOLD IN A SIMPLE FORM FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 3102 JEWS IN THE MIND OF AMERICA STEMBER, CHARLES HERBERT ROSALIND GAL THIS WORK DEALS WITH THE IMAGE OF THE JEWS AND THE PREJUDICES THEY ENCOUNTERED IN AMERICA FROM THE TIME OF THE DEPRESSION TO THE BIRTH OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 3103 LEGENDS OF QUEEN ESTHER SIMHONI, S A COLLECTION OF LEGENDS ABOUT QUEEN ESTHER AND HER TIMES.
BR 3104 PERETZ SMOLENSKIN FREUNDLICH, CHARLES H. THE LIFE AND THOUGHT OF THIS RUSSIAN WRITER, ZIONIST, AND EDITOR OF ONE OF THE FIRST HEBREW PERIODICALS.
BR 3105 FATHERS GOLD, HERBERT SHIRLEY SPIT A MEMOIR, WRITTEN IN NOVEL FORM, OF A RUSSIAN JEWISH PATRIARCH AND HIS FAMILY DURING THEIR AMERICANIZATION IN CLEVELAND'S JEWISH COMMUNITY.
BR 3106 MY LIFE FOR BEAUTY RUBINSTEIN, HELENA MRS. LAWRENC AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE BEAUTY EXPERT FROM HER CHILDHOOD IN POLAND TO HER SUCCESSFUL YEARS IN THE COSMETIC INDUSTRY AND THE ARTS.
BR 3107 EPOCH OF THE MESSIAH WASSERMAN, ELCHONON, RABBI WRITING SHORTLY BEFORE THE RISE OF THE NAZIS, THE AUTHOR SEEKS TO HALT THE SPIRITUAL DEMISE OF WORLD JEWRY - ESPECIALLY ELOQUENT IN LIGHT OF SUBSEQUENT EVENTS.
BR 3108 NOBODY DOES YOU ANY FAVORS YAFFE, JAMES A TOUCHING NOVEL ABOUT AN AMERICAN JEWISH BUSINESSMAN'S RISE TO SUCCESS AND THE SUBSEQUENT REJECTION BY HIS SON.
BR 3109 LIFE WITH FARMER GOLDSTEIN SHER, EVA MARION FRACK THE OBSTACLES FACED AND LESSONS LEARNED BY A LOWER EAST SIDE JEWISH FAMILY WHICH ADOPTS A NEW LIFESTYLE WHEN THEY MOVE TO A FARM IN NEW JERSEY.
BR 3110 HEROD'S CHILDREN AICHINGER, ELSE THE DIFFICULT LIFE OF A JEWISH CHILD IN WAR-TIME VIENNA.
BR 3111 RACE THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA IN AMERICA GOSSETT, THOMAS F. ESTHER L. AR A HISTORY OF THE ROOTS OF RACIAL PREJUDICE IN AMERICA AND RACE RELATIONS IN THE 1960S.
BR 3112 KINGS, PROPHETS AND HISTORY KAMM, JOSEPHINE AN INTERESTING AND ENJOYABLE RETELLING OF OLD TESTAMENT STORIES.
BR 3114 LEGENDS OF SAMSON SIMHONI, S. STORIES OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SAMSON.
BR 3115 CURIOSITIES OF THE SELF ILLUSIONS WE HAVE ABOUT OURSELVES REIK, THEODOR A STUDY OF THE INNER SELF AND A METHOD FOR UNDERSTANDING ONE'S OWN PERSONALITY, MOTIVATIONS, AND EMOTIONS.
BR 3117 MAIMONIDES MEDIEVAL MODERNIST BRATTON, FRED GLADSTONE MRS. MORTON A DESCRIPTION OF MAIMONIDES' ROLE IN INTERPRETING THE PHILOSOPHIES OF ANCIENT GREECE.
BR 3118 THEY FOUGHT BACK THE STORY OF JEWISH RESISTANCE IN SUHL, YURI BEATRICE TRO AN ANTHOLOGY OF ACCOUNTS BY SURVIVORS AND HISTORIANS OF JEWISH RESISTANCE IN NAZI EUROPE DURING THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 3119 BUSTENAI LEHMANN, MARCUS, DR. AN HISTORICAL NOVEL OF JEWS DURING THE BABYLONIAN EXILE IN 600 C.E. AS SEEN BY A JEWISH BOY WHO LATER BECAME A LEADER OF HIS PEOPLE.
BR 3120 JEW IN CHRISTIAN AMERICA, A GILBERT, ARTHUR, RABBI MRS. THOMAS A COLLECTION OF SPEECHES AND ARTICLES BY RABBI GILBERT IN CONJUNCTION WITH HIS WORK ON ECUMENISM BETWEEN JEWS AND CHRISTIANS.
BR 3121 BRIDAL CANOPY, THE AGNON, S.Y. BERNICE STRA THE NOVEL, WRITTEN BY NOBEL PRIZEWINNER, S.Y. AGNON, OF A FATHER WHO TRAVELS TO NEIGHBORING VILLAGES SEEKING DOWRIES FOR HIS THREE DAUGHTERS IN ORDER TO FULFILL THE OBLIGATION OF BRINGING THEM TO THE MARRIAGE CANOPY.
BR 3124 SECRET BATTLE FOR ISRAEL, THE KAGAN, BENJAMIN, COLONEL AN ACCOUNT OF ONE MAN'S VIEW OF THE CULMINATION OF THE STRUGGLE THAT LED TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 3125 BIBLE MYTH OR REALITY KATZ, PAUL A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD BOOK; A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE HISTORICAL NARRATIONS OF THE BIBLE.
BR 3126 MYSTIC TRENDS IN JUDAISM POSY, ARNOLD ANALYSIS OF THE JEWS' RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN KABBALAH, MESSIANISM, HASSIDISM, AND AS REFLECTED IN VARIOUS YIDDISH WORKS.
BR 3129 RELUCTANT PIONEERS VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT IN ISRAEL WEINGROD, ALEX THE SETTLING OF THE IMMIGRANTS IS DESCRIBED WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO THE FATE OF THE MOROCCAN JEWS.
BR 3131 JEWISH LAW OF DIVORCE ACCORDING TO BIBLE AND TALMUD WITH SOME REFERENCE TO ITS AMRAM, DAVID W. MARCIA FELTH THE 19TH-CENTURY LEGAL HISTORIAN COMPARES BIBLICAL AND TALMUDIC VIEWS OF DIVORCE WITH THOSE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE KORAN. ALSO INCLUDED ARE FORBIDDEN MARRIAGES, THE LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS OF THE DIVORCED WOMAN, AND HER PROPERTY AND CUSTODY RIGHTS.
BR 3132 RIZPAH ISRAEL, CHARLES E. DOROTHY RAPP A NOVEL WITH VIVID DESCRIPTIONS OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED DURING BIBLICAL TIMES.
BR 3133 SQUARE OF SKY, A DAVID, JANINA DOROTHY HEIL AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOUNG JEWISH GIRL IN WORLD WAR II POLAND WHOSE FAMILY WAS FORCED BY THE NAZIS TO LEAVE THE FREEDOM OF COUNTRY LIFE AND ENTER THE WARSAW GHETTO.
BR 3134 BORSCHT BELT, THE ADAMS, JOEY WITH HENRY TOBIAS JENNIE KASOF A STORY OF THE CATSKILL RESORTS AND THEIR SHOW BUSINESS ENTERTAINERS.
BR 3135 PAPER BRIDE, THE JEROME, V.J. FRANCES STER A NOVEL ABOUT A POLISH JEWISH BOY GROWING UP IN THE SLUMS OF LONDON'S WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT.
BR 3136 WINDS OF APRIL, THE BAHARAV, I.D. A NOVEL DEALING WITH ONE WEEK IN THE LIFE OF A GIRL ADRIFT IN MANHATTAN.
BR 3137 STUDIES IN HONOR OF M.J. BENARDETE LANGNAS, ISAAK & BARTON SHOLOD ESSAYS IN HISPANIC AND SEPHARDIC CULTURE, WRITTEN IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH BY NOTED SCHOLARS.
BR 3138 ROMAN-JEWISH WAR 66-70 A.D., THE ITS ORIGIN AND CONSEQUENCES ABERBACH, MOSES, DR. A SCHOLARLY VOLUME WHICH DESCRIBES THE STRUGGLE OF JUDEA AGAINST ROMAN RULE AND ENDS WITH THE CONQUEST OF JERUSALEM BY THE ROMANS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HOLY TEMPLE.
BR 3140 JEW IN A GENTILE WORLD, THE ROGOW, ARNOLD A., ED. ESSAYS, SPEECHES, AND EXCERPTS FROM HISTORY AND LITERATURE WHICH PROVIDE A BROAD PICTURE OF THE JEWS IN THEIR HISTORICAL ROLE AS THE SCAPEGOAT OUTSIDER.
BR 3141 ZEALOTS OF MASADA, THE STORY OF A DIG PEARLMAN, MOSHE ADELINE TOPK THE STORY OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS AT MASADA, THE SITE OF A COURAGEOUS STRUGGLE AGAINST THE ROMANS BY A HANDFUL OF JEWISH ZEALOTS IN THE YEAR 73 C.E.
BR 3142 LEGENDS OF MOSES THE LAWGIVER SKULSKY, S. A COLLECTION OF LEGENDS ABOUT MOSES AND HIS TIMES ESPECIALLY PREPARED FOR JEWISH YOUTH.
BR 3143 NEW JEWISH HISTORY, THE - BOOK II GAMORAN, MAMIE G. THIS BOOK COVERS THE PERIOD FROM THE MACCABEES TO THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.
BR 3145 NEILS BOHR THE MAN, HIS SCIENCE AND THE WORLD MOORE, RUTH BARBARA LICH A BIOGRAPHY OF THE DANISH PHYSICIST WHO WAS A LIFELONG FRIEND OF ALBERT EINSTEIN AND WHO SERVED AS HEAD OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE RESCUE OF THE JEWS DURING THE NAZI OCCUPATION OF DENMARK.
BR 3146 ALL THE ADVANTAGES TOPEROFF, SAM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A JEWISH BOY GROWING UP IN NEW YORK CITY DURING THE DEPRESSION.
BR 3147 MAN AND THE SOIL DAYAN, SHMUEL THE STORY OF THE FIRST FOUR DECADES OF THE FIRST MOSHAV, NAHALAL.
BR 3148 YES FROM NO MAN'S LAND KOPS, BERNARD THE STORY OF AN INDOMITABLE JEWISH FAMILY IN LONDON AND ESPECIALLY ONE OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO IS DETERMINED TO CARVE SOME PURPOSE INTO A HUMBLE LIFE.
BR 3149 CHARLES CHAPLIN MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY CHAPLIN, CHARLES THE FASCINATING STORY OF THE LIFE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ENTERTAINERS OF THE WORLD, FROM HIS EARLY YEARS IN LONDON THROUGH TO HIS FILM SUCCESS IN THE U.S. AND HIS LATER YEARS ON THE CONTINENT.
BR 3150 THIRD BIBLE LEGEND BOOK FREEHOF, LILLIAN S. MINNIE ELINS THE THIRD BOOK IN A SERIES OF LEGENDS FROM THE BIBLE.
BR 3151 ALLENBY OF ARABIA LAWRENCE'S GENERAL GARDNER, BRIAN A BIOGRAPHY OF THE MAN WHO CONQUERED PALESTINE DURING THE REIGN OF TURKS AT THE TIME OF WORLD WAR I.
BR 3152 LEADERS OF OUR PEOPLE. BK. II GUMBINER, JOSEPH H. BLANCHE HALP A BOOK ABOUT THE LIVES OF SOME GREAT JEWISH LEADERS.
BR 3153 LET'S TALK ABOUT JUDAISM KRIPKE, DOROTHY K. AN EASY APPROACH TO THE PERIOD FROM ABRAHAM TO MOSES FOR YOUNG READERS.
BR 3154 DAVID, WARRIOR AND KING SLAUGHTER, FRANK G. THIS NOTED NOVELIST HAS WRITTEN A FASCINATING HISTORICAL NOVEL BASED ON THE LIFE OF DAVID THE KING.
BR 3155 STRIKE ZION STEVENSON, WILLIAM ONE OF THE FIRST ACCOUNTS OF THE JUNE 1967 SIX DAY WAR, RELATED BY A WELL KNOWN JOURNALIST.
BR 3156 LEGENDS OF RUTH SIMHONI, S A COLLECTION OF LEGENDS ABOUT THE LIFE OF RUTH, FOR JEWISH YOUTH.
BR 3157 LEGENDS OF ABRAHAM THE PATRIARCH SKULSKY, S. AN ENTERTAINING COLLECTION OF LEGENDS ABOUT ABRAHAM THE PATRIARCH RETOLD FOR JEWISH YOUTH.
BR 3158 HOW THE JEWISH PEOPLE LIVE TODAY SOLOFF, MORDECAI I. THIS SEQUEL TO HOW THE JEWISH PEOPLE GREW UP RELATES THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS FROM 1492 TO THE PRESENT.
BR 3159 FEARSOME INN, THE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS GERTRUDE LEV IN THIS BOOK, WRITTEN FOR YOUNG READERS, THE WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR WEAVES A TALE OF EVIL OVERCOME BY MAGIC.
BR 3160 GOD AND THE STORY OF JUDAISM KRIPKE, DOROTHY K. & MEYER LEVIN AN INVITATION FOR YOUNG CHILDREN NOT ONLY TO READ AND LEARN ABOUT BUT ALSO TO THINK ABOUT THE DEEPEST MEANINGS OF GOD AND JUDAISM.
BR 3161 BITTER-SWEET STEINBACH, ALEXANDER ALAN A BOOK OF POEMS.
BR 3162 TWO GENERATIONS OF ZIONISM ROSENBLATT, BERNARD RAE SHARON THE STORY OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
BR 3165 YOUNG MOSHE'S DIARY THE SPIRITUAL TORMENT OF A JEWISH FLINKER, MOSHE JULIE PULERW IN THE FATEFUL DAYS PRIOR TO HIS DEPORTATION TO AUSCHWITZ, MOSHE FLINKER WROTE DOWN HIS INNERMOST THOUGHTS AND HIS STRUGGLES TO COME TO TERMS WITH THE ETERNAL PROBLEMS OF SUFFERING AND DIVINE JUSTICE. THIS DIARY WAS FIRST PUBLICIZED IN 1958.
BR 3167 BRING MY SONS FROM FAR LOWENSTEIN, RALPH LYNN SISTERHOOD A A NOVEL IN WHICH AN AMERICAN TAKES PART IN THE 1948 ISRAEL WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
BR 3168 ECUMANIA THE HUMOR THAT HAPPENS WHEN CATHOL WARD, HILEY H. AN EXTENSIVE WORLDWIDE COLLECTION OF HUMOR ABOUT RELIGIOUS UNITY WRITTEN FOR THE MANY CLERGYMEN, LAYMEN AND SECULAR READERS, WHO WHEN THEY WANT A JOKE ON THE ECUMENICAL LEVEL, CANNOT THINK OF AN APPROPRIATE ONE.
BR 3169 PROPHETS, THE HESCHEL, ABRAHAM JOSHUA RUBELLE SCHA AN ANALYSIS OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROPHETS IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGION, WITH NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE NATURE OF PROPHETIC INSPIRATION.
BR 3170 MAGIC TOP, THE WELCHER, ROSALIND A SIMPLE ACT OF KINDNESS SETS IN MOTION A TRAIN OF EVENTS THAT FOILS AN EVIL MAGICIAN AND RESCUES A BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN.
BR 3171 HEAVEN HELP US! TARR, HERBERT A HUMOROUS NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG RABBI AND HIS FIRST CONGREGATION, BY THE AUTHOR OF 'THE CONVERSION OF CHAPLAIN COHEN.'
BR 3172 CHILDREN AT THE GATE BANKS, LYNN REID LILLI KAUFMA A NOVEL OF A YOUNG ISRAELI WOMAN WHO ILLEGALLY ADOPTS TWO ARAB ORPHANS AND THEN FIGHTS TO RECLAIM THEM AS THEY ARE TORN AWAY FROM HER BY THE CRUELTY OF WAR.
BR 3173 AMERICAN JEWS IN ISRAEL ISAACS, HAROLD R. A STUDY OF AMERICAN JEWS IN ISRAEL, FOCUSING ON THOSE WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED THEIR SERVICES TO THE STATE.
BR 3175 THEY ALL CHOSE AMERICA MAISEL, ALBERT Q. A POPULAR HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION TO AMERICA, INCLUDING DUTCH, ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN, JAPANESE, AND OTHER PEOPLES.
BR 3177 ATHEISM IS DEAD LELYVELD, ARTHUR IN A REPLY TO 'GOD IS DEAD' THEOLOGIANS, THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE KEY ISSUES OF FAITH FOR MODERN MAN.
BR 3178 OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES SEGAL, LORE AS A CHILD, SEGAL WAS SENT TO LIVE IN ENGLAND AFTER HITLER'S PACT WITH AUSTRIA. SHE DESCRIBES GROWING UP WITH DIFFERENT FAMILIES AND HOW SHE WAS REUNITED WITH HER PARENTS IN SANTO DOMINGO AND NEW YORK.
BR 3179 WHERE ARE MY BROTHERS? BERKOWITZ, SARAH BICK A QUIET STORY OF HUMAN GOODNESS SET AGAINST A BACKDROP OF GREAT ADVERSITIES.
BR 3180 ANTHOLOGY OF YIDDISH POETRY WHITMAN, RUTH, ED. AN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN YIDDISH POETRY WRITTEN BY SOME OF THE GREAT POETS.
BR 3182 IN THE MIDST OF LIONS HEMPSTONE, SMITH THE FIRST NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED ABOUT THE ARAB-ISRAELI WAR; AN ACCURATE, DAY-BY-DAY ACCOUNT OF THAT WAR BY A REPORTER WHO WAS THERE AT THE TIME.
BR 3183 MODERN HEBREW POETRY MINTZ, RUTH FINER A BILINGUAL ANTHOLOGY OF 115 POEMS REPRESENTING THE STYLES AND THEMES OF IMPORTANT HEBREW POETS DURING THIS CENTURY.
BR 3185 MAKING IT PODHORETZ, NORMAN ELLEN KANNER THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE EDITOR OF 'COMMENTARY,' IN WHICH PODHORETZ DESCRIBES HIS JOURNEY ACROSS THE BRIDGE FROM BROOKLYN TO MANHATTAN'S LITERARY WORLD.
BR 3186 LEAVES FROM A MUSING HEART KATZ, ALICE M. JAFFIN POEMS AND OCCASIONAL PIECES ON THEMES OF TORAH, ISRAEL, THE SABBATH, AND JEWISH HOLIDAYS PUBLISHED AS A MEMORIAL VOLUME.
BR 3187 JEWISH PEOPLE, THE. BOOK 3 PUPIL'S ACTIVITY BOOK PESSIN, DEBORAH THIS PUPIL ACTIVITY BOOK ACCOMPANIES THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE HISTORY TEXT OF THE SAME NAME.
BR 3188 MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH, THE SHAW, ROBERT PROMPTED BY THE VATICAN'S DOCUMENT REPUDIATING JEWISH GUILT, REAL ESTATE MAGNATE ARTHUR GOLDMAN BEGINS HIS OWN QUEST FOR JUSTICE.
BR 3190 BEN-GURION AND THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL COMAY, JOAN A FACTUAL OVERVIEW OF THE BELEAGUERED LAND AND A SYMPATHETIC PORTRAIT OF ITS FIRST PRIME MINISTER.
BR 3191 ISRAEL'S ARSENAL KESSLER, FELIX THIS ARTICLE FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL DISCUSSES ISRAEL'S AGRICULTURAL AND MILITARY POWER AND POTENTIAL.
BR 3193 NIGHTMARE OF THE DARK SILBERSTANG, EDWIN A MOVING NOVEL OF A CHILDHOOD IN THE BARBARIC CONFINES OF A NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP CULMINATING IN ESCAPE AND A REGENERATION OF LIFE.
BR 3194 DEED, THE FRANK, GEROLD FRANCES GOLD AN EXAMINATION OF THE JEWISH RESISTANCE ORGANIZATIONS WHICH WERE ACTIVE IN PALESTINE DURING THE BRITISH MANDATE. THE AUTHOR PRESENTS A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE GROUPS, INCLUDING THE TRIAL OF THE TWO YOUNG MEN WHO KILLED LORD MOYNE, THE BRITISH MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
BR 3195 TRIAL, THE KAFKA, FRANZ THIS IS A NOVEL ABOUT A BANK CLERK WHO IS LEADING AN INNOCUOUS LIFE UNTIL HE IS ARRESTED FOR NO REASON. UNABLE TO FIGHT CITY HALL HE GIVES IN TO EXECUTION.
BR 3196 BERRIES GOODMAN NEVILLE, EMILY C. TRUDY CUTLER A BOOK WRITTEN FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ON THE PROBLEM OF ANTI-SEMITISM, AND ITS EFFECT ON THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TWO CHILDREN, ONE JEWISH, ONE GENTILE.
BR 3197 WELL, THE GRADE, CHAIM A PARABLE OF SHTETL LIFE IN VILNA AFTER WORLD WAR I, INCLUDING SOME OF THE LEGENDS AND FOLK TRADITIONS.
BR 3198 MANOR, THE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS ZELDA SALOMO A STORY OF A JEWISH BUSINESSMAN AND HIS FAMILY IN POLAND DURING THE 1860S AND THE EFFECT THAT SECULAR CIVILIZATION HAD ON THEIR LIVES.
BR 3199 LEGENDS OF THE JEWS, THE GINZBURG, LOUIS A COLLECTION OF LEGENDS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE BY THE CELEBRATED SCHOLAR AND WRITER.
BR 3201 CHANGE AND CHALLENGE A HISTORY OF 50 YEARS OF JWB JANOWSKY, OSCAR I. ON OCCASION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS FOUNDING, THE NATIONAL JEWISH WELFARE BOARD HAS ISSUED THIS SHORT HISTORY.
BR 3204 IN MY FATHER'S COURT SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS ZELDA SOLOMO THE AUTHOR'S FOND REMEMBRANCES OF GROWING UP IN A HOME, IN NINETEENTH CENTURY WARSAW, WHERE HIS FATHER, A RABBI, RESOLVED THE PROBLEMS OF HIS FOLLOWERS.
BR 3205 PATTERN FOR A HEROINE THE LIFE OF REBECCA GRATZ BRISKIN, MIRIAM AURELIA MINT THE STORY OF THE PHILADELPHIA JEWESS WHO WAS THE MODEL FOR REBECCA IN SIR WALTER SCOTT'S,' IVANHOE,' AND WHO HELPED FOUND THE HEBREW SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY.
BR 3206 DESERT FIGHTER, THE THE STORY OF GENERAL YIGAL YADIN A MILLER, SHANE THE STORY OF ARCHAEOLOGIST YIGAL YADIN, A FORMER GENERAL IN THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES, AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS. ALSO EXAMINES HIS ROLE IN THE EXCAVATION OF MASADA. WRITTEN FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 3207 YOUR FUTURE AS A RABBI A CALLING THAT COUNTS GOTTSCHALK, ALFRED A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK OF THE AMERICAN RABBI IN THE SYNAGOGUE, IN JEWISH EDUCATION, AND IN JEWISH WELFARE WORK.
BR 3208 DARKENING GREEN, THE MINTZ, RUTH FINER A BOOK OF VERSE.
BR 3209 DIGGING OUT RICHARDSON, ANNE THE TOUCHING NOVEL OF AN AFFLUENT JEWISH FAMILY WHOSE LIFE LACKS MEANING AND THEIR SEARCH FOR IT.
BR 3210 LILO'S DIARY ELMAN, RICHARD M. MRS. ALBERT A NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG JEWISH GIRL IN HUNGARY DURING THE SUMMER OF 1944, BEFORE THE NAZI DEPORTATIONS. WRITTEN IN DIARY FORM.
BR 3211 AMERICAN LIFE, SHTETL LIFE STORIES AND SKETCHES SCHWARTZ, ELKANAH MARCIA FELTH A COMPILATION OF STORIES ABOUT CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE. WRITTEN IN A HUMOROUS, SATIRICAL VEIN.
BR 3212 STORIES AND FANTASIES COHEN, EMIL BERNHARD SUPERNATURAL STORIES OF SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURY EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWS WHICH HAVE BEEN COLLECTED AND RETOLD.
BR 3213 GOD IS IN THE MOUNTAIN KEATS, EZRA JACK A COLLECTION OF POETICALLY PHRASED INSIGHTS INTO SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE GATHERED FROM MANY DIFFERENT RELIGIONS.
BR 3214 LIGHT ON ISRAEL SAMUEL, MAURICE MARCIA MARKE A BOOK DESCRIBING NON-MILITARY ACHIEVEMENTS DURING THE JUNE 1967 CRISIS, WHICH LED TO ISRAELI VICTORY IN THE SIX DAY WAR.
BR 3215 BRIGADE, THE BARTOV, HANOCH ZENA WINSTON A NOVEL ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES OF THE MEN IN THE JEWISH BRIGADE WHO SERVED UNDER THE BRITISH IN ITALY TOWARD THE END OF WORLD WAR II. DESCRIBES THEIR EMOTIONS AS A JEWISH ARMY OF OCCUPATION ABOUT TO ENTER NAZI GERMANY.
BR 3216 LETTERS TO FRIEND AND FOE SPINOZA, BARUCH LILLIAN SPIE A COLLECTION OF THE PHILOSOPHER'S LETTERS REVEALING HIS FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS.
BR 3218 BRIGADIER FREDERICK KISCH BENTWICH, NORMAN & MICHAEL KISCH THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A GENERAL BORN AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY IN ISRAEL WHO PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN SHAPING THAT NATION.
BR 3220 JEWS AMONG THE NATIONS, THE KAHLER, ERICH ANITA MORGEN A FOUR-PART HISTORY COVERING 2,000 YEARS OF JEWISH LIFE IN EUROPE.
BR 3221 CONVERSION TO JUDAISM EICHHORN, DAVID MAX, ED. AN EXAMINATION OF JEWISH PROSELYTISM AND CONVERSION.
BR 3222 SUMMER IS A FOREIGN LAND BRONER, E.M. A PLAY BASED ON A CONTEMPORARY FOLK TALE WITH THE BACKGROUND OF THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT AS RELATED IN THE PASSOVER HAGGADAH.
BR 3223 AARON COPLAND HIS LIFE AND TIMES DOBRIN, ARNOLD A BIOGRAPHICAL TRIBUTE TO THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSICIAN WHICH TRACES HIS CAREER FROM HIS FIRST PIANO LESSONS TO HIS RENOWN AS ONE OF AMERICA'S GREAT MODERN COMPOSERS.
BR 3224 JEWISH LIFE AND THOUGHT IN EASTERN EUROPE DAWIDOWICZ, LUCY S., EDITOR AN ANTHOLOGY COVERING MANY FACETS OF EASTERN EUROPE: EDUCATION, RELIGION, LITERATURE, HASIDISM AND THE HASKALAH.
BR 3225 STUDIES IN THE COMMUNAL LIFE OF THE JEWS OF SPAIN EPSTEIN, ISADORE A STUDY ABOUT THE COMMUNAL LIFE OF SPANISH JEWS DURING THE LATTER YEARS OF THE 'GOLDEN AGE OF SPAIN' AND DURING THE PERIOD OF THE RESETTLEMENT OF THE JEWS IN THE BARBARY STATES. BASED ON THE RESPONSA OF RABBI SOLOMON BEN ADRETH, THE 'RASHBA,' WHO LIVED FROM 1235-1310, AND RABBI SIMON BEN ZEMAH DURAN.
BR 3226 CHILD'S FIRST BOOK OF BIBLE STORIES, THE STEEPLE, ANN D. A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF BIBLE STORIES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.
BR 3227 SONG OF DAVID FREED, THE ROTHBERG, ABRAHAM GLORIA DANSK A POIGNANT NOVEL ABOUT DAVID FREED, A JEWISH YOUNG MAN GROWING UP IN BROOKLYN DURING THE DEPRESSION YEARS. THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS THAT MANY JEWISH FAMILIES WENT THROUGH AT THIS TIME.
BR 3228 WISDOM OF THE PSALMS, THE GUARDINI, ROMANO A SCHOLARLY INTERPRETATION OF THE PSALMS BY A NOTED CATHOLIC AUTHOR.
BR 3229 CRY IN THE WILDERNESS ROZEN, LEON S. A SHORT HISTORY OF A CHAPLAIN'S ACTIVITIES AND STRUGGLE IN SOVIET RUSSIA DURING WORLD WAR II.
BR 3230 CHAPTERS ON JEWISH LITERATURE ABRAHAMS, ISRAEL, M.A. 25 SHORT CHAPTERS ON JEWISH LITERATURE, OPENING WITH THE FALL OF JERUSALEM IN 70 AND ENDING WITH THE DEATH OF MOSES MENDELSSOHN IN 1786.
BR 3232 CHOCOLATE DEAL, THE GOURI, HAIM RUTH LIEB HA TWO SURVIVORS OF THE NAZI EXTERMINATION CAMPAIGN, ADRIFT IN A POST-WAR GERMAN CITY, TAKE SHELTER IN THE CELLAR OF A CONVENT AND ARE SUSTAINED BY THEIR COMMON GRIM HISTORY.
BR 3233 JEWISH BOOK OF DAYS, THE ROTH, CECIL A DAY-BY-DAY ALMANAC OF EVENTS FROM THE SETTLEMENT OF THE JEWS IN EUROPE TO THE BALFOUR DECLARATION.
BR 3234 JEWISH TRAVELLERS A TREASURY OF TRAVELOGUES FROM NIN ADLER, ELKAN NATHAN, ED. AN ENGLISH REPRINT OF A SELECTION OF TRAVELOGUES BY JEWS FROM THE 9TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY, WITH A PREFACE BY CECIL ROTH.
BR 3235 ABOUT US AARON, CHESTER THE STORY OF A JEWISH FAMILY IN A SMALL DEPRESSION-RIDDEN MINING TOWN IN PENNSYLVANIA.
BR 3236 ISRAEL JOURNAL Jun-67 DAYAN, YAEL A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF ISRAEL'S SIX-DAY WAR. THE AUTHOR IS THE DAUGHTER OF MOSHE DAYAN, THE GENERAL WHO LED ISRAEL'S FORCES IN THE JUNE 1967 WAR.
BR 3237 ENLIGHTENED, THE THE WRITINGS OF LUIS CARAVAJAL, EL LIEBMAN, SEYMOUR B., ED. MEMOIRS AND LETTERS WRITTEN BY A YOUNG JEW FROM MEXICO CITY WHO WAS BURNED AT THE STAKE AND ACCUSED OF PRACTICING JEWISH RITES IN SECRET.
BR 3238 DAVID BOLLIGER, MAX MRS. CHARLES A BIOGRAPHY OF DAVID, THE SHEPHERD BOY WHO BECAME KING OF THE HOUSE OF JUDAH.
BR 3239 PAPA LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, A TAYLOR, SYDNEY MRS. S. CARB A STORY OF A JEWISH FAMILY SET IN HUNGARY AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
BR 3240 RESURRECTION OF ISRAEL, THE LATOUR, ANNY RAE SHARON THE PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF A FRENCH JEWESS WHO VISITED THE SETTLEMENTS IN PALESTINE IN 1926 AND JOINED THE JEWISH UNDERGROUND IN FRANCE DURING THE GERMAN OCCUPATION.
BR 3241 PORTAL TO AMERICA THE LOWER EAST SIDE 1870-1925 SCHOENER, ALLON, ED. SARAH WEINST A NOSTALGIC REMEMBRANCE OF FIVE DECADES OF LIFE ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE.
BR 3242 EGYPTIAN BONDAGE AND OTHER STORIES, AN KESSLER, JASCHA A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES ABOUT AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE.
BR 3243 HEROD PROFILE OF A TYRANT SANDMEL, SAMUEL A BIOGRAPHY OF THE JEWISH KING WHO TERRORIZED JEWS UNDER HIS REIGN BUT REBUILT THE SECOND TEMPLE.
BR 3244 DEAR RABBI ADLER, BILL SOPHIE STEIN A HUMOROUS COLLECTION OF LETTERS TO RABBIS.
BR 3245 ANTHOLOGY OF HEBREW ESSAYS, AN. VOL. 1 COHEN, ISRAEL; MICHALI, B.Y. SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF MODERN ISRAELI WRITERS.
BR 3246 COVENANT GAMZEY, ROBERT A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES ON THE CHALLENGES AND PROBLEMS FACING AMERICAN JEWRY AND JUDAISM.
BR 3247 CHAGALL CASSOU, JEAN A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF JEWISH ARTIST, MARC CHAGALL, HIS LIFE, HIS WORK, AND HIS TIMES.
BR 3248 DEAD SEA SCROLLS BURROWS, MILLAR A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY, BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS.
BR 3250 MODERN TRENDS IN JEWISH RELIGION GOLDSMITH, EMANUEL S., RABBI MURIEL HELLE A COMPARISON OF REFORM, CONSERVATIVE, RECONSTRUCTIONIST, AND ORTHODOX JUDAISM.
BR 3251 CONSECRATED UNTO ME A JEWISH VIEW OF LOVE AND MARRIAGE GITTELSOHN, ROLAND B., RABBI MRS. MOSES A THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES LAWS AND CUSTOMS THAT PERTAIN TO JEWISH COUPLES WHEN THEY MEET, FALL IN LOVE, AND MARRY.
BR 3252 ANTIQUE MAN GERBER, MERRILL JOAN THE TRAGIC STORY OF THE EFFECT OF A FATHER'S FATAL ILLNESS UPON HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTERS, A TIGHTLY KNIT JEWISH FAMILY.
BR 3253 WALL BETWEEN, THE SAMUELLI, ANNIE LEE HOLLANDE A ACCOUNT OF THE ELEVEN YEARS THE AUTHOR AND HER SISTER SPENT IN ROMANIAN PRISONS BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN.
BR 3254 COME UNDER THE WINGS A MIDRASH ON RUTH GOLDIN, GRACE MRS. STEPHEN A POEM BASED ON THE BIBLICAL BOOK OF RUTH, WRITTEN IN MIDRASHIC STYLE.
BR 3255 EREV SCHECHTMAN, ELYA BEATRICE LEV THE TRANSLATION OF A YIDDISH NOVEL, PUBLISHED IN THE SOVIET UNION, ABOUT A JEWISH FAMILY IN RUSSIA ON THE EVE OF THE 1905 REVOLUTION.
BR 3256 MY FATHER, SHOLOM ALEICHEM WAIFE-GOLDBERG, MARIE MRS. MARC SI A PORTRAIT OF WRITER SHOLOM ALEICHEM, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF JEWISH FAMILY LIFE PRIOR TO WORLD WAR I.
BR 3257 YOUNG SAMSON THE STRONGEST BOY WHO EVER LIVED TASLITT, ISRAEL I. JOAN ADELL BASED ON THE BIBLICAL STORY OF SAMSON WHO WAS INTENT ON DELIVERING HIS PEOPLE FROM THE HANDS OF THE PHILISTINES. TOGETHER WITH HIS FRIEND AND MENTOR, KHIDDON THE RIDDLE-MASTER, SAMSON FINDS WAYS TO EXPOSE THE FALSENESS OF THE PHILISTINE PRIESTS AND GODS.
BR 3258 SPECIMEN OF HUMAN LIFE, A ACOSTA, URIEL THIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY PRESENTS THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THIS CONTROVERSIAL THEOLOGIAN WHO LIVED DURING THE YEARS 1585-1640 AND WAS EXCOMMUNICATED IN THE GREAT SYNAGOGUE OF AMSTERDAM.
BR 3259 GORE AND IGOR LEVIN, MEYER THE STORY OF TWO BOYS, ONE AMERICAN AND ONE RUSSIAN, EACH OF WHOM FLEES FROM INJUSTICE IN HIS HOMELAND AND FINDS REFUGE AND ADVENTURE IN ISRAEL.
BR 3260 GOODBYE, BOYS BALTER, BORIS FLORENCE BER A NOVEL ABOUT THE LIVES OF THREE YOUNG MEN IN RUSSIA WHO END UP IN A PRISON CAMP IN THE 1950S.
BR 3261 JEWS, THE A CHRONICLE FOR CHRISTIAN CONSCIEN VOGT, HANNAH RUTH SIEGNER A NARRATIVE AND ANALYSIS BY A GERMAN CHRISTIAN EDUCATOR.
BR 3263 MORNING STAR SHAZAR, ZALMAN LIVIA SCHACT THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL REMINISCES ABOUT HIS YOUTH AND THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED SHAPE HIS LIFE.
BR 3264 OLD COUNTRY TALES ALEICHEM, SHOLOM MRS. SAMUEL A COMPILATION OF SHORT STORIES BY THE WELL-KNOWN YIDDISH WRITER.
BR 3266 THERE GOES DAVEY COHEN OWEN, WENDY A TOUCHING NOVEL ABOUT THE COMPLEXITIES OF A MARRIAGE AND THE COMPROMISES WHICH HAVE TO BE MADE.
BR 3267 CHALLENGE TO CONFIRMANDS ARNOLD, JACOB W. HELPING TEENAGERS FIND ANSWERS TO THEIR QUESTIONS BY APT QUOTATIONS FROM JEWISH CLASSIC SOURCES--BOTH GREAT BOOKS AND SCHOLARS.
BR 3268 FROM KISHINEV TO BABI YAR KOHANSKI, ALEXANDER S. A COLLECTION OF POEMS AND ESSAYS.
BR 3269 BEST OF HARRY GOLDEN, THE GOLDEN HARRY AN OMNIBUS OF THE VARIED WRITINGS BY THE NOTED HUMORIST.
BR 3270 FIRST PAPERS HOBSON, LAURA Z. IN THIS NOVEL OF THE HARASSMENT OF LIBERALS AND RADICALS IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE YEARS PRECEDING WORLD WAR I, A RUSSIAN-JEWISH INTELLECTUAL AND HIS FRIEND BECOME INVOLVED IN VARIOUS RADICAL GROUPS THAT AFFECT THEIR FAMILIES IN MANY WAYS.
BR 3272 SUNSHINE AND SALT ROTHCHILD, SYLVIA A TOUCHING STORY OF THE ALIENATION OF A JEWISH WOMAN FROM HER MOTHER AND HER TRADITIONAL JEWISH LIFE AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF RECONCILIATION FOR BOTH.
BR 3273 GUGGENHEIMS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM, THE HOYT, EDWIN THE STORY OF THE TRIBULATIONS OF THE GUGGENHEIM FAMILY IN EUROPE AND THEIR COMING TO AMERICA, WHERE THEY ESTABLISHED A FOUNDATION FOR ART.
BR 3274 LAST TRAIN, THE EXODUS TO TASHKENT TAUBE, HERMAN THE ODYSSEY OF MORRIS WEINGARTEN, NOW MISCHA WENGROW- FORMER CITIZEN WITHOUT A HOME.
BR 3276 TEARS AND LAUGHTER IN AN ISRAELI COURTROOM SHESHIN, SHNEER PROBLEMS RESULTING FROM NATIONAL, RACIAL, AND RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES IN THE ISRAELI POPULATION ARE DISCUSSED BY THE AUTHOR WHO SERVED AS A JUDGE IN PALESTINE DURING THE BRITISH MANDATE.
BR 3278 DAY IN REGENSBURG, A OPATOSHU, JOSEPH RUTH RAPPAPO A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY THE YIDDISH WRITER, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.
BR 3279 EMANCIPATION AND ADJUSTMENT CONTEMPORARY JEWISH RELIGIOUS MOVE RUDAVSKY, DAVID HILDRED E. G THE ORIGIN, EVOLUTION, AND GROWTH OF IDEOLOGIES IN CONTEMPORARY JEWISH RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS - ORTHODOX, CONSERVATIVE, AND REFORM.
BR 3280 BITTER SPRING ANGOFF, CHARLES A NOVEL ABOUT AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE BASED ON THE AUTHOR'S OWN EXPERIENCES. ONE OF A SERIES OF NOVELS TRACING THE EAST EUROPEAN JEWISH IMMIGRANTS' LIFE IN AMERICA. THE MAIN CHARACTER, DAVID POLONSKY, IS THE AUTHOR'S ALTER EGO.
BR 3281 INTRODUCTION TO TOMORROW THE U.S. AND THE WIDER WORLD ABERNATHY, ROBERT G. OFFICIAL AMERICAN POLICY IS EXPLAINED SIMPLY AND INTERESTINGLY IN THIS WELL-WRITTEN CHILDREN'S HISTORY.
BR 3282 LAUGHTER ON A WEEKDAY FALSTEIN, LOUIS MRS. HARRY A A STORY ABOUT A RUSSIAN-JEWISH FAMILY WHO TRAVEL FROM EUROPE TO AMERICA DURING THE YEARS BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS. THEY EVENTUALLY SETTLE IN CHICAGO, AND ASSIMILATE INTO AMERICAN LIFE.
BR 3283 JEWISH PEOPLE, THE 4000 YEARS OF SURVIVAL WURBRAND, MAX & CECIL ROTH AN IMPRESSIVE PORTRAYAL OF A NATION WHICH, DESPITE HARDSHIPS AND PERSECUTION, HAS RETAINED ITS IDENTITY OVER A SPAN OF 4000 YEARS.
BR 3285 GLEANINGS ESSAYS IN JEWISH LETTERS AND ART ROTH, CECIL SIXTEEN ESSAYS DEALING WITH THE JEWS OF ITALY, SPAIN AND PORTUGAL BY DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN.
BR 3286 JURY RETURNS, THE NIZER, LOUIS MARION FRACK IN THIS SEQUEL TO NIZER'S FIRST AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL BOOK, 'MY LIFE IN COURT,' THE WELL-KNOWN LAWYER OFFERS MORE EPISODES OF COURTROOM DRAMA AND EXCITEMENT.
BR 3287 FRESH MORNING KRITZ, RUEVEN STORIES AND NOVELETTES OF LIFE ON AN ISRAELI KIBBUTZ, DETAILING THE ASPIRATIONS AND STRUGGLES OF ITS MEMBERS.
BR 3288 AS A DRIVEN LEAF STEINBERG, MILTON RIVY DOLIN THE STORY OF ELISHA BEN ABUYAH, A SECOND-CENTURY RABBI WHOSE PASSION FOR A REASONABLE FAITH LED HIM TO RENOUNCE HIS RELIGION AND BETRAY HIS PEOPLE TO THE ROMANS.
BR 3289 JOSEPH BOLLIGER, MAX AN ADAPTATION OF THE BIBLICAL STORY OF JOSEPH. WRITTEN IN SIMPLE, UNDERSTANDABLE LANGUAGE FOR CHILDREN.
BR 3290 THIS MAN MOSES WEISFELD, ISRAEL H. A BOOK ABOUT MOSES BASED ON HIS PORTRAYAL IN THE BIBLE AND IN RABBINIC, HASIDIC, AND MODERN LITERATURE, AS WELL AS IN ART AND POETRY.
BR 3291 GOVERNMENT IN ISRAEL FREUDENHEIM, YEHOSHUA MIRIAM E. GO AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, UP TO THE CLOSE OF THE FIFTH KNESSET.
BR 3292 FAR CRY, A ROVIT, EARL A REFLECTION ON LIFE AND DEATH AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF TWO MEN, ONE, A GHETTO JEW CHARGED WITH MURDER, AND THE OTHER, A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN DYING IN A HOSPITAL.
BR 3293 TIME TO MOURN, A SPIRO, JACK LILLIAN SPIE A BOOK ABOUT ANCIENT AND MODERN JEWISH CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS ON THE SUBJECT OF DEATH.
BR 3294 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS THE PARTICIPATION OF THE JEWS IN T KAYSERLING, M. AMY SILBERT THE AUTHOR CONTENDS THAT THE VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF JEWISH ASTRONOMERS, CARTOGRAPHERS, AND FINANCIAL BACKERS WHO WERE EXPELLED FROM SPAIN IN 1492.
BR 3295 SELECTED WRITINGS OF MIRIAM R. EPHRAIM EPHRAIM, MIRIAM R. THE AUTHOR, ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S LEADING SOCIAL WORKERS, UPON RETIREMENT, ASSEMBLED HER WRITINGS AND PROGRAMS FOR SOCIAL AGENCIES.
BR 3296 ISRAEL ZANGWILL WOHLGELERNTER, MAURICE BIRDIE SAFIO A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH-JEWISH WRITER.
BR 3297 YISROEL LEFTWICH, JOSEPH, ED. AN ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES BY JEWISH WRITERS ON THEMES OF JEWISH INTEREST. COMPILED BY A BRITISH-JEWISH JOURNALIST AND LITERARY CRITIC.
BR 3298 ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER AND THE ETERNAL PAST BUCHEN, IRVING SARA WEINBER A SUPERIOR ANALYSIS OF SINGER'S WORK WITH BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS AGAINST THE DOUBLE BACKDROP OF YIDDISH AND MODERN LITERATURE.
BR 3299 CHOSEN PEOPLES ZANGWILL, ISRAEL THE AUTHOR BELIEVES THAT THE JEWS WERE CHOSEN TO SPREAD THE HIGHEST ETHICAL IDEALS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
BR 3300 SABBATH, THE GRUNFELD, DR.,I. A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING THE MEANING OF THE LAWS OF THE SABBATH.
BR 3301 HOPE FOR MAN LIEBMAN, JOSHUA LOTH AN OPTIMISTIC PHILOSOPHY AND GUIDE TO SELF-FULFILLMENT BASED ON JUDAISM AND MODERN THOUGHT.
BR 3303 I, THE LAWYER KUTNER, LUIS A PRESENTATION OF THE HISTORY OF LAW AND ITS PRINCIPLES. PARTICULARLY SUITED FOR ANYONE CONTEMPLATING A LEGAL CAREER.
BR 3304 FREUD HIS LIFE AND HIS MIND PUNER, HELEN WALKER ANITA ROSENG A BIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL FIGURES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. ALSO DISCUSSED ARE THE TECHNIQUES AND METHODS FREUD DEVELOPED WHICH ARE STILL USED IN MODERN PSYCHOLOGY.
BR 3306 WORLD OF SHOLOM ALEICHEM, THE SAMUELS, MAURICE IN THIS DEPICTION OF DIASPORA JEWRY, THE AUTHOR RECREATES THE TOWNS AND VILLAGES WHICH WERE THE LIVING MATERIAL FOR SHOLOM ALEICHEM'S STORIES.
BR 3307 RUSSIAN JEW, THE UNDER TSARS AND SOVIETS BARON, SALO W. A HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN JEW FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENTS TO THE PRESENT. THE AUTHOR FOCUSES ON JEWISH RESPONSES THROUGH THE CENTURIES TO ATTEMPTS BY THE VARIOUS RUSSIAN GOVERNMENTS TO ASSIMILATE AND DENATIONALIZE THE JEWISH POPULATION.
BR 3308 SCROLLS FROM THE DEAD SEA, THE WILSON, EDMUND AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN, DISCOVERY AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE ANCIENT DEAD SEA SCROLLS FOUND IN 1947.
BR 3310 FORWARD FROM EXILE THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SHMARYA LEVIN LEVIN, SHMARYA. MAURICE SAMUEL, ED. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SHMARYA LEVIN, ZIONIST ORATOR, AUTHOR, AND TEACHER WHO LIVED FROM 1867-1935. PORTRAYS JEWISH LIFE IN RUSSIA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
BR 3312 HISTORY OF THE JEWS, THE. VOL. II THE THREE RINGS BORCHSENIUS, POUL A HISTORY OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF JEWISH CULTURE IN SPAIN PRESENTED IN AN EASY NARRATIVE STYLE. WRITTEN BY A DANISH PASTOR WHO WAS ACTIVE IN THE DANISH RESISTANCE AND WHO HELPED SMUGGLE JEWS OUT OF DENMARK.
BR 3313 MARC CHAGALL GREENFELD, HOWARD LINDA JAMPOL A BIOGRAPHY OF THE 20TH CENTURY JEWISH ARTIST, MANY OF WHOSE THEMES CENTER AROUND HIS JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 3316 JUDAISM EPSTEIN, ISIDORE A DISCUSSION ABOUT TRADITIONAL JUDAISM.
BR 3317 HISTORY OF THE JEWS. BK. III BEYOND THE WALL BORCHSENIUS, PAUL A HISTORY OF THE GHETTO.
BR 3318 MR. THEODORE MUNDSTOCK FUKS, LADISLAV THE AUTHOR OFFERS US A KAFKAESQUE APPROACH TO LIFE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST AS WELL AS A HUMAN DOCUMENT ON WAR AND ADVERSITY.
BR 3319 MOTT THE HOOPLE MANUS, WILLARD MIRIAM BENDE A HUMOROUS NOVEL ABOUT AN AMBITIOUS, YOUNG JEWISH MAN AND HIS ATTEMPTS TO IMPROVE BOTH HIS LIFESTYLE AND HIS LOVE LIFE.
BR 3320 FOURTH HORSEMAN OF MIAMI BEACH, THE HALPER, ALBERT A NOVEL OF MIAMI BEACH LIFE TOLD WITH COMPASSION FOR THE LONELY CROWD OF WIDOWS AND FORTUNE HUNTERS.
BR 3321 WHEN I WAS LAST ON CHERRY STREET ROSKOLENKO, HARRY AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MAN WHO ADVANCED FROM THE GHETTO OF NEW YORK'S CHERRY STREET TO LITERARY RESPECTABILITY IN THE 1920'S AND 1930'S.
BR 3322 HAYM SOLOMON MILGRIM, SHIRLEY GORSON A BIOGRAPHY FOR YOUNG READERS ABOUT THE JEW WHO PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
BR 3323 FIRST BOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY, THE KUBIE, NORA BENJAMIN AN INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY WHICH TOUCHES UPON THE ANCIENT CULTURES OF ASSYRIA, SUMER, EGYPT, GREECE, ROME AND THE AMERICAS.
BR 3324 MIRACLE MEN TALES OF THE BAAL SHEM TOV AND HIS MECKLER, DAVID L. SONYA ROTH/R TALES AND STORIES FROM HASIDIC FOLKLORE DATING FROM THE TIME OF THE BAAL SHEM TOV, THE FOUNDER OF HASIDISM.
BR 3325 EINSTEIN PROFILE OF THE MAN MICHELMORE, PETER LEOTA KEIR A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT SCIENTIST AND A DESCRIPTION OF HIS WORK IN NON-TECHNICAL TERMS. THE AUTHOR PUTS THE EMPHASIS ON EINSTEIN AS A PERSON RATHER THAN AS A SCIENTIST.
BR 3326 CASE FOR ISRAEL GERVASI, FRANK OUIDA MINTZ/ AN ANALYSIS OF WHY ISRAEL FOUGHT THE SIX-DAY WAR IN 1967, A HISTORY OF THE WARS PRECEDING IT, AND THE HOPES FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
BR 3327 JONAH BONDI WISE CAUMAN, SAM RUBELLE SCHA THE LIFE OF A LEADER OF REFORM JUDAISM WHO MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE.
BR 3328 GATE OF HELL, THE KOPPEL, ALFRED STORY OF AN AMERICAN VETERAN OF WORLD WAR II AND THE KOREAN WAR, WHO SERVED AS A VOLUNTEER WITH AN ISRAELI PARATROOP COMPANY.
BR 3329 TO BROOKLYN WITH LOVE GREEN, GERALD A NOVEL WHICH DEPICTS THE ANXIETY, PAIN, AND HARDSHIP IN A BOY'S LIFE.
BR 3330 THROUGH NARROW GATES BELKIN, SIMON A REVIEW OF JEWISH IMMIGRATION, COLONIZATION AND IMMIGRANT AID WORK IN CANADA BETWEEN 1840-1940.
BR 3331 GREAT JEWISH SHORT STORIES BELLOW, SAUL, ED. THIS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES REPRESENTS A DIVERSITY OF JEWISH WRITERS.
BR 3332 AIRTIGHT CAGE A STUDY OF NEW YORK'S WEST SIDE LYFORD, JOSEPH P. ANNABELLE BROWN AN ACCOUNT OF A CHANGING NEW YORK NEIGHBORHOOD, THE WEST SIDE. ONCE A STEPPING STONE TO A BETTER LIFE FOR JEWISH IMMIGRANTS, TODAY IT IS AN AREA COMPRISED OF MANY ETHNIC GROUPS AND SUBCULTURES.
BR 3333 JEWISH/CHRISTIAN RELATIONS HEYER, ROBERT NINE LEADERS IN JEWISH/CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES CONSIDER THE CENTRAL ISSUES BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND JEWS.
BR 3334 UNDER THE FIG TREE SHENBERG, YITZHAK FIVE STORIES OF PALESTINE IN 1948, JUST BEFORE THE STATE OF ISRAEL WAS DECLARED.
BR 3335 HOW THE FISHES LIVE LIEBER, JOEL A SUSPENSE NOVEL ABOUT AN AMERICAN JEWISH TAXI DRIVER, ONETIME BRITISH COMMANDO, AND POSTWAR TERRORIST IN PALESTINE.
BR 3336 STRANGERS TO GLORY LIEBERMAN, CHAIM A VIGOROUS DENUNCIATION OF THE PROGRAM AND WORK OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM, A JEWISH ANTI-ZIONIST ORGANIZATION.
BR 3337 DEATH HAD TWO SONS DAYAN, YAEL THE STORY OF DANIEL, AN ISRAELI SOLDIER SEPARATED FROM HIS FAMILY BY THE NAZIS, AND HIS EFFORTS TO REUNITE WITH HIS ESTRANGED AND TORTURED FATHER.
BR 3338 BETWEEN MAN AND MAN BUBER, MARTIN CLARA LINN THE WELL-KNOWN PHILOSOPHER EXPANDS ON HIS PHILOSOPHY OF 'I AND THOU' AND APPLIES IT TO CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS.
BR 3339 AMERICAN JEWS PORTRAIT OF A SPLIT PERSONALITY YAFFE, JAMES ROSE GOLDSTE A HUMOROUS BUT AFFECTIONATE PORTRAIT OF THE JEW IN AMERICA TODAY, COMPLETE WITH ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FAILURES, MANNERS AND STYLE, PARADOXES AND CONTRADICTIONS, ADJUSTMENTS TO AND REACTIONS AGAINST COUNTRY AND COMMUNITY.
BR 3340 MINDY GETS HER REWARD SZEMTOV, E.G. AN ANTHOLOGY OF NINE STORIES DEALING WITH THEMES OF ETHICS AND BEHAVIOR APPROPRIATE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.
BR 3341 BEHOLD THE FIRE BLANKFORT, MICHAEL HELEN B. LEV A HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT A SMALL GROUP OF JEWISH PIONEERS LIVING IN TURKISH-CONTROLLED PALESTINE WHO ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT BY COLLABORATING WITH THE BRITISH.
BR 3342 JUSTICE LOUIS D. BRANDEIS RABINOWITZ, EZEKIEL AN ACCOUNTING OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE NOTED JUSTICE OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT IN SUPPORT OF ZIONISM DURING 1914-1917.
BR 3343 JEWISH DIETARY LAWS, THE DRESNER, SAMUEL H. A GUIDE TO THE UNDERSTANDING AND OBSERVANCE OF JEWISH DIETARY LAWS.
BR 3344 THAT SUMMER WITH ORA LAMPEL, RUSIA AN ISRAELI GIRL'S DIARY OF EVENTS DURING A SUMMER WITH A JEWISH GIRL FRIEND FROM AMERICA.
BR 3345 ON THE KABBALAH AND ITS SYMBOLISM SCHOLEM, GERSHOM G. A BOOK FOR LAYMEN ON THE KABBALAH, DESCRIBING THE RELATIONSHIP OF JEWISH MYSTICISM TO TORAH, RITUAL, AND ESTABLISHED RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY.
BR 3347 TRANSPLANTED, THE STOETZNER, FRIDEL AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE ADJUSTMENTS MADE BY A JEWISH FAMILY IN THEIR REMOVAL FROM THEIR SECURE EXISTENCE IN EUROPE.
BR 3348 SASSOONS, THE JACKSON, STANLEY A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FAMILY OF PROMINENT RABBIS, BANKERS, PHILANTHROPISTS, MERCHANTS, AND DIPLOMATS. ORIGINALLY FROM BAGHDAD, THE SASSOON FAMILY WAS INFLUENTIAL IN BOTH BUSINESS AFFAIRS AND THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF INDIA, ENGLAND, CHINA, AND IRAQ.
BR 3349 THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK, A - VOL. I ADAPTED FROM THE WORKS OF RABBI ME KAGAN, Y.M., EDITOR BRIEF PRESENTATIONS ON THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTIONS ADAPTED FROM THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE'S SICHOT (DISCOURSES) OF 1968.
BR 3351 HANUKKAH SIMON, NORMA DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN FACT AND LEGEND, THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES, AND TRADITIONAL GAMES AND FOOD OF HANUKKAH.
BR 3352 HUMAN RIGHTS DAY FISHER, AILEEN & OLIVE RABE A NEW HOLIDAY CELEBRATING HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE LIVING HERITAGE OF THE CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS.
BR 3353 EXPLAINING DEATH TO CHILDREN GROLLMAN, EARL A., ED. AN ANTHOLOGY FOR PARENTS AND PROFESSIONALS WORKING WITH CHILDREN. INCLUDES A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT.
BR 3354 FIELD OF BUTTERCUPS, A HYAMS, JOSEPH MRS. NORMAN THE STORY OF THE 'OUR HOME' ORPHANAGE IN WARSAW, AND ITS DIRECTOR, JANUSZ KORCZAK, WHO CARED FOR THE 200 JEWISH CHILDREN THERE.
BR 3356 SATAN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT KLUGER, RIVKAH SCHARF THE IDEAS OF GOD AND SATAN ARE ANALYZED AS PSYCHOLOGICAL RATHER THAN THEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA.
BR 3357 ROAD TO JERUSALEM, THE THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT - 1967 LAQUEUR, WALTER A SURVEY OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE ARAB COUNTRIES FROM 1948 TO 1966 AND THE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THESE COUNTRIES PRIOR TO THE SIX-DAY WAR.
BR 3358 GOLDEN HERITAGE, THE HAUSDORFF, DAVID M. AN INSPIRATIONAL TREASURY OF JEWISH THOUGHT FOR YOUNG ADULTS.
BR 3359 JEW IN THE LITERATURE OF ENGLAND, THE MODDER, FRANK MONTAGU MRS. S. POLI THIS BOOK EXPLORES THE ROLE OF THE JEW IN ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
BR 3360 SHAMIR OF DACHAU, THE DAVID, CHRISTOPHER MRS. PHILIP A SUSPENSE THRILLER SET IN WEST GERMANY ABOUT TWO SURVIVORS WHO HUNT DOWN THEIR NAZI PERSECUTORS.
BR 3362 OUR CROWD BIRMINGHAM, STEPHEN HELEN M. ASC AN ACCOUNT OF THE GERMAN-JEWISH FAMILIES WHO SETTLED IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1800S AND WHO HELPED BUILD UP THE BANKING INDUSTRY AND OTHER LARGE INSTITUTIONS.
BR 3363 MENDEL HOFFMAN, WILLIAM MARCIA FELTH THE STORY OF AN ELDERLY JEW AND HOW HE ADJUSTS TO THE NEW, CHANGING WORLD AROUND HIM WHEN HIS FAMILIAR SURROUNDINGS DISAPPEAR.
BR 3364 SELECTED POEMS GERSHON, KAREN MARCIA FEINB A BOOK OF POETRY, WRITTEN BY A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 3365 MINORITY REPORT GERSH, HARRY A SHARP AND WITTY EXAMINATION OF JEWS AND JEWISH LIFE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA IN ELEVEN ENJOYABLE ESSAYS.
BR 3366 SON OF A STAR MEISELS, ANDREW ADELINE MARE A HISTORICAL NOVEL BASED ON THE LIFE OF SIMON BAR KOCHBA, WHO UNITED THE HILL TRIBES OF JUDAH TO OPPOSE THE FORCES OF ROME. THIS BOOK EXPLAINS HOW THE IDEA OF AN INDEPENDENT JEWISH STATE HAS BEEN MAINTAINED FOR ALMOST 2,000 YEARS.
BR 3367 HURRY HENRIETTA CONE, MILLIE EDNA SAMPLIN THE LIFE STORY OF HENRIETTA SZOLD BEGINNING FROM HER CHILDHOOD IN BALTIMORE AND CONTINUING THROUGH HER RISE TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THE HADASSAH ORGANIZATION AND TO ISRAEL'S YOUTH ALIYAH MOVEMENT.
BR 3368 SO TALENTED MY CHILDREN SHEKLOW, EDNA FLORENCE BER THE AUTHOR'S HUMOROUS ACCOUNT OF HOW SHE RAISED ELEVEN CHILDREN IN MANHATTAN DURING THE DEPRESSION YEARS.
BR 3369 ISRAEL AND THE WORLD EBAN ABBA INTERVIEWS WITH ABBA EBAN AND OTHER NOTED STATESMEN ARE PRESENTED IN THIS WORK.
BR 3370 SEEKER OF UNITY THE WORKS OF AARON OF STAROSSELJE JACOBS, LOUIS THE LIFE AND THOUGHT OF AN ORIGINAL BUT NEGLECTED RELIGIOUS THINKER WHO GRAPPLED WITH THE INHERENT PROBLEMS IN THE IDEA OF GOD'S UNITY.
BR 3371 SATURDAY THE RABBI WENT HUNGRY KEMELMAN, HARRY ESTHER LEVIN ONE IN A SERIES OF BOOKS ABOUT RABBI SMALL. WHILE DEALING WITH SYNAGOGUE POLITICS, THE RABBI ALSO MANAGES TO SOLVE MURDER MYSTERIES IN HIS COMMUNITY OF BARNARD'S CROSSING, USING THE METHODOLOGY OF TALMUDIC PILPUL. IN THIS BOOK, HE SOLVES A MYSTERY CONCERNING A BURIAL IN THE TEMPLE CEMETERY.
BR 3372 ISRAEL AN ECHO OF ETERNITY HESCHEL, ABRAHAM JOSHUA CANTOR DAVID A BOOK ON THE MEANING OF ISRAEL AND ITS HISTORICAL AND SPIRITUAL VALUES.
BR 3374 UNDER THE BOARDWALK ROSTEN, NORMAN MRS. MILTON A NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG JEWISH BOY GROWING UP IN CONEY ISLAND A GENERATION AGO.
BR 3375 STORIES FROM 'EPOCH' HATHAWAY, BAXTER ESTHER LEVIN A COLLECTION OF MODERN SHORT STORIES BY CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN JEWISH WRITERS.
BR 3376 TALES OF OUR PEOPLE LEWIS, JERRY D., ED. ZENA WINSTON A COLLECTION OF 26 PORTRAITS OF JEWS WHO MADE THEIR MARK ON LIFE IN AMERICA.
BR 3377 NO END OF A LESSON THE INSIDE STORY OF THE SUEZ CRISI NUTTING, ANTHONY JACQUELINE W THE STORY OF THE BRITISH, FRENCH, AND ISRAELI ALLIANCE DURING THE 1956 SUEZ CRISIS. WRITTEN BY THE BRITISH MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS WHO RESIGNED DURING THIS TIME.
BR 3378 MAN WHO LOVED LAUGHTER, THE THE STORY OF SHOLOM ALEICHEM FALSTEIN, LOUIS ESTHER KOSSO A BIOGRAPHY OF SHOLOM ALEICHEM WHOSE WORKS HAVE BECOME CLASSICS OF YIDDISH LITERATURE.
BR 3379 QUEST FOR THE DREAM, THE ROCHE, JOHN F. THIS BOOK DISCUSSES THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND EQUALITY IN HUMAN RELATIONS IN TODAY'S AMERICA.
BR 3380 MIXED-MARRIAGE DAUGHTER COLMAN, HILA SARAH WEINST A STORY ABOUT A TEENAGE GIRL, THE DAUGHTER OF A MIXED MARRIAGE, CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TWO WORLDS OF HER PARENTS.
BR 3381 WELL OF GERAR, THE ROTHGIESSER, RUBEN THE ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN WHO LEAVES HIS HOME IN SOUTH AMERICA AND TRAVELS TO EUROPE DURING THE PERIOD BEFORE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
BR 3382 NOT OF THIS TIME, NOT OF THIS PLACE AMICHAI, YEHUDA A POETIC NOVEL ABOUT A SUCCESSFUL JERUSALEM ARCHAEOLOGIST WHO IS OBSESSED BY THE NEED TO RETURN TO GERMANY AND AVENGE THE MURDER OF A YOUNG GIRL BY THE NAZIS.
BR 3383 PHILOSOPHY OF MARTIN BUBER, THE SCHLIPP, PAUL ARTHUR & MAURICE FRIED STANLEY R. B CONTAINS BUBER'S CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY ESSAYS ILLUMINATING HIS PHILOSOPHICAL POSITION; ALSO HIS REPLIES TO CRITICS, INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WRITINGS.
BR 3384 HISTORY OF THE JEWS. VOL. 4 THE CHAINS ARE BROKEN BORCHSENIUS, POUL SYLVIA MOGEL THE FOURTH VOLUME OF A SERIES WRITTEN BY A DANISH LUTHERAN PASTOR. THIS VOLUME DEALS WITH THE STORY OF THE JEWISH EMANCIPATION.
BR 3385 GUEST FOR THE NIGHT, A AGNON, S.Y. MRS. MILTON A NOVEL BY THE NOBEL PRIZEWINNER IN WHICH A MAN RETURNS FOR A VISIT TO HIS NATIVE VILLAGE IN POLAND AFTER WORLD WAR I.
BR 3386 AHAVATH CHESED HA-COHEN, RABBI YISRAEL MEIR (CHAFET A BOOK ABOUT THE CENTRALITY OF ACTS OF KINDNESS IN JEWISH LIFE.
BR 3387 WELLSPRINGS OF TORAH - VOL. I FRIEDMAN, ALEXANDER ZUSIA DEALING WITH THE FIRST HALF OF THE TORAH AND ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE WEEKLY READING, THIS FIRST OF TWO VOLUMES PRESENTS RELEVANT ANECDOTES, APHORISMS AND THEMES.
BR 3388 HAGANAH MARDOR, MUNYA M. GERMAINE KIT A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE JEWISH UNDERGROUND ARMY IN PALESTINE.
BR 3389 SINGING WAY WEILERSTEIN, SADIE ROSE THE NOTED AUTHOR PRESENTS A DELIGHTFUL COLLECTION OF POEMS PARTICULARLY SUITED FOR JEWISH CHILDREN.
BR 3390 LETTERS TO MY SON RUNES, DAGOBERT D. A COLLECTION OF TIMELESS PENETRATING ESSAYS IN THE FORM OF LETTERS FROM A FATHER TO HIS SON IN WHICH THE AUTHOR PRESENTS ETHICAL, INSPIRATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR LIFE.
BR 3391 TWO OF US, THE BERRI, CLAUDE DURING WORLD WAR II, A FRENCH JEWISH BOY IS SENT TO THE COUNTRY TO LIVE WITH AN OLD MAN, WHO HAS ANTI-SEMITIC FEELINGS.
BR 3392 VOICES FROM THE PAST STORIES OF GREAT BIBLICAL DISCOVERIES EISENBERG, AZRIEL THE STORY OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SEARCH FOR HISTORICAL SITES AND THE DISCOVERY OF ARTIFACTS DATING FROM BIBLICAL TIMES. THE BOOK, WRITTEN FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, DESCRIBES THE EXCAVATIONS AT TEL-EL-AMARNA, MOAB, AND KUMRAN.
BR 3393 SUNDAY THE RABBI STAYED HOME KEMELMAN, HARRY HELEN ASCHER ONE IN THE SERIES OF DETECTIVE NOVELS FEATURING RABBI DAVID SMALL AND HIS COMMUNITY OF BARNARD'S CROSSING. THE BOOK COMBINES MYSTERY AND HUMOR WITH A DESCRIPTION OF CONTEMPORARY JEWISH AND SYNAGOGUE LIFE.
BR 3394 ANGRY HILLS URIS, LEON M. ADELINE MARE AN ADVENTURE WHICH TAKES PLACE DURING THE GERMAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF GREECE DURING WWII. © 1971
BR 3397 WOMEN BUILD A LAND MAIMON, ADA A STUDY OF THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE CREATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 3398 TO DENY OUR NOTHINGNESS FRIEDMAN, MAURICE A RICHLY COMPLEX ANALYSIS OF THE IMAGES OF MAN CREATED BY GREAT WRITERS AND THINKERS SUCH AS HUXLEY, KAFKA AND BUBER.
BR 3399 B'NAI BRITH GRUSD, EDWARD THE HISTORY OF AMERICA'S OLDEST JEWISH SERVICE ORGANIZATION, FOUNDED BY TWELVE MEN IN NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE IN 1843.
BR 3400 JEWS, THE STORY OF A PEOPLE FAST, HOWARD MRS. ALBERT THIS BOOK RELATES THE 4,000-YEAR SAGA OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THEIR WANDERINGS IN THE DESERT TO THE REBIRTH OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 3401 BEGGAR TO KING DUCKAT, WALTER A STUDY OF THE VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS OF PEOPLE IN BIBLICAL TIMES.
BR 3402 WORLD OF JO DAVIDSON, THE KUHN, LOIS HARRIS A STORY WRITTEN FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT THE LIFE AND CAREER OF A CREATIVE ARTIST.
BR 3403 MY PEOPLE EBAN, ABBA EBAN PRESENTS A BROAD HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 3406 CHOOSING A SEX ETHIC BOROWITZ, EUGENE B. CLAIRE JACOB A HISTORY OF JEWISH SEXUAL CUSTOMS, RANGING FROM BIBLICAL AND RABBINIC SOURCES TO MODERN THOUGHT, WRITTEN BY THE PROMINENT REFORM RABBI AND THEOLOGIAN.
BR 3408 ON JUDAISM BUBER, MARTIN A COLLECTION OF LECTURES BY THE JEWISH PHILOSOPHER ON WHAT HE CONSIDERED TO BE THE ESSENCE OF JUDAISM.
BR 3409 PLACE IN TIME, A SPUNT, GEORGE MRS. ALBERT AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL OF A WEALTHY JEWISH FAMILY IN SHANGHAI BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS.
BR 3410 WIT AND WISDOM OF ISRAEL BEIER, ELLIOT, ED. A COLLECTION OF QUOTES FROM THE TALMUD AND RABBINIC SAGES, BOTH ANCIENT AND CONTEMPORARY.
BR 3411 MOSES MAIMONIDES SLOTKI, ISRAEL, REV. DR. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MOSES MAIMONIDES, THE GREAT JEWISH PHILOSOPHER-PHYSICIAN OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
BR 3412 ANCIENT NEAR EAST PRITCHARD, JAMES B. AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ANCIENT DOCUMENTS WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE LITERATURE OF THE BIBLE.
BR 3413 RABBI AND THE SOCIAL WORKER, THE KERTZER, M.N., RABBI THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE RABBI AND THE JEWISH SOCIAL WORKER IN THEIR JOINT ATTEMPT TO DEAL WITH AND SOLVE THE PROBLEMS FACING MODERN SOCIETY TODAY.
BR 3414 DON ISAAC ABRAVANEL STATESMAN AND PHILOSOPHER NETANYAHU, B. CELIA ROSEN THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE BIBLE COMMENTATOR AND PHILOSOPHER WHO WAS EXILED FROM SPAIN, TOGETHER WITH THE REST OF SPANISH JEWRY, DURING THE EXPULSION OF 1492.
BR 3415 JEW AND HIS FAMILY, THE KAPLAN, BENJAMIN ESTHER L. AR A BOOK ABOUT THE FAMILY AS THE GUIDING FORCE IN JEWISH LIFE FROM BIBLICAL TIMES TO MODERN AMERICA.
BR 3417 ZLATEH THE GOAT AND OTHER STORIES SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS SEVEN TALES FOR CHILDREN UNIQUELY COMBINING ELEMENTS OF FANTASY, COMEDY, AND LOVE.
BR 3418 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER A FOURTH FORCE IN AMERICAN JEWISH BERGER, GRAENUM A DISCUSSION OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER'S ROLE AS AN IMPORTANT FORCE IN AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE.
BR 3421 ACRES OF HAPPINESS MAGGAL, MOSHE M. MRS. CHARLES WILLIAMS, JR. A PHILOSOPHIC LECTURE DIRECTED TOWARD THE YOUNGER GENERATION, IN WHICH THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES HIS VIEWS ON LIFE.
BR 3422 WE JEWS AND YOU CHRISTIANS SANDMEL, SAMUEL AN EXAMINATION OF THE ATTITUDES OF THE TWO GROUPS IN ORDER TO PROMOTE INTERFAITH UNDERSTANDING.
BR 3423 GOD SPEED THE NIGHT DAVIS, DOROTHY & J. ROSS IN THIS PORTRAIT OF FAITH AND COURAGE, A YOUNG NUN IN WARTIME FRANCE GIVES HER IDENTITY PAPERS TO A JEWESS TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM THE NAZIS.
BR 3425 NOTES ON THE NEW TRANSLATIONS OF THE TORAH ORLINSKY, HARRY M., ED. AN ANALYSIS OF THE 1962 ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE TORAH PUBLISHED BY THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY, AND A COMPARISON WITH THE LATER VERSION PUBLISHED IN 1967.
BR 3426 BRING ME TO THE BANQUETING HOUSE BIDERMAN, SOL A NOVEL ABOUT A MOTHERLESS JEWISH BOY WHO GROWS UP IN A FOUNDLING HOME IN DENVER.
BR 3427 JUBAL AND THE PROPHET HYMAN, F.C. JUBAL, THE SON OF ONE OF THE TEMPLE PRIESTS CANNOT BELIEVE THE PROPHET JEREMIAH'S PROPHECY OF DOOM, YET HE IS ATTRACTED TO HIS OVERPOWERING PERSONALITY. HE IS DRAWN INTO THE FIGHT AGAINST JEREMIAH'S ENEMIES AND THE FINAL BATTLE FOR THE TEMPLE.
BR 3429 ILLUSTRIOUS IMMIGRANTS THE INTELLECTUAL MIGRATION FROM EU FERMI, LAURA A PORTRAIT OF THE PEOPLE WHO IMMIGRATED TO AMERICA DURING THE DEPRESSION YEARS.
BR 3430 BROKEN BRACELET, THE KRANZLER, GERSHON THE STRUGGLE OF A JEWISH DOCTOR TO FIGHT A PLAGUE IN LISBON, FOR WHICH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IS BEING BLAMED, IN THE EARLY 1900S.
BR 3431 DOG THAT FLEW AND OTHER FAVORITE STORIES FROM ISRAEL, THE OFEK, URIEL, ED. A COLLECTION OF ISRAELI STORIES OF ADVENTURE, HEROISM, TENDERNESS, AND ARAB-JEWISH RELATIONS. WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN AND TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL HEBREW.
BR 3432 BEGGAR IN JERUSALEM, A WIESEL, ELIE CORRINE M. G AN ANCIENT LEGEND IS INVOKED IN AN ATTEMPT TO COMPREHEND EVENTS IN RECENT JEWISH HISTORY, FROM THE HOLOCAUST TO THE RECLAIMING OF THE WESTERN WALL IN JERUSALEM IN 1967.
BR 3433 TOWER OF BABEL, THE WEST, MORRIS L. A NOVEL WHICH FOLLOWS THE LIVES OF FIVE MAJOR CHARACTERS IN THE PERIOD JUST PRIOR TO THE SIX-DAY WAR.
BR 3434 GIDEONITES, THE THE STORY OF THE NILI SPIES IN THE OMER, DEVORAH RAE SHARON THE STORY OF AARON AND SARAH AARONSOHN, ABSALOM FEINBERG, JOSEPH LISHANSKY, REUBEN SCHWARTZ, AND OTHER CHILDREN OF ISRAEL'S PIONEERS WHO DEVELOPED THE LAND AND NEW AGRICULTURAL METHODS AND ALSO FOUNDED 'NILI', THE SECRET PRO-BRITISH ORGANIZATION THAT OPERATED IN PALESTINE UNDER TURKISH RULE DURING WORLD WAR I.
BR 3435 ELIJAH, PROPHET OF THE ONE GOD LEVINGER, E.E. A MOVING BIOGRAPHY OF THE PROPHET ELIJAH FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 3436 PATH BENEATH THE SEA, THE OMER, DEVORAH AURELIA MINT A YOUNG NORTH AFRICAN IMMIGRANT VOLUNTEERS FOR SERVICE IN ISRAEL'S FROGMEN CORPS. A FAST-PACED, EXCITING STORY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH A CLIMACTIC ENDING TIED TO THE SIX-DAY WAR.
BR 3437 JEWISH CATASTROPHE IN EUROPE, THE PILCH, JUDAH, ED. AN EXAMINATION OF THE HISTORY AND THE BACKGROUND OF THE NAZI PERIOD.
BR 3438 SHALOM - VOLUME I CHABAD A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES PRESENTING BOTH BIBLICAL HISTORY IN FICTION FORM AND LESSONS ON ETHICAL AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT.
BR 3439 SHALOM - VOLUME II CHABAD A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES PRESENTING BOTH BIBLICAL HISTORY IN FICTION FORM AND LESSONS ON ETHICAL AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT.
BR 3440 EXILED AND THE REDEEMED, THE BEN-ZVI, ITZHAK A STUDY BY A FORMER PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL ABOUT THE FATE OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES WHO FOR CENTURIES HAVE BEEN ON THE PERIPHERY OF JEWISH LIFE.
BR 3442 STORY OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS RAPPAPORT, URIE, DR. THIS BOOK TRACES THE MYSTERIES AND DISCOVERIES OF THE SCROLLS AND HELPS THE YOUNG READER TO UNDERSTAND THEIR VALUE.
BR 3443 PECHENIK FAMILY, THE SELITZER, RALPH A HISTORY OF A JEWISH FAMILY WHO EMIGRATED TO THE U.S. FROM RUSSIA INCLUDING GENEALOGICAL CHARTS OF ALL THEIR DESCENDENTS.
BR 3444 LILLIAN WALD NURSE IN BLUE ROGOW, SALLY MARJORIE LED A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FOUNDER OF THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT HOUSE ON MANHATTAN'S LOWER EAST SIDE, WHICH PROVIDED HEALTH SERVICES TO IMMIGRANTS AND ASSISTED THEM IN ADJUSTING TO LIFE IN AMERICA.
BR 3445 BELIEVING HUMANISM, A BUBER, MARTIN A COLLECTION OF THE PHILOSOPHER'S SHORT PIECES, ESSAYS, AND POEMS GATHERED BY HIM AS AN AFTER-READING, A GLEANING, IN THE EXACT SENSE OF THE WORD.
BR 3446 LEO BAECK TEACHER OF THERESIENSTADT FRIEDLANDER, ALBERT H. A CRITICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF THE LEADER OF GERMAN JEWRY DURING THE HOLOCAUST. FRIEDLANDER, A LONDON RABBI AND LEADER IN THE REFORM MOVEMENT, PRESENTS BAECK'S PHILOSOPHY OF JUDAISM AND THE CONTROVERSIES THAT AROSE FROM HIS UNORTHODOX VIEWS.
BR 3447 TONGUE OF THE PROPHETS ST. JOHN, ROBERT MARY GILSON/ A NOVEL ABOUT THE LIFE AND WORK OF ELIEZER BEN YEHUDA, WHO WAS CONSIDERED THE 'FATHER OF MODERN HEBREW.'
BR 3448 TODAY'S AMERICAN JEWS KERTZER, MORRIS A BOOK DESCRIBING WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE A JEW IN AMERICA.
BR 3449 YOUR NEIGHBOR IS A JEW PLAUT, W. GUNTHER COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON TIMELY AND CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECTS.
BR 3450 END OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, THE FRIEDMAN, GEORGE DOROTHY MILL THE AUTHOR, A SOCIOLOGIST, CONSIDERS THE CHARACTER OF THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL, THE PROBLEMS CONFRONTING IT, AND THE FUTURE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 3451 BITTER AND THE SWEET, THE OLBRACHT, IVAN A COLLECTION OF STORIES AND A NOVELLA PRESENTING THE POOR, DEVOUT HASSIDIC JEWS OF POLAND IN A FICTITIOUS SEMI-FEUDAL VILLAGE.
BR 3453 ROADS TO JEWISH SURVIVAL BERGER, MILTON; GEFFEN, JOEL; DAVID FORTY-FIVE ARTICLES DEALING WITH BASIC CONCEPTS OF JUDAISM, AMERICA AND ISRAEL, JEWISH EDUCATION, AND OTHER SIGNIFICANT FACTORS OF CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM.
BR 3454 INCREDIBLE MISSION THE AMAZING STORY OF PERE BENOIT, LEBOUCHER, FERNANDE THE AMAZING STORY OF A MONK WHO WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE RESCUE OF THOUSANDS OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN JEWS DURING WWII.
BR 3455 JEWS AT A GLANCE DAVIS, MAC SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF JEWS, FROM ABRAHAM TO LEONARD BERNSTEIN, WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION.
BR 3456 CONTEMPORARY JEWISH THOUGHT NOVECK, SIMON, ED. A SELECTION OF WORKS IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWISH THINKERS, GERMAN-JEWISH WRITERS AND PHILOSOPHERS, AS WELL AS AMERICAN JEWISH THEOLOGIANS.
BR 3457 VILLAGE BUILDER, THE KUSHNIR, SIMON A BIOGRAPHY OF ABRAHAM HARZFELD, A PIONEER IN MODERN ISRAEL WHO FOUNDED AND BUILT KIBBUTZIM. HARZFELD, ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE HISTADRUT LABOR ORGANIZATION AND A MEMBER OF THE ISRAELI KNESSET, HELPED ESTABLISH MANY OF THE AGRICULTURAL SETTLEMENTS IN ISRAEL.
BR 3458 ISRAEL'S WAR FOR PEACE BEN ADI, HERBERT THE PERSONAL LETTERS OF AN ISRAELI NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT CONTAINING A CHRONOLOGICAL NARRATIVE OF DAY-TO-DAY EVENTS.
BR 3459 COUNTING MY STEPS LIND, JAKOV AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FAMOUS NOVELIST WHO TELLS OF HIS BOYHOOD IN VIENNA BEFORE THE NAZI TAKE-OVER, HIS FLIGHT TO HOLLAND AND THE REUNION WITH HIS FAMILY IN PALESTINE.
BR 3460 HOMEWARD BOUND GLATSTEIN, JACOB ROSE WEIL A NOVEL ABOUT THE LIFE OF POLISH JEWS IN THE YEARS PRECEDING WORLD WAR II.
BR 3462 OUR PEOPLE HISTORY OF THE JEWS. VOL. 3 ISAACS, JACOB AN INTERESTING PRESENTATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, TOLD IN THREE VOLUMES.
BR 3463 FILLED WITH LAUGHTER A FIESTA OF JEWISH FOLK HUMOR LEARSI, RUFUS JOAN ADELL A BOOK OF JEWISH HUMOR WHICH INCLUDES A GLOSSARY OF YIDDISH TERMS.
BR 3464 RESCUE OF DANISH JEWRY, THE YAHIL, LENI THE STORY OF THE DARING RESCUE OF THE DANISH JEWS IN OCTOBER, 1943. THE EFFORTS OF THE KING AND THE CITIZENS OF DENMARK SAVED THE JEWS FROM EXTERMINATION BY THE NAZIS.
BR 3465 FIVE BROTHERS MACCABEE, THE A NOVEL FOR YOUNG READERS BASED ON KLAPERMAN, LIBBY ELAINE LEE A FICTIONALIZED VERSION OF THE CHANUKAH STORY AND THE FIVE MACCABEES BROTHERS.
BR 3467 PICTURES OF FIDELMAN MALAMUD, BERNARD L. HOLLANDER A HUMOROUS ACCOUNT OF THE STRUGGLES OF FIDELMAN TO FIND FULFILLMENT IN HIS ART AND IN HIMSELF.
BR 3468 OUR PEOPLE HISTORY OF THE JEWS. VOL. I ISAACS, JACOB AN INTERESTING PRESENTATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THREE VOLUMES.
BR 3470 OUR PEOPLE HISTORY OF THE JEWS. VOL. II ISAACS, JACOB AN INTERESTING PRESENTATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, TOLD IN THREE VOLUMES.
BR 3471 WELLSPRINGS OF TORAH - VOL. II FRIEDMAN, ALEXANDER ZUSIA DEALING WITH THE SECOND HALF OF THE TORAH AND ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE WEEKLY READING, THIS SECOND OF TWO VOLUMES PRESENTS RELEVANT ANECDOTES, APHORISMS AND THEMES.
BR 3473 SELECTED STORIES ISAACS, BERNARD A COLLECTION OF JEWISH SHORT STORIES BY AN AMERICAN-JEWISH SCHOLAR AND EDUCATOR.
BR 3475 BETWEEN HAMMER AND SICKLE AMI, BEN LUCILLE OSTR A PERSONAL ACCOUNT BY THE AUTHOR, NOW AN ISRAELI CITIZEN, OF HIS ENCOUNTERS WITH SOVIET JEWS DURING HIS RESIDENCE IN RUSSIA.
BR 3476 TWENTY AND TEN BISHOP, CLAIRE HUCHET THE STORY OF 20 FRENCH CHILDREN AND THE NUN WHO GAVE REFUGE TO TEN OF THESE CHILDREN WHO WERE ALSO JEWISH.
BR 3477 HANDBOOK FOR THE JEWISH FAMILY, A UNDERSTANDING AND ENJOYING THE SAB GOLDMAN, ALEX J. AN EXPLANATION OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS PRACTICES, ESPECIALLY THOSE CENTERED AROUND THE HOME AND THE FAMILY.
BR 3478 NINE LIVES OF BILLY ROSE, THE GOTTLIEB, POLLY ROSE NANCY SCHIER BILLY ROSE'S SISTER, HIS CLOSEST FRIEND AND LIFELONG CONFIDANTE, TELLS HIS STORY.
BR 3479 GOD IN ALL SEASONS SPERO, SHUBERT, RABBI MRS. BURTON A COLLECTION OF SERMONS AND ESSAYS ABOUT THE JEWISH FESTIVALS BASED ON THE PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE OF A MIDWESTERN RABBI.
BR 3480 THOUGH HE SLAY ME BARASH, ASHER SHORT STORIES WHICH RECREATE THE JEWISH STRUGGLE AGAINST TYRANNY AND OPPRESSION THROUGH THE AGES.
BR 3481 CLAIMANT ALPERT, HOLLIS THE INTRIGUE AND PROBLEMS OF AN AMERICAN IN PRESENT-DAY GERMANY WHO IS SEEKING REPARATIONS FOR VICTIMS OF THE NAZIS.
BR 3482 LIBERATION OF THE JEWS, THE MEMMI, ALBERT THE AUTHOR SEARCHES FOR THE SOLUTION TO THE AGES-OLD PROBLEM OF JEWISH IDENTITY. IN THE EVENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY HE FEELS THERE IS HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF THE JEWS.
BR 3483 ISRAEL A READER ADLER, BILL, ED. A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS AND NEWS REPORTS ON ISSUES RELATING TO ISRAEL.
BR 3484 SACRED BOOKS OF THE JEWS, THE GERSH, HARRY A SHORT SURVEY OF CLASSIC JEWISH LITERATURE: THE BIBLE, THE TALMUD AND MEDIEVAL AND MODERN JEWISH WRITINGS.
BR 3485 MARTIN BUBER SMITH, RONALD GREGOR THE AUTHOR PRESENTS THE PHILOSOPHY OF THIS IMPORTANT MODERN JEWISH SCHOLAR AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS THOUGHT FOR JEW, PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC TODAY.
BR 3487 JEWISH MYSTIQUE, THE VAN DEN HAAG, ERNEST A STUDY OF 2,000 YEARS OF JEWISH HISTORY BY A NOTED PSYCHOANALYST AND SOCIOLOGIST. EXAMINES THE THEORY OF THE CHOSEN PEOPLE AND THE UNIQUE QUALITIES OF BEING JEWISH.
BR 3490 IN THE COURTYARDS OF JERUSALEM BRANDWEIN, CHAIM DOROTHY MILL A COLLECTION OF STORIES ABOUT THE MEAH SHEARIM QUARTER OF JERUSALEM. THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE.
BR 3491 FOUR STRANGE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE BICKERMAN, ELIAS AN INTELLECTUAL AND HISTORICAL APPROACH TO THE BOOKS OF DANIEL, JONAH, ESTHER, AND ECCLESIASTES.
BR 3492 JUSTICE, JUSTICE A JEWISH VIEW OF THE BLACK REVOLUT COHEN, HENRY JUDITH HOFFM A JEWISH VIEW OF THE UPSURGENCE OF BLACK NATIONALISM, WRITTEN BY A PHILADELPHIA RABBI.
BR 3493 GENIUS OF PAUL, THE A STUDY IN HISTORY SANDMEL, SAMUEL STANLEY R. B SANDMEL PROVIDES READERS WITH AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE BACKGROUND OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
BR 3494 ANCIENT ISRAEL ORLINSKY, HARRY M. ELAINE LEE A HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THEIR RELIGION BETWEEN 2000-300 B.C.E.
BR 3495 ISRAEL INSIDE OUT GEDULD, HERBERT THE LIGHT-HEARTED IMPRESSIONS OF AN AMERICAN-JEWISH FAMILY THAT VISITED, FELL IN LOVE WITH, AND DECIDED TO STAY IN ISRAEL.
BR 3496 GROWING UP JEWISH IN EUROPE, AMERICA AND ISRAEL DAVID, JAY, ED. CAROL KLINGE A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES ON THE THEME OF GROWING UP JEWISH. THE ARTICLES, TAKEN FROM THE WRITINGS OF GLUCKEL OF HAMELN, CHAIM WEIZMANN, ANNE FRANK, EDNA FERBER, HARRY GOLDEN, AND GERTRUDE BERG.
BR 3497 NINE AND ONE HALF MYSTICS THE KABBALA TODAY WEINER, HERBERT A RABBI'S PERSONAL SEARCH INTO THE MYSTERIES OF THE KABBALA.
BR 3498 AS GOOD AS GOLDA SHENKER, ISRAEL & MARY SHENKER ALYCE POLLAC A BIOGRAPHY OF PRIME MINISTER GOLDA MEIR AND HER CONTRIBUTION TO THE STATE OF ISRAEL DURING ITS YEARS OF GROWTH.
BR 3499 VOYAGE OF THE ULUA, THE ELIAV, ARIE L. DOROTHY MERE THE TRUE STORY OF THE ILLEGAL TRANSFER OF 800 YOUNG JEWISH WOMEN FROM POST-WAR EUROPE TO BRITISH-BLOCKADED PALESTINE.
BR 3501 RESPONSA OF RABBI SIMON B. ZEMAH DURAN EPSTEIN, ISADORE AND D. LITT THE RESPONSA OF THIS HEAD OF THE NORTH AFRICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY SHEDS LIGHT ON THE HISTORY OF THESE JEWS.
BR 3504 IN SEARCH OF MEANING VOSS, CARL HERMANN BRIEF EXPLANATIONS OF THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD, THEIR ORIGINS, SIMILARITIES, AND DIFFERENCES.
BR 3505 SO THE KIDS ARE REVOLTING...? A Game Plan for Jewish (and All Other) Parents VORSPAN, ALBERT SYLVIA ACKER A HUMOROUS YET SERIOUS BOOK WHICH OFFERS ADVICE ON HOW TO RAISE CHILDREN AND COPE WITH YOUNG PEOPLE IN MODERN TIMES.
BR 3506 OUR MAN IN DAMASCUS THE STORY OF ELI COHEN, ISRAEL'S G BEN-HANAN, ELI BARBARA T. M THE TRUE STORY OF A HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL ISRAELI SPY IN SYRIA IN THE 1960S. THE BOOK DESCRIBES HIS PENETRATION INTO THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT AND HIS CAPTURE, TRIAL, AND ULTIMATE EXECUTION.
BR 3507 MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET BELLOW, SAUL A NOVEL OF ADVENTURE AND TRAGEDY ABOUT A POLISH JOURNALIST WORKING IN LONDON AND HIS LATER YEARS IN NEW YORK CITY.
BR 3509 LEO FRANK CASE, THE DINNERSTEIN, LEONARD THE STORY OF LEO FRANK, A JEW UNJUSTLY ACCUSED OF MURDERING A WHITE WOMAN IN THE SOUTH, AND HIS TRIAL AND LYNCHING.
BR 3511 STEAGLE, THE FAUST, IRVIN BETH FRIEDMA A HUMOROUS NOVEL ABOUT A JEWISH COLLEGE PROFESSOR'S SUDDEN CHANGE OF LIFESTYLE DURING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS.
BR 3512 CENTER OF THE ACTION, THE WEIDMAN, JEROME EVELYN THORN A HUMOROUS NOVEL OF THE PUBLISHING BUSINESS TOLD WITH A YIDDISH FLAVOR.
BR 3514 BLOW SOFTLY IN JERICHO KISHON, EPHRAIM MARCIA FELTH A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS BY THE WELL-KNOWN ISRAELI HUMORIST ON SUBJECTS RANGING FROM PLUMBERS TO ORGANIZED CRIME AND FROM BUREAUCRACY TO TAXES.
BR 3515 BY THE WATERS OF WHITECHAPEL KOPS, BERNARD BLANCHE HALP A STORY ABOUT A JEWISH BOY WHOSE MOTHER OWNS A SMALL 'SWEET SHOPPE' IN WHITECHAPEL.
BR 3516 REFORM JUDAISM IN THE MAKING SCHWARTZMAN, SYLVAN D., RABBI A LUCID, CLEAR NARRATIVE OF THE GROWTH OF REFORM JUDAISM BY A NOTED RABBI AND EDUCATOR.
BR 3517 BETWEEN PARENT AND CHILD GINOTT, HAIM G. THIS NOTED PEDIATRICIAN PROPOSES SUGGESTIONS FOR BETTER PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH CLOSER COMMUNICATION.
BR 3518 ARAB AWAKENING, THE ANTONIUS, GEORGE THE STORY OF THE ARAB NATIONAL MOVEMENT IS RECOUNTED IN THIS BOOK.
BR 3519 GATE BREAKERS, THE HABAS, BRACHA A DRAMATIC CHRONICLE OF THE JEWISH IMMIGRATION INTO PALESTINE.
BR 3521 NEAR EAST, THE YALE, WILLIAM A HISTORY OF THE NEAR EAST FROM 1800 TO THE PRESENT WHICH DISCUSSES THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT, DEVELOPMENTS AND CONFRONTATIONS IN LOCAL COUNTRIES AND THE ROLE PLAYED BY THE U.S. AND U.S.S.R.
BR 3522 YOUNG LIONS, THE SHAW, IRWIN A NOVEL OF AN AMERICAN'S AND A GERMAN'S ENCOUNTER DURING WW II WITH EMPHASIS ON LIFE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES AND THE FINAL ENCOUNTER IN BATTLE.
BR 3523 I CANNOT FORGIVE VRBA, RUDOLF AN EYEWITNESS AUSCHWITZ STORY, TELLING WITH ALMOST SUPER-REAL VIVIDNESS BOTH THE NIGHTMARE AND THE INCONGRUOUSLY NORMAL ASPECTS OF LIFE IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP.
BR 3524 JENNIE AND THE STORY OF GROSSINGER'S POMERANTZ, JOEL ROSLYN GOLDS THE LIFE STORY OF JENNIE GROSSINGER AND THE WELL-KNOWN RESORT SHE FOUNDED IN THE CATSKILLS, RENOWNED FOR ITS TRADITION OF HOSPITALITY. INCLUDED ARE MANY ANECDOTES ABOUT THE CELEBRITY GUESTS.
BR 3526 FROM THE WORLD OF THE CABALLAH THE PHILOSOPHY OF RABBI JUDAH LOEW BOKSER, BEN ZION RUBELLE SCHA A SCHOLARLY STUDY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF JEWISH MYSTICISM, BASED ON THE WRITINGS OF RABBI JUDAH LOEW OF PRAGUE.
BR 3527 ONE GENERATION AFTER WIESEL, ELIE MURIEL HELLE THE SEARCH FOR MEANING FOR THE GENERATION BORN AFTER THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 3528 GREAT FAIR, THE SCENES FROM MY CHILDHOOD ALEICHEM, SHOLOM A NOVEL, WRITTEN IN BIOGRAPHICAL FORM, ABOUT LIFE IN AN EAST EUROPEAN SHTETL. BASED ON THE YIDDISH WRITER'S EARLY YEARS.
BR 3529 BASIC JEWISH BELIEFS BARISH, LOUIS AND REBECCA BY MEANS OF MORE THAN 100 PROBING QUESTIONS THAT WERE MOST FREQUENTLY PUT TO THE AUTHORS OVER TWO DECADES OF MINISTRY IN THE CIVILIAN AND MILITARY COMMUNITIES, EVERY BASIC CONCEPT OF JUDAISM IS FULLY EXAMINED AND ANALYZED.
BR 3530 WHY I AM A JEW NAROT, JOSEPH R. A WONDERFUL DECLARATION OF BELIEF BY THE FAMOUS RABBI OF MIAMI, FLORIDA.
BR 3532 MY NAME ALOUD RIBALOW, HAROLD U., ED. ADELINE TOPK A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY AMERICAN-JEWISH WRITERS, INCLUDING ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER AND BERNARD MALAMUD, AS WELL AS CYNTHIA OZICK AND MICHAEL ROSENAK.
BR 3533 GENERATIONS IN CRISIS ROSENTHAL, GILBERT FREDA MELTZE A RABBI DISCUSSES JUDAISM'S ANSWERS TO THE DILEMMAS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LIFE.
BR 3534 GABRIEL DA COSTA REBEL AND DREAMER MINKIN, JACOB S. RUTH ZAIMAN THE STORY OF GABRIEL DA COSTA, A NOTED SPANISH-JEWISH SCHOLAR AND MYSTIC, WHO LIVED DURING THE INQUISITION.
BR 3536 ESTATE, THE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS A RECREATION OF THE RICH WORLD OF JEWISH POLAND IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY WITH ITS EARLY ZIONISTS, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND EMIGRATIONS.
BR 3538 ACT OF LOVE WOLFERT, IRA FRIEDA STERNBERG A WARTIME STORY INVOLVING AN AMERICAN SOLDIER WHO FALLS IN LOVE WITH A YOUNG JEWISH REFUGEE.
BR 3539 SAUL TCHERNICHOWSKY POET OF REVOLT SILBERSCHLAG, EISIG A STUDY OF THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THE WELL-KNOWN HEBREW POET WHOSE WORKS INCLUDE BOTH PROSE AND POETRY.
BR 3540 DIASPORA KELLER, WERNER A POST-BIBLICAL HISTORY OF JEWS THROUGHOUT EUROPE, AFRICA, ASIA, AND AMERICA.
BR 3541 MY HUSBAND THE DOCTOR SCHNALL, MAXINE A DOCTOR'S WIFE REVEALS THE HUMOROUS ASPECTS OF HER HUSBAND'S PROFESSION.
BR 3542 JUDAISM IN THE COMMUNITY FREID, JACOB ARTICLES DEALING WITH MANY OF THE SOCIAL PROBLEMS CONFRONTED BY A JEW AND HIS FAMILY IN THE 20TH CENTURY.
BR 3543 WORLD OF THE TALMUD, THE ADLER, MORRIS A STUDY OF THE WORLD OF THE TALMUD AND THE LIVES AND THOUGHTS OF ITS SAGES.
BR 3544 DUAL HERITAGE, A THE PUBLIC CAREER OF OSCAR S. STRA COHEN, NAOMI W. LILLIAN SCHA A BIOGRAPHY OF OSCAR STRAUS, A JEWISH-AMERICAN LAWYER AND BUSINESSMAN WHO WAS A DEVOTED PUBLIC SERVANT AND THE FIRST JEW TO HOLD A CABINET POST IN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, SERVING AS SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND LABOR DURING THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S ADMINISTRATION. HE WAS ALSO ACTIVE IN THE JEWISH WORLD AND SUPPORTED ZIONIST CAUSES.
BR 3545 JERUSALEM, KEY TO PEACE WILSON, EVAN M. THE AUTHOR, A FORMER AMERICAN CONSUL IN JERUSALEM, PRESENTS HIS OBSERVATIONS OF THE CITY AND ITS PEOPLE AND TRACES THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT FROM WORLD WAR I.
BR 3546 WAR AGAINST THE JEW, THE RUNES, DAGOBERT D. A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY'S PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS OVER THE CENTURIES.
BR 3547 FICTION OF S.Y. AGNON, THE HOCHMAN, BARUCH BLANCHE HALP A BOOK OF LITERARY CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION OF AGNON'S THEMES AND PHILOSOPHY.
BR 3548 RIGHTEOUS LIVES FEUCHTWANGER, O. STUDIES OF FORTY EMINENT TALMUDIC SCHOLARS AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF JEWISH THOUGHT IN THE LAST TEN CENTURIES.
BR 3549 JUDAH BENJAMIN MYSTERY MAN OF THE CONFEDERACY S. I. NEIMAN MURIEL PORTN A BIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN, LAWYER AND ORATOR, WHO SERVED AS THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN CONFEDERACY.
BR 3552 ORCHOS CHAYIM BEN R. Y'CHIEL, AWSHER, RABBI A SCHOLARLY WORK BY A SIXTH CENTURY SAGE WHO ALSO COMPOSED RESPONSA AND OTHER WORKS ON THE TALMUD.
BR 3553 FOR WHOM THE RABBI SPEAKS NAROT, JOSEPH R. SHORT SERMONS AND ESSAYS ON REFORM JUDAISM BY THE RABBI OF TEMPLE ISRAEL OF GREATER MIAMI.
BR 3554 HATAM SOFER HIS LIFE AND HIS TIMES BURAK, MOSES, RABBI DR. A BIOGRAPHY OF THE HATAM SOFER, THE GERMAN RABBI WHO WAS PROFICIENT NOT ONLY IN RABBINICAL KNOWLEDGE, BUT IN ASTRONOMY, ASTROLOGY, GEOMETRY AND GENERAL HISTORY AS WELL.
BR 3555 MY BELOVED IS MINE JUDAISM AND MARRIAGE GITTELSOHN, ROLAND B., RABBI MARCIA FELTH IN THIS BOOK, INTENDED FOR YOUNG COUPLES, THE WELL-KNOWN REFORM RABBI PRESENTS JEWISH INSIGHTS AND VALUES RELATING TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL, PHYSICAL, AND EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE.
BR 3556 BROWNSVILLE THE DEVELOPMENT AND PASSING OF A J LANDESMAN, ALTER F. MRS. ALVIN B A HISTORY OF THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ONCE JEWISHLY-VIBRANT BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOODS OF BROWNSVILLE AND EAST NEW YORK.
BR 3557 SPARTACUS FAST, HOWARD AN HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE SLAVE REVOLTS WHICH TROUBLED THE ROMAN EMPIRE JUST PRIOR TO THE COMMON ERA.
BR 3560 THREE DAYS AND A CHILD YEHOSHUA, A.B. SET LARGELY IN ISRAEL, THESE FIVE NOVELLAS BY AN ISRAELI WRITER DEAL WITH VARIETIES OF PAIN AND ACCOMMODATIONS TO PAIN, WITH ALIENATION AND DESPAIR.
BR 3561 JUDAISM IN THE SECULAR AGE NEUSNER, JACOB ADELINE MARE A COLLECTION OF FIVE ESSAYS ON CONTEMPORARY JEWISH THEMES WRITTEN BY THE WELL-KNOWN PROFESSOR.
BR 3562 ZLOTOVER STORY ZLOTOVER, MELISANDE, DR. A SOCIAL SURVEY OF A JEWISH COMMUNITY IN DUBLIN, IRELAND COVERING APPROXIMATELY THE FIRST SIX DECADES OF THE PRESENT CENTURY.
BR 3563 BETWEEN PARENT AND TEENAGER GINOTT, HAIM G., DR. RITA LEVINE PUBLISHED IN 1969, THIS BOOK BY A CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST OFFERS SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVING PARENT-TEENAGER RELATIONSHIPS.
BR 3564 JOURNEY WITH JONAH, THE L'ENGLE, MADELINE A VERSE DRAMA ABOUT THE PROPHET JONAH, TOLD THROUGH THE EYES OF VARIOUS ANIMALS.
BR 3565 FLOWERING OF YIDDISH LITERATURE, THE LIPTZIN, SOL MARILYN KRAM A DISCUSSION OF THE PERSONALITIES, MOVEMENTS, AND IDEAS IN YIDDISH LITERATURE OVER THE PAST HUNDRED YEARS.
BR 3567 SHALOM AVIVA ARNOTHY, CHRISTINE ESTHER COHEN A NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG CHRISTIAN FRENCHMAN, WHO IS SENT TO COVER THE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR IN ISRAEL AND FALLS IN LOVE WITH A WOMAN SOLDIER. NARRATED IN FLASHBACKS, THE NOVEL TELLS ABOUT THE JOURNALIST'S RETURN TO ISRAEL AND HIS SEARCH FOR AVIVA.
BR 3568 MAHASCHAVI IN PEACE AND WAR BEN GAVRIEL, M. Y. PEARL PUTTER A HUMOROUS NOVEL WHICH TAKES PLACE DURING THE BRITISH MANDATE AND FEATURES THE ADVENTURES OF AN ISRAELI SOLDIER AND CHICKEN FARMER.
BR 3569 BOOK OF TORAH READINGS, A EPSTEIN, MORRIS A COLLECTION OF SIMPLIFIED SYNOPSES OF THE WEEKLY SIDRAHS.
BR 3570 VOYAGE OF THE FRANZ JOSEPH, THE YAFFE, JAMES MARCIA MARKE A NOVEL ABOUT A GROUP OF JEWISH REFUGEES WHO, WHILE TRYING TO ESCAPE NAZI GERMANY, FIND THEY ARE IN DANGER OF BEING SENT BACK. BASED ON AN ACTUAL INCIDENT IN THE 1930S.
BR 3571 TAKING GARY FELDMAN COHEN, STANLEY MARCIA BROWN A STORY, FILLED WITH EXCITEMENT, SURPRISE, AND WRY HUMOR, ABOUT THE KIDNAPPING OF A THIN, LONELY BOY.
BR 3572 RIFKA BANGS THE TEAKETTLE BURSTEIN, CHAYA H. A NOVEL ABOUT A JEWISH FAMILY IN RUSSIA ON THE EVE OF THE 1905 REVOLUTION.
BR 3573 BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD CARROLL-ABBING, MSGR. J.P. THE EFFECTS OF WW II ON ROME AND ITS INHABITANTS, BOTH JEWS AND CHRISTIANS.
BR 3574 JEWISH HEROES BOOK 2 WEILERSTEIN, SADIE ROSE THE SECOND IN THIS TWO-VOLUME SERIES DEALS WITH THE PROPHETS AS NATIONAL LEADERS.
BR 3575 SINS OF HEROD, THE SLAUGHTER, FRANK G. A NOVEL OF ROME AND THE EARLY CHURCH AS TOLD BY A MASTER OF HISTORICAL FICTION.
BR 3576 BIALIK SPEAKS WORDS FROM THE POET'S LIPS, CLUES OVADYAHU, MORDECAI A COMPILATION OF THE CONVERSATIONS OF THIS GREAT MODERN HEBREW POET ALONG WITH HIS MEMOIRS.
BR 3577 GATEWAYS TO JEWISH LIFE ESSAYS ON GREAT MEN, GREAT IDEAS, BRONNER, LEAH A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS DEALING WITH JEWISH LIFE AND THOUGHT, INCLUDING A BRIEF SURVEY OF JEWISH HISTORY.
BR 3578 JEWS AND DIVORCE FREID, JACOB, ED. THE PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE DEALING WITH CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE. SPONSORED BY THE COMMISSION OF SYNAGOGUE RELATIONS OF THE FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES.
BR 3579 RIDER AND HIS HORSE, THE HAUGAARD, ERIK CHRISTIAN EDYA ARZT A HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG BOY SET IN JERUSALEM AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND THE SIEGE OF MASADA. THE BOOK RECREATES LIFE IN ANCIENT ISRAEL.
BR 3580 PECULIAR PEOPLE, A LITVINOFF, BARNET MRS. HAROLD A PORTRAIT OF THE LEADING JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN THE WORLD INCLUDING CITIES SUCH AS BUENOS AIRES, JOHANNESBURG, AND NEW YORK, AS WELL AS COMMUNITIES IN RUSSIA, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, AND ISRAEL.
BR 3581 DEAD SEA ISAIAH SCROLLS, THE ROSENBLOOM, JOSEPH R. A COMPARISON OF THE QUMRAM SCROLL WITH THE MASORETIC TEXT OF THE BOOK OF ISAIAH.
BR 3582 MY JEWISH KITCHEN THE MOMELE' TA'M COOKBOOK EDLIN, ROSABELLE & SHOSHANNAH SPECTO A BOOK OF DELICIOUS JEWISH COOKERY.
BR 3584 WIT OF THE JEWS, THE COWAN, LORE & MAURICE COWAN DICKIE MILLE A BOOK ON THE HUMOR OF WELL-KNOWN FIGURES, SUCH AS DAVID BEN-GURION, JACK BENNY, ALBERT EINSTEIN, AND ART BUCHWALD.
BR 3585 CONDITION OF JEWISH BELIEF COMPILED BY EDITORS OF 'COMMENTARY M A SYMPOSIUM OF RABBIS AND THEOLOGIANS ON THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF JUDAISM AND THEIR RELEVANCE TO THE MODERN AGE.
BR 3587 BASIC REFORM JUDAISM SILVERMAN, WILLIAM MARJORIE ASC A BOOK EXPLAINING THE BASIC BELIEFS AND OBSERVANCES OF REFORM JUDAISM.
BR 3588 MAN NEXT DOOR, THE LITVINOFF, EMANUEL MARCIA MARKE A SUBURBANITE TRIES TO BRING SOME HAPPINESS INTO HIS LIFE BY SEDUCING A JEWISH GIRL.
BR 3590 DICK, THE FRIEDMAN, BRUCE JAY THE STORY OF A PUBLIC RELATIONS MAN WORKING FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, HIS FAMILY LIFE, AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FELLOW DETECTIVES.
BR 3591 ELIJAH THE SLAVE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS THE STORY OF ELIJAH AS A PENNILESS SLAVE, RETOLD FOR YOUNG CHILDREN BY THE WELL-KNOWN STORYTELLER AND WEAVER OF TALES. BASED ON MIDRASHIC LITERATURE.
BR 3592 SARA SCHENIERER GRUNFELD-ROSENBAUM, JUDITH A BIOGRAPHY OF THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED THE BETH JACOB MOVEMENT, DEDICATED TO THE JEWISH EDUCATION OF GIRLS AND WOMEN IN EUROPE AND AMERICA.
BR 3593 HEINRICH HEINE A BIOGRAPHICAL ANTHOLOGY BIEBER, HUGO & MOSES HADAS A COLLECTION OF LETTERS, STORIES, AND POEMS WRITTEN BY THE 19TH-CENTURY GERMAN POET AND CRITIC, REVEALING HIS VIEWS AND HIS PERSONAL LIFE.
BR 3598 MY SISTER GOLDIE SANDBERG, SARA RUTH COFFMAN THE ADVENTURES OF THE SANDBERGS, A 'GOOD' JEWISH FAMILY.
BR 3599 TEMPLE, THE LEOKUM, ARKADY A NOVEL ABOUT THE BUILDING OF A REFORM TEMPLE WHICH DEALS WITH THE DILEMMA OF JEWISH IDENTITY AND AREAS OF CONFLICT WITHIN THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY.
BR 3600 MIRRORS OF THE JEWISH MIND A GALLERY OF PORTRAITS OF EUROPEAN KAHN, LOTHAR JOSEPHINE ST THE DILEMMA OF RECONCILIATION BETWEEN NATIONALITY AND RELIGION REFLECTED IN THE WRITINGS OF WELL-KNOWN EUROPEAN-JEWISH WRITERS OF THE CENTURY.
BR 3601 SOVIET UNION JACKSON, W. A. DOUGLAS THE GEOGRAPHY, OLD AND MODERN HISTORY, GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE ARE OUTLINED IN THIS BOOK ABOUT THE SOVIET UNION.
BR 3602 VOICE OF WISDOM, THE INTRATER, AARON & LEON H. SPOTTS A GUIDE TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANCIENT HEBREWS THAT UTILIZES THE RESULTS OF TECHNICAL RESEARCH BY BIBLICAL SCHOLARS.
BR 3604 IDEAS AND IDEALS OF THE HASSIDIM ARON, MILTON, DR. A STUDY OF SOME OF THE PROMINENT FIGURES IN THE HASIDIC MOVEMENT AND THEIR TEACHINGS.
BR 3605 ZIONIST IDEA, THE AN HISTORICAL ANALYSIS AND READER HERTZBERG, ARTHUR BEATRICE AHR A POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS STUDY OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 3606 GOLDA MEIR PORTRAIT OF A PRIME MINISTER AGRESS, ELIYAHU ARLENE RICHA A BIOGRAPHY OF GOLDA MEIR FROM HER CHILDHOOD IN RUSSIA THROUGH HER ELECTION AS PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL IN OCTOBER, 1969.
BR 3607 JOY OF JEWISH HUMOR, THE WOODS, RALPH L. A DELIGHTFUL EXCURSION INTO JEWISH HUMOR AND HABITS THAT CONCENTRATES ON FOLK SAYINGS, PROVERBS, LEGENDS AND PARABLES.
BR 3608 DAY OF PLEASURE, A SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS ADELINE MARE REMINISCENCES ABOUT THE AUTHOR'S LIFE IN WARSAW BEFORE WORLD WAR I.
BR 3609 JEWS, GOD AND HISTORY A MODERN INTERPRETATION OF A FOUR- DIMONT, MAX I. A HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE OVER THE AGES AND A STUDY OF THE CIVILIZATIONS IN WHICH JEWISH CULTURE PROSPERED. DESCRIBES THE CONTRIBUTIONS THE JEWISH PEOPLE MADE TO THE HISTORY OF ASIA, EUROPE, AND AMERICA.
BR 3611 GREAT BATTLES OF BIBLICAL HISTORY GALE, SIR RICHARD SONYA ROTH/R A HISTORY AND MILITARY ANALYSIS OF THE SIGNIFICANT BATTLES MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE.
BR 3612 PALESTINE AND ISRAEL THE LETHAL DILEMMA SHARABI, HISHAM THE MOST FRANK AND UNINHIBITED TREATMENT OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT TO APPEAR IN THIS COUNTRY. IT DRAMATICALLY PORTRAYS THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE WITH AN EXHAUSTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE TWO LEADING COMMANDO ORGANIZATIONS.
BR 3613 STEEL AND IRON SINGER, ISRAEL JOSHUA RENEE HEILBR THE STORY OF A YOUNG POLISH JEW WHO DESERTS THE CZAR'S ARMY DURING WORLD WAR I.
BR 3614 CONVERTS, THE TORRES, TERESKA BESS SALIMAN A MEMOIR OF THE NOVELIST'S EARLY YEARS IN PARIS BEFORE THE GERMAN OCCUPATION. DESCRIBES HER FAMILY'S CONVERSION TO CATHOLICISM, HER WAR EXPERIENCES, AND HER DEVELOPMENT AS A WRITER.
BR 3615 ORIGIN AND MEANING OF HASIDISM, THE BUBER, MARTIN THIS VALUABLE INTERPRETATION OF HASIDISM SHOWS THE POSSIBILITY OF A MYSTICISM WHICH DOES NOT CONTRADICT BUT RATHER INTENSIFIES PROPHETIC RELIGION.
BR 3616 GUILT MERCHANTS, THE HARWOOD, RONALD FLORENCE KAD A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE ABOUT AN ISRAELI AGENT'S SEARCH FOR A FORMER NAZI DEATH CAMP COMMANDER.
BR 3617 JORDAN PATROL LEV, IGAL A NOVEL ABOUT THE JUNE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE ARABS. THE AUTHOR WAS THE COMMANDER OF AN ISRAELI ARMY UNIT STATIONED NEAR THE ISRAELI-JORDANIAN BORDER.
BR 3618 MURDER IN THE SYNAGOGUE LO CICERO, THOMAS A STUDY OF PSYCHOSIS BASED ON THE LIFE OF RICHARD WISHNETSKY, THE YOUNG MAN WHO MURDERED RABBI MORRIS ADLER IN 1966. RABBI ADLER WAS A PROMINENT CONSERVATIVE RABBI SERVING A CONGREGATION IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN.
BR 3619 CHOSEN PEOPLE RUBENS, BERNICE SONYA ROTH/R A DRAMATIC NOVEL OF A JEW FROM GREECE PORTRAYED THROUGH THE TRAGEDY OF A SINGLE FAMILY.
BR 3621 BEYOND THE MELTING POT THE NEGROES, PUERTO RICANS, JEWS A GLAZER, NATHAN & DANIEL PATRICK MOYN TWO NOTED AMERICAN SOCIAL OBSERVERS DISCUSS THE INTERPLAY OF RACE, RELIGION, NATIONAL GROUPS, AND POLITICS.
BR 3622 LEONARD BERNSTEIN CONE, MOLLY ZELDA B. REE A BIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD BERNSTEIN WHO BEGAN HIS MUSICAL CAREER AS A YOUNG CHILD AND ROSE TO PROMINENCE AS A COMPOSER AND AS CONDUCTOR OF THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA.
BR 3623 OUT OF THE NIGHT HORBACH, MICHAEL ELEVEN DOCUMENTED ACCOUNTS OF JEWS WHO SURVIVED IN HITLER'S GERMANY BECAUSE OF THE COURAGE OF ORDINARY CITIZENS.
BR 3624 ISRAEL ON THE SEVENTH DAY GRUBER, RUTH SYLVIA SORIN HUMAN INTEREST STORIES ABOUT THE FEELINGS OF AMERICAN AND ISRAELI JEWS IN RESPONSE TO THE SIX DAY WAR.
BR 3625 FROM DOOM TO DAWN VIDA, GEORGE DR. IRVING W THIS IS A JEWISH CHAPLAIN'S STORY OF HIS EXPERIENCES WITH JEWISH REFUGEES IN WAR-TORN EUROPE AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II.
BR 3626 JUDITH WILCHEK, STELLA HELEN B. KIE A NOVEL BASED ON THE BIBLICAL STORY OF JUDITH.
BR 3627 JOURNEY TO AMERICA LEVITAN, SONIA THE STORY OF A MOTHER AND HER CHILDREN WHO ESCAPE THE NAZIS AND SEEK REUNION WITH THEIR HUSBAND AND FATHER.
BR 3628 HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY, A HUSIK, ISAAC AN ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF JEWISH THOUGHT AND THINKERS FROM THE NINTH TO THE FIFTEENTH CENTURIES.
BR 3629 BINTEL BRIEF, A. VOL. 1 METZKER, ISAAC A COMPILATION OF 60 YEARS OF LETTERS WRITTEN TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'JEWISH DAILY FORWARD,' DEALING WITH THE LIVES AND PROBLEMS OF NEW IMMIGRANTS LIVING ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE.
BR 3630 THIS LAND OF ISRAEL SEDYCH, ANDREI ADELINE MARE A CONCISE LOOK AT THE LAND AND PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
BR 3631 FIREBRAND FOR JUSTICE NOBLE, IRIS MARY PERLOW A BIOGRAPHY OF LOUIS BRANDEIS, THE FIRST JEW TO BE APPOINTED TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT. THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES BRANDEIS'S SHARP MIND, HIS INTEGRITY, AND HIS PERSONAL LIFE.
BR 3634 ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN HEBREW POETRY BERMAN, ABRAHAM FLORENCE S. A COLLECTION OF WORKS BY MODERN ISRAELI POETS.
BR 3635 GHETTO AND BEYOND, THE ROSE, PETER I., EDITOR AN OUTSTANDING COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ABOUT JEWS, GENTILES, AFRICAN AMERICANS, POLITICS AND DREAMS FOR AMERICAN SOCIETY. AUTHORS RANGE FROM MARSHALL SKLARE TO PHILIP ROTH.
BR 3636 THREE MILLION MORE? LAWRENCE, GUNTHER LEAH GRANT A WELL-DOCUMENTED VOLUME ABOUT ACCUSATIONS OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN RUSSIA.
BR 3637 GIRL CALLED JUDITH STRICK, A DRIBBEN, JUDITH THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A WOMAN WHO WAS ACTIVE IN THE POLISH UNDERGROUND AT 17, FOUGHT WITH THE RUSSIAN ARMY, AND THEN WENT TO ISRAEL.
BR 3638 TEASPOON OF HONEY, A SMITH, BERT KRUGER A FAMILY CHRONICLE OF A RUSSIAN JEW WHO ESCAPES THE CZAR'S ARMY AND MAKES HIS WAY TO THE U.S.
BR 3641 THY DAUGHTER'S NAKEDNESS KAUFMAN, MYRON S. A NOVEL ABOUT A GIRL WHO IS TROUBLED BY THE CONFLICT BETWEEN MODERN LIFE AND THE TRADITIONAL VALUES OF HER JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 3642 NEW JEWISH THEOLOGY IN THE MAKING, A BOROWITZ, EUGENE B. BLANCHE HALP DISSERTATION ON CONTEMPORARY JEWISH RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES. WRITTEN BY THE PROMINENT HEBREW UNION COLLEGE PROFESSOR.
BR 3643 MY MOTHER, THE DOCTOR SINGER, JOY DANIELS PHYLLIS HOCH A BIOGRAPHY OF DR. ANNA KLEEGMAN DANIELS, ONE OF NEW YORK'S FIRST WOMAN DOCTORS, WRITTEN BY HER DAUGHTER.
BR 3644 JOSEPH AND KOZA THE SACRIFICE TO THE VISTULA SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS ADELINE MARE A STORY SET IN POLAND, BASED ON A LEGEND THAT EVERY YEAR A YOUNG GIRL WAS TO BE SACRIFICED TO THE GODS. A WANDERING JEWISH GOLDSMITH PITS THE STRENGTH OF HIS ONE GOD AGAINST THE EVIL PAGAN SPIRITS IN ORDER TO SAVE THE LIFE OF THE GIRL.
BR 3646 NO TIME FOR HISTORY A PIONEER STORY ELIAV, ARIE L. AN ACCOUNT OF AN EXPERIMENT IN COMMUNAL LIVING DESIGNED TO PROMOTE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT OF DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES.
BR 3648 DALETH EFFECT, THE HARRISON, HARRY CHILLING SCIENCE FICTION WHICH DEALS WITH AN ISRAELI DISCOVERY WHICH SHAKES THE WORLD.
BR 3650 MOSES LEADER, PROPHET, MAN ROSHWALD, MORDECAI & MIRIAM ROSHWALD THE LIFE AND PERSONALITY OF THE BIBLICAL MOSES.
BR 3651 JEWS IN GERMANY, THE ADLER, H. G. JANET FRANZE A CONCISE STUDY BY A HISTORIAN OF THE MAIN EVENTS OF JEWISH HISTORY IN GERMANY FROM THE LATE 1700S.
BR 3652 BREAKTHROUGH THE SAGA OF JONAS SALK CARTER, RICHARD MRS. MARTIN RECREATES THE DRAMA OF JONAS SALK'S RESEARCH AND HIS DEVELOPMENT OF THE POLIO VACCINE. SCIENTIFIC AND PERSONAL DETAILS ARE INCLUDED.
BR 3653 COLLABORATOR, THE STEBEL, S.L. A TENSE, EMOTIONAL NOVEL ABOUT AN ISRAELI ACCUSED OF CONSPIRING WITH THE NAZIS.
BR 3654 AMERICA'S TRIUMPH ALOFSIN, DOROTHY SARENE MEYER STORIES ABOUT THE LIVES OF AMERICAN JEWISH LEADERS. WRITTEN FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 3655 IS THERE AN ANSWER? DE SOLA POOL, DAVID & TAMAR AN INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE WORK, CONCERNED WITH A WIDE RANGE OF JEWISH ISSUES.
BR 3657 FLOWERING OF MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE, THE RIBLOW, MENACHEM A VOLUME OF LITERARY CRITICISM WITH SELECTIONS FROM THE WORK OF WRITERS WHO HAVE INFLUENCED CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI THOUGHT AND CULTURE.
BR 3658 JEWISH VALUES AND SOCIAL CRISIS A CASEBOOK FOR SOCIAL ACTION VORSPAN, ALBERT CAROL ROMBER A SOCIAL ACTION CASEBOOK TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE DEAL WITH SOME OF THE DILEMMAS OF MODERN LIFE.
BR 3659 JEWS IN MUSIC HOLDE, ARTHUR JOHN ETTELSO JEWISH CONTRIBUTIONS TO MUSIC SINCE THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY ARE EVALUATED IN A CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL STUDY. MANY MUSICAL PERSONALITIES ARE DISCUSSED.
BR 3660 FROM MANY LANDS EISEMAN, ALBERTA ESTHER L. AR THROUGH THE EYES OF JACOB, A YOUNG IMMIGRANT, THIS BOOK TELLS THE HISTORY OF MANY GROUPS WHO CAME TO THE UNITED STATES DURING THE EARLY YEARS OF THE CENTURY.
BR 3661 STAR OF REDEMPTION, THE ROSENZWEIG, FRANZ WRITTEN BY THE PROMINENT GERMAN JEWISH PHILOSOPHER, THIS BOOK PRESENTS AN ORIGINAL APPROACH TO RELIGIOUS THINKING.
BR 3662 THREE POPES AND THE JEWS LAPIDE, PINCHAS E. MURIEL HELLE AN ISRAELI DIPLOMAT DESCRIBES JEWISH-PAPAL RELATIONS SINCE THE START OF WORLD WAR II, AND GIVES AN APPRAISAL OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY.
BR 3663 MEETING YOUR LIFE PROBLEMS SCHWARTZMAN, RABBI SYLVAN D. & RABBI AN INSIGHTFUL DISCUSSION OF THE DAILY ANNOYANCES MAN MUST LIVE WITH.
BR 3664 INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM BELFORD, LEE A. RUTH BERKELE A CONCISE EXPLANATION OF THE TRADITIONS, BELIEFS, AND PRACTICES OF JUDAISM.
BR 3665 TALES FROM THE WISE MEN OF ISRAEL ISH-KISHOR, JUDITH ADELINE TOPK A COLLECTION OF JEWISH FOLK TALES AND PARABLES CONVEYING MORAL THEMES.
BR 3666 CHOICE OF MASKS, A PINKUS, OSCAR GERT ZUCKERM THE AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCES BEGINNING WITH THE LIBERATION OF POLAND IN 1944, AND INCLUDING ANTI-SEMITIC INCIDENTS WITH RUSSIANS AND POLES.
BR 3667 GOD OF DANIEL S. IN SEARCH OF THE AMERICAN JEW MILLER, ALAN W. JOY GERSTEN/ THE AUTHOR, A RECONSTRUCTIONIST RABBI, PRESENTS A THEOLOGICAL DISCUSSION AND A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE 20TH CENTURY PERIPHERAL JEW IN AMERICA.
BR 3668 SECOND BIBLE LEGEND BOOK FREEHOF, LILLIAN S. A COLLECTION OF BIBLICAL TALES EXHIBITING THE VAST MORAL WEALTH OF THE JEWISH STORYTELLERS.
BR 3670 AFRICAN ZION THE ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH A JEWISH WEISBARD, ROBERT G. CAROLE CLINE THE ACCOUNT OF AN ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH A JEWISH COLONY IN AN EAST AFRICAN PROTECTORATE, 1903-1905.
BR 3671 MY FATHER THE ACTOR BERNARDI, JACK ARLENE RICHA AN ACCOUNT OF THE YIDDISH THEATER IN AMERICA BY THE SON OF THE ACTOR, BEREL BERNARDI. THE FAMILY TRADITION WAS CARRIED ON BY THE AUTHOR'S SON, HERSCHEL BERNARDI, WHO PLAYED THE ROLE OF TEVYE IN THE BROADWAY SHOW OF 'FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.'
BR 3672 GOD'S PRESENCE IN HISTORY JEWISH AFFIRMATIONS AND PHILOSOPHI FACKENHEIM, EMIL L. A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS EXAMINING HOW JUDAISM HAS BEEN ABLE TO OVERCOME THREATS TO ITS SURVIVAL AND HOW IT HAS BEEN ABLE TO MAINTAIN ITS FAITH IN GOD'S PRESENCE IN HISTORY.
BR 3674 SANDSTORM, THE THE ARAB-ISRAELI WAR OF 1967 - PRE KIMCHE, DAVID & DAN BAWLY THE STORY OF THE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR IN ISRAEL, INCLUDING THE CAUSES, THE POLITICAL ASPECTS, AND THE OUTCOME OF THE WAR.
BR 3675 ADVENTURES OF MENACHEM-MENDL, THE ALEICHEM, SHOLOM AN EXCHANGE OF LETTERS BETWEEN THE HERO AND HIS WIFE WHO IS LEFT BEHIND IN THE VILLAGE OF KASRILEVKE WHILE HER HUSBAND SEEKS HIS FORTUNE IN THE BIG CITIES OF ODESSA AND KIEV.
BR 3676 BIBLE SPEAKS TAUBES, HELEN A COMMENTARY ON BIBLICAL MEANING, A MESSAGE RELEVANT TO TODAY'S HECTIC WORLD.
BR 3677 CERTAIN PEOPLE OF THE BOOK SAMUEL, MAURICE A RETELLING OF THE TALES OF THE BIBLE.
BR 3678 CHILDREN OF THE CAVE LIVNE, ZVI A NOVEL ABOUT CHILDREN WHO SURVIVE A VILLAGE MASSACRE AND ORGANIZE A KIBBUTZ IN FIRST-CENTURY PALESTINE.
BR 3679 SO LONG AS YOU'RE HEALTHY GOLDEN, HARRY ANNABELLE HE A COLLECTION OF HUMOROUS PIECES ON TOPICS SUCH AS THE AUTHOR'S CHILDHOOD ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OF BEING JEWISH.
BR 3680 RISE AND FALL OF THE JUDEAN STATE, THE. VOL. 2 A POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS ZEITLIN, SOLOMON THE SECOND PART OF A TWO-VOLUME SERIES WHICH PRESENTS THE POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF THE SECOND COMMONWEALTH IN ISRAEL, DATING FROM 37 B.C.E TO 66 C.E.
BR 3682 QB VII URIS, LEON A HOLOCAUST NOVEL INVOLVING A SURGEON CHARGED WITH PERFORMING EXPERIMENTAL SURGERY ON JEWISH INMATES IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
BR 3684 STAR ETERNAL KA-TZETNIK 135633 RUTH BERKELY USING HIS CONCENTRATION CAMP NUMBER AS A PSEUDONYM, THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES THE INDIGNITIES OF GHETTOIZATION AND THE HORRORS OF AUSCHWITZ.
BR 3685 SARAH SOMEBODY SLOBODKIN, FLORENCE A STORY ABOUT A YOUNG JEWISH GIRL GROWING UP IN A SHTETL AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND HER DESIRE TO GO TO SCHOOL AGAINST ALL OBSTACLES.
BR 3686 EDUCATION OF ABRAHAM CAHAN, THE CAHAN, ABRAHAM. ABRAHAM P. CONAN & THE FIRST SECTION OF THE MEMOIRS OF THE YIDDISH WRITER, EDITOR, AND SOCIALIST LEADER. CAHAN HELPED FOUND THE 'JEWISH DAILY FORWARD' IN 1897 AND SERVED AS ITS EDITOR FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS.
BR 3689 JEWS IN NEW SPAIN LIEBMAN, SEYMOUR B. A WELL-DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN MODERN-DAY MEXICO.
BR 3690 TORQUEMADA FAST, HOWARD MARY PERLOW A HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT THE FIRST LEADER OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION WHO WAS GIVEN THE TITLE 'INQUISITOR GENERAL' AND WHO CAME TO SYMBOLIZE CRUELTY AND PERSECUTION.
BR 3691 CHAGALL CRESPELLE, JEAN PAUL RUBELLE SCHA A BIOGRAPHY OF MARC CHAGALL, INCLUDING INTERVIEWS WITH THE ARTIST, MANY OF HIS FRIENDS, AND OTHER PERSONALITIES INFLUENTIAL IN HIS LIFE.
BR 3692 THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK, A - VOL. 2 KAGAN, Y.M., EDITOR THIS BOOK PROVIDES BRIEF PRESENTATIONS ON THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTIONS ADAPTED FROM THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE'S SICHOT (DISCOURSES) IN 1969.
BR 3693 LAST REVOLT, THE OPATOSHU, JOSEPH A HISTORICAL NOVEL SET DURING THE YEARS PRECEDING BAR KOCHBA'S REVOLT AGAINST ROMAN RULE AND DEALING WITH THE LIFE AND PERSONALITY OF RABBI AKIBA.
BR 3694 MORE LIGHT ON THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS BURROWS, MILLAR FURTHER INTERPRETATIONS ON THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND THEIR MEANING TO THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN WAY OF LIFE.
BR 3695 FRIEND OF KAFKA AND OTHER STORIES, A SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-ONE SHORT STORIES SET IN WARSAW, ISRAEL, AND NEW YORK CITY, WRITTEN BY THE NOBEL PPRIZE LAUREATE.
BR 3696 ISAAC BABEL THE LONELY YEARS BABEL, NATHALIE THE NOTED SOVIET WRITER'S LETTERS TO HIS FAMILY AND SOME OF HIS SHORT STORIES HAVE BEEN COLLECTED IN THIS ANTHOLOGY BY HIS SURVIVING DAUGHTER.
BR 3697 STUDIES IN AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY MARCUS, JACOB R. A STUDY OF THE JEWS IN AMERICA FROM THEIR EARLIEST BEGINNINGS TO THE 1970S.
BR 3700 CLIMBING WILLIE'S LADDER LEBOWITZ, ALAN THE 40TH YEAR OF MINOR POET WILLIE O'TOOLE (HIS MOTHER IS JEWISH) FINDS HIM ACCEPTING ANOTHER TEMPORARY SMALL COLLEGE POSITION CHASING VAINLY AFTER NYMPHETS WITH LITTLE SUCCESS BUT MUCH ROMANTIC MISADVENTURE, AND STILL TRUSTING IN THE FUTURE DESPITE THE BRUISES OF THE PAST.
BR 3701 PORTION IN PARADISE, A NAHMAD, H.M. BOBYE RUBIN JEWISH FOLK TALES CHARACTERIZED BY A SENSE OF ETHICAL COMMITMENT AND A SENSITIVITY TO SPIRITUAL VALUES.
BR 3703 ALONE IN THE WILD FOREST SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS A NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG BOY WHO TRIES TO ATONE FOR THE SINS IMBEDDED IN HIS SOUL FROM ANOTHER LIFE.
BR 3704 HILLEL THE ELDER THE EMERGENCE OF CLASSICAL JUDAISM GLATZER, NAHUM N. HANNAH GOLDS A STUDY OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TALMUDIC SAGE. BASED ON TRADITIONAL SOURCES AND CLASSICAL JEWISH TEXTS.
BR 3705 OF A WORLD THAT IS NO MORE SINGER, ISRAEL JOSHUA THE ABSORBING STORY OF THE HOUSE OF A RABBI IN A POLISH-JEWISH HAMLET NEAR THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. RICH IN CHARACTERIZATION.
BR 3706 CRITICAL VIEWS OF ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER MALIN, IRVING, ED. ALKOFF/HENKI A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ANALYZING THE THEMES, STYLE, AND PHILOSOPHY IN SINGER'S WRITINGS, WHICH ARE BOTH UNIVERSAL, YET DECIDEDLY, JEWISH.
BR 3707 CRISIS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, THE ESSAYS ON FREUD, MARX AND SOCIAL FROMM, ERICH JANET FRANZE NINE ESSAYS BY THE PROMINENT PSYCHOLOGIST.
BR 3709 GOD, MAN AND ATOMIC WAR DRESNER, RABBI SAMUEL H. AN EXAMINATION OF THE QUESTION OF WHETHER ONE DESERVES TO SURVIVE IN THE ATOMIC AGE. THE AUTHOR MAINTAINS THAT FIRST EACH PERSON MUST BECOME WORTHY OF SURVIVAL.
BR 3710 PURPOSE AND MEANING OF JEWISH EXISTENCE A PEOPLE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD KAPLAN, MORDECAI M. THE FOUNDER OF THE RECONSTRUCTIONIST MOVEMENT DISCUSSES THE INTERPRETATIONS OF JUDAISM MADE BY HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND PREDECESSORS WHO BASED THEIR PHILOSOPHIES ON THE RELIGIOUS AND INTELLECTUAL NEEDS OF THE TIME.
BR 3711 ISRAELIS, THE PROFILE OF A PEOPLE BONDY, RUTH AN ANALYSIS OF THE PERSONALITIES, THE CHARACTERS, AND THE DIVERSE OUTLOOKS OF JEWS FROM DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES WHO SETTLED IN ISRAEL.
BR 3713 IMPALED ON A CACTUS BUSH AN AMERICAN FAMILY IN ISRAEL SHERMAN, ARNOLD JEANNE BLUME THE SAGA OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY WHO VISITED ISRAEL AND DECIDED TO MAKE IT THEIR HOME. A DOWN-TO-EARTH STORY OF ISRAEL BEFORE THE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR.
BR 3714 NEW ISRAELI WRITERS, THE SHORT STORIES OF THE FIRST GENERAT RABIKOVITZ, DALIA, ED. ADELINE MARE AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES BY ISRAELI WRITERS WHO EXPERIENCED THE JEWISH STATE'S FIRST TWO DECADES OF EXISTENCE. THE STORIES WERE SELECTED BY WELL-KNOWN LITERARY CRITICS.
BR 3715 HISTORY OF THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN ISRAEL, A - BOOK 2 VITELES, HARRY A SCHOLARLY ANALYSIS OF THE KIBBUTZ, THE CO-OPERATIVES, AND THE LABOR AND PRODUCER SOCIETIES IN ISRAEL TODAY.
BR 3717 MARTIN BUBER AND THE THEATER FRIEDMAN, MAURICE, ED. MARCIA FELTH A STUDY OF THEOLOGIAN MARTIN BUBER'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE THEATER.
BR 3721 MERCHANT BANKERS, THE WECHSBERG, JOSEPH A WITTY AND INTIMATE PORTRAYAL OF THE BUSINESS AND FAMILY HISTORIES OF SEVEN OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS INVESTMENT BANKING HOUSES.
BR 3722 LET'S STEAL THE MOON SERWER, BLANCHE L. A COLLECTION OF JEWISH FOLKTALES.
BR 3724 HIMMO, KING OF JERUSALEM KANUIK, YORAM A NOVEL SET WITHIN A MONASTERY HOSPITAL FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS DURING THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM IN 1948.
BR 3725 WAY OF RESPONSE, THE BUBER, MARTIN SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE JEWISH PHILOSOPHER.
BR 3726 NON-JEWISH JEW AND OTHER ESSAYS, THE DEUTSCHER, ISAAC ADELINE TOPK A STUDY EXPLORING THE LIFE OF THE MODERN JEW. THE BOOK ALSO DISCUSSES THE HERITAGE OF EUROPEAN JEWRY, RUSSIAN AND POLISH JEWS, AND WELL-KNOWN SECULAR JEWS SUCH AS SPINOZA, MARX, AND FREUD.
BR 3728 RABBI REMEMBERS, A THE MAN WHO DEFIED THE NAZIS IN DE MELCHIOR, MARCUS, DR. WERNER MELCHI RABBI MELCHIOR REMINISCES ABOUT HIS EARLY CHILDHOOD, HIS STUDIES IN GERMANY, HIS ESCAPE TO SWEDEN IN 1943, AND HIS APPOINTMENT AS CHIEF RABBI OF DENMARK.
BR 3729 RAPE OF TAMAR, THE JACOBSON, DAN AN OUTRAGEOUSLY FUNNY VERSION OF WHAT WENT ON IN THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF THE SECOND KING OF ISRAEL, ALL RECOUNTED IN TODAY'S IDIOM.
BR 3730 COME TO THE WAR THOMAS, LESLIE NANCY SCHIER SET IN ISRAEL DURING THE SIX DAY WAR, THIS NOVEL TELLS OF A YOUNG BRITISH PIANIST AND AN ISRAELI PATRIOT WHO MEET AND FALL IN LOVE.
BR 3731 JEWISH PHILOSOPHY IN MODERN TIMES FROM MENDELSSOHN TO ROSENZWEIG ROTENSTREICH, NATHAN A HISTORY OF JEWISH PHILOSOPHY. INCLUDES THE IDEAS OF MOSES MENDELSSOHN, MOSES LUZZATTO, MORITZ LAZARUS, HERMANN COHEN, RABBI ABRAHAM KOOK, A. D. GORDON, AND FRANZ ROSENZWEIG.
BR 3732 GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS BASSANI, GIORGIO MRS. NATHANI A SENSITIVE NOVEL ABOUT AN ITALIAN-JEWISH FAMILY DURING THE DAYS OF MUSSOLINI AND THE NAZI REGIME.
BR 3733 GOLDEN TREASURY OF JEWISH TALES, A BARASH, ASHER MRS. MORTON RELIGIOUS MORAL TALES ORIGINATING IN THE DIASPORA, MANY OF WHICH REFLECT THE MYSTICISM OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
BR 3734 DOWNTOWN JEWS, THE PORTRAITS OF AN IMMIGRANT GENERATI SANDERS, RONALD A NARRATIVE ABOUT THE COMMUNITY OF 'DOWNTOWN JEWS' WHO POURED INTO NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE FROM EASTERN EUROPE BETWEEN 1880 AND 1910.
BR 3735 CENTURY OF JEWISH LIFE, A ELBOGEN, ISMAR A HISTORY OF THE JEWS FROM 1840-1940.
BR 3736 MAJOR TRENDS IN MODERN HEBREW FICTION RABINOVICH, ISAIAH. TRANSLATED BY M AN ANALYSIS OF MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE.
BR 3739 MAN FROM THERE, THE BEN-NER, YITZCHAK A NOVEL ABOUT A WOUNDED ISRAELI SOLDIER AND THE EGYPTIAN FAMILY WHO GIVES HIM REFUGE.
BR 3740 HOW TO BE AN AMERICAN JEW MILCH, ROBERT J. SELMA BROWN A HUMOROUS AND SATIRICAL DISCUSSION AND 'GUIDE' TO AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE. SERIOUS QUESTIONS ARE RAISED ABOUT MANY OF THE CONTRADICTIONS AND INCONSISTENCIES IN THE SPIRITUAL AND SOCIAL LIVES OF THE JEWISH FAMILY.
BR 3741 LAYING ON OF HANDS, THE ARENT, ARTHUR A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE AND INTRIGUE INVOLVING AN INTERNATIONAL ARMS SMUGGLING RING, TWO LOVE AFFAIRS, AND A DEADLY GAME PLAYED OUT BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND EX-NAZIS.
BR 3742 TENANTS, THE MALAMUD, BERNARD HELEN B. LEV A POWERFUL NOVEL ABOUT TWO WRITERS, ONE BLACK AND THE OTHER JEWISH, AND THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THEM AS THEY PURSUE SIMILAR PROFESSIONAL GOALS.
BR 3744 EMERGENCE OF THE MIDDLE EAST, 1914-1924, THE SACHAR, HOWARD M. ESTHER COHEN A HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY AND THE WARS, REVOLUTIONS, AND CHANGES WHICH TRANSFORMED THE EARLIER OTTOMAN EMPIRE. COVERS THE PERIOD FROM THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR I TO 1923.
BR 3746 THEREFORE CHOOSE LIFE SILVER, ABBA HILLEL SERMONS AND WRITINGS OF THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY REFORM RABBI AND ZIONIST LEADER WHO LIVED FROM 1893-1963.
BR 3747 NUPTIALS, THE HAASE, JOHN RUTH KAUFMAN A HUMOROUS NOVEL ABOUT THE IMMINENT MARRIAGE OF TWO YOUNG AFFLUENT JEWS IN BEVERLY HILLS. THE AUTHOR FOCUSES ON THE MATERIALISM, SPIRITUAL SHALLOWNESS, AND INNER CONFLICTS OF HIS CHARACTERS.
BR 3748 MY RABBI DOESN'T MAKE HOUSE CALLS VORSPAN, ALBERT EVELYN THORN A HUMOROUS LOOK AT MODERN AMERICAN-JEWISH LIFE COVERING EVERYTHING FROM ASSIMILATION ('HOW JEWS ARE ASSIMILATING THE REST OF THE COUNTRY') TO HOW TO BUILD A TEMPLE ('THE JEWISH EDIFICE COMPLEX').
BR 3749 RIGHT TIME, THE THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HARRY GOLDEN GOLDEN, HARRY MRS. ERNEST THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE AMERICAN WRITER AND EDITOR OF THE 'CAROLINA ISRAELITE.' THE BOOK INCLUDES CORRESPONDENCE, REMINISCENCES OF HIS EARLY YEARS ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE OF NEW YORK, AND HIS VIEWS ON LIFE.
BR 3750 GRANDEES, THE BIRMINGHAM, STEPHEN THE STORY OF SPANISH-PORTUGUESE JEWISH FAMILIES WHO SETTLED IN NEW YORK AND THEIR DESCENDANTS.
BR 3751 CONVERSATIONS WITH EINSTEIN MOSZKOWSKI, ALEXANDER DISCUSSIONS ON EDUCATION, LITERATURE, PHYSICS, PHILOSOPHY, AND RELATIVITY WITH THE NOTED PHYSICIST.
BR 3752 BURNING GLASS, THE BEHRMAN, S.N. FAYE GREEN A NOVEL ABOUT THE WORLD OF THE THEATER SET IN SALZBURG, HOLLYWOOD, AND NEW YORK AS THE NAZI SHADOW DARKENED EUROPE.
BR 3753 HOW TO MAKE A JEWISH MOVIE SHAVELSON, MELVILLE THE STORY BEHIND THE FILMING OF THE MOVIE, 'CAST A GIANT SHADOW.' TOLD BY THE AUTHOR, WHO ALSO DIRECTED THE FILM. THE MOVIE IS BASED ON THE STORY OF COLONEL DAVID 'MICKEY' MARCUS, AN AMERICAN MILITARY MAN WHO WAS RECRUITED BY THE HAGANAH TO HELP ISRAEL FIGHT IN THE 1948 WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
BR 3754 CONFESS! CONFESS! GILBOA, YEHOSHUA THE STORY OF A YOUNG POLISH ZIONIST WHO WAS ARRESTED BY THE NKVD IN 1940, SPENT EIGHT YEARS IN RUSSIAN PRISONS, AND THEN SETTLED IN ISRAEL.
BR 3755 KAFKA THE TORMENT OF MAN ALBERES, R. M. & PIERRE DE BOISDEFFR A PHILOSOPHICAL TREATISE IN THE CONDITION OF MAN.
BR 3756 POST-MORTEM THE JEWS IN GERMANY TODAY KATCHER, LEO THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES THE LIFE OF THE JEWS WHO CONTINUED TO LIVE IN GERMANY AFTER WORLD WAR II. THE BOOK COVERS THE PERIOD THROUGH THE LATE 1960S.
BR 3757 OUR EDDIE ISH-KISHOR, SHULAMITH GLORIA GLICK A STORY ABOUT AN ENGLISH-JEWISH FAMILY WHO EMIGRATES TO AMERICA IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY.
BR 3758 ESHKOL THE MAN AND THE NATION PRITTIE, TERENCE MARION SCHWA A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ISRAELI STATESMAN AND PRIME MINISTER, HIGHLIGHTING SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN ISRAEL AND IN ESHKOL'S PERSONAL LIFE FROM THE TURN OF THE CENTURY UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1969.
BR 3759 ROCK, THE MASTERS, JOHN A FICTIONALIZED ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY OF GIBRALTAR. IT BEGINS WITH THE PERIOD OF THE NEANDERTHAL MAN AND INCLUDES REFERENCES TO THE JEWISH POPULATION OF THE ISLAND WHO REPRESENT THE ONLY CONTINUING COMMUNITY IN THE HISTORY OF THE ROCK.
BR 3760 YOU MUST KNOW EVERYTHING BABEL, ISAAC FRIEDA STERN A COLLECTION OF STORIES WRITTEN BY THE WELL-KNOWN RUSSIAN AUTHOR, ISAAC BABEL, AND EDITED BY HIS DAUGHTER AFTER HE DISAPPEARED IN THE SOVIET UNION IN MAY 1939.
BR 3761 GENESIS 1948 KURZMAN, DAN AN ACCOUNT OF THE 1948 WAR OF INDEPENDENCE WITH PORTRAITS OF WW II SURVIVORS, SABRAS, AND VOLUNTEERS WHO FOUGHT FOR THE JEWISH HOMELAND.
BR 3762 TREBLINKA STEINER, JEAN-FRANCOIS THE STORY OF THE LAST 600 VALIANT JEWS IN TREBLINKA WHO REVOLTED AGAINST THEIR CAPTORS AND WERE EVENTUALLY EXECUTED IN THE NAZI DEATH CAMP.
BR 3763 THUNDER OVER TABOR TASLITT, ISRAEL I. A HISTORICAL NOVEL FOR YOUNG READERS ABOUT DEBORAH THE PROPHETESS.
BR 3764 HOW THE EARLY HEBREWS LIVED AND LEARNED BONSER, EDNA M. THIS BOOK ILLUSTRATES THE PROGRESS MADE BY DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM DURING A 1500 YEAR PERIOD. IT INCLUDES DIRECTIONS FOR DRAMATIZATION.
BR 3765 HASIDIC COMMUNITY OF WILLIAMSBURG, THE POLL, SOLOMON A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE STRUCTURE, ORGANIZATION, SOCIAL LIFE, AND OCCUPATIONS OF THE HASIDIM IN THE WILLIAMSBURG SECTION OF NEW YORK.
BR 3766 MR. JACK AND THE GREENSTALKS HOROWITZ, GENE A NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG DESIGNER AND THE GARMENT INDUSTRY IN NEW YORK CITY.
BR 3767 TWENTY-EIGHTH OF IYAR, THE FELDMAN, EMANUEL ADELINE TOPK THE DRAMATIC, EMOTIONAL DAY-TO-DAY JOURNAL OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY IN ISRAEL DURING THE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR. CAPTURES THEIR FEAR, AGONY, AND DESPAIR, AS WELL AS THEIR JOY, TRIUMPH, AND LAUGHTER.
BR 3769 HOLY CITY, THE JEWS ON JERUSALEM HATTZ, AVRAHAM, EDITOR SELECTIONS FROM JEWISH LITERATURE SHOWING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND JERUSALEM.
BR 3771 BENYA KRIK, THE GANGSTER AND OTHER STORIES BABEL, ISAAC ROSE GOLDSTE SHORT STORIES BY BABEL ABOUT JEWISH LIFE IN RUSSIAN VILLAGES.
BR 3773 MEN AT THE CROSSROADS COHON, BERYL D WRITTEN BY A RABBI WHO FOCUSES ON THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE COMMON ERA, THIS BOOK SKETCHES KEY PERSONALITIES WHO STOOD AT THE CROSSROADS BETWEEN JERUSALEM AND ROME -SYNAGOGUE AND CHURCH. AMONG THE INDIVIDUALS DISCUSSED ARE HEROD, HILLEL AND SHAMMAI, JOHN THE BAPTIST, JESUS, PAUL, JOSEPHUS, YOCHANAN BEN ZAKKAI, AND AKIBA.
BR 3774 WHO? ME? MATMOR, YORAM A NOVEL ABOUT A PICARESQUE HERO WHO GOES THROUGH LIFE, ENCOUNTERING EVENTS IN RECENT JEWISH HISTORY SINCE WORLD WAR II.
BR 3775 SO YOUNG TO BE A RABBI THE EDUCATION OF AN AMERICAN CLERG ELKINS, DOV PERETZ MARJORIE ASC THE AUTHOR, WHO BECAME A RABBI AT THE AGE OF 26, DESCRIBES HIS EXPERIENCES AS A RABBINICAL STUDENT AND HOW HE WAS INSPIRED BY THE BIBLE AT AN EARLY AGE.
BR 3776 ABOUT THE B'NAI BAGELS KONIGSBURG, E.L. HELEN ASCHER A STORY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES OF A LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM SPONSORED BY B'NAI BRITH.
BR 3777 FATHERS, THE ACCORDING TO RABBI NATHAN GOLDIN, JUDAH THROUGH MAXIMS, COMMENTS, PARABLES AND STORIES, THIS BOOK GIVES INSIGHT INTO THE FOLKLORE OF ANCIENT ISRAEL.
BR 3778 HOW CAN A JEW SPEAK OF FAITH TODAY? BOROWITZ, EUGENE B. MIRIAM BENDE A BOOK ON FAITH AND THEOLOGY WRITTEN IN UNDERSTANDABLE LANGUAGE, DIRECTED TO THE THOUGHTFUL READER. THIS BOOK IS THE COMPANION PIECE TO 'NEW JEWISH THEOLOGY IN THE MAKING.'
BR 3780 SECRET OF GONEN, THE SAMUELS, GERTRUDE PORTRAIT OF A KIBBUTZ ON THE SYRIAN BORDER DURING THE SIX-DAY WAR. RECAPTURES THE EMOTIONS OF ADULTS AND CHILDREN LIVING 'UNDER THE BROW OF THE SYRIAN HILLS.'
BR 3782 JEW IN AMERICAN POLITICS, THE WEYL, NATHANIEL AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF AMERICAN JEWISH POLITICAL BEHAVIOR.
BR 3783 JUDAIC HERITAGE, THE ITS TEACHINGS, PHILOSOPHY AND SYMB BRASCH, R. THIS BOOK DESCRIBES AND EXPLAINS JUDAISM IN SIMPLE TERMS FOR MODERN READERS.
BR 3784 MAN AND HIS DEEDS SPERBER, MANES MARTIN HOFFM A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS WRITTEN BY EUROPEAN PSYCHOLOGIST SPERBER, ABOUT A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO MADE THEIR MARK ON CIVILIZATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 3785 ISRAELIS AND JEWS THE CONTINUITY OF AN IDENTITY HERMAN, SIMON N. A REPORT ON A STUDY OF THE SENSE OF JEWISH IDENTITY IN A SAMPLING OF JEWISH STUDENTS IN ISRAELI HIGH SCHOOLS BY A NOTED PROFESSOR OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY IN JERUSALEM.
BR 3787 FAITH OF A HASSID, THE LIPSCHITZ, MAX A. THE HISTORY OF HASIDISM AND ITS FOUNDER, THE BAAL SHEM TOV, AND THE WORKS OF OTHER HASIDIC RABBIS.
BR 3788 WINESKIN AND THE WIZARD, THE SELZER, MICHAEL AN EXAMINATION OF THE 'JEWISH MYSTIQUE': THE JEW'S PERSONAL RAPPORT WITH GOD, THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE NON-JEWISH WORLD, AND THE MORAL TEACHINGS HANDED DOWN BY THE BIBLICAL PROPHETS.
BR 3789 FIRST MILLION SABRAS, THE A PORTRAIT OF THE NATIVE BORN ISRA RUSSCOL, HERBERT & MARGALIT BANAI ADELINE MARE THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH STUDY OF NATIVE-BORN ISRAELIS, WHO ARE OFTEN CALLED 'SABRAS,' AFTER THE FRUIT OF THE CACTUS PLANT WHICH IS HARD AND PRICKLY ON THE OUTSIDE BUT SOFT AND SWEET ON THE INSIDE.
BR 3790 IN THE BUNKERS OF SINAI THE DRAMA OF LIFE AND DEATH ON THE SHERMAN, ARNOLD IN THIS MOVING ACCOUNT, THE AUTHOR TELLS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE FOR THE ISRAELI SOLDIERS TO LIVE IN THE UNDERGROUND BUNKERS ALONG THE SUEZ CANAL.
BR 3791 FOLK TALES OF ISRAEL NOY, DOV, ED. TRANSLATED BY GENE BA JANE N. WEIS A SELECTION OF JEWISH FOLK TALES ON BOTH RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR THEMES.
BR 3792 OTHER SANDALS WATSON, SALLY AURELIA MINT DEVRA AND HER ISRAELI COUSIN, EYTAN, EXCHANGE PLACES DURING THE SUMMER. THEY LEARN ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES IN THEIR LIVES AND HAVE MANY EXCITING ADVENTURES.
BR 3793 AVENGERS, THE BAR-ZOHAR, MICHAEL AN ACCOUNT OF THE AVENGERS WHO PURSUED NAZI WAR CRIMINALS TO SPAIN, SAUDI ARABIA, AND SOUTH AMERICA. COMPRISED OF INTERVIEWS AND UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS.
BR 3794 LEGENDS OF THE HASIDIM AN INTRODUCTION TO HASIDIC CULTURE MINTZ, JEROME R. MRS. ROBERT THIS IS A STUDY OF THE HASIDIC COMMUNITY IN NEW YORK DESCRIBING ITS CULTURE, WAY OF LIFE, ATTITUDES, AND RELATIONSHIPS.
BR 3796 FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE JEWS, THE HERTZBERG, ARTHUR AN EXAMINATION OF HOW THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FOUNDERS OF THE 'MODERN SPIRIT,' VOLTAIRE AND DIDEROT, PROVIDED THE PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS FOR ANTI-SEMITISM IN LATER TIMES.
BR 3798 MIRIAM LIVES ON A KIBBUTZ EDWARDSON, CORDELIA THE STORY OF COMMUNAL LIFE ON A KIBBUTZ IN ISRAEL AND HOW MIRIAM ADJUSTS TO IT.
BR 3799 BECOMING OF RUTH, THE MC MURRAY, NANCY THE BIOGRAPHY OF A CHRISTIAN GIRL WHO REALIZES THAT HER BELIEFS ARE CLOSER TO JUDAISM THAN TO THE FAITH OF HER PARENTS.
BR 3800 KAFKA VERSUS KAFKA CARROUGES, MICHEL A STUDY OF THE LIFE OF KAFKA, AND THE COMPLEXITIES AND CONTRADICTIONS INHERENT IN HIS WRITING. WRITTEN BY THE FRENCH LITERARY CRITIC.
BR 3801 BIRTH OF THE ISRAEL AIR FORCE, THE JACOBS, MONTY A TRUE STORY, FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, OF THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE, WHICH CAME INTO BEING DURING THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE.
BR 3802 JANOWSKA ROAD, THE WELLS, LEON W. CORINNE SHAF THIS EYE-WITNESS REPORT OF LIFE DURING THE NAZI PERSECUTIONS SERVES AS A HISTORICAL DOCUMENT OF THE HOLOCAUST PERIOD.
BR 3805 VISION AND FAITH COHON, RABBI BERYL D. SIX ALTERNATE THEMES FOR CONFIRMATION SERVICES FOR JEWISH CONGREGATIONS.
BR 3807 DE GAULLE, ISRAEL AND THE JEWS ARON, RAYMOND AURELIA MINT AN ANALYSIS BY A FRENCH SOCIOLOGIST AND POLITICAL THEORIST OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT AND DE GAULLE'S ATTITUDE TOWARD THIS PROBLEM.
BR 3808 JEWS AND BLACKS THE CLASSIC AMERICAN MINORITIES HALPERN, BEN ALYCE POLLAC AN ANALYSIS OF THE NATURE AND HISTORY OF JEWISH LIBERALISM IN THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JEWS AND BLACKS.
BR 3809 CHILDREN OF THE EMEK, THE BRAVERMAN, LIBBIE L. THE STORY OF THE LIFE OF TWO CHILDREN OF THE NEW JEWISH SETTLEMENTS IN NAHALAL, A WORKER'S COOPERATIVE IN ISRAEL, APPROPRIATE FOR GRADES 8-10.
BR 3810 PLOTKIN'S PYRAMID KENT, MALCOLM IN ORDER TO GIVE TANGIBLE FORM TO THE MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS LIFE, MORRIS PLOTKIN DECIDES TO CONSTRUCT HIS OWN CRYPT, A LARGE PYRAMID IN FAR ROCKAWAY.
BR 3811 SPY FROM ISRAEL, THE DAN, BEN A CLOAK AND DAGGER SPY STORY BASED ON THE LIFE OF ELIE COHEN, WHO SERVED AS AN UNDERCOVER AGENT FOR ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE IN THE EARLY 1960'S.
BR 3812 MEANING OF JUDAISM, THE GITTELSOHN, ROLAND B. MARY PERLOW RABBI GITTELSOHN DISCUSSES THE VALUES AND BELIEFS WHICH ARE THE ESSENCE OF JUDAISM. AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF THE PRACTICES, ETHICS, HOLIDAYS, WRITINGS, AND HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 3813 KEY OF GOLD SCHOONOVER, LAWRENCE RITA KLEEBLA A NOVEL ABOUT THE PHYSICIANS OF THE HOUSE OF BARUCH WHO WITHSTOOD PERSECUTION, PRACTICED THEIR PROFESSION, AND TREATED MANY OF THE WELL-KNOWN MEN OF THEIR TIMES.
BR 3815 CRIME OF CHRISTENDOM, THE BRATTEN, FRED GLADSTONE THE AUTHOR, A CONGREGATIONAL MINISTER, UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, AND LECTURER, CONSIDERS THE THEOLOGICAL BASES FOR CHRISTIAN ANTI-SEMITISM.
BR 3816 MIND OF ONE PIECE, A UROFSKY, MELVIN I. SEVEN ESSAYS ON THE LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY OF LOUIS D. BRANDEIS, THE NOTED JURIST AND SUPREME COURT JUSTICE.
BR 3817 FROM TOKYO TO JERUSALEM KOTSUJI, ABRAHAM RUBELLE SCHA AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A JAPANESE CONVERT TO JUDAISM WHO RELATES THE STORY OF HIS JOURNEY FROM SHINTOISM TO THE WORLD OF ORTHODOX JUDAISM.
BR 3822 IF ISRAEL LOST THE WAR CHESNOFF, RICHARD Z., EDWARD KLEIN & S. ROTH/RENE A FICTIONAL VERSION OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED HAD ISRAEL NOT BEEN VICTORIOUS IN THE SIX-DAY WAR AND THE EFFECT IT WOULD HAVE HAD ON JEWISH COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD.
BR 3823 ABDUCTION KUMIN, MAXINE A NOVEL OF PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO FIND THE ANSWERS TO THE PRESENT BY SIFTING THROUGH THE PAST.
BR 3824 WINTER TWILIGHT ANGOFF, CHARLES THE EIGHTH NOVEL IN THE SAGA OF THE POLANSKY FAMILY AND THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN AMERICA.
BR 3825 ISAAC M. WISE HIS LIFE, WORK AND THOUGHT HELLER, JAMES G. A BIOGRAPHY OF THE NINETEEN-CENTURY RABBI WHO WAS A FOUNDER OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH REFORM MOVEMENT, AND INFLUENCED THE LIVES OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICA JEWS.
BR 3827 JUSTICE AND JUDAISM VORSPAN, ALBERT & LIPMAN, EUGENE J. MIRIAM BENDE A SOCIOLOGICAL WORK ON THE THEME OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IN JUDAISM.
BR 3828 SOURCE, THE MICHENER, JAMES A. IRA NEWMAN THIS HISTORICAL NOVEL EXPLORES THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL AND, MORE BROADLY, WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
BR 3829 THRESHOLDS STRAUS, DOROTHEA THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DOROTHEA STRAUS, WHO GREW UP IN NEW YORK AND BECAME THE WIFE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE PUBLISHING FIRM OF FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX.
BR 3830 EAGLE AND THE DOVE, THE SOLOMON, RUTH FREEMAN A LOVE STORY SET IN CZARIST RUSSIA WHICH PAINTS A VIVID PORTRAIT OF JEWISH AND SLAVIC LIFE.
BR 3831 ALL THE FURIOUS BATTLES THE SAGA OF ISRAEL'S ARMY WERSTEIN, IRVING CORRINE M. G A HISTORY OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES, FROM ITS INCEPTION IN THE YEARS BEFORE STATEHOOD TO ITS DEVELOPMENT INTO A MODERN MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.
BR 3832 JEWS OF AUSTRIA, THE ESSAYS ON THE LIFE, HISTORY AND DE FRAENKEL, JOSEPH COLLECTION OF ESSAYS BY LEADING SCHOLARS WHO EXAMINE THE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF AUSTRIAN JEWRY FROM ALL POINTS OF REFERENCE.
BR 3833 SIX DAY WAR, THE CHURCHILL, RANDOLPH S. & CHURCHILL, MRS. SAMUEL A MILITARY PERSPECTIVE AND POLITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR IN ISRAEL.
BR 3834 TWENTY-ONE STORIES AGNON, S. Y. AGNON'S SHORT STORIES REVEAL HIS MODERNITY, HIS CONCERN WITH THE HELPLESS NON-HEROIC MAN IN CLEAR FOCUS. CONTENT AND FORM, THEME AND STYLE ALIKE CONVEY THE MESSAGE OF ENIGMA AND PARADOX, AND OF GOALS PERCEIVED, INTUITED, BUT RARELY, IF EVER, REACHED.
BR 3835 GREAT 20TH CENTURY JEWISH PHILOSOPHERS MARTIN, BERNARD, ED. THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THREE PROMINENT PHILOSOPHERS AND THINKERS: MARTIN BUBER, FRANZ ROSENZWEIG, AND LEV SHESTOV.
BR 3836 THREE CASES OF SHOMRI SHOMAR, THE KLINGER, HENRY A TRIO OF FULL-LENGTH MYSTERY NOVELS INVOLVING AN ISRAELI DETECTIVE.
BR 3837 LAST OF ELLMAN, THE NASH, JAMES E. A HUMOROUS NOVEL ABOUT AN ELDERLY JEWISH MAN AND HIS UNCONVENTIONAL LIFESTYLE.
BR 3838 RED ORCHESTRA, THE PERRAULT, GUILLES THE STORY OF THE RUSSIAN SPY NETWORKS WHICH OPERATED AGAINST THE GERMANS IN OCCUPIED FRANCE, HOLLAND, AND BELGIUM, LED BY LEOPOLD TREPPER, A POLISH JEW.
BR 3840 CONFRONTATION, THE GELTMAN, MAX ARLENE RICHA THE AUTHOR TRACES THE ROOTS OF ANTI-SEMITISM AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICANS, WITH THE JEW SEEN AS BENEFACTOR AND SUPPORTER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, AND, ON THE OTHER HAND, AS SLUMLORD AND EXPLOITER IN BLACK COMMUNITIES.
BR 3841 PEDLOCK SAINT, PEDLOCK SINNER LONGSTREET, STEPHEN MURIEL HELLE THIS BOOK, THE THIRD INSTALLMENT IN THE SAGA OF THE PEDLOCK FAMILY, PORTRAYS JEWISH LIFE AND SYNAGOGUE INTRIGUE.
BR 3842 IN THE REIGN OF PEACE HISSENSON, HUGH A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES DEALING WITH MAN'S EXILE FROM GOD AND HIS QUEST FOR REDEMPTION, FOCUSING ON THE 20TH CENTURY JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN ISRAEL.
BR 3843 LINES ON LIFE ROSENBERG, STUART E. SHORT INSPIRATIONAL AND PERCEPTIVE COMMENTS ON THE PROBLEMS AND SITUATIONS WHICH CONFRONT US IN OUR DAILY LIVES.
BR 3845 DAVID'S SLING THE ARMING OF ISRAEL PERES, SHIMON SYLVIA M. FR AN ACCOUNT OF ISRAEL'S RELATIONSHIP WITH HER ARAB NEIGHBORS, AS TOLD FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE MAN WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR ISRAEL'S DEFENSE.
BR 3846 TIME WAS BERCZELLER, RICHARD ANECDOTES ABOUT THE LIFE OF A YOUNG VIENNESE MEDICAL STUDENT AND HIS YEARS AS A MEDICAL PRACTITIONER, SERVING THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF A SMALL TOWN PRIOR TO THE INVASION OF AUSTRIA BY THE NAZIS.
BR 3847 COME FROM THE FOUR WINDS PINCUS, CHASYA THIS BOOK PRESENTS THE STORY OF THE YOUTH ALIYAH MOVEMENT WHICH BROUGHT THOUSANDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO ISRAEL TO HELP BUILD THE JEWISH HOMELAND. INCLUDES PERSONAL STORIES OF SOME OF YOUTH ALIYAH'S GRADUATES.
BR 3848 COMMENTARIES ON THE PENTATEUCH RASHI PEARL, CHAIM, TRANS. BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION FROM THE MEDIEVAL COMMENTATOR.
BR 3849 BECH A BOOK UPDIKE, JOHN C. GUTFLEISC SEVEN TALES ABOUT THE FICTITIOUS HENRY BECH, 'A MODERATELY WELL-KNOWN JEWISH WRITER,' WHOSE EXPERIENCES ILLUSTRATE THE PLIGHT OF THE AMERICAN ARTIST.
BR 3850 JEWS IN THEIR LAND, THE BEN GURION, DAVID VERA LEHRMAN A HISTORY OF JEWS AND JUDAISM IN RELATION TO THE HOLY LAND, WRITTEN BY THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL.
BR 3851 SPECIALTIES OF THE HOUSE HADASSAH STYLE JAMAICA CHAPTER OF HADASSAH A JEWISH COOKBOOK WITH A SPECIAL SECTION DEVOTED TO FAVORITE RECIPES OF VARIOUS CELEBRITIES.
BR 3852 RELIGION OF THE SEMITES, THE THE FUNDAMENTAL INSTITUTIONS SMITH, W. ROBERTSON A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGIONS, DEALING WITH THE BELIEFS AND CONCEPTS OF THE CIVILIZATIONS OF THE NEAR EAST.
BR 3853 LONELY SEARCH, THE SCHWARZ, MIRIAM ESTHER L. AR A POIGNANT NOVEL ABOUT A JEWISH GIRL, RAISED IN AN ORTHODOX ENVIRONMENT, WHO ABANDONS HER FAMILY FOR AN ARAB LOVER AND FLEES TO A KIBBUTZ TO HAVE HIS CHILD.
BR 3854 ROSE RABBI, THE STERN, DANIEL LILLIAN GLIX A NOVEL ABOUT A FORMER RABBINICAL STUDENT AND MUSICIAN WHO SERVES AS THE 'ETHICAL ADVISOR' TO AN ADVERTISING AGENCY, AND WHO TRIES TO RECAPTURE AND UNDERSTAND THE PAST.
BR 3855 JEWISH WAY IN DEATH AND MOURNING, THE LAMM, MAURICE MRS. MARTIN A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE JEWISH RITUALS SURROUNDING DEATH, INCLUDING PREPARATION OF THE BODY, THE FUNERAL AND BURIAL, AS WELL AS THE OBSERVANCES AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE MOURNERS.
BR 3856 HEBREW IMPACT ON WESTERN CIVILIZATION, THE RUNES, DAGOBERT D. A SERIES OF ESSAYS THAT REFLECT JUDAISM'S MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN MAN.
BR 3857 CULTURE AND JUDAISM ULLMAN, S.B. A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON A WIDE RANGE OF SUBJECTS INCLUDING CREATION, NATURE, MAN, AND EDUCATION.
BR 3858 GOLDEN BOOK OF JEWISH HUMOR, THE GOLDEN, HARRY AN ANTHOLOGY OF HUMOROUS STORIES AND ESSAYS IN WHICH THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES MOTHERHOOD, SHOW BUSINESS, ASSIMILATION, AND OTHER TOPICS OF INTEREST.
BR 3860 RED TOWERS OF GRANADA, THE TREASE, GEOFFREY BARBARA COHE A HISTORICAL NOVEL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT A BOY'S ADVENTURES IN ENGLAND AND IN MEDIEVAL SPAIN.
BR 3861 HAMMER ON THE ROCK A MIDRASH READER GLATZER, NAHUM N. SARENE MEYER A SELECTION OFFERING SOME 200 REPRESENTATIVE PASSAGES WHICH SERVE AS A TANTALIZING INTRODUCTION TO TALMUDIC LORE.
BR 3862 MYTH AND LEGEND IN ANCIENT ISRAEL RAPPOPORT, ANGELO S. & RAPHAEL PATAI THE FIRST VOLUME OF A TRILOGY WHICH DEALS WITH JEWISH FOLKLORE AND HEBREW MYTHOLOGY THROUGHOUT THE AGES.
BR 3863 BRICHAH FLIGHT AND RESCUE BAUER, YEHUDA A SYMPATHETIC NARRATIVE OF THOSE WHO FLED EASTERN EUROPE OF 1944-48 TO LIVE IN ISRAEL-AN EPIC OF ESCAPE TO LIFE, RATHER THAN THE MELODRAMA OF ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
BR 3864 LIVING ON THE DEAD MEGGED, AHARON A NOVEL DEALING WITH THE LIFE OF AN ISRAELI HERO. BY MEANS OF RESEARCH ON HIS LIFE, THE STORY REVEALS THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN GENERATIONS, THEIR ADJUSTMENTS AND IDEOLOGIES.
BR 3865 NEGEV, THE THE CHALLENGE OF A DESERT EVENARI, MICHAEL & LESLIE SHANAN & N A DESCRIPTION OF THE CHALLENGES OF LIFE IN THE DESERT AND HOW A BARREN LAND WAS TURNED INTO A FERTILE OASIS.
BR 3866 BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY AND DEUTERO-ISAIAH, THE KAUFMANN, YEHEZKEL THIS BOOK IS PART OF THE FOURTH VOLUME OF THE SCHOLARLY WORK, 'TOLDOT HA-EMUNAH HA-YISRAELIT' ('THE HISTORY OF THE RELIGION OF ISRAEL'). TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW, THIS BOOK EXPLORES THE WRITINGS OF DEUTERO-ISAIAH AND PROVIDES A CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE BABYLONIAN EXILE AND OF THE PERSIAN PERIOD.
BR 3867 BETWEEN THE LINES OF THE BIBLE A MODERN COMMENTARY ON THE 613 COM GOLDSTEIN, HERBERT THIS BOOK OFFERS A DETAILED EXAMINATION OF BIBLICAL PROCLAMATIONS.
BR 3868 SMALL TOWN KID WENT TO SHUL, A AND OTHER STORIES DEUTSCHMAN, BEN A HUMOROUS COLLECTION OF REMINISCENCES OF A YOUNG JEWISH BOY.
BR 3869 JEWS WITHOUT MONEY GOLD, MICHAEL THE CLASSIC AMERICAN NOVEL OF URBAN SOCIAL PROTEST, WHICH TAKES FOR ITS THEME THE LIVES OF THE TENEMENT POOR DURING THE TRYING TIMES OF THE DEPRESSION.
BR 3870 IN PRAISE OF YIDDISH SAMUEL, MAURICE A BOOK GEARED TOWARD THE STUDY AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE. WRITTEN WITH AUTHORITY AND GRACE BY THE WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR.
BR 3871 WALLS OF ISRAEL, THE A STUDY OF THE ISRAELI ARMED FORCE LARTEGUY, JEAN A FASCINATING STUDY OF THE ISRAELI ARMED FORCES WRITTEN BY A JOURNALIST WHO JOINED THEM IN THEIR OPERATION, LIVED WITH THEM AND GOT TO KNOW THEM.
BR 3873 MASTER OF MIRACLE, THE ISH-KISHOR, SHULAMITH THE STORY OF A RABBI, A YOUNG BOY, AND A GOLEM WHICH TAKES PLACE IN 16TH CENTURY PRAGUE. WRITTEN FOR YOUNG READERS.
BR 3874 SCHLEMIEL AS METAPHOR, THE STUDIES IN THE YIDDISH AND AMERICA PINSKER, SANFORD JANE N. WEIS THE FIRST BOOK-LENGTH STUDY OF THE SCHLEMIEL IN RECENT AMERICAN-JEWISH FICTION. AN AMUSING STUDY OF THIS COMIC CHARACTER AND THE WAYS IN WHICH JEWISH WRITERS HAVE MADE USE OF HIM IN THEIR WORK.
BR 3875 SOUND OF BOW BELLS, THE WEIDMAN, JEROME A NOVEL OF THE WORLD OF MANHATTAN BOOK PUBLISHING IN WHICH THE AMBITIOUS PROTAGONIST MUST COME TO TERMS WITH HIS JEWISH BACKGROUND.
BR 3877 FORGED IN FURY ELKINS, MICHAEL A WELL-DOCUMENTED ACCOUNT OF THE JEWISH MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN WHO FOUGHT TO SURVIVE IN WORLD WAR II AND THEIR CONTINUED FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL AFTER THE WAR.
BR 3878 JEWS AND FREEMASONS IN EUROPE, 1723-1939 KATZ, JACOB EXPLORATION OF THE ADMISSION OF JEWS INTO THE RANKS OF FREE MASONS IN EUROPE DURING THE YEARS OF 1723 TO 1939.
BR 3880 TRAVELER IN TWO WORLDS, A HINDUS, MAURICE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PRE-WORLD WAR I JEWISH IMMIGRANT FROM CZARIST RUSSIA WHO TRANSFERRED HIS LOVE OF FARMING FROM BELORUSSIA TO YANKEE FARMING IN UPPER NEW YORK STATE.
BR 3881 CEREMONY OF INNOCENCE FORMAN, JAMES THE STORY OF A BROTHER AND SISTER, STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH, WHO DELIBERATELY CHOOSE MARTYRDOM AS A WAY OF CRITICIZING THEIR RACIST GOVERNMENT. BASED ON A TRUE STORY.
BR 3882 SPY FOR GOD, A THE ORDEAL OF KURT GERSTEIN JOFFREY, PIERRE TRANSLATED BY NORM THE STORY OF KURT GERSTEIN, AN SS OFFICIAL WHO TRIED TO INFORM THE WORLD ABOUT THE MASS MURDERS OF JEWS WHICH HE WITNESSED IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS. HE WAS CONSIDERED A TRAITOR IN THE EYES OF HIS NAZI COMRADES AND WAS MYSTERIOUSLY MURDERED.
BR 3883 MAY THIS HOUSE BE SAFE FROM TIGERS KING, ALEXANDER AN AMUSING, BIOGRAPHICAL LOOK AT THE AUTHOR'S WORLD.
BR 3884 KUZARI, THE HALEVI, YEHUDAH A PHILOSOPHIC WORK, WRITTEN IN 1167, DESIGNED AS A DIALOGUE IN DEFENSE OF JUDAISM, BASED ON THE STORY OF THE CONVERSION TO JUDAISM OF THE KHAZARS AND THEIR KING IN 740 C.E. HALEVI IS FAMOUS AS THE FOREMOST HEBREW POET OF THE SPANISH PERIOD OF JEWISH LITERATURE.
BR 3885 BLACK YEARS OF SOVIET JEWRY, THE 1939-1953 GILBOA, YEHOSHUA A. A HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION DURING THE 'BLACK YEARS,' THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1939 AND 1953 WHEN JEWS AND JEWISH CULTURE WERE ALMOST ENTIRELY WIPED OUT.
BR 3886 RECKONING, THE ELMAN, RICHARD M. ELLEN JAKOBS THE THIRD, AND FINAL, NOVEL IN A SERIES ABOUT AN EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWISH FAMILY IN THE DAYS PRECEDING THE NAZI HOLOCAUST.
BR 3887 ARCHITECTS OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM PARZEN, HERBERT A STUDY OF THE FOUNDERS OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM, DESCRIBING THEIR PHILOSOPHY AND THEIR STRUGGLES TO REALIZE THEIR IDEALS.
BR 3888 HEAR O ISRAEL ABOUT LEARNING CONE, MOLLY A SHORT WORK FOR YOUNG CHILDREN ON THE MEANING OF BEING A JEW, STRESSING THE WORDS OF THE SHEMA AS A CREDO.
BR 3890 AMEN THE DIARY OF RABBI MARTIN SIEGEL SIEGEL, MARTIN, RABBI A DAY-BY-DAY ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF A SUBURBAN RABBI IN LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK.
BR 3891 GRAVEDIGGER'S FUNERAL ARENT, ARTHUR MARCIA MARKE A NOVEL ABOUT A NON-OBSERVANT/SECULAR JEW AND HIS DEALINGS WITH THE NEO-NAZI PARTY IN WEST GERMANY.
BR 3892 JEWISH WIFE, THE SCHWARTZ, GWEN GIBSON & BARBARA WYDE RUBELLE SCHA A STUDY OF THE PROBLEMS AND THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE JEWISH WIFE INTENDED TO CHANGE THE IMAGE PORTRAYED IN SOME POPULAR NOVELS.
BR 3893 MY ENEMY, MY BROTHER FORMAN, JAMES BETTY WILK THE STORY OF A YOUNG POLISH SURVIVOR OF THE HOLOCAUST WHO SEEKS PEACE AND ROOTS IN ISRAEL, BUT FINDS HIMSELF CAUGHT UP IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT.
BR 3894 PHOENIX OVER THE GALILEE KA-TZETNIK 135633 SALO MINKIN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL WHICH DESCRIBES THE ANGUISH SUFFERED BY THE AUTHOR IN AUSCHWITZ AND THE INSPIRATION HE DERIVED FROM ISRAEL. THE PROTAGONIST, A REFUGEE FROM THE CAMPS, FINDS PERSONAL SALVATION THROUGH HIS BRIDE, GALILEA, WHO REPRESENTS THE HOPES AND THE PROMISE OF THE HOLY LAND.
BR 3895 FORESTS OF THE NIGHT ARNOLD, ELLIOTT A NOVEL ABOUT A JEW, SUFFERING FROM THE GUILT OF HAVING PARTICIPATED IN AN RAF RAID ON A GERMAN CITY, WHO RETURNS TO GERMANY TO DISCOVER HOW HIS MOTHER DIED.
BR 3896 BAR-KOCHBA YADIN, YIGAEL THE ISRAELI ARCHAEOLOGIST RECOUNTS THE STORY OF THE 1960-1961 EXCAVATIONS NEAR THE DEAD SEA WHICH LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE LETTERS OF BAR-KOCHBA, THE JEWISH GENERAL WHO LED THE REVOLT AGAINST THE ROMANS IN THE FIRST CENTURY C.E.
BR 3897 ISRAELIS, THE FOUNDERS AND SONS ELON, AMOS PATRICIA B. AN OBJECTIVE STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ISRAELI MIND AND A PENETRATING ANALYSIS OF ISRAEL'S SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND POLITICAL LIFE.
BR 3898 BIBLE AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST DE VAUX, ROLAND A SELECTION OF ESSAYS GEARED TO UNDERSTANDING THE BIBLE THROUGH THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL, THEOLOGY, BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, AND A COMPARISON OF THE RELIGIONS IN THE NEAR EAST.
BR 3900 BYZANTINE JEWRY FROM JUSTINIAN TO THE FOURTH CRUSA SHARF, ANDREW A STUDY OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF BYZANTIUM AND THE ANTI-SEMITIC RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED ON THEM, FROM ROMAN TIMES TO THE GREEK AND TURKISH COMMUNITIES OF THE 15TH CENTURY.
BR 3902 NOT SO RANDOM THOUGHTS KAPLAN, MORDECAI M. A COLLECTION OF APHORISMS AND THOUGHTS FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE FOUNDER OF THE RECONSTRUCTIONIST MOVEMENT.
BR 3903 GOLDEN GHETTO, THE GERSON, NOEL B. A FAST-PACED NOVEL ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES OF CONTEMPORARY FILM MAKERS WHO ARE PRODUCING UNDERGROUND FILMS.
BR 3904 PEOPLE I HAVE LOVED, KNOWN OR ADMIRED ROSTEN, LEO BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS AND PERSONAL REMEMBRANCES AS WELL AS ESSAYS ON WELL-KNOWN HISTORICAL FIGURES.
BR 3905 DANIEL DERONDA ELIOT, GEORGE WRITTEN IN THE LATE 1800S BEFORE THE RISE OF POLITICAL ZIONISM, THIS BOOK IS ONE OF THE EARLIEST NOVELS TO ESPOUSE JEWISH NATIONALISM. IN HER STUDY OF A GIFTED JEW TORN BETWEEN HIS LOYALTIES TO ENGLAND AND HIS DEFENSE OF JEWISH NATIONALISM, ELIOT SET OUT TO PORTRAY THE CONFLICTED DUAL EXISTENCE OF MANY ENGLISH JEWS.
BR 3906 COUSINHOOD, THE BERMANT, CHAIM A BIOGRAPHY OF PROMINENT JEWISH FAMILIES INCLUDING THE ROTHSCHILDS, THE WARBURGS, THE SAMUELS, AND THE SASSOONS.
BR 3907 LORD READING THE LIFE OF RUFUS ISAACS, FIRST MA MONTGOMERY, HUGH H. ESTHER L. AR A BIOGRAPHY OF RUFUS ISAACS, THE FIRST COMMONER SINCE THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON TO BECOME A MARQUIS. ISAACS WAS ALSO THE FIRST JEW IN ENGLAND TO RISE FROM ADVOCATE AND MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT TO THE POSTS OF ATTORNEY GENERAL, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES, AND VICEROY OF INDIA.
BR 3908 SWORD OF THE GOLEM, THE ROTHBERG, ABRAHAM JANET FRANZE A NOVEL ABOUT A MAN-MADE GIANT CREATED TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE BUT DESTINED TO BECOME THEIR SCOURGE AND VICTIM.
BR 3909 HEROD THE GREAT GRANT, MICHAEL A BIOGRAPHY OF KING HEROD, MARKING HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ALSO THE FAILURES DURING HIS REIGN.
BR 3911 TEMPLE BEYOND TIME THE STORY OF THE SITE OF SOLOMON'S KLEIN, MINA C. & ARTHUR KLEIN THIS BOOK PRESENTS THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM AS A FOCAL POINT IN JEWISH HISTORY.
BR 3913 UNDERSTANDING GENESIS - BOOK ONE THE HERITAGE OF BIBLICAL ISRAEL SARNA, NAHUM M. A PHILOSOPHICAL COMMENTARY ON THE EVENTS OF CREATION AS RECOUNTED IN THE BIBLE.
BR 3914 MIDDLE EAST POLITICS THE MILITARY DIMENSION HUREWITZ, J. C. AN EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF THE ARAB AND ISRAELI MILITARIES.
BR 3915 WICKED CITY, THE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS A RETELLING OF THE BIBLICAL STORY OF LOT, ABRAHAM'S NEPHEW, AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE IMMORAL CITY OF SODOM. WRITTEN FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 3916 EMINENT AMERICAN JEWS 1776 TO THE PRESENT MADISON, CHARLES A COLLECTION OF BIOGRAPHIES OF JEWISH AMERICANS, FROM HAYM SOLOMON TO ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE SOCIETY AND THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
BR 3917 CONFRONTATIONS WITH JUDAISM LONGWORTH, PHILIP THIS SYMPOSIUM PROBES THE SPLIT BETWEEN TRADITIONALISTS AND OUTSIDERS. IT CONFRONTS SOME OF THE AREAS OF STRESS FOR THE MODERN JEW: THE JEWISH CONCEPT OF JUSTICE; THE LAWS RELATING TO MARRIAGE, SEX AND DIVORCE; JUDAISM AND ZIONISM; THE PROBLEMS OF COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; AND THE LOGIC OF JEWISH LAW.
BR 3918 TRENDS AND ISSUES IN JEWISH SOCIAL WELFARE IN THE UNITED STATES MORRIS, ROBERT & MICHAEL FREUND, EDI A HISTORY OF AMERICAN JEWISH SOCIAL WELFARE AS SEEN THROUGH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF JEWISH COMMUNAL SERVICE.
BR 3919 ST. URBAIN'S HORSEMAN RICHLER, MORDECAI A NOVEL ABOUT GETTING OLDER, MAKING COMPROMISES, AND MISSING CHANCES THAT WILL NEVER COME AGAIN.
BR 3920 POPES AND THE JEWS IN THE MIDDLE AGES, THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN RELATIONSHIPS IN T SYNAN, EDWARD A A STUDY OF JUDEO-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD INCLUDING WELL-DOCUMENTED PAPAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE JEWS.
BR 3921 JUDAISM THEORY AND PRACTICE COHON, MERYL D. A MODERN CLASSIC ON JEWISH PRACTICES WHICH GUIDE THE CONDUCT OF THEIR PRACTITIONERS IN EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE.
BR 3922 MASTERPIECES OF HEBREW LITERATURE A TREASURY OF 200 YEARS OF HEBREW LEVIANT, CURT, ED. B. AHRENS/F. AN ANTHOLOGY OF POST-BIBLICAL LITERATURE EMANATING FROM SUCH CENTERS OF JEWISH CREATIVITY AS SPAIN, BABYLONIA, NORTH AFRICA, ITALY, FRANCE, AND GERMANY. SPANNING THE YEARS FROM THE 4TH CENTURY B.C.E. TO THE 1700S, EACH EXCERPT IS PRECEDED BY A CLEAR, CONCISE COMMENTARY.
BR 3923 EMBASSIES IN CRISIS DIPLOMATS AND DEMAGOGUES BEHIND TH BAR-ZOHAR, MICHAEL AN ISRAELI CORRESPONDENT RECREATES BEHIND-THE-SCENES ACTIVITIES IN THE EMBASSIES, ON THE BATTLEFIELDS, AND IN THE WORLD CAPITALS DURING THE JUNE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR IN ISRAEL.
BR 3924 BORDER KIBBUTZ GORKIN, MICHAEL THE STORY OF POST-WAR KIBBUTZ LIFE IN ISRAEL, FOCUSING ON THE TENSION AND HARDSHIPS OF BORDER SETTLEMENTS.
BR 3925 MARTIN BUBER AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT HODES, AUBREY THE LIFE STORY AND PHILOSOPHICAL TEACHINGS OF MARTIN BUBER. WRITTEN BY A FRIEND.
BR 3926 FAKING IT GREEN, GERALD A NOVEL WHICH DEALS WITH RUSSIAN SPIES, THE CIA, AND ISRAELI AGENTS.
BR 3927 STUDIES IN THE WEEKLY SIDRA 5720 ANNUAL LEIBOWITZ, NEHAMA A COLLECTION OF THE TRANSCRIPTIONS OF THIS NOTED BIBLICAL SCHOLAR'S WEEKLY RADIO PROGRAM ON THE TORAH PORTION PRESENTED IN 5720.
BR 3929 ENCOUNTER WITH THE MIDDLE EAST BURDETT, WINSTON A REPORT ON THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND ARABS AS SEEN BY THE NOTED RADIO COMMENTATOR.
BR 3930 DEAR ISRAELIS, DEAR ARABS A WORKING APPROACH TO PEACE FISHER, ROGER A COLLECTION OF LETTERS WRITTEN TO INDIVIDUALS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT.
BR 3931 SHAPING OF JEWISH HISTORY, THE A RADICAL NEW INTERPRETATION RIVKIN, ELLIS A SUMMARY OF JEWISH HISTORY FROM BIBLICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT.
BR 3932 PASSION OF ISRAEL, THE WOLF, LEONARD A DESCRIPTION OF THE TENSIONS UNDER WHICH ISRAEL LIVES IN ITS FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL.
BR 3933 INVENTION OF THE JEW, THE SHERMAN, BERNARD SHIRLEY PITM A CRITICAL STUDY OF NOVELS WRITTEN BY JEWISH AUTHORS ABOUT YOUNG JEWISH BOYS, THEIR PASSAGE FROM INNOCENCE, AND THEIR REALIZATION OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A JEW IN AMERICA.
BR 3934 ALAMUT AMBUSH PRICE, ANTHONY A SUSPENSE STORY INVOLVING AN INFLUENTIAL ARAB AND AN ISRAELI COLONEL WHO ARE BELIEVED TO BE WORKING TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE A SETTLEMENT OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT.
BR 3935 AN ANTHOLOGY OF HEBREW ESSAYS. VOL. 2 COHEN, ISRAEL & MICHALI, B. Y. THE SECOND VOLUME OF HEBREW ESSAYS ON TOPICS THAT INCLUDE LITERATURE, BIBLICAL THEMES, THE WRITER AND SOCIETY, AND PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES.
BR 3937 CHILDREN OF THE GUILDED GHETTO CONFLICT RESOLUTIONS OF THREE GENE KRAMER, JUDITH & SEYMOUR LEVENTMAN A STUDY OF THREE GENERATIONS OF AMERICAN JEWS IN A MIDWESTERN CITY, STARTING WITH THOSE WHO EMIGRATED FROM EUROPE BETWEEN 1881-1914.
BR 3939 RISE OF AMERICAN JEWISH LITERATURE, THE AN ANTHOLOGY OF SELECTIONS FROM ANGOFF, CHARLES & MEYER LEVIN: EDS. SISTERHOOD A SELECTION FROM THE NOVELS OF WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN JEWISH WRITERS.
BR 3940 ART OF THE POSSIBLE, THE DIPLOMATIC ALTERNATIVES IN THE MID REISMAN, MICHAEL RUTH ZAIMAN A PROVOCATIVE STUDY OF POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS TO THE ARAB-ISRAELI IMPASSE.
BR 3941 WHEN MOMMA WAS THE LANDLORD BLAUSTEIN, ESTHER THE JEWISH MOTHER AS LANDLORD IN NEWARK IS THE THEME OF THIS NOSTALGIC, AMUSING AND APPEALING MEMOIR.
BR 3944 ALABASTER EGG FREEMAN, GILLIAN AN ALABASTER EGG LINKS THE EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF KING LUDWIG II OF BAVARIA WITH THOSE OF A JEWISH GIRL WHO SURVIVES NAZI GERMANY AND REBUILDS HER LIFE IN ENGLAND.
BR 3946 SILENT MILLIONS, THE A HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN THE SOVIE CANG, JOEL RUBELLE SCHA THE AUTHOR, A JOURNALIST IN THE SOVIET UNION FOR 30 YEARS, STUDIED THE EARLY DOCUMENTS AND INTERVIEWED SCORES OF SOVIET JEWS IN ORDER TO RECORD THE ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.
BR 3948 HECK RENEK, MORRIS THE HUMOROUS ADVENTURES OF A BOY GROWING UP IN THE WILLIAMSBURG SECTION OF BROOKLYN.
BR 3949 CURRENT REFORM RESPONSA FREEHOF, SOLOMON B. INFORMATIVE RESPONSE OF A FOREMOST REFORM RABBINIC SCHOLAR TO THE QUESTIONS OF THE AGE.
BR 3950 GOY, THE HARRIS, MARK A MODERN FICTION OF THE CHRISTIAN CAST AMONG JEWS--THE STORY OF AN UPTIGHT CHRISTIAN WHO TURNS TO JUDAISM FOR WARMTH AND HUMANITY.
BR 3951 TEACHER AND CHILD GINOTT, HAIM THIS BOOK TELLS TEACHERS HOW TO GET ALONG WITH THEIR STUDENTS AND EXPLORES THE PROBLEM OF THE BREAKDOWN IN COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THEM.
BR 3952 INN, THE STRYIKOWSKI, JULIAN A NOVEL ABOUT LIFE IN THE SHTETL DURING WORLD WAR I. REMINISCENT OF THE WORKS OF ISAAC BABEL, SHOLEM ALEICHEM, AND ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER.
BR 3953 GRAVE CONCERN, THE LIEBERMAN, CHAIM A PASSIONATE PLEA BY A YIDDISH JOURNALIST FOR UNITY AMONG JEWS AND FOR REDEDICATION TO JEWISH IDENTITY AND VALUES.
BR 3954 SHERMANS OF MANNERVILLE, THE ANSELL, JACK MADELINE MAR A NOVEL ABOUT A JEWISH-AMERICAN FAMILY LIVING IN A SMALL TOWN IN THE SOUTH AND THEIR REAL-LIFE PROBLEMS.
BR 3955 COMMENTARY TO MISHNAH ABOTH, THE MAIMONIDES, MOSES THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF MAIMONIDES' COMMENTARY TO THE 'ETHICS OF THE FATHERS.'
BR 3956 LANDMARKS OF A PEOPLE, THE A GUIDE TO JEWISH SITES IN EUROPE POSTAL, BERNARD & SAMUEL ABRAMSON A COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY, AND CITY-BY-CITY GUIDEBOOK OF PLACES OF JEWISH INTEREST IN EUROPE.
BR 3957 LOUIS MARSHALL DEFENDER OF JEWISH RIGHTS ROSENSTOCK, MORTON AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND, THROUGH THE FOCUS OF LOUIS MARSHALL, THE NATURE OF INTERGROUP PROBLEMS AFFECTING THE JEWS IN EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 3958 TRADITION AND CONTEMPORARY EXPERIENCE ESSAYS ON JEWISH THOUGHT AND LIF JOSPE, ALFRED, ED. AN ANALYSIS OF JEWISH TRADITION AND ITS SURVIVAL IN A FREE SOCIETY. AMONG THE CONTRIBUTORS ARE: BENJAMIN KAHN, MORDECAI KAPLAN, ERNST SIMON, IRA EISENSTEIN, WILL HERBERG, ROBERT GORDIS, AND MAURICE PEKARSKY.
BR 3959 FACE AND SHADOW STAMPFER, JUDAH THE AUTHOR, AN ORDAINED RABBI AND UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, DESCRIBES HOW CERTAIN SOCIAL GROUPS AND IDEOLOGIES BECOME POPULAR AND THEN FADE OUT. AS EXAMPLES, STAMPFER ANALYZES RUSSIAN ANTI-SEMITISM, STUDENT STRIKES, AND ASSIMILATION.
BR 3961 MENDELSSOHNS, THE THREE GENERATIONS OF GENIUS KUPFERBERG, HERBERT A BIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITER AND PHILOSOPHER MOSES MENDELSSOHN; HIS SON, ABRAHAM, WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE FAMILY'S BANKING CONCERN; AND HIS GRANDSON, THE MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER, FELIX MENDELSSOHN.
BR 3962 TO AN EARLY GRAVE MARKFIELD, WALLACE MRS. IRVING A JEWISH-AMERICAN NOVEL WITH AN ASSORTMENT OF BOHEMIAN JEWISH CHARACTERS.
BR 3963 POLITICS IN ISRAEL FEIN, LEONARD AN OBJECTIVE AND SCHOLARLY WORK ON ISRAEL'S POLITICAL BEHAVIOR, CONCERNED WITH THE FORCES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO VARIOUS POWER STRUCTURES.
BR 3964 MONDAY THE RABBI TOOK OFF KEMELMAN, HARRY ONE IN A SERIES OF BOOKS ABOUT RABBI DAVID SMALL WHO UTILIZES HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE TALMUDIC METHODOLOGY KNOWN AS 'PILPUL' IN ORDER TO SOLVE MYSTERIES. THIS BOOK IS ABOUT A MYSTERY WHICH TAKES PLACE DURING A FAMILY TRIP TO JERUSALEM.
BR 3966 FOUR ESSAYS ON LIBERTY BERLIN, ISAIAH, SIR A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ABOUT CONFORMITY, COERCION, AND THE LIMITS AND GLORIES OF FREEDOM.
BR 3967 PAGAN RABBI AND OTHER STORIES, THE OZICK, CYNTHIA GLORIA GLICK A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY THE WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR WHO WRITES WITH WIT, HUMOR, AND COMPASSION ABOUT THE AMERICAN-JEWISH SCENE.
BR 3968 MORRIS FISHBEIN, M.D. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY FISHBEIN, MORRIS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A JEWISH PHYSICIAN WHO SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
BR 3971 SILENCE OF PIUS XII, THE FALCONI, CARLO AN EXAMINATION OF THE REASONS WHY THE HEAD OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH FAILED TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST NAZI GENOCIDE.
BR 3972 TIME FOR LOVING, A TARR, HERBERT A NOVEL BASED UPON THE BIBLICAL STORY OF KING SOLOMON.
BR 3973 WISE GUY, SOLOMON KISHON, EPHRAIM A COLLECTION OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES DEALING WITH THE HUMOROUS ASPECTS OF DAILY LIFE IN ISRAEL.
BR 3974 JUSTICE-NOT CHARITY A BIOGRAPHY OF HARRY GREENSTEIN KAPLAN, LOUIS L. & THEODOR SCHUCHAT THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE NOTED SOCIAL AND RELIEF WORKER, HARRY GREENSTEIN, AND HIS IMPACT ON THE SOCIAL CONCEPTS OF THE TIMES.
BR 3975 SO SUE ME THE STORY OF A COMMUNITY COURT YAFFE, JAMES THE STORY OF THE BETH DIN, A RABBINICAL COURT, OF NEW YORK CITY'S LOWER EAST SIDE AND THE VARIED DOMESTIC, LEGAL, AND RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS IT ADJUDICATES.
BR 3976 JESUS AND ISRAEL ISAAC, JULES A DISCUSSION OF THE JEWISH CHARACTER OF JESUS' TEACHINGS.
BR 3977 PROVERBS TO LIVE BY SPERKA, JOSHUA S., RABBI MRS. HARRY G A NEW TRANSLATION OF THE COMPLETE TEXT OF THE BOOK OF PROVERBS, WITH SUMMARIES PRECEDING EACH CHAPTER.
BR 3978 JEWS IN MODERN WORLD. BK. I. FREID, JACOB, ED. AN ANTHOLOGY OF ESSAYS DEALING WITH ISSUES OF JEWISH LIFE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD FOLLOWING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EAST EUROPEAN CULTURE CENTERS.
BR 3980 EBA ST. JOHN, ROBERT BEBE RICHARD A DETAILED BIOGRAPHY OF ABBA EBAN FROM HIS EARLIEST YEARS, THROUGH HIS LIFE AS A WORLD STATESMAN AND SPOKESMAN FOR THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN THE UNITED NATIONS.
























8FREUD* BIOGRAPHY OF ABBA EBAN FROM HIS CHILDHOOD THROUGH HIS YEARS AS STATESMAN, FOREIGN MINISTER, AND SPOKESMAN FOR THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 3982 ANTI-SEMITISM WITHOUT JEWS LENDVAI, PAUL AN EXAMINATION OF THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE SOVIET UNION ENCOURAGED ANTI-SEMITISM IN POLAND, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, HUNGARY, AND ROMANIA.
BR 3983 ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS A NOVEL CENTERING AROUND HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS LIVING IN NEW YORK, WHOSE MAIN CHARACTER IS TORN BY LOVE, LUST, AND HIS LOSS OF GOD AND JEWISHNESS.
BR 3985 EMERGENCE OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM, THE THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL IN 19TH CENT DAVIS, MOSHE MRS. ED LEVY THE AUTHOR TRACES AMERICAN JUDAISM TO THE 19TH CENTURY WHEN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY BECAME MORE DIVERSE IN ITS RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND PRACTICE.
BR 3986 BENJAMIN THE LITTLEST BROTHER PAAMONI, ZEV A DELIGHTFUL COMPILATION OF STORIES ABOUT BENJAMIN, THE YOUNGEST BROTHER. FOR CHILDREN 10-14 YEARS OF AGE.
BR 3987 ELOQUENT CRUSADER ERNESTINE ROSE SUHL, YURI A BIOGRAPHY OF THE SUFFRAGETTE WHO WAS BORN IN A POLISH GHETTO AND BATTLED AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE, BLACK SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH, AND FEMININE SUBJUGATION IN THE NORTH.
BR 3988 JUDAH THE PIOUS PROSE, FRANCINE A NOVEL SET IN 19TH CENTURY POLAND ABOUT AN ELDERLY RABBI WHO ATTEMPTS TO STAVE OFF A POGROM.
BR 3989 ROMAN SIEGE OF JERUSALEM, THE FURNEAUX, RUPERT THE STORY OF THE REVOLT OF THE JEWS AGAINST THEIR ROMAN OVERLORDS IN 66 C.E.; THE SIEGE AND DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM; AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE ROMAN VICTORY AS IT AFFECTED BOTH JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY.
BR 3990 ZIONISM RECONSIDERED THE REJECTION OF JEWISH NORMALCY SELZER, MICHAEL, ED. SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF 14 WRITERS ON THE TOPIC OF JEWISH NATIONALISM.
BR 3991 FIVE STORIES OF FERRARA BASSANI, GIORGIO FIVE STORIES WHICH RECREATE THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN CITY OF FERRARA WHERE MASS DEPORTATION OF JEWS TOOK PLACE DURING WORLD WAR II.
BR 3993 ON THE BIBLE EIGHTEEN STUDIES BY MARTIN BUBER GLATZER, NAHUM N., ED. RUBELLE SCHA MONOGRAPHS, ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES BY THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHER WHICH AIM TO SHOW A SYNTHESIS OF THE AESTHETIC-LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC-CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES.
BR 3994 FEAST OF LEVIATHAN SCHWARZ, LEO, ED. AN ANTHOLOGY OF 50 STORIES OF ADVENTURE, FAITH, AND LOVE, TAKEN FROM JEWISH LITERATURE OVER THE AGES.
BR 3995 TRAVELER'S GUIDE TO JEWISH LANDMARKS OF EUROPE, THE POSTAL, BERNARD & SAMUEL H. ABRAMSON A GUIDE TO PLACES IN EUROPE OF JEWISH INTEREST. SITES INCLUDE MONUMENTS, MEMORIALS, LIBRARIES, SYNAGOGUES, AND MUSEUMS.
BR 3996 BASIC JEWISH ETHICS AND FREEDOM OF WILL WEINFELD, ABRAHAM C. A STUDY OF JEWISH ETHICS AND FREEDOM OF WILL BY AN ATTORNEY FROM WASHINGTON.
BR 3997 TEN FOR KADDISH JACOBS, ISRAEL THE AUTHOR PORTRAYS THE SECTARIAN CONFLICTS RAGING WITHIN AND BETWEEN A PRIEST AND A RABBI IN A SUBURBAN TOWN.
BR 3998 SPINOZA THE YOUNG THINKER WHO DESTROYED TH LEVIN, DAN SPINOZA IS PORTRAYED AS AN ACTIVIST AND INNOVATOR WHOSE REVOLUTION IN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT WAS A REACTION TO THE HOLY WARS OF THE 17TH CENTURY.
BR 4000 CHOSEN PEOPLE, THE ALLEGRO, JOHN M. THE AUTHOR CONTENDS THAT THE 'CHOSEN PEOPLE' CONCEPT WAS AN OUTGROWTH OF THE JEWS' NEED TO STAY TOGETHER IN THE FACE OF POLITICAL REALITIES.
BR 4001 SCHLEMIEL AS MODERN HERO, THE WISSE, RUTH R. THE AUTHOR HAS TAKEN THE SCHLEMIEL, THE FOOL IN JEWISH FOLKLORE, AS HER THEME IN ANALYZING THE EVOLUTION OF THE CHARACTER AND THE CULTURE FROM WHICH HE SPRINGS. IN THE PROCESS, SHE EXAMINES THE WORKS OF JEWISH AUTHORS, SUCH AS SHOLOM ALEICHEM, MENDELE MOCHER SFORIM, ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER, SAUL BELLOW, AND BERNARD MALAMUD.
BR 4002 JEWS DON'T HATE BRAHAM, MARK A PRESENTATION OF THE VIEWPOINT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH ANTI-ZIONISTS WHO VIEW ZIONISM AS HERESY.
BR 4003 ENCOUNTER WITH ISRAEL A CHALLENGE TO CONSCIENCE ECKARDT, ALICE & ROY ECKARDT ADELINE MARE THIS BOOK AIMS TO PROMOTE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF MODERN ISRAEL, HER PEOPLE, AND HER PLACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
BR 4004 SEVENTH DAY, THE SOLDIERS TALK ABOUT THE SIX-DAY WA SHAPIRA, AVRAHAM, EDITOR A MASTERPIECE OF IMPRESSIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF THE SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT IN THE SIX-DAY WAR.
BR 4005 NEW ISRAELIS, THE SCHOENBRUN, DAVID THE AUTHOR INTERVIEWS MORE THAN 200 SABRAS IN THE OLD AND NEW CITIES, IN KIBBUTZIM AND IN ARMY CAMPS, GIVING THE READER A COMPOSITE OF HOW THE ISRAELIS THINK.
BR 4006 ABRAHAM MAPU THE CREATOR OF THE MODERN HEBREW NOVEL PATTERSON, DAVID HELEN SHARE A BIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITER'S LIFE AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO HEBREW LITERATURE. INCLUDES SELECTIONS FROM HIS WRITINGS.
BR 4007 BRIDE, THE GROSMAN, LADISLAV THIS NOVEL, BY THE AUTHOR OF A SHOP ON MAIN STREET, CONCERNS THE MARRIAGE OF A JEWISH SPINSTER TO A NON-JEW IN ORDER TO COMPLY WITH A NAZI EDICT.
BR 4008 EARLY JEWS OF NEW ORLEANS, THE KORN, BERTRAM WALLACE THE STORY OF JEWISH FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS WHO CONTRIBUTED TO NEW ORLEANS THROUGH THEIR INDUSTRY, COURAGE, AND GENEROSITY.
BR 4010 CANCELLED ACCOUNTS GREENE, HARRIS A NOVEL OF POLITICAL INTRIGUE, ROMANCE, FINANCE, AND DIPLOMATIC LIFE REPLETE WITH DIVERSE CHARACTERS FROM MANY WALKS OF LIFE.
BR 4011 IMPROMPTU IMPOSTER, THE VICAS, VICTOR & VICTOR HAIM A NOVEL ABOUT THE ADVENTURES OF AN AMERICAN WHO ACCIDENTALLY KILLS A FRENCH POLICEMAN, ESCAPES FROM FRANCE, AND GOES TO ISRAEL WHERE HE IS CAUGHT UP IN A WEB OF POLITICAL INTRIGUE.
BR 4012 MY COUNTRY THE STORY OF MODERN ISRAEL EBAN, ABBA A HISTORY OF THE FIRST 25 YEARS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, WRITTEN BY THE NOTED STATESMAN AND FORMER CABINET MINISTER.
BR 4013 MY BROTHER PAUL RUBENSTEIN, RICHARD L. A BOOK FOCUSING ON THE LIFE AND THOUGHT OF PAUL THE APOSTLE. WRITTEN BY A RABBI AND PROFESSOR OF RELIGION.
BR 4014 THAT DENMARK MIGHT LIVE THE SAGA OF THE DANISH RESISTANCE WERSTEIN, IRVING LEE HOLLANDE AN ACCOUNT OF THE PATRIOTISM AND COURAGE OF THE DANISH RESISTANCE DURING THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 4015 ALBERT EINSTEIN CREATOR AND REBEL HOFFMAN, BANESH A BIOGRAPHY OF THE NOTED SCIENTIST COMPILED BY HIS COLLEAGUES AT THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES.
BR 4016 TROUBLED EDEN AN ANATOMY OF BRITISH JEWRY BERMANT, CHAIM EVERYTHING THAT MAKES UP BRITISH JEWRY COMES IN FOR AN AFFECTIONATE BUT CLOSE SCRUTINY IN THIS ILLUMINATING SOCIAL HISTORY WITH THE COLOR AND PACE OF AN HISTORICAL NOVEL.
BR 4017 RING, THE FEDER-TAL, KARAH JUVENILE ADVENTURE STORY OF A SMALL ISRAELI TOWN.
BR 4018 BEHIND THE DOOR BASSANI, GIORGIO A NOVEL ABOUT TWO ADOLESCENT BOYS AND THEIR FRIENDSHIP IN ITALY OF THE 1930S.
BR 4019 PERILOUS SPRING OF MORRIS SEIDMAN, THE MOLL, ELICK THE ADVENTURES OF THE 55 YEAR OLD PROTAGONIST--RETIRED, BORED AND UNHAPPY--TOLD WITH GENTLE HUMOR AND UNDERSTANDING.
BR 4020 JERUSALEM AND OTHER WRITINGS MENDELSSOHN, MOSES AN INTRODUCTION TO THE THINKING OF MOSES MENDELSSOHN, THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN-JEWISH PHILOSOPHER OF THE HASKALAH, THE 'ENLIGHTENMENT.'
BR 4021 ISRAEL TOW FATEFUL YEARS 1967-69 BENTWICH, NORMAN AN ISRAELI SCHOLAR PRESENTS THE PROBLEMS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ISRAELIS IN THE TWO YEARS FOLLOWING THE SIX-DAY WAR. HE ALSO DISCUSSES THE IMPACT OF THE WAR ON JEWS IN ISRAEL AND ON JEWS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
BR 4022 BELLA! MRS. ABZUG GOES TO WASHINGTON ABZUG, BELLA S. NEW YORK'S OUTSPOKEN CONGRESSWOMAN RECORDED HER IMPRESSIONS OF THE POLITICAL LIFE OF WASHINGTON - A CITY SHE HIT WITH THE FORCE OF A TIDAL WAVE.
BR 4023 ZANEK A CHRONICLE OF THE ISRAELI AIR FOR STEVENSON, WILLIAM JOAN GIBLICH A HISTORY OF ISRAEL'S AIR FORCE AND A PORTRAIT OF THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVE IN DEFENSE OF THEIR COUNTRY.
BR 4025 DAWN OF RECKONING SELF-PORTRAIT OF A LIBERAL RABBI BRAV, STANLEY THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A RABBI WHO LED THE FIGHT FOR RACIAL INTEGRATION IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH.
BR 4027 CHAMPAGNE SPY, THE LUTZ, WOLFGANG THE AUTHOR, BORN OF A GERMAN FATHER AND A JEWISH MOTHER, WAS RECRUITED BY ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE TO INFILTRATE A GROUP OF GERMAN MILITARY SPECIALISTS WORKING IN EGYPT.
BR 4028 CURRENTS AND TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY JEWISH THOUGHT EFRON, BENJAMIN ED. A LOOK AT THE CURRENT PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRIES JUDAISM IS PURSUING.
BR 4030 ENCOUNTER, THE MARTIN, MALACHI THE THREE GREAT RELIGIONS, JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND ISLAM HAVE, IN THIS AUTHOR'S OPINION, FAILED TO CONTROL MODERN MAN'S DRIFT TOWARDS CATASTROPHE.
BR 4031 COMIC IMAGE OF THE JEW, THE EXPLORATIONS OF A POP CULTURE PHEN ALTMAN, SIG A STUDY OF MEDIA SOURCES TO DETERMINE THE NATURE OF THE JEWISH COMIC IMAGE AND AN EXAMINATION OF THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF JEWISH HUMOR.
BR 4032 BEHOLD ZION HIRSCHFELD, BURT THE EPIC NOVEL OF A MIGHTY FAMILY LIVING IN ISRAEL DURING THE SIX DAY WAR. DESCRIBES THEIR JOYS AND SORROWS, INTERESTS AND BELIEFS, AND HOW THE WAR AFFECTS THEM.
BR 4034 SHEMA YISRAEL, JUDAISM Vol. I THE BELIEF AND THE BELONGING ROSEN, DOV A LOOK AT THE FORCES THAT CONTRIBUTED TO THE EVENTUAL CREATION OF THE JEWISH STATE.
BR 4035 PERSON SHOULDN'T DIE LIKE THAT, A GOLDSTEIN, ARTHUR AN UNUSUAL MYSTERY IN WHICH A 72 YEAR-OLD MAN, LIVING ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE, DISCOVERS A BODY AND ATTEMPTS TO SOLVE A FRIEND'S DEATH.
BR 4036 CURSED BLESSING, THE THE STORY OF ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION O TEVETH, SHABTAI A CHRONICLE OF THE REACTIONS OF BOTH ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIAN ARABS TO THE OCCUPATION OF THE WEST BANK. EXPLORES THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THE GOVERNMENT AND TO EACH OTHER.
BR 4037 LAST OF THE LEVANOS, THE WERTHEIM, MAURITS A MOVING NOVEL CENTERED AROUND A WEALTHY BUT UNHAPPY MAN WHO LOST HIS FAMILY YEARS BEFORE IN THE HOLOCAUST AND IS NOW DISCOVERING ZIONISM.
BR 4038 SILENT CITIES, SACRED STONES ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY IN ISRAEL LANDAY, JERRY M. A JOURNALIST'S ACCOUNT OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND EXCAVATIONS IN ISRAEL.
BR 4039 JEWS IN REMOTE CORNERS OF THE WORLD COWEN, IDA A DESCRIPTION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD SUCH AS TAHITI, NEW ZEALAND, INDIA, AND HONG KONG.
BR 4040 BLUE HILL AVENUE MIRSKY, MARK A SATIRICAL NOVEL ABOUT A MEEK, COMPLACENT RABBI WHO IS GOADED INTO PUBLICLY INDICTING MEMBERS OF HIS CONGREGATION FOR VARIOUS DECEPTIONS.
BR 4041 FAITH AND DOUBT STUDIES IN TRADITIONAL JEWISH THOU LAMM, NORMAN A STUDY OF JEWISH LAW IN RELATION TO SCIENCE, ECOLOGY, MORALITY, AND SOCIOLOGY.
BR 4043 TRIP TO JERUSALEM, THE LIND, JAKOV THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES HIS JOURNEY TO ISRAEL AS A VOYAGE OF SELF-DISCOVERY AND RENEWAL OF IDENTITY WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 4044 HERETIC PHARAOH COLLIER, JOY A SCHOLARLY WORK ON THE LIFE OF AKNENATEN, AN EGYPTIAN MYSTIC WHO PROCLAIMED THE UNITY OF GOD AT THE TIME OF MOSES.
BR 4045 GENTLE GENIUS THE STORY OF FELIX MENDELSSOHN MAREK, GEORGE WELL-RESEARCHED AND SUPERBLY WRITTEN BIOGRAPHY OF THE MUSICIAN MENDELSSOHN IN WHICH HE IS ANALYZED IN TERMS OF HIS FAMILY HERITAGE, TALENT AND CULTURAL MILIEU.
BR 4046 FINEMAN LINK, WILLIAM & RICHARD LEVINSON TOLD IN FLASHBACKS, THIS NOVEL PRESENTS THE LIFE OF JOE FINEMAN, WHO HAS JUST DIED, AND HIS GENTILE LAWYER WHO IS CONFRONTED WITH SETTING HIS AFFAIRS IN ORDER.
BR 4047 FRANZ ROSENZWEIG HIS LIFE AND THOUGHTS GLATZER, NAHUM N. LETTERS AND DIARIES OF THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY JEWISH THINKER AND PHILOSOPHER.
BR 4048 ODESSA FILE, THE FORSYTH, FREDERICK THE PROTAGONIST, SEARCHING FOR THE FORMER COMMANDANT OF AN EXTERMINATION CAMP, ATTEMPTS TO PENETRATE THE ORGANIZATION ESTABLISHED TO SHIELD NAZI OFFICERS.
BR 4049 ROYAL BEACH, THE LAMM, NORMAN RABBI LAMM, AN ELOQUENT EXPOSITOR OF MODERN ORTHODOX JUDAISM, OFFERS TRADITIONAL INSIGHTS INTO A WIDE ARRAY OF TOPICS, FROM THE ETHICS OF PROTEST TO JEWISH MOTHERS.
BR 4050 O JERUSALEM COLLINS, LARRY & DOMINIQUE LAPIERRE A FACTUAL, VIVID ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM BETWEEN JEWS AND ARABS DURING THE 1948 WAR OF INDEPENDENCE OF ISRAEL.
BR 4051 JEW IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD, THE A SOURCE BOOK, 315-1791 MARCUS, JACOB R. JENNIE KASOF A COMPREHENSIVE SOURCE BOOK OF DOCUMENTS THAT EXAMINE AND ILLUMINATE THE WORLD OF JEWS LIVING DURING THE MIDDLE AGES.
BR 4052 POLITICS OF ASSIMILATION, THE MARRUS, MICHAEL A STUDY OF THE FRENCH JEWS AT THE TIME OF THE DREYFUS AFFAIR. EXAMINES JEWISH AND GENERAL ATTITUDES TOWARD NATIONALISM.
BR 4053 FOREVER FLOWING GROSSMAN, VASILY THE AUTHOR, PERSECUTED IN THE DOCTOR'S PLOT CAMPAIGN, DEPICTS THE RUSSIAN HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE SINCE 1917 AND PROVIDES FRESH INSIGHT INTO THE RUSSIAN SOUL.
BR 4054 HERZL THE KING KOTKER, NORMAN A NOVEL BASED ON THE LIFE OF THE FOUNDER OF MODERN ZIONISM.
BR 4055 ANCIENT ISRAEL'S CRIMINAL LAW A NEW APPROACH TO THE DECALOGUE PHILLIPS, ANTHONY A STUDY OF HOW THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE FOUNDATION OF ANCIENT ISRAEL'S CRIMINAL LAW, SHAPED ISRAEL AND HOW IT CONTINUES TO FORM THE BASIS OF HER EXISTENCE.
BR 4057 LAST BALL, THE RIGDON, CHARLES A NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG JEW WHO MARRIES INTO A WEALTHY NEW YORK FAMILY.
BR 4058 AMBIVALENT AMERICAN JEW LIEBMAN, CHARLES AN ANALYSIS OF JEWISH INTELLECTUAL HISTORY WHICH TRACES THE EVOLUTION OF TRADITIONAL JUDAISM IN 20TH-CENTURY AMERICA. THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ROLE OF THE JEW IN AMERICAN SOCIETY AND THE DESIRE FOR IDENTIFICATION AS BOTH JEW AND AMERICAN.
BR 4059 ISRAEL JACOBSON THE FOUNDER OF THE REFORM MOVEMENT MARCUS, JACOB R. A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FOUNDER OF THE GERMAN JEWISH REFORM MOVEMENT WHO BEGAN HIS EFFORTS TOWARD RELIGIOUS REFORM DURING THE TIME OF NAPOLEON.
BR 4060 IN SEARCH OF A WAY JICK, LEON A. A COLLECTION OF INSPIRATIONAL SERMONS DELIVERED FROM THE PULPIT OF THE FREE SYNAGOGUE OF WESTCHESTER.
BR 4061 JUDAISM AND PSYCHICAL PHENOMENA BAZAK, JACOB AN EXAMINATION OF EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION AS DESCRIBED IN BIBLICAL, TALMUDIC, AND RABBINIC LITERATURE AND PRESENTED IN LIGHT OF MODERN PARA PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
BR 4062 DISRAELI IN LOVE EDELMAN, MAURICE A BOOK ABOUT DISRAELI'S LOVE AFFAIRS. ALSO DISCUSSES THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF THE 19TH CENTURY. WRITTEN BY A FORMER MEMBER OF THE PARLIAMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN.
BR 4063 YANKEL THE FOOL ELLENTUCK, SHAN A CHILDREN'S STORY ABOUT YANKEL, AN ORPHAN WHO WAS LEFT WITH MANY DEBTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. TOLD IN THE STYLE OF AN EASTERN EUROPEAN YIDDISH FOLK TALE.
BR 4064 WITCH OF FOURTH STREET, THE AND OTHER STORIES LEVOY, MYRON A COLLECTION OF STORIES, SET IN NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE DURING THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, THAT CAPTURES THE LIFE OF IMMIGRANTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 8-12.
BR 4065 GREATEST JEWISH CITY IN WORLD GOLDEN, HARRY THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS, AS WELL AS THE JOYS, OF BEING JEWISH IN NEW YORK CITY. WRITTEN BY THE WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR AND HUMORIST.
BR 4068 ISRAEL AND THE ARAB WORLD COHEN, AHARON A HISTORY OF THE RELATIONSHIPS AND THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN JEWS AND ARABS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
BR 4069 FRANZ KAFKA MAN OUT OF STEP CRAWFORD, DEBORAH A SENSITIVELY WRITTEN BIOGRAPHY OF FRANZ KAFKA. THE AUTHOR DRAWS ANALOGIES BETWEEN KAFKA'S LIFE AND THE CHARACTERS AND EVENTS IN HIS WORKS.
BR 4070 ETERNAL QUEST, THE NEWMAN, JACOB SERMONS APPROPRIATE FOR THE HIGH HOLY DAYS, FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL SABBATHS.
BR 4072 FELIX FRANKFURTER BAKER, LIVA AN EXTENSIVE AND CAREFULLY RESEARCHED BIOGRAPHY OF THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE DESIGNED AS AN INTRODUCTION TO FRANKFURTER AND THE SUPREME COURT FOR YOUNG ADULTS.
BR 4074 WINDS OF WAR, THE WOUK, HERMAN A HISTORICAL NOVEL DEALING WITH THE MILITARY AND POLITICAL EVENTS THAT PUSHED THE UNITED STATES INTO WORLD WAR II.
BR 4075 KIKE A DOCUMENTARY OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN SELZER, MICHAEL, ED. A HISTORY OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN AMERICA, DATING FROM THE ANTI-JEWISH LAWS OF THE DUTCH COLONIALS TO THE ACTIVITIES OF THE KU KLUX KLAN. TOLD THROUGH THE WORDS AND PICTURES OF ITS PROPONENTS.
BR 4076 SHEMA YISRAEL - Volume 2 A GUIDE TO DEEPER APPRECIATION OF ROSEN, DOV THIS BOOK EMPHASIZES THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL AND THE RETURN TO ZION.
BR 4078 HISTORY OF YIDDISH LITERATURE, A LIPTZIN, SOL YIDDISH LITERATURE, DERIVED FROM FOLK IDIOM AND FLOWERING CHIEFLY IN OUR CENTURY, IS TRACED FROM ITS MEDIEVAL BEGINNING TO CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI WRITERS.
BR 4079 GREAT JEWISH IDEAS MILLGRAM, ABRAHAM EZRA AN EXPLANATION OF THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF JUDAISM AND THEIR PRACTICAL APPLICATION TO LIFE.
BR 4080 REASON AND HOPE SELECTIONS FROM THE JEWISH WRITING COHEN, HERMANN. TRANSLATED BY EVA J A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, LECTURES, AND LETTERS ON JEWISH THEMES BY THE PHILOSOPHER.
BR 4081 POTATOES ARE CHEAPER SHULMAN, MAX THE WELL-KNOWN HUMORIST APPLIES HIS TALENTS TO A NOVEL ABOUT A JEWISH BOY COMING OF AGE DURING THE DEPRESSION.
BR 4082 SHAFT AMONG THE JEWS TIDYMAN, ERNEST THE NEWEST EXPLOIT OF JOHN SHAFT, THE BLACK PRIVATE EYE, IS SET IN NEW YORK CITY'S DIAMOND DISTRICT AND INCLUDES A MULTIFACETED CAST OF CHARACTERS.
BR 4083 NEW LEFT AND THE JEWS, THE CHERTOFF, MORDECAI S., ED. SIXTEEN JEWISH WRITERS DISCUSS AND DECRY THE ANTI- SEMITISM OF THE NEW LEFT AND THE MOTIVATIONS, PSYCHOLOGY, AND METHODS BEHIND THE MOVEMENT.
BR 4085 FREDDIE AND SHIRL AND THE KIDS ELMAN, RICHARD FABLES BASED ON THE AUTHOR'S LIFE AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WHICH DRAMATIZE HIS GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AS A WRITER.
BR 4086 FREUD LIVING AND DYING SCHUR, MAX WRITTEN BY FREUD'S PHYSICIAN, THE BOOK PROVIDES AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE MAN WHOSE WORK IN PSYCHOANALYSIS CHANGED TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT.
BR 4087 MEETING THE PIEMAN WARTOFSKY, VICTOR A VIVID NOVEL OF A JEWISH FAMILY IN THE BLACK GHETTO.
BR 4088 JEWISH LANDMARKS IN NEW YORK POSTAL, BERNARD & LIONEL KOPPMAN A HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN NEW YORK CITY ALONG WITH A GUIDE TO JEWISH RESTAURANTS AND PLACES OF INTEREST.
BR 4089 ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN JUDAISM AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY A PREFACE TO FUTURE JEWISH THOUGHT FACKENHEIM, EMIL L. A STUDY OF THE HIDDEN ANTI-SEMITIC PREMISES THAT UNDERLIE MUCH OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY.
BR 4090 JESUS DREYER, CARL THE AUTHOR DEPICTS JESUS AS A DEVOUT JEW, WELCOMED BY THE JEWS, AND SACRIFICED TO THE ROMANS IN THE BELIEF THAT IT WAS BETTER TO LOSE ONE MAN THAN AN ENTIRE NATION.
BR 4091 BARBARIANS AT THE GATE, THE BANKOWSKY, RICHARD FLORENCE PRI A NOVEL ABOUT A GROUP OF JEWS, ON THEIR WAY TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP, WHO STOP AT A NAZI-OCCUPIED POLISH VILLAGE.
BR 4092 MUSAR ANTHOLOGY GOLDBERG, HILLEL A COLLECTION OF STORIES DEALING WITH THE MUSAR MOVEMENT, EMPHASIZING ETHICAL STUDY AND CONDUCT.
BR 4093 COME ALONG TO ISRAEL KEMELMAN, HAIM & ABRAHAM RESNICK A BOOK ABOUT THE LAND, HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRIES, CULTURE, AND PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
BR 4094 MIDDLE EAST READER, A GENDZIER, IRENE L.: EDITOR 29 ARTICLES ON THE CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE UAR, SYRIA, IRAQ AND ISRAEL.
BR 4096 ALL ON A SUMMER'S NIGHT EDELMAN, MAURICE A NOVEL DESCRIBING CLASS DISTINCTION IN ENGLAND, ANTI- SEMITISM, THE RUTHLESSNESS OF BIG BUSINESS, AND 'OLD SCHOOL TIE' POLITICS VERSUS MODERN PRAGMATISM.
BR 4097 HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN AMERICA PESSIN, DEBORAH HANNAH GOLDS A HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN AMERICA, WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN, BEGINNING WITH THE FIRST JEWISH SETTLERS IN NEW YORK AND CONTINUING THROUGH THE 1950S.
BR 4098 CUT OFF DAVIDSON, BILL THE EXCITING SAGA OF A GI REPORTER WHO IS TRAPPED WITH TWO JEWISH CHILDREN BEHIND ENEMY LINES IN FRANCE IN 1944.
BR 4099 FOOLS OF CHELM, THE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS A HUMOROUS STORY ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF CHELM WHO ARE POOR BUT CONTENT UNTIL ONE OF THEIR SAGES POINTS OUT WHAT THEY ARE MISSING.
BR 4100 OBSESSION, THE LEVIN, MEYER AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL DESCRIBING THE SUPPRESSION OF LEVIN'S DRAMATIZATION OF THE ANNE FRANK TRAGEDY BY FAMOUS THEATRICAL FIGURES.
BR 4101 DOLOROSA DEAL, THE LITTELL, BLAINE A NOVEL, SET IN JERUSALEM, WRITTEN BY A JOURNALIST WHO SERVED AS CBS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT. THE BOOK PRESENTS BOTH SIDES IN THE ARAB-JEWISH POLITICAL ARGUMENTS.
BR 4102 AND PERHAPS THE STORY OF RUTH DAYAN DAYAN, RUTH & DUDMAN, HELGA THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST WIFE OF ISRAELI GENERAL MOSHE DAYAN. THE STORY OF HER LIFE AND HER COUNTRY'S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE AND PEACE.
BR 4103 WORKS AND DAYS AND OTHER POEMS FELDMAN, IRVING AN EXCELLENT FIRST COLLECTION OF POEMS WHOSE THEMES ARE PREDOMINANTLY BIBLICAL AND CLASSICAL.
BR 4105 STRANGE FACTS ABOUT THE BIBLE GARRISSON, WEBB CURIOUS AND INTERESTING INCIDENTS FOUND IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.
BR 4106 ENJOYMENT OF SCRIPTURE, THE SANDMEL, SAMUEL AN EXAMINATION OF THE HUMAN, LITERARY, AND HISTORICAL VALUES OF THE BIBLE.
BR 4108 CONFRONTATIONS WITH MYSELF DEUTSCH, HELENE THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A JEWISH PSYCHOLOGIST MARKING HER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FIELD OF FEMINISM AND PSYCHOLOGY.
BR 4109 JEWISH SOCIETY THROUGH THE AGES BEN-SASSON, H. H. A BOOK DESCRIBING SOCIAL LIFE AND THOUGHT IN JEWISH HISTORY FROM EARLY ISRAEL TO MODERN TIMES.
BR 4110 EDUCATION OF AMERICAN JEWISH TEACHERS, THE JANOWSKY, OSCAR A COMPREHENSIVE REPORT OF ACCREDITED HEBREW TEACHERS COLLEGES AND THE PROSPECTS OF JEWISH EDUCATION IN THE U.S.
BR 4111 ELEMENTS IN A PHILOSOPHY OF REFORM JUDAISM REINES, ALVIN J. A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE REFORM MOVEMENT OF JUDAISM.
BR 4112 IN THE BEGINNING, LOVE VAN DOREN, MARK & MAURICE SAMUEL A COLLECTION OF DIALOGUES ON THE BIBLE TRANSCRIBED FROM THE AUTHORS' RADIO PROGRAMS.
BR 4113 HANGED AT AUSCHWITZ KESSEL, SIM THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES HIS LIFE IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP, HIS NEAR-ESCAPE, AND HIS STRUGGLES FOR SURVIVAL.
BR 4114 TREASURY OF JEWISH QUOTATIONS ROSTEN, LEO SALO MINKIN PROVERBS, FOLK SAYINGS, INSIGHTS, AND MAXIMS CULLED FROM JEWISH SOURCES.
BR 4115 JEWS FROM ALEXANDER TO HEROD, THE THE NEW CLARENDON BIBLE OLD TESTAM RUSSELL, D. S. A CONCISE, COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF JEWISH HISTORY AND RELIGION DURING A MOST INTERESTING PERIOD.
BR 4116 RELIGION OF ETHICAL NATIONHOOD JUDAISM'S CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD PE KAPLAN, MORDECAI M. THE FOUNDER OF THE RECONSTRUCTIONIST MOVEMENT PROPOSES A NATURALISTIC, HUMANISTIC JUDAISM WHICH HE VIEWS AS THE EVOLVING DESTINY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 4118 TAKE MY WIFE ... PLEASE YOUNGMAN, HENNY A HUMOROUS AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY THE WELL-KNOWN COMEDIAN.
BR 4119 MY YOUNG YEARS RUBINSTEIN, ARTHUR THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE PROMINENT MUSICIAN. COVERS HIS YOUTH, HIS FORMATIVE YEARS, AND THE MUSIC OF PRE-WORLD WAR I EUROPE.
BR 4120 DESTINY WALTZ, THE CHARLES, GERDA A HISTORICAL NOVEL OF JEWISH LIFE SET IN ENGLAND AMONG THE LOWER CLASSES DURING THE EARLY 1900S.
BR 4121 REMBRANDT'S HAT MALAMUD, BERNARD A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES DEALING WITH SELF-ESTEEM.
BR 4122 YES I CAN DAVIS, SAMMY JR. WITH BOYAR, JANE & ROSE TATE THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE FAMOUS BLACK ENTERTAINER.
BR 4123 CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN-JEWISH LITERATURE CRITICAL ESSAYS MALIN, IRVING, ED. THE QUEST FOR THE MEANING, QUALITY, AND IMPACT OF BEING JEWISH IS EXAMINED THROUGH THE WORKS OF WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN-JEWISH WRITERS, SUCH AS SAUL BELLOW, PHILIP ROTH, BERNARD MALAMUD, NORMAN MAILER, ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER, AND OTHERS.
BR 4124 BULGARIAN JEWS AND THE FINAL SOLUTION, THE 1940-1944 CHARY, FREDERICK B. AN ACCOUNT OF HOW THE BULGARIAN JEWS, UNLIKE THE REST OF EUROPEAN JEWRY, ESCAPED EXTERMINATION BY THE NAZIS.
BR 4125 JONATHAN SEGAL CHICKEN WEINSTEIN, SOL & HOWARD ALBRECHT A HUMOROUS AND SATIRICAL STORY ABOUT A JEWISH CHICKEN FROM THE BORSCHT BELT WHO FLIES TO NEW YORK.
BR 4126 GREAT JEWISH PERSONALITIES IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL TIMES NOVECK, SIMON, ED. A HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY OF 12 JEWISH SAGES, PROPHETS, AND PHILOSOPHERS, AMONG THEM MOSES, JEREMIAH, DAVID, AKIVA, AND MAIMONIDES.
BR 4127 LETTERS TO THE NOW GENERATION NAROT, JOSEPH R. LETTERS TO YOUNG PEOPLE, GIVING THEM RELEVANT GUIDANCE TO THE PROBLEMS OF OUR TIMES.
BR 4130 TO BE A JEW DONIN, HAYIM HALEVY, RABBI A BOOK EXPLAINING AND CLARIFYING THE ESSENTIALS OF JUDAISM: THE LIFE CYCLE CELEBRATIONS AND COMMEMORATIONS, THE SABBATH AND THE HOLIDAYS, AND THE OBSERVANCE OF THE COMMANDMENTS.
BR 4131 JOLSON FREEDLAND, MICHAEL A BIOGRAPHY OF AL JOLSON, FROM HIS BIRTH IN RUSSIA THROUGH HIS CHILDHOOD IN NEW YORK AND HIS CAREER IN VAUDEVILLE AND SHOW BUSINESS.
BR 4132 SELECTED POEMS MANDELSTAM, OSSIP A SELECTION OF POETRY TRANSLATED FROM RUSSIAN BY A POET WHO WAS A VICTIM OF STALIN'S TERROR.
BR 4133 BORMANN BRIEF, THE EGLETON, CLIVE AN ENTERPRISING COLONEL IN BRITISH INTELLIGENCE TRAINS A COMMANDO SQUAD WITH THE OBJECT OF ASSASSINATING BORMANN, THE SECOND IN COMMAND TO HITLER.
BR 4134 JOURNAL OF ANDREW BIHALY, THE BIHALY, ANDREW. ANTHONY TUTTLE, ED. THE DIARY OF A JEWISH REFUGEE IN AMERICA, WHO LIVED IN A TENEMENT ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE FROM 1966 TO 1968. THE AUTHOR FIGHTS DESPAIR THROUGH PSYCHOTHERAPY BUT EVENTUALLY COMMITS SUICIDE BECAUSE HE CANNOT SURVIVE WITH HIS LONELINESS AND PAIN.
BR 4135 JAPANESE AND THE JEWS, THE BEN-DASAN, ISAIAH. TRANSLATED FROM J A PORTRAIT OF JAPANESE AND JEWS, WRITTEN BY A JEW WHO WAS BORN IN KOBE AND RAISED IN JAPAN.
BR 4136 TO LIFE GERTZ, ELMER THE CHICAGO ATTORNEY, WHO DEFENDED JACK RUBY, HENRY MILLER AND OTHERS, REMINISCES ABOUT HIS CHILDHOOD, HIS FAMILY, HIS ENEMIES, AND HIS FRIENDS.
BR 4137 MOSES OF THE NEW WORLD, THE THE WORK OF BARON DE HIRSCH LEE, SAMUEL J. A BIOGRAPHY ABOUT BARON DE HIRSCH, RAILROAD BUILDER AND PHILANTHROPIST, WHO DONATED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO JEWISH CHARITIES.
BR 4138 LONG MARCH OF ISRAEL, THE SOUSTELLE, JACQUES A MOVING ACCOUNT OF THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL WITH PERSONAL ACCOUNTS OF BEN-GURION, DAYAN, AND OTHER ZIONIST LEADERS.
BR 4139 AMERICA'S JEWS SKLARE, MARSHALL A STUDY OF AMERICAN JEWRY BY A PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN JEWISH STUDIES AT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY. EMPHASIS ON SUCH CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AS RELATIONS BETWEEN JEWS OF DIFFERENT ORIGINS, INTERMARRIAGE, AND CONNECTIONS WITH ISRAEL.
BR 4140 FOR THOSE I LOVED GRAY, MARTIN THE STORY OF A MAN WHO LOST EVERYTHING BUT HIS WILL TO SURVIVE. INCLUDES HIS LIFE IN THE WARSAW GHETTO, THE SLAUGHTER OF HIS FAMILY, HIS IMPRISONMENT AT TREBLINKA, AND HIS HUNT FOR NAZI WAR CRIMINALS.
BR 4141 ETERNAL LIGHT, THE THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY AN ANTHOLOGY OF JEWISH WISDOM AND INSPIRATION GATHERED FROM FOUR THOUSAND YEARS OF JEWISH LIFE.
BR 4143 UNCLE MISHA'S PARTISANS SUHL, YURI THE EXCITING ADVENTURES OF 12 YEAR-OLD MOTELE AS HE ESCAPES FROM GERMAN CAPTORS IN THE UKRAINE DURING WORLD WAR II AND JOINS WITH A BAND OF JEWS AGAINST THE NAZIS.
BR 4144 IN THE DAYS OF SIMON STERN COHEN, ARTHUR A NOVEL ABOUT A MAN WHO BEGAN WITH A MAIL ORDER BUSINESS, AND THEN WENT INTO REAL ESTATE, ACQUIRING LARGE PARTS OF NEW YORK CITY AND OTHER PLACES IN THE UNITED STATES.
BR 4145 BAGHDAD DEFECTIONS, THE KELLER, BEVERLY A TALE OF SUSPENSE AND ESPIONAGE SET IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
BR 4146 MASKS OF LONELINESS ALFRED ALBERT IN PERSPECTIVE SPERBER, MANES AN EXAMINATION OF PSYCHOLOGY AS THE APPLIED KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN NATURE AND AN ASSESSMENT OF THE SUCCESS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY. THE AUTHOR CONTENDS THAT INTERPRETATIVE PSYCHOLOGY IS BEST SUITED TO PEOPLE AND CONDITIONS OF THE LATE 19TH CENTURY.
BR 4147 WAXMAN PRODUCTION, THE HERMANSEN, JOHN A NOVEL ABOUT A PRODUCER-DIRECTOR WHO IS PART NATIVE AMERICAN, PART JEWISH, AND THE MAKING OF A WESTERN FILM.
BR 4148 SPIES IN THE PROMISED LAND ISER HAREL AND THE ISRAELI SECRET BAR-ZOHAR, MICHAEL THE STORY OF THE ISRAELI SECRET SERVICE AND ITS ESPIONAGE ACTIVITIES.
BR 4149 CODE NAME VALKYRI COUNT VON STAUFFENBERG AND THE PLO FORMAN, JAMES FACTUAL ACCOUNT OF A GERMAN GENERAL'S PLOT TO ASSASSINATE HITLER AND OVERTHROW THE THIRD REICH.
BR 4150 CANOPY IN THE DESERT, A KOVNER, ABBA. SHIRLEY KAUFMAN, TRANS A SELECTION OF POEMS WRITTEN BY ABBA KOVNER ON NATIONALISTIC, RELIGIOUS, AND PERSONAL THEMES.
BR 4151 WITH MIND AND HEART SINGER, HOWARD THIS BOOK, WRITTEN BY A PRACTICING RABBI, IS DESIGNED FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WISH TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF THEIR JEWISH FAITH.
BR 4152 MIDNIGHT CONVOY YIZHAR, S. A NOVEL ABOUT THE GENERATION OF JEWS WHO LIVED THROUGH STRESS AND STRUGGLES IN THE FIGHT FOR ISRAEL'S INDEPENDENCE IN 1948.
BR 4153 SECRET JEWS, THE PRINZ, JOACHIM THE HISTORY AND CUSTOMS OF THE MARRANOS, THE JEWS WHO OBSERVED JUDAISM IN SECRET, IN BOTH CHRISTIAN AND NON-CHRISTIAN LANDS.
BR 4154 FALLING FROMBERG SCHAEFFER, SUSAN A NOVEL ABOUT THREE GENERATIONS OF AN AMERICAN-BORN JEWISH FAMILY.
BR 4155 LITTLE GIRL UNDER A MOSQUITO NET, A LANGE, MONIQUE A MEMOIR, SET IN THE YEARS 1939-45, OF A JEWISH GIRL BROUGHT UP IN FRANCE AND HER STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE ANTI-SEMITISM THERE.
BR 4156 PROPHETIC FAITH, THE BUBER, MARTIN THE PHILOSOPHER AND SCHOLAR DISCUSSES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD AND ISRAEL, USING BIBLICAL SOURCES.
BR 4157 OLD TESTAMENT AGAINST ITS ENVIRONMENT, THE WRIGHT, G. ERNEST A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF BIBLICAL SCHOLARS AND THEIR WORK. INCLUDES JULIUS WELLHAUSER AND OTHERS.
BR 4158 HASIDIM, THE MYSTICAL ADVENTURES AND ECSTATICS LOWENKIPF, ANNE N. A STUDY OF THE ORIGINS, THE BELIEFS, THE TRADITIONS, AND THE OBSERVANCES OF HASIDISM.
BR 4159 OF WISE MAN AND FOOLS EDMAN, DAVID THE AUTHOR HIGHLIGHTS VARIOUS BIBLICAL PERSONALITIES AND DISCUSSES THEM IN A THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT.
BR 4161 HEALING OF THE SOUL LICHTENSTEIN, RABBI MORRIS THIS BOOK SHOWS THE EFFECT OF THE JEWISH FAITH IN DAILY LIFE, AS WELL AS HOW TO PRAY WHEN ONE IS SICK AND HOW TO CONDUCT ONESELF WHEN ONE IS WELL.
BR 4162 LINE OF DAVID, THE HURWITZ, KEN A NOVEL ABOUT DAVID, A COLLEGE STUDENT, WHOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH RACHEL, A COMMITTED ZIONIST, CHANGES HIS VIEWS ON ISRAEL.
BR 4165 WHO RULES ISRAEL? SALPETER, ELIAHU & YUVAL ELIZUR DOREE KLUSS ACCOUNT OF THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES AT THE TOP OF ISRAEL'S POWER STRUCTURE, AND STORIES ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO WIELD THE POWER.
BR 4166 SPARROW IN THE SNOW, A DAREL, SYLVIA AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF A YOUNG GIRL WHO, TOGETHER WITH HER MOTHER AND HER SISTER, WAS EXILED TO SIBERIA IN 1941. TELLS THE STORY OF RUSSIAN ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 4167 BRIDE OF ISRAEL, MY LOVE LLEWELLYN, RICHARD A NOVEL WHICH PORTRAYS LIFE ON A KIBBUTZ IN ISRAEL AND CONVEYS THE BEAUTY OF THE LAND.
BR 4168 BRIGHT CANDLES BENCHLEY, NATHANIEL A HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT THE DANISH RESISTANCE DURING WORLD WAR II.
BR 4169 EINSTEIN THE LIFE AND TIMES CLARK, RONALD W. A BIOGRAPHY OF THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN PHYSICIST, DESCRIBING HIS LIFE AS A SCIENTIST AND HIS COMPASSIONATE NATURE.
BR 4170 SMITH'S GAZELLE DAVIDSON, LIONEL A NOVEL IN WHICH A HERD OF GAZELLE EMERGES AS A SYMBOLIC TALE OF ISRAEL'S SURVIVAL.
BR 4171 REBIRTH OMER, DVORAH THE STORY OF ELIEZER BEN-YEHUDAH, THE FATHER OF THE MODERN HEBREW LANGUAGE. FOR YOUNG READERS.
BR 4172 SHEILA LEVINE IS DEAD AND LIVING IN NEW YORK PARENT, GAIL A NOVEL IN THE FORM OF A SUICIDE NOTE FROM A 30-YEAR-OLD JEWISH WOMAN WHO HAS COMMITTED THE SIN OF FAILING TO FIND A HUSBAND.
BR 4173 GONIF, THE RUDENSKY, MORRIS & DON RILEY CHRONICLES OF MORE THAN 35 YEARS OF CRIME, IMPRISONMENT, ESCAPES, AND ASSOCIATION WITH SOME OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS CHARACTERS OF THIS CENTURY.
BR 4174 TAKE NOW THY SON THE YOM KIPPUR WAR - SOUTH AFRICA' BLOW, DESMOND A DAY-BY-DAY ACCOUNT OF THE 1973 YOM KIPPUR WAR BETWEEN THE ISRAELIS AND THE ARABS. TOLD BY ISRAELIS WHO IMMIGRATED FROM SOUTH AFRICA AND WHO LIVED THROUGH THE WAR.
BR 4175 FEDAYEEN GUERRILLAS AGAINST ISRAEL ZEEV, SHIFF & RAPHAEL ROTHSTEIN A STUDY OF THE ORIGINS, IDEOLOGIES, AND ACTIVITIES OF THE FEDAYEEN, THE GUERRILLA GROUPS ORGANIZED BY PALESTINIAN REFUGEES.
BR 4176 IN ONE ERA AND OUT THE OTHER LEVENSON, SAM A HUMOROUS LOOK AT AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE BOTH PAST AND PRESENT.
BR 4177 THIS LAUGH IS ON ME THE PHIL SILVERS STORY SILVERS, PHIL WITH ROBERT SAFFRON THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE ACTOR AND COMEDIAN.
BR 4179 SEASON OF MISTS ANGOFF, CHARLES A SENSITIVE NOVEL DEALING WITH AN AMERICAN FAMILY AND THE CONFLICTS OF THE ADOLESCENT DAUGHTER GROWING UP. SEQUEL TO THE BOOK MEMORY OF AUTUMN.
BR 4180 NOR EVIL DREAMS HARRIS, ROSEMARY A NOVEL ABOUT A MOTHER WHO DISCOVERS A PLOT AMONG A GROUP OF NEO-NAZIS WHO HAVE SET FIRE TO A SYNAGOGUE.
BR 4181 LETTERS OF MEDIEVAL JEWISH TRADERS GOITEIN, S.D. GEORGE MALLO A SELECTION OF EIGHTY LETTERS FROM JEWISH TRADERS, WHO TRAVELED FROM SPAIN TO INDIA DURING MEDIEVAL TIMES. MANY OF THESE LETTERS WERE PRESERVED IN THE CAIRO GENIZA AND PORTRAY THE TRADERS' WORLD AT THAT TIME.
BR 4182 LEAVEN OF JUDAISM, THE GOLDBERG, DAVID, RABBI IN TRACING THE EVOLUTION OF JUDAISM, THE AUTHOR CONTENDS THAT THE 'MUTUAL ANTAGONISM' BETWEEN ORTHODOXY AND REFORM JUDAISM CANNOT BE JUSTIFIED.
BR 4183 MAJOR TRENDS IN JEWISH MYSTICISM SCHOLEM, GERSHOM STANLEY R. B A WORK WHICH HELPED TO OVERTURN THE 19TH CENTURY GERMAN-LITHUANIAN INTERPRETATION OF THE JEWISH MYSTICAL TRADITION.
BR 4184 MAZEL TOV! YOU'RE MIDDLE AGED VORSPAN, ALBERT A HUMOROUS NOVEL ABOUT THE PLEASURES, LIMITATIONS, AND APPROACHING SIGNS OF MIDDLE AGE.
BR 4185 THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK, A - VOL. IV KAGAN, Y.M. - ED. PRESENTED HERE ARE BRIEF PRESENTATIONS ON THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTIONS ADAPTED FROM THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE'S SICHOT (DISCOURSES) OF 1972.
BR 4186 GROWTH OF REFORM JUDAISM, THE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN SOURCES PLAUT, W.G. THE DEVELOPMENT OF REFORM JUDAISM AND ITS IMPACT ON MODERN JEWRY.
BR 4187 VICTORS AND THE VANQUISHED, THE MEMOIRS OF HEDA MARGOLIUS KOVALY KOVALY, HEDA & ERAZIM KOHAK A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE STRUGGLES WITH COMMUNISM IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA WRITTEN BY A MAN AND A WOMAN WHO WERE POLITICALLY IN OPPOSITION TO EACH OTHER. KOVALY, A SURVIVOR OF AUSCHWITZ, WAS THE WIFE OF AN OFFICIAL IN THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND KOHAK, A CZECH SOCIAL PHILOSOPHER WHO WAS TWICE EXILED FROM HIS HOMELAND.
BR 4188 HUNTER AND HUNTED HUMAN HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST KORMAN, GERD, ED A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS COVERING THE ORDEAL OF EUROPEAN JEWRY FROM 1933-1945. THE SURVIVORS' ANGUISH AND ALIENATION ARE FELT AS SHIPLOADS OF REFUGEES ARE REFUSED ADMISSION.
BR 4189 PEDLOCK AND SONS LONGSTREET, STEPHEN MYRNA FISHMA THE STORY OF JUDITH PEDLOCK AND HER EFFORTS TO MARRY A HASIDIC SCHOLAR: A STORY OF JEWISH FAMILY INTRIGUE WHICH MOVES ACROSS TWO CONTINENTS.
BR 4190 RIFT IN ISRAEL, THE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY AND SECULAR DE LESLIE, CLEMENT S. AN EXACT STUDY OF THE INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES OF ISRAEL AS EXPRESSIONS OF ITS INNER SPIRIT: THE KIBBUTZ, THE ARMY, AND THE INGATHERING OF EXILES.
BR 4191 SAILS OF HOPE THE SECRET MISSION OF CHRISTOPHER WIESENTHAL, SIMON THE AUTHOR CONTENDS THAT THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA WAS AN ATTEMPT BY SPANISH JEWS TO FIND INDIA, WHERE THE TEN LOST TRIBES WERE THOUGHT TO HAVE SETTLED.
BR 4192 HASIDIC PRAYER JACOBS, LOUIS AN ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF PRAYER IN THE HASIDIC MOVEMENT. THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE VARIOUS TYPES OF PRAYER AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HASIDISM.
BR 4194 ISRAEL, THE ARABS AND THE MIDDLE EAST HOWE, IRVING & CARL GERSHMAN, EDS. SEVERAL READ A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS DEALING WITH THE PROBLEMS OF THE MIDDLE EAST.
BR 4196 HANNAH SENESH HER LIFE AND DIARY SENESH, HANNAH THE DIARY AND POEMS OF A YOUNG HUNGARIAN JEW WHO EMIGRATED TO ISRAEL BEFORE WORLD WAR II. SENESH BECAME A NATIONAL HEROINE AFTER PARACHUTING INTO YUGOSLAVIA DURING THE WAR. SHE WAS LATER CAPTURED AND KILLED IN NAZI-OCCUPIED HUNGARY.
BR 4198 BAAL SHEM OF MICHELSTADT, THE JUDAEUS (NAFTALI HERTZ EHRMANN). MAN A HISTORICAL NOVEL BASED ON THE LIFE OF RABBI SECKEL LOEB WORMSER, A TALMUDIST AND CABBALIST, WHO LIVED FROM 1768-1847 AND WAS KNOWN AS THE BAAL SHEM OF MICHELSTADT. THE BOOK DESCRIBES THE MIRACLES ATTRIBUTED TO HIM, HIS LOVE FOR PEOPLE, AND HIS COMPASSIONATE NATURE.
BR 4199 BONN AND JERUSALEM THE STRANGE COALITION DEUTSCHKRON, INGE BESS CHALSKE AN ANALYSIS OF THE POST-WORLD WAR II RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WEST GERMANY AND ISRAEL. THE AUTHOR IS A WEST GERMAN CORRESPONDENT FOR AN ISRAELI NEWSPAPER.
BR 4200 MY HOME IS SOMEPLACE FAR AWAY DAHAN, BONNIE TRUST AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF A JEWISH GIRL WHO FINDS HAPPINESS IN ISRAEL WHERE SHE TURNS TO HER HERITAGE AND RESOLVES HER IDENTITY CRISIS.
BR 4201 JOURNEY INTO THE WHIRLWIND GINZBURG, EUGENIA THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A JEWISH WOMAN WHO SPENT 18 YEARS IN SOVIET SLAVE LABOR CAMPS DURING THE STALINIST REGIME.
BR 4202 CRYSTAL NIGHTS, THE MURRAY, MICHELE A NOVEL ABOUT THE PROBLEMS IN A MARRIAGE BETWEEN A JEW AND A GENTILE, WITH THE FOCUS ON THE CHILDREN.
BR 4203 COMMENTARY READER, THE TWO DECADES OF ARTICLES AND STORIE PODHORETZ, NORMAN, EDITOR MORE THAN 50 POSTWAR ESSAYS, REVIEWS AND SHORT STORIES CONSTITUTE A CHAPTER IN THE BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA AND A REPORT ON JEWISH LIFE AND THOUGHT.
BR 4205 NARROW EXIT HENISSART, PAUL A SPY STORY ABOUT AN ATTEMPT BY ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE TO ABDUCT AN ARAB MILITANT WHO IS ON A FUNDRAISING MISSION OUTSIDE THE MIDDLE EAST.
BR 4206 VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED GORDON, THOMAS & WITTS, MAX M. A RIVETING ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE OF THE ST. LOUIS IN MAY 1939 OF 937 JEWS WHO WERE TURNED AWAY FROM MANY NATIONS; INTERVIEWS OF SURVIVORS.
BR 4207 MEMORY OF AUTUMN ANGOFF, CHARLES A NOVEL ABOUT A FIRST-GENERATION AMERICAN-JEWISH FAMILY LIVING IN NEW YORK, WHICH CENTERS AROUND THE YOUNG DAUGHTER AND INCLUDES FLASHBACKS OF THE FATHER'S LIFE DURING THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 4208 NEVER AGAIN KAHANE, MEIR THE LEADER OF THE ACTIVIST GROUP, THE JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE, DISCUSSES HIS PHILOSOPHY OF JEWISH DEFENSE IN LIGHT OF THE MASS DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN JEWS.
BR 4210 KING DAVID REPORT, THE HEYM, STEFAN IN THIS HISTORICAL NOVEL, KING SOLOMON COMMISSIONS A POET-HISTORIAN TO WRITE THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF DAVID'S RISE TO THE THRONE AND SOLOMON'S SUCCESSION.
BR 4211 PRAYER FOR KATERINA HOROVITZOVA, A LUSTIG, ARNOST DURING WORLD WAR II, TWENTY RICH AMERICAN JEWS ARE SNATCHED FROM AN ITALIAN PRISONER OF WAR CAMP AND SHIPPED TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP. THEIR RANSOM IS TWENTY MILLION SWISS FRANCS.
BR 4212 INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM FISHMAN, ISIDORE AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BELIEFS, PRAYERS, PRACTICES, AND ETHICAL TEACHINGS OF TRADITIONAL JUDAISM. ALSO SHOWS THE JEWISH ATTITUDE TO CURRENT SOCIAL PROBLEMS.
BR 4213 PICTURES FROM A BREWERY BARASH, ASHER THE LIFE OF A TRADITIONAL PATRIARCHAL JEWISH FAMILY LIVING IN AN EAST GALICIAN VILLAGE IN POLAND. THE NOVEL DEPICTS THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THIS TOWN.
BR 4214 JEWISH REVOLUTION, THE ELDAD, ISRAEL THE AUTHOR, WHO FOUGHT IN THE ISRAELI UNDERGROUND, PROPOSES SOLUTIONS FOR THE ARAB-ISRAELI DILEMMA AND BLAMES THE ZIONIST ESTABLISHMENT FOR THE DEATH OF SIX MILLION JEWS IN THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 4215 SOLOMON MAIMON MAIMON, SOLOMON A SELF-PORTRAIT BY AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY JEWISH PHILOSOPHER-BOHEMIAN-HERETIC WHO DESCRIBES HIS WANDERINGS FROM THE POLISH GHETTO TO THE CITIES OF WESTERN EUROPE.
BR 4216 LAST ESCAPE, THE THE LAUNCHING OF THE LARGEST SECRE KLUGER, RUTH AND PEGGY MANN A FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF HOW 200,000 JEWS WERE SMUGGLED INTO PALESTINE, DESPITE THE BRITISH BLOCKADE, BY UNDERGROUND WORKERS DURING THE YEARS 1938-1948.
BR 4217 POCKETFUL OF SEEDS, A SACHS, MARILYN A NOVEL BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF A JEWISH GIRL DURING THE NAZI OCCUPATION OF FRANCE.
BR 4218 LIKE A SONG, LIKE A DREAM RUSINEK, ALLA A RUSSIAN GIRL'S QUEST FOR LOVE AND FREEDOM.
BR 4219 ALONE ATOP THE MOUNTAIN SANDMEL, SAMUEL A HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT THE LIFE OF MOSES BASED ON THE PENTATEUCH AND RABBINIC COMMENTARIES.
BR 4220 CAPPELLA HOROVITZ, ISRAEL A NOVEL DEALING WITH HUMAN SUFFERING. CENTERS AROUND AN ELDERLY JEW IN A HOSPITAL WARD.
BR 4221 TUESDAY THE RABBI SAW RED KEMELMAN, HARRY RABBI DAVID SMALL, A CONGREGATIONAL RABBI WHO USES TALMUDIC PILPUL TO SOLVE MYSTERIES, TEACHES A COURSE AT WINDEMERE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, AND BECOMES INVOLVED IN A MURDER CASE ON CAMPUS.
BR 4222 STEFAN ZWEIG A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY ALLDAY, ELIZABETH THIS DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF THE NOTED AUSTRIAN-JEWISH LITERARY ARTIST TAKES THE READER THROUGH HIS EARLY YEARS IN THE EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL CIRCLE.
BR 4223 FOR DYING YOU ALWAYS HAVE TIME SINGER, SALLY HELEN KLEINE AN AMERICAN-JEWISH WOMAN VISITING ISRAEL BECOMES INVOLVED IN A SPY AND COUNTERSPY INTRIGUE DURING HER TRAVELS IN THE COUNTRY.
BR 4224 BEN-GURION LOOKS AT THE BIBLE BEN-GURION, DAVID A SERIES OF ESSAYS IN WHICH ISRAEL'S FIRST PRIME MINISTER EXPLORES BIBLICAL PROBLEMS AND LINKS THEM TO MODERN HISTORY.
BR 4225 FAT EMILY LUKAS, SUSAN RIES A NOVEL ABOUT AN 18-YEAR-OLD JEWISH GIRL WITH A WEIGHT PROBLEM WHOSE PARENTS' SOLE CONCERN IS THAT SHE GET MARRIED.
BR 4226 POEMS AMICHAI, YEHUDA. TRANSLATED BY ASSI SONGS OF LOVE, WAR, AND LOSS BY THE ISRAELI POET. TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW.
BR 4227 TRIAL AND DEATH OF JESUS, THE COHN, HAIM A MEMBER OF THE SUPREME COURT OF ISRAEL INVESTIGATES THE TRIAL AND DEATH OF JESUS WITH THE CONCLUSION THAT THE JEWS HAVE BEEN PUNISHED FOR A CRIME NEVER COMMITTED.
BR 4228 THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK, A - VOL. VI KAGAN, Y.M.- ED. THIS BOOK OFFERS BRIEF PRESENTATIONS ON THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTIONS ADAPTED FROM THE SICHOT (DISCOURSES) OF THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE.
BR 4229 TO FIGHT IN SILENCE WUORIO, EVA-LIS AN ACCOUNT OF THE EVACUATION OF THE JEWS OF DENMARK AND THEIR ESCAPE TO SWEDEN DURING WORLD WAR II, AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES AND EXPERIENCES OF SCANDINAVIAN TEENAGERS.
BR 4230 LIFE IS WITH PEOPLE THE CULTURE OF THE SHTETL ZBOROWSKE, MARK & ELIZABETH HERZOG DORIS WEINBE THROUGH HUNDREDS OF YEARS THE SHTETL, THE SMALL TOWN JEWISH COMMUNITY OF EASTERN EUROPE, DEVELOPED A WAY OF LIFE UNIQUELY ITS OWN. IN THIS STUDY, A TEAM OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SOCIOLOGISTS AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS EXAMINE THIS CULTURE.
BR 4231 JUDAISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS KONVITZ, MILTON R., ED. A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS EXPLORING THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE EQUALITY OF MAN AS REFLECTED IN JEWISH THOUGHT AND PRACTICE.
BR 4232 PROUD ZION HABE, HANS THE AUTHOR PROBES THE MEANING AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN ISRAEL AND EXPLORES THE ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE 1973 YOM KIPPUR WAR.
BR 4234 SHELOMO MOLHO KABAK, AHARON A. A HISTORICAL NOVEL BASED ON THE LIFE OF DIOGO PIRES, A SECRET JEW WHO WAS A GRANDEE AT THE PORTUGUESE COURT, AND WHO WAS INVOLVED IN THE MESSIANIC TURMOIL OF HIS TIME.
BR 4235 TRADITION AND REALITY THE IMPACT OF HISTORY ON MODERN JE ROTENSTREICH, NATHAN A STUDY OF SIX MEN AND THEIR DIFFERENT CONCEPTIONS ABOUT JUDAISM: LEOPOLD ZUNZ, NAHMAN KROCHMAL, HEINRICH GRAETZ, SIMON DUBNOW, AHAD HA-AM (ASHER GINSBERG), AND HAYYIM NAHMAN BIALIK.
BR 4236 MEETINGS BUBER, MARTIN A SMALL PHILOSOPHIC WORK CONTAINING AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FRAGMENTS FROM BUBER'S LIFE.
BR 4237 MISHNAH, THE ORAL TEACHINGS OF JUDAISM LIPMAN, EUGENE J. THIS BOOK ELUCIDATES LEGAL PASSAGES FROM THE MISHNAH AND EXAMINES AGGADIC MATERIAL DEALING WITH PHILOSOPHICAL VALUES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHTS.
BR 4238 PASSION FOR TRUTH, A HESCHEL, ABRAHAM JOSHUA THE LAST WORK OF THE NOTED THEOLOGIAN, PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY, TREATS MAN'S NEED FOR TRUTH IN A WORLD ABOUNDING WITH FALSEHOOD.
BR 4239 MY TALKS WITH ARAB LEADERS BEN-GURION, DAVID AN ACCOUNT BY ISRAEL'S FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF THE EFFORTS HE AND ARAB LEADERS HAVE MADE TOWARD ALLEVIATING PROBLEMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
BR 4240 PAUL MUNI, HIS LIFE & FILMS DRUXMAN, MICHAEL B. STORY OF THE FILM AND BROADWAY STAR WHOSE DEDICATION AND SENSE OF HUMOR PRODUCED A UNIQUE QUALITY OF ACTING FEW IN HIS ERA COULD MASTER.
BR 4241 TREASURY OF JEWISH FOLKSONG, A RUTH RUBIN A FINE REPRESENTATIVE COLLECTION OF 110 SONGS MANY OF WHICH ARE CHARMING, TENDER, MERRY AND SAD.
BR 4243 SING, YOU RIGHTEOUS A JEWISH SEEKER'S IDEOLOGY MILLER, AVIGDOR A PROBING, ENLIGHTENING STUDY OF THE JEWISH CONDITION BY THE NOTED AUTHOR OF REJOICE, O YOUTH.
BR 4244 THORNY PATH, THE BARON, DVORAH ZELDA PANZIR A SERIES OF SHORT STORIES DESCRIBING EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE EASTERN EUROPEAN SHTETL.
BR 4245 ISRAEL A COLONIAL SETTLER STATE? RODINSON, MAXIME THE AUTHOR, A FRENCH JEW, CONTENDS THAT ZIONISM SUCCEEDED IN ISRAEL BECAUSE IT COINCIDED WITH THE ERA OF COLONIAL EXPANSION BY MANY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
BR 4246 TWO LIVING TRADITIONS ESSAYS ON RELIGION AND THE BIBLE SANDMEL, SAMUEL ESSAYS ON RELIGION AND BIBLE WRITTEN BY A FACULTY MEMBER OF THE HEBREW UNION COLLEGE WHO IS AN AUTHORITY ON THE NEW TESTAMENT.
BR 4248 THIRD TRUTH, THE BARZOHAR, MICHAEL A SUSPENSE NOVEL, WRITTEN BY MOSHE DAYAN'S FORMER PRESS SECRETARY, INVOLVING ASSASSINATION, REVENGE, AND INTERNATIONAL DECEIT. THE HERO IS A FORMER CIA AGENT.
BR 4249 BALCONY OF EUROPE HIGGINS, AIDAN A NOVEL ABOUT AN IRISH PAINTER AND HIS LOVE FOR A MARRIED JEWISH WOMAN FROM AMERICA.
BR 4251 UNHOLY WAR, THE WAINES, DAVID AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MID-EAST CONFLICT FROM THE ARAB PERSPECTIVE TRACING THE DEVELOPMENT OF PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM.
BR 4252 ACCOMPLICE RICHARD, ADRIENNE ATTEMPTING TO GET CLOSER TO HIS ARCHAEOLOGIST FATHER, BENJY JOINS HIM ON A DIG AND BECOMES INVOLVED IN AN ARAB TERRORIST PLOT.
BR 4253 ANI MAAMIN WIESEL, ELIE A POETIC RECONSTRUCTION OF A TALMUDIC TALE ABOUT FAITH IN THE MESSIAH.
BR 4254 AND THE HILLS SHOUTED FOR JOY THE DAY ISRAEL WAS BORN POSTAL, BERNARD & HENRY W. LEVY AN ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORIC EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE ON MAY 15, 1948, THE DAY THAT ISRAEL WAS PROCLAIMED A SOVEREIGN STATE. INCLUDES A BRIEF HISTORY OF ZIONISM AND PERSONAL ACCOUNTS OF SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT FOR ISRAEL'S INDEPENDENCE.
BR 4255 JEHOSHUA THON PREACHER, THINKER, POLITICIAN HOLLANDER, NELLA MEMOIRS OF THE FAMOUS MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT AND ZIONIST LEADER OF PRE-WAR POLAND.
BR 4256 IN THE MIDDLE DISTANCE DELBANCO, NICHOLAS A NOVEL IN WHICH THE MAIN CHARACTER, WHO BEARS THE SAME NAME AS THE AUTHOR, REVIEWS VARIOUS ASPECTS OF HIS LIFE, INCLUDING HIS EDUCATION, HIS CAREER, AND HIS ROMANCES.
BR 4257 KEEPER OF THE LAW LOUIS GINZBERG GINZBERG, ELI THIS BIOGRAPHY OF LOUIS GINZBERG BY HIS SON ILLUSTRATES THE TRANSITION OF JEWISH THOUGHT FROM THE CULTURAL MILIEU OF EASTERN EUROPE TO THAT OF MODERN AMERICA.
BR 4258 FREEDOM SEDER, THE A NEW HAGGADAH FOR PASSOVER WASKOW, ARTHUR A. AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE PASSOVER HAGGADAH ALONG WITH WRITINGS AND EXPLANATIONS DEALING WITH FREEDOM AND EXPLOITATION IN VARIOUS PLACES TODAY.
BR 4259 DEVIL'S KNEE, THE SHULMAN, IRVING A SEQUEL TO THE AUTHOR'S TRILOGY, THIS NOVEL DESCRIBES THE CHARACTERS AND EVENTS OF A JEWISH UNDERWORLD IN HOLLYWOOD.
BR 4260 ISRAEL AT THE CROSSROADS SCHWEID, ELIEZER A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN ISRAEL, DEALING WITH RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL CONFLICTS AMONG ISRAELI JEWS.
BR 4261 HILL OF MANY DREAMS, A LLEWELLYN, RICHARD THE STORY OF PAUL DENIS, HEAD OF A PRESTIGIOUS NEW YORK ART GALLERY, AND HIS VENTURES IN ISRAEL PROVIDES A VIVID PORTRAIT OF THE INTERNATIONAL ART WORLD.
BR 4262 NEWS FROM JERUSALEM SHAHAR, DAVID SHIRLEY D. K FIFTEEN STORIES SET IN JERUSALEM. WRITTEN BY AN ISRAELI AUTHOR, THE BOOK DESCRIBES THE FAMILIES AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT CITY.
BR 4263 BIBLE A MODERN JEWISH APPROACH BAMBERGER, BERNARD J. A GUIDE TO MODERN JEWISH BIBLE STUDY, WHICH INCLUDES BIBLICAL INFLUENCE ON WESTERN CIVILIZATION, ARCHEOLOGICAL FINDINGS, BIBLICAL CRITICISM, AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS GOD AND MESSIAH.
BR 4264 BRIDGE OF TIME, THE A VIEW OF THE ISRAELI PEOPLE MYERS, JAMES E. A PROFILE OF THE ISRAELI PEOPLE, CULLED FROM INTERVIEWS WITH INDIVIDUALS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
BR 4265 THIRTY-FOUR EAST COPPEL, ALFRED A NOVEL OF ADVENTURE AND SUSPENSE INVOLVING THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA, POLITICS AND TERRORISM, AND THE POSSIBILITY OF A NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE.
BR 4266 SO SLOW THE DAWNING TRACHTENBERG, INGE A NOVEL WHICH TRACES THE FATE OF A JEWISH FAMILY IN BERLIN FROM THE 1920S UNTIL THEY LEAVE EUROPE IN 1939.
BR 4267 HOW TO LIVE IN THE PRESENT TENSE KEMELMAN, RABBI HAIM MARY PERLOW A RABBI AND WRITER EXAMINES HOW TO LIVE IN A FAST-PACED CONTEMPORARY WORLD.
BR 4268 PENTIMENTO A BOOK OF PORTRAITS HELLMAN, LILLIAN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT.
BR 4269 MAKING GOOD AGAIN DAVIDSON, LIONEL A NOVEL ABOUT A COMPLICATED CASE OF GERMAN REPARATIONS AND THE FRUSTRATIONS OF THE LAWYERS.
BR 4270 HOPE IS THE LAST TO DIE BIRENBAUM, HALINA A PERSONAL DOCUMENTATION OF NAZI TERROR AND ATROCITIES AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A POLISH JEWISH TEENAGER.
BR 4271 ZALMEN, OR THE MADNESS OF GOD WIESEL, ELIE A PLAY, WHICH TAKES PLACE IN A SMALL RUSSIAN SYNAGOGUE, ILLUMINATING THE PLIGHT OF SOVIET JEWS AND ALL OTHER INDIVIDUALS LONGING FOR FREEDOM AND SURVIVAL.
BR 4272 MERRYMAKER, THE SUHL, YURI THE STORY OF TEN-YEAR-OLD SHLOIMEH'S ENCOUNTER WITH A STRANGER WHO COMES TO THE SYNAGOGUE.
BR 4273 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JEWS IN SPORTS POSTAL, BERNARD & JESSE SILVER & ROY SISTERHOOD O THIS BOOK FEATURES BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MORE THAN 1,000 JEWISH ATHLETES. THE ENTRIES INCLUDE ALL TYPES OF SPORTS, FROM AUTOMOBILE RACING TO YACHTING WITH A SPECIAL SECTION ON JEWISH ATHLETES WHO TOOK PART IN THE OLYMPICS.
BR 4274 WALLS RESISTING THE THIRD REICH - ONE WO ZASSENHAUS, HILTGUNT THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A GERMAN CITIZEN WHO OPPOSED THE NAZI REGIME. DR. ZASSENHAUS WAS AWARDED A KNIGHTHOOD IN DENMARK AND NORWAY FOR HER HUMANE AND HEROIC EFFORTS TO HELP SCANDINAVIAN PRISONERS.
BR 4276 ISRAEL ONE LAND, TWO PEOPLES ELLIS, HARRY B. AN ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ARABS AND JEWS THAT HAVE BEEN THE BASIS FOR THE CONFLICT SINCE THE CREATION OF THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 4277 LAUNCHING OF BARBARA FABRIKANT ROSE, LOUISE BLECHER A FUNNY, SAD NOVEL ABOUT BARBARA, CHILD OF A TYRANNICAL RABBI, WHO LEAVES FOR COLLEGE IN THE EARLY '60'S EXPECTING TO FIND A WONDERFUL, FREE LIFE.
BR 4279 PROVINCIALS, THE A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE SOUTH EVANS, ELI N. A HISTORY OF THE JEWS LIVING IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH. THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES JEWISH FRATERNITIES, BIGOTRY, POLITICS, BUSINESS, BLACK-JEWISH RELATIONS, AND THE ATTITUDES OF NON-JEWS TOWARDS JEWS.
BR 4280 WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? ROGIN, GILBERT A COLLECTION OF STORIES DESCRIBING SIX YEARS IN THE LIFE OF A WRITER, WITH HUMOROUS OBSERVATIONS.
BR 4281 ISRAELI ECSTACIES/JEWISH AGONIES HOROWITZ, IRVING LOUIS A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS WRITTEN BETWEEN 1962 AND 1973, DEALING WITH THE STATUS OF SOVIET JEWS, THE PRESSURES FOR SECULARIZATION IN ISRAEL, AND THE SURVIVAL OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 4282 VOICES OF MASADA, THE KOSSOFF, DAVID A PROFOUNDLY TOUCHING NOVEL RECALLING THE HEROIC FIGHT OF THE JEWISH ZEALOTS IN THE FORTRESS OF MASADA DURING THE ROMAN OCCUPATION OF ISRAEL.
BR 4283 COMMANDED TO LIVE KUSHNER, HAROLD, RABBI THE CHALLENGES AND JOYS OF CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE ARE TREATED IN THIS COMMENTARY ON HOLY DAYS AND FESTIVALS.
BR 4284 POEMS SHAZAR, ZALMAN A TRANSLATION FROM A COLLECTION OF YIDDISH POETRY ENTITLED 'FARSICH' ('FOR MYSELF'), WRITTEN BY THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. REVEALS HIS INNERMOST EMOTIONS IN RESPONSE TO EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF HIS PEOPLE AND THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
BR 4285 STUDIES IN SPINOZA CRITICAL AND INTERPRETATIVE ESSAYS KASHAP, PAUL S. AN ANTHOLOGY OF ARTICLES AND CRITIQUES ON THE PHILOSOPHER AND HIS WORK.
BR 4286 KNOWLEDGE OF MAN, THE BUBER, MARTIN IN THESE ESSAYS, BUBER COMPLETES THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIS PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT WITH HIS STUDY OF WHAT IS PECULIAR TO MAN AS MAN.
BR 4287 BIBLICAL PERIOD,THE ALBRIGHT, W.F. A SCHOLARLY HISTORICAL SURVEY DETAILING THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS FROM ABRAHAM TO EZRA. BY ONE OF THE WORLD'S FOREMOST HISTORIANS.
BR 4288 EVOLUTION OF HITLER'S GERMANY, THE THE IDEOLOGY, THE PERSONALITY, THE VON MALTITZ, HORST ADELINE TOPK AN ANALYTICAL HISTORY OF THE IDEOLOGY OF THE THIRD REICH AND THE GERMAN-JEWISH RELATIONSHIP. AMONG THE QUESTIONS DISCUSSED IN THE BOOK IS HOW THE GERMAN PEOPLE SUCCUMBED TO HITLER AND EMBARKED ON THE PROCESS OF DESTRUCTION LEADING TO THE GENOCIDE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 4289 HOSTAGE MASON, COLIN THE SHAKY PEACE OF THE MIDDLE EAST IS SHATTERED AND EXPLODES WITH WORLD-WIDE REPERCUSSIONS WHEN A RIGHT-WING ISRAELI GROUP BOMBS CAIRO.
BR 4290 DACHAU THE HARROWING OF HELL SMITH, MARCUS J. A UNITED STATES ARMY DOCTOR DESCRIBES THE EFFORTS TO SAVE 32,000 SURVIVORS OF THE INFAMOUS CONCENTRATION CAMP.
BR 4291 OTHER ISRAEL, THE BOBER, ARIE - ED. A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS BY MEMBERS OF AN ISRAELI ANTI-ZIONIST ORGANIZATION WHICH PROVIDES INSIGHTFUL INFORMATION INTO THE NEW POLITICAL GROUPINGS IN ISRAEL.
BR 4292 POPE'S JEWS, THE WAAGENAAR, SAM A CONTROVERSIAL STUDY OF ROMAN JEWRY, INCLUDING THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD THE CHURCH. INCLUDES CASES OF VATICAN ANTI-SEMITISM.
BR 4293 EVERYTHING BUT MONEY LEVENSON, SAM ROBYN SILVER AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAIT OF THE SCHOOL TEACHER- TURNED-HUMORIST.
BR 4294 MITZVOT, THE CHILL, ABRAHAM A STUDY OF THE TRADITIONAL EXPLANATION OF THE 613 COMMANDMENTS IN THE TORAH.
BR 4295 ABRAHAM OF BROOKLYN DECOIN, DIDIER A NOVEL THAT RECREATES THE BIBLICAL STORY OF ABRAHAM, SARAH, AND HAGAR, PLACING THEM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BROOKLYN.
BR 4296 KISSINGER KALB, MARVIN & BERNARD KALB LEE SEAMAN A BIOGRAPHY OF THE DIPLOMAT AND FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE. WRITTEN BY TWO TELEVISION NEWS ANALYSTS AND REPORTERS.
BR 4297 OATH, THE WIESEL, ELIE ON THE EVE OF A POGROM, MOSHE, A MYSTIC, PUTS HIS PEOPLE UNDER AN OATH OF SILENCE IN THE BELIEF THAT THIS MAY AVERT FUTURE SUFFERING.
BR 4300 SPELL OF TIME, THE LEVIN, MEYER A NOVEL ABOUT A FRENCH SCIENTIST WHO COMES TO WORK AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY IN JERUSALEM AFTER WORLD WAR II AND HER ROMANTIC INVOLVEMENT WITH TWO SCIENTISTS, ONE GERMAN, ONE AMERICAN.
BR 4301 RESPONSA OF SOLOMON LURIE, THE HURWITZ, SIMON THE LEGAL DECISIONS OF RABBI SOLOMON LURIE, ALSO KNOWN AS THE MAHARSHAL, ALONG WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
BR 4302 WHAT DOES JUDAISM SAY ABOUT..? JACOBS, RABBI LOUIS HERBERT WEIS AN EXPLANATION OF THE JEWISH ATTITUDE TOWARDS CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS SUCH AS ABORTION AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTS.
BR 4303 MONEY IS LOVE GLANVILLE, BRIAN A BRITISH RABBI'S SON AND A NEW YORK FINANCIER FORM A PARTNERSHIP TO TAKE OVER WORLD FINANCIAL POWER FROM THE OLD AND TRANSFER IT TO THE YOUNG.
BR 4304 YIDDISH LITERATURE MADISON, CHARLES A. A SURVEY OF YIDDISH WRITING FROM ITS JUDEO-GERMAN BEGINNINGS, WITH AN ANALYSIS OF THE WORKS OF MENDELE MOKHER SFORIM, SHOLOM ALEICHEM, DAVID PINSKI, THE SINGER BROTHERS, AND OTHERS.
BR 4305 HEROD AND MARIAMNE LAGERKVIST, PER HELEN ASCHER THE STORY OF KING HEROD WHO FALLS IN LOVE WITH THE HASMONEAN PRINCESS, MARIAMNE.
BR 4306 LONG LIVE COLUMBUS! LEBEN ZUL COLUMBUS GOLDEN, HARRY A COMMENTARY ON CIVIL RIGHTS, POLITICS, WATERGATE, AND NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE, BY THE WRITER AND EDITOR OF 'THE CAROLINA ISRAELITE.'
BR 4308 KERMANSHAH TRANSFER, THE SIGEL, EFREM A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE INVOLVING AN AMERICAN ENGINEER IN IRAN WHO IS RECRUITED BY ISRAELI AGENTS TO ASSIST THEM IN A PLOT AGAINST THE IRAQIS.
BR 4309 CODE OF MAIMONIDES, THE. BK. 4 WOMEN KLEIN RABBI ISAAC, TRANS. A TRANSLATION FROM THE CODE OF MAIMONIDES OF THE SECTION DEALING WITH WOMEN. CONSISTS OF TREATISES CONCERNING THE LAWS OF MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, LEVIRATE MARRIAGE, 'HALITSAH,' AND THE REBELLIOUS WIFE.
BR 4310 LOVE LETTERS ON BLUE PAPER WESKER, ARNOLD FIVE BRILLIANT AND MOVING SHORT STORIES, WITH THE POOR SECTION OF LONDON AS THE SETTINGS.
BR 4311 COURSE OF OUR TIMES, THE SACHAR, ABRAM LEON TOPICS AND EVENTS IN WORLD HISTORY, SUCH AS THE NAZIFICATION OF GERMANY, THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT, AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR. DEALT WITH BY THEME, RATHER ON A CHRONOLOGICAL BASIS.
BR 4312 FAT SASHA AND THE URBAN GUERILLA PROTEST AND CONFORMISM IN THE SOVI BONAVIA, DAVID ALYCE POLLAC AN ANALYSIS OF THE JEWISH ELEMENT IN THE GENERAL RUSSIAN PROTEST MOVEMENT. INCLUDES A STUDY OF THE KGB, THE SECRET POLICE, AND THE LIVES OF CITIZENS UNDER THE SOVIETS.
BR 4313 FLAWED ESCAPE, A KIDEL, BORIS THE EXPERIENCES OF A YOUNG GERMAN JEW WHO RETURNS TO BERLIN DURING THE WAR IN AN ATTEMPT TO SOLVE HIS PERSONAL PROBLEMS.
BR 4314 SARAH BERNHARDT EMBODEN, WILLIAM A BIOGRAPHY OF THE LEGENDARY FRENCH JEWISH ACTRESS.
BR 4315 JEWISH RADICALISM A SELECTED ANTHOLOGY PORTER, JACK & PETER DREIER, EDS. POEMS, ARTICLES, CARTOONS, AND ESSAYS ON SOCIAL AWARENESS AMONG JEWISH ACTIVISTS.
BR 4316 RAHEL VARNHAGEN THE LIFE OF A JEWISH WOMAN ARENDT, HANNAH THE DESPERATE STRUGGLE TOWARD ASSIMILATION OF A GERMAN WOMAN AT THE TURN OF THE 19TH CENTURY WHO LATER BECAME A RENOWNED 'SALON JEWESS.'
BR 4317 EINSTEIN BERNSTEIN, JEREMY A BIOGRAPHY OF PHYSICIST ALBERT EINSTEIN AND HIS IMPACT ON SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 4319 FAITH AFTER THE HOLOCAUST BERKOVITS, ELIEZER THE AUTHOR ANALYZES RELIGIOUS BELIEF FOLLOWING THE HOLOCAUST AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE HOLOCAUST ON JUDAISM IN THE DIASPORA AND IN ISRAEL.
BR 4320 LETTERS OF SIGMUND FREUD AND ARNOLD ZWEIG, THE FREUD, ERNST L., ED. THIS BOOK IS A COLLECTION OF CORRESPONDENCE OVER A TWELVE-YEAR PERIOD BETWEEN PSYCHOANALYST FREUD AND NOVELIST ZWEIG ON SUBJECTS SUCH AS ANTI-SEMITISM, POLITICS, AND LITERATURE.
BR 4321 SUKKOT DONIN, HAYIM, RABBI A BOOK ABOUT THE LAWS AND CEREMONIES CONNECTED WITH THE FESTIVAL OF SUKKOT. WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR OF 'TO BE A JEW.'
BR 4322 CROWN OF FEATHERS, A SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-FIVE STORIES WHICH DEAL WITH THE SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH.
BR 4323 LAST BUTTERFLY, THE JACOT, MICHAEL THE STORY OF TEREZIN, ANOTHER KIND OF JEWISH 'STATE,' WHERE COMEDIAN ANTONIN KARAS BROUGHT JOY TO THE CONDEMNED.
BR 4324 REFLECTIONS ON A TEAPOT SANDERS, RONALD AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN WHICH THE AUTHOR RECREATES THE ATMOSPHERE OF HIS JEWISH HOME IN BROOKLYN STRESSING HIS KINSHIP WITH BOTH HIS YIDDISH HERITAGE AND THE MODERN WORLD OF THE 1970S.
BR 4325 ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS REFLECTIONS ON THE CLASH OF TWO NA AVINERI, SHLOMO ISRAEL'S RELATIONS WITH THE PALESTINIANS ARE DISCUSSED BY PROMINENT ISRAELIS, INCLUDING MOSHE DAYAN, SHIMON SHAMIR, AND ARIE ELIAV.
BR 4326 SYNAGOGUE KAPLOUN, URI THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYNAGOGUE FROM ITS ORIGINS DURING THE BABYLONIAN EXILE TO MODERN TIMES.
BR 4327 JEWS IN THE ROMAN WORLD GRANT, MICHAEL A HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL NARRATIVE THAT EXPLORES THE MEETING OF ROMAN AND JEWISH CIVILIZATIONS FROM 200 B.C. TO THE CONVERSION OF ROME TO CHRISTIANITY IN 300 A.D. THE AUTHOR EMPHASIZES JEWISH TRADITION AND HISTORY AND THE ABRASIVE CONTACT BETWEEN THE JEWISH, GREEK AND ROMAN CIVILIZATIONS.
BR 4329 HASIDISM RUBENSTEIN, ARYEH-COMPILER THIS WORK TRACES THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MOVEMENT, PRESENTS SIGNIFICANT PERSONALITIES, AND DETAILS THE DIFFERENT HASIDIC LIFESTYLES.
BR 4330 INTRODUCTION TO THE TALMUD STRACK, HERMAN AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE TALMUD, USING OBJECTIVE AND SCIENTIFIC METHODS.
BR 4331 LETTERS TO FELICE KAFKA, FRANZ. ERICH HELLER & JURGEN A COLLECTION OF LETTERS THAT KAFKA WROTE TO HIS FIANCEE, FELICE BAUER, PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL DIMENSION TO UNDERSTANDING THE AUTHOR.
BR 4332 DEAREST FATHER KAFKA, FRANZ KAFKA'S LONG AND REMARKABLE LETTER TO HIS FATHER AS WELL AS UNFINISHED STORIES AND APHORISMS ARE CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME.
BR 4333 MOE BERG ATHLETE, SCHOLAR...SPY KAUFMAN, LOUIS & BARBARA FITZGERALD A BIOGRAPHY OF BERG, A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYER WHO SPOKE A DOZEN LANGUAGES FLUENTLY AND BECAME A SPY FOR THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR II.
BR 4334 CAPTAIN AMERICA COMPLEX, THE JEWETT, ROBERT EXAMINATION OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM IN TERMS OF THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS HERITAGE; ZEALOUS NATIONALISM LEADS TO VIOLENCE AND SELF-DESTRUCTION.
BR 4335 IN SEARCH OF ALI MAHMOUD AN AMERICAN WOMAN IN EGYPT GORNICK, VIVIAN AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST, WHO WAS LIVING IN CAIRO IN 1971, DESCRIBES LIFE IN THAT CITY, THE EGYPTIANS' AMBIVALENCE TOWARDS THEIR REVOLUTION, AND THE IMPACT OF THE 1967 WAR WITH ISRAEL.
BR 4338 REVERED BY ALL THE LIFE AND WORKS OF RABBI ISRAEL ECKMAN, LESTER SAMUEL MINNIE ELINS THE LIFE AND WORKS OF RABBI ISRAEL MEIR KAGAN, KNOWN AS THE HAFEZ HAYYIM, A TWENTIETH-CENTURY TALMUDIC SCHOLAR AND SPIRITUAL LEADER OF POLISH AND LITHUANIAN JEWRY.
BR 4339 FAMILY SCHNEID, HAYYIM-COMPILER A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF THIS SOCIAL INSTITUTION WHICH EXAMINES SUCH RELEVANT TOPICS AS LIFE CYCLE CEREMONIES, ABORTION, DIVORCE, ADOPTION, WOMEN'S ROLE.
BR 4340 WANDERING STARS AN ANTHOLOGY OF JEWISH FANTASY AND DANN, JACK, ED. AN ANTHOLOGY OF JEWISH WIT, CULTURE, AND LORE, COVERING A WIDE RANGE IN THE JEWISH LITERARY EXPERIENCE. INCLUDES WORKS OF ISAAC ASIMOV, BERNARD MALAMUD, ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER, AND ROBERT SILVERBERG.
BR 4341 WHITE FLAGS OF SURRENDER HAHN, LILI IN THIS TRANSCRIPT FROM HER DIARY OF THE HITLER YEARS, THE AUTHOR PROVIDES AN ACCOUNT OF THE IMPACT OF NAZISM ON THE FRANKFURT MIDDLE CLASSES.
BR 4342 WORLD OF OUR FATHERS THE JEWS OF EASTERN EUROPE MELTZER, MILTON A PANORAMIC VIEW OF JEWS AND JEWISH LIFE IN EASTERN EUROPE, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL SEGMENTS OF THE POPULATION: RABBI AND REVOLUTIONARY, SHOCHET AND POET, THE RELIGIOUSLY-FERVENT HASID AND THE STAUNCH SECULAR JEW.
BR 4343 FUTURE OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN AMERICA SIDORSKY, DAVID, ED. A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS BY JEWISH SCHOLARS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS ON MAJOR TRENDS AND MOVEMENTS IN AMERICAN JEWRY.
BR 4345 TWISTED ROAD TO AUSCHWITZ SCHLEUNES, KARL A CONVINCING DEMONSTRATION OF HOW HITLER'S SYSTEM WORKED BOTH IDEOLOGICALLY AND PRACTICALLY BY THE USE OF THE GERMAN JEWS AS SCAPEGOATS.
BR 4346 LITHUANIAN HASIDISM RABINOWITSCH, WOLF ZEV THE HISTORY OF LITHUANIAN HASIDISM FROM ITS EARLIEST BEGINNINGS. BASED ON ARCHIVAL MATERIALS AND RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS.
BR 4347 HOW DID SEX BEGIN? THE SENSE AND NONSENSE OF SEXUAL C BRASCH, R. AN AUSTRALIAN RABBI EXPLORES THE CONNOTATIONS OF SEX AS THEY OCCUR IN SPEECH, SYMBOLISM, AND TRADITION.
BR 4349 WE JEWS AND JESUS SANDMEL, SAMUEL A DISCUSSION OF JUDAISM IN REGARD TO JESUS AND THE JEWISH BACKGROUND OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY.
BR 4350 KOLCHAK'S GOLD GARFIELD, BRIAN A NOVEL ABOUT A FUGITIVE WHO BELIEVES HE HAS DISCOVERED THE HIDING PLACE OF THE CZAR'S TREASURE.
BR 4351 K'TONTON ON AN ISLAND WEILERSTEIN, SADIE ROSE THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF K'TONTON, A TOM THUMB FOR JEWISH CHILDREN.
BR 4352 IF I FORGET THEE O JERUSALEM AMERICAN JEWS AND THE STATE OF ISR SILVERBERG, ROBERT ROSALIND GAL AN ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S INVOLVEMENT AND SUPPORT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE ROLE PLAYED BY AMERICAN JEWRY.
BR 4353 AS OTHERS SEE US RABBI, PRIEST AND MINISTER THROUGH SUSSMAN, IRVING A DESCRIPTION OF HOW WRITERS VIEW PRIESTS, MINISTERS, AND RABBIS: THEIR FUNCTION IN SOCIETY AND HOW THEY SEE THEMSELVES.
BR 4354 FLEET SURGEON TO PHAROAH JACOBSON, SHELDON A. A HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT ASA BEN NATHAN, A PHYSICIAN- PRIEST FROM JUDEA, WHO SEEKS A DEEPER KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND AN INSIGHT INTO ADVANCED EGYPTIAN MEDICAL TECHNIQUES. HE JOINS A GROUP OF PHOENICIAN MARINERS WHO SET OUT FROM THE RED SEA TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE AFRICA.
BR 4355 BEHOLD, THE LAND A SOCIAL STUDIES TEXT ON THE STATE FINE, HELEN THE AUTHOR EMPHASIZES THE CONTEMPORARY CHARACTER OF ISRAEL, FOCUSING ON THE LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY FORCES THAT ARE SHAPING THE NATURE OF THE COUNTRY.
BR 4356 FOREIGN POLICY SYSTEM OF ISRAEL, THE BRECHER, MICHAEL A TEN-YEAR STUDY OF THE FACTORS INFLUENCING ISRAEL'S FOREIGN POLICY. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS, MILITARY AND ECONOMIC CAPABILITIES, INTEREST GROUPS, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS ARE EVALUATED.
BR 4357 CONFRONTATION THE MIDDLE EAST AND WORLD POLITICS LAQUEUR, WALTER A STUDY OF THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND THOSE WHO PLAYED A ROLE IN IT.
BR 4358 WHAT IS MAN? A JEWISH SOURCES SPEAK BOOK WOLF, ARNOLD J., RABBI THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF THEMATIC STUDIES ON JEWISH LITERATURE.
BR 4359 STUDIES IN TORAH JUDAISM STITSKIN, LEON D., ED. EIGHT ESSAYS BY DIFFERENT SCHOLARS ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF JUDAISM FROM AN ORTHODOX VIEWPOINT, PROVIDING AN ANALYSIS OF THE NATURE AND ESSENCE OF THE RELIGION.
BR 4361 PALESTINE - A SEARCH FOR TRUTH APPROACHES TO THE ARAB-ISRAELI CON TAYLOR, ALAN R. & RICHARD N. TETLIE, KENNETH J. B THE VIEWS OF MARTIN BUBER, HANS KOHN, JUDAH MAGNES, ERSKINE CHILDERS, AND OTHER LEADING WRITERS ON THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT.
BR 4362 YERMAKOV TRANSFER, THE LAMBERT, DEREK A NOVEL WHOSE PLOT REVOLVES AROUND GETTING A TOP JEWISH NUCLEAR SCIENTIST OUT OF RUSSIA AND INTO ISRAEL USING THE PREMIER OF RUSSIA AS A HOSTAGE.
BR 4363 HOUSE ON GARIBALDI STREET, THE HAREL, ISSER AN ACCOUNT OF THE CAPTURE OF ADOLF EICHMANN IN ARGENTINA IN 1960 AND HOW HE WAS BROUGHT TO ISRAEL TO STAND TRIAL FOR WAR CRIMES.
BR 4364 JUDAISM AND THE EARLY CHRISTIAN MIND WILKEN, ROBERT A STUDY OF THE POLEMICAL CONFLICT WITH JUDAISM VOICED BY THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS.
BR 4365 HOME FOR THE HEART, A BETTELHEIM, BRUNO BETTELHEIM'S REPORT ON HIS PIONEERING WORK WITH MENTALLY ILL CHILDREN IN A 'THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY' INCLUDING PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCEPTS AND THEIR PRACTICAL APPLICATION.
BR 4366 BLACK SEPTEMBER DOBSON, CHRISTOPHER THE SHORT, VIOLENT HISTORY OF THIS ANTI-ZIONIST TERROR MOVEMENT WHICH WERE THE HIT MEN FOR ARAFAT AND AL FATAH IN THE EARLY 1970'S.
BR 4367 JEWS IN THE RENAISSANCE ROTH, CECIL NATALIE STRA A SURVEY OF THE VARIOUS CULTURAL MOVEMENTS IN WHICH JEWS PARTICIPATED DURING THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD.
BR 4368 LUCK OF THE VAN MEERS MCHUGH, ARONA EXCITING STORY OF A FAMILY OF SEAFARERS, MERCHANTS, PHYSICIANS, AND EXCEPTIONAL WOMEN AND HOW ONE MEMBER SET OUT TO TRACE THE THREAD OF THEIR HEREDITY.
BR 4369 IN THE BEGINNING POTOK, CHAIM A NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG YESHIVA STUDENT GROWING UP IN AN ORTHODOX FAMILY DURING THE 1930S AND 1940S AND HIS AWAKENING TO A DIFFERENT TYPE OF JEWISH LEARNING AND SCHOLARSHIP.
BR 4370 DOVE OF THE EAST & OTHER STORIES, A HELPRIN, MARK AN ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTY STORIES INVOLVING FEAR AND DANGER, IN WHICH THE LONELY, PRIVATE PERSON OBSERVES THE WORLD AROUND HIMSELF.
BR 4371 MASKS JEWS WEAR BOROWITZ, EUGENE B. A DISCUSSION OF THE SELF-DECEPTIONS OF AMERICAN JEWRY, MODERN 'MARRANOS' WHO SEEK TO CONCEAL A ETHNICITY THAT IS BASIC TO THEM. THE REFORM SCHOLAR AND THEOLOGIAN ARGUES THAT AMERICAN JEWS SHOULD TAKE OFF THEIR 'MASKS' AND RETURN TO THEIR JEWISHNESS AND THE JEWISH VALUE SYSTEM.
BR 4372 NEW ANTI-SEMITISM, THE FORSTER, ARNOLD & BENJAMIN R. EPSTEI A EXAMINATION OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN MIDDLE AMERICA AND IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD. BASED ON A STUDY BY THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF B'NAI B'RITH.
BR 4373 UNCLE HERSCHEL, DR. PADILSKY AND THE EVIL EYE YOUNG, I. S. THE HUMOROUS STORY OF A RUSSIAN JEWISH PARAMEDIC WHO COMES TO BROOKLYN AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE.
BR 4374 BLACK JEWS OF HARLEM, THE BROTZ, HOWARD M. A STUDY OF NATIONALISM AND LEADERSHIP AMONG BLACKS IN AMERICA AND WITHIN THE BLACK JEWISH COMMUNITY OF HARLEM.
BR 4375 DON'T ASK ME IF I LOVE KOLLEK, AMOS A NOVEL ABOUT CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL WRITTEN BY THE SON OF TEDDY KOLLEK, THE FORMER MAYOR OF JERUSALEM. THE MAIN CHARACTER IS A YOUNG MAN IN SEARCH OF MEANING TO HIS LIFE.
BR 4376 STREET, THE RICHLER, MORDECAI A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR'S BOYHOOD ON MONTREAL'S ST. URBAIN STREET, PART OF THE JEWISH GHETTO WHERE RICHLER AND HIS ADOLESCENT FRIENDS GREW UP IN THE 1940S.
BR 4377 HEART OF THE DOG, THE ROBERTS, THOMAS A. NAOMI HOFFMA A NOVEL OF INTRIGUE SET IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
BR 4378 JACOB AND THE ANGEL AN ESSAY IN SOCIOLOGIES OF RELIGIO DESROCHE, HENRI A STUDY OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY.
BR 4379 SAUL BELLOW'S ENIGMATIC LAUGHTER COHEN, SARAH BLACHER AN ANALYSIS OF THE COMPLEXITIES OF SAUL BELLOW'S LITERARY ART USING ANALOGIES FROM AMERICAN, ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, AND YIDDISH LITERATURE.
BR 4380 STRIKE TERROR THE STORY OF FATAH YAARI, EHUD AN ACCOUNT OF THE PALESTINIAN TERRORIST MOVEMENT, AL FATAH, AND ITS OPPOSITION MOVEMENTS.
BR 4381 JEWISH ETHICS, PHILOSOPHY AND MYSTICISM THE CHAIN OF TRADITION SERIES. VOL JACOBS, LOUIS THE SECOND VOLUME IN A SERIES THAT INCLUDES A TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY ON WORKS TAKEN FROM TRADITIONAL JEWISH SOURCES.
BR 4383 HEAVEN AT BAY THE JEWISH KULTURKAMPF IN THE HOLY MARMORSTEIN, EMILE A STUDY OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ORTHODOX AND THE ULTRA-ORTHODOX FACTIONS WITHIN THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 4384 IN THE NAME OF LIFE ESSAYS IN HONOR OF ERICH FROMM LANDIS, BERNARD & EDWARD S. TAUBER, A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS BY FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES, AND RESEARCHERS WHO WERE INFLUENCED BY THE TEACHINGS OF ERICH FROMM.
BR 4385 JEWS AND AMERICAN POLITICS ISAACS, STEPHEN D. INVESTIGATES THE ROLE OF JEWS IN AMERICAN POLITICS. BASED ON INTERVIEWS WITH JEWS IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS.
BR 4386 OBITUARIES KAPLAN, BERNARD THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ATTACKS THE GHETTO MENTALITY AS SELF-DESTRUCTIVE.
BR 4387 IRVING BERLIN FREELAND, MICHAEL BETTY BUSMAN A BIOGRAPHY OF THE AMERICAN COMPOSER WHO LIVED FROM 1888 TO 1989. BERLIN WROTE SONGS SUCH AS 'GOD BLESS AMERICA,' 'ALWAYS,' AND 'ON THE AVENUE,' AND THE MUSIC FOR THE BROADWAY SHOWS 'CALL ME MADAM' AND 'ANNIE GET YOUR GUN.'
BR 4388 NEW YORK JEWS AND THE QUEST FOR COMMUNITY THE KEHILLAH EXPERIMENT 1908-1 GOREN, ARTHUR A. AN ACCOUNT OF THE EFFORTS OF NEW YORK JEWS DURING THE EARLY 1900S TO ESTABLISH A COMMUNAL STRUCTURE WHICH WOULD UNITE THE JEWISH POPULATION.
BR 4389 BODY AND SOUL THE STORY OF JOHN GARFIELD SWINDELL, LARRY THE BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN GARFIELD, AN IMPOVERISHED JEWISH BOY WHO OVERCAME GREAT ODDS TO OBTAIN WEALTH AND FAME BUT WAS CAUGHT IN THE POLITICAL TURMOIL OF THE MCCARTHY ERA.
BR 4390 MY LAST TWO THOUSAND YEARS GOLD, HERBERT THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITER WHO DESCRIBES HIS LATER YEARS AND EXAMINES HIS JEWISHNESS. INCLUDES A SECTION ON HIS VISIT TO ISRAEL.
BR 4391 NOTHING BUT THE BEST TONNER, LESLIE EXPLORATION OF THE UNIQUE CULTURAL PHENOMENON: THE JEWISH PRINCESS-WHERE SHE COMES FROM, WHERE SHE'S GOING & A LOOK INTO HER LIFE-STYLE.
BR 4392 ART OF ISAAC BABEL, THE CARDEN, PATRICIA A BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICAL STUDY OF THE RUSSIAN WRITER (1894-1941) WHO WAS EXILED TO SIBERIA.
BR 4393 BREAKDOWN AND BEREAVEMENT BRENNER, YOSEF HAIM A NOVEL ABOUT UNFULFILLED DESIRE AND THE TOLL THAT THE STRUGGLE FOR FULFILLMENT TAKES ON THE HUMAN SPIRIT. WRITTEN BY THE ISRAELI NOVELIST, EDITOR, CRITIC, AND PHILOSOPHER WHO TOOK A PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO LITERATURE. TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW.
BR 4395 BOOK OF PRAISE, THE DIALOGUES ON THE PSALMS VAN DOREN, MARC & MAURICE SAMUEL DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE TWO AUTHORS ON THE PSALMS-DIVERSE THEMES AND MOODS, DEVOTION AND POETRY, LITERARY ALLUSIONS, AND SOME CONTEMPORARY POLITICS.
BR 4396 VATICAN IN THE AGE OF DICTATORS, THE 1922-1945 RHODES, ANTHONY AN ANALYSIS OF THE POLICIES OF THE HOLY SEE IN RELATION TO HITLER AND MUSSOLINI. EXPLORES THE ATTITUDE OF THE VATICAN TOWARDS FASCISM.
BR 4398 BOYS FROM BRAZIL, THE LEVIN, IRA A NOVEL ABOUT A GROUP OF EX-NAZIS WHO FIND REFUGE IN SOUTH AMERICA AND ATTEMPT TO CREATE A NEW BREED OF NAZI OFFSPRING, ALL CLONES OF HITLER, READY TO BE TURNED LOOSE ON THE WORLD.
BR 4399 IMPLOSION CONSPIRACY, THE NIZER, LOUIS A BOOK DEALING WITH THE ROSENBERG TRIAL AND ITS AFTERMATH. WRITTEN BY THE WELL-KNOWN TRIAL LAWYER.
BR 4400 ON BEING JEWISH ED. WALDER, DANIEL EXCERPTS FROM AMERICAN JEWISH WRITERS FROM CAHAN TO BELLOW WHICH ARE SO FULL OF THE SADNESS OF THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE, YET FULL OF WIT AS WELL, OFTEN WITH A CUTTING EDGE.
BR 4401 ONE MORE RIVER BANKS, LYNNE REID SARAH ROSENS A NOVEL ABOUT A CANADIAN WOMAN WHO RELUCTANTLY EMIGRATES TO AN ISRAELI KIBBUTZ WITH HER FAMILY ONLY TO FIND HER OWN IDENTITY AS AN ISRAELI DURING THE JUNE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR.
BR 4402 MILTON BERLE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BERLE, MILTON THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE JEWISH COMEDIAN WHO WAS KNOWN AS 'MR. TELEVISION."
BR 4403 BETWEEN TIME AND ETERNITY THE ESSENTIALS OF JUDAISM NEUSNER, JACOB A BOOK EXPLAINING HOW RABBINIC JUDAISM EVOLVED, THE ESSENTIALS OF JUDAISM, AND THE CONCEPT OF THE GOOD LIFE. INCLUDES EXAMPLES OF RABBINIC LITERATURE.
BR 4404 QUESTION OF PALESTINE, 1914-1918, THE BRITISH-JEWISH-ARAB RELATIONS FRIEDMAN, ISAIAH NEW LIGHT ON WW I RELATIONS AND THE BACKGROUND BEHIND THE BALFOUR DECLARATION.
BR 4405 BLOOD OF ISRAEL, THE GROUSSARD, SERGE AN ACCOUNT OF THE MASSACRE OF THE ELEVEN ISRAELI ATHLETES AT THE 1972 OLYMPICS IN MUNICH.
BR 4406 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GATE SUHL, YURI A SUSPENSE NOVEL ABOUT POLISH JEWS WHO ARE FORCED INTO A GHETTO DURING WORLD WAR II AND THEIR ATTEMPT TO SMUGGLE THEIR SON OUT OF THE GHETTO TO SAFETY.
BR 4407 PLEDGE, THE SLATER, LEONARD ZENA WINSTON THE STORY OF THE ARMING OF ISRAEL IN 1945 THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF WELL-TO-DO AMERICAN JEWS AND THEIR NETWORK OF INFLUENCE.
BR 4408 BETWEEN ISRAEL AND DEATH GLICK, EDWARD BERNARD A HISTORY OF TSAHALIS (AN ACRONYM FOR TZ'VAH HAGANAH L'YISRAEL), THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES.
BR 4409 NEW YORKERS, THE CALISHER, HORTENSE A SUSPENSE NOVEL ABOUT A WELL-TO-DO JEWISH FAMILY AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH NON-JEWS IN NEW YORK'S UPPER INCOME SOCIETY.
BR 4411 LIGHTNING WAR, THE BYFORD-JONES, W. ELINORE STON A BOOK ABOUT THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT AND THE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR.
BR 4412 CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM AN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT SKLARE, MARSHALL A SOCIOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF AMERICAN JUDAISM DESCRIBING THE IMPACT OF CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS.
BR 4413 SOLOMON GOLDMAN A RABBI'S RABBI WEINSTEIN, JACOB J. THE LIFE STORY OF AN AMERICAN RABBI WHO WAS DEDICATED TO THE CONTINUITY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, THE RENEWAL OF HEBREW EDUCATION, AND THE REBUILDING OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 4414 RELIGION AND SEXISM IMAGES OF WOMEN IN THE JEWISH AND REUTHER, ROSEMARY RADFORD, ED. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS. THE ESSAYS EXPLORE THE VIEWS OF THE BIBLE, THE TALMUD, MEDIEVAL AND REFORMATION THEOLOGY, AND THE WRITINGS OF KARL BARTH, PAUL TILLICH, AND OTHERS.
BR 4415 VOICES FROM THE YIDDISH HOWE, IRVING; GREENBERG, ELIEZER A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, MEMOIRS, AND DIARIES TRANSLATED FROM YIDDISH.
BR 4416 TIME THAT WAS THEN, THE THE LOWER EAST SIDE, 1900-13-AN IN ROSKOLENKO, HARRY A LIVELY HISTORY OF GROWING UP ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE WITH THE TURMOIL, STRIFE, AND ASPIRATIONS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 4417 ARMAGEDDON IN THE MIDDLE EAST ARAB VS. ISRAELI THROUGH THE OCTOB SCHMIDT, DANA ADAMS A COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY, BEHIND-THE-SCENES VIEW OF THE MIDDLE EAST. ITS POLITICS, IDEOLOGIES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
BR 4418 MEDIEVAL JEWRY IN NORTHERN FRANCE CHAZAN, ROBERT SALO MINKIN A POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF FRENCH JEWS FROM 1000 TO 1306: COMMUNITY, ECONOMY, AND RELATIONS WITH THE CHRISTIAN WORLD.
BR 4419 YOM KIPPUR WAR, THE ED. 'INSIGHT', LONDON SUNDAY TIMES WAR PUT INTO HISTORICAL AND ANALYTICAL CONTEXT TO PRESENT A BALANCE BETWEEN ARAB AND ISRAELI SENSITIVITIES.
BR 4420 LEVI YITZHAK OF BERDITCHEV PORTRAIT OF A HASIDIC MASTER DRESNER, SAMUEL H. SHIRLEY D. K A PORTRAIT OF THE HASIDIC MASTER AND TORAH SCHOLAR WHO BECAME A SPOKESMAN FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE. TEACHING THROUGH PARABLE AND HOMILY, RABBI LEVI YITZHAK (1740-1810) BECAME A LEGENDARY FIGURE, CHALLENGING BOTH GOD AND MAN FROM WITHIN THE SOURCES OF JEWISH PIETY.
BR 4421 SADIE SHAPIRO'S KNITTING BOOK SMITH, ROBERT KIMMEL THE STORY OF SADIE AND HER FRIENDS AT THE MOUNT EDEN SENIOR CITIZENS HOTEL WHO HELP HER MEET THE PUBLISHING DEADLINE FOR HER BOOK.
BR 4422 SECRET LIST OF HEINRICH ROEHM BARAK, MICHAEL AN ESPIONAGE NOVEL OF INTERNATIONAL POWER POLITICS INVOLVING ISRAELI COMMANDOS AND RUSSIAN MISSILES IN EGYPT. THE SURPRISE TARGETS, HOWEVER, ARE THE CAPITALS OF THE OIL-PRODUCING ARAB STATES.
BR 4423 DESERT BIBLE, THE NOMADIC TRIBAL CULTURE AND OLD TES SEALE, MORRIS S. THE AUTHOR CONTENDS THAT THE HEBREWS BEGAN AS A NOMADIC PEOPLE AND THAT THEIR LIFE AND LITERATURE REFLECT THEIR ORIGINS.
BR 4424 NEW WORLD FOR SIMON ASHKENAZY, A MARKISH, DAVID A NOVEL ABOUT A FIFTEEN-YEAR OLD BOY WHO IS EXILED TO SIBERIA.
BR 4426 JUDAISM AND TRAGIC THEOLOGY PLOTKIN, FREDERICK S. A COMPREHENSIVE DISCUSSION OF THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH FAITH IN THE MODERN WORLD WHICH INCLUDES THE ISSUES OF SUFFERING, REDEMPTION, SECULAR JUDAISM, PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE AND HISTORY.
BR 4427 MOTTELE A PARTISAN ODYSSEY SAMUELS, GERTRUDE THIS BOOK DESCRIBES THE RESISTANCE AGAINST GERMANY BY JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH PARTISANS IN THE FORESTS OF THE UKRAINE AND EAST POLAND IN 1942. MOTTELE, A 12-YEAR OLD WAIF JOINS THE GROUP AND, BY HIS VALOR, REVENGES MANY TIMES THE DEATH OF HIS FAMILY.
BR 4428 BLACK ANTI-SEMITISM AND JEWISH RACISM ANTHOLOGY INVESTIGATION OF AN EXPLOSIVE SUBJECT BY JULIUS LESTER, JAMES BALDWIN, WALTER B. KARP, RABBI JAY KAUFMAN, AND OTHERS OF DIVERSE VIEWPOINTS.
BR 4429 STAR IN THE FAMILY, A FAUST, IRVIN THE STORY OF THE JEWISH COMIC AND HUMORIST, BART GOLDWINE, WHO BASED HIS HUMOROUS MATERIAL ON HIS LIFE AND TIMES.
BR 4430 SATMAR AN ISLAND IN THE CITY RUBIN, ISRAEL FASCINATING HISTORY ABOUT TODAY'S HASIDIM, THE MOST ORTHODOX OF ALL JEWS, SURROUNDED BY A PLURALISTIC AMERICAN SOCIETY.
BR 4431 FAMILY REUNION, THE MOSS, ROSE A NOVEL ABOUT SIX JEWISH FAMILY MEMBERS FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES WHO TRAVEL FROM MONTE CARLO TO NICE FOR A REUNION.
BR 4432 OUR SOUTHERN LANDSMAN GOLDEN, HARRY THE STORY OF JEWISH FAMILIES AND LIFE IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE 1970S. AMONG THOSE DISCUSSED ARE THE FAMILIES OF JUDAH BENJAMIN AND SIMON BARUCH, AND THE STRAUSS FAMILY WHO LATER FOUNDED THE WELL-KNOWN DEPARTMENT STORES, R.H. MACY AND ABRAHAM AND STRAUS.
BR 4433 BETTER OCCASIONS WAGNER, ELIOT A HOUSE PAINTER FROM THE BRONX, BURDENED BY HIS WIFE'S FAMILY FOR YEARS, FALLS IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER WOMAN.
BR 4435 HIGH HOLY DAYS, THE WINTER, NAPHTALI, ED. POPULAR HISTORY OF JEWISH CIVILIZATION PUBLISHED IN ISRAEL.
BR 4436 PRIVATE TREASON, A GREENBURGER, INGRID BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN MEMOIR OF A GERMAN WOMAN WHO WAS HORRIFIED BY HITLER, LEFT HER HOME, AND SPENT THE WAR HELPING JEWISH REFUGEES, BRITISH AIRMEN, AND ANYBODY DISPLACED BY THE HORROR.
BR 4438 DISRAELI RISING A NOVEL EDELMAN, MAURICE THE SECOND PART OF A HISTORICAL TRILOGY ABOUT DISRAELI'S LEADERSHIP OF THE TORY PARTY IN ENGLAND. A SEQUEL TO THE FIRST VOLUME, 'DISRAELI IN LOVE.' IN THIS VOLUME, PERSONAL AND POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS BECOME INTERWOVEN.
BR 4439 URI A JOURNAL OF THE MYSTERY OF URI GE PUHARICH, ANDRIJA THIS FASCINATING REPORT ON URI GELLER, AN ISRAELI CLAIRVOYANT IS A DETAILED PICTURE OF HIS EXPERIMENTS AND ADVENTURES IN THE U.S. AND ISRAEL FROM 1971-1973.
BR 4440 AGUNAH GRADE, CHAIM THE STORY OF A RABBI AND HIS DECISION TO AID AN 'AGUNAH,' A WOMAN WHO CANNOT REMARRY, IN THIS CASE, BECAUSE THERE WERE NO WITNESSES TO HER HUSBAND'S DEATH.
BR 4441 AFFAIR OF STRANGERS CROSBY, JOHN A SPY THRILLER TAKES A TURN FOR THE ROMANTIC WHEN AN ISRAELI AGENT FALLS IN LOVE WITH A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD ARAB TERRORIST. THE SECURITY OF FRANCE, THE FUTURE OF THE MIDDLE EAST, AND THEIR FATE AS LOVERS IS AT STAKE.
BR 4442 YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN, SAM! LEVENSON, SAM THE WIT AND WISDOM OF SAM LEVENSON INCLUDES HIS OBSERVATIONS ABOUT YOUTH, AGE, CHILDREN, MARRIAGE, AND THE GENERATION GAP.
BR 4443 IN PRAISE OF THE BAAL SHEM TOV BEN-AMOS, DAN & JEROME R. MINTZ ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1814, THIS BOOK IS THE EARLIEST KNOWN COLLECTION OF LEGENDS SURROUNDING THE BAAL SHEM TOV, THE FOUNDER OF HASIDISM. IT INCLUDES THE HISTORY AND THE LEGENDS OF THE HASIDIM.
BR 4445 LEVINE THE LIFE OF A REVOLUTIONARY LEVINE-MEYER, ROSA RUBELLE SCHA A BIOGRAPHY OF THE WEALTHY RUSSIAN JEW WHO EMERGED AS LEADER OF THE GERMAN SPARTACUS MOVEMENT IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY. LEVINE WAS KNOWN FOR HIS LOGICAL THINKING AND PERSUASIVE ORATORY. WRITTEN BY HIS WIFE.
BR 4446 POEMS FROM THE HEBREW MEZEY, ROBERT, ED. AN ANTHOLOGY OF HEBREW POETRY DATING FROM BIBLICAL TIMES TO THE 20TH CENTURY.
BR 4447 SETTLERS, THE LEVIN, MEYER FLEEING THE POGROMS IN CZARIST RUSSIA, THE CHAIMOVITCH FAMILY COMES TO ERETZ YISRAEL. THIS IS THE SAGA OF THE FAMILY'S RETURN TO THE JEWISH HOMELAND IN THE EARLY 1900S AND THEIR SETTLEMENT OF THE LAND.
BR 4448 WAR AGAINST THE JEWS, THE DAWIDOWICZ, LUCY S. A SCHOLARLY HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF THE HOLOCAUST AND A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE WAR AGAINST THE JEWS OF EASTERN EUROPE.
BR 4449 NOAH'S ARK FOURCADE, MARIE-MADELEINE LILLIAN SPIE THE STORY OF THE ALLIANCE NETWORK OF THE FRENCH RESISTANCE WHICH WAS NICKNAMED 'NOAH'S ARK' BY THE GESTAPO BECAUSE ITS MEMBERS USED THE NAMES OF BIRDS AND ANIMALS AS PSEUDONYMS. THE AUTHOR, WHO WAS 29 YEARS OLD IN 1941, DESCRIBES HOW SHE LED THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT, EVADED THE POLICE, AND SUPERVISED THE GROUP'S ACTIVITIES.
BR 4450 PEOPLE OF THE LORD BUCK, HARRY M. THE HISTORY, SCRIPTURES AND FAITH OF ANCIENT ISRAEL.
BR 4451 PASSIONS OF THE MIND, THE A BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL OF SIGMUND FR STONE, IRVING BLANCHE HALP A FICTIONALIZED ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF FREUD, THE FATHER OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND HIS INFLUENCE ON THE 20TH CENTURY.
BR 4452 WITH HIS OWN HANDS SHAMIR, MOSHE. JOSEPH SHACHTER, TRA A FICTIONALIZED ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S BROTHER'S SHORT, EVENTFUL LIFE, FROM HIS CHILDHOOD IN ISRAEL UNTIL HIS DEATH AT THE HANDS OF ARAB MARAUDERS. TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW.
BR 4453 AMOS AND ISAIAH WARD, JAMES M. A STUDY OF THE BIBLICAL PROPHETS AMOS AND ISAIAH.
BR 4454 OUR CHALLENGE THE CHOSEN LAND KAHANE, RABBI MEIR THE FOUNDER AND FORMER LEADER OF THE JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE PRESENTS HIS CONCEPT OF ISRAEL AS A 'BIBLICALLY-ORDAINED' NATION AND HIS VISION OF THE COUNTRY AS A 'RELIGIO-NATIONAL' STATE.
BR 4455 PRISON DIARIES KUZNETSOV, EDWARD THE AUTHOR TELLS THE STORY OF THE PLAN, ORGANIZED BY A GROUP OF SOVIET ZIONISTS, TO HIJACK A PLANE AND ESCAPE TO SCANDINAVIA. BASED ON THE DIARIES OF KUZNETSOV, THE LEADER OF THE GROUP, THE BOOK REVEALS WHAT HAPPENED AT THE LENINGRAD HIJACK TRIALS.
BR 4456 MODERN MEDICINE AND JEWISH LAW STUDIES IN TORAH JUDAISM ROSNER, FRED. M.D. A TREATMENT OF CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN MEDICINE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF TRADITIONAL JEWISH LAW.
BR 4457 LAUGHTER IN DARKNESS BRISTOW, ROBERT A NOVEL ABOUT A BLIND INSTRUCTOR AT A GIRLS' COLLEGE AND HIS GUIDE DOG. WRITTEN WITH HUMOR AND COMPASSION.
BR 4458 RESPONSA OF MODERN JUDAISM KLASS, RABBI SHOLOM THIS BOOK PRESENTS A FEW HUNDRED QUESTIONS FROM THE THOUSANDS OF INQUIRIES WHICH HAVE COME INTO THE JEWISH PRESS OFFICE.
BR 4459 NAPOLEON AND THE JEWS KOBLER, FRANZ A FASCINATING HISTORICAL STUDY OF NAPOLEON'S SPECTACULAR POLICIES AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE JEWS AND HIS DRIVE FOR JEWISH EMANCIPATION IN THE WEST.
BR 4460 DISRAELI REMINISCENCES SWARTZ, HELEN M. & MARVIN SWARTZ, ED THE NOTES AND MEMOIRS OF THE BRITISH POLITICIAN, NOVELIST, AND ORATOR CONTAIN HIS REFLECTIONS ON LIFE, POLITICS, RELIGION, AND LITERATURE.
BR 4461 KIBBUTZ VENTURE IN UTOPIA SPIRO, MELFORD E. A STUDY OF THE KIBBUTZ MOVEMENT IN ISRAEL AND A DESCRIPTION OF LIFE ON A KIBBUTZ. INCLUDES THE IMPACT OF THE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR ON THE KIBBUTZ.
BR 4462 MISSION SURVIVAL BONDY, RUTH & OHAD ZMORA & RAPHAEL B A COLLECTION OF PERSONAL STORIES EMANATING FROM ISRAEL'S VICTORY IN THE SIX-DAY WAR.
BR 4464 GUILTLESS, THE BROCH, HERMAN. RALPH MANHEIM, TRANS RICA FEIL, L A NUMBER OF STORIES DEPICTING THE TYPES OF PEOPLE WHOSE INDIFFERENCE AND FEELINGS OF GUILTLESSNESS PAVED THE WAY FOR NAZISM.
BR 4465 ROTHSCHILDS, THE A FAMILY OF FORTUNE COWLES, VIRGINIA A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ROTHSCHILD FAMILY FROM THE GHETTO OF FRANKFURT, WHERE THEIR BUSINESS BEGAN, THROUGH THE NEXT GENERATION OF FIVE SONS WHO BECAME PROMINENT BANKERS AND PHILANTHROPISTS.
BR 4466 PERFECT STRANGER, A HARING, FIRTH A NOVEL ABOUT A DISSATISFIED HOUSEWIFE MARRIED TO AN ENTERPRISING BUSINESSMAN. SHE MEETS A SENSITIVE MAN WHO IS A DREAMER AND THEY CHANGE EACH OTHER'S LIVES.
BR 4467 PAVEMENT OF HELL, THE TUSHNET, LEONARD RENEE RATNER A STUDY OF THE ROLES PLAYED BY THREE JUDENRAT (JEWISH COUNCIL) LEADERS APPOINTED BY THE NAZIS IN THE GHETTOS OF EASTERN EUROPE.
BR 4468 WHEN JERUSALEM BURNED ISRAEL, GERARD A RECREATION OF THE YEAR 70 OF THE COMMON ERA, WHEN THE ROMANS BURNED THE TEMPLE AND BEGAN THE DISPERSION OF THE JEWS WHICH WAS TO LAST OVER 1900 YEARS.
BR 4470 RABBINIC MIND, THE KADUSHIN, MAX A CONSERVATIVE SCHOLAR DISCUSSES JUDAISM AS A SYSTEM OF 'VALUE CONCEPTS.'
BR 4471 JUSTUS LAPHAM, ARTHUR L. RUTH COHEN A NOVEL ABOUT JUSTUS, BODYGUARD OF KING HEROD. HALF-ROMAN AND HALF-JEWISH, JUSTUS IS INSTRUCTED BY THE KING TO SLAUGHTER ALL JEWISH NEWBORN MALES.
BR 4472 ARAB MIND, THE PATAI, RAPHAEL THIS MIDDLE EAST SPECIALIST DISCUSSES ARAB AND MUSLIM, BEDOUIN AND URBANITE, DREAMS OF UNITY AND THE REALITIES OF CONFLICT.
BR 4473 JUDAISM WITHOUT SUPERNATURALISM THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO ORTHODOXY KAPLAN, MORDECAI M. THE FOUNDER OF THE RECONSTRUCTIONIST MOVEMENT CONTENDS THAT JUDAISM CAN BE ENHANCED BY BEING FREED FROM SUPERNATURALISM.
BR 4474 HERZL ELON, AMOS A BIOGRAPHY OF THEODOR HERZL WHO LIVED FROM 1860-1904. HERZL FOUNDED THE WORLD ZIONIST ORGANIZATION AND WAS KNOWN AS THE 'FATHER OF POLITICAL ZIONISM.'
BR 4475 KIDS WHO WENT TO ISRAEL, THE FLENDER, HAROLD A BOOK OF INTERVIEWS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE BORN ELSEWHERE NOW LIVING IN ISRAEL, WITH MUCH INSIGHT ABOUT MODERN ISRAEL.
BR 4476 MEYER WEISGAL...SO FAR WEISGAL, MEYER MEMOIRS OF THE JEWISH WRITER, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE EVOLVEMENT OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT.
BR 4477 MINOR AND MODERN FESTIVALS POPULAR HISTORY OF JEWISH CIVILIZA FISHMAN, PRISCILLA, ED. HISTORIC ORIGINS OF THE LITURGIES AND THEIR MUSIC AND ART FOR ALL FESTIVALS. LITURGICAL GUIDE TO CONDUCT SERVICES IS INCLUDED.
BR 4478 TIFFANY STREET WEIDMAN, JEROME A NOVEL WHICH TRACES THE LIFE OF THE KRAMER FAMILY FROM NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE TO TIFFANY STREET IN THE BRONX.
BR 4481 JEWS IN THE SOUTH DINNERSTEIN, LEONARD & PALSSON, M.D, AN ANTHOLOGY OF ARTICLES PORTRAYING JEWISH LIFE IN THE SOUTH FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT.
BR 4482 MY LIFE MEIR, GOLDA THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GOLDA MEIR, ISRAEL'S FOURTH PRIME MINISTER. MEIR, WHO WAS BORN IN KIEV IN 1898, DESCRIBES HER EARLY LIFE IN RUSSIA, HER FAMILY'S EMIGRATION TO MILWAUKEE, HER ALIYAH TO A KIBBUTZ IN PALESTINE, AND HER CAREER AS STATESWOMAN, FOREIGN MINISTER, AND LABOR LEADER OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 4483 HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY JEWS, A FROM 1900 TO THE PRESENT GRAYZEL, SOLOMON RUBELLE SCHA AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF THE MODERN JEW SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. WRITTEN IN A CLEAR, LUCID STYLE.
BR 4484 PSYCHOHISTORY OF ZIONISM, A GONEN, JAY Y. THIS BOOK PROBES THE HEART OF ZIONISM - ITS PEOPLE, THEIR MOTIVATIONS, THEIR CONVICTIONS, AND CONCENTRATES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL REWARDS EXPERIENCED.
BR 4485 ISRAEL UNDER BABYLON AND PERSIA ACKROYD, PETER R. A SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN PALESTINE FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FIRST TEMPLE IN 587 B.C.E. TO THE CONQUEST OF JUDEA BY ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
BR 4486 HER MOTHERS BRONER, E.M. THE AUTHOR EXAMINES HER OWN LITERARY AND PERSONAL HERITAGE AS SHE STUDIES SOME OF HER 'MOTHERS:' EMILY DICKINSON, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, ROSA LUXEMBURG, AND HER OWN MOTHER.
BR 4487 HOUSE OF DAVID, THE LANDAY, JERRY M. A HISTORICAL NOVEL BASED ON THE BIBLICAL EVENTS WHICH OCCURRED DURING THE TIMES OF KING SAUL, KING DAVID, AND KING SOLOMON.
BR 4488 3 10 TO ANYWHERE, THE ROSTEN, LEO STORIES, SCENES, AND CHARACTERS DRAWN FROM THE AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCES TRAVELING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
BR 4489 LAST EXODUS, THE SCHROETER, LEONARD ELAINE ROTHE A STUDY OF THE PLIGHT OF SOVIET JEWS SINCE THE 1917 REVOLUTION. INCLUDES AN EXPLANATION OF THE SHIFTS IN OFFICIAL SOVIET POLICY VIS-À-VIS THE JEWS.
BR 4490 THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK, A - VOL. III KAGAN, Y.M. - ED. CONTAINED IN THIS BOOK ARE BRIEF PRESENTATIONS ON THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTIONS ADAPTED FROM THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE'S SICHOT (DISCOURSES) OF 1974.
BR 4492 LAST SUPPER, THE BERMANT, CHAIM THE ENFORCED TOGETHERNESS OF A FAMILY SITTING SHIVA IN AN ELEGANT LONDON HOMESTEAD SERVES AS THE CATALYST FOR A SEQUENCE OF UNSETTLING EVENTS.
BR 4493 LAND OF THE HART ISRAELIS, ARABS, THE TERRITORIES A ELIAV, ARIE LOVA JANE N. WEIS THE HART, AN ANIMAL OF GRACE AND SPLENDOR, IS OFTEN USED AS A POETIC METAPHOR FOR THE LAND OF ISRAEL, 'ERETZ HA-ZVI.' THIS BOOK DEALS WITH ONE OF THE PROBLEMS THE 'HART' IS CAUGHT UP IN - THE FUTURE OF THE ARABS LIVING IN THE WEST BANK AFTER THE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR.
BR 4494 INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN ISRAEL EISENSTADT, S. N. & RIVKA BAR YOSEF A COLLECTION OF 28 ARTICLES ANALYZING ISRAELI SOCIETY. PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS AND EDITED BY MEMBERS OF THE SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY.
BR 4495 DEATH AND THE FAMILY THE IMPORTANCE OF MOURNING PINCUS, LILY A STUDY OF THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT OF BEREAVEMENT.
BR 4496 YOUR PEOPLE, MY PEOPLE THE MEETING OF JEWS AND CHRISTIANS ECKARDT, A. ROY A NEW APPROACH TO THE PREDICAMENT OF CHRISTENDOM IN THE POST-AUSCHWITZ WORLD; A REAL CHALLENGE TO ITS INTEGRITY AND VALIDITY.
BR 4497 ANYA A NOVEL SCHAEFFER, SUSAN FROMBERG A NOVEL OF HUMAN STRENGTH, TENACITY, AND LOVE IN A WORLD UNDER THE SPECTER OF NAZI GERMANY.
BR 4498 DISRAELI DAVIS, RICHARD W. A BIOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WHO LIVED FROM 1804 TO 1881, AND INSTITUTED BOTH SOCIAL REFORMS AS WELL AS FOREIGN POLICIES.
BR 4499 RABBINICAL COUNSELING GROLLMAN, EARL A., ED. MIRIAM BENDE A NUMBER OF SPIRITUAL LEADERS DISCUSS THE CRUCIAL PROBLEMS OF YOUTH AND SEXUALITY, INTERMARRIAGE, THE AGED, SUICIDE, AND THE MENTALLY ILL, BASED ON THEIR EXPERIENCES. AMONG THE CONTRIBUTORS ARE: RABBIS IRWIN M. BLANK, ISRAEL J. GERBER, ALBERT I. GORDON, AND THE AUTHOR.
BR 4500 BAG OF MARBLES JOFFO, JOSEPH A NON-FICTION DIARY OF A JEWISH FAMILY IN FRANCE THAT IS STILL LIVING THERE TODAY.
BR 4501 OTHER WAY AROUND, THE KERR, JUDITH THE STORY OF A FAMILY WHO FLED BERLIN BECAUSE THEY WERE JEWISH. AS REFUGEES IN LONDON, THEY LEARNED HOW TO GET ALONG WITH LITTLE MONEY.
BR 4502 FAITH AND DESTINY OF MAN LOOKSTEIN, RABBI JOSEPH H. THE SELECTED ESSAYS IN THIS BOOK ARE CULLED FROM SERMONS PREACHED BY DR. LOOKSTEIN OVER A NUMBER OF YEARS. THEY DEAL WITH THE SITUATION OF MAN IN THE 20TH CENTURY, WITH HIS EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS, HIS INTELLECTUAL NEEDS AND HIS MORAL DILEMMAS.
BR 4503 FIRST-CENTURY JUDAISM IN CRISIS NEUSNER, JACOB BASED ON THE AUTHOR'S PRIZEWINNING BIOGRAPHY OF YOCHANAN BEN ZAKKAI AND HIS TIMES, THIS BOOK DESCRIBES THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ROMANS WHO WANTED TO EXPAND THEIR EMPIRE AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHO WISHED TO CONTINUE TO OBSERVE THE LAWS OF THEIR RELIGION AND LIVE IN THEIR HOLY LAND.
BR 4504 CRITICAL POINT, THE ON LITERATURE AND CULTURE HOWE, IRVING A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON LITERARY CRITICISM AND A STUDY OF WELL-KNOWN NOVELISTS FROM THE 19TH CENTURY TO MODERN TIMES INCLUDING FEODOR DOSTOEVSKY, ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN, GEORG LUKACS, EMILE ZOLA, SAUL BELLOW, AND PHILIP ROTH. ALSO INCLUDES AN ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF THE CITY IN LITERATURE.
BR 4505 ON DOING TIME SOBELL, MORTON AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRIAL OF JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG BY THEIR CO-DEFENDANT WHO WAS IMPRISONED FOR ALMOST TWO DECADES FOR HIS PART IN THE CONSPIRACY OF SPYING FOR THE SOVIET UNION. SOBELL WAS CHARGED AND CONVICTED IN 1951.
BR 4506 JONAH AND THE GREAT FISH BULLA, CLYDE ROBERT A GRACEFUL RETELLING OF THE STORY OF JONAH FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 4507 POWER STRUGGLE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CONFESSION RUBINSTEIN, RICHARD L. A PSYCHOANALYTICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY A FORMER CONSERVATIVE RABBI WHO, DURING A TROUBLED PERIOD OF HIS LIFE, DISCOVERED THAT HIS RABBINICAL AMBITION WAS A DISTORTED WILL TO POWER. IN THIS BOOK, HE USES A CONTROVERSIAL APPROACH TO SELF-ANALYSIS WITH INSIGHTS INTO RELIGION.
BR 4508 FOUR PATHS TO ONE GOD ROSENTHAL, GILBERT S. THE HISTORY AND IDEOLOGY OF THE FOUR MAIN MOVEMENTS IN AMERICAN JUDAISM.
BR 4509 LAST LAUGH, THE THE WORLD OF THE STAND-UP COMICS BERGER, PHIL A GLIMPSE INTO THE LIVES OF A NUMBER OF TWENTIETH CENTURY-COMEDIANS SUCH AS MILTON BERLE, HENNY YOUNGMAN, BUDDY HACKETT, RODNEY DANGERFIELD, WOODY ALLEN, DICK GREGORY, AND LILY TOMLIN.
BR 4510 INVITATION TO THE TALMUD A TEACHING BOOK NEUSNER, JACOB A DISCUSSION OF THE MISHNAH, THE TOSEFTA, AND THE BABYLONIAN AND PALESTINIAN TALMUDS, INCLUDING THE REASONING BEHIND THE LAWS.
BR 4511 STANLEY THE DON JUAN OF SECOND AVENUE ALLMEN, RICK A NOVEL ABOUT GROWING UP IN NEW YORK DURING THE LATE 1930S.
BR 4513 WORLD-FAMOUS RATNER'S MEATLESS COOKBOOK, THE GETHERS, JUDITH & ELIZABETH LEFFT A COOKBOOK COMPRISED OF RECIPES FROM THE WELL-KNOWN DAIRY RESTAURANT ON NEW YORK CITY'S LOWER EAST SIDE. THE TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY RECIPES INCLUDE APPETIZERS, DAIRY DISHES, VEGETABLES, SALADS, SOUPS, PASTRIES, PIES, BREADS, AND PUDDINGS.
BR 4515 SABBATAI ZEVI SCHOLEM, GERSHOM A DETAILED STUDY OF SABBATAI ZEVI, A SELF-PROCLAIMED MESSIAH, AND A HISTORY OF THE SABBATEAN MOVEMENT WHICH CAPTIVATED THE ENTIRE JEWISH WORLD. FINALLY REVEALED AS A 'FALSE MESSIAH,' SABBATAI ZEVI DIED IN 1676.
BR 4516 DAY ISRAEL DIED...AND LIVED, THE SHORT STORIES DAMAS, MICHAEL J. A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES IN WHICH THE AUTHOR DEPICTS THE HUMAN ASPECTS OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT, THE HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS AS WELL AS THE MISGIVINGS ON BOTH SIDES.
BR 4517 HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF PHILADELPHIA WOLF, EDWIN; MAXWELL WHITMAN THIS REISSUE OF A CLASSIC DESCRIBES THE LIVES OF JEWS WHO HELPED BUILD ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CITIES IN THE COLONIES.
BR 4518 SEX ETHICS IN THE WRITINGS OF MAIMONIDES ROSNER, DR. FRED AN EXAMINATION OF SEXUAL ETHICS BASED ON THE WRITINGS OF MAIMONIDES, THE TWELFTH-CENTURY CODIFIER OF JEWISH LAW AND COURT PHYSICIAN. INCLUDES AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF HIS 'TREATISE ON COHABITATION' IN WHICH HE ADVISES MODERATION IN SEXUAL ACTIVITY AND DESCRIBES THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SEXUAL TEMPERAMENTS.
BR 4519 JUDAISM AND THE NEW WOMAN PRIESAND, SALLY, RABBI A STUDY OF THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN ALL BRANCHES OF JUDAISM. PRIESAND, THE FIRST ORDAINED WOMAN RABBI IN THE REFORM MOVEMENT, CONTENDS THAT CHANGES ARE NECESSARY TO GRANT WOMEN FULL PARTICIPATION IN RELIGIOUS LIFE.
BR 4520 PRISONERS OF HONOR THE DREYFUS AFFAIR LEWIS, DAVID L. THE STORY OF CAPTAIN ALFRED DREYFUS, A FRENCH JEW WHO WAS FALSELY ACCUSED OF PASSING MILITARY SECRETS TO GERMANY IN 1894.
BR 4521 KINGDOM OF OIL, THE. The Middle East ITS PEOPLE AND ITS POWER VICKER, RAY A PORTRAIT OF THE POWER CENTER IN THE WORLD ENERGY CRISIS AND AN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE OIL-PRODUCING COUNTRIES.
BR 4522 PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE BIBLE ZELIGS, DOROTHY F. CONFLICT BETWEEN INSTINCTUAL IMPULSES AND SOCIALIZATION IS SHOWN AS THE UNIFYING THEME OF THE BIBLE AS CONCEPTS OF FREUDIAN THEORY ARE APPLIED TO BIBLICAL FIGURES.
BR 4523 JEWS OF MODERNITY, THE HIMMELFARB, MILTON HIMMELFARB PRESENTS A SERIES OF PERCEPTIVE ESSAYS WHICH COMMENT ON A VARIETY OF SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND INTELLECTUAL PROBLEMS.
BR 4524 BENE ISRAEL OF BOMBAY, THE STRIZOWER, SCHIFRA A STUDY OF THE OLD JEWISH COMMUNITY OF BOMBAY, INDIA, THAT CLAIMS DESCENT FROM THE TEN LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
BR 4526 JESUS PARTY, THE SCHONFIELD, HUGH J. THE AUTHOR OF THE PASSOVER PLOT DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED TO JESUS' FOLLOWERS IN THE 30 YEARS UP TO THE TIME THEIR REVOLUTION AGAINST THE ROMANS WAS CRUSHED.
BR 4527 STORY OF JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE, THE KAHANE, RABBI MEIR THE INSIDE STORY OF THE JDL, THE MILITANT ORGANIZATION WHOSE GOAL IT WAS TO DEFEND JEWS IN WHATEVER MANNER NECESSARY. WRITTEN BY THE FOUNDER AND LEADER OF THE GROUP.
BR 4528 PATRIARCHS OF ISRAEL, THE HOLT, JOHN MARSHALL HOLT HAS PENETRATED THE OVERLAY OF MYTH AND LEGEND SURROUNDING THE PATRIARCHS OF THE PERIOD 1900-1400 B.C.E.
BR 4530 B-G FIGHTER OF GOLIATHS SAMUELS, GERTRUDE A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND AN ACCOUNT OF ISRAEL'S FIGHT FOR RECOGNITION, INDEPENDENCE, AND SURVIVAL.
BR 4532 MODERN INTERPRETATION OF JUDAISM SCHWARTZ, CHARLES & BERTIE SCHWARTZ THE AUTHORS' INTERPRETATION OF THE TENETS AND PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM.
BR 4533 RECOLLECTIONS OF A ROTTEN KID DIM, JOAN MARANS A HUMOROUS NOVEL ABOUT A 15-YEAR-OLD JEWISH GIRL GROWING UP IN MANHATTAN IN THE 1950S.
BR 4534 TORCH SONG ROIPHE, ANN A ROMANTIC NOVEL ABOUT AN UPPER-CLASS JEWISH WOMAN WHO FALLS IN LOVE WITH A TEENAGE ALCOHOLIC.
BR 4535 JEWISH WOMAN IN AMERICA, THE BAUM, CHARLOTTE, PAULA HYMAN & SONYA PUBLISHED IN 1976, THIS SOCIAL HISTORY FOCUSES ON THE EXPERIENCE OF JEWISH WOMEN IN AMERICA.
BR 4536 SON OF GROUCHO MARX, ARTHUR A PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY OF GROUCHO MARX, WRITTEN BY HIS SON.
BR 4537 HAZOR THE REDISCOVERY OF A GREAT CITADEL YADIN, YIGAEL THE STORY OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS AT THE CANAANITE CITY OF HAZOR, WHICH SERVED AS A CITADEL DURING THE REIGNS OF SOLOMON AND SUBSEQUENT KINGS.
BR 4538 MY BROTHER'S KEEPER A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH J BAUER, YEHUDA A HISTORY OF THE JOINT AND OF AMERICAN JEWRY FROM 1929 AND THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 4539 CONVERSATIONS HENRY KISSINGER GOLAN, MATTI AN INSIDE LOOK AT HOW KISSINGER OPERATES AND AT THE NEGOTIATIONS THAT ENDED THE YOM KIPPUR WAR.
BR 4540 GROWING UP RICH BERNAYS, ANNE A NOVEL ABOUT A GIRL COMING OF AGE IN THE 1940S AND 1950S.
BR 4541 TWO IS LONELY BANKS, LYNN REID A NOVEL ABOUT A WOMAN'S STRUGGLE TO FIND HERSELF AND TO FIND CONTENTMENT IN HER LIFE.
BR 4542 ESSAYS IN BIBLICAL CULTURE ORLINSKY, HARRY M. THESE ESSAYS GIVE INSIGHT INTO THE METHODOLOGY WHICH HAS BROUGHT DR. ORLINSKY THE RESPECT OF BIBLICAL SCHOLARS AROUND THE WORLD.
BR 4543 BAAL SHEM TOV ON PIRKEY AVOTH ARYEH, I. & DVORKES, J. ED. COLLECTION OF PRECIOUS THOUGHTS, TIMELESS CONCEPTS OF ETHICS AND MORALS BY THE GREAT SOURCE OF DIVINE ILLUMINATION.
BR 4544 EINSTEIN AND THE GENERATIONS OF SCIENCE FEUER, LEWIS S. A DESCRIPTION OF THE LIVES OF EINSTEIN, BOHR, HEISENBERG, AND DE BROGLIE, MEN WHOSE INTELLIGENCE AND CREATIVITY INFLUENCED, AND WERE INFLUENCED BY, THE WORLD IN WHICH THEY LIVED.
BR 4545 CITY OF MANY DAYS HAREVEN, SHULAMITH STORY OF 30 YEARS IN LIFE OF JERUSALEM, ITS TRANSFORMATION FROM DROWSY TOWN TO BUSTLING CITY: A MOSAIC OF JEWS, ARABS, BRITISH; PRESSURED BY POSSIBLE WAR.
BR 4546 GOLDEN DOOR TO AMERICA, THE KARP, ABRAHAM J. ED. HERE IS A TANTALIZING SURVEY OF JEWS AS IMMIGRANTS; A COLLECTION THAT INVITES THE READER TO PURSUE THE SUBJECT IN GREATER DETAIL.
BR 4547 LOAVES AND FISHES KINARD, MALVINA;CRISLER, JANET MENUS, RECIPES AND BIBLICAL COMMENTS COMBINE IN A REFRESHING EXPEDITION INTO ANCIENT TERRITORY AND MODERN GUIDE TO GOURMET FEASTING.
BR 4549 RACE FOR ROME, THE KURZMAN, DAN THE STORY OF HOW ROME, 'THE ETERNAL CITY,' WAS SAVED FROM NAZI DESTRUCTION. INCLUDES A DESCRIPTION OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ROME.
BR 4550 WISDOM OF HESCHEL, THE GOODHILL, RUTH MARCUS, ED. A COMPILATION FROM THE WORKS OF ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL, THE PROMINENT THEOLOGIAN WHO SERVED AS PROFESSOR OF ETHICS AND MYSTICISM AT THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA.
BR 4551 VILNA GAON VIEWS LIFE, THE SINGER, YAAKOV & ACKERMAN, C. A CLASSIC COLLECTION OF THE VILNA GAON'S TORAH AND MUSSAR - A GUIDE TO HELP THE JEW LIVE A TORAH LIFE AS OUTLINED BY THE GREATEST SAGE OF THE PAST 200 YEARS.
BR 4552 LESSONS FROM OUR LIVING PAST HARLOW, JULES, ED. A TREASURY OF AGGADIC TALES FROM TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY SOURCES. INCLUDES LEGENDS OF DAVID, SOLOMON, AND ELIJAH AMONG OTHERS, A PARABLE OF MODERN ISRAEL BY S. Y. AGNON, AND AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WIT AND WISDOM OF THE SHTETL.
BR 4553 MYTH OF THE JEWISH RACE, THE PATAI, RAPHAEL & WING, J.P. THE AUTHORS TAKE AIM AT THE COMMONLY HELD BELIEF THAT THERE IS A JEWISH 'RACE'.
BR 4554 OPPENHEIMER AND SON HOCKING, ANTHONY A BIOGRAPHY OF THE YOUNGEST SON OF A JEWISH CIGAR MAKER WHO LEFT HIS NATIVE GERMANY TO MANAGE THE OFFICE OF A LONDON DIAMOND DEALER IN SOUTH AFRICA. BOTH OPPENHEIMERS PLACED THE NEEDS OF THEIR NEW COUNTRY BEFORE THEIR OWN INTERESTS.
BR 4555 HADASSAH ESTHER, THE ORPHAN QUEEN ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM H. A RETELLING OF THE BIBLICAL TALE OF HOW QUEEN ESTHER SAVED HER PEOPLE FROM HAMAN'S EXTERMINATION PLOT.
BR 4556 NEW LIVES SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST LIVING RABINOWITZ, DOROTHY A STUDY ABOUT THE SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST AND THEIR ADJUSTMENT TO LIFE IN AMERICA.
BR 4557 NEGROES AND THE JEWS, THE BERSON, LENORA AN ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORIC ALLIANCE BETWEEN AFRICAN AMERICANS AND JEWS, THEIR STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY, AND THE HOSTILITY THAT HAS DEVELOPED BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS.
BR 4558 TREASURY OF THE ART OF LIVING GREENBERG, RABBI SIDNEY OUT OF THE ACCUMULATED WISDOM OF THE PAST AND PRESENT, THE EDITOR HAS SELECTED THE MOST OUTSTANDING AND MADE IT AVAILABLE IN AN UNIQUE AND APPEALING MANNER.
BR 4560 sea of stones BECKER, JUREK ADELE BORDEN LIFE FOR JEWS IN THE GHETTO IN 1940 IS GRIMLY OVERSEEN BY THEIR NAZI CAPTORS. BECAUSE JACOB WAS OUT AFTER CURFEW HE IS BROUGHT BEFORE GERMAN OFFICIALS. HE OVERHEARS A RADIO AND LEARNS THAT LIBERATORS ARE NEAR. THIS NEWS TRANSFIXES THE GHETTO, BUT WHEN JACOB IS ASKED FOR MORE NEWS, HE SUPPLIES INFORMATION THAT IS ONLY IN HIS HEAD.
BR 4561 BLACK SUNDAY HARRIS, THOMAS A NOVEL ABOUT AN ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE OFFICER WHO BECOMES INVOLVED IN A RACE AGAINST TIME, UNKNOWN TERRORISTS, AND THE FBI.
BR 4562 CELEBRITY KOSHER COOKBOOK, THE HALL, MARILYN & CUTLER, J. LUCILLE BALL, NEIL SIMON AND MANY OTHERS OFFER DELIGHTFUL FARE FOR ALL OCCASIONS AND HOLIDAYS IN THIS SELECTION OF PERSONALLY FAVORITE RECIPES.
BR 4563 YESHIVA, THE - VOLUME I GRADE, CHAIM THE AUTHOR RECREATES THE RICH WORLD OF HIS NATIVE CITY OF VILNA IN PRE-WORLD WAR II LITHUANIA IN THIS MOVING STORY OF THE HEAD OF A YESHIVA.
BR 4564 SUNFLOWER, THE WIESENTHAL, SIMON A YOUNG JEW, AN INMATE OF A CONCENTRATION CAMP, IS TAKEN TO THE BEDSIDE OF A DYING, GUILT-RIDDEN NAZI SOLDIER WHO BEGS ABSOLUTION. AFTER HEARING THE SOLDIER'S STORY, THE JEW LEAVES WITHOUT SPEAKING. WIESENTHAL'S STORY FORMED THE BASIS FOR A SYMPOSIUM DEALING WITH THE MORAL QUESTIONS INVOLVED.
BR 4565 GAME PLAYER, THE YGLESIAS, RAFAEL A NOVEL FULL OF THE TESTING, ELAN, AND EVEN CRUELTY THAT MARK ADOLESCENCE. THE STRATEGIES WILL CAPTIVATE THOSE FOR WHOM WINNING IS THE ONLY THING.
BR 4566 IMPOSSIBLE DILEMMA, THE WHO IS A JEW IN THE STATE OF ISRAE KRAINES, OSCAR A STUDY OF THE QUESTION OF WHO IS CONSIDERED A JEW IN ISRAEL, AND THE POLITICAL, LEGAL, RELIGIOUS, AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM IN A DEMOCRATIC JEWISH STATE.
BR 4567 LABOR AND SOCIETY IN ISRAEL AVRECH, ISAIAH & DAN GILADI, EDS. A SELECTION OF STUDIES ON THE HISTADRUT AND THE ISRAELI LABOR MOVEMENT, INCLUDING ESSAYS ON INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY IN ISRAEL, THE KIBBUTZ, AND THE MOSHAV.
BR 4568 BETWEEN DAY AND DARK ANGOFF, CHARLES BESS CHALSKE THIS PART OF THE SAGA OF THE POLONSKY FAMILY GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR EMIGRATION FROM RUSSIA TO BOSTON. THE BOOK FOCUSES ON DAVID, THE POLONSKY'S SON.
BR 4569 KIBBUTZ ROSENFELD, HENRY STORY OF FIRST KIBBUTZ, DELGANIA AND THE LIFESTYLE IT PRODUCED, A CLASSLESS, EQUAL SOCIETY IN REGARD TO MONEY, WORK, RELIGION.
BR 4570 FINALLY...I'M A DOCTOR SHULMAN, NEIL A HUMOROUS NOVEL ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES OF A JEWISH STUDENT IN MEDICAL SCHOOL.
BR 4571 SEANCE AND OTHER STORIES, THE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS PENNY ABRAMS A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES ON LOVE AND DEATH, GOD AND THE DEVIL, FLESH AND SPIRIT, AND THE HUMAN AND COSMIC MYSTERY.
BR 4572 THERE WE SAT DOWN NEUSNER, JACOB THE CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS, AND SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE BABYLONIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY FROM 100 B.C.E. TO 640 C.E.
BR 4573 SAM'S LEGACY NEUGEBOREN, JAY A NOVEL ABOUT A NEW YORK GAMBLER AND HIS FATHER, A DEVOUT JEW.
BR 4575 YOM KIPPUR WAR, THE ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE DAVIS, MOSHE, ED. THE RESPONSE OF WORLD COMMUNITIES TO THE YOM KIPPUR WAR, REACTIONS WITHIN JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH INTELLECTUAL CIRCLES, AND EVALUATIONS OF THE JEWISH CONDITION IN COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD. BASED ON A SEMINAR ON WORLD JEWRY AND THE YOM KIPPUR WAR HELD IN JERUSALEM AT THE END OF 1973.
BR 4576 MOMO AJAR, EMILE THIS IS AN ODDLY BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY ABOUT A BOY AND AN AGING WOMAN, A JEW AND AN ARAB, WHO COME TO REALIZE THAT ONE THING IN LIFE MATTERS: LOVE.
BR 4578 MR. NOAH AND THE SECOND FLOOD BURNFORD, SHEILA A NOVEL ABOUT MR. NOAH, A DESCENDANT OF THE ORIGINAL NOAH, WHO, AFTER READING ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION, DECIDES TO BUILD AN ARK.
BR 4579 DREYFUS CASE, THE SNYDER, LOUIS L. BEATRICE TRO A STUDY, BASED ON PRIMARY SOURCES, OF THE DREYFUS AFFAIR, A LANDMARK CASE THAT BECAME A PRECEDENT FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF WORLD JUSTICE, AND WAS CONSIDERED THE IMPETUS FOR MODERN ZIONISM.
BR 4580 ALLEGRA MAUD GOLDMAN A NOVEL KONECKY, EDITH THIS YOUNG PERSON'S NOVEL FOLLOWS THE LIFE OF ALLEGRA MAUD GOLDMAN FROM AGE THREE TO 13, AS SHE GROWS UP JEWISH IN UPPER-MIDDLE-CLASS, PRE-WORLD WAR II BROOKLYN.
BR 4581 HOLOCAUST GREEN, GERALD A NOVEL OF TWO FAMILIES - ONE JEWISH, ONE NAZI - FROM 1935 TO 1945.
BR 4582 DIGGING UP JERUSALEM KENYON, KATHLEEN M. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF JERUSALEM WITH EMPHASIS ON THE STRUCTURAL REMAINS.
BR 4584 ADOLF HITLER AND THE GERMAN TRAUMA 1913-1945 - AN INTERPRETATION HERZSTEIN, ROBERT EDWIN HAZEL GREEN A BOOK ABOUT THE INFLUENCES THAT SHAPED HITLER AND AN ANALYSIS OF HIS IMPACT ON GERMANY. INCLUDES HISTORICAL NOTES, BIOGRAPHICAL DATA, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
BR 4585 DOG TAGS BECKER, STEPHEN A STORY ABOUT A STUBBORN JEWISH DOCTOR WHO PURSUES THE RIDDLE OF LIFE THROUGH A PERIOD OF 20 YEARS.
BR 4586 BRAVEST BATTLE, THE THE 28 DAYS OF THE WARSAW GHETTO U KURZMAN, DAN THE STORY OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING. BASED ON INTERVIEWS WITH MORE THAN 500 SURVIVORS, THE AUTHOR RECONSTRUCTS THE TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS OF HORROR AND HEROISM.
BR 4587 ULLMAN CODE, THE BERNHARD, ROBERT A SUSPENSE NOVEL ABOUT A FORMER AMERICAN SPY WHO IS ON A MISSION TO FIND A DIARY WRITTEN IN SECRET CODE BY A JEWISH VICTIM OF THE NAZIS.
BR 4588 BABY, IT'S COLD INSIDE PERELMAN, S.J. MINNIE BLUME A COLLECTION OF HUMOROUS, SATIRICAL ESSAYS CONCEALING SADNESS AND OUTRAGE, YET ALLOWING FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO LAUGH AT ONESELF.
BR 4589 GERSHWINS KIMBALL, ROBERT; SIMON, ALFRED A BOOK ABOUT THE AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATER COMPOSERS AND SONGWRITERS, GEORGE AND IRA GERSHWIN.
BR 4590 SAVING REMNANT, THE AN ACCOUNT OF JEWISH SURVIVAL AGAR, HERBERT AN ACCOUNT OF THE FORMATION OF A JEWISH NATION COMPRISED OF THE REMNANTS OF A PEOPLE DISPERSED IN MANY LANDS.
BR 4591 HERMAN HAD TWO DAUGHTERS POPKIN, ZELDA A NOVEL SHOWING HOW THE JEWISH COMMUNITY HAS CHANGED FROM A RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS TO THAT OF A 'BIG-GIVER' ARISTOCRACY.
BR 4592 KINGS DEPART, THE BRODSKY, ALYN A LIVELY AND POPULAR SAGA WHICH RECONSTRUCTS THE EMPIRE JUDAH MACCABEE CREATED AND THE EVENTS WHICH SHAPED THE JEWISH PEOPLE AFTER THEIR RETURN FROM BABYLON.
BR 4593 MORI SA 'ID HAZAN, HAYIM THE STORY OF THE YEMENITE JEWS.
BR 4594 WOMAN OF VALOR, A RADER, BEN-ZION & HINDA THIS BOOK PROVIDES THE JEWESS WITH AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE SPECIAL DESTINY OF HER PEOPLE AND THE UNIQUE AND ELEVATED STATUS ALLOCATED TO THE WOMAN WITHIN JUDAISM.
BR 4596 FALL AND OTHER STORIES GERENSTAIN, GRIGORI IN THESE 14 STORIES, THE AUTHOR, A YOUNG RUSSIAN JEW NOW LIVING IN ISRAEL, PROVIDES A SPECIAL VISION OF AN INNER WORLD, INTERTWINING THE REAL AND THE IMAGINARY.
BR 4599 BEHIND THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT ALROY, GIL CARL GERTRUDE LIE THE AUTHOR ANALYZES THE REASONS BEHIND THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT, AND OFFERS A SOLUTION THAT COULD ALLOW ARABS AND JEWS TO LIVE IN PEACE.
BR 4600 WRITINGS OF MARTIN BUBER, THE HERBERG, WILL, ED. A SELECTION OF WRITINGS BY TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUTHOR AND PHILOSOPHER MARTIN BUBER, WHO DEVELOPED THE CONCEPT OF RELIGIOUS EXISTENTIALISM. INCLUDED ARE HIS VIEWS OF EXISTENCE, SOCIETY, FAITH, JEWISH DESTINY, TEACHING, AND LEARNING.
BR 4602 CRESCENT AND STAR ARAB AND ISRAELI PERSPECTIVES ON T ALEXANDER, YONAH & NICHOLAS N. KITTR A DISCUSSION OF VARIOUS TOPICS PERTAINING TO THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT: ARABS IN ISRAEL, JORDAN RIVER USAGE, THE REFUGEE SITUATION, ARAB AND ISRAELI RIGHTS, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND THE STATUS OF JERUSALEM.
BR 4603 INSIGHT AND ACTION KAHN, LOTHAR A BIOGRAPHY OF HISTORICAL NOVELIST AND PLAYWRIGHT LION FEUCHTWANGER, FROM HIS BIRTH IN MUNICH TO ORTHODOX PARENTS THROUGH HIS ULTIMATE BREAK FROM JUDAISM. FEUCHTWANGER LIVED FROM 1884-1958.
BR 4604 TWELVE-YEAR REICH, THE A SOCIAL HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY 1 GRUNBERGER, RICHARD A SOCIAL HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY, DESCRIBING LIFE UNDER A TOTALITARIAN REGIME.
BR 4605 CONTEMPORARY JUDAIC FELLOWSHIP IN THEORY AND IN PRACTICE NEUSNER, JACOB, ED. AN ANALYSIS OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE BEHIND THE HAVURAH CONCEPT OF JEWISH COMMUNAL FELLOWSHIP.
BR 4606 SOUTH FROM KHARTOUM CAILLOU, ALAN THE HAUNTING ACCOUNT OF EMIN PASHA-DOCTOR, NATURALIST, LINGUIST AND ADMINISTRATOR WHO IS BARRED, AS A JEW, FROM PRACTICING MEDICINE IN GERMANY.
BR 4607 YESHIVA, THE-VOLUME II GRADE, CHAIM CONTINUING THE MOVING STORY OF TSEMAKH ATLAS, HEAD OF THE YESHIVA, THE AUTHOR RECREATES THE RICH WORLD OF HIS NATIVE CITY OF VILNA IN PRE-WORLD WAR II LITHUANIA.
BR 4608 BOOK OF LIFE GREY, MARTIN IN THIS BOOK, MARTIN GREY CALLS UPON HIS READERS TO EMBRACE LIFE, TO GIVE IT, AND TO ACCEPT IT IN THE FACE OF SUFFERING, HAPPINESS AND DEATH.
BR 4609 HISTORY OF MODERN JEWRY, A 1780-1815 MAHLER, RAPHAEL ROSE KAYE, L A COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE JEWS, FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES IN THE WEST TO PALESTINE IN THE EAST.
BR 4610 VAPOR, THE BAR ONI, BRYNA THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES HER CHILDHOOD GROWING UP IN A SHTETL IN POLAND FOLLOWED BY THE YEARS UNDER GERMAN OCCUPATION.
BR 4611 JEWS, THE BERMANT, CHAIM THE BIOGRAPHIES OF JEWS PROMINENT IN SCIENCE, INDUSTRY, AND ART.
BR 4612 PROPHETIC EXISTENCE, THE NEHER, ANDRE AN INTIMATE LOOK AT THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS--WHY THEY WERE CHOSEN, WHAT THEIR SPECIAL MESSAGE WAS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN TODAY'S WORLD.
BR 4613 ACTOR LIFE AND TIMES OF PAUL MUNI LAWRENCE, JEROME A BIOGRAPHY OF ACTOR PAUL MUNI, FROM THE BEGINNING OF HIS CAREER IN THE YIDDISH THEATER THROUGH HIS YEARS ON STAGE AND IN THE MOVIES.
BR 4614 GIRL THAT HE MARRIES, THE LERMAN, RHODA A FUNNY AND, ULTIMATELY, LETHAL DIATRIBE AGAINST THE MATING GAME AS PLAYED BY A 30ISH GENTILE WOMAN AND AN ATTRACTIVE JEWISH MAN.
BR 4615 17 BEN GURION HOFFENBERG, JACK AS A RUTHLESS PALESTINIAN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION PLOTS TO DESTROY ISRAEL, AN ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE AGENT RACES AGAINST TIME TO THWART THE CONSPIRACY.
BR 4616 JEW AND HIS HISTORY, THE KOCHAN, LIONEL THE AUTHOR ANALYZES JEWISH VIEWS ON HISTORY FROM POST-BIBLICAL TO MODERN TIMES AND DISCUSSES THE RISE OF MESSIANIC MOVEMENTS.
BR 4617 JEWISH AND HEBREW ONOMASTICS SINGERMAN, ROBERT THIS STUDY COVERS PERHAPS EVERY ASPECT OF JEWISH AND HEBREW ONOMASTICS (THE STUDY OF NAMES) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND HISTORY.
BR 4618 POLITICS OF PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM, THE QUANDT, WILLIAM & FUAD JABBER & R. L THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONALISM AMONG THE ARAB POPULATION IN THE YEARS BEFORE AND AFTER THE FOUNDING OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. DISCUSSES ARAB EFFORTS TO FORM AN INDEPENDENT STATE WHICH BECAME A SOURCE OF TENSION AND CONFLICT.
BR 4619 SUN CHEMIST, THE DAVIDSON, LIONEL THE FATE OF ISRAEL'S FUTURE ENERGY RESOURCES AND ALSO THAT OF THE WORLD HINGES ON A RESEARCHER'S ATTEMPT TO DISCOVER AND INTERPRET THE CHAIM WEIZMANN PAPERS.
BR 4620 INSIDE THE FOURTH REICH ERDSTEIN, ERICH & BARBARA BEAN A FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF A JEWISH-AUSTRIAN REFUGEE WHO SPENT 25 YEARS TRACKING DOWN FORMER NAZIS IN URUGUAY, PARAGUAY, ARGENTINA, AND BRAZIL.
BR 4621 RIFKA GROWS UP BURSTEIN, CHAYA M. CAUGHT UP IN THE WEB OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UPHEAVAL OF CZARIST RUSSIA AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, A YOUNG GIRL FIGHTS HER WAY TO A NEW LIFE IN AMERICA.
BR 4622 EROICA ROSTOV, MARA AN EXCITING TALE OF REVIVED NAZISM IN MODERN GERMANY WRITTEN WITH ALMOST KAFKAESQUE OVERTONES WHICH, FRIGHTENINGLY, READS AS IF IT WERE TRUE.
BR 4624 JEWS OF THE UNITED STATES, THE FISHMAN, PRISCILLA, ED. A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY FROM COLONIAL TIMES. .
BR 4625 HEART IS HALF A PROPHET, THE GOLDSTEIN, RUTH TESSLER A NOVEL ABOUT THE PROBLEMS AND THE HEARTACHES IN A HASIDIC FAMILY IN WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, DURING THE 1930S, AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF THE YOUNG DAUGHTER.
BR 4626 TWENTY-THIRD WEB, THE HIMMEL, RICHARD A NOVEL ABOUT A SHEIK WHO PERFECTS A PLAN TO DESTROY ISRAEL ECONOMICALLY BY PLACING AGENTS IN 28 AMERICAN CITIES TO KIDNAP AND MURDER WEALTHY JEWS.
BR 4627 GREAT MADNESS, THE HAMEIRI, AVIGDOR A NOVEL BY AN ISRAELI WRITER ABOUT JEWISH LIFE AND PRIVATION ON THE EUROPEAN EASTERN FRONT DURING WORLD WAR I.
BR 4628 CSARDAS PEARSON, DIANE A HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT A HUNGARIAN FAMILY COVERING THE PERIOD FROM BEFORE WORLD WAR II UNTIL THE NAZI INVASION. THE NAME 'CSARDAS' COMES FROM A HUNGARIAN DANCE THAT BEGINS SLOWLY AND ENDS IN A RAPID WHIRL.
BR 4629 OLD EAST SIDE, THE HINDUS, MILTON MRS. JIM LAN THE WORLD OF THE JEWISH IMMIGRANT COMES TO LIFE IN A COLLECTION OF WRITINGS FROM ABRAHAM CAHAN, LILLIAN WALD, JACOB EPSTEIN, AND OTHERS.
BR 4630 PERSONAL BOOK, A RODGERS, DOROTHY THE WIFE OF COMPOSER RICHARD RODGERS WRITES ON HER EARLY LIFE AS A MEMBER OF A WEALTHY NEW YORK JEWISH FAMILY, HER INVENTIONS AND HER ROLE AS WIFE AND MOTHER.
BR 4631 REUNION UHLMAN, FRED A NOVEL ABOUT AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN A YOUNG JEW AND THE ARISTOCRATIC SCION OF A GERMAN FAMILY. THE STORY FORESHADOWS THE FATE OF EUROPE'S JEWS.
BR 4632 SHOLOM ALEICHEM YIDDISH LITERATURE BUTWIN, JOSEPH & FRANCES BUTWIN SHOLOM ALEICHEM IS PORTRAYED AS A RECORDER OF FOLKLORE WHOSE COMIC AND SYMPATHETIC NARRATION CREATES ENDEARING CHARACTERS.
BR 4633 TEMPLE, THE WEIDMAN, JEROME A POOR BOY BECOMES RICH AND POWERFUL ENOUGH TO GIVE REIGN TO HIS OBSESSION TO ESTABLISH A JEWISH STRONGHOLD IN ANTI-SEMITIC WASP SUBURBIA.
BR 4634 OLD TESTAMENT AND THE WORLD, THE ZIMMERLI, WALTHER THE AUTHOR ASSERTS THAT THE BIBLE, BOTH IN ITS OWN TIME AND IN MODERN TIMES, IS TOO WORLD-ROOTED.
BR 4635 OUT OF THE SWEATSHOP STEIN, LEON, ED. AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE STRUGGLE FOR DECENT WORKING CONDITIONS AND WAGES, IN WHICH JEWS WERE INSTRUMENTAL. THE AUTHOR WAS EDITOR OF 'JUSTICE,' THE PUBLICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL LADIES' GARMENT WORKERS UNION.
BR 4636 ON EAGLE'S WINGS WEIZMAN, EZER WEIZMAN, A SABRA, ROSE FROM A TRUCK DRIVER IN THE BRITISH RAF TO ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED COMMANDERS OF ISRAEL'S AIR FORCE. HE RECOUNTS HIS PERSONAL STORY.
BR 4637 LOVE AND SEX GORDIS, ROBERT GORDIS EXAMINES JEWISH ATTITUDES TOWARD BIRTH CONTROL, ABORTION, HOMOSEXUALITY, ETC. AND ASSERTS THAT SOLUTIONS SHOULD ARISE FROM ETHICAL EDUCATION, NOT CIVIL LAWS.
BR 4638 AMERICAN ZIONISM FROM HERZL TO THE HOLOCAUST UROFSKY, MELVIN I. A HISTORY OF ZIONISM IN AMERICA FROM THE TIME OF HERZL, WHO ADVOCATED A ZIONIST STATE IN 1896, UNTIL THE HOLOCAUST WHEN AMERICAN JEWS BECAME COMMITTED TO THE GOAL OF A JEWISH STATE.
BR 4639 AUSCHWITZ BEGINNING A NEW ERA FLEISCHNER, EVA (EDITOR) THE COMPILATION OF 26 PAPERS WRITTEN FOR AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN INTELLECTUALS WHICH ANALYZE HITLER'S HOLOCAUST.
BR 4640 JEWS AND 'JEWISH CHRISTIANITY' BERGER, DAVID & MICHAEL WYSCHOGROD THE AUTHORS, BOTH JUDAIC SCHOLARS, RESPECTFULLY AND WITHOUT POLEMICS EXPLAIN HOW JUDAISM VIEWS CHRISTIANITY AND WHERE THE RELIGIONS DIFFER IN FUNDAMENTAL BELIEFS.
BR 4641 INTO THAT DARKNESS FROM MERCY KILLING TO MASS MURDER SERENY, GITTA A STUDY OF NAZI GENOCIDE, BASED ON INTERVIEWS WITH SS MEN AND THEIR FAMILIES, HISTORIANS, DIPLOMATS, AND PRIESTS, AS WELL AS SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST. THE BOOK ATTEMPTS TO ANALYZE THE REACTIONS AND THE BEHAVIOR OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE THIRD REICH.
BR 4643 IN THE ARENA NEUMANN, EMANUEL THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF THE LEADERS OF AMERICAN ZIONISM. NEUMANN DESCRIBES THE BEGINNING OF THE MOVEMENT AND THE VARIOUS STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ZIONIST CAUSE IN THE UNITED STATES.
BR 4644 DANCE AROUND THE FIRE CONE, MOLLY STANLEY E. S A NOVEL ABOUT A GIRL WHO BECOMES RELIGIOUSLY OBSERVANT AND THE REACTION OF HER FAMILY. A BOOK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 4645 OUT OF THE ASHES THE STORY OF A SURVIVOR THORNE, LEON A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF THE AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCES DURING THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 4646 GOLDEN DOOR, THE KESSNER, THOMAS A CASE STUDY OF SOCIAL MOBILITY IN THE UNITED STATES BASED ON THE LIVES OF ITALIAN AND JEWISH IMMIGRANTS.
BR 4647 DAMASCUS COVER, THE KAPLAN, HOWARD A SUSPENSE NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG ISRAELI SPY SENT TO SYRIA TO HELP THE REMNANTS OF THE JEWISH POPULATION THERE. AFTER COMMITTING A NUMBER OF BLUNDERS, HE IS CAPTURED BUT REFUSES TO REVEAL WHAT HE KNOWS.
BR 4648 ISAAC THE LINK IN THE CHAIN STERN, CHAIM A FICTIONALIZED BIOGRAPHY OF THE BIBLICAL ISAAC.
BR 4649 HOST AT LAST, A SACHAR, ABRAM L. THE STORY OF THE FOUNDING OF BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, ITS FUND-RAISING STRUGGLES, FACULTY RECRUITMENT, AND COMMITMENT TO THE JEWISH ETHOS AS WELL AS SCHOLARSHIP. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY WAS NAMED FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICE LOUIS BRANDEIS AND IS SITUATED IN WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.
BR 4650 STEELED BY ADVERSITY ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES ON AMERICAN J BARON, SALO W. ANNETTE FELD ESSAYS ON THE STATUS OF JEWS IN AMERICA. THE AUTHOR CONTENDS THAT WHILE THE JEWS REALIZED THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THE GROUNDWORK HAD BEEN LAID DURING THE COLONIAL PERIOD.
BR 4651 EIGHT QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK ABOUT JUDAISM PRAGER, DENNIS & JOSEPH TELUSHKIN THIS WORK PRESENTS JUDAISM AS THE RATIONAL MORAL ALTERNATIVE FOR MODERN MAN AND EXPLAINS THE UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 4652 FIRE SALE KLANE, ROBERT WHILE VACATIONING IN FLORIDA, A JEWISH MAN ARRANGES TO HAVE HIS DEPARTMENT STORE BURNED DOWN IN THIS FARCICAL BLACK COMEDY.
BR 4653 MESSENGERS OF GOD WIESEL, ELIE BASED ON HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE, THE TALMUD, AND THE COMMENTARIES, THE AUTHOR BRINGS THE STORIES OF THE BIBLICAL PERSONALITIES TO LIFE.
BR 4654 KISSINGER PORTRAIT OF A MIND GRAUBARD, STEPHEN R. AN ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE EDUCATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT THAT MADE KISSINGER'S CAREER POSSIBLE AND A STUDY OF THE CONCEPTS HE DEVELOPED AND APPLIED TO AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY.
BR 4655 RHINEMANN EXCHANGE, THE LUDLUM, ROBERT A NOVEL OF ESPIONAGE WHICH TAKES PLACE DURING WORLD WAR II, INVOLVING AN UNDERCOVER TRADE OF INDUSTRIAL DIAMONDS BETWEEN AMERICAN AND NAZI LEADERS. WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR OF 'THE MADLOCK PAPER.'
BR 4656 BIRD HAS NO WINGS, THE LETTERS OF PETER SCHWIEFERT SCHWIEFERT, PETER. C. LANZMAN, ED. THE LETTERS WRITTEN BY A YOUNG FRENCH-JEWISH WRITER WHO WAS KILLED WHILE FIGHTING FOR THE FREE FRENCH ARMY.
BR 4657 RIVER AND THE STONE, THE JENKS, KATHLEEN STORY OF MOSES' YOUTH IN EGYPT. THE NOVEL DEPICTS THE SENSUAL TEXTURE OF WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE UNDER THE PHARAOHS.
BR 4658 MOSES A NARRATIVE BURGESS, ANTHONY AN EPIC POEM WHICH RECOUNTS THE BIBLICAL STORY OF MOSES, THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT, AND THE YEARS OF WANDERING IN THE DESERT.
BR 4659 LITTLE BOY IN SEARCH OF GOD, A SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS & IRA MOSKOVI A BIOGRAPHY OF THE NOBEL PRIZEWINNING NOVELIST AND STORYTELLER, COVERING HIS CHILDHOOD YEARS, HIS HASIDIC BACKGROUND, HIS EFFORTS TO UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF GOD, AND THE CHALLENGE OF RATIONALISM AND SECULAR KNOWLEDGE.
BR 4660 TO REMEMBER, TO FORGET BEN AMOTZ, DAN. ZIVA SHAPIRO, TRANS A LOVE STORY ABOUT A CONFIRMED ISRAELI BACHELOR WHO LEAVES JERUSALEM TO CLAIM REPARATIONS FROM THE GERMANS AND RETURNS WITH A FAMILY AND A MERCEDES.
BR 4661 PLOT TO DESTROY ISRAEL, THE ROSENFELD, ALVIN A DOCUMENTED REPORT ON THE ARABS' PLAN TO DESTROY ISRAEL, MILITARILY, DIPLOMATICALLY, AND ECONOMICALLY.
BR 4662 WEDNESDAY THE RABBI GOT WET KEMELMAN, HARRY THE SIXTH NOVEL IN THE SERIES ABOUT RABBI SMALL, SPIRITUAL LEADER OF A SYNAGOGUE IN BARNARD'S CROSSING, WHO USES TALMUDIC REASONING AND INSIGHT TO SOLVE MYSTERIES WHILE DEALING WITH DAY-TO-DAY 'SHUL POLITICS.'
BR 4663 SAMURAI OF VISHOGROD, THE THE NOTEBOOKS OF JACOB MARATECH WINCELBERG, SHIMON & ANITA WINCELBER A BIOGRAPHY OF THE YIDDISH WRITER WHO GREW UP IN RUSSIA AND SERVED IN THE CZAR'S ARMY. THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE MARATECH SOUGHT TO COMBAT THE STEREOTYPE OF THE PASSIVE JEWISH UNDERDOG.
BR 4664 WAY OF TORAH, THE AN INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM. 4TH ED NEUSNER, JACOB THIS TEXT SURVEYS THE VARIETIES OF JEWISH BELIEF AND BEHAVIOR, MODERN JEWISH CULTURE, AND THE PERSISTENCE OF RABBINIC TRADITION.
BR 4665 FROM THE GHETTO CHAMETZKY, JULES THIS STUDY CAPTURES THE EXCITEMENT OF ABRAHAM CAHAN'S LITERARY PASSIONS AS ONE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN-JEWISH WRITERS OF THE JEWISH IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE.
BR 4666 SHTETL AND OTHER YIDDISH NOVELLA WISSE, RUTH R., ED. LIFE IN THE EUROPEAN SHTETL SERVES AS THE BACKGROUND IN THESE FIVE SHORT NOVELS.
BR 4667 DARKNESS AT NOON KOESTLER, ARTHUR A NOVEL, BASED ON THE AUTHOR'S OWN EXPERIENCES, ABOUT THE IMPRISONMENT, TORTURE, CONFESSION, AND DEATH OF AN OLD BOLSHEVIK.
BR 4668 JEWISH IDEAS AND CONCEPTS KATZ, STEVEN T. AN EXAMINATION OF BASIC CONCEPTS SUCH AS GOD, MAN, CREATION, ISRAEL, MESSIAH THAT HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED BY JUDAISM AND CONSTITUTE THE JEWISH VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE.
BR 4669 HEARTLAND MALOFF, SAUL A NOVEL, SET IN A GIRLS' COLLEGE IN THE HEARTLAND OF AMERICA, WHICH EXPLORES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LIFE IN THE EAST AND IN THE WEST, BETWEEN JEW AND NON-JEW, AND BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN.
BR 4670 EARLY IN THE SUMMER OF 1970 YEHOSHUA, A.B. MIRIAM ARAD & PAULINE A COLLECTION OF STORIES BY THE ISRAELI AUTHOR FOCUSING ON THE PERSONAL ANGUISH OF INDIVIDUALS AFFECTED BY WAR.
BR 4672 FROM SPANISH COURT TO ITALIAN GHETTO ISAAC CARDOSO, A STUDY IN 17TH CE YERUSHALMI, YOSEF HAYIM A HISTORY OF THE MARRANOS OF 17TH CENTURY SPAIN BASED ON DOCUMENTS ON THE LIFE OF PHYSICIAN AND PHILOSOPHER ISAAC CARDOSO.
BR 4673 LIFE STORY OF MENACHEN BEGIN, THE GREENFIELD, RICHARD P. & IRVING A. G A BIOGRAPHY OF MENACHEM BEGIN, FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND LEADER OF THE LIKUD PARTY. DESCRIBES HIS MILITANCY DURING HIS YOUNGER YEARS, HIS ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT BY THE BRITISH, AND HIS BELIEF IN CREATING A JEWISH STATE BY 'DIRECT ACTION' RATHER THAN BY DIPLOMACY.
BR 4674 PEDLOCK INHERITANCE, THE LONGSTREET, STEPHEN A NOVEL ABOUT AN AMERICAN-JEWISH FAMILY WHICH FOCUSES ON JUDGE PEDLOCK'S PROJECTED NOMINATION TO THE SUPREME COURT, HIS SON'S ROMANCES, AND A MURDER.
BR 4675 URBAN CIVILIZATION IN PRE-CRUSADE EUROPE. VOL. 2. AGUS, IRVING A. A STUDY OF ORGANIZED TOWN-LIFE IN NORTHWESTERN EUROPE DURING THE TENTH AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES, BASED ON THE RESPONSA LITERATURE.
BR 4676 YEMENITE GIRL, THE LEVIANT, CURT A NOVEL ABOUT THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN EZRA SHULTISH AND AN ELDERLY ISRAELI NOBEL LAUREATE.
BR 4677 WINDOW ON MOUNT ZION ROSE, PAULINE ELLEN KANNER THE STORY OF AN ENGLISH FAMILY WHO CAME TO ISRAEL BEFORE THE JUNE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR.
BR 4678 MARRIAGE SCHNEID, HAYYIM, ED. A HISTORY OF THE BIBLICAL AND TALMUDIC ATTITUDES TOWARDS SEXUALITY AND THE MARITAL RELATIONSHIP. THE BOOK DISCUSSES THE LAWS AND CUSTOMS SURROUNDING THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY, DOWRY, SEX, AND CONTRACEPTION.
BR 4679 SCOUNDREL TIME HELLMAN, LILLIAN THIS THIRD VOLUME OF HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY CONCERNS HER TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS DURING THE MCCARTHY ERA.
BR 4680 MIDDLE EAST, THE QUEST FOR AN AMERICAN POLICY BELING, WILLARD A., ED. RUBELLE SCHA A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ABOUT ISSUES SUCH AS ARAB-ISRAELI MISTRUST, INTER-ARAB RIVALRY, AND AMERICAN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
BR 4681 ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE JEWS BARON, SALO W. & ARCADIUS KAHAN & OT THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC FACTORS ON THE LIFE OF THE JEWS. COVERING THE PERIOD UP TO THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES, THE BOOK DESCRIBES JEWISH PARTICIPATION IN VARIOUS BRANCHES OF THE ECONOMY, INCLUDING HANDICRAFTS, TRADE, AND INDUSTRY.
BR 4682 NIGHT AND HOPE LUSTIG, ARNOST. A. THINNER, TRANS. A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA EXPLORES THE LIVES OF JEWS WHO ATTEMPTED TO SURVIVE IN THE TEREZIN CONCENTRATION CAMP.
BR 4683 IT ISN'T ALL MINK SPANIER, GINETTE THE JEWISH DIRECTRICE OF THE FASHION HOUSE OF BALMAIN IN PARIS REMINISCES ABOUT HER CHILDHOOD, HER WARTIME YEARS AND LIFE IN THE HIGH WORLD OF FASHION.
BR 4684 HERMANN COHEN'S PHILO. JUDAISM MELBER, JEHUDA A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF THE PROBLEMS THAT CONFRONTED THIS EMINENT, CONTEMPORARY JEWISH PHILOSOPHER.
BR 4685 ADAM RESURRECTED KANIUK, YORAM A NOVEL, SET IN ISRAEL, ABOUT ADAM, WHOSE TALENT AS A CLOWN SAVED HIM FROM EXTERMINATION IN THE NAZI DEATH CAMPS.
BR 4686 SEEKER AND OTHER POEMS SACHS, NELLY TRANS: MEAD, HAM. IN THESE LATER WORKS, THE NOBEL LAUREATE, A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, DRAWS HEAVILY ON JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM.
BR 4687 DEAR ONCE POPKIN, ZELDA A NOVEL ABOUT FOUR GENERATIONS OF AN IMMIGRANT JEWISH FAMILY FROM A RUSSIAN-LITHUANIAN VILLAGE.
BR 4688 MOROCCAN, THE HADDAD, C.A. THE ADVENTURES OF A CUNNING, COWARDLY MOROCCAN-BORN JEW WHO EMERGES AS AN ANTI-HERO WHEN HE IS DUPED INTO INFILTRATING SYRIA AS A SPY.
BR 4689 BINDING OF ISAAC, THE COHEN, BARBARA TOLD BY AN AGING ISAAC TO HIS GRANDCHILDREN, AN UNCOMPROMISINGLY TRUTHFUL, YET TENDER AND REASSURING RETELLING OF THE TIMELESS OLD TESTAMENT STORY.
BR 4690 CHOOSING PEOPLE, THE ARIAN, ALAN AN ANALYSIS OF ISRAELI VOTING BEHAVIOR AND HOW IT IS AFFECTED BY ISRAELI POLITICAL DYNAMICS, VOTING BLOCS, AND RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE.
BR 4691 LEGENDS OF JERUSALEM THE SACRED LAND. VOL. 1. VILNAY, ZEV AN ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES AND FOLKTALES FROM MIDRASHIC AND RABBINIC LITERATURE CONTAINING OVER 300 LEGENDS ABOUT JERUSALEM.
BR 4692 FAMILY FEELING YGLESIAS, HELEN AN EVOCATIVE STORY OF THE EXPERIENCES OF A JEWISH FAMILY'S EMIGRATION TO AMERICA--THEIR FAILURES, SUCCESSES AND CONFLICTS.
BR 4693 JEWISH WOMAN IN AMERICA, THE GLANZ, RUDOLPH GLANZ'S THESIS IS THAT THE SECOND WAVE OF JEWISH IMMIGRATION (1881-1929) BROUGHT UNMARRIED WOMEN WITH ARTISAN SKILLS TO AMERICA. MANY OF THESE WOMEN BECAME ACTIVE UNIONISTS.
BR 4695 MIMEKOR YISRAEL (CLASSICAL JEWISH FOLKTALES), VOL. II BIN GORION, MICHA, ED. A COLLECTION OF OVER 1,000 FOLK TALES BASED ON THE POPULAR LITERATURE THAT EVOLVED IN JEWISH SOCIETIES THROUGH THE CENTURIES.
BR 4696 FRUITS OF THE HOLY LAND, THE GOOR, ASAPH & MAX MURDOCK THE LEGENDS AND HISTORY OF THE FRUITS OF THE HOLY LAND MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE AND TALMUD.
BR 4697 ZION RECONSIDERED PETUCHOWSKI, JAKOB J. A STUDY OF THE IDEOLOGY OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ITS FULFILLMENT IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL, ITS EFFECT ON THE STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN JUDAISM, AND THE BIBLICAL CONCEPTS UPON WHICH IT IS BASED. WRITTEN BY THE PROMINENT REFORM RABBI, SCHOLAR, AND THEOLOGIAN.
BR 4698 BUBBLES A SELF PORTRAIT SILLS, BEVERLY BEVERLY SILLS HAS COME A LONG WAY TO BECOME AN INTERNATIONAL OPERA SENSATION--BUT BELLE MIRIAM SILVERMAN IS STILL VERY MUCH BUBBLES FROM BROOKLYN.
BR 4700 RABBI POLNER, MURRAY FROM INTERVIEWS WITH AMERICAN RABBIS, THE AUTHOR PRESENTS A HEARTWARMING ACCOUNT OF RABBIS AS PASTORS, SCHOLARS, FUND-RAISERS AND COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS.
BR 4701 VINEGAR PUSS PERELMAN, S.J. ELLEN KANNER A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-TWO HUMOROUS STORIES, INCLUDING 'READY, AIM, FLEE' AND 'AROUND THE BEND IN EIGHTY DAYS.'
BR 4702 CHILD'S INTRO. TO PROPHETS, A NEWMAN, SHIRLEY; NEWMAN, L. ED. THE AUTHOR COMPILES A SELECTION OF BIBLE STORIES TO FAMILIARIZE YOUNG CHILDREN WITH THE EARLY PROPHETS AND THEIR TEACHINGS.
BR 4703 KARL MARX ON RELIGION. VOL. V PADOVER, SAUL K., ED. AN EXAMINATION OF MARX'S ATTITUDE TOWARD RELIGION: HIS ANTIPATHY FOR THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, CLERGY, RITES AND IDEALS AS WELL AS HIS HOSTILITY TOWARD JUDAISM.
BR 4704 HUMANIZING JEWISH LIFE JUDAISM AND THE HUMAN POTENTIAL MO ELKINS, RABBI DOV PERETZ ELKINS DISCUSSES THE TEACHING METHODS OF THE 'HUMAN POTENTIAL MOVEMENT' AND APPLIES ITS TECHNIQUES OF EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION AND SENSITIVITY LABS TO JEWISH RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL, AND COMMUNITY INSTITUTIONS.
BR 4705 JEWISH GRANDMOTHERS KRAMER, SYDELLE & JENNY MASUR, EDS. THE RECOLLECTIONS OF TEN WOMEN ABOUT THE DEPRESSION YEARS, POVERTY, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND CULTURE SHOCK.
BR 4706 WE JEWS ROSENZWEIG, EFRAIM M. AN EXCELLENT PRIMER, NEITHER CONDESCENDING NOR SUPERFICIAL, FOR CHRISTIANS WITH A GENUINE INTEREST IN THE THOUGHT, RATIONALE AND PRACTICE OF JUDAISM.
BR 4707 LITERATURE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE TIME OF JESUS, THE SCHURER, EMIL STANLEY R. B BACKGROUND AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF SUCH TEXTS AS 'THE BOOK OF MACCABEES,' THE PSEUDEPIGRAPHIC PROPHECIES, THE SEPTUAGINT, AND THE WRITINGS OF JOSEPHUS AND PHILO.
BR 4709 BLOODSHED AND THREE NOVELLAS OZICK, CYNTHIA IN THE TITLE STORY, NOVELIST OZICK DESCRIBES CONSTRUCTION WORK IN A HASIDIC COMMUNITY OUTSIDE NEW YORK CITY WHERE TORAH STUDY GOES ALONG WITH CARPENTRY AND BRICKLAYING. ANOTHER NOVELLA FEATURES A CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVOR WHO REPRESENTS AN AFRICAN NATION IN THE UNITED NATIONS.
BR 4710 SOLOMON'S NEW MEN THE EMERGENCE OF ANCIENT ISRAEL AS HEATON, E.W. A STUDY FOCUSING ON THE RISE OF THE SCRIBES AND HISTORIANS DURING KING SOLOMON'S TIME WHO PRODUCED BIBLICAL LITERATURE. THE BOOK DESCRIBES THE LIFE AND CULTURE OF ANCIENT ISRAEL.
BR 4711 FROM MOSCOW TO JERUSALEM THE DRAMATIC STORY OF THE JEWISH RASS, REBECCA & M. BRAFMAN A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE ATTEMPTS OF SOVIET JEWISH ACTIVISTS TO EMIGRATE TO ISRAEL. INCLUDES THE PLIGHT OF INDIVIDUALS WHO RENOUNCED THEIR SOVIET CITIZENSHIP, THE ATTEMPT TO HIJACK A PLANE, AND THE RESPONSE OF THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT.
BR 4712 HOLOCAUST AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION, THE LANGER, LAWRENCE L. A CRITICAL STUDY OF PROSE AND POETRY COMPOSED BY VICTIMS AND OBSERVERS OF THE NAZI ERA WHICH EXAMINES A GENRE OF WRITING CONSIDERED 'THE LITERATURE OF ATROCITY.'
BR 4713 WHY THEY GIVE GOLDIN, MILTON A STUDY COMPARING JEWISH FUND-RAISING EFFORTS WITH THOSE OF OTHER RELIGIOUS OR SECULAR PHILANTHROPIES.
BR 4714 OUR HERITAGE SCHMAHL, CHAIM S. A COLLECTION OF SHORT VERY INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS ABOUT THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION, PRESENTED IN ALMOST STORY FORM.
BR 4715 HOSTAGES THE PERSONAL TESTIMONY OF A SOVIET SVIRSKY, GRIGORY A PERSONAL MEMOIR AND TESTIMONY OF THE POSITION OF JEWS UNDER THE COMMUNIST REGIME. THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES WHAT HIS OWN FAMILY SAW AND EXPERIENCED WHILE LIVING IN SOVIET RUSSIA.
BR 4716 FALSE IDOLS FERM, BETTY AN ELECTRIFYING NOVEL OF THE UNNATURAL; THE TERRIFYING EVENTS WHICH LEAD TO THE EXORCISM OF A DEMON IN A LONG ISLAND SUBURBAN COMMUNITY.
BR 4718 LET US REASON TOGETHER DIALOGUES ON VITAL CONTEMPORARY IS BERKOWITZ, WILLIAM, ED. RUTH BERKELE A COLLECTION OF DIALOGUES THAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN THE AUTHOR, A RABBI, AND LEADERS IN THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY ON A NUMBER OF CONTEMPORARY JEWISH ISSUES. TOPICS INCLUDED RELIGION AND PSYCHOANALYSIS, UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY, SCIENCE AND RELIGION, AND THE PLIGHT OF SOVIET JEWRY.
BR 4719 RAV, THE EHRMANN, NAFTALI HERTZ THE LIFE STORY OF THE FIRST REBBE OF LUBAVITCH AND FOUNDER OF CHABAD CHASSIDUTH, RABBI SCHNEUR ZALMAN OF LIADY.
BR 4720 ESSENTIAL TALMUD, THE STEINSALTZ, ADIN. CHAYA GALAI, TRAN THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF THE ORAL LAW AND AN EXPLANATION OF ITS IMPORTANCE IN JEWISH TRADITION. ALSO INCLUDES SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THE RABBIS AND SCHOLARS OF THE TALMUDIC PERIOD. TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW.
BR 4721 ARYAN MYTH, THE POLIAKOV, LEON A STUDY SHOWING HOW THE MYTH OF A SUPERIOR 'ARYAN' RACE CAPTURED THE GERMAN IMAGINATION, HELPING THEM RATIONALIZE GENOCIDE OF 'SUB-HUMANS.'
BR 4722 JEWISH JESUS, THE ARON, ROBERT A DESCRIPTION OF JESUS' JEWISH BACKGROUND AND BELIEFS.
BR 4723 WORLD OF OUR FATHERS HOWE, IRVING STORIES AND ESSAYS FROM THE WORLD OF THE JEWS WHO IMMIGRATED TO AMERICA FROM EASTERN EUROPE IN THE 1880S AND MADE THEIR HOME ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE. WHILE STRUGGLING TO MAINTAIN THEIR YIDDISH CULTURE, THEY MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THE FIELDS OF ART, SCIENCE, AND SOCIAL REFORMS.
BR 4724 CRUCIFIXION OF THE JEWS, THE LITTELL, FRANKLIN H. A BOOK WHICH EXAMINES THE FAILURE OF CHRISTIANS TO UNDERSTAND THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE, ESPECIALLY IN TERMS OF THE HOLOCAUST AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 4725 GUARD YOUR TONGUE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE LAWS OF L PLISKIN, ZELIG A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE LAWS OF GOSSIP AND SLANDER BASED ON THE WORKS OF RABBI YISROEL MEIR HAKOHEN ALSO KNOWN AS THE CHOFETZ CHAYIM.
BR 4726 LEAH'S JOURNEY GOLDREICH, GLORIA SAGA OF THE LOVE AND STRUGGLES OF A JEWISH COUPLE WHO FLEE POGROMS IN RUSSIA TO FIND A NEW LIFE, FIRST IN THE SQUALOR OF NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE AND THEN IN THE LUXURIOUS SUBURBS.
BR 4727 JERUSALEM GULSTON, CHARLES A MAGNIFICENTLY WRITTEN HISTORICAL STUDY OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL-A STUDY THAT REFLECTS THE BIBLICAL PAST AND THE PROPHESIED FUTURE.
BR 4729 YOUNG MAN WHO WROTE SOAP OPERAS, THE GROSS, JOEL A ROMANTIC NOVEL ABOUT THE GROWTH AND MATURING OF A YOUNG MAN, ONCE A BRILLIANT YESHIVA STUDENT, WHO BECOMES A WRITER OF SOAP OPERAS.
BR 4730 JEW IN EARLY AMERICAN WIT AND GRAPHIC HUMOR, THE GLANZ, RUDOLF GLANZ CONCLUDES THAT 'IN AMERICAN CARICATURE, THE JEW IS A REASONING BEING, LAUGHABLE IN HIS WEAKNESS, BUT FORMIDABLE IN...HIS RATIONALITY.
BR 4731 GABRIEL POLLOCK, HARRY J. A HUMOROUS NOVEL ABOUT A JEWISH BOY GROWING UP IN AN ORTHODOX FAMILY IN THE 1930S, WHO TRIES TO ESCAPE THE CONFINES OF RELIGION AND TRADITION.
BR 4732 JUDAISM IN AMERICA FROM CURIOSITY TO THIRD FAITH BLAU, JOSEPH L. BLAU ASSERTS THAT JUDAISM'S ADAPTATION TO THE CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF AMERICA SIGNIFIES THE VITALITY OF THE RELIGION AND THE CREATIVITY OF ITS ADHERENTS.
BR 4733 ARRANGED MARRIAGE, AN TRACHTENBERG, INGE A NOVEL SET IN THE EARLY 1900S ABOUT A WOMAN WHOSE HUSBAND IS SUFFERING FROM EPILEPSY. EXPLORES FREUDIAN CONCEPTS.
BR 4734 MY LIFE, MY THEATER KAMINSKA, IDA THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE ACTRESS AND DIRECTOR WHO HELPED KEEP THE YIDDISH THEATER ALIVE DURING THE HITLER YEARS.
BR 4735 WEIZMANN LITVINOFF, BARNET A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. WEIZMANN, WHO LIVED FROM 1874-1952, WAS A ZIONIST LEADER AND A CHEMIST BY PROFESSION. HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN SECURING UNITED STATES SUPPORT FOR THE FORMATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 4736 SOLOMON AND SHEBA PRITCHARD, JAMES B. THIS BOOK RETELLS THE BIBLICAL STORY OF THE VISIT OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA TO KING SOLOMON AND ANALYZES IT THROUGH HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
BR 4737 TO RAISE A JEWISH CHILD A GUIDE FOR PARENTS DONIN, RABBI HAYIM HALEVY RABBI DONIN OFFERS PRACTICAL ADVICE ON JEWISH PARENTING AND GIVES SUGGESTIONS FOR DEALING WITH MANY OF THE DECISIONS PARENTS MUST MAKE CONCERNING JEWISH EDUCATION, FAMILY LIFE, AND THE CHILD'S SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT.
BR 4738 RABBI'S WIFE, THE BENEDICTUS, DAVID WHEN ARAB TERRORISTS TAKE OVER RABBI JAMIE'S SYNAGOGUE, HIS WIFE IS TRAPPED INSIDE. THE STORY MOVES FROM LONDON TO BEIRUT AND BACK TO LONDON WHERE IT ENDS WITH A STARTLING DENOUEMENT.
BR 4739 NOBODY CALLS AT THIS HOUR JUST TO SAY HELLO KAMPEN, IRENE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORK ABOUT THE AUTHOR'S FAMILY AND THEIR COLORFUL BACKGROUNDS. THE BOOK INCLUDES STORIES AND ANECDOTES ABOUT HER GRANDPARENTS AND ABOUT HER PARENTS WHO UNWITTINGLY SEND HER TO A COMMUNIST SUMMER CAMP.
BR 4740 PEOPLE THAT DWELLS ALONE, A HERZOG, YAACOV PUBLISHED IN 1975, THIS WORK GATHERS TOGETHER SELECTED SPEECHES AND WRITINGS BY YAACOV HERZOG, FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE.
BR 4741 HIT TEAM, THE TINNIN, DAVID B. AN ACCOUNT OF THE ASSASSINATIONS CARRIED OUT BY ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE AGENTS AGAINST THE LEADERS OF BLACK SEPTEMBER IN THE WAKE OF THE 1972 MUNICH MURDERS.
BR 4742 JUDAISM CHRISTIAN BEGINNINGS SANDMEL, SAMUEL A GIFTED AUTHOR TRACES JEWISH HISTORY, INSTITUTIONS AND BELIEFS FROM 200 B.C. TO 175 A.D.. TO REVEAL THE ORIGINS OF SYNAGOGUE JUDAISM AND SUBSEQUENTLY, CHRISTIANITY.
BR 4743 ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER MALIN, IRVING AN APPRECIATION OF THE STORIES OF THE RENOWNED YIDDISH AMERICAN WRITER.
BR 4744 JEWS IN SOVIET RUSSIA SINCE 1917, THE KOCHAN, LIONEL, ED. A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ABOUT THE SITUATION OF THE JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION SINCE 1917.
BR 4746 DEAD SEA CIPHER, THE PETERS, ELIZABETH THIS NOVEL OF SUSPENSE AND EXCITEMENT IS FILLED WITH ROMANCE, THRILLS AND A MOST INTRIGUING ARCHAEOLOGICAL POSSIBILITY.
BR 4748 HOME AT LAST EISENBERG, AZRIEL, ED. A COLLECTION OF MEMOIRS OF HISTORICAL EVENTS BY SIXTEEN ISRAELI WRITERS.
BR 4750 LOVERS AND HERETICS HALE, JOHN A FORMER BRITISH SOLDIER, UPON HEARING OF THE DEATH OF A FRIEND WHOM HE MET IN BERLIN, IS PROMPTED TO CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION.
BR 4751 DARK LADY, THE AUCHINCLOSS, LOUIS THIS STORY OF A JEW WHO MARRIED A GENTILE, LOST HIS RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT BUT NOT HIS BASIC JEWISHNESS, MIRRORS WEALTHY NEW YORK LIFE FROM 1930 TO 1950.
BR 4752 ESSENTIAL PHILO, THE GLATZER, NAHUM N., ED. A SERIES OF PHILO'S BASIC TREATISES PROVIDING AN INTRODUCTION TO HELLENISTIC JUDAISM AND A BACKGROUND TO EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT.
BR 4753 EFRAIM'S BOOK ANDERSCH, ALFRED A SPIRITUAL ODYSSEY OF AN EXISTENTIAL MODERN WANDERING JEW; IT HAS A POETIC PROSE, EVOCATIVE IMAGES AND EXCELLENT CHARACTERIZATION.
BR 4754 WAKE UP TO DO WORK OF CREATOR HELMREICH, WILLIAM B. THE BOOK PRESENTS PERSONAL GLIMPSES INTO THE EXPERIENCES OF AN ORTHODOX FAMILY ... RITUALS, PRAYERS, SONGS AND DANCES.
BR 4756 FROM OEDIPUS TO MOSES FREUD'S JEWISH IDENTITY ROBERT, MARTHE. RALPH MANHEIM, TRAN THE AUTHOR CONTENDS THAT FREUD'S ADVANCEMENT OF HIS THEORY OF SEXUALITY WAS BASED LARGELY ON FRUSTRATED AMBITIONS TO ACHIEVE RECOGNITION IN A GENTILE SOCIETY.
BR 4757 DYING IN THE SUN PEARCE, DONN A STUDY OF A COMMUNITY OF SENIOR CITIZENS LIVING IN FLORIDA.
BR 4758 HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER FILIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN JEWISH LA BLIDSTEIN, GERALD AN EXAMINATION OF THE SIGNIFICANCE, SCOPE, AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE COMMANDMENT TO HONOR ONE'S PARENTS, THE FIFTH OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN THE BIBLE.
BR 4759 CHILDREN OF THE DREAM, THE BETTELHEIM, BRUNO BETTELHEIM, A CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST, EVALUATES THE DEVELOPMENT AND ADJUSTMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE RAISED ON A KIBBUTZ.
BR 4761 POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF SPINOZA, THE MCSHEA, ROBERT J. A SYSTEMATIC TREATMENT OF SPINOZA'S POLITICAL THOUGHT.
BR 4762 JUDENRAT TRUNK, ISAIAH DESCRIBES THE FORMATION OF THE JEWISH COUNCILS (JUDENRAT) IN THE GHETTOS OF EASTERN EUROPE AND EXPLAINS HOW THEY WERE USED BY THE NAZIS TO CARRY OUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH MASSES.
BR 4764 BOOK OF FIRE, THE PERETZ, ISAAC LEIB MRS. IRVING A COLLECTION OF STORIES BY THE WELL-KNOWN YIDDISH WRITER. SET IN EASTERN EUROPE, THE TALES COMBINE ELEMENTS OF FOLKLORE AND THE REAL STRUGGLES OF PEOPLE TO ATTAIN THEIR GOALS, MATERIAL OR SPIRITUAL.
BR 4766 DOCTRINE MESSIAH JEWISH LIT. SARACHEK, JOSEPH DR. SARACHEK PRESENTED MESSIANIC VIEWS OF GREATEST-SCHOLARS AND THINKERS OF MIDDLE AGES BEGINNING WITH SAADIA GAON, THROUGH MAIMONIDES ENDING WITH ABRABANEL.
BR 4768 WHITE EAGLE, DARK SKIES KARSAVINA, JEAN THE STORY OF A POOR WARSAW JEW WHOSE LOYALTY TO COUNTRY AND FAMILY RAISES UNRESOLVED INNER CONFLICTS AND PARALYZES HIS LOVE FOR A POLITICAL ACTIVIST.
BR 4769 MIMEKOR YISRAEL CLASSICAL JEWISH FOLKTALES. VOL. I BIN GORION, EMANUEL, ED. A COLLECTION OF OVER 1000 FOLK TALES BASED ON THE POPULAR LITERATURE THAT EVOLVED IN JEWISH SOCIETIES THROUGH THE CENTURIES.
BR 4770 MOTHERLAND DAVIS, GWEN EVELYN'S ONLY MEANS OF ESCAPE FROM HER SMALL TOWN WORLD OF THWARTED AMBITION, RAGE AND MANIPULATION IS TO PUSH HER MEN TO SUCCEED AS SHE WAS NEVER ALLOWED.
BR 4771 YOUNG MOSES, THE HAUGHTON, ROSEMARY BEBE HOLTZMA THE STORY OF THE EARLY LIFE OF THE PROPHET MOSES WRITTEN FOR YOUNG READERS.
BR 4772 ARGUMENTS AND DOCTRINES COHAN, ARTHUR A., ED. A BOOK DEALING WITH JEWISH RELIGIOUS BELIEF, ITS PROBLEMS, AND ITS STATUS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 4773 DECLINE OF HONOR EL-AD, AVRI A NON-FICTION ACCOUNT OF CONFESSION, SELF-DEFENSE, POLITICAL EXPOSE, MILITARY INTELLIGENCE AND ESPIONAGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
BR 4774 COVENANT, THE MITCHELL, PAIGE A NOVEL, SET IN A SMALL CITY IN MISSISSIPPI, ABOUT A SOUTHERN JEW WHO FINDS HIMSELF CAUGHT UP IN A WEB OF VIOLENCE AND INTRIGUE.
BR 4775 SECRET SHIP, THE KLUGER, RUTH & PEGGY MANN SARA S. STER JUVENILE VERSION OF RUTH KLUGER'S SUSPENSEFUL ACCOUNT OF HER OWN INVOLVEMENT IN THE SECRET RESCUE OF EUROPEAN JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST AND THEIR TRANSPORTATION BY BOAT TO PALESTINE. FOR CHILDREN AGED 9-14.
BR 4776 BLUEBIRD OF HAPPINESS, THE THE MEMOIRS OF JAN PEERCE PEERCE, JAN WITH ALAN LEVY MEMOIRS OF AN ACCLAIMED OPERA SINGER FROM THE LOWER EAST SIDE AND THE BORSCHT BELT TO RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL AND THE GREAT OPERA HOUSES OF THE WORLD.
BR 4778 SOLOMON'S TEMPLE HOFFMAN, STANLEY THE CHRONICLE OF HOW AN OBESE YOUNG MAN, IN DESPERATION, LOSES MORE THAN 100 POUNDS, DISCOVERS SEX AND LOVE AND HOW HE EARNS HIS PH. D.
BR 4779 NO, MY DARLING DAUGHTER NEWMAN, SALLY A HUMOROUS, SENSITIVE NOVEL ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A JEWISH MOTHER AND HER DAUGHTER.
BR 4780 SATURN'S CHILD SHULMAN, IRVING DOMINATED BY A JEWISH MOTHER AND WIFE, ABSORBED IN HIS ROLE AS A SOCIAL SCIENTIST, A SELF-DOUBTING DAVID TELLS THE FRENETIC STORY OF HOW HE FINALLY FINDS PEACE.
BR 4781 AFTERMATH THE STORY OF THE FOURTH REICH FARAGO, LADISLAS THE STORY OF THE FLIGHT OF NAZI FUGITIVES TO SOUTH AMERICA AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II AND THE DETAILS OF THEIR LIVES IN HIDING.
BR 4782 ISHMAEL DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER MARCIA MARKE THE BIBLICAL STORY OF ABRAHAM'S BANISHMENT OF ISHMAEL, HIS FIRST-BORN SON, FORMS THE BASIS FOR THIS NOVEL.
BR 4783 BLACK EXPERIENCE IN RELIGION, THE LINCOLN, C. ERIC AN INTRODUCTION TO RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN THE AFRICAN- AMERICAN COMMUNITY. INCLUDES DISCUSSIONS OF BLACK JEWS, NINETEENTH-CENTURY BLACK CHURCHES IN THE UNITED STATES, AND THE RASTAFARIANS OF JAMAICA.
BR 4785 MOSES JACOB EZEKIEL MEMOIRS FROM THE BATHS OF DIOCLETI GUTMANN, JOSEPH & STANLEY CHYET, EDS I. BADY DIARY OF AN EXPATRIATE AMERICAN SCULPTOR WHOSE STUDIO IN ROME BECAME A MEETING PLACE FOR THE CELEBRATED ARTISTS AND POLITICIANS OF HIS DAY. AN INSIGHT INTO EUROPEAN CULTURAL LIFE IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
BR 4787 WITNESS TO THE TRUTH SHAPELL, NATHAN THE AUTHOR, WHO SERVED AS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF A NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE COMPANY, CHRONICLES THE STORY OF HIS LIFE, INCLUDING HIS FAMILY'S SURVIVAL FROM AUSCHWITZ AND THEIR ARRIVAL IN AMERICA.
BR 4788 OUT OF THE FIRE PAPANEK, ERNST & EDWARD LINN DR. PAPANEK, A CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST, TELLS THE POIGNANT STORY OF HIS PART IN SAVING JEWISH CHILDREN FROM THE HITLER ONSLAUGHT.
BR 4789 JERUSALEM BENVENISTI, MERON A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY OF JERUSALEM FOCUSING ON THE CITY'S POLITICAL, LEGAL, AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROBLEMS. WRITTEN BY THE FORMER DEPUTY MAYOR OF JERUSALEM.
BR 4790 SMELL OF HAY, THE BASSANI, GIORGIO A COLLECTION OF STORIES BASED ON THE AUTHOR'S RECOLLECTIONS OF ITALIAN PROVINCIAL LIFE. WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR OF 'THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS.'
BR 4791 SQUIRE OF BOR SHACHOR, THE BERMANT, CHAIM THE HUMOROUS TALE OF AN ELDERLY ENGLISH JEWISH COUPLE WHO DECIDE TO SPEND THEIR REMAINING YEARS IN THE ISRAELI TOWN OF BOR SHACHOR (BLACK HOLE).
BR 4792 NOSTAGLGIA ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE SIGNORET, SIMONE IN HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY, THE AWARD-WINNING ACTRESS WEAVES TOGETHER THE THREADS OF HER EXTRAORDINARY LIFE
BR 4794 THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK, A - VOL. V KAGAN, Y.M. - ED. THIS BOOK GIVES BRIEF PRESENTATIONS ON THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION ADAPTED FROM THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE'S SICHOT (DISCOURSES).
BR 4795 ON WINGS OF PRAYER WEINBACH, MENDEL PARABLES ON DAILY PRAYERS BY CHOFETZ CHAIM AND OTHER TORAH GREATS.
BR 4796 REFINER'S FIRE HELPRIN, MARK MARSHALL PEARL'S LIFE AND ADVENTURES FROM THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH ON AN ILLEGAL SHIP OFF THE COAST OF PALESTINE TO HIS CLIMACTIC EXPERIENCE IN THE ISRAELI ARMY.
BR 4797 IGUANA CORPS OF THE HAGANAH EISENBERG, RONALD LEE A CHRONICLE OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE IGUANA CORPS, A SPECIAL UNIT OF THE HAGANAH, DURING THE TENSE DAYS BEFORE THE PARTITION OF PALESTINE IN 1948.
BR 4798 POLITICS OF DEFEAT, THE CHURBA, JOSEPH CHURBA, A FORMER CONTROVERSIAL MIDDLE EAST INTELLIGENCE ANALYST, ATTRIBUTES THE U.S.'S DECLINE IN THE AREA DUE TO FAILURES OF INDECISION AND IGNORANCE.
BR 4799 STUDIES JEWISH THOUGHT VOL. I SHAPIRO, RABBI DAVID S. THESE SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL ESSAYS INVOKE THE IDEAS AND IDEALS OF PHILOSOPHERS AND PROPHETS, BIBLE AND TALMUD, AND ALSO MEDIEVAL AND CONTEMPORARY THINKERS.
BR 4800 MUSIC IN THE 20TH CENTURY AUSTIN, WILLIAM W. A PROFILE OF 20TH CENTURY MUSIC AND ITS COMPOSERS, A NUMBER OF WHOM ARE JEWISH.
BR 4802 RACHEL, THE RABBI'S WIFE TENNENBAUM, SILVIA A NOVEL ABOUT A WOMAN WHOSE NEEDS AND ASPIRATIONS TO BE MORE THAN 'MERELY' THE RABBI'S WIFE ARE UNFULFILLED.
BR 4803 ANTI-SEMITISM WITHOUT JEWS IMAGES OF THE JEWS IN ENGLAND 1290 GLASSMAN, BERNARD A STUDY OF THE CONTINUANCE OF ANTI-SEMITIC ATTITUDES DURING THE 400-YEAR PERIOD IN ENGLAND'S HISTORY IN WHICH THERE WAS NO REAL JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTRY.
BR 4804 IN THE MORNING LIGHT ANGOFF, CHARLES THIS SECOND VOLUME IN THE SAGA OF THE POLANSKY FAMILY.
BR 4805 THEODOR HERZL ARTIST AND POLITICIAN STEWART, DESMOND RABBI STANLE A BIOGRAPHY OF THE 'FATHER OF MODERN ZIONISM,' INCLUDING PERSONAL, PUBLIC, AND INTELLECTUAL ASPECTS OF HERZL'S LIFE.
BR 4807 THUNDER OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN GERVASI, FRANK THE AUTHOR ASSESSES THE FUTURE OF THE MIDDLE EAST BY ANALYZING ITS COMPLEXITIES AND STUDYING ITS PAST HISTORY. THE BOOK ALSO CONTAINS AN ACCOUNT OF THE 1973 YOM KIPPUR WAR.
BR 4808 FRAGMENTS OF ISABELLA ISABELLA LEITNER THE DISTILLED ESSENCE OF HER PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF THE HOLOCAUST IN A BRIEF WORK THAT HAS THE ELOQUENCE OF POETRY, THE IMMEDIACY AND POWER OF THEATRE.
BR 4809 RIVER REMEMBERS, THE SHNEIDERMAN, S.L. A DESCRIPTION OF THE VISTULA RIVER WHICH FLOWED THROUGH THE POLISH COUNTRYSIDE AND THE VIBRANT JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE THAT FLOURISHED ALONGSIDE ITS BANKS IN THE DAYS BEFORE HITLER AND WORLD WAR II.
BR 4810 ENTEBBE RESCUE BEN-PORAT, Y. & E. HABER & Z. SCHIFF AN ACCOUNT OF THE JULY 1976 HIJACKING OF A PLANE TO ENTEBBE AND THE DRAMATIC RESCUE. TOLD BY THREE ISRAELI MILITARY AND POLITICAL COMMENTATORS.
BR 4811 HONEY FROM THE ROCK KUSHNER, LAWRENCE FILLED WITH TALES OF 'THE SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTERS THAT FILL OUR LIVES,' THIS IS A WORK OF WISDOM AND INSPIRATION.
BR 4812 YOUNG MAN IN SEARCH OF LOVE, A SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS A MEMOIR BY THE NOBEL PRIZEWINNING NOVELIST. CENTRAL TO SINGER'S THOUGHTS AND WRITINGS WAS HIS OWN QUEST FOR LOVE.
BR 4813 JEW OF ROME, THE FEUCHTWANGER, LION A HISTORICAL NOVEL, PART OF A TRILOGY ABOUT JOSEPHUS, THE JEWISH HISTORIAN, IN WHICH HE BEFRIENDS THE ROMAN EMPEROR. THE BOOK EXPLORES HOW JOSEPHUS STRUGGLES TO CONSOLIDATE HIS POSITION IN THE ROMAN WORLD YET REMAIN LOYAL TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 4815 KINGFISHER SEYMOUR, GERALD THE STORY OF A TRIO OF RUSSIAN JEWS WHO HIJACK AN 'ENEMY' AIRPLANE IN ORDER TO ESCAPE TO ISRAEL.
BR 4816 RACHEL'S LEGACY COLMAN, HILA SET IN THE IMMIGRANT ERA OF 1900S AMERICA, THIS IS A NOVEL ABOUT A REMARKABLE YOUNG WOMAN WHO BUILDS A FAMILY FORTUNE IN THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY.
BR 4817 SONGS OF JERUSALEM AND MYSELF AMICHAI, YEHUDA DESCRIPTIVE POETRY ABOUT JERUSALEM BY ONE OF ISRAEL'S PREMIER POETS.
BR 4818 JEWISH PARADOX, THE NAHUM GOLDMAN IN THIS STORY GOLDMAN PLAYS AN IMPORTANT PART IN SHAPING THE HEART WRENCHING EFFORTS TO SAVE EUROPE'S DOOMED JEWRY TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ISRAEL.
BR 4819 GOOD AS GOLD HELLER, JOSEPH DICKIE MILLE GOLD, A JEWISH PROFESSOR, IS APPROACHED BY THE WHITE HOUSE ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF JOINING THE PRESIDENTIAL STAFF. HE IS ALSO IN THE PROCESS OF WRITING A BOOK ABOUT THE ULTIMATE EXPERIENCE OF BEING JEWISH IN AMERICA WHILE AT THE SAME TIME DEALING WITH FAMILY PROBLEMS.
BR 4820 UNFINISHED JOURNEY MENUHIN, YEHUDI THIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, WRITTEN BY THE WORLD-FAMOUS VIOLINIST BEGINS WITH HIS EXPERIENCES AS A SEVEN YEAR-OLD PRODIGY.
BR 4821 ONE IN A MINYAN AND OTHER STORIES ROUTTENBERG, RABBI MAX J. TEN GOOD SHORT STORIES ABOUT A YOUNG LADY WHO WAS ADOPTED AS A MINYAN, THOUGH SHE NEVER BECOMES ONE OF THE TEN MINYAN.
BR 4822 JOSEPHUS AND THE EMPEROR FEUCHTWANGER, LION A STORY OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ROME AND JUDEA CONTAINING A VIVID DESCRIPTION OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM.
BR 4823 EMPTY CHAIR, THE KAPLAN, BESS THE STORY OF A CANADIAN JEWISH FAMILY. BECKY, AGE 11, DESCRIBES THE PARADE OF CANDIDATES FOR STEPMOTHER ASSEMBLED BY HER FEMALE RELATIVES AFTER HER MOTHER'S DEATH.
BR 4824 HARRY JAMES CARGAS IN CONVERSATION WITH ELIE WIESEL CARGAS, HARRY JAMES A MOVING VOLUME WHICH GIVES US A RESONANT PORTRAIT OF WIESEL AS MAN, WRITER, AND PROPHET SIFTING THROUGH THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 4825 WE ARE YOUR SONS MEEROPOL, ROBERT & MICHAEL THE ROSENBERG SONS TELL IN INTIMATE DETAIL OF UNPUBLISHED LETTERS, THEIR PARENTS ARRESTS, THE PAINFUL MONTHS PRECEDING THE EXECUTIONS AND THEIR ADOPTION.
BR 4826 WHO STANDS ACCUSED? HERZOG, CHAIM IN THIS IMPASSIONED BOOK, BASED ON SPEECHES MR.. HERZOG DELIVERED AT THE UN, HE PRESENTS A STRONG DEFENSE OF ISRAELI CONDUCT.
BR 4827 ZIONISM AT THE UN ELATH, ELIAHU THIS POLITICAL DIARY RECORDS THE BEGINNING OF THE UNITED NATIONS AS SEEN BY AN EMISSARY OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT AND OF THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR PALESTINE.
BR 4831 GREEN ROSE, THE SILVER, WARREN A. A HISTORICAL NOVEL SET IN ELEVENTH-CENTURY SPAIN.
BR 4832 SUCH A LIFE LAZEBNIK, EDITH A SEVENTY-TWO YEAR OLD WOMAN TRACES THREE GENERATIONS OF HER FAMILY FROM LIFE IN A RUSSIAN SHTETL TO FREEDOM IN AMERICA.
BR 4833 AMERICAN JEWISH HUMOR SPALDING, HENRY D. A COMPILATION OF JOKES, STORIES, AND ANECDOTES ABOUT JEWISH REFUGEES WHO FLED FROM RUSSIAN OR EUROPEAN PERSECUTIONS DURING THE PAST 150 YEARS.
BR 4834 TIN SOLDIERS ON JERUSALEM LIEBLICH, AMIA IN THERAPY GROUPS LED BY AMIA LIEBLICH SINCE 1970 AND IN INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEWS, PEOPLE SHARED THEIR DREAMS, FANTASIES, AND DILEMMAS ABOUT LIFE IN ISRAEL.
BR 4835 SHOSHA SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS SET IN PRE-WORLD WAR II WARSAW, THIS NOVEL IS ABOUT A YOUNG WRITER-PLAYWRIGHT AND HIS LOVE FOR FOUR WOMEN.
BR 4836 BIRTH CONTROL IN JEWISH LAW FELDMAN, DAVID M. GERTRUDE FLE A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF JEWISH THOUGHT ON MARRIAGE, SEX, CONTRACEPTION, AND ABORTION FROM TALMUDIC TIMES TO THE PRESENT.
BR 4837 BLOOD RELATIONS SILMAN, ROBERTA A COLLECTION OF STORIES ABOUT MEMBERS OF A SECOND- GENERATION AMERICAN-JEWISH FAMILY.
BR 4838 JERUSALEM POKER WHITTEMORE, EDWARD HERE IS A STORY OF A POKER GAME THAT CONTINUED FOR 12 YEARS AND ATTRACTED THOUSANDS OF GAMBLERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. THE STAKES: CONTROL OF JERUSALEM.
BR 4840 DAYS OF SORROW AND PAIN BAKER, LEONARD THIS STORY OF LEO BAECK'S EFFORT TO PREPARE MILLIONS OF GERMAN JEWS TO MEET THE CHALLENGES OF THE NAZI ERA.
BR 4841 LITTLE DISTURBANCES OF MAN, THE STORIES OF MEN AND WOMEN AT LOVE PALEY, GRACE STORIES ABOUT WOMEN AND MEN IN THE THICK OF LIFE, AND THE LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THEM.
BR 4842 PLUMBAT AFFAIR, THE DAVENPORT, EDDY, & GILMAN THIS BOOK RECONSTRUCTS THE STORY OF THE AMAZING COUP MASTERMINDED BY THE ISRAELI SECRET SERVICE IN WHICH A SHIPMENT OF URANIUM, ENOUGH FOR 20 NUCLEAR BOMBS, WAS DIVERTED TO ISRAEL.
BR 4843 TERROR OUT OF ZION BELL, J. BOWYER THE SAGA OF THE DISSIDENT REVOLUTIONARY UNDERGROUND WHICH, ANTICIPATING BRITISH FAVOR OF THE ARAB CAUSE, DECIDED TO TAKE MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS IN THEIR BATTLE FOR ISRAELI INDEPENDENCE.
BR 4844 FOR JERUSALEM A LIFE KOLLEK, TEDDY IN THIS BOOK, THE WELL-KNOWN MAYOR OF JERUSALEM WEAVES TOGETHER THE STORY OF HIS OWN FULL LIFE AMID THAT OF THE MOST FASCINATING CITY IN THE WORLD.
BR 4845 SAFE HOUSE,THE CLEARY, JON WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A JEWISH REFUGEE FLEEING TO ISRAEL COMES FACE TO FACE WITH AN ESCAPING NAZI WAR CRIMINAL? AN EXPERT STORYTELLER IS AT HIS VERY BEST HERE.
BR 4846 DYNAMICS OF EMANCIPATION, THE GLATZER, NAHUM N. AN ANTHOLOGY OF GREAT WRITINGS AND ESSAYS ABOUT JEWISH LIFE IN TRANSFORMATION DURING THE PAST TWO CENTURIES.
BR 4847 LETTERS TO AN AMERICAN JEWISH FRIEND HALKIN, HILLEL IN HIS LETTERS TO AN AMERICAN FRIEND WHO THINKS OTHERWISE, HALKIN STATES THAT ISRAEL IS THE BEST PLACE FOR ALL JEWS.
BR 4848 POLAND'S GHETTOS AT WAR KATZ, ALFRED THIS RESEARCHED BOOK, MAKES CAREFUL USE OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND PERSONAL INTERVIEWS WITH JEWISH GHETTO SURVIVORS OF WW II.
BR 4849 MOSES-SERVANT OF YAHWEH BEEGLE, D. M. A VIVID ACCOUNT OF THIS TOWERING BIBLICAL FIGURE. HIS DECISIVE PRESENCE WITH THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL AT EVERY CRUCIAL STAGE OF THEIR MIGRATION FROM THE NILE TO JORDAN.
BR 4850 OPERATION SUSANNAH NINIO, LEVY, DASSA & NATANSON THIS IS THE STORY OF A GROUP OF YOUNG EGYPTIAN JEWS WHO WERE RECRUITED INTO TWO SPY RINGS IN CAIRO AND ALEXANDRIA.
BR 4851 CAIRO CONNECTION, THE EGYPT IN PROPHECY LEVITT, ZOLA THIS BOOK ANALYZES ANWAR SADAT'S HISTORIC VISIT TO JERUSALEM. DID IT, IN FACT, CONSTITUTE A SIGNIFICANT PROPHETIC EVENT, FORESEEING PEACE AND THE FUTURE COURSE OF EVENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
BR 4852 HILL OF EVIL COUNSEL, THE OZ, AMOS THREE INTERWOVEN STORIES BY A FOREMOST ISRAELI WRITER PORTRAYING JERUSALEM IN THE TWILIGHT OF THE BRITISH MANDATE PERIOD. TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW.
BR 4853 MIMEKOR YISRAEL BOOKS 3 & 4 (CLASSICAL JEWISH FOLKTALES) BIN GORION, MISHA, ED. OVER 1,000 FOLKTALES BASED ON THE POPULAR LITERATURE THAT EVOLVED IN JEWISH SOCIETIES THROUGH THE CENTURIES.
BR 4854 LONG RETURN, THE MARKISH, ESTHER THIS IS THE RICH, DEEPLY MOVING STORY OF A COURAGEOUS FAMILY STRUGGLING TO OVERCOME HARDSHIP, SEPARATION, IMPRISONMENT AND EXILE.
BR 4855 EMISSARY, THE BONDY, RUTH THIS IS A BIOGRAPHY OF THE IDEALISTIC SCHOLAR-ACTIVIST WHOSE PERSONAL COMPULSIONS FUELED HIS CAREER AS AN EMISSARY FOR THE ZIONIST.
BR 4856 HISTORY REMEMBERED, RECOVERED, INVENTED LEWIS, BERNARD HISTORIAN CONSIDERS PAST EVENTS AS THEY ARE RECALLED, REDISCOVERED AND ALTERED TO FIT MODERN PURPOSES: BATTLE OF MASADA, HOMERIC EPICS, FESTIVALS, ARCHAEOLOGY.
BR 4857 FROM KITCHEN TO CAREER FADAR, SHIRLEY SLOAN ALMOST HALF OF ALL MARRIED WOMEN WITH CHILDREN WORK OUTSIDE THE HOME AND MANY ARE TRAPPED IN LOW-PAYING JOBS. THIS BOOK TELLS WOMEN HOW THEY CAN BETTER THEMSELVES.
BR 4859 ANWAR SADAT A MAN OF PEACE CARPOZZI, GEORGE A BIOGRAPHY OF THE EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT WHO HEADED THE FIRST ARAB COUNTRY TO MAKE PEACE WITH ISRAEL. FOLLOWING SADAT'S HISTORIC VISIT TO ISRAEL IN 1977 AND THE MUCH- PUBLICIZED HANDSHAKE WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER MEACHAM BEGIN, BOTH LEADERS WERE AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR PEACE IN 1978. SADAT WAS ASSASSINATED IN 1981.
BR 4860 MISCHLING, SECOND DEGREE KOEHN, I. A VIVID PICTURE OF A YOUNG GIRL IN NAZI GERMANY, WHO LEARNS THAT IF NOT A JEW, WHICH SHE WAS, SHE WAS CONSIDERED A MISCHLING, OF THE SECOND DEGREE.
BR 4861 OF DAVID AND EVA A LOVE STORY SAMUELS, GERTRUDE A NOVEL SET ON THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER DURING THE LEBANESE CIVIL WAR ABOUT A JEWISH DOCTOR AND HIS LOVE FOR A YOUNG LEBANESE CHRISTIAN WOMAN.
BR 4862 ANTI-SEMITISM ENCYCLOPEDIA JUDAICA JEWISH SCHOLARS PROVIDE THE BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE OF ANTI-SEMITISM, ITS ROLE IN THE PROBLEMS OF MODERN-DAY ISRAEL, AND ITS EFFECTS ON WORLD JEWRY. BASED ON THE ENTRIES IN THE 'ENCYCLOPEDIA JUDAICA.'
BR 4864 JEW TODAY, A WIESEL, ELIE A HIGHLY PERSONAL COLLECTION OF THE AUTHOR'S RECENT ESSAYS RANGING FROM HIS MEMORIES OF EARLY CHILDHOOD IN HUNGARY THROUGH HIS DAYS IN AUSCHWITZ.
BR 4866 JEWS IN AMERICAN LIFE LEVITAN, TINA A FASCINATING COLLECTION OF BIOGRAPHIES OF LEADING AMERICAN JEWS, SPANNING NEARLY 500 YEARS.
BR 4867 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NAHUM GOLDMANN SIXTY YEARS OF JEWISH WORK GOLDMANN, NAHUM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE SCHOLAR AND STATESMAN WHO WAS THE ARCHITECT AND PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS. GOLDMANN HELPED TO ESTABLISH A JEWISH HOMELAND IN PALESTINE BEFORE AND AFTER WORLD WAR II AND FOR MANY YEARS SERVED AS CHAIRMAN OF THE AMERICAN SECTION OF THE JEWISH AGENCY.
BR 4868 JEWISH LIFE IN AMERICA ROSEN, GLADYS, ED. SERIES OF LECTURES HIGHLIGHTING HOW JEWS HELPED BUILD AMERICAN SOCIETY, ANALYZING THE CONFLICT BETWEEN TRADITIONAL JEWISH VALUES AND TRADITIONAL AMERICAN FREEDOMS.
BR 4869 CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST EPSTEIN, HELEN THE DAUGHTER OF CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVORS RECOUNTS HER OWN PRIVATE QUEST TO COME TO TERMS WITH HER PARENTS' PAST.
BR 4871 GOD'S FIRST LOVE HEER, FRIEDRICH EXTENSIVE DOCUMENTATION CHARACTERIZES THIS DEVELOPMENT OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS SINCE THE TIME OF CHRIST.
BR 4873 STORIES FROM OUR LIVING PAST PROSE, FRANCINE STORIES ABOUT OUR HERITAGE, SELF-RESPECT IS HOLY, LOVE OF NEIGHBOR-JUSTICE, MERCY, COMPASSION-IS HOLY, AND OUR RESPONSIBILITIES.
BR 4874 JOSEPHUS FEUCHTWANGER, LION A STORY OF ROME AND JUDEA IN WHICH A VIVID DESCRIPTION IS GIVEN OF THE FINAL FALL OF JERUSALEM.
BR 4875 SECOND JEWISH CATALOGUE WITH THE JEWISH YELLOW PAGES, THE SOURCES AND RESOURCES STRASSFELD, SHARON & MICHAEL STRASSF DO-IT-YOURSELF SUGGESTIONS ON BEING JEWISH TODAY. TREATS A BROAD RANGE OF CUSTOMS AND OBSERVANCES TO BE ADOPTED AND ADAPTED.
BR 4876 PROUD AND JEWISH SULKES, ZENA W. THIS BOOK WILL AWAKEN YOUR INTELLECT TO THE POINT WHERE YOU START THINKING OF WHAT YOU ARE.
BR 4878 GREAT JEWISH WOMEN, BOOK I FINK, GRETA HIGHLIGHTS OF THE LIVES OF FAMOUS JEWISH WOMEN, PAST & PRESENT
BR 4879 ABRAMSKY VARIATIONS TORGOV, MORLEY A HUMOROUS STORY ABOUT THREE GENERATIONS OF A FAMILY, THEIR CONFLICTING FEELINGS WITH REGARD TO THEIR JEWISHNESS, AND THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN FATHERS AND SONS.
BR 4880 MODERN HISTORY OF ISRAEL, THE NOAH LUCAS FIRST COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF MODERN ISRAELIS CENTURY OF CHANGE, WHILE RETAINING THE MARKS OF THEIR ORIGIN IN 19TH-CENTURY EUROPE
BR 4882 WORLD FULL OF STRANGERS, A KOOS, KENNETH M. A NOVEL ABOUT A SELF-HATING JEW WHOSE SON DISCOVERS HIS TRUE HERITAGE.
BR 4883 LEST INNOCENT BLOOD BE SHED HALLIE, PHILIP THIS TRUE STORY DEPICTS THE TRUE FEELINGS OF CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TOWARDS THE FUGITIVES FLEEING NAZI OCCUPATION.
BR 4885 PHOENIZ ARICHA, AMOS & LANDAU, ELI THIS BOOK FITS IN WITH OUR MODERN TIMES, PLOTS AND PLOTTED ASSASSINATIONS OF HEADS OF STATE
BR 4886 OPEN THE GATES AVRIEL, EHUD THIS BOOK DEALS WITH A TIME AND AN ORGANIZATION IN WHICH HUMAN WERE PUT ABOVE THE DANGERS ENGENDERED IN SUCCEEDING IN THEIR ENDEAVORS TO HELP THEIR FELLOWMEN.
BR 4887 FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE DREYFUS, ALFRED THIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF A MAN UNJUSTLY ACCUSED, TRIED, AND IMPRISONED ONLY BECAUSE HE WAS A JEW. HIS TRIALS AND FINAL VINDICATION.
BR 4889 TO JERUSALEM AND BACK BELLOW, SAUL THIS IS ONE PART OF THE AUTHORS BIOGRAPHY.
BR 4890 SOL'S DAUGHTER MORGAN, PAULA A TENDER STORY OF A GIRL WHO IS FACED WITH A LOSS OF A PROTECTIVE FATHER AND REACHING WOMANHOOD MUST COPE WITH LIFE'S REALITIES.
BR 4891 WHEN GOD WAS A WOMAN STONE, MERLIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF ANCIENT RELIGION'S FOCUS ON THE GODDESS AS AN OBJECT OF WORSHIP. THE AUTHOR VIEWS THESE BELIEFS AS A FOUNDATION OF JUDEO-CHRISTIAN ATTITUDES ON WOMEN.
BR 4892 MILTON STEINBERG PORTRAIT OF A RABBI NOVECK, SIMON STEINBERG'S IDEAS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE PRESENTED HERE: HIS CONCEPT OF GOD: INTERPRETATION OF EVIL: ATTITUDE TO MAN: AND CONFRONTATION BETWEEN FAITH AND REASON. THE BOOK DESCRIBES HIS ACTIVITIES ON BEHALF OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT AND HIS EFFORTS ON BEHALF OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS DURING WORLD WAR LL.
BR 4893 GOING TO JERUSALEM DIXON, ROGER BERNICE FOER A NOVEL ABOUT FORMER NAZI WAR CRIMINAL, DR. ADOLPH GREER, WHO GIVES HIMSELF UP TO STAND TRIAL IN ISRAEL. WHEN A YOUNG ISRAELI ARAB CHOOSES GREER AS THE FIRST TARGET OF HIS WAR OF TERROR, A WAVE OF VIOLENCE IS SET OFF.
BR 4894 WORLD OF MAURICE SAMUEL, THE SELECTED WRITINGS HINDUS, MILTON, ED. SAMPLINGS FROM MORE THAN A DOZEN BOOKS BY A LEADING INTELLECTUAL ON JEWISH LIFE, VALUES AND HISTORY.
BR 4895 BOOK OF DANIEL, THE DOCTOROW, E.L. A NOVEL BASED ON THE ROSENBERG TRIAL WHICH PORTRAYS THE FATE OF THE ROSENBERG CHILDREN FOLLOWING THE EXECUTION OF THEIR PARENTS FOR ESPIONAGE.
BR 4896 NEW YORK JEW KAZIN, ALFRED THIS IS A SEQUEL TO HIS 'A WALKER IN THE CITY.' IT REVEALS THE AUTHOR'S RESURGENT SENSE OF HIS OWN JEWISHNESS.
BR 4897 DITA SAXOVA LUSTIG, ARNOST A GROUP OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS COME TO GRIPS WITH GROWING UP AND HOW TO DEAL WITH PLEASURES AND PAINS OF LIFE IN PRAGUE.
BR 4898 GUGGENHEIMS, THE AN AMERICAN EPIC DAVIS, JOHN CHRONICLES THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS INFLUENTIAL AMERICAN FAMILY.
BR 4899 GROUCHO THE BIOGRAPHY OF GROUCHO MARX ARCE, HECTOR A SYMPATHETIC BUT OBJECTIVE PORTRAIT OF THE AMERICAN COMEDIAN.
BR 4900 TO HEAVEN WITH SCRIBES AND PHARISEES BLUE, LIONEL DOCTRINE OF JEWISH PHILOSOPHY SUMMED UP AS 'SO JEWS TRY TO EARN THEIR WAY TO HEAVEN BY PATCHING UP THE WORLD AND MAKING IT WORK.'
BR 4901 PSYCHOPATHIC GOD, THE ADOLPH HITLER WAITE, ROBERT G. L. ANTI-SEMITISM WAS THE VERY CORNERSTONE OF HIS DRIVE FOR POWER AND GERMAN SUPREMACY.
BR 4902 FERBER A BIOGRAPHY OF EDNA FERBER AND HER GILBERT, JULIE G. A DOCUMENTED PORTRAIT OF THIS 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN WRITER, HER LITERARY CIRCLE AND THE PERIOD IN WHICH THEY WROTE.
BR 4904 MIXED MARRIAGE BETWEEN JEW & CHRISTIAN SILVER, RABBI SAMUEL M. EXPERIENCED ADVICE, CAVEATS, ENCOURAGEMENT & HOPE OFFERED TO COUPLES OF DIFFERING FAITHS CONCERNING MARRIAGE.
BR 4905 WANTING OF LEVINE, THE HALBERSTAM, MICHAEL THE HUMOROUS STORY OF A.L. LEVINE RUNNING FOR ELECTION IN 1988 TO BE THE FIRST JEWISH PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.
BR 4906 HONOR THE PROMISE AMERICA'S COMMITMENT TO ISRAEL DRINAN, ROBERT F. THE FIRST PRIEST ELECTED TO CONGRESS PLEADS FOR FELLOW CHRISTIAN-AMERICANS TO REEXAMINE THEIR JUDEO-CHRISTIAN BONDS AND THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP OF THE UNITED STATES TO ISRAEL.
BR 4907 FLAVOR OF JERUSALEM, THE NATHAN, JOAN & JUDY STACEY GOLDMAN A COOKBOOK WITH RECIPES FROM MANY LANDS REFLECTING THE DIVERSE POPULATION OF ISRAEL. INCLUDES INTERNATIONAL MENUS FOR BREAKFASTS, BRUNCHES, AND OTHER OCCASIONS, PLUS RECIPES FOR JERUSALEM PASTA AND RICE DISHES, SALADS, AND DESSERTS. ALSO INCLUDES THE RECIPE FOR GOLDA MEIR'S CHICKEN SOUP.
BR 4908 OF THIS TIME, OF THAT PLACE AND OTHER STORIES TRILLING, LIONEL FIVE STORIES DEALING WITH INTELLECTUAL CONFRONTATION, THE STRUGGLE TO ESTABLISH MORAL ORDER, AND A JEW'S FEELINGS OF ISOLATION.
BR 4909 TALENT FOR LUCK, A STRAUSS, HELEN STRAUSS, THE ONLY CHILD OF MIDDLE-CLASS JEWISH PARENTS, CAME OF AGE IN DEPRESSION-ERA MANHATTAN. SHE HAD LITTLE FORMAL EDUCATION BUT POSSESSED THE SORT OF TALENT THAT MAKES ITS OWN LUCK. AFTER MORE THAN A DECADE AS A STORY EDITOR, SHE ESTABLISHED AND HEADED THE WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY AGENCY FOR 23 YEARS.
BR 4910 ALBERT EINSTEIN THE HUMAN SIDE DUKAS, HELEN & BANESH HOFFMAN A BIOGRAPHY OF NOTED SCIENTIST, USING MATERIAL FROM EINSTEIN'S OWN ARCHIVES.
BR 4911 LEGACY OF MARK ROTHKO, THE SELDES, LEE R. SCHAFFLER BIOGRAPHY OF THE LIFE OF MARK ROTHKO, AFFORDING A SPECIAL INSIGHT INTO THE WORLD OF AMERICAN ART.
BR 4912 LETTERS OF MAIMONIDES STITSKIN, LEON, ED. ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF TEN LETTERS WRITTEN BY MAIMONIDES TO LEADERS OF VARIOUS JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN RESPONSE TO THEIR QUESTIONS.
BR 4913 ISRAELI WOMEN SPEAK OUT STERN, GERALDINE DISCUSSIONS WITH ISRAELI WOMEN ABOUT THEIR LIVES AND CONCERNS, SPANNING THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1949 AND 1977.
BR 4915 SHULA CODE NAME THE PEARL GOLAN, A. & PINKAS, D. DURING THE POST WWII PERIOD, THIS JERUSALEM BRED HOUSEWIFE & MOTHER OF SEVEN BECAME AN IMPORTANT ISRAELI AGENT IN LEBANON.
BR 4916 NIGHT TRAINS WOOD, BARBARA & GARETH WOOTON IN 1941, A GERMAN SOLDIER HORRIFIED BY WHAT HE SEES IN AUSCHWITZ PLANS TO ESCAPE WITH HIS FAMILY VIA TRAINS, WHICH UNKNOWN TO HIM HAVE BEEN TARGETED FOR SABOTAGE BY THE POLISH UNDERGROUND AND THE ZIONISTS.
BR 4917 IN MEMORY YET GREEN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC ASIMOV ASIMOV, ISAAC THE AUTHOR RECALLS HIS EARLY MEMORIES OF RUSSIA, GROWING UP IN BROOKLYN; COLLEGE AND ARMY YEARS; HIS FIRST MARRIAGE; TEACHING CAREER; AND HIS STRUGGLE TO BE A WRITER.
BR 4919 DEAD RUNNER ROSS, FRANK A SUSPENSE NOVEL INVOLVING AN ARAB ASSASSIN WHO MURDERS A JEWISH MILITARY HERO IN LONDON.
BR 4921 JEWS IN AMERICA, THE THE ROOTS, HISTORY AND DESTINY OF DIMONT, MAX THE AUTHOR COVERS THE EXPERIENCE OF MORE THAN 300 YEARS DURING WHICH THE JEWS CREATED A NEW CENTER OF JUDAISM IN THE NEW WORLD.
BR 4922 LESS THAN SLAVES JEWISH FORCED LABOR AND THE QUEST FERENCZ, BENJAMIN TRACES EFFORTS TO GAIN MONETARY COMPENSATION FOR JEWISH LABORERS FORCED TO WORK FOR THE GERMAN WARTIME INDUSTRY DURING WORLD WAR II.
BR 4923 GUIDE FOR THE JEWISH HOMEMAKER LEVI, SHONIE & SYLVIA KAPLAN A GUIDE FOR THE JEWISH HOMEMAKER, COVERING SUCH TOPICS AS HOME LIFE, FESTIVALS, RITES, AND CEREMONIES.
BR 4925 MEMOIRS OF GLUCKEL OF HAMELN, THE GLUCKEL OF HAMELN. MARVIN LOWENTHAL, THE MEMOIRS OF A JEWISH WOMAN WHO LIVED DURING THE 17TH CENTURY AND WHOSE JOURNAL PROVIDED A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PERIOD IN WHICH SHE LIVED.
BR 4926 WHOSE LITTLE BOY ARE YOU? BARTOV, HANOCH THE STORY OF A YOUNG POLISH IMMIGRANT IN PALESTINE OF THE 1930'S, WHO STRUGGLES TO REACH MATURITY AMID POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS TENSIONS.
BR 4932 IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST KALB, MARVIN & TED KEPPEL MYSTERY SURROUNDING DIPLOMACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST; KIDNAPPING OPENS INTERNATIONAL QUESTIONS.
BR 4933 BURNING FUSE, THE BERNARD, JAY IN THIS NOVEL OF ESPIONAGE, A NOVICE SPY IS PITTED AGAINST A NAZI PRO.
BR 4934 COMMUNITY ON TRIAL THE JEWS OF PARIS IN THE 1930'S WEINBERG, DAVID A. EMPHASIZES THE DIVERSE DIVISION OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN PARIS DURING THE 1930'S
BR 4935 FROM SHTETL TO SUBURBIA THE FAMILY IN JEWISH LITERARY IMAG GITTLEMAN, SOL AN ANALYSIS OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF YIDDISH TO THE JEWISH LITERARY TRADITION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON BOOKS WRITTEN BY AMERICAN JEWISH AUTHORS. 'YIDDISH' PREOCCUPATIONS SUCH AS MISHPOCHE (FAMILY) ARE ALSO BASIC TO SUCH AMERICAN WRITERS AS ROTH, MALAMUD AND BELLOW. THIS TRANSMISSION MAKES THE AUTHOR OPTIMISTIC ABOUT JEWISH LITERARY SURVIVAL.
BR 4936 LATE BLOOMER KAUFELT, DAVID A. THE STORY OF A ELDERLY JEWISH WIDOW WHO TRIES TO START A NEW LIFE IN MIAMI, BUT FINDS THAT SHE CANNOT SWITCH FROM HER OLD WAYS TO BECOME AN INSTANT 'SWINGER'.
BR 4937 ANGUISH OF FATHER RAFTI FRIEDMAN, BEN A NOVEL WHICH HAS AS ITS THEME THE SUFFERINGS OF THE JEWS WHICH RESULT FROM CATHOLIC PREACHING ABOUT THE DEATH OF JESUS.
BR 4938 HEIRS, THE DRYANSKY, G.Y. GENERATIONAL SAGA OF THE FRENCH WOLFFLENS, JEWISH FINANCIERS WHO REGROUP AFTER 1945 TO RECOVER THEIR FORTUNES AND INFLUENCE.
BR 4939 HASEN BERCOVITCH, REUBEN IN A FOREST NEAR A CONCENTRATION CAMP, TWO YOUNG BOYS SURVIVE THE HOLOCAUST BECAUSE OF THEIR ABILITY TO TRAP HARES (HASEN) AND BRIBE THE NAZI COMMANDANT.
BR 4940 NEW YOU, THE A BOOK OF LIFE GORDON, SOL A LEADER IN THE FIELDS OF SEX EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY DISCUSSES HOW JEWISH PHILOSOPHIES AND PRACTICES CAN HELP US IN OUR DAILY LIVES.
BR 4941 HEBREW THEATRE, THE ITS FIRST FIFTY YEARS KOHANSKY, MENDEL A HISTORY OF THE HEBREW STAGE IN ISRAEL, RUSSIA, AND WESTERN EUROPE, HIGHLIGHTING THE COMPANIES OF HABIMA AND THE CAMERI, AND THE ARTISTS WHO WORKED WITH THEM.
BR 4943 SO HELP ME GOD TARR, HERBERT SET IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE VIETNAM WAR, THIS IS THE STORY OF A TOTALLY IRRELIGIOUS YOUNG MAN WHO ENROLLS IN RABBINICAL SCHOOL TO ESCAPE THE DRAFT. BECAUSE DREW KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT JUDAISM, EVERYTHING HE LEARNS IS A REVELATION TO HIM. ALSO, HIS TRIP TO RUSSIA TO CONTACT JEWISH ACTIVISTS HELPS IN THE FORMATION OF A COMMITTED JEW.
BR 4944 MENUHINS, THE A PERSONAL FAMILY ODYSSEY ROLFE, LIONEL A COMPREHENSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF THE FAMOUS VIOLINIST WHICH FOCUSES ON HIS FAMILY AND ANCESTORS.
BR 4945 TORAH ANTHOLOGY, THE (ME'AM LO'EZ), VOL. 1 CULI, RABBI YAAKOV ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST VOLUME OF A CLASSIC COMMENTARY ON THE TORAH WRITTEN BY THE SEPHARDIC SCHOLAR IN 1730. RICH USE OF MIDRASH.
BR 4946 MAIMONIDES AND AQUINAS A CONTEMPORARY APPRAISAL HABERMAN, JACOB COMPARES AND CONTRASTS THE WAYS IN WHICH MAIMONIDES AND AQUINAS TRIED TO RECONCILE FAITH AND REASON BY ASSIMILATING ELEMENTS OF PLATONIC AND ARISTOTELIAN PHILOSOPHY.
BR 4947 KABBALAH THE WAY OF THE JEWISH MYSTIC EPSTEIN, PERLE A HISTORY OF KABBALAH AND AN EXPLANATION OF CABBALISTIC CUSTOMS. WRITTEN FOR THE LAYMAN.
BR 4948 KEY TO REBECCA, THE FOLLETT, KEN A SPY NOVEL SET IN EGYPT DURING WORLD WAR II.
BR 4949 ROMANCE OF HASSIDISM, THE MINKIN, JACOB S. THE STORY OF HASSIDISM TOLD THROUGH THE OUTSTANDING PERSONALITIES WHO CREATED THIS MOVEMENT AND SPREAD IT THROUGH THE MASSES.
BR 4950 ADVENTURES OF YEMIMA AND OTHER STORIES SOYER, ABRAHAM TALES GEARED TO JEWISH CHILDREN WHO ENDURED TERROR IN EASTERN EUROPE AIMING TO HELP THEM ESCAPE INTO THE IMAGINATION.
BR 4951 KING OF FLESH AND BLOOD, THE SHAMIR, MOSHE HISTORICAL NOVEL OF ALEXANDER JANNAEUS, THE LAST MONARCH AND THE GRANDSON OF SIMON MACCABEUS WHO RULED ISRAEL FROM 103 TO 76 B.C.E.
BR 4952 QUEST FOR PAST AND FUTURE FACKENHEIM, EMIL L. OFFERS A NEW RECONSTRUCTION OF JEWISH THEOLOGY THAT WILL PROVIDE A SOLID FOUNDATION OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS BELIEF IN THE PRESENT AGE.
BR 4954 LORI GOLDREICH, GLORIA THE STORY OF A 16-YEAR-OLD AMERICAN GIRL SUSPENDED FROM SCHOOL AND SENT TO LIVE IN AN AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY IN ISRAEL.
BR 4955 MARC CHAGALL AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY ALEXANDER, SIDNEY A BIOGRAPHY OF THE JEWISH PAINTER. ALEXANDER TRACES CHAGALL'S LIFE FROM HIS CHILDHOOD IN VITEBSK TO THE EXOTIC ART WORLD OF ST. PETERSBURG TO HIS EXILE TO THE UNITED STATES DURING THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 4956 ANCIENT ROOTS AND MODERN MEANINGS DILLER, JERRY V. SUSANNE OTTE A WEAVING TOGETHER IN ESSAY FORM OF AN ANCIENT TRADITION WITH AN EVER-CHANGING PRESENT. MORE THAN SIMPLY A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS DETAILING VARIOUS APPROACHES TO THE JEWISH RELIGIOUS AND INTELLECTUAL EXPERIENCE, THIS WORK IS BOUND TOGETHER BY THE PASSIONATE ORIENTATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY SEEKER.
BR 4957 EVANGELIZING THE AMERICAN JEW EICHHORN, DAVID MAX THE AUTHOR GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF CHRISTIAN ATTEMPTS TO CONVERT THE JEWS OF NORTH AMERICA FROM THE COLONIAL PERIOD TO THE PRESENT.
BR 4958 CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JEWISH MUSIC NULMAN, CANTOR M. DESCRIBES ALL ASPECTS OF JEWISH MUSIC INCLUDING TRENDS, HISTORY, INSTRUMENTS, AND ITS BACKGROUND.
BR 4959 WAY OF ISRAEL, THE BIBLICAL FAITH AND ETHICS MUILENBURG, JAMES THE AUTHOR A NOTED BIBLICAL SCHOLAR, BRINGS OUT THE UNIQUENESS OF ISRAEL'S HERITAGE BY KEEN ANALYSIS OF MANY PASSAGES FROM THE TANACH.
BR 4960 SECRET CONVERSATIONS OF HENRY KISSINGER, THE GOLAN, MATTI AN INSIDE LOOK AT HOW KISSINGER OPERATES AND AT THE NEGOTIATIONS THAT ENDED THE YOM KIPPUR WAR.
BR 4961 JOSHUA FIGHTER FOR BAR KOCHBA NARELL, IRENA THIS IS THE STORY OF A PARTICIPANT IN THE REVOLT LED BY BAR KOCHBA AGAINST ROME: THE MILITARY, POLITICAL AND SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE TO RESTORE THE JEWISH STATE AGAINST OVERWHELMING ODDS.
BR 4962 EVERGREEN PLAIN, BELVA THE STORY OF ANNA FRIEDMAN, A POLISH JEWISH IMMIGRANT IN NEW YORK; HER FAITHFUL, HARDWORKING HUSBAND; AND HER ADVENTURES WITH A WEALTHY LOVER.
BR 4963 PORTRAITS FREEMAN, CYNTHIA A SAGA OF FOUR GENERATIONS OF THE SANSONITSKY FAMILY, STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE IN THE NEW WORLD AND THEN MOVING WEST TO CALIFORNIA.
BR 4964 MIDDLE OF THE FIRE, THE BLACKER, IRWIN R. A NOVEL OF GREAT DRAMA AND IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICT IN ISRAEL DURING THE YEARS BETWEEN HER INDEPENDENCE IN 1948 AND THE SIX DAY WAR IN 1967.
BR 4965 STEPHANIA KARMEL, ILONA A POLISH REFUGEE, DISFIGURED AS A RESULT OF CONCENTRATION CAMP TREATMENT AND TWO PATIENTS IN A SWEDISH HOSPITAL CHANGED THEIR OUTLOOKS AFTER BEING UNITED.
BR 4966 MENDELE MOCHER SEFORIM STEINBERG, THEODORE L. STUDY OF ABRAMOVITSH'S WORK DEALING WITH VARIOUS KINDS OF OPPRESSION, COMBINED WITH THE REALISM OF HIS DESCRIPTION AND LIVELINESS OF HIS CHARACTERS.
BR 4967 ASHES OUT OF HOPE HOWE, I. & GREENBERG, E. EDS. WORKS OF THREE IMPORTANT YIDDISH WRITERS FROM SOVIET RUSSIA AND THE HISTORY OF YIDDISH LITERATURE IN RUSSIA FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE STIFLING STALIN PERIOD.
BR 4968 DUBIN'S LIVES MALAMUD, BERNARD A 50-YEAR-OLD WRITER, ESTRANGED FROM HIS WIFE AND INVOLVED WITH A WOMAN HALF HIS AGE, SUFFERS THROUGH THE DEPRESSIONS OF MIDDLE AGE AND WRITER'S BLOC.
BR 4969 WHITE NIGHTS BEGIN, MENACHEM IN THIS MEMOIR, BEGIN, A FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL, DESCRIBES HIS UNDERGROUND ACTIVITIES TO WIN ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITISH RULE.
BR 4970 CHOPIN EXPRESS, THE KAPLAN, HOWARD STEVE BARTH, AN AMERICAN STUDENT IN JERUSALEM BECOMES A PAWN IN A COMPLEX PLOT DEVELOPED BY FOUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES.
BR 4971 BEING JEWISH IN AMERICA THE MODERN EXPERIENCE HERTZBERG, ARTHUR EXAMINATION OF ISSUES IN CULTURE AND POLITICS CONFRONTING AMERICAN JEWS.
BR 4972 ASSISI UNDERGROUND, THE THE PRIESTS WHO RESCUED JEWS RAMATI, ALEXANDER A LITTLE-KNOWN EPISODE IN WORLD WAR II HISTORY IN WHICH PADRE RUFINO NICCACCI SUCCESSFULLY HID 300 JEWS IN ASSISI, ITALY.
BR 4973 FORGOTTEN FRIENDSHIP ISRAEL AND THE SOVIET BLOCK, 1947- KRAMMER, ARNOLD A BOOK WHICH DISCUSSES THE ERA OF FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE SOVIET UNION.
BR 4975 ARABS AND ZIONISM BEFORE WORLD WAR I, THE MANDEL, NEVILLE J. EXPLORES GROWING ARAB NATIONALISM AS A CAUSE OF OPPOSITION TO ZIONISM, WITH MAJOR INCIDENTS OF ARAB-JEWISH VIOLENCE DATING BACK TO THE BALFOUR DECLARATION OF 1917.
BR 4977 MIND OF GERMANY, THE THE EDUCATION OF A NATION KOHN, HANS AN INTELLECTUAL STUDY OF GERMANY BY A FOREMOST JEWISH HISTORIAN.
BR 4978 BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM, THE GUR, MORDECHAI THE EPIC BATTLE TO REGAIN THE ARAB-HELD CITY OF JERUSALEM - THE CLIMATIC BATTLE OF THE 1967 SIX DAY WAR THAT RESTORED THE WESTERN WALL OF ISRAEL.
BR 4979 CHAIA SONIA GUSSOW, DON A FAMILY'S COURAGEOUS ODYSSEY FROM RUSSIA TO THE UNITED STATES FOCUSING, ESPECIALLY, ON THE MOTHER WHO IS SO TYPICAL OF ALL THOSE ORDINARY FOLK WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR EAST-EUROPEAN JEWS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE ENRICH
BR 4980 HUMBOLDT'S GIFT BELLOW, SAUL A NOVEL IN WHICH A MODERN, INTELLECTUAL, AND TALENTED JEW IS PITTED AGAINST THE FORCES OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE.
BR 4981 ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE OLD TESTAMENT ROGERSON, J.W. A HISTORICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PEOPLES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
BR 4982 ARABS, ISRAELIS AND KISSINGER, THE A SECRET HISTORY OF AMERICAN DIPLO SHEEHAN, EDWARD R.F. A REPORT ON AMERICAN DIPLOMACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND HENRY KISSINGER'S ROLE IN THE SECRET NEGOTIATIONS WHICH ENDED THE 1973 YOM KIPPUR WAR BETWEEN THE ARABS AND ISRAEL.
BR 4983 HEY LENNY, HEY JACK BRODY, ALAN A NOVEL ABOUT TWO BROTHERS WHO REMINISCE ABOUT THEIR CHILDHOOD YEARS.
BR 4984 JEWISH PARTY BOOK, THE CONTEMPORARY GUIDE TO CUSTOMS, CRA ROCKLAND, MAE SHAFTER A GUIDE TO PREPARING JEWISH CELEBRATIONS SUCH AS CIRCUMCISIONS, BAR MITZVAHS AND WEDDINGS WITH RECIPES, CRAFTS AND OTHER HELPFUL HINTS.
BR 4985 FAMILY FORTUNE, A WEIDMAN, JEROME FLASHBACKS OF A TYCOON WHOSE PAST INVOLVES MURDER, ILLEGAL BOOTLEGGING AND FINALLY ESTABLISHING LEGITIMATE OPERATIONS WITH THE AID OF A PROTEGE.
BR 4986 OF BLOOD AND HOPE PISAR, SAMUEL ORPHANED AT THE AGE OF 12 BY THE NAZIS, HE LIVES AS A JUVENILE DELINQUENT UNTIL BROUGHT BY RELATIVES TO AUSTRALIA WHERE HE WINS A SCHOLARSHIP AND BECOMES A BRITISH GENTLEMAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAWYER.
BR 4987 BASTION OF FAITH FEINSTEIN, HAGAON RAV MOSHE COMMENTS AND EXPOSITIONS ON THE WEEKLY SIDRAH OF THE TORAH BASED ON LECTURES BY HAGAON RAV MOSHE FEINSTEIN.
BR 4988 DUAL ALLEGIANCE DUNKELMAN, BEN THE AUTHOR, A CANADIAN JEW, RECOUNTS HIS HEROIC MILITARY EXPLOITS WITH THE CANADIAN DIVISION IN EUROPE DURING WORLD WAR II AND IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI WAR.
BR 4989 ESTHER THE STAR AND THE SEPTRE ANDREWS, GINI THE TRUE STORY OF THE HOLIDAY OF PURIM TELLS OF ESTHER, A PERSIAN JEW TORN BETWEEN HER LOVE FOR XERXES AND HER DUTY TO HER PEOPLE.
BR 4991 JERICHO COMMANDMENT, THE PATTERSON, JAMES A PLOT BY JEWISH TERRORISTS TO AVENGE THE SIX MILLION BY SLAUGHTERING THE ATHLETES AT THE 1980 MOSCOW OLYMPICS. STRAUSS AND THE FBI TRY TO PREVENT THE MASSACRE.
BR 4992 MR. EMANUEL GOLDING, LOUIS A LONELY OLD EASTERN EUROPEAN HAS RETIRED TO LIVE IN DOOMINGTON, ENGLAND, PREPARED TO LIVE OUT THE REST OF HIS YEARS IN PEACE, BUT UNEXPECTED EVENTS ARISE WHICH LEAD HIM INTO DANGER AND ON TO THE WORLD'S FRONT PAGES.
BR 4993 RING, THE STEEL, DANIELLE A LOVE STORY PLAYED OUT OVER THREE GENERATIONS BEGINNING IN HITLER'S GERMANY WITH THE EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR OF A GERMAN WOMAN WITH A JEWISH NOVELIST. IT CONTINUES WHEN THE WOMAN'S DAUGHTER, ARIANA, IS RESCUED FROM THE NAZI TERROR BY A GERMAN OFFICER AND ENDS IN PRESENT-DAY AMERICA, WHEN ARIANA'S SON LEARNS HIS MOTHER'S SECRET.
BR 4995 ISRAEL A PERSONAL HISTORY BEN GURION, DAVID THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL TELLS THE STORY FROM THE TRIBE OF ABRAHAM TO MODERN TIMES.
BR 4997 MARTIN BUBER THE LIFE OF DIALOGUE FRIEDMAN, MAURICE S. A DISCERNING COMMENTARY ON BUBER'S WRITINGS, AS WELL AS A SYSTEMATIC INTERPRETATION OF THE MAJOR ASPECTS OF HIS THOUGHT.
BR 4998 LIVING WITH THE BIBLE DAYAN, MOSHE PORTRAITS OF BIBLICAL CHARACTERS BY ISRAEL'S WELL-KNOWN GENERAL, FUSED WITH HIS OWN KNOWLEDGE OF JEWISH HISTORY AND THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
BR 4999 GIRLS IN THE VELVET FRAME, THE GERAS, ADELE IN THIS JUVENILE NOVEL, THE FIVE BERNSTEIN GIRLS EXPERIENCE THE JOYS AND SORROWS OF LIFE AS IT WAS FOR JEWS IN JERUSALEM IN THE EARLY 1900'S.
BR 5000 HOUSE OF CHRISTINA, THE HAAS, BEN VIENNA 1938: CHRISTA MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN THE THREE MEN IN HER LIFE, A NAZI, A JEW AND AN AMERICAN, ALL WHOM HAVE CONFLICTING FORCES PRESENT AT THAT TIME.
BR 5001 THURSDAY THE RABBI WALKED OUT KEMELMAN, HARRY THE SEVENTH NOVEL IN THE SERIES ABOUT RABBI SMALL, THE SLEUTH WHO EMPLOYS TALMUDIC REASONING TO SOLVE THE HIGH CRIME OF MURDER.
BR 5003 HERITAGE SEEKERS, THE AMERICAN BLACKS IN SEARCH OF JEWIS GERBER, ISRAEL J. A PSYCHO HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF BLACK JUDAISM AND PSEUDO-JUDAISM AND OF THE ORIGINS OF THE CURRENT CONFLICT BETWEEN ONE SUCH SECT AND THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT.
BR 5004 LIFE AND TIMES OF MENACHEM BEGIN, THE GERVASI, FRANK A BIOGRAPHY OF BEGIN, SPANNING THE HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. COVERS BEGIN'S EXPLOITS AS A MEMBER OF THE IRGUN AND ENDS WITH HIS ATTEMPTS TO MAKE PEACE WITH EGYPT WHILE SERVING AS ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER.
BR 5007 EXPERIMENT THAT WORKS TEENAGE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION LIPNICK, BERNARD AN ACCOUNT OF A PROGRAM WHOSE GOAL WAS TO PREVENT JEWISH TEENAGERS FROM BEING 'TURNED OFF' FROM JUDAISM AND TO RAISE THE LEVEL OF THEIR JEWISH SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS.
BR 5009 KING OF THE JEWS EPSTEIN, LESLIE A STORY OF THE DREADED JUDENRAT, COUNCILS OF JEWS SET UP BY THE NAZIS TO RULE OVER THEIR FELLOW-JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 5010 PRISON OR PARADISE? RUDIN, JAMES & MARCIA THE AUTHORS CHARGE THAT CULTS PROVIDE A COMMUNITY FOR UNMOORED YOUNG PEOPLE MADE UP PREDOMINANTLY OF WHITE, MIDDLE-CLASS COLLEGE STUDENTS. THE LATTER, HOWEVER, 'BLINDLY SERVE, EVEN WORSHIP' THE STRONG CHARISMATIC LEADER OF THE CULT. A PLEA IS MADE FOR ORGANIZED RELIGION TO REACH THE YOUNG AND COUNSEL PARENTS.
BR 5011 DAYS OF WINTER, THE FREEMAN, CYNTHIA RUBIN HACK, A WELL-BORN PROMINENT JEW MEETS MAGDA. PEACE & WAR IN EUROPE CHANGES THE DESTINY OF THEIR LIVES, MOVING THEM FROM EUROPE TO AMERICA.
BR 5012 MARCH, THE KUNICZAK, W.S. AN EPIC OF INTELLECTUAL & MORAL PASSION WHICH FOCUSES ON SEVERAL POLISH, JEWISH & CATHOLIC FAMILIES AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE POLISH ARMY.
BR 5013 ECONOMIC WAR AGAINST THE JEWS, THE NELSON, WALTER H. & PRITTIE, TERENCE A FULL DOCUMENTED STORY OF HOW THE ARAB NATIONS ARE USING THEIR ENORMOUS OIL WEALTH TO PREVENT ALL COUNTRIES FROM HAVING ANY BUSINESS DEALINGS WITH ISRAEL.
BR 5014 MOVED BY LOVE A NOVEL OF REMEMBRANCE GELLIN, WILLIAM NOVEL OF EASTERN EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT JEWS IN NEW YORK AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. IT FOCUSES ON SMALL ACTS OF DECENCY AND COMPASSION THAT MAKE EXISTENCE BEARABLE AND ENGENDER HOPE FOR A BETTER WORLD, EVEN AMIDST GRINDING POVERTY.
BR 5016 NEW 100 YEARS WAR, THE GEYER, GEORGIE ANNE AN ACCOUNT OF REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST FOCUSING ON THE ARAB-ISRAEL CONFLICT AND EMPHASIZING THE ATTITUDES ON EACH SIDE THAT PERPETUATE THE FIGHT AND MISTRUST.
BR 5017 AVRAHAM'S GOOD WEEK KARDOS, GYORGY G. IN 1947, A PALESTINE FARMER GET INVOLVED FOR A JEWISH STATE WHEN HE ENCOUNTERS A YOUNG TERRORIST ON THE RUN FROM THE BRITISH.
BR 5018 REFUGEE ROSE, ANNE A 12-YEAR OLD JEWISH GIRL LEAVES NAZI-GERMANY ALONE AND ADJUSTS TO A NEW LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES.
BR 5021 SUNSET GANG, THE ADLER, WARREN TEN SHORT STORIES ABOUT BILL, JENNIE, MAX AND ISAAC IN A RETIRED COMMUNITY INHABITED BY ELDERS WHO HAVE LEFT BEHIND FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND PAST LIVES.
BR 5022 TULIPS ARE RED, THE ROSE, LEESHA THIS BOOK IS ABOUT A GIRL NAMED HAVA BORNSTEIN AND HER TESTIMONY AND TRIBUTE TO THE DUTCH CHRISTIAN HISTORY OF RESISTING INVADERS AND OF HELPING JEWS.
BR 5023 JERUSALEM DIAMOND, THE GORDON, NOAH THE STORY OF A 211-CARAT DIAMOND FROM THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM, LOST OVER CENTURIES, WHICH FALLS INTO THE HANDS OF MOSLEMS, THE VATICAN AND OTHERS. DIAMOND MERCHANT HARRY HOPEMAN, WHO IS COMMISSIONED TO RETRIEVE THE DIAMOND, IS FOLLOWED THROUGH VARIOUS, OFTEN ROMANTIC, ADVENTURES.
BR 5024 REVOLUTIONARY JEWS FROM MARX TO TROTSKY WISTRICH, ROBERT S. A STUDY OF THE ROLE PLAYED BY JEWS IN THE EUROPEAN SOCIALIST MOVEMENTS. ALSO INCLUDES AN ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF JEWISH RADICALISM AND THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM WITHIN THE LABOR MOVEMENT.
BR 5025 HEIRLOOMS MORGAN, CAROLE CHRONICLE OF AN IMMIGRANT JEWISH FAMILY. A MAN'S DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR TOWARDS HIS FAMILY BRINGS MOTHER AND DAUGHTERS CLOSER.
BR 5026 FUGU PLAN, THE THE STORY OF THE JAPANESE AND THE TOKAYER, MARV THE PREVIOUSLY UNTOLD STORY OF HOW THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT SAVED THOUSANDS OF JEWS AFTER PEARL HARBOR.
BR 5027 SHADOW OF THE ROCK WRIGHT, PATRICIA A NOVELIZATION OF THE STORY OF DAVID AND HIS KINSMAN, JOAB, THE COMMANDER OF HIS HOSTS.
BR 5029 HISTORY OF ANTI-SEMITISM, THE. VOL. I FROM THE TIME OF CHRIST TO THE CO POLIAKOV, LEON A HISTORY AND ANALYSIS OF ANTI-SEMITISM: ITS DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORICAL EVOLUTION.
BR 5030 SILKY ROSTEN, LEO A FORMULA PLOT, GARRULOUSLY NARRATED BY SILKY, WITH OLD AND NEW JEWISH JOKES TUCKED INTO EVERY OTHER SENTENCE, IT HAS A STYLE ALL ITS OWN.
BR 5031 THREE WEEKS IN OCTOBER DAYAN, YAEL SET IN ISRAEL DURING THE YOM KIPPUR WAR, THIS IS THE STORY OF AMILIA AND DANIEL WHOSE MARRIAGE IS STRAINED BY INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FORCES.
BR 5032 HEROES OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY KARP, DEBORAH THIS IS A BOOK ON JEWS AND THEIR PART IN AMERICAN HISTORY
BR 5035 THEY CHOSE LIFE JEWISH RESISTANCE IN THE HOLOCAUST BAUER, YEHUDA THE HOLOCAUST WAS A CRIME WITHOUT PRECEDENT IN HISTORY. THIS BOOK CONTAINS THE TESTIMONY OF THE VICTIMS OF THAT CRIME-THE SURVIVORS OF THE WARSAW GHETTO AND THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
BR 5036 ISRAEL AND THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS WILSON, EDMUND WRITER EDMUND WILSON'S FASCINATION WITH THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS PRODUCED THIS INTRIGUING ACCOUNT OF THEIR SIGNIFICANCE AN ESSAY FROM WILSON'S 'RED, BLOND, BLACK AND OLIVE' IS ALSO INCLUDED.
BR 5037 JEWISH PRESENCE, THE ESSAYS IN IDENTITY AND CULTURE DAVIDOWICZ, LUCY S. AN EXAMINATION OF THE FULL RANGE OF MODERN JUDAISM, FROM ITS RELIGION AND ITS CULTURE TO ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE HOLOCAUST. YIDDISH CULTURE IS ALSO DISCUSSED.
BR 5039 RABIN MEMOIRS, THE RABIN, YITZHAK CANDID AND INFORMATIVE RECOLLECTIONS BY ISRAEL'S FORMER PRIME MINISTER ON HIS COUNTRY AND HIS POLITICS. RABIN WAS ALSO CHIEF OF ISRAEL'S DEFENSE FORCES AND AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES DURING THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION.
BR 5040 MEDICAL HALACHA FOR EVERYONE ABRAHAM, DR. ABRAHAM S. A COMPREHENSIVE AND SENSITIVE GUIDE TO JEWISH MEDICAL LAW. THE BOOK HELPS TO ANSWER SOME OF THE QUESTIONS FACING THE ILL AND THOSE WHO ATTEND THEM.
BR 5041 IN THE BEGINNING SCIENCE FACES GOD IN THE BOOK OF G ASIMOV, ISAAC A PROFOUND, YET READABLE COMPARISON OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS AND SCIENTIFIC THEORIES ABOUT HOW THE WORLD CAME INTO BEING.
BR 5043 DIM MEMORIES OF A POLISH JEW BORN IN FRANCE GOLDMAN, PIERRE THE STORMY LIFE AND SENSATIONAL MURDER TRIAL OF A RESISTANCE FIGHTER WHO WAS THE ILLEGITIMATE SON OF POLISH JEWS. HE WAS FOUND GUILTY AT HIS FIRST TRIAL, BUT THE SENTENCE WAS REVERSED AT A SECOND HEARING.
BR 5044 UNDERSTANDING CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM GORDIS, ROBERT AN OUTSTANDING CONSERVATIVE RABBI HAS BROUGHT TOGETHER A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS WHICH TAKES THE VIEW CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM IS A SELF-MOTIVATED GROUPING, NOT A HALF-WAY HOUSE BETWEEN REFORM AND ORTHODOXY.
BR 5045 ISRAELIS, JEWS AND JESUS LAPIDE, PINCHUS A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON WHAT JEWS THINK OF JESUS, ALONG WITH EXCERPTS FROM ISRAELI NOVELS ABOUT JESUS AND THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE OF CHRISTIANITY.
BR 5046 NEW WRITING IN ISRAEL SPICEHANDLER, EGRA & CURTIS ARONSON A SELECTION OF NEW ISRAELI PROSE AND POETRY, ALL APPEARING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH.
BR 5047 DUAL IMAGE, THE THEFIGURE OF THE JEW IN ENGLISH & FISCH, HAROLD A SCANNING OF THE ENTIRE FIELD OF JEWISH PORTRAITURE FROM CHAUCER AND SHAKESPEARE TO THE PRESENT DAY: INCLUDED ARE SELECTIONS FROM BELLOW, ROTH AND MALAMUD.
BR 5048 LETTERS TO MY ISRAELI SONS BANKS, LYNN REID A NON-JEW MARRIED TO AN ISRAELI, BANKS PRESENTS A VIVID ACCOUNT OF THE PRESENT MIDDLE EAST IMPASSE. SHE MAKES THE POINT THAT ONLY BY TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE WHOLE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, FROM BIBLICAL TIMES THROUGH THE DIASPORA AND HOLOCAUST TO THE PRESENT DAY, CAN ONE EXPLAIN THE PROBLEMS OF MODERN ISRAEL.
BR 5049 KITTY AN UNCOMMON MEMOIR OF A NON-CELEBR RUTTENBERG, KATHERINE A WARM AND SPUNKY WOMAN TRACES HER JOURNEY FROM BUDAPEST TO PITTSBURG TO JERUSALEM. ALONG THE WAY SHE BECOMES INVOLVED IN HADASSAH IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN VOLUNTEER WORK IN THE YOM KIPPUR WAR. © 1980
BR 5050 BIRTHDAY IN KISHINEV STEINBERG, FANNIE HARSH HONESTY AND COMPASSION BLEND TO TELL HOW A RUSSIAN JEWISH GIRL MANAGES TO ESCAPE ONE OF THE BLOODIEST POGROMS IN JEWISH HISTORY.
BR 5051 CHILD'S INTRODUCTION TO THE EARLY PROPHETS, A NEWMAN, SHIRLEY A SELECTION OF BIBLE STORIES DESIGNED TO FAMILIARIZE CHILDREN WITH THE EARLY PROPHETS AND THEIR TEACHINGS.
BR 5052 HOROWITZ AND MRS. WASHINGTON DENKER, HENRY IN HIS SEVENTIES, MR. HOROWITZ IS MUGGED BY AFRICAN-AMERICANS. HIS RACIAL HATRED BECOMES INTENSE. BUT THE CARE AND TOUGH SPIRIT OF HIS AFRICAN-AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPIST ALTERS HIS VIEW.
BR 5053 ARTHUR PEARSON, SIDNEY A., JR. THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH BIOGRAPHY IN ENGLISH ON THE WRITER AND HIS COMPLETE WORKS.
BR 5054 ADD LIFE TO YOUR YEARS MANDELBAUM, BERNARD A "POSITIVE THINKING" BOOK THAT PURPORTS TO SHOW HOW THE TENETS OF TRADITIONAL JUDAISM CAN BE USED TO SOLVE THE MORAL PROBLEMS FACING PEOPLE TODAY.
BR 5057 JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE JEWISH GOLDBERG, HIRSCH THE AUTHOR OF 'THE JEWISH CONNECTION' EXPOSES ANTI-SEMITISM TO BE A RESULT OF IGNORANCE. ONCE PEOPLE BECOME FAMILIAR WITH OTHER CULTURES, PREJUDICES AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS ARE SHATTERED.
BR 5058 THIRD TIME AROUND, THE BURNS, GEORGE IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, THIS TELEVISION COMEDIAN OF THE 1950'S AND 60'S WRITES OF A RICH AND VARIED LIFE LIVED AMONG THE STARS, AND OFFERS, AS WELL, A UNIQUE PORTRAIT OF THE AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT SCENE.
BR 5059 LOOKING FOR FRED SCHMIDT EPSTEIN, SEYMOUR ESTHER KRAME A NOVEL ABOUT A BUSINESSMAN WHO SEEKS FOR MEANING IN HIS LIFE THROUGH HIS RELIGION AND HIS FATHER'S MEMORY.
BR 5060 WHO'S WHO IN JEWISH HISTORY AFTER THE PERIOD OF THE OLD TESTAM COMAY, JOAN STANLEY R. B A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY CONTAINING OVER 1,000 ENTRIES ON MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO JEWISH THOUGHT AND HISTORY. ALSO INCLUDES NON-JEWS WHO HAVE INFLUENCED THE JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 5061 YIDDISH STORIES, OLD AND NEW HOWE, IRVING & ELIEZAR GREENBERG, ED SET IN EASTERN EUROPE DURING THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY, THESE YIDDISH STORIES EVOKE THE DIFFICULT BUT CULTURALLY RICH LIVES OF THE JEWS THERE. LACED WITH HUMOR, THE STORIES REFLECT THE EASTERN EUROPEAN JEW'S PLACE IN SOCIETY AND HIS CONCEPT OF GOD.
BR 5062 SPIRIT OF JEWISH THOUGHT, THE BERNARD EVSLIN, EDITOR THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE TALMUD AND THE COMMENTARIES ARE COMBINED ALONG WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON JEWISH THINKERS.
BR 5063 SAVTA SIMCHA AND THE INCREDIBLE SHABBOS BAG GANZ, YAFFA AN ISRAELI WOMAN VISITING WINTERGREEN CITY BRINGS HAPPINESS TO ITS RESIDENTS WITH HER 'SHABBOS BAG' OF HOLIDAY TREATS. A HEBREW AND YIDDISH GLOSSARY ROUNDS OUT AN UNUSUALLY APPEALING BOOK.
BR 5065 NOW NEWMAN WAS OLD BERMANT, CHAIM THE STORY OF A MAN FORCED BY HIS WIFE INTO EARLY RETIREMENT AND THE CONSEQUENCES THEREOF.
BR 5066 QUEEN OF THE RITZ MARX, SAMUEL THE MEMOIRS OF A JEWISH WOULD-BE ACTRESS WHO JOURNEYS TO PARIS, MARRIES THE DIRECTOR OF THE RITZ HOTEL AND IS IMPRISONED BY THE NAZIS.
BR 5067 BYZANTINE HONEYMOON A TALE OF THE BOSPHORUS GLAZEBROOK, PHILIP IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY ISTANBUL (1895), AN ANTI-SEMITIC YOUNG MAN ON A HONEYMOON WITH HIS WEALTHY JEWISH BRIDE GAINS A NEW AWARENESS OF LIFE'S REALITIES.
BR 5068 MY JEWISH ROOTS DAVID KRANZLER A GUIDE TO GENEALOGY WITH A JEWISH SLANT, CONTAINING CHAPTERS ON GENEALOGY IN THE BIBLE AND TALMUD, GENEALOGY IN THE DIASPORA AND JEWISH NAMES.
BR 5069 MURDERER HOLMAN, FELICE SET IN A PENNSYLVANIA COAL MINING TOWN IN THE DEPTHS OF THE DEPRESSION, A SCHOOLBOY ABOUT TO BE BAR MITZVAHED BURNS WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT LIFE AND ANTI-SEMITISM.
BR 5070 WINEGLASS, THE A PASSOVER STORY ROSTEN, NORMAN A YOUNG BOY'S VISION OF ELIJAH AT THE SEDER TABLE SETS OFF RESENTMENT IN HIS GRANDFATHER AND ANGER IN HIS FATHER.
BR 5071 WAR AND REMEMBRANCE WOUK, HERMAN THE SEQUEL TO 'THE WINDS OF WAR' BRINGS TOGETHER HISTORY AND ROMANCE TO REVEAL THE EFFECTS OF PEARL HARBOR'S BOMBING AND WORLD WAR II ON ONE AMERICAN FAMILY.
BR 5072 SOL SATZ, MARIO A JUDAIC SLANT ON THE FAMILIAR IDENTITY PROBLEM OF THE LATIN AMERICAN IN A COSMOPOLITAN SETTING-SUCH AS PARIS, PERU, NEW YORK AND ISRAEL.
BR 5073 HANSEL AND GRETEL IN BEVERLY HILLS WILBER, SHEILA A HUMOROUS, OFTEN THOUGHT PROVOKING NOVEL ABOUT A 54-YEAR-OLD DIVORCED PUBLICIST AND HER BEST FRIEND, A GAY HAIRDRESSER, WHO SPEND THEIR TIME COMBATING LONELINESS IN THE TRENDY CALIFORNIA TOWN WHERE THEY LIVE.
BR 5074 YENNA VELT(OTHER WORLD) BOOK II NEUGROSCHEL, JOACHIM THE WIT, GUILE AND INTENSE HUMANITY OF FOUR GENERATIONS OF STORYTELLERS IS BROUGHT TOGETHER IN THE FORM OF SHORT STORIES AND NOVELS.
BR 5075 BOOKS OF RACHEL, THE GROSS, JOEL SPANNING FIVE CENTURIES, THIS IS THE SAGA OF AN INDOMITABLE JEWISH FAMILY UNIFIED BY BUSINESS, BLOOD AND A NAME. IN EACH GENERATION THE FIRST-BORN DAUGHTER IS GIVEN THE NAME OF RACHEL. EACH RACHEL IS A REAL HEROINE, DISPLAYING THE CHARACTER TRAITS OF THE LEGENDARY RACHELS WHO PRECEDED HER.
BR 5076 WALTER LIPPMAN AND THE RISE OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY STEEL, RONALD THE AUTHOR, USING HIS EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO THE JOURNALIST'S PRIVATE PAPERS, REVEALS THE PASSIONS AND THE FRIENDSHIPS, THE QUARRELS AND THE INVOLVEMENTS, THE DISAPPOINTMENTS AND THE TRIUMPHS OF THE MAN WHO CHRONICLED AMERICA'S RISE TO GLOBAL POWER.
BR 5077 TIME OUT SPINAUX, ALAIN THE SENSITIVE STORY OF A 9-YEAR-OLD FRENCH JEWISH BOY POSSESSED BY A DEMON NAMED HITLERINO AT THE SAME TIME THE REAL HITLER IS COMING TO POWER.
BR 5078 FINDING OUR FATHERS ROTTENBERG, DAN A GUIDE TO JEWISH GENEALOGY, WHICH INCLUDES A LIST OF 8,000 JEWISH FAMILY NAMES AND THEIR PLACES OF ORIGIN.
BR 5080 GHOST WALTZ DAY, INGEBORG IN 1957, A 16-YEAR-OLD AUSTRIAN EXCHANGE STUDENT COMES TO AMERICA AND LEARNS ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST FOR THE FIRST TIME.
BR 5081 EIGHTH SIN,THE KANFER, STEFAN AN ARTIST AND HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR BEARS AN OBSESSIVE HATRED FOR A NAZI EXECUTIONER, ALTHOUGH THIS HATRED DOES NOT ROB HIM OF HIS LOVE OF BEAUTY.
BR 5082 SMOKE OVER GOLAN OFEK, URIEL STORY OF AN ISRAELI YOUTH AND HIS FRIENDSHIP AND COMPASSION WITH PEOPLES OF OTHER BACKGROUNDS IN HIS WAR TORN HOMELAND IN THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.
BR 5083 LAND THAT I GIVE YOU, THE STANLEY FELDSTEIN A REVIEW OF THE SPAN OF JEWISH LIFE IN AMERICA, WITH NUMEROUS INCIDENTS OF SOCIAL, CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS AND ARTISTIC SIGNIFICANCE.
BR 5084 TIMETABLE ELON, AMOS A FACT-BASED NOVEL IN WHICH ADOLF EICHMANN PROPOSES TO THE HUNGARIAN JEWISH UNDERGROUND TO TRADE JEWISH LIVES FOR FOOD, TRUCKS AND SOAP.
BR 5085 JOSHUA THEN AND NOW RICHTER, MORDECHAI THE AUTHOR OF THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ RETURNS TO JEWISH MONTREAL, WHERE JOSHUA SHAPIRO, DESPITE HAVING A AD WHO IS A BOXER-TURNED-HONEST-CROOK AND AN EXOTIC DANCER MOM WHO PERFORMS AT HIS BAR-MITZVAH, GROWS UP TO FIND SUCCESS AS A TV WRITER AND JOURNALIST. BUT IN MIDDLE AGE, HE IS BESIEGED BY THE PRESS AND TORMENTED BY THE GHOSTS OF HIS YOUTH WHEN HE IS INJURED IN A FREAK ACCIDENT, HIS WASP WIFE DISAPPEARS, AND HE IS ENTANGLED IN A SEX SCANDAL. © 1980
BR 5086 ONCE I WAS A PLUM TREE JOHANNA HURWITZ A STORY SET IN THE BRONX IN 1947 OF A YOUNG JEWISH GIRL EXPERIENCING IDENTITY PROBLEMS DUE TO A CHANGE IN THE FAMILY NAME AND THE FACT THAT HER PARENTS DO NOT PRACTICE THEIR RELIGION.
BR 5087 DANCE TIME JABLONS, BEVERLY MARYANN, A SHELTERED OHIO HOUSEWIFE, IS URGED BY HER HUSBAND TO HAVE A SPREE IN NEW YORK CITY, WHILE THE BOYS ARE AWAY AT CAMP AND HE ON A BUSINESS TRIP. WHAT MAKES HER VISIT AN ADVENTURE IS HER CHANCE MEETING WITH LILYAN, WHO INTRODUCES HER TO HER COMIC AND LARGE-HEARTED JEWISH FAMILY.
BR 5088 ELLIS ISLAND AND OTHER STORIES HELPRIN, MARK TEN SHORT STORIES AND A NOVELLA RANGING IN SETTING FROM THE INDIAN OCEAN TO A LONG ISLAND BEACH.
BR 5089 BITTER SWEET STRASSBERG, SUSAN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY THE DAUGHTER OF LEE AND PAULA STRASSBERG, FOUNDERS OF THE ACTORS' STUDIO. THE AUTHOR, HERSELF, AN ACCOMPLISHED ACTRESS, APPEARED IN THE BROADWAY PRODUCTION OF 'THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK.'
BR 5090 RUN TO THE WATERFALL VIVANTE, ARTURO FIFTEEN SHORT STORIES ABOUT THE LIFE OF A HALF-JEWISH FAMILY IN POSTWAR SIENA. THE FATHER IS A PHILOSOPHER; THE SON A DOCTOR TURNED PAINTER. THE SON TELLS THE STORIES OF MEMBERS OF A FAMILY STRUGGLING TO KEEP THE ESTATE THAT HAS BEEN THEIR HOME AND THEIR DIGNITY IN A WORLD WHERE REALITY OFTEN FALLS SHORT OF DREAMS.
BR 5091 SOLOMON'S FOLLY CROXFORD, LESLIE STORY OF A 19TH-CENTURY EGYPTIAN JEWISH MERCHANT, WHO, IN A BATTLE TO PROVE HIS RIGHT TO INHERITED WEALTH, ALIENATES HIS WIFE AND SON.
BR 5093 ELLIE'S INHERITANCE COLMAN, HILA A YOUNG DEPRESSION-ERA JEWISH GIRL TRIES TO DEFINE HERSELF IN THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE OF 1930S NEW YORK.
BR 5094 CIRCLE OF LOVE LEAHY, SYRELL ROGORIA ADELE HOCHBA SET IN POSTWAR FRANCE, THIS IS AN UNUSUAL LOVE STORY BETWEEN A 16-YEAR-OLD GERMAN-JEWISH GIRL DRIVEN TO RETURN TO GERMANY TO LOOK FOR HER PARENTS AND A POLISH RESISTANCE FIGHTER NEWLY RELEASED FROM A GERMAN PRISON CAMP. DESPITE THE AGE DIFFERENCE, THEY SHARE A SHORT IDYLLIC LOVE AFFAIR.
BR 5095 JEWISH AMERICAN LITERATURE CHAPMAN, ABRAHAM A COLLECTION OF FICTION, POETRY, CRITICISM AND BIOGRAPHY WHICH ALSO CONTAINS BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL ON EACH AUTHOR AND COMMENTARY FOR UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT.
BR 5096 LION'S WAY, THE ORDE, LEWIS THE SAGA OF A FAT JEWISH BOY FROM THE BRONX WHO RISES ABOVE HIS CRIMINAL BACKGROUND TO BECOME A LEADING TENOR WITH NEW YORK'S GRAND OPERA.
BR 5098 WEST BANK/EAST BANK MISHAL, SHAUL A BRIEF ESSAY SHOWING HOW THE JORDANIANS PREVENTED THE PALESTINIANS FROM CREATING AN EFFECTIVE POWER BASE. BASED ON JORDANIAN DOCUMENTS CAPTURED BY ISRAEL IN 1967, THE BOOK PROVIDES ENOUGH INFORMATION FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THE POSITION OF ALL PARTIES, INCLUDING ISRAEL, ABOUT THE QUESTION OF PALESTINIAN INDEPENDENCE.
BR 5099 ROUGH STRIFE A NOVEL SCHWARTZ, LYNN SHARON THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE BETWEEN A JEW AND A GENTILE WHO MEET IN ROME AND SLOWLY BEGIN AN AFFAIR. BACK IN THE U.S., THEY EMBARK ON CAREERS AND SET UP LIFE TOGETHER FIRM IN THEIR CONVICTION THAT THEY BELONG TOGETHER AS A FAMILY.
BR 5100 FRAGMENTED LIFE OF DON JACOBO LERNER, THE GOLDEMBERG, ISAAC THE STORY OF A RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT FAMILY ATTEMPTING TO RECONSTRUCT THEIR TRADITIONS AND LIFESTYLE IN PERU IN THE 1930S.
BR 5101 HOUSE ON PRAGUE STREET, THE DEMETZ, HANA THE HALF-JEWISH HELENE RICHTER'S CHILDHOOD IS AN IDYLL UNTIL WORLD WAR II. WITH ADOLESCENCE, HER ONCE SERENE LIFE STARTS TO DISINTEGRATE. THIS NOVEL IS ABOUT A YOUNG GIRL WHO ATTEMPTS TO SALVAGE SOME HAPPINESS OUT OF THE HORROR AROUND HER.
BR 5102 AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF AMERICAN JEWS RIBALOW, HAROLD U. ADELINE MARE EXCERPTS FROM THE LIVES OF FAMOUS AMERICAN JEWS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE WORLD AROUND THEM. THESE ACCOUNTS BEGIN IN THE LATE 1800S AND CONTINUE UNTIL 1925.
BR 5103 DOCTOR FROM CORDOVA LE PORRIER, HERBERT A FICTIONALIZED ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF MOSES MAIMONIDES, WRITTEN IN THE FORM OF LETTERS TO A FRIEND.
BR 5104 CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI LITERATURE ANDERSON, ELLIOTT, ED. AN ANTHOLOGY OF TEN VARIED FICTIONAL WORKS DEALING WITH THE UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE IN ISRAEL AS REFLECTED IN SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND MILITARY CONDITIONS.
BR 5105 CONFESSIONS OF JOSEF BAISZ, THE JACOBS, DAN THE CONFESSIONS OF A BROKEN MAN WHO WAS PART OF A DICTATORSHIP, AND WAS A FAVORED SON OF THE REGIME.
BR 5106 NUMBER OUR DAYS MYERHOFF, BARBARA THE OFTEN FUNNY AND ALWAYS MOVING NARRATIVE OF A SOCIAL SCIENTIST'S WORK WITH A JEWISH SENIOR CITIZENS' GROUP IN CALIFORNIA.
BR 5107 LET'S TALK ABOUT LOVING KRIPKE, DOROTHY & MEYER KRIPKE A GUIDE FOR JUVENILES TO THE DELICATE SUBJECTS OF LOVE, SEX, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY.
BR 5108 REACHES OF HEAVEN THE STORY OF THE BAAL SHEM TOV SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS A WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE, SINGER MOLDS LEGEND AND FANTASY INTO A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF THE 18TH-CENTURY LEADER OF THE HASIDIM. THE BIOGRAPHY CAN ALSO SERVE AS AN INTRODUCTION TO KABBALAH, OR JEWISH MYSTICISM.
BR 5111 TAKING ROOT JEWISH IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA MELTZER, MILTON A STUDY OF THE IMMIGRANTS WHO CAME TO AMERICA FROM EUROPE, BEGINNING WITH THEIR TRIP ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, THE HARDSHIPS ENDURED DURING THEIR EARLY YEARS, AND THE ACHIEVEMENTS THEY ATTAINED IN THEIR NEW COUNTRY.
BR 5112 SHTETL, THE NEUGROSCHEL, JOACHIM AN ANTHOLOGY OF YIDDISH STORIES CONVEYING THE QUALITY OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE SHTETLS OF EASTERN EUROPE FROM THE LATE MIDDLE AGES TO WORLD WAR II. SINCE THE STORIES ARE ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY, READERS CAN FOLLOW THE GRADUAL INTRUSION OF SECULAR INFLUENCES UNTIL AN ENTIRE WAY OF LIFE WAS DESTROYED BY THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 5115 RIVER OF LIGHT KUSHNER, LAWRENCE THE CABBALISTIC TEXT OF THE PASSAGE KNOWN AS THE RIVER OF LIGHT WHICH GOES FROM THE SHADOWS OF THE DREAM TO RARE AND STRIKING VISIONS.
BR 5118 SCATTERED SEED MOSCO, MAISIE SECOND VOLUME IN THE SAGA OF A RUSSIAN FAMILY WHO FLEES TO ENGLAND ONLY TO FIND A NEW SET OF CHALLENGES THERE.
BR 5119 WOMAN OF VALOR, A TOPOL, ALLAN THE PROTAGONIST, A WOMAN NAMED LEORA FROM A PROMINENT JEWISH/EGYPTIAN FAMILY, IS A COOL KILLER IN THIS SUSPENSEFUL THRILLER.
BR 5120 IN SEARCH OF HISTORY A PERSONAL EXPEDITION WHITE, THEODORE A JEWISH/AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT'S ATTEMPT TO LINK HIS OWN JOURNALISTIC CAREER WITH A BROADER HISTORICAL CONTEXT.
BR 5126 BY BLOOD AND FIRE THE ATTACK ON THE KING DAVID HOTEL CLARKE, THURSTON A BRILLIANT RECREATION OF THE BOMBING OF THE KING DAVID HOTEL IN JERUSALEM ON JULY 22, 1946 BY THE IRGUN.
BR 5127 ALINE KLEIN, CAROL ALINE BERNSTEIN BECAME NOTORIOUS BECAUSE OF HER EIGHT-YEAR LIAISON WITH THOMAS WOLF, WHICH BEGAN ON HIS 25TH BIRTHDAY WHEN SHE WAS 43. HER STRANGELY TOLERANT HUSBAND WAS A FAMOUS BANKER, AND SHE MOVED AS EASILY AMONG UPPER BOURGEOISIE AS AMONG UPPER BOHEMIANS.
BR 5128 JEWISH SOUL ON FIRE, THE JUNGREIS, ESTHER IN THIS POWERFUL SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY, A SURVIVOR OF BERGEN-BELSEN PASSIONATELY AVOWS HER DEVOTION TO THE JEWISH FAITH AND PEOPLE. MEMORIES OF HER STRONG RELIGIOUS UPBRINGING SUSTAIN HER THROUGH HORROR. HER STORY IS INSPIRATIONAL FOR THOSE SEARCHING FOR FULFILLMENT AND PURPOSE IN THEIR LIVES.
BR 5129 CITY OF GOLD AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT DICKENSON, PETER OLD TESTAMENT STORIES RETOLD AS ANCIENT SEMITIC FOLKLORE.
BR 5131 MORNING IS A LONG TIME COMING GREEN, BETTE A SEQUEL TO 'SUMMER OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER' IN WHICH PATTY BERGEN, NOW 18, IS OBSESSED WITH VISITING HER DEAD POW'S MOTHER.
BR 5132 WHISPERING MEZUZAH, THE AND OTHER DEVORAH DORESH MYSTERIES HUBNER, CAROL KORB BURGLARS ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO GET SOMETHING FROM THE RABINOWITZ HOME, AND IT IS NOT CASH OR JEWELRY.
BR 5135 THIRD PILLAR, THE MORGENSTERN, SOMA A SUMMARY OF THE GREATEST TRAGEDY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, THE PAGAN ONSLAUGHT AGAINST THE JEWS.
BR 5136 WEAVE OF WOMEN, A BRONER, E.M. FIFTEEN WOMEN GATHER IN A HOUSE IN JERUSALEM TO COME TO TERMS WITH THEIR LIVES OR TO SLIP AWAY AND BE LOST.
BR 5137 JEWS OF ARGENTINA, THE FROM THE INQUISITION TO PERON WEISBROT, ROBERT A FULL-LENGTH STUDY OF THE FIFTH LARGEST JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE WORLD IS ALSO A COMPELLING ACCOUNT OF THE JEWS IN A HOSTILE LAND.
BR 5138 JEWISH MARTYRS OF PAWIAK HIRSHAUT, JULIEN PAWIAK WAS A PRISON WHICH HAD STOOD IN THE MIDST OF THE WARSAW GHETTO, A PLACE WHERE 8000 JEWISH INDIVIDUALS MET THEIR DEATH.
BR 5139 JEWISH CHILD IS BORN, A GOTTLIEB, NATHAN A GUIDE TO THE LAWS, RITUALS AND THE NAMING OF THE JEWISH CHILD.
BR 5140 CABAL GARBO, NORMAN THE ALLEGED EVENTS LEADING TO THE SIX-DAY WAR AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A MILITANT UNDERGROUND ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO PROTECTING WORLD JEWRY.
BR 5141 MEMBERS OF THE TRIBE KLUGER, RICHARD THE SAGA OF THE JEW IN THE SOUTH, TOLD THROUGH THE FICTIONALIZATION OF THE 1915 LEO BRANK MURDER TRIAL.
BR 5142 KATZ-COHEN ASTRACHAN, SAMUEL A SAGA OF THREE GENERATIONS OF MARRIAGES BETWEEN THE KATZ AND COHEN FAMILIES, AND THEIR FRUITFUL ISSUE.
BR 5143 YOUNG ADOLF BAINBRIDGE, BERYL A PARTIALLY FACTUAL NOVELIZATION OF THE PSYCHOLOGICALLY TWISTED YOUTH OF HITLER THAT HELPED ORIENT HIM TOWARD FASCIST BELIEFS.
BR 5144 JEWISH CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES EDIDIN, BEN M. THOUGH THE TREATMENT IS TRADITIONAL THROUGHOUT, THE AUTHOR HAS TAKEN GREAT PAINS TO PRESENT VARIOUS OBSERVANCES IN THE LIGHT OF THEIR HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT.
BR 5146 HAND-ME-DOWNS KOHAN, RHEA A VERY FUNNY NOVEL ABOUT MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS AND SISTERS AND BEING MARGINALLY JEWISH IN CALIFORNIA.
BR 5147 LAUREN BACALL BY MYSELF LAUREN BACALL MEMOIRS OF A CELEBRATED ACTRESS, CONCERNED WITH HER CRAFT.
BR 5148 GOLD AND IRON BISMARCK, BLEICHRODER AND THE BUIL FRITZ STERN BISMARCK'S FINANCIAL ADVISOR WAS THE WEALTHIEST JEW IN THE GERMAN EMPIRE AND THE FIRST OF HIS PEOPLE TO ATTAIN THE NAME 'VON'.
BR 5149 OLD LOVE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS EIGHTEEN STORIES SET IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE GLOBE FROM THE SHTETL TO CONTEMPORARY MIAMI BEACH AND ISRAEL.
BR 5150 JEWISH BIOETHICS ROSNER, FRED & BLEICH, RABBI J. DAVI AN EXPLORATION OF MEDICAL PROBLEMS SUCH AS ABORTION AND TEST TUBE BABIES IN THE CONTEXT OF JEWISH LAW.
BR 5152 PURIM GOAT YURI SUHL THE STORY OF THE POOR WIDOW BRAINDEL AND HER 10-YEAR-OLD SON YOSELE, WHO TRIES TO SAVE THEIR GOAT BECAUSE IT CAN GIVE ONLY A QUART OF MILK A DAY.
BR 5153 CLOSING CEREMONIES KING, HAROLD A KIDNAPPING ATTEMPT IN SOUTH AMERICA ENDS UP IN A SUCCESSFUL ENDEAVOR TO PREVENT ELIZABETH III FROM BEING ASSASSINATED AT THE MONTREAL OLYMPICS.
BR 5154 ANNENBERGS, THE THE SALVAGING OF A TAINTED DYNASTY JOHN COONEY AMBASSADOR AND PUBLISHER WALTER ANNENBERG MADE A CONSTANT EFFORT TO REBUILD A FAMILY REPUTATION DAMAGED BY HIS RACKETEERING FATHER.
BR 5157 HAMBURG SWITCH, THE ROSS, ANGUS A SATIRICAL MYSTERY IN WHICH TWO ENGLISH AGENTS PLOT TO SNEAK A PHYSICIST AND HIS DAUGHTER OUT OF EAST GERMANY.
BR 5158 SANJO MAYERSON, EVELYN WILDE A PSYCHIATRIST'S FIRST WORK ABOUT A MENTALLY RETARDED 30-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHO SHARES A LOPSIDED WORLD WITH HER AGING, QUINTESSENTIALLY JEWISH PARENTS.
BR 5160 FIVE SILVER DAUGHTERS LOUIS GOLDING THE STORY OF SAM SILVERMAN AND HIS FIVE GIRLS AND HOW THEIR LIVES CHANGE AFTER THEY BECOME VERY RICH.
BR 5161 MORE WISE-MEN OF CHELM AND THEIR MERRY TALES SOLOMON SIMON ANOTHER COLLECTION OF FOLK TALES ABOUT A POLISH VILLAGE OF SIMPLETONS.
BR 5162 BASIC BLACK WITH PEARLS HELEN WEINZWEIG A NONDESCRIPT WOMAN WHO DRESSES IN BASIC BLACK WITH PEARLS HAS IMAGINED MEMORIES ABOUT A SECRET LOVE WHO IS SENDING HER CODED MESSAGES.
BR 5163 FROM THE BROKEN TREE LANGELY, LEE THE AUTHOR CONVEYS THE SENSE OF SHEER PHYSICAL SURVIVAL THAT DOMINATES THE LIVES OF THE PROTAGONISTS, WHILE THEIR CHILDREN DETERMINE IF THEY WISH TO SURVIVE SPIRITUALLY.
BR 5164 JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM GRACE HALSELL A SEARING MESSAGE ABOUT THE PREVALENCE OF POLITICAL HATRED BASED UPON RELIGION.
BR 5165 FAMILY A NOVEL IN FORM OF A MEMOIR HERBERT GOLD FIVE GENERATIONS OF WOMEN IN AN IMMIGRANT FAMILY BALANCE OLD AND NEW TRUTHS IN THE EXCITING AND TEMPTING TURBULENCE OF AMERICA.
BR 5166 JEWISH MEDICAL ETHICS JAKOBOVITZ, RABBI IMMANUEL THE FORMER CHIEF RABBI OF ENGLAND DISCUSSES JUDAISM'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.
BR 5167 BEAST, THE JONATHAN FAST A CONTEMPORARY CALIFORNIA-BASED RECASTING OF 'BEAUTY AND THE BEAST'.
BR 5168 BOOK OF GOD AND MAN, THE GORDIS, ROBERT A TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF JOB. THE AUTHOR INCLUDES REFERENCES TO THE LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE ANCIENT SEMITIC WORLD.
BR 5170 BIBLICAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE JEWISH HOLY DAYS BLOCH, ABRAHAM P. AN EXHAUSTIVE SURVEY OF THE ORIGINS OF TRADITIONS CONNECTED WITH THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS. THE EVOLUTION OF THE BIBLICAL FESTIVALS ARE DOCUMENTED WITH QUOTATIONS FROM THE TALMUD, MIDRASHIC LITERATURE, PHILO, JOSEPHUS, AND THE MEDIEVAL COMMENTATORS, AND THE CURRENT TREND TOWARDS OBSERVANCE OF HOLOCAUST DAY IS ALSO PINPOINTED.
BR 5171 BELONGING MC NEISH, JAMES THIS IS THE STORY OF PEOPLE, YOUNG AND OLD, FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE WORLD WHO HAVE EMIGRATED TO THE PROMISED LAND'.
BR 5173 BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON DE MILLE, NELSON THE STORY OF A SMALL BAND OF ISRAELI MEN AND WOMEN, AND HOW THEIR COURAGE AND LOVE HELPED THEM SURVIVE UNDER CONDITIONS OF TERROR.
BR 5174 CHILDREN OF THE LION DANIELSON, PETER AMIDST THE TREACHERY AND DEBAUCHERY OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH, A FEW INDIVIDUALS ROSE ABOVE THEIR SHAME TO FLEE THE FIERY DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND BEGET THE CHILDREN OF THE LION.
BR 5176 MORE LOVES THAN ONE THE BIBLE CONFRONTS PSYCHIATRY ROSENBERG, STUART E PROFOUND YET SIMPLE TREATMENT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF LOVE CONTAINED WITHIN IT.
BR 5179 FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE RIVERS, CARYL & ALAN LUPO THE AUTHORS TAKE TURNS DESCRIBING THEIR LIVES. SHE IS CATHOLIC, HE IS JEWISH. AFTER HAVING MET IN A JOURNALISM SCHOOL IN NEW YORK, THEY MARRY, MOVE OUTSIDE OF BOSTON AND LIVE IN A 'VICTORIAN HOUSE DESIGNED BY A DERANGED MONK.'
BR 5180 WHERE THE JACKALS HOWL OZ, AMOS STORIES OF ISRAEL AND ITS PEOPLE, WHICH FOCUS ON POLITICAL TENSIONS, DIFFICULTIES OF SURVIVAL, AND COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR.
BR 5181 JUST IN TIME MARCUS LEHMANN A MYSTERY OF A BROTHER AND SISTER SEPARATED SINCE CHILDHOOD AND HOW DIVINE PROVIDENCE' CAME TO THEIR RESCUE.
BR 5183 ALL THAT GLITTERS THE CASE OF THE ICE-COLD DIAMONDS POWERS,ELIZABETH A MYSTERY SET IN THE ETHNICALLY RICH NEIGHBORHOODS OF NEW YORK CITY, INCLUDING THE WORLD'S DIAMOND CENTER ON 47TH STREET.
BR 5184 WEST GERMAN REPARATIONS TO ISRAEL NICHOLAS BALABKINS THE STORY OF THE LUXEMBURG TREATY OF 1952, AN AGREEMENT INVOLVING 3/4 OF A BILLION DOLLARS TO BE PAID TO ISRAEL BY WEST GERMANY.
BR 5186 GIZELLE, SAVE THE CHILDREN HERSH, GIZELLE & PEGGY MANN THE STORY OF FOUR HUNGARIAN-ROMANIAN SISTERS WHO SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 5187 BEST OF SHOLOM ALEICHEM, THE HOWE, IRVING, ED. TWENTY-TWO STORIES BY THE GREAT YIDDISH WRITER WHICH HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED BY WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN JEWISH AUTHORS.
BR 5188 SUMMONED TO JERUSALEM DASH, JOAN THE FIRST FULL-SCALE BIOGRAPHY OF HENRIETTA SZOLD, THE FOUNDER OF HADASSAH. AT AGE 49, AFTER COLLABORATING ON JEWISH SCHOLARSHIP WITH LOUIS GINZBURG, WITH WHOM SHE WAS ROMANTICALLY INVOLVED, SHE LEFT FOR PALESTINE, FOUNDED HADASSAH AND BECAME A ZIONIST LEADER.
BR 5189 LAST MAGIC, THE RICHARD NASH THE MOVING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AN AMERICAN PRIEST AND CONTROVERSIAL AUTHOR AND A JEWISH WOULD-BE WRITER AND TEMPORARY PROSTITUTE.
BR 5190 ZUCKERMAN UNBOUND ROTH, PHILIP A WOULD-BE RECLUSE IS THRUST INTO THE LIMELIGHT DURING THE SIXTIES WITH THE SUCCESS OF HIS EROTICALLY COMIC NOVEL.
BR 5191 AUTO-DA-FE CANETTI, ELIAS KEIN IS A HERMIT WHO LIVES ONLY FOR THE BOOKS IN HIS INCOMPARABLE LIBRARY. WONDER OF WONDERS, A HOUSEKEEPER APPEARS, NOISELESS, SEEMINGLY DEVOTED TO EACH BOOK. THE TWO WED. THE DREAM IS OVER. THE HARRIDAN IS PREPARING TO SELL THIS OR THAT 'USELESS' ITEM TO SATISFY HER LUST FOR FURNITURE AND CLOTHES.
BR 5192 FOUR-FRONT WAR, THE FROM THE HOLOCAUST TO THE PROMISED PERL, WILLIAM R. A METICULOUSLY DETAILED REPORT OF HOW BRITISH MIDEAST POLICY IN WORLD WAR II TRAPPED JEWS IN NAZI EUROPE AND LED TO THEIR DEATH. DRAWING ON DIARIES, INTERVIEWS AND SECRET MEMORANDA, THE AUTHOR PRESENTS AN ACCOUNT OF A SORDID CHAPTER IN BRITISH HISTORY.
BR 5193 PRISONER OF THE DEVIL HARDWICK, MICHAEL A RECREATION OF THE DREYFUS AFFAIRE, WITH CHARACTERS AND ATMOSPHERE IMMORTALIZED BY SHERLOCK HOLMES, DR. WATSON AND THE FORMER'S BROTHER MYCROFT.
BR 5194 WINE AND THE MUSIC, THE KAUFELT, DAVID A. BESSIE MEYERS & HER FAMILY MOVE FROM A POLISH STREET TO TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY NEW YORK, WHERE SHE BECOMES A STAR OF THE YIDDISH STAGE.
BR 5195 MY SEARCH FOR THE MESSIAH STUDIES AND WANDERINGS IN ISRAEL A MIRSKY, MARK JAY THE AUTHOR EXPLORES WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A JEW IN AMERICA.
BR 5196 ZHENIA'S CHILDHOOD BORIS PASTERNAK FOUR SHORT STORIES BY THE NOBEL LAUREATE AND AUTHOR OF DR. ZHIVAGO.
BR 5197 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1654-1875 SCHAPPES, MORRIS U. AN EFFECTIVE ILLUSTRATION OF THE MANY ASPECTS OF JEWISH LIFE, FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE ERA OF RECONSTRUCTION.
BR 5199 EINSTEIN'S BRAIN OLSHAKER, MARK PIECES OF THE SCIENTIST'S BRAIN HAVE SUPPOSEDLY BEEN IMPLANTED IN THOSE OF THREE PEOPLE WHO ARE THEN DRAWN TOGETHER.
BR 5200 OUR GROUND TIME HERE WILL BE BRIEF NEW AND SELECTED POEMS MAXINE KUMIN A COLLECTION OF 24 NEW AND CLASSIC WORKS OF ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONTEMPORARY POETS.
BR 5202 BOOK OF JEWISH HOLIDAYS, THE RUTH KOZODOY A COLORFUL CHILDREN'S' GUIDE TO ALL JEWISH HOLIDAYS.
BR 5203 O MY AMERICA! JOHANNA KAPLAN THE STORY OF A MAN WHO IS ABSORBED WITH THE VAST HUMAN FAMILY BUT HAS NO TIME FOR HIS OWN PEOPLE. SEARCHING FOR THE SOLUTION TO COMPLEX SOCIAL PROBLEMS ON A WORLD SCALE, A UNIVERSALIST WHO WEEPS FOR THE POOR OF APPALACHIA AND THE STARVING INFANTS OF BANGLADESH, HE IS UNABLE TO BE A PROTAGONIST OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 5204 PATRIARCH, THE BERMANT, CHAIM A JEWISH FAMILY SAGA CENTERING ON NAHUM RAEBURN (NE RABINOVITZ), WHO ARRIVES IN GLASGOW IN THE LATE 1800S FROM VOLKOVYSK, RUSSIA. THE NARRATIVE FOLLOWS NAHUM'S RISE AS A SHIPPING MAGNATE, THE LOSS OF HIS FORTUNE, AND HIS SLOW ROAD BACK TO SUCCESS IN ANOTHER FIELD.
BR 5205 MARA TOVA REICH THE ENGAGING AND REVEALING STORY OF A MARRIAGE BETWEEN AN ORTHODOX RABBI'S DAUGHTER AND AN ISRAELI HIPPIE.
BR 5206 PROMISE TO KEEP, A A NARRATIVE OF THE AMERICAN ENCOUN NATHAN C. BELTH, EDITOR BOTH AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN AMERICA AND A HISTORY OF ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ACTIVITY TO COMBAT IT.
BR 5207 LOST AND FOUND SHELDON GREEN EPISODES OF SMALL-TOWN LIFE IN AMERICA. NARRATED BY A MODEST HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR.
BR 5209 TRUTH IN THE SHADOW OF WAR YAACOV HASDIA A CONTROVERSIAL WORK WHICH ROCKED ALL OF ISRAEL IN THE WAKE OF YOM KIPPUR WAR. AUTHOR WAS A FORMER ARMY COLONEL AND SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR.
BR 5210 RICH BOY FROM CHICAGO, THE DEREK MARLOWE A TALE OF TWO MEN AND THEIR CONVERGING FATES AS WELL AS AN ENGAGING CHARACTER STUDY OF WEALTH, AMBITION AND LOVE.
BR 5211 PROPHETS WITHOUT HONOR A BACKGROUND TO FREUD, KAFKA, EINS GRUNFELD, FREDERIC V. VIGNETTES OF 16 GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN JEWS WHO FIGURED IN THE WEIMAR RENAISSANCE.
BR 5212 STOLEN JEW, THE NEUGEBOREN, JAY NATHAN MALKIN RETURNS FROM A SELF-IMPOSED EXILE IN ISRAEL TO NEW YORK TO MOURN THE DEATH OF HIS BROTHER.
BR 5215 GENTILE ZIONISTS, THE A STUDY IN ANGLO-ZIONIST DIPLOMACY ROSE, N. A. AN ANALYSIS OF THE POLITICAL ACTIVITIES AND PROPAGANDA WORK UNDERTAKEN BY NON-JEWISH ZIONISTS DURING THE 1930S IN AN ATTEMPT TO ALTER BRITISH POLICY REGARDING PALESTINE.
BR 5216 FURY OF RACHEL MONETTE ABRAHAMS, PETER HER HUSBAND HAS BEEN MURDERED AND HER SON HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED; ONLY A FEW CLUES IN A MYSTERIOUS DOCUMENT GIVE RACHEL MONETTE ANY HOPE OF FINDING THE BOY.
BR 5217 I DON'T WANT TO BE BRAVE ANYMORE TURKOV-KAMINSKA, RUTH IN THIS MEMOIR, THE AUTHOR RELIVES HER 16 YEARS IN RUSSIA, FIRST AS AN ACCLAIMED ACTRESS AND THEN AS AN IMPRISONED JEW IN SIBERIA.
BR 5218 BEGGARS AND PRAYERS STEINSALTZ, ADIN MARILYN ROSE MOST FAMOUS FOR HIS POPULARIZED 'TEACH-YOURSELF' EDITION OF THE TALMUD, RABBI ADIN STEINSALTZ, A RABBI AND TEACHER LIVING IN ISRAEL, RETELLS THE HASIDIC FOLK TALES OF RABBI NACHMAN OF BRATSLAV TO WHICH HE ADDS HIS OWN THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS.
BR 5219 JACK BENNY AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY FEIN, IRVING THE WORLD-FAMOUS COMEDIAN'S FUNNY AND SHREWD LIFE-BOTH ON AND OFF STAGE.
BR 5220 MR. JACOBSON'S WAR HAMMER, RICHARD A 90 YEAR-OLD SURVIVOR OF POGROMS AND THE TSAR LIBERATES HIMSELF FROM AN OLD AGE HOME AND SETS OUT TO SHARE THE WISDOM OF A LIFETIME WITH HIS GRANDSON.
BR 5221 BADENHEIM 1939 APPELFELD, AHARON IN THIS NOVEL, A SERIES OF TRIVIAL BUT OMINOUS EVENTS IN A JEWISH RESORT TOWN NEAR VIENNA PRESAGE THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 5222 TELL ME, RABBI KERTZER, DR. MORRIS M. MANY SHORT AND FUNNY STORIES IN THE LIFE OF THIS AND OTHER RABBIS.
BR 5223 WANDERINGS CHAIM POTOK'S HISTORY OF THE JEWS POTOK, CHAIM A SURVEY OF 6000 YEARS OF JEWISH HISTORY UTILIZING CLASSICAL HEBREW WORKS, HISTORY WRITTEN IN DIFFERENT PERIODS AND 20TH-CENTURY ARCHEOLOGICAL FINDS.
BR 5224 TOMB FOR BORIS DAVIDOVICH, A KIS, DANILO SET IN RUSSIA DURING THE STALIN ERA, THE STORY IS NARRATED BY SEVEN JEWISH REVOLUTIONARIES FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
BR 5225 CONFLICT AND BARGAINING IN THE MIDDLE EAST AN ISRAELI PERSPECTIVE ARONSON, SHLOMO CHRONICLES THE VIEW OF ISRAELI POLICYMAKERS ON THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT FROM 1948 THROUGH SADAT'S 1977 JERUSALEM VISIT. ARONSON PLACES THE CONFLICT IN THE CONTEXT OF SUPERPOWER RIVALRY, RIVALRY AMONG ARAB STATES, U.S.-ISRAELI RELATIONS, RELATIONS BETWEEN THE ARAB STATES AND THE SUPERPOWERS AND ISRAELI DOMESTIC POLITICS.
BR 5226 HARVEST, THE LEVIN, MEYER A SAGA ABOUT THE FOUNDING OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, CENTERING ON THE CHAIMOVITCH FAMILY, COVERING THE YEARS 1927 TO THE WAR OF 1948.
BR 5227 SELF-CHOSEN, THE OUR CROWD IS DEAD, LONG LIVE OUR C BAER, JEAN AN EXAMINATION OF HOW THE WORLD OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH ELITE HAS TRANSFORMED ITSELF OVER THE PAST 35 YEARS.
BR 5228 SHELLEY ALSO KNOWN AS SHIRLEY WINTERS, SHELLEY A MEMOIR IN WHICH THE ACTRESS FROM ST. LOUIS LOOKS BACK ON HER RISE TO STARDOM. SHE RECALLS WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE A STRUGGLING ACTRESS DURING THE DEPRESSION, A WAR BRIDE WITH A FILM CONTRACT AND A NEWCOMER TO HOLLYWOOD.
BR 5230 UNEASE IN ZION BEN-EZER, EHUD A SERIES OF EARNEST INTERVIEWS WITH PROMINENT ISRAELIS ON THE ROOTS OF UNREST IN THAT COUNTRY.
BR 5231 LIGHT ANOTHER CANDLE THE STORY AND MEANING OF HANUKKAH CHAIKEN, MIRIAM IN THE FIRST HALF OF THIS CHILDREN'S BOOK, CHAIKEN EXPLAINS THE HANUKKAH STORY. IN THE SECOND PART SHE DESCRIBES A VARIETY OF MODERN WAYS THAT JEWS OBSERVE THE HOLIDAY.
BR 5234 NIGHT JOURNEY, THE LASKY, KATHRYN CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN RACHEL AND HER NANA SASHIE ARE BORING UNTIL THE LATTER BEGINS REMINISCING ABOUT HER CHILDHOOD IN RUSSIA.
BR 5235 BOOK OF LIGHTS, THE POTOK, CHAIM A NOVEL ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL CRISIS OF AN AMERICAN RABBI WHO WAS A CHAPLAIN IN KOREA, AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF HIS INNER TURMOIL IN KABALISTIC TERMS.
BR 5236 X P D DEIGHTON, LEN MARION T. CO THIS THRILLER HARKS BACK TO THE LAST DAYS OF WORLD WAR II, WHEN A GROUP OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS 'LIBERATE' A CACHE OF NAZI GOLD. NOW IN 1979, ENRICHED THROUGH A SECRET BANK ACCOUNT THEY HAVE SET UP IN GENEVA, THE SURVIVORS ARE HOUNDED BY BRITISH, AMERICAN, RUSSIAN AND GERMAN AGENTS. THEIR WORLD CRUMBLES BEFORE THEIR EYES.
BR 5237 I LOVE YOU, STUPID MOZER, HARRY THE STORY OF A BOY AND GIRL, BOTH FRIENDS, WHO SHARE THEIR FIRST SEXUAL EXPERIENCE. FOR AGES 12 AND UP.
BR 5238 IKE AND MAMA AND THE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME MOVIE SNYDER, CAROL IKE AND HIS FRIENDS LET A PENNILESS PAL INSIDE THE MOVIE BUT ARE CAUGHT. THEY ARE FORGIVEN AND TAKEN ON AS EXTRAS FOR THE NEXT EPIC.
BR 5239 SYNAGOGUE LIFE A STUDY IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTION HEILMAN, SAMUEL C. THE AUTHOR SPENT A YEAR OBSERVING AND INTERACTING WITH THE MEMBERS OF AN ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE. HE ANALYZES THE DETAILS OF SYNAGOGUE LIFE AND DESCRIBES SUCH ACTIVITIES AS GOSSIP, PRAYING, SINGING, SWAYING, AND ARGUING.
BR 5240 DIAMONDS MICHAELS, ALAN HIS DIAMOND-CUTTER FATHER'S DEATH LEADS HECK TO A WORLD WHERE JEWS DELIVER DIAMONDS TO CORRUPT KGB MEMBERS IN EXCHANGE FOR VISAS FOR SOVIET JEWS. HECK'S ADVENTURES IN EUROPE RESULT IN THE DISCOVERY NOT ONLY OF LOVE AND AN UNSUSPECTED HALF-BROTHER, BUT THE TRUTH ABOUT HIS FATHER'S REMARKABLE LIFE.
BR 5241 MANY FACES OF JUDAISM, THE ROSENTHAL, GILBERT S. A DISCUSSION OF THE MANY EXPRESSIONS AND TRENDS OF JUDAISM. EXAMINES THE ORTHODOX, REFORM, CONSERVATIVE AND RECONSTRUCTIONIST MOVEMENTS, AND ANALYZES THE MYSTICAL AND HASIDIC TRADITIONS.
BR 5242 TRIPLE FOLLETT, KEN IN THIS NOVEL THE EGYPTIANS ARE MAKING NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THE ISRAELIS IN ORDER TO DO THE SAME ARE OBLIGED TO STEAL 100 TONS OF URANIUM.
BR 5243 DELMORE SCHWARTZ THE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN POET ATLAS, JAMES A BIOGRAPHY OF A WRITER AND POET THAT SHEDS LIGHT ON THE AMERICAN LITERARY WORLD BETWEEN 1949 AND 1960.
BR 5244 FAITH AND DOUBT OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, THE REEVE, ROBERT BRENNER, BASING HIS WORK ON INTERVIEWS, BRENNER, A RABBI AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST, SETS OUT TO DISCOVER HOW THE HOLOCAUST AFFECTED THE RELIGIOUS IDEAS, BELIEFS AND PRACTICES OF SURVIVORS. THE SURVEY CONFIRMS THAT A LARGE NUMBER LOST FAITH, BUT THAT 'A RATHER SIZABLE POPULATION' EMERGED FROM THE CRUCIBLE OF SUFFERING WITH DEEPER FAITH.
BR 5245 GOING TO JERUSALEM BRUDER, JUDITH NOVEL OF A DIVERSE GROUP OF 'PILGRIMS' ON A TOUR BUS IN ISRAEL, EACH NARRATES A STORY TO WHILE AWAY THE TIME.
BR 5246 GREAT JEWS I HAVE KNOWN RAISEN, MAX PORTRAITS OF TWENTY PROMINENT JEWS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 5248 HISTORY OF JEWISH LITERATURE, A, VOL. III THE STRUGGLE OF MYSTICISM AND TRAD ZINBERG, ISRAEL AN ANALYSIS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL, ETHICAL AND SOCIOCULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE ESPOUSERS OF MYSTICISM, ORTHODOXY AND PHILOSOPHICAL RATIONALISM.
BR 5250 BRITAIN AND THE JEWS OF EUROPE 1939-1941 WASSERSTEIN, BERNARD A STUDY OF WHY AND HOW THIS COUNTRY MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR OTHERS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 5251 TORAH AND FLORA RABINOWITZ, LOUIS L. A DESCRIPTION AND DISCUSSION OF THE FLORA MENTIONED IN BIBLICAL LITERATURE.
BR 5252 CONVERSION TO JUDAISM FROM THE BIBLICAL PERIOD TO THE PR ROSENBLOOM, JOSEPH R. AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF JEWISH EFFORTS TO SECURE CONVERTS. THE AUTHOR ATTEMPTS TO PROVE THAT PRIOR TO THE MEDIEVAL ERA JUDAISM WAS A PROSELYTIZING RELIGION.
BR 5253 PROSKAUER HIS LIFE AND TIMES HACKER, LOUIS N. & HIRSCH, MARK D. BIOGRAPHY OF THE EMINENT JURIST WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON HIS JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 5254 99 DAYS IN DAMASCUS OREN, URI THE TRUE STORY OF THE HIJACKING OF TWA FLIGHT 840 TO DAMASCUS BY TWO PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT TERRORISTS, AND THE SUBSEQUENT ORDEAL OF TWO IMPRISONED ISRAELIS. ALSO DESCRIBED ARE THE DIPLOMATIC MANEUVERS EMPLOYED IN THE ATTEMPT TO FREE THEM.
BR 5255 MARTYR, THE COHEN, MARTIN STORY OF A SECRET JEW WHO RELINQUISHES HIS POLITICAL CAREER AT THIRTY FOR THE JEWISH FAITH AND WAS BURNED AT THE STAKE.
BR 5256 SHLOMO'S SECRET ADVENTURE ARGAMAN, SHMUEL A POIGNANT TALE OF ONE JEWISH FAMILY'S FLIGHT FROM MODERN DAY IRAQ TO JERUSALEM THROUGH THE MIDDLE EAST.
BR 5258 AGE OF WONDER APPELFELD, AHARON TAKES PLACE IN AUSTRIA DIRECTLY BEFORE AND 30 YEARS AFTER THE HOLOCAUST. THE CENTRAL FIGURE IS BRUNO, WHO RETURNS FROM ISRAEL TO CONFRONT THE GHOSTS OF HIS PAST.
BR 5259 WALTER BENJAMIN THE STORY OF A FRIENDSHIP SCHOLEM, GERSHOM A RARE TESTIMONY BY A CLOSE FRIEND OF ONE OF THE MOST SUPPLE, INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE CRITICS OF THE TIME.
BR 5260 LONGEST WAR, THE ISRAEL IN LEBANON TIMERMAN, JACOBO AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND THAT ISRAEL IS AN AGGRESSOR, AND THAT ISRAEL'S ACTIONS HOLD SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS FOR ITS OWN PEOPLE AND FOR JEWS EVERYWHERE.
BR 5261 MIDWIFE, THE COURTER, GAY HANNAH BLAU, THE ONLY JEWISH MIDWIFE TRAINEE IN THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, ARRIVES IN AMERICA IN 1903, FLEEING FROM POGROMS AND PERSONAL PROBLEMS. THIS IS THE STORY OF HOW SHE SUCCEEDS IN GAINING HER HEROIC STRUGGLE TO PRACTICE HER PROFESSION ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE.
BR 5262 NEVER SAY DIE AN AUTONECROGRAPHICAL NOVEL GROSSBACH, ROBERT IN THIS SCIENCE FICTION COMEDY, THE HERO, JAY AURINSON, DIES AND FINDS HIMSELF IN AN AFTERLIFE WITH BEINGS CALLED STIM WHO PREPARE THE NEWLY DEAD FOR NEW LIVES.
BR 5263 TESTAMENT, THE WIESEL, ELIE IN 1952, RUSSIA'S GREATEST JEWISH POETS AND NOVELISTS WERE EXECUTED, VANISHING WITHOUT A TRACE. THROUGH ONE REMARKABLE LARGER-THAN-LIFE PERSONALITY, PALTIEL KOSSOVER, WIESEL BEARS WITNESS FOR THE MARTYRED JEWISH ARTISTS AND INTELLIGENTSIA OF HIS MILIEU.
BR 5264 KABBALAH, THE LAW AND MYSTICISM IN THE JEWISH TR SAFRAN, ALEXANDER GOING BEYOND HISTORIC DESCRIPTION OR A DRY ACADEMIC PRESENTATION OF KABBALAH, THE AUTHOR AFFORDS US A COMPLETE AND HARMONIOUS VISION OF JEWISH TRADITION AS A LIVING WORLD OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND EXPERIENCE, WHERE EVERY DISPARITY, BETWEEN INTELLECT AND EMOTION, IS DISSOLVED IN THE ORGANIC COHERENCE OF AUTHENTIC JUDAISM.
BR 5265 TRIBE, THE WOOD, BARRI AN EERIE WORK ABOUT A GROUP OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS LIVING IN BROOKLYN. ONE OF THEM HAS A SON WHO IS MUGGED AND MURDERED BY A GANG OF STREET PUNKS. THE SON'S FRIEND, ROGER HAWKINS, A BLACK NYPD DETECTIVE, SEEKS TO FIND THE MURDERERS. THOUGH A GOLEM APPEARS, THE CHARACTERS ARE BELIEVABLE, AND THE STORY GROUNDED IN REALITY.
BR 5266 SADIE SHAPIRO, MATCHMAKER SMITH, ROBERT K. WITH HER DOWN-TO-EARTH WIT AND WISDOM SADIE SHAPIRO, JOGGER, KNITTER AND GRANDMOTHER, NOW ALSO COMES INTO HER OWN AS A MATCHMAKER. SHE KNOWS THAT DR. MICHAEL NEWMAN AND HER FRIEND AND TV PRODUCER, MAXINE MORRIS, ARE MEANT FOR EACH OTHER. BUT WHEN A PROFESSIONAL MATCHMAKER BEQUEATHS SADIE HER FILES, SADIE FACES NO EASY TASK.
BR 5267 LOVER, THE YEHOSHUA, A. B. THIS COMPLEX PSYCHOLOGICAL WORK CONTAINS AN INTERWEAVE OF VERY DISTINCT VOICES. ADAM AND ASYA ARE AN 'OLD' MARRIED COUPLE WITH A TEENAGE DAUGHTER, DAFI. BOTH ASYA AND ADAM GIVE MONEY TO DOWN-AND-OUT GABRIEL, NEWLY RETURNED TO ISRAEL FROM PARIS, WHO BECOMES ASYA'S LOVER. AFTER THE YOM KIPPUR WAR, GABRIEL HAS DISAPPEARED ...
BR 5268 KABBALAH MILTON, DAVID S. MARGIE BEAR GROWING UP IN PITTSBURGH, AKIBA MOLDAVAN INITIATES HIS FRIEND BUDDY HALL INTO THE MYSTERIES OF THE KABBALAH. AKIBA BECOMES A RABBI; BUDDY BECOMES A JUNKIE AND A CON MAN. YEARS LATER, HE RETURNS TO THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD AND MURDERS AN OLD STOREKEEPER. ANCIENT MYTH IS USED AS A FRAMEWORK FOR A CLASSIC CHASE STORY.
BR 5269 FAREWELL BABYLON KATTAN, NAIM THIS MEMOIR CHRONICLES KATTAN'S ADOLESCENCE AND YOUNG ADULT LIFE AS A NATIVE IRAQI JEW IN THE BAGHDAD OF THE 1940S.
BR 5270 ACTS OF THEFT COHEN, ARTHUR A. A METAPHYSICAL MYSTERY CONCERNED WITH THE PROBLEMS OF BEAUTY AND MORALITY, MYTH AND CREATION, IN THE AFTERMATH OF AUSCHWITZ AND BUCHENWALD.
BR 5271 KING OF THE CASTLE THE MAKING OF A DYNASTY, SEAGRAM'S NEWMAN, PETER STORY OF THE CANADIAN FAMILY WHOSE FORTUNE FROM OIL INTERESTS MADE THEM ONE OF THE LARGEST OIL CONCERNS IN THE NON-ARAB WORLD.
BR 5272 MOLLY AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY PICON, MOLLY THE DIMINUTIVE ACTRESS' HUMOROUS, UNPRETENTIOUS AND ENGAGINGLY HONEST MEMOIRS.
BR 5273 HOME AGAIN, HOME AGAIN MARKSON, ELAINE ON THE EVE OF HER WEDDING A HIP MIAMI WIDOW IS DESCENDED UPON BY HER TWO NEUROTIC AND IMMATURE CHILDREN.
BR 5274 DIALOGUE IN SEARCH OF JEWISH CHRISTIAN UNDE SPONG, JOHN SHELBY AND SPIRO,JACK DA A VIRGINIA MINISTER AND A RABBI HAVE A CONVERSATION WHICH SINKS BENEATH THE SUPERFICIAL AND ATTEMPTS TO GRAPPLE WITH THE CORE OF BOTH JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY.
BR 5275 HOUSEHOLD WORDS SILBER, JOAN A NOVEL THAT PORTRAYS THE UNDERLYING DEPTHS OF ORDINARY LIVES. A NICE JEWISH GIRL WHO IS A HIGH SCHOOL FRENCH TEACHER MARRIES A PHARMACIST, HAS TWO DAUGHTERS AND LIVES IN A COMFORTABLE SUBURBAN HOME.
BR 5276 HABIMA-ISRAEL'S NATIONAL THEATER, 1917-1977 A STUDY OF CULTURAL NATIONALISM LEVY, EMANUEL AN ACCOUNTING OF THE POLITICAL, IDEOLOGICAL AND ARTISTIC ASPECTS OF THE THEATER FROM 1917, WHEN IT WAS FOUNDED IN MOSCOW, TO THE 1970S.
BR 5278 CASE AGAINST THE WIND, THE PERETZ, I. L. TRANS. BY ESTHER HAUTZ A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY THE YIDDISH WRITER. THE TITLE STORY TAKES PLACE DURING THE DAYS OF KING SOLOMON AND CONCERNS A POOR WIDOW WHO FEELS THAT THE WIND HAS DISOBEYED GOD WHEN IT SNATCHED HER ONLY PIECE OF BREAD. SOLOMON FINDS AN EXPLANATION FOR HER LOSS.
BR 5279 JUDAISM CONFRONTS CONTEMPORARY ISSUES GOLDMAN, ALEX J. A COMPENDIUM OF THE LEGAL, MORAL AND RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATIONS CONCERNING JUDAISM'S APPROACH TO CONTEMPORARY REALITIES.
BR 5280 WOLF OF MASADA, THE FREEDMAN, JOHN AN EPIC NOVEL IN THE TRADITION OF BEN HUR AND SPARTACUS, SET IN THE CORRUPT WORLD OF THE ROMAN EMPERORS. AT ITS CENTER STANDS A REBELLIOUS LARGER-THAN-LIFE JEWISH CENTURION WHO LEADS THE REVOLT OF THE JEWS AT MASADA. AN ADVENTURE AND A LOVE STORY, BASED ON TRUE EVENTS.
BR 5281 COMPLETE PASSOVER COOKBOOK, THE AVRUTICK, FRANCES K. THIS BOOK OFFERS COOKING SUGGESTION FROM TRADITIONAL HOLIDAY CLASSICS TO MODERN-DAY GOURMET ORIGINALS.
BR 5282 SINAI THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE WILDERNESS BERNSTEIN, BURTON IN 1978, THE AUTHOR, JAMES THURBER'S BIOGRAPHER, VISITED THE SINAI DESERT ON A NEW YORKER ASSIGNMENT TO OBSERVE WHAT ORDINARY THINGS LOOK LIKE TO AN OUTSIDER. HE DISCUSSES THE BEDOUINS WHO GAVE HIM A WARM WELCOME, UNITED NATIONS PEACE KEEPERS, TOURISTS, HIPPIES, PALESTINIANS AND LOOKS AT SINAI FROM THE EGYPTIAN SIDE.
BR 5283 ESSAYS ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND JEWISH PER SIDORSKY, DAVID CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN, WALTER LAQUEQR, HAIM COHEN, SHIMON SHETREET AND JACOB L. TALMON.
BR 5285 BRANDEIS OF BOSTON GAL, ALLON AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF LOUIS BRANDEIS, THE PERSON, THE JURIST AND THE ZIONIST IN THE CONTEXT OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS AND ITS GROWING JEWISH COMMUNITY. THE BOOK TRACES THE SOCIAL HISTORY AND FORCES WHICH TRANSFORMED THE NOTED JURIST FROM A LIBERAL REFORMER TO A ZIONIST PROGRESSIVE. ONE OF THE FEW BOOKS ON BOSTON JEWRY.
BR 5286 ENDURING YEARS, THE RAYNER, CLAIRE A HISTORICAL NOVEL TRACING THE LINEAGE AND DISPERSION OF A JEWISH FAMILY FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM IN 70 C.E. TO THE 20TH CENTURY. INCLUDES DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MILIEUS AND COMMUNITIES TO WHICH THEY WERE DISPERSED.
BR 5287 VOICES OF WISDOM JEWISH IDEALS AND ETHICS FOR EVERY KLAGSBRUN, FRANCINE THIS BOOK OFFERS A WIDE RANGE OF SELECTIONS FROM RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS ILLUSTRATING HOW TO LIVE A GOOD AND MORAL JEWISH LIFE.
BR 5288 FACE OF THE DEEP, THE TWERSKY, JACOB THIS NOVEL CENTERS ON THE JUVENILE RESIDENTS OF A NEW JERSEY HOME FOR THE BLIND AND THEIR IMPRESSIONS OF THE SCHOOL. WRITTEN IN THE FORM OF A GREEK DRAMA, WITH A CHORUS, A NARRATOR AND PRINCIPLES.
BR 5289 TIME TO REMEMBER, A GROWING UP IN NEW YORK BEFORE THE JASTROW, MARIE STORY OF AN IMMIGRANT FAMILY CONFLICT. THE FATHER CLINGS TO OLD COUNTRY TRADITIONS WHILE HIS FAMILY ADOPTS THE NEW WAYS OF AMERICA.
BR 5291 FOUNTAIN OF LIFE CHIEL, ARTHUR A. & SANDROW, ESWARD T A COMPILATION OF THOUGHTS AND IDEAS TO COMFORT THE SICK AND DISTRESSED.
BR 5293 NEW JEWISH HISTORY, THE PUPIL'S ACTIVITY BOOK - BOOK 3 GAMORAN, MAMIE STUDENT WORKBOOK DIVIDED INTO NINE UNITS, WITH EACH UNIT COVERING THE IDEAS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THAT PERIOD.
BR 5294 FAREWELL FROM NOWHERE MAXIMOV, VLADIMIR THIS TOUCHING, KALEIDOSCOPIC WORK IS SET IN STALINIST RUSSIA AND IS IN AFFECT, A PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN GROWING UP IN THAT COUNTRY.
BR 5296 SECRET PRESS IN NAZI EUROPE, A KAWOLSKI, ISAAC THE EXPLOITS OF A PRINTER AND PUBLISHER IN VILNA, LITHUANIA DURING THE TIME OF THE NAZI OCCUPATION.
BR 5297 OVER AND ABOVE HOBSON, LAURA C. THE AUTHOR EXAMINES THE DILEMMAS AND COMPLEXITIES OF BEING JEWISH IN AMERICA
BR 5299 WOMAN WHO LOST HER NAMES, THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF AMERICAN JEWI MAZOW, JULIA WOLF A COMPILATION OF SHORT STORIES WHICH BREAK THE STEREOTYPICAL IMAGE OF THE JEWISH WOMAN.
BR 5300 JEWS OF RHODES, THE THE HISTORY OF A SEPHARDIC COMMUNI ANGEL, MARC D. STUDY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, THE ROLE OF WOMEN, RELATIONS BETWEEN JEWS AND GENTILES AND HALACHIC DISCOURSES BY RHODIAN RABBINIC LUMINARIES.
BR 5301 DANGEROUS PLACE, A MOYNIHAN, DANIEL P. & S. WEAVER SENATOR MOYNIHAN DISCUSSES THE ANTI-ISRAEL RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY DURING HIS TERM OF OFFICE AS UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N.
BR 5302 MENAHEM BEGIN THE LEGEND AND THE MAN HABER, EITAN TIMELY AND REVEALING PORTRAIT OF ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER, FROM HIS EARLY DAYS IN POLISH ZIONISM TO HIS ELECTION AS PRIME MINISTER IN MAY OF 1977.
BR 5303 SAUL BELLOW'S FICTION MALIN, IRVING THROUGH DETAILED DISCUSSIONS OF THEMES, CHARACTERS, STYLES AND IMAGES, THE READER IS GUIDED TOWARDS A VITAL INSIGHT INTO BELLOW'S FICTIONAL KINGDOM.
BR 5304 JERUSALEM ROCK MITOSKY, DINA A BELIEVABLE HEROINE IN THE REALISTIC SETTING OF MODERN JERUSALEM, COMBINED WITH THE RELENTLESS BEAT OF TODAY'S ROCK MUSIC.
BR 5305 PRINCESS IN BERLIN, A SLOMSSEN, ARTHUR AN EPIC STORY SET IN 1920S BERLIN AND FEATURING GOERING AND OTHER PROMINENT NAZIS. AMERICAN EX-SOLDIER PETER ELLIS VISITS BERLIN TO STUDY ART AND FALLS IN LOVE WITH THE DAUGHTER OF BARON VON WALDSTEIN. LIKE OTHER PROMINENT GERMAN JEWS, THE FAMILY IS BLIND TO THE DANGER OF THE NAZI THREAT.
BR 5306 MODERN JEWISH ETHICS THEORY AND PRACTICE FOX, MARVIN A SERIES OF ESSAYS BY MEMBERS OF ISRAEL'S INSTITUTE OF JUDAIC STUDIES AND CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT ON THE PRACTICAL MORAL PROBLEMS CONFRONTING THE MODERN JEW.
BR 5307 ENCYCLOPEDIA YIDDISHINICA, THE MARKOWITZ, ENDEL A COMPREHENSIVE EXPLICATION OF YIDDISH AND JUDAIC MEMORABILIA, WRITTEN FOR THE LAYMAN OR STUDENT.
BR 5308 HEYDAY SCHARY, DORE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A 20TH CENTURY HOLLYWOOD FILM PRODUCER, WHO BECAME HEAD OF PRODUCTION AT MGM.
BR 5309 JEWISH RESISTANCE IN FRANCE (1940-1944) LATOUR, ANNY THE JEWISH ELITE OF THAT COUNTRY FINALLY AWAKENED TO THEIR JEWISHNESS AND ROSE UP AGAINST THE NAZIS AS A PEOPLE.
BR 5310 CHALLENGE TORAH VIEWS ON SCIENCE AND ITS PRO CARMELL, ARYEH & DOMB, CYRIL 34 ARTICLES WHICH CHALLENGE ORTHODOX JUDAISM IN THE FACE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.
BR 5311 SPICE AND SPIRIT OF KOSHER-JEWISH COOKING, THE ANDRUISIER, F., ET. AL. THE FIRST MAJOR HASIDIC COOKBOOK, WITH 500 RECIPES, AND VARIATIONS. ALSO PROVIDED ARE LAWS AND RITUALS OF THE KITCHEN, AND CULINARY TRADITIONS.
BR 5312 PLAYING FROM MEMORY MILOFSKY, DAVID A TALENTED VIOLINIST STRICKEN WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS WATCHES HIS WORLD COLLAPSE AS HIS BODY DOES AS WELL.
BR 5313 ISAAC DOV BERKOWITZ VOICE OF THE UPROOTED HOLTZ, AVRAHAM THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE HEBREW AUTHOR WHO WROTE ABOUT THE TRIALS AND THE HUMOR OF LIFE IN CZARIST RUSSIA, LIFE IN AMERICA IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY, AND LIFE IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL WHERE HE SPENT HIS LAST YEARS.
BR 5314 TRAIL OF JUDAISM IN CONTEMPORARY JEWISH WRITING, THE KNAPP, J. AN EXAMINATION OF BERNARD MALAMUD, PHILIP ROTH, SAUL BELLOW AND OTHERS.
BR 5315 STORY OF CHASOM SOFER, THE SPERO, SHUBERT AN ACCOUNT OF THE 18TH-CENTURY RABBI WHOSE WRITINGS ARE STILL CLOSELY STUDIED TO THIS VERY DAY.
BR 5316 GOLEM OF PRAGUE, THE WINKLER, GERSHON DR. IRVING W TALES OF THE GOLEM, THE 16TH CENTURY CLAY 'MAN' CREATED BY RABBI YEHUDA LOEW, THE THEN CHIEF RABBI OF PRAGUE, TO PROTECT THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FROM BLOOD LIBELS AND OTHER ANTI-SEMITIC THREATS.
BR 5317 JEWISH HOLIDAY KITCHEN, THE NATHAN, JOAN A MINI-HISTORY OF JEWISH CUISINE FROM BIBLICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT, INCLUDING RECIPES REFLECTING THE DIVERSITY OF JEWISH CULTURE.
BR 5319 S.Y. AGNON FISCH, HAROLD ALTHOUGH THE SUBJECT'S STORIES ARE SET IN PALESTINE AND HAVE ALLUSIONS TO THE BIBLE, TALMUD AND JEWISH HISTORY, THEY CONFRONT THE CENTRAL DILEMMA OF 20TH-CENTURY MAN'S YEARNING FOR SANITY AND WHOLENESS.
BR 5321 IN THE SHADE OF THE CHESTNUT TREE TENE, BENJAMIN THE AUTHOR RETURNS TO HIS OLD HOME IN WARSAW AFTER WORLD WAR II TO FIND EVERYTHING GONE, EXCEPT THE CHESTNUT TREE WHICH STOOD IN THE COURTYARD.
BR 5324 BROTHEL, THE ZELDIS, CHAYYM IN THIS HISTORICAL NOVEL SET IN ANCIENT JUDEA UNDER ROMAN RULE, THE AUTHOR EXPLORES THE CONFLICT OF GOOD AND EVIL. THE INFAMOUS BROTHEL OF NAZARETH IS CENTRAL TO HIS STORY.
BR 5325 HEBREW KINGS, THE COMAY, JOAN THE BIBLE AND MODERN ARCHAEOLOGY ARE THE SOURCE FOR THIS HISTORY OF FOUR TURBULENT CENTURIES, FROM SAUL, DAVID AND SOLOMON TO THE MONARCHS.
BR 5326 JEWISH PHILOSOPHERS KATZ, STEVEN T., EDITOR A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF THE JEWISH PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION COMBINING READABILITY WITH HIGH STANDARDS OF SCHOLARSHIP.
BR 5327 HOPE IS MY HOUSE WIGODER, DEVORAH JOAN ADELL THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A WOMAN WHO CONVERTED TO JUDAISM, MARRIED A JEWISH SCHOLAR FROM DUBLIN, AND MOVED TO ISRAEL.
BR 5330 KIDDUSH HASHEM BRYKS, RACHMIL IN JEWISH TRADITION IT IS A PHRASE SYNONYMOUS WITH RELIGIOUS MARTYRDOM. THE TWO STORIES IN THIS WORK ARE THE LEGACY OF A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, IN HOMAGE TO THOSE WHO PERISHED THERE.
BR 5331 HORNS OF THE MOON, THE A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF ADOLF HITLER SMITH, GENE MILDRED GOLD A BIOGRAPHY OF ADOLF HITLER DESCRIBING HOW HE BRUTALIZED THE WORLD. INCLUDES QUOTES FROM HITLER'S ASSOCIATES.
BR 5332 SILVER MATZOTH AND OTHER STORIES KRANZLER, GERSHON TEN PIECES ABOUT JEWS WHO KEPT THEIR FAITH DESPITE THE HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THEY LIVED.
BR 5333 MONEYMAN, THE LIEDERMAN, JUDITH AARON ABEL BUILDS AN EMPIRE OF ENTERTAINMENT CONCESSIONS ALL OVER NEW YORK. HIS AMBITION, WILD MARRIAGE AND RENEGADE ELDEST CHILD MAKE A SHARP STORY.
BR 5334 MY LIFE IN COURT NIZER, LOUIS THE PROMINENT NEW YORK ATTORNEY TELLS OF THE VARIOUS CASES IN WHICH A HE HAS BEEN INVOLVED.
BR 5335 JEWISH IDENTITY A SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGIAL PERSPECTIVE HERMAN, SIMON N. COMPARATIVE DATA ON THIS QUESTION AMONG ISRAELI, AMERICAN AND OTHER JEWS.
BR 5336 BEN-GURION A BIOGRAPHY BAR-ZOHAR, MICHAEL ANOTHER WORK BY THE WRITER ON THE SAME SUBJECT, THIS ONE WITH EVIDENCE FROM DIARIES, ARCHIVES, LETTERS, PERSONAL INTERVIEWS, AND DETAILS ON BEN-GURION'S PERSONAL LIFE.
BR 5337 EMCEE MONTY HALL HALL, MONTY & LIBBY, BELL THE HOST OF LET'S MAKE A DEAL DISCUSSES HIS LIFE AND HIS RISE TO FAME.
BR 5338 UNEQUAL JUSTICE LAWYERS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN AMERI AUERBACH, JEROLD S. THE AUTHOR OFFERS THE BRILLIANT ARGUMENT THAT THE LEGAL PROFESSION FOR OVER A CENTURY HAS FAILED OR REFUSED TO ASSUME SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY.
BR 5339 THIRTEENTH TRIBE, THE THE KHAZAR EMPIRE AND ITS HERITAGE KOESTLER, ARTHUR THE KHAZARS WERE OF TURKISH STOCK AND CONVERTED TO JUDAISM FOR POLITICAL REASONS. SUPPORTIVE EVIDENCE TO SHOW THAT THE BULK OF WORLD JEWRY IS DESCENDED FROM THEM.
BR 5340 UNTO DEATH CRUSADE AND LATE LOVE OZ, AMOS TWO STUNNING NOVELLAS BY AN IMPORTANT ISRAELI WRITER ON THE WORLD'S HATRED FOR THE JEWS, PAST AND PRESENT.
BR 5341 WOMEN IN JUDAISM THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN FORMATIVE J SWIDLER, LEONARD THE BIBLE, TALMUD AND JOSEPHUS ARE USED TO ARGUE AGAINST THE NOTION THAT THE JEWISH VIEW OF FEMALES IS HEALTHIER THAN THAT OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURES.
BR 5342 MYTH OF THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION, THE COHEN, ARTHUR A. A GROUP OF ESSAYS CONTENDING THAT THESE TWO GROUPS ARE IN FACT THEOLOGICAL ENEMIES.
BR 5344 ALBERT EINSTEIN AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT QUASHA, SOLOMON QUASHA, A SCULPTOR WHO WORKED ON A BUST OF EINSTEIN, TRANSLATES THE SCIENTIST'S THEORIES INTO LAYMAN'S TERMS.
BR 5345 UNCLE MARKUS, JULIA IRVING BENDER IS THE FULCRUM OF A STEREOTYPICAL JEWISH FAMILY, AND, DEPRESSION POOR, HE PROSPERS WITH HIS CAMP FOR JEWISH YOUTHS.
BR 5346 MATRUSHKA DOLL, THE TRAUB, BARBARA FISHMAN THE WORK BEGINS ON THE DAY OF LIBERATION FROM THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS, BUT THE HORRORS ARE NOT OVER. THE CHIEF PROTAGONISTS ARE A ROMANIAN-JEWISH GIRL AND HER LOVER, A JEWISH RED ARMY OFFICER WHO IS BEING GROOMED BY HIS PARTY SUPERIOR FOR ADVANCE WITHIN COMMUNIST RANKS.
BR 5347 LIFE LINES VIERTEL, JOSEPH THIS NOVEL FOLLOWS THE LIFE OF AN AUSTRIAN-JEWISH MERCHANT PRINCE AND THE RUSSIAN-JEWISH RELATIVE WHO APPEALS TO HIM FOR AID.
BR 5348 JUDAISM AND THE AMERICAN IDEA KONVITZ, MILTON R. THROUGH A SERIES OF EIGHT ESSAYS, IT IS ASSERTED THAT THESE TWO CONCEPTS ARE INEXTRICABLY CONNECTED.
BR 5349 SELF-PORTRAIT OF A HERO THE LETTERS OF JONATHAN NETANYAHU NETANYAHU, JONATHAN POIGNANT OVERVIEW OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE THROUGH HIS LETTERS, TOGETHER WITH INSIGHTS INTO THE WORKINGS OF THE ISRAELI ARMED FORCES.
BR 5351 WHEREVER THEY MAY BE ONE WOMAN'S BATTLE AGAINST NAZISM KLARSFELD, BEATRICE THE TRUE, FIRST PERSON ACCOUNT OF A GERMAN PROTESTANT WHO HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ACTIVISTS AGAINST REMAINING WAR CRIMINALS.
BR 5352 GUIDE TO TORAH HASHKOFOH, A QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON JUDAISM GEVIRTZ, RABBI ELIEZER A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON THE TORAH'S PERSPECTIVE REGARDING BASIC QUESTIONS OF JUDAISM.
BR 5354 TOUCHING HEAVEN, TOUCHING EARTH HASSIDIC HUMOR AND WIT COHEN, SHMUEL A CHARMING COLLECTION OF HASSIDIC STORIES.
BR 5355 LOVE SCHAEFFER, SUSAN FROMBERG A LONG FAMILY SAGA, WRITTEN IN THE STYLE OF ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER, ABOUT ESHEAL LURIA, WHO COMES TO AMERICA FROM RUSSIA AND MARRIES. THE AUTHOR DEPICTS ORDINARY LIFE STYLES OF THE TIME AND THE ATMOSPHERE IN BROOKLYN DURING THE DEPRESSION.
BR 5356 STATE OF THE JEWS, THE SYRKIN, MARIE ROBERTA POLL A BOOK ABOUT JEWISH RESISTANCE TO NAZI MASS MURDER DURING THE WAR, GATHERED FROM DOCUMENTS AND SURVIVORS. SYRKIN HAS GIVEN VOICE TO THOSE WHOSE VOICES WERE STILLED AND FASHIONED A MEMORIAL FOR GHETTO STRUGGLE. HER ACCOUNT REPRESENTS A MULTI-FACETED STATEMENT OF THE ZIONIST CAUSE.
BR 5357 BREAK-UP OF OUR CAMP, THE STORIES 1932-35 GOODMAN, PAUL THREE COLLECTIONS OF SHORT FICTION WHICH ARE SET IN A SUMMER CAMP FOR JEWISH BOYS.
BR 5358 AMERICANIZATION OF THE SYNAGOGUE 1820-1870 JICK, LEON A. A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY, INCLUDING DIARIES, LETTERS, CONGREGATIONAL AND COMMUNAL HISTORIES, OF AMERICAN JUDAISM IN ITS FORMATIVE PERIOD.
BR 5360 AGING AND JUDAISM OLITZKY, KERRY AND LEE A LITERARY WORK DRAWING ON THE MISHNAH, AS WELL AS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, TO ILLUSTRATE THE MANY STAGES OF LIFE.
BR 5361 IKE AND MAMA AND THE ONCE A YEAR SUIT SNYDER, CAROL MAMA PROVES HERSELF THE WILIEST SHOPPER IN THE BRONX WHEN SHE TAKES A GROUP OF BOYS FOR SPRING CLOTHES.
BR 5362 DEATH, BURIAL AND MOURNING IN THE JEWISH TRADITION MARCUS, AUDREY FRIEDMAN, ET. AL. A MINI-COURSE STUDENT MANUAL WHICH DESCRIBES CUSTOMS IN BOTH JUDAISM AND AROUND THE WORLD AS WELL AS THE EMOTIONS TRIGGERED BY DEATH.
BR 5363 VARIETIES OF JEWISH BELIEF EISENSTEIN, IRA, ED. PRESENTS THE VIEWS OF A DIVERSIFIED GROUP OF MODERN JEWISH THINKERS AND SHOWS THE RECONSTRUCTIONIST VIEW THAT INCORPORATES MANY FACETS OF JUDAISM.
BR 5364 TAKE A TRIP TO ISRAEL RUTLAND, JONATHAN THE SITES OF THE COUNTRY BOTH PAST AND PRESENT, AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD.
BR 5365 YUSSELL'S PRAYER A YOM KIPPUR STORY COHEN, BARBARA ON YOM KIPPUR, HEAVEN'S GATES ARE OPEN ONLY TO THE DEVOUTEST OF PRAYERS, BUT A CONGREGATION IS HUMBLED TO LEARN THAT IT IS THOSE OF AN UNTUTORED ORPHAN WHICH CLOSE THE SERVICE.
BR 5366 DIVORCE IN JEWISH LIFE AND TRADITION BENSON, PAULETTE AND BISSELL, SHERRY THIS MINI-COURSE STUDENT MANUAL DISCUSSES THE REASONS FOR SEPARATION AND THE JEWISH VIEWPOINT OF THE PHENOMENON.
BR 5369 CIRCUMCISION ZWERIN, RABBI RAYMOND A., ET. AL. ASKS WHAT A COVENANT IS, EXPLAINS IT, THEN SHOWS HOW A CIRCUMCISION IS ALSO ONE.
BR 5370 OF ISRAELI ORGIN COLLECTION OF HUMAN INTEREST STORI HECHT, FAE TALES OF LIFE IN THAT COUNTRY, FROM WINES TO WOMEN TO POLITICS.
BR 5371 HANUKKAH BOOK BURNS, MARILYN BEGINS WITH THE STORY OF THE HOLIDAY, INCLUDES INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOLIDAY FAVORS AND ENDS WITH JEWISH CHILDREN'S' VIEWS ON CHRISTMAS.
BR 5372 BOYS WHO SAVED THE CHILDREN, THE BALDWIN, MARGARET TRUE STORY OF A GROUP OF BOYS FROM THE LODZ GHETTO WHO DEVISE A PLAN FOR THE SAVING OF ITS CHILDREN FROM HITLER.
BR 5374 DMITRY A YOUNG SOVIET IMMIGRANT BERNSTEIN, JOANNE E. TRUE STORY OF A BOY AND HIS PARENTS AS THEY STRUGGLE THROUGH THEIR FIRST YEAR IN AMERICA.
BR 5375 GOD THE ETERNAL CHALLENGE SISSELL, SHERRY DESIGNED TO HELP SEVENTH GRADERS TO THINK ABOUT GOD.
BR 5376 IKE AND MAMA AND THE BLOCK WEDDING SNYDER, CAROL THE PROBLEM THIS TIME IS HOW TO MAKE A WEDDING FOR MRS. WEINSTEIN'S DAUGHTER WHEN THERE IS NO MONEY.
BR 5377 DRY BONES ISRAEL'S FIRST COMIC STRIP KIRSCHEN, YA'AKOV THE COUNTRY'S FIRST CARTOON, A RAZORSHARP LAMPOON OF POLITICS AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS, AND PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST.
BR 5378 MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITY AND THE JEW, THE ROTH, CECIL ESSAY ON HOW THE JEW WAS EXCLUDED FROM THIS INSTITUTION DURING THE MIDDLE AGES.
BR 5380 TZADDIK OF THE SEVEN WONDERS, THE HAIBLUM, ISADORE THE HUMOROUS STORY OF A LONG-SUFFERING RABBI AND THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF HIS CONGREGATION.
BR 5381 PRIDE OF OUR PEOPLE A NEW SELECTION OF 36 LIFE STORIES OF OUTSTANDING,CONTEMPORARY MEN AND WOMEN GROSS, DAVID C., ED. MIRIAM GASKI STORIES OF ONE HUNDRED OUTSTANDING JEWISH MEN AND WOMEN.
BR 5382 WALLENBERG THE MAN IN THE IRON WEB LESTER, ELENORE STORY OF THE SWEDISH DIPLOMAT WHO SAVED THOUSANDS OF HUNGARIAN JEWS FROM DEATH DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
BR 5383 THIS NEW LAND THE HERITAGE SERIES. BOOK 1 GORAN, LESTER FOLLOWS THE GOMEZ, DE CASTRO AND BENJAMIN FAMILIES OVER SEVERAL GENERATIONS AND HISTORICAL PERIODS: FIGHTING IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, LIVING IN SPAIN DURING THE INQUISITION, AND SETTLING IN FRANCE.
BR 5385 TAKE CARE OF JOSETTE A MEMOIRE IN DEFENCE OF OCCUPIED F WOLF, JACQUELLINE IN 1940, A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL IS LEFT IN CHARGE OF HER FOUR-YEAR-OLD SISTER WHEN THEIR PARENTS ARE TAKEN BY THE GESTAPO.
BR 5386 PASSOVER SEDER AFIKOMAN IN EXILE FREDMAN, RUTH GRUBER A SCHOLARLY DISSERTATION OF THE SYMBOLS, RITUALS AND SEQUENCES USED IN THIS JEWISH HOLIDAY MEAL, CELEBRATING THE ISRAELITE EXODUS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT.
BR 5387 RISE AND FALL OF THE JEWISH GANGSTER IN AMERICA, THE FRIED, ALBERT SHIRLEY RADC THE AUTHOR TRACES THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE JEWISH UNDERWORLD FROM ITS ORIGINS TO ITS GRADUAL DISAPPEARANCE AFTER PROHIBITION. THIS REVISED EDITION CONTAINS UPDATED INFORMATION ON SUCH FIGURES AS MEYER LANSKY, BUGSY SIEGEL AND DUTCH SCHULTZ.
BR 5388 BAR AND BAT MITZVAH MARCUS, AUDREY FRIEDMAN THIS MINI-COURSE MANUAL DISCUSSES THE MEANINGS OF THESE CEREMONIES, AS WELL AS THE MEANING OF THE CHAIN OF TRADITION.
BR 5389 ROCKINGHORSE KANIUK, YORAM A FAILED ISRAELI ARTIST LIVING IN NEW YORK IN THE 50S TRIES TO UNRAVEL THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS NAME AND FIND HIS IDENTITY.
BR 5390 ALL THE COLORS OF THE RACE ADOFF, ARNOLD POEMS ABOUT A YOUNG GIRL'S ATTITUDE TOWARD HER JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 5391 FOUR DAYS GOLDREICH, GLORIA INA FELDMAN, LOVING WIFE AND MOTHER AS WELL AS SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSWOMAN, HAS TO FACE THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION OF HER LIFE. IN LIGHT OF HER HOLOCAUST EXPERIENCE, SHOULD SHE ABORT THE UNWANTED CHILD SHE IS CARRYING? PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE COME TOGETHER IN A SINGLE UNPREDICTABLE MOMENT AND SHE REALIZES
BR 5392 OLD WORLD, NEW WORLD EIGHT DECADES OF A JEWISH FAMILY I DITENFASS, MARK THE STORY OF THE HOPES AND FEARS, THE ASPIRATIONS AND LIMITS WHICH DEFINE THE LIEBERS AS A JEWISH FAMILY.
BR 5393 ORDINARY DAYLIGHT PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST GOING BLIND POTOK, ANDREW THIS PAINTER DESCRIBES WITH ANTIC HUMOR HIS ATTEMPTS TO DELAY THE INEXORABLE DEBACLE OF THE INHERITED PROGRESSIVE EYE DISEASE OF RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA.
BR 5394 MAN ON THE CAMEL SACHAR, HOWARD ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE HAS UNCOVERED AN ESPIONAGE PLOT WHICH IMPLICATES A WAR HERO. WHAT THEY DO NOT SUSPECT IS A TRAITOR IN THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT.
BR 5395 JEWISH MYSTICAL TESTIMONIES JACOBS, LOUIS A COLLECTION REPRESENTING THE MOST IMPORTANT JEWISH MYSTICAL TEXTS, FROM BIBLICAL TIMES TO THE 20TH CENTURY.
BR 5396 SHELANU AN ISRAEL JOURNAL RENNERT, MAGGIE TWO YEARS' WORTH OF EXCITEMENT, DANGER AND DRAMA THE AUTHOR FOUND LIVING IN THIS COUNTRY.
BR 5398 ROSH HASHANAH AND YOM KIPPUR SWEET BEGINNINGS DRUCKER, MALKA PRESENTED ARE THE HISTORY, CUSTOMS AND MEANINGS OF THE HOLIEST DAYS OF THE JEWISH YEAR.
BR 5399 MA'ASEH BOOK BOOK OF JEWISH TALES AND LEGENDS GASTER, MOSES THREE SECTIONS OF ANONYMOUS YIDDISH STORIES, FROM THE TALMUD AND MIDRASH TO THE TALE OF THE JEWISH POPE.
BR 5400 MARRIAGE IN JEWISH LIFE AND TRADITION ZWERIN,RB RAYMOND A.&MARCUS,AUDREY F EXAMINES JEWISH ATTITUDES TOWARD MARRIAGE AND THE CUSTOMS, CULTURE AND TRADITIONS OF JEWISH WEDDINGS.
BR 5401 RABBIS AND WIVES GRADE, CHAIM STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE WITH PASSIONS, TENSIONS AND CONSCIENCES LIKE OURS, PEOPLE STRUGGLING TO RECONCILE PIETY AND MODERNITY.
BR 5402 COOKING KOSHER THE NATURAL WAY KINDERLEHRER, JANE COMBINING HEALTH CONCERNS WITH KOSHER CUISINE, THIS BOOK PROVIDES READERS WITH RECIPES FOR TRADITIONAL AND NON-TRADITIONAL DISHES USING ONLY NATURAL INGREDIENTS.
BR 5403 CHOOSING JUDAISM KUKOFF, LYDIA THIS JEWISH WOMAN TELLS THE STORY OF HER CHRISTIAN PENNSYLVANIA CHILDHOOD AND HER JEWISH CALIFORNIA ADULTHOOD.
BR 5404 DEBUT, THE BROOKNER, ANITA THE STORY OF DR. RUTH WEISS, A PROFESSOR OF LITERATURE, WHO FINDS ROLE MODELS IN THE WOMEN OF THE CLASSICS. AN INTEREST IN BALZAC LEADS TO AN AFFAIR WITH A SORBONNE PROFESSOR AND A DIFFERENT OUTLOOK ON LIFE.
BR 5405 MARRANOS, THE WEBB, LILIANE THIS NOVEL DEALS WITH AN UNDERGROUND PLOT BY SECRET SPANISH JEWS (MARRANOS) TO OVERTHROW THE INQUISITION. MISTRUST, BORN OF FEAR, PREVENTS THE SUCCESS OF THE VENTURE.
BR 5406 WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE KUSHNER, RABBI HAROLD S. A BOOK WHICH OFFERS STRENGTH AND SOLACE TO ALL WHO SEEK A JUSTIFICATION FOR THEIR PAIN IN THIS WORLD.
BR 5407 EPPIE THE STORY OF ANN LANDERS HOWARD, MARGO HOW THE DAUGHTER OF RUSSIAN-JEWISH IMMIGRANTS MADE IT AS A WORLD-FAMOUS ADVICEGIVER.
BR 5408 CODE Z SWERDLOW, JOEL A SPY THRILLER WHICH GOES FROM HIGH ALTITUDES TO THE INNER SANCTUM OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
BR 5409 SURVIVOR, THE AN ANATOMY OF A LIFE IN A DEATH CA DES PRES, TERRENCE A PROFOUND, ELOQUENT MEDITATION ON SURVIVAL IN THE ULTIMATE EVIL OF OUR TIME, HITLER'S AND STALIN'S DEATH CAMPS.
BR 5410 LA AMERICA THE SEPHARDIC EXPERIENCE IN THE UN ANGEL, MARC D. A STUDY OF THE JUDEO-SPANISH-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER WHICH SERVED AS THE VOICE OF THE SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY IN NEW YORK CITY.
BR 5412 UNCLE JACK'S PLAN ARGAMAN, SAMUEL JEANETTE'S MOTHER IS GETTING READY TO CLOSE HER JEWELRY STORE WHEN AN ARAB SHEIK INTERESTED IN PURCHASES APPEARS.
BR 5413 SURVIVOR, THE A TRUE STORY EISNER, JACK AT THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR II, JACK EISNER WAS A BOY OF THIRTEEN LIVING IN POLAND. SIX YEARS LATER, HE WAS A SURVIVOR WHO HAD FOUGHT IN THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING AND WHO LIVED TO OUTWIT THE NAZIS AND TO WRITE ABOUT IT.
BR 5414 ALMOST FAMILY HOFFMAN, ROY PORTRAIT OF THE LONG RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A JEWISH ALABAMA WOMAN AND THE BLACK WOMAN SHE EMPLOYS.
BR 5415 LESSONS IN JEWISH HISTORY JEWISH HISTORY FROM ITS EARLIEST B COLODNER, SOLOMON THIS PARTICULAR HISTORY IS COVERED THROUGH ITS VARIOUS MOVEMENTS, INCLUDING 'THOUGHT' MOVEMENTS WHICH HELPED SHAPE ITS IDEAS.
BR 5416 GOD'S GRACE MALAMUD, BERNARD A SARDONIC COMEDY ABOUT THE ONLY SURVIVOR OF A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST.
BR 5422 ADVENTURES OF JEREMY LEVI GANZ, YAFFA A JOLLY AND ENLIGHTENING TALE OF WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE AN UNCERTAIN 11-YEAR-OLD BOY.
BR 5429 EINSTEIN AND JUDAISM BENGELSDORF, IRVING S., PH. D. A PAPER DISCUSSING HOW THE SCIENTIST, WHO WAS NOT A PRACTICING JEW, WAS MORE RELIGIOUS THAN DEVOUT FOLLOWERS OF THE RELIGION.
BR 5430 ITHAMAR LEHMANN, MARCUS THE STORY OF A YOUNG MAN IN ANCIENT ISRAEL WHO IS BETRAYED BY A FAMILY SLAVE AND CHEATED OUT OF HIS INHERITANCE.
BR 5431 TZILI THE STORY OF A LIFE APPELFELD, AHARON SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TALE OF A GIRL WHO, LIKE THE AUTHOR, ESCAPES FROM A LABOR CAMP AT AGE 8 IN THE EARLY 1940S AND WANDERS THE FORESTS OF CENTRAL EUROPE. THE STORY UNFOLDS LIKE A PARABLE IN WHICH LANDSCAPES, WEATHER AND THE PASSAGE OF THE SEASONS ARE FREQUENTLY PRESENTED WITH AS MUCH DRAMA AS TZILI'S PROGRESS TO MATURITY.
BR 5432 ROYAL GAME AND OTHER STORIES, THE ZWEIG, STEFAN SHORT STORIES ABOUT THE ROOTS OF NAZI HATRED AND WHY THEY EXISTED.
BR 5433 COUNSELLOR, THE ZIRAN, GOLAND FOR THE SON OF NEW YORK CANDY STORE OWNERS, BECOMING A LAWYER IS HIS OWN PERSONAL KEY TO THE HALLS OF JUSTICE.
BR 5434 HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN AMERICA PESSIN, DEBORAH A WORKBOOK TO ACCOMPANY THE STUDENT TEXT ON THIS GROUP FROM IMMIGRATION TO THE PRESENT.
BR 5436 OPENING THE GATES OF PRAYER A STUDENT PRAYERBOOK NOT SPECIFIED SAMPLES OF PRAYERS FOR DIFFERENT OCCASIONS, SUCH AS EATING, PRAISING GOD AND SO FORTH.
BR 5437 TRIUMPHS OF FUZZY FOGTOP, THE ROSE, ANNE THESE THREE SHORT STORIES, VERSIONS OF EUROPEAN FOLKTALES, DEPICT EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF THE WOEFULLY INEPT FUZZY FOGTOP.
BR 5438 HOW DOES THE CZAR EAT POTATOES? ROSE, ANNE A HUMOROUS YIDDISH VERSE-TALE IN WHICH A CHILD PUZZLES OVER THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HIS PEASANT FATHER AND THE ALL-POWERFUL CZAR.
BR 5443 SHOFAR THAT LOST ITS VOICE, THE FASS, DAVID E. ON THE AFTERNOON BEFORE ROSH HASHANAH YOUNG AVI RACES HOME TO PRACTICE BLOWING ON THE RAM'S HORN FOR THE SERVICE, BUT NO SOUND COMES OUT.
BR 5447 MANDARINS, JEWS AND MISSIONARIES THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN THE CHINE POLLAK, MICHAEL THE HISTORY OF THE EXOTIC JEWISH COMMUNITY OF KAIFENG, CHINA, WHICH CAME INTO BEING IN THE 10TH CENTURY AND STILL OWNED A SYNAGOGUE IN THE MID-1800S.
BR 5448 SOPHIE'S CHOICE STYRON, WILLIAM THE STORY OF A LONELY BROOKLYNITE WHO BEFRIENDS A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR AND HER PSYCHOPATHIC LOVER.
BR 5450 AMATEUR LITTELL, ROBERT SATIRE AND ACTION COMBINE TO TELL OF ONE MAN'S DOGGED DETERMINATION TO AVENGE THE DEATH OF HIS GIRLFRIEND IN ISRAEL.
BR 5451 YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE IN WHO'S WHO TO KNOW WHAT'S WHAT LEVENSON, SAM THIS COLLECTION GATHERS TOGETHER AMERICAN JEWISH FOLK HUMOR.
BR 5452 MY AMERICA WAGNER, ELIOT STORY OF A RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT FAMILY WHOSE MAIN CHARACTER IS BLESSED WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR.
BR 5453 PENGUIN BOOK OF JEWISH SHORT STORIES, THE LITVINOFF, EMANUEL A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM THE EARLY WORKS OF THE YIDDISH WRITERS TO THE PRESENT-DAY AMERICAN AUTHORS.
BR 5457 NO TIME FOR TEARS FREEMAN, CYNTHIA CHAVALA LANDAU STRUGGLES TO MAKE A HOMELAND OUT OF PALESTINE, YET SHE REACHES OUT FOR A LIFE OF PROMISE AND FULFILLMENT IN AMERICA.
BR 5458 TO MEND THE WORLD FOUNDATIONS OF FUTURE JEWISH THOUGHT FACKENHEIM, EMIL L. THE AUTHOR SHOWS HOW JUDAISM CAN GO BEYOND MERELY CONFRONTING AND SURVIVING THE EPOCH-MAKING EVENTS OF CONTEMPORARY JEWISH HISTORY, SUCH AS THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 5465 ZAKHOR JEWISH HISTORY AND JEWISH MEMORY YERUSHALMI, YOSEF HAYIM IN THIS WORK OF HISTORIOGRAPHY YERUSHALMI EXPLORES THE MEANING AND USES OF 'HISTORY' IN JEWISH IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY.
BR 5466 ENCOUNTERS WITH ISRAELI AUTHORS FUCHS, ESTHER INTERVIEWS WITH NINE ISRAELI WRITERS WHO DISCUSS THEIR WORK, THEIR LIVES AND THEIR WRITING. AMONG THOSE INCLUDED ARE A.B. YEHOSHUA, AHARON APPELFELD, AHARON MEGGID AND YEHUDA AMICHAI.
BR 5470 FELIX FRANKFURTER AND HIS DTIMES THE REFORM YEARS PARRISH, MICHAEL E. A STUDY OF THE YEARS THIS AMERICAN JUSTICE SPENT, BOTH WITH AND WITHOUT LOUIS BRANDEIS, BUILDING A POLITICAL CAREER.
BR 5471 FAMILY TIES LEAHY, SYRELL ROGOVIN IN PRE-NAZI GERMANY, REGINA MUST COME TO TERMS WITH HER FAMILY'S DESTINY IN ORDER TO MAKE A FUTURE FOR HERSELF.
BR 5472 DANCE OF GENGHIS COHN, THE GARY, ROMAIN A NOVEL ABOUT THE SPIRIT OF A MURDERED YIDDISH MUSIC HALL COMIC WHICH HAS TAKEN OVER THE BODY OF THE FORMER NAZI SS TROOPER WHO EXTERMINATED HIM IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP 25 YEARS EARLIER.
BR 5473 JEWISH AMERICANS, THE A HISTORY IN THEIR OWN WORDS MELTZER, MILTON THIS ANTHOLOGY EMPHASIZES THE JEWISH CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL LIBERTIES, AND INCLUDES MANY PROMINENT JEWISH NAMES SUCH AS ASHER LEVY.
BR 5475 TRUE LOVE GOLD, HERBERT IN THIS FUNNY, EROTIC NOVEL, A MIDDLE-AGED LAWYER SEARCHES FOR THE ELIXIR OF RENEWAL-TRUE LOVE.
BR 5476 PAUL THE THEOLOGY OF THE APOSTLE IN THE SCHOEPS, H. J. AN INTERPRETATION OF THE LIFE OF THE FORMER JEW WHO WAS CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY.
BR 5477 BIG BOOK OF JEWISH HUMOR, THE NOVAK, WILLIAM & MOSHE WALDOKS A COLLECTION OF JEWISH JOKES, ANECDOTES AND EXCERPTS FROM LITERARY WORKS DISTILLING THE ESSENCE OF JEWISH HUMOR FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY YIDDISH WITS TO THE COMEDY OF PHILIP ROTH AND LENNY BRUCE. THIS ANTHOLOGY SHOWS HOW HUMOR HAS BEEN A NATURAL RESOURCE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 5478 KING OF KINGS A NOVEL OF THE LIFE OF DAVID MARTIN, MALACHI A NOVEL, RECREATING THE LIFE OF DAVID, THE SHEPHERD BOY WHO SLEW GOLIATH AND BECAME THE FIRST GREAT CAPTAIN-KING.
BR 5480 FROM TORAH TO KABBALAH MUSEPH-ANDREISSE, R.C. BASIC INTRODUCTION TO WRITINGS OF JUDAISM. FACTUAL ACCOUNT THROUGH CODIFICATION OF MYSTICAL WORKS INTO THE KABBALAH IN TWELFTH CENTURY.
BR 5481 YITZCHAK, SON OF ABRAHAM PAAMONI, ZEV CHARMING STORY ABOUT A YOUNG JEWISH BOY GROWING UP IN NEW YORK CITY. THERE ARE AREAS OF HUMAN INTEREST THROUGHOUT.
BR 5482 ANWAR SADAT CARROLL, RAYMOND A BIOGRAPHY OF SADAT AS BOTH A PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FIGURE, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON HIS ROLE IN THE CAMP DAVID ACCORDS.
BR 5483 ASAHEL MEGED, AHARON AN INTROSPECTIVE, CONFUSED MAN IN HIS LATE THIRTIES IS TORN BETWEEN HIS MOTHER'S GENERATION OF ISRAELI PIONEERS AND THE YOUNGER SABRAS WHO LEAD GENTRIFIED LIVES IN THE CITIES. A PORTRAYAL OF THE STRUGGLE OF INDIVIDUAL ISRAELIS TO FIND A PLACE WITHIN COMMUNAL SOCIETY.
BR 5484 GHETTO DIARY KORCZAK, JANUSZ DAY BY DAY DESCRIPTION BY AUTHOR, A PEDIATRICIAN WHO SACRIFICED LIFE TO REMAIN WITH CHILDREN WHEN DEPORTED TO TREBLINKA. CONTAINS ESSAY BY A. ZEITLIN.
BR 5485 INFINITE LIGHT, THE KAPLAN, ARYEH A BOOK ABOUT GOD. EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD AND MAN AND MAN AND MAN IN CLEAR AND CONCISE TERMS.
BR 5486 JOE RAPOPORT KANN, KENNETH LIFE OF A JEWISH RADICAL. MEMOIR REFLECTS LIFE-LONG DEVOTION TO JEWISH RADICAL MOVEMENT IN AMERICA. EXTENSIVE NOTES HELP PLACE NARRATIVE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.
BR 5487 JEWS, THE STEEBER, SHARON FROM RUSSIA TO AMERICA, THIS IS THE SAGA OF THE LUMINOVS. AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF POWERFUL FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS, WE BEAR WITNESS TO A CULTURE AND A SOCIETY ON THE MOVE AS DANIEL AND ALMA'S HOPES ARE SHATTERED BY THE BITTER HATRED OF THEIR PARENTS.
BR 5488 TANGLE OF ROOTS, A GIRION, BARBARA 16 YEAR OLD GIRL FINDS LIFE CHANGED WHEN INFORMED OF HER MOTHER'S DEATH. ANGER, GRIEF, LONELINESS, RELATIONSHIP WITH FATHER AND COMING TO TERMS WITH LOSS ARE DEPICTED.
BR 5489 RESORT, THE STEIN, SOL ROSE BURSTEI THE BROWNS STOP IN AT CLIFFHAVEN, OUTWARDLY AN IDYLLIC RESORT, BUT IN ACTUALITY A PLACE THE 'GUESTS,' ALL JEWS, CAN NEVER LEAVE. A SUSPENSE THRILLER.
BR 5490 GOLEM, THE WIESEL, ELIE RETELLING OF STORY OF GREAT RABBI LOEW OF PRAGUE AND HIS MASTER CREATION, THE GOLEM, WHO PROTECTED JEWS OF THAT COMMUNITY. WENT OUT OF CONTROL AND WAS PUT TO SLEEP'.
BR 5491 FROM SARAH TO SARAH FELDBRAND, S ENTRANCING COLLECTION, IN CAPSULE FORM, OF THE BIBLICAL SARAH AND OTHER FASCINATING JEWISH WOMEN, BOTH FAMOUS AND OBSCURE.
BR 5492 PARABLES FROM BAGDAD CHACHAM YOSEF CHAYIM PITHY TALES SIMPLY TOLD. ESPECIALLY APPEALING TO TEENAGERS, BUT OF INTEREST TO ANY AGE.
BR 5494 OUR SAGES SHOWED THE WAY SEGAL, YOCHEVED A COLLECTION OF 38 STORIES FROM THE TALMUD AND MIDRASH WITH ETHICAL TEACHINGS.
BR 5495 REGINA EPSTEIN, LESLIE A NOVEL SET IN MANHATTAN ABOUT AN ACTRESS TURNED JOURNALIST, WHO IN HER FORTIES IS RETURNING TO ACTING AND CONFRONTING THE STRESSES IN HER LIFE.
BR 5497 SHABBAT A PEACEFUL ISLAND DRUCKER, MALKA DRUCKER PRESENTS HER VISION OF SHABBAT AS A DAY OF TRANQUILITY. SHE DISCUSSES THE HISTORY OF SHABBAT AND SOME CUSTOMS AND IDEAS FOR CELEBRATING IT.
BR 5498 SAVTA SIMCHA AND THE CINNAMON TREE GANZ, YAFFA CHILDREN'S ADVENTURE STORY SET IN JERUSALEM. SAVTA (GRANDMA) SIMCHA AND FRIENDS DEAL WITH A RARE SNOWSTORM, PURIM SURPRISES, PREPARATION FOR COMING OF MESSIAH ETC.
BR 5499 SEVENTH DAY, THE CHAIKIN, MIRIAM BEAUTIFUL RETELLING OF STORY OF CREATION AND GIVING OF THE LAW. INTRODUCTION TO MEANING OF THE JEWISH SABBATH AND HOW IT IS CELEBRATED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
BR 5500 TO THE HONOR OF THE FLEET PILPEL, ROBERT H. HISTORICAL AND FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ARE INTERWOVEN IN THIS WORLD WAR I SEA STORY FILLED WITH POLITICAL INTRIGUE.
BR 5501 FAR HORIZONS, THE WAGMAN, MICHAEL JACOB MOSEI, YEARNING FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE, CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY BEFORE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. HE BEQUEATHS EVERYTHING TO HIS SON, ALEKSANDER, WHO IS UNABLE TO FORGET HIS BACKGROUND. WHEN THE REVOLUTION ERUPTS, ALEKSANDER IS FORCED INTO A CHOICE THAT MAY COST HIM HIS FORTUNE AND HIS WIFE.
BR 5502 CHILDHOOD OBERSKI, JONA THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A CONCENTRATION CAMP VICTIM WHO SUFFERED THROUGH THE HORROR WHEN HE WAS A CHILD.
BR 5503 DAILY BREAD POEMS KAMINSKY, MARC BASED ON BOTH THE IMMIGRANT HISTORY OF NEW YORK'S JEWISH COMMUNITY AND HIS OWN FAMILY HISTORY, KAMINSKY ATTEMPTS TO GIVE A VOICE TO THE AMERICAN JEW OF EASTERN EUROPEAN DESCENT. INCLUDES TRANSLATIONS FROM YIDDISH AND A SHORT GLOSSARY.
BR 5504 AUGUST ROSSNER, JUDITH A TEENAGER, HER FORTYISH ANALYST AND THEIR FIVE YEAR RELATIONSHIP. AS THE TWO WOMEN GROW AND CHANGE, THEY MAKE PERMANENT MARKS ON EACH OTHER'S LIVES.
BR 5505 SEASON OF DELIGHT, A GREENBERG, JOANNE MIDDLE-AGED JEWISH MOTHER WHOSE CHILDREN HAVE JOINED CULTS, FINDS MEANING FOR HER OWN LIFE AS A VOLUNTEER, AND IN HER FAITH AND HER COMMUNITY.
BR 5507 SPAIN, THE JEWS AND FRANCO AVNI, HAIM DESPITE NAZI WAR MACHINE AND FRANCO'S OWN POLITICAL BUREAUCRACY, SPANISH FOREIGN DIPLOMATS RESCUED ALMOST 40,000 SPANISH AND OTHER JEWS.
BR 5508 BIBLICAL AND JUDAIC ACRONYMS MARWICK, LAWRENCE PATTERNED ON HEBREW SEFER ROSHEI TAVOT (BOOK OF INITIAL LETTERS AND ABBREVIATIONS) AUTHOR ATTEMPT A SIMILAR SERVICE FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING SCHOLARS.
BR 5510 STORY OF STORIES THE CHOSEN PEOPLE AND ITS GOD JACOBSON, DAN LITERARY INSIGHTS INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE JEWS AND THEIR MOST SACRED BOOK.
BR 5511 TATTERED TALLIS, THE HUBNER, CAROL KORB A BLIND MAN'S OBSESSION WITH HIS TALLIS (PRAYER SHAWL) SETS THE PACE FOR THESE MYSTERIES INVOLVING GIRL DETECTIVE DEVORAH DORESH.
BR 5512 ZION IN AMERICA FEINGOLD, HENRY L. VARYING CHARACTERISTICS OF JEWISH IMMIGRATION FROM SPAIN, SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE ARE EXAMINED IN DETAIL.
BR 5513 JEWISH KIDS' CATALOGUE, THE BURSTEIN, CHAYA M. THE CATALOGUE COVERS A WIDE RANGE OF TOPICS, IN WAYS DESIGNED TO ENGAGE YOUNG LISTENERS. TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE: HIGHLIGHTS OF JEWISH HISTORY; THE ORIGINS OF JEWISH NAMES; WORDS IN HEBREW, YIDDISH AND LADINO; AND LETTERS FROM JEWISH KIDS AROUND THE WORLD.
BR 5514 WAY OF SPLENDOR, THE HOFFMAN, EDWARD THIS BOOK MEETS THE NEEDS OF THOSE WISHING TO LEARN ABOUT THE KABBALAH AND SERVES AS A BRIDGE TO THE ACTUAL BODY OF KABBALISTIC LORE.
BR 5515 UPON THE HEAD OF THE GOAT SIEGAL, ARANKA THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES HER CHILDHOOD IN HUNGARY AND HOW SHE AND HER FAMILY SURVIVED UNTIL THEY WERE DEPORTED TO AUSCHWITZ.
BR 5516 MARTIN BUBER'S LIFE AND WORK FRIEDMAN, MAURICE HIS GROWTH FROM THE 'EASYWORD' TO THE 'HARDWORD' SHOWS BUBERAS A WISE MAN, AN EMBODIMENT OF THE 'I-THOU' RELATIONSHIP HE ESPOUSED.
BR 5518 CAVIAR AT THE FUNERAL SIMPSON, LOUIS POEMS BY THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE 1981 JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL AWARD FOR POETRY.
BR 5519 BUT WE NEED THE EGGS JACOBS, DIANE A SHORT, SERIOUS CRITICAL STUDY OF THREE ASPECTS OF WOODY ALLEN PRESENTED AS THREE DISTINCT PERSONAE -- WOODY, THE JEWISH NERD BUT SMART NEW YORKER; ALLEN, THE CREATOR; AND MR. ALLEN THE CELEBRITY, SHOWING HOW ALL THREE INTERMINGLE AND REINFORCE ONE ANOTHER. THE AUTHOR IS THE FILM EDITOR FOR 'HORIZON' MAGAZINE.
BR 5520 TO BUILD A CASTLE BUKOVSKY, VLADIMIR LIFE AS A DISSENTER UNDER SOVIET RULE. AUTHOR VIEWS HIS RESPONSE TO THIS NIGHTMARE AS NATURAL RATHER THAN HEROIC.
BR 5521 JOSHUA IN THE PROMISED LAND CHAIKIN, MIRIAM A RETELLING OF THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT OF JOSHUA. JOSHUA IS SEEN IN A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND THE YOUNG READER WILL LEARN MUCH ABOUT EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE TIMES.
BR 5522 MY PEOPLE ABBA EBAN'S HISTORY OF THE JEWS. V BAMBERGER, DAVID ABBA EBAN'S HISTORY OF THE JEWS AS ADAPTED FOR A YOUNG AUDIENCE BY DAVID BRAMBERGER.
BR 5523 PERIMETERS WORTHEN, HELENA A DANCER AND A SWEDE; TWO PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS HOPE TO FIND THEMSELVES AND THEIR HERITAGE IN ISRAEL. GOOD SENSE OF PLACE, CHARACTERS WELL DONE.
BR 5525 PLACE OF LIGHT, A SHAPIRO-RIESER, RHONDA THIS NOVEL DEALS WITH TWO CHARACTERS WHO, BECAUSE THEY ARE WOMEN, ARE DESTINED TO BE ON THE FRINGE OF THE SPIRITUAL LIVES OF THEIR COMMUNITIES.
BR 5526 AVROHOM BEN AVROHOM SCHACHNOWITZ, SELIG POIGNANT AND MEMORABLE HISTORICAL NOVEL CONTAINING KNOWN FACTS ABOUT VALENTIN POTZOKI, GAIR TZADDIK OF VILNA. GOOD PORTRAYAL OF 18TH CENTURY JEWISH LIFE.
BR 5527 JAVITS JAVITS, JACOB K. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PUBLIC MAN. NEW YORK'S REPUBLICAN SENATOR FROM 1957 TO 1981 SUMS UP HIS CONGRESSIONAL CAREER.
BR 5528 TO SEE IN THE DARK DORON, YAAKOV AUTHOR LOST EYESIGHT DURING WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE IN 1948. BECAME SPOKESMAN FOR OTHERS LIKE HIMSELF. WAS URGED TO WRITE MEMOIRS AFTER YOM KIPPUR WAR IN 1973.
BR 5529 SEVEN DAUGHTERS AND SEVEN SONS COHEN, BARBARA & LOVEJOY, BAHIJA LIVELY PACED TRADITIONAL ARABIAN FOLK TALE HAS BURAN, THE CLEVEREST-IF NOT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF SEVEN DAUGHTERS DETERMINED TO RESTORE THE FAMILY FORTUNE.
BR 5531 REFORM JUDAISM TODAY - BOOK 1 BOROWITZ, EUGENE B. REFORM JUDAISM IN THE PROCESS OF CHANGE. RABBI BOROWITZ DISCUSSES THE IMPACT OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND REFORM JUDAISM UPON EACH OTHER.
BR 5532 KAFKA'S PRAYER GOODMAN, PAUL KAFKA'S THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ATTITUDES EXAMINED AND DEFINED WITH CLARITY AND PERCEPTION.
BR 5533 REDEMPTION OF THE UNWANTED, THE SACHAR, ABRAM L. A SURVEY DETAILING THE EXPERIENCE OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN THE PERIOD FROM 1945 TO 1949.
BR 5535 IPHIGENE DRYFOOS, SUSAN W. THIS IS THE 'AS TOLD TO' ACCOUNT OF IPHIGENE OCHS SULZBERGER, DAUGHTER, WIFE, MOTHER-IN-LAW AND MOTHER OF THE FOUR PUBLISHERS OF 'THE NEW YORK TIMES' WHO HAVE MANAGED THE NEWSPAPER FOR MORE THAN 80 YEARS. A DETAILED FAMILY HISTORY, THE NARRATIVE ALSO AFFORDS PERSONAL GLIMPSES OF FAMOUS PERSONS AND EVENTS.
BR 5536 KURT WEILL AN ILLUSTRATED AUTOBIOGRAPHY JARMAN, DOUGLAS FAITH GARFIE AN INDISPENSABLE GUIDE TO THE SOCIAL BACKGROUND AND MUSIC OF ONE OF THIS CENTURY'S MOST INFLUENTIAL COMPOSERS. THE BOOK CONTAINS MUSICAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
BR 5537 MAILER A BIOGRAPHY MILLS, HILLARY A FIRST COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL FIGURES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS.
BR 5538 LAST MISSION, THE MAZER, HARRY JANE N. WEIS A 15-YEAR-OLD AMERICAN JEWISH BOY WHO PRETENDED TO BE OLDER SO THAT HE COULD GET INTO THE AIR FORCE IN 1944, IS SHOT DOWN BEHIND GERMAN LINES. FORCED TO ENDURE TERRIFYING EXPERIENCES IN A P.O.W. CAMP, HE DISCOVERS WHAT WAR IS REALLY LIKE.
BR 5541 CONCEPTS AND VALUES COLODNER, DR. SOLOMON MEANING OF THE SIDRA OR PORTION OF THE TORAH READ IN THE SYNAGOGUE EACH WEEK. CONTAINS SELECTED HEBREW VERSES WITH TRANSLATION TO MEMORIZE.
BR 5542 EXILE AND RETURN GILBERT, MARTIN TRACING TURNING POINTS IN THE REALIZATION OF THE DREAM OF JEWISH STATEHOOD, THE AUTHOR USES NEWLY AVAILABLE ARCHIVES, DIARIES AND MEMOIRS.
BR 5543 STORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE KLAPERMAN, LIBBY & GILBERT THIS BOOK COVERS THE PERIOD FROM CREATION TO THE REBUILDING OF THE SECOND TEMPLE. IT COMBINES RELIGIOUS REVERENCE WITH A VIVID RETELLING OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS.
BR 5544 DISRAELI BRADFORD, SARAH THIS BIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN DISRAELI, THE 19TH-CENTURY BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, FOCUSES PRIMARILY ON HIS PERSONAL LIFE.
BR 5545 WEST BANK STORY, THE HALABI, RAFIK ISRAELI ARAB GIVES HIS INSIGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS INTO COURSE OF EVENTS THAT HAVE SHAPED THE PAST 15 YEARS IN HIS PART OF THE WORLD AND DIRECTION THEY ARE TAKING.
BR 5546 CITY COLLEGE AND THE JEWISH POOR GORELICK, SHERRY THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES EDUCATION IN NEW YORK, 1880-1924 THROUGH HER ACCOUNT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CITY COLLEGE AND ITS JEWISH CLIENTELE. CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, IN 1881 EDUCATION DID NOT LEAD TO JOBS FOR THE MASSES OF POOR JEWISH IMMIGRANTS, BUT WAS DESIGNED TO GIVE CULTURAL POLISH TO MEN OF INDEPENDENT MEANS.
BR 5547 GREAT AGES AND IDEAS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE BARON, SALO W. ETAL DISCUSSION OF IDEAS WHICH HAVE RESULTED FROM THE JEW'S UNIQUE HISTORICAL EXPERIENCES AND WHICH HAVE BECOME THE LEGACY OF ALL MEN.
BR 5548 ETHICAL WILLS RIEMER, JACK & NATHANIEL STAMPFER A COLLECTION OF ETHICAL WILLS, PRECIOUS SPIRITUAL DOCUMENTS LEFT BEHIND IN THE BELIEF THAT THE WISDOM ACQUIRED IN A LIFE-TIME IS AS MUCH A PART OF A LEGACY AS OTHER MATERIAL POSSESSIONS. THIS COLLECTION COVERS THE MODERN PERIOD, WITH WILLS FROM ISRAEL'S PIONEER DAYS TO STATEHOOD, AND WITH LAST MESSAGES FROM HOLOCAUST VICTIMS.
BR 5549 HOORAY FOR YIDDISH ROSTEN, LEO A COLORFUL LEXICON OF THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE, ITS HISTORY, AND ITS LORE. PRESENTED ARE ALSO YIDDISH WORDS INCORPORATED INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
BR 5550 HOUSE OF WOMEN, THE BERMANT, CHAIM A NOVEL ABOUT BEAUTIFUL WOMEN SET IN THE PROMISED LAND.
BR 5551 LEAH AND LAZAR SWADOS, ELIZABETH ARTISTIC YOUNG WOMAN HAVING FREED HERSELF FROM INFLUENCE OF OLDER BROTHER SETS OUT TO DISCOVER HERSELF IN AND AROUND NEW YORK.
BR 5552 AT THE STONE OF LOSSES CARMI, T. CARMI'S POETRY EXPRESSES AN ACUTE AWARENESS OF HUMAN SUFFERING, AND RECOGNITION OF THE VALUE OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF OVERWHELMING SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EVENTS.
BR 5553 SOMEWHERE A MASTER WIESEL, ELIE IN THE WORLD OF 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY EUROPE, AN AGE OF BLOODSHED, WE LEARN HOW A HANDFUL OF HASIDIC RABBIS HELPED THEIR PEOPLE OVERCOME DESPAIR.
BR 5554 PREPARING FOR SABBATH RAPOPORT, NESSA A YOUNG WOMAN'S STRUGGLE TO FIND BOTH GOD AND LOVE. A FIRST NOVEL WITH SPIRITUAL DEPTH AND BEAUTY.
BR 5555 WIVES AND OTHER WOMEN KLEIN, NORMA MOVING BACK AND FORTH FROM 1970 TO 1980, THIS WORK CENTERS ON HARRIED MOTHER/HOUSEWIFE NIRA, WHO PLUNGES INTO AN AFFAIR WITH DIVORCED SCIENCE WRITER JERRY.
BR 5556 OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL, THE SHAHAM, NATHAN THREE NOVELLAS DEPICTING DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF ISRAELI LIFE. IN EACH THE CHARACTERS ATTEMPT TO EXPRESS THEIR DIVERSE FEELINGS TOWARD ISRAEL.
BR 5557 TENTH MEASURE SEGAL, BRENDA LESLEY THIS HISTORICAL NOVEL IS SET IN ISRAEL IN THE 1ST CENTURY. IT FOLLOWS THE STORY OF A JEWISH WOMAN THROUGH HER PARTICIPATION IN THE JEWISH REBELLION AGAINST THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
BR 5559 NIGHTS OF THE LONG KNIVES, THE KIRST, HANS HELMUT FICTIONALIZED ACCOUNT OF HITLER'S EXECUTION SQUADS AND THEIR MISSIONS AGAINST JEWISH TARGETS. COVERS PERIOD FROM 1933-1945. CONTAINS MANY TRUE FACTS.
BR 5561 COURTESY, THE SHAPIRO, ALAN WRITTEN LARGELY IN FREE VERSE AND OCCASIONALLY IN RHYME, RELIGION, GROWING UP, LOVE, AND DEATH, ARE AMONG THE THEMES ADDRESSED BY THE AUTHOR.
BR 5563 FATHERS AND CHILDREN STAMPFER, JUDAH THIS NOVEL, SPANNING RUSSIA, POLAND AND AMERICA, CHRONICLES THREE GENERATIONS OF A JEWISH FAMILY.
BR 5564 GREAT TRANQUILITY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AMICHAI, YEHUDA A PROSE WORK BY THE ISRAELI POET ABOUT THE WARS THAT HAVE PLAGUED THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND THE TOLL THEY HAVE TAKEN ON ITS CITIZENRY.
BR 5565 KAFKA'S OTHER TRIAL CANETTI, ELIAS SHORT STUDY OF KAFKA'S LETTERS TO HIS FIANCEE FELICE BAUER. TELLS US AS MUCH ABOUT THE AUTHOR AS HIS SUBJECT.
BR 5566 PENITENT, THE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS A WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN ABANDONS WIFE, MISTRESS AND CAREER TO ASSUME THE ROLE OF A PENITENT (BAAL-TSUVAH) IN ISRAEL.
BR 5567 TORCH IN MY EAR, THE CANETTI, ELIAS THE SECOND VOLUME OF AN ONGOING AUTOBIOGRAPHY FOCUSES ON THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF 1921-1931 IN VIENNA. NOBEL LAUREATE WRITES WITH UNSPARING HONESTY.
BR 5568 ART AND ARDOR OZICK, CYNTHIA AN ASSORTMENT OF ESSAYS IN WHAT ONE CRITIC HAS CALLED 'NOT YOUR TYPICAL COLLECTION', THE WORK OF 'A RABBI, FEMINIST AND DISCIPLE OF HENRY JAMES.'
BR 5570 HIDDEN SURVIVORS COTTLE, THOMAS J. PORTRAITS OF JEWISH POOR IN AMERICA REMIND US MORE THAN THE STATISTICS THAT WE MUST NOT FORGET OUR OWN.
BR 5571 HEALERS, THE DENKER, HENRY THIS IS A HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT TWO 19TH CENTURY PHYSICIANS, HE JEWISH, SHE PROTESTANT, THEIR MARRIAGE AND THEIR TIMES.
BR 5573 ORPHAN'S TALE, AN NEUGEBOREN, JAY DANNY GINSBERG, A 12-YEAR-OLD ORPHAN, IS THE HERO OF THIS BITTERSWEET STORY.
BR 5576 BEST OF K'TONTON WEILERSTEIN, SADIE ROSE THE JEWISH TOM THUMB IN SOME OF HIS MOST DARING ADVENTURES. FROM HIS RIDE ON A CHOPPING KNIFE TO THE RUNAWAY DREIDEL, HE WILL DELIGHT ANY CHILD.
BR 5577 WEIDENFELD COLOUR GUIDES TO ISRAEL BEN HAIM, HADASSAH INCLUDED IN THIS TOURIST GUIDE IS HISTORICAL DATA ON THE VARIOUS SITES MENTIONED THROUGHOUT.
BR 5578 PEOPLE IN JEWISH HISTORY PATIO DISCUSSION GROUP, TEMPLE BETH FROM THE MARRANOS TO JEWISH ARCHAEOLOGISTS TO VARIOUS WOMEN BOTH FAMOUS AND OBSCURE, A BROAD SELECTION OF JEWISH PEOPLE WHO HAVE ENRICHED OUR HISTORY.
BR 5579 LIMERICKS FOR LANTZMEN EISENBERG, L. & G. GORDON FOR THE 'OLD COUNTRY' MEMORIES THAT REMAIN A PART OF MOST OF US; A COLLECTION OF LIMERICKS TO LAUGH AT AND ENJOY.
BR 5580 COULD ANYTHING BE WORSE? HIRSH, MARILYN THIS VOLUME ALSO CONTAINS A GHOST STORY, DEBORAH THE DYBBUK. THEY ARE BOTH VERY CHARMING CHILDREN'S TALES, HUMOROUS YET BITTERSWEET.
BR 5581 ONE STAR JEW, THE EVANIER, DAVID IN THESE 14 STORIES, A STRUGGLING NEW YORK CITY WRITER LOOKS BACK AT HIS PAIN-RIDDLED CHILDHOOD, COMES TO TERMS WITH HIS PARENTS, REACHES OUT TO HIS STEPSON, AND CREATES PORTRAITS OF FRIENDS AND CO-WORKERS.
BR 5582 PILGRIMAGE ADVENTURES OF A WANDERING JEW EPSTEIN, PERLE AN ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF SPIRITUAL HAPPINESS THROUGH A REDISCOVERING OF HER JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 5583 KOSHER CREOLE COOKBOOK COVERT, M.L. & GERSON, S.P. A COMPILATION OF AUTHENTIC CREOLE RECIPES FOR THE KOSHER COOK FROM SOME OF THE FAMOUS RESTAURANTS IN NEW ORLEANS.
BR 5584 TORMENTED MASTER GREEN, ARTHUR A LIFE OF RABBI NAHMAN OF DRATSLAV 1772-1810. A COMPREHENSIVE, MOVING AND SUBTLE STUDY OF THE BRATSLAVER HASIDIM.
BR 5585 SO IT WAS TRUE THE AMERICAN PROTESTANT PRESS AND ROSS, ROBERT W. AN ATTEMPT TO FIND OUT JUST HOW MUCH RELIGIOUS LEADERS KNEW OF THE HOLOCAUST, VIA READING MATTER ON A STEADY BASIS.
BR 5586 WE ARE ONE AMERICAN JEWRY AND ISRAEL UROFSKY, MELVIN I. A CHRONICLE FOCUSING ON THE EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ISRAEL AND AMERICAN JEWRY.
BR 5587 BROTHERS SINGER, THE SINCLAIR, CLIVE A DOUBLE BIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC BASHEVIS AND HIS OLDER SIBLING ISRAEL JOSHUA, AS THEY BEGAN IN POLAND AND CAME TO AMERICA.
BR 5588 FALLS THE SHADOW LITVINOFF, EMANUEL SET IN ISRAEL, THIS MYSTERY FOLLOWS AN ISRAELI POLICE INVESTIGATOR AS HE TRIES TO DISCOVER THE FACTS BEHIND THE MURDER OF A NAZI WHO HAD BEEN MASQUERADING AS A JEWISH BUSINESSMAN.
BR 5590 THIS BURNING HARVEST GOLDREICH, GLORIA THIS NOVEL CONTINUES THE STORY, BEGUN IN 'THIS PROMISED LAND,' OF A FAMILY'S MIGRATION TO AND STRUGGLE IN PALESTINE.
BR 5591 APATHETIC BOOKIE JOINT, THE FUCHS, DANIEL THE BOOK, WINNER OF THE 1980 JWB FICTION AWARD, REPRESENTS THE ONLY COLLECTION OF THE AUTHOR'S SHORT FICTION AND A NOVELLA. WHETHER THE SCENE IS SET IN BROOKLYN OR IN THE PALMIER PRECINCTS OF HOLLYWOOD, FUCHS' VIVID, SHARPLY OBSERVED, DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE TALES OF HIS OWN LIFE, COALESCE INTO A VIVID CELEBRATION OF LIFE.
BR 5592 AUERBACH WILL, THE BIRMINGHAM, STEPHEN AT THE CENTER OF THIS STORY OF PASSION, MONEY, CHILDREN AND FAMILY IS ESSIE AUERBACH, NEE LITSKY FROM THE LOWER EAST SIDE WHO MARRIES INTO A PROMINENT GERMAN-JEWISH FAMILY.
BR 5593 ISLAMIC BOMB, THE WEISSMAN, STEVE & KROSNEY, HERBERT A HISTORY OF NUCLEAR ARMS DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH ASIA, ALONG WITH THE ISRAELI ATTACK ON THE IRAQI NUCLEAR FACILITY.
BR 5594 GERSHOM SCHOLEM KABBALAH AND COUNTER-HISTORY BIALE, DAVID A STUDY OF SCHOLEM'S HISTORICAL WRITINGS AND PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY. TRACES THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOLEM'S IDEAS FROM HIS EARLIEST ENCOUNTERS WITH KABBALAH IN GERMANY THROUGH HIS LATER WRITINGS. AN EXAMINATION OF THE HISTORIAN THROUGH HIS IDEAS RATHER THAN THE EVENTS OF HIS LIFE.
BR 5595 KIBBUTZ JUDAISM A NEW TRADITION IN THE MAKING LILKER, SHALOM AN EXAMINATION OF THE KIBBUTZ'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE SPIRITUAL AND SOCIOPOLITICAL RENAISSANCE OF MODERN JEWISH CULTURE.
BR 5597 EIGHT GREAT HEBREW SHORT NOVELS LELCHUK, ALAN & GERSHON SHAKED AN ANTHOLOGY OF NOVELLAS WRITTEN OVER THE PAST EIGHTY YEARS PROVIDING READERS WITH A PICTURE OF THE VARIETY OF HEBREW FICTION SINCE THE TURN OF THE CENTURY.
BR 5598 JEWISH-AMERICAN STORIES HOWE, IRVING A COLLECTION OF STORIES BY JEWISH WRITERS THAT DEALS WITH THE FAMILY AS THE CENTER OF JEWISH EXISTENCE.
BR 5599 PROMISE THE EARTH IRVING, CLIVE STORY OF ASA KOBLENSKY, THE RUSSIAN ARMY DESERTER WHO IN 1916 JOURNEYED TO PALESTINE TO BECOME A JEWISH FREEDOM FIGHTER.
BR 5600 AMERICAN ROSE MARKUS, JULIA THIS IS A CHRONICLE OF THE AUTHOR'S JEWISH ROOTS, FROM HER GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, WHO READ FUTURES FROM CARDS AND CRYSTAL BALLS, TO HER WEALTHY GRANDPARENTS, WHO TRIED TO BUY DEVOTION.
BR 5601 SOLOMON SYSTEM, THE NAYLOR, PHYLLIS REYNOLDS TWO BOYS RESPOND TO THEIR PARENTS' IMPENDING DIVORCE AS WELL AS CHANGES IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH EACH OTHER.
BR 5602 BATTLE FOR PEACE, THE WEIZMAN, EZER A HIGHLY PERSONAL AND CHARGED ACCOUNT OF HOW ONE OF ISRAEL'S WARRIORS BECAME A PASSIONATE ADVOCATE OF PEACE.
BR 5604 BOOK OF SONGS, A LINN, MERRITT IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP, THE INMATES ARE UNDECIDED ABOUT THE FATE OF A LITTLE BOY WHO PLAYS HAUNTING MELODIES ON HIS VIOLIN.
BR 5605 ETHNIC MYTH, THE STEINBERG, STEPHEN NINE PROVOCATIVE ESSAYS ON RACE, ETHNICITY AND CLASS IN AMERICA. THE AUTHOR CONCENTRATES PRIMARILY ON AMERICAN JEWS.
BR 5606 BECOMING A HEROINE READING NOVELS ABOUT WOMEN BROWNSTEIN, RACHEL M. DETAILED ANALYSES OF EMMA AND THE EGOIST AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL ON HOW A JEWISH GIRL FROM QUEENS FOUND ESCAPE IN NOVELS ABOUT PEOPLE.
BR 5607 SECOND EXODUS AHARONI, ADA THE LITTLE-KNOWN STORY OF PERSECUTION OF JEWS IN MODERN-DAY EGYPT, AND THE EXODUS OF OVER 100,000 JEWS TO NEW STATE OF ISRAEL IN 1948.
BR 5608 MY MOTHER GOLDA MEIR A SON'S EVOCATION OF LIFE WITH GOL MEIR, MENAHEM A BIOGRAPHY OF GOLDA MEIR, PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL FROM 1969 TO 1974, BY HER SON.
BR 5609 JEWS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS ELKIN, JUDITH LAIKIN MODERN STUDY OF LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY EXAMINING THE SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS CHALLENGING JEWISH SURVIVAL.
BR 5610 HAFETZ HAYYIM ON THE ON THE SIDDUR, THE HACOHEN, RABBI ISRAEL MEIR EXPLANATIONS, INTERPRETATIONS AND PARABLES ON THE DAILY PRAYER BOOK.
BR 5611 BADERS OF JACOB STREET KARMEL-WOLFE, HENIA A NOVEL ABOUT A JEWISH FAMILY IN WARTIME POLAND.
BR 5612 MID-AMERICA'S PROMISE SCHULTZ, JOSEPH P. THIS IS A PROFILE OF KANSAS CITY JEWRY. IT DESCRIBES THE SOCIAL AND PHILANTHROPIC CONTRIBUTIONS OF JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADERS SUCH AS BENJAMIN & BILLIKOPF.
BR 5613 LEGACY OF HATE, A VOLKMAN, ERNEST THE NEW ANTI-SEMITISM OF INDIFFERENCE', THE TREATING OF JEWS AS A SILENT MINORITY, CAN BE MORE DANGEROUS THAN AN OUTRIGHT EXPRESSION OF HATRED.
BR 5615 REAL PROPERTY DAVIDSON, SARA MARION T. CO DAVISON IS AN OBSERVER OF PEOPLE, OF WHAT THEY THINK, DO AND VALUE. SHE WRITES OF THE SINGLES SCENE, THE REAL ESTATE BOOM, HER OWN ARREST FOR GROWING MARIJUANA, AND EXPLORES THE COUNTRY'S CHANGING MOODS, A MOVE FROM SIXTIES' IDEALISM TO MATERIALISM. ONLY IN THE FEW ESSAYS ABOUT ISRAEL DOES SHE FIND A DIRECTION AND WARMTH.
BR 5618 RABBI'S GIRLS, THE HURWITZ, JOHANNA NARRATED BY ONE OF THE RABBI'S DAUGHTERS, THIS STORY WILL ADD TO THE READER'S UNDERSTANDING OF JEWISH CUSTOMS AND THE PROBLEM OF BEING A MINORITY IN A SMALL TOWN.
BR 5619 BAR MITZVAH, BAT MITZVAH HOW JEWISH BOYS AND GIRLS COME OF METTER, BERT THIS BOOK BOTH EXPLORES THE HISTORY BEHIND THE TRADITION AND HELPS PREPARE THE CHILD AND HIS OR HER FAMILY FOR THIS MOMENTOUS OCCASION.
BR 5620 HUNGRY HEARTS PROSE, FRANCINE A YIDDISH THEATER GROUP IN THE 20'S ABOUT TO PLAY THE DYBBUK IS FACED WITH A REAL-LIFE DYBBUK OF ITS OWN.
BR 5621 UNDERSTANDING ISRAEL ELON, AMOS THIS IS A TEXTBOOK OF THE HISTORY OF ZIONISM AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL. IT COVERS ASPECTS OF LIFE FROM GOVERNMENT TO KIBBUTZIM TO THE ARAB REFUGEES.
BR 5622 LOUIS D BRANDEIS AND THE PROGRESSIVE TRADITION UROFSKY, MELVIN I. IN THIS CONCISE BIOGRAPHY, THE AUTHOR MAINTAINS THAT A WELL-DEFINED SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL IDEA OF PROGRESSIVISM GOVERNED BRANDEIS' OPINIONS AND ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT HIS VARIOUS CAREERS AS PEOPLE'S LAWYER, CONSUMER ADVOCATE, ANTIMONOPOLIST, ZIONIST REFORMER, PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR AND SUPREME COURT JUSTICE.
BR 5624 WAR AND PEACE IN THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS FERGUSON, JOHN THIS STUDY EXAMINES THE DIFFERENT ATTITUDES TOWARDS WAR AND PEACE AMONG THE FOLLOWING MAJOR RELIGIONS: CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM, ZOROASTRIANISM, HINDUISM JAINISM, SIKHISM, BUDDHISM, CONFUCIANISM, TAOISM, SHINTO AND ISLAM.
BR 5625 ON WOMEN AND JUDAISM A VIEW FROM TRADITION GREENBERG, BLU A DEVOTED FEMINIST AND AN ORTHODOX JEW, MS. GREENBERG EXPLORES LEGALIZED ABORTION, DIVORCE, WOMEN IN RELIGION AND OTHER PROBLEMATIC AREAS FOR CONTEMPORARY WOMEN.
BR 5626 DAUGHTER OF THE WAVES JORDAN, RUTH THE AUTHOR TELLS OF HER GROWING UP IN ISRAEL DURING THE BRITISH MANDATE.
BR 5627 CHILDREN IN THE WIND GROHSKOPF, BERNICE LENORE PICKEL'S TWO HIGH-SCHOOL CHUMS MAKE FOR A LESSON IN FRIENDSHIP. ONE IS A DAUGHTER OF A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, THE OTHER'S FATHER, AN EX-NAZI.
BR 5628 FROM RENAISSANCE TO RENAISSANCE VOL. II. HEBREW LITERATURE IN THE SILBERSCHLAG, EISIG A LITERARY HISTORY OF ISRAEL SPANNING THE LATE 19TH CENTURY PALESTINE TO THE PRESENT-ITS WRITERS (BOTH MEN AND WOMEN), ITS LITERARY MOVEMENTS, ETC.
BR 5629 DOOR OF HOPE DIAMOND, JOSEPH S. DAVID AND HIS FAMILY ARE FORCED TO FLEE THEIR RUMANIAN TOWN TO FIND LIBERTY AND A NEW LIFE IN AMERICA.
BR 5630 BUSINESS ETHICS IN JEWISH LAW ZIPPERSTEIN, EDWARD THIS IS AN ANTHOLOGY OF MATERIAL FROM THE BIBLE, TALMUD, AND OTHER RABBINIC SOURCES PERTAINING TO THE CONDUCT OF BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL LAW.
BR 5631 TROTSKY AND THE JEWS NEDAVA, JOSEPH THE POLITICAL THEORIST'S LIFE AND CAREER AND REVIEWED AGAINST HIS JEWISH BACKGROUND, WHICH AT ONE TIME HE TRIED TO IGNORE.
BR 5633 WITH RAOUL WALLENBERG IN BUDAPEST ANGER, PER THIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF RAOUL WALLENBERG'S EFFORTS DURING WORLD WAR II WHICH RESULTED IN THE RESCUE OF 25,000 JEWS.
BR 5634 IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL OZ, AMOS OZ SHARES HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH JEWS AND ARABS LIVING IN ISRAEL ON A RANGE OF IDEOLOGICAL AND MORAL QUESTIONS.
BR 5635 HANNA AND WALTER A LOVE STORY KOHNER, HANNA & WALTER KOHNER THIS IS A TRUE STORY OF TWO YOUNG PEOPLE FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA, SEPARATED DURING WORLD WAR II, WHO WERE REUNITED AFTER THE WAR.
BR 5636 JEWISH EMERGENCE FROM POWERLESSNESS, THE BAUER, YEHUDA A DISCUSSION CONCERNING THE GRADUAL EMERGENCE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE LAST 100 YEARS FROM TOTAL POLITICAL POWERLESSNESS.
BR 5638 JEWISH TRAVEL GUIDE 1984 LIGHTMAN, SIDNEY EDITOR THIS BOOK CONTAINS UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ON KOSHER RESTAURANTS, SYNAGOGUES, HOTELS, PLACES OF HISTORIC INTEREST, ETC EVEN IN FAR EAST & SOVIET BLOC COUNTRIES.
BR 5640 DIARY OF MORDEKHAI BEN-YOSEF, THE WOLMAN, BENJAMIN SET IN ISRAEL, THIS NOVEL IN DIARY FORM FOLLOWS A BOY THROUGH HIS FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH YEARS.
BR 5641 PRECIOUS LEGACY, THE ALTSCHULER, DAVID, ED. THE SMITHSONIAN'S TRAVELING MUSEUM EXHIBIT OF THE RICHEST COLLECTION OF JUDAICA FROM EASTERN EUROPE IS CATALOGUED, ALONG WITH ESSAYS ON JEWISH LIFE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
BR 5642 FIFTH SON, THE WIESEL, ELIE A NOVEL ABOUT REUVEN TAMIROFF, A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR WHO WAS FORMERLY THE LEADER OF THE JEWISH COUNCIL IN A CONDEMNED CENTRAL EUROPEAN GHETTO. HIS AMERICAN-BORN SON GRADUALLY LEARNS OF THE BURIED EVENTS OF HIS FATHER'S LIFE.
BR 5643 BREAKTHROUGH A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE ISRAEL-E DAYAN, MOSHE THE LATE ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER'S VIEW OF THE STRATEGY FOR THE TREATY BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
BR 5644 MYSTERIES OF MOTION CALISHER, HORTENSE AT ONCE A WORK SPECIES OF SCIENCE FICTION AND A THOROUGHLY REALISTIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVEL, THIS IS PRIMARILY A MEDITATION UPON THE NATURE OF HEROISM.
BR 5645 IF I FORGET THEE SEGAL, BRENDA LESLEY THIS HISTORICAL NOVEL, SET IN THE TIME OF THE BAR KOKHBA REVOLT, CHRONICLES THE LIFE OF A JUDEAN WOMAN FROM CHILDHOOD TO MATURITY AS SHE PARTICIPATES IN THE GREAT HISTORICAL MOMENTS OF HER TIME.
BR 5646 VIENNA I KNEW, THE WECHSBERG, JOSEPH THE AUTHOR RECREATES HIS JEWISH MIDDLE-CLASS CHILDHOOD DURING THE PERIOD 1910-1925. HE RELATES THE GLITTERING DECADENCE OF A DYING WORLD.
BR 5648 MODERN JEWISH HISTORY ED. BY CHAZEN, R. & RAPHAEL, M. L. A SOURCE READER - CAREFULLY AND JUDICIOUSLY SELECTED FROM THE MOST IMPORTANT TEXTS AND COMMENTARIES, EACH WITH A BRIEF INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITORS.
BR 5649 HOLOCAUST IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, THE BAUER, YEHUDA IN THIS SERIES OF 4 FORCEFUL AND ELOQUENT ESSAYS, A NOTED HISTORIAN BRINGS THE CENTRAL ISSUES OF THE HOLOCAUST TO THE GENERAL READER.
BR 5650 WHERE HEAVEN AND EARTH TOUCH AN ANTHOLOGY OF MIDRASH AND HALACH SIEGEL, DANNY THIS ANTHOLOGY OF MIDRASHIC AND HALACHIC STORIES EMPHASIZES THE HUMANISM FOUND IN JUDAISM. CAN BE USED AS TEACHING MATERIAL FOR ALL AGES.
BR 5651 COLLECTED STORIES, THE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS HERE ARE 47 STORIES BY A MASTER YIDDISH WRITER. HIS THEMES ARE LUST, GREED, PRIDE, OBSESSION, MISFORTUNE, UNREASON, THE OCEANIC SURPRISES OF THE MIND'S UNDERSIDE.
BR 5652 MY PEOPLE ABBA EBAN'S HISTORY OF THE JEWS. V BAMBERGER, DAVID THIS IS ABBA EBAN'S HISTORY OF THE JEWS AS ADAPTED FOR A YOUNG AUDIENCE BY DAVID BAMBERGER.
BR 5653 UNDERSTANDING ISRAEL WORKBOOK SUGARMAN, MORRIS J. A COMPANION TO THE TEXTBOOK BY AMOS ELON, IT OFFERS REVIEW QUESTIONS AND PROBING EXERCISES WHICH CALL FOR THE STUDENT TO SYNTHESIZE WHAT IS BEING LEARNED.
BR 5656 BETWEEN RIGHT AND RIGHT YEHOSHUA, A.B. ESSAYS BY THE NOTED ISRAELI NOVELIST REASSESS THE ROLE OF CONTEMPORARY ZIONISM. HE ARGUES THE NECESSITY OF A JEWISH STATE AFTER THE HOLOCAUST, AND ALSO THE COMPLIMENTARY NECESSITY OF THE DIASPORA THAT SATISFIES THE JEWISH NEED TO FEEL DIFFERENT. YEHOSHUA CHIDES THE ISRAELIS FOR THEIR RELUCTANCE TO MAKE A REALISTIC PEACE.
BR 5657 KOSHER HUMOR RABINOWITZ, H.R. THESE ARE AUTHENTIC JEWISH STORIES THAT REVEAL THE JEWISH MENTAL APPROACH TO LIFE AND ITS PROBLEMS.
BR 5658 DREAMS DIE HARD HARRIS, DAVID THE PROTEGE OF THE LATE POLITICAL ACTIVIST ALLARD LOWENSTEIN HAS WRITTEN SOME BITTER RECOLLECTIONS ABOUT HIS MENTOR.
BR 5659 BETWEEN TWO WORLDS BRAND, SANDRA THE STORY OF 18-YEAR-OLD ROMA BRAND, DAUGHTER OF HASIDIC PARENTS, WHO SOUGHT EQUALITY IN A MAN'S WORLD. THE STORY IS SET AMID THE TURMOIL IN POLAND IN 1939.
BR 5660 LESSONS IN JEWISH LITERATURE COLODNER, DR. SOLOMON AN OUTLINE OF JEWISH LITERATURE FROM ITS EARLY BEGINNINGS TO MODERN TIMES.
BR 5662 CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES SIMON, RABBI RALPH A COLLECTION OF 35 SERMONS PREPARED BY THE SENIOR RABBI AT TEMPLE RODFEI ZEDEK IN CHICAGO. THE SERMONS CONSIST OF MESSAGES FOR THE HIGH HOLY DAY PERIOD.
BR 5663 JEWISH FAMILY CELEBRATIONS CARDOZA, ARLENE ROSSEN A DESCRIPTION OF ONE FAMILY'S OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH AND THE HOLY DAYS. THE AUTHOR HAS CAREFULLY RESEARCHED THE ORIGIN, DEVELOPMENT AND RITUALS OF THE HOLY DAYS.
BR 5664 GHETTO IN FLAMES THE STRUGGLE AND DESTRUCTION OF TH ARAD, YITZHAK DURING THE NAZI PERSECUTIONS, THE JEWS OF THE JERUSALEM OF LITHUANIA' ATTEMPTED TO FIGHT BACK, IN GHETTO AND IN FOREST
BR 5665 NINE ENTERED PARADISE ALIVE SIEGEL, DANNY A COLLECTION OF POEMS WHICH FOCUSES ON THE TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH OF JEWISH HISTORY.
BR 5666 MELTING POT, THE AN ADVENTURE IN NEW YORK CITY ROSEMAN, KENNETH THIS IS A 'DO IT YOURSELF' JEWISH ADVENTURE BOOK, SET IN THE LOWER EAST SIDE OF NEW YORK CITY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
BR 5667 AT THE MIND'S LIMITS AMERY, JEAN THESE 5 SOUL-SEARCHING AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS TELL OF SURVIVAL-MENTAL, MORAL AND PHYSICAL-THROUGH THE ENORMITY OF THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 5668 FRIARS AND THE JEWS, THE THE EVALUATION OF MEDIEVAL ANTI-SE COHEN, JEREMY HOW THE DOMINICANS AND THE FRANCISCANS, FROM THE TIME OF THEIR FOUNDING, OVERSAW ALL ANTI-SEMITIC ACTIVITIES OF THE CHURCH.
BR 5669 BEST DEFENSE, THE DERSHOWITZ, ALAN M. THE NOTED DEFENSE ATTORNEY, APPEALS LAWYER AND HARVARD LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR REVIEWS SOME OF HIS MOST PROVOCATIVE CASES AND SEEKS TO EXPOSE CORRUPTION OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND ITS PARTICIPANTS.
BR 5670 TEMPLE, THE GREENFIELD, ROBERT A FICTIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PAULIE BINDEL, A HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL DROPOUT, WHO MAY REJECT THE RITUALS, BUT DOES NOT BETRAY THE SOUL OF HIS JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 5671 ROSENBERG FILE, THE A SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH RADOSH, RONALD & JOYCE MILTON AN ANALYSIS OF THE JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG SPY CASE THAT REJECTS BOTH THE GOVERNMENT'S CHARGE OF THE SALE OF NUCLEAR SECRETS AND THE DEFENSE CLAIM OF COMPLETE INNOCENCE.
BR 5672 IN LIGHT OF GENESIS HADA, PAMELA WHITE FOUR WOMEN FROM THE BIBLE ARE EXAMINED FROM A JEWISH MYTHOLOGICAL, BIBLICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.
BR 5673 RAOUL WALLENBERG ANGEL OF RESCUE ROSENFELD, HARVEY THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE LEGENDARY SWEDISH DIPLOMAT WHO IS CREDITED WITH HAVING SAVED, SINGLEHANDEDLY, AS MANY AS 100,000 HUNGARIAN JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 5674 MIDNIGHT SUPPERS MONSKY, SUSAN SET IN AN ALABAMA JEWISH MILIEU, THIS FIRST NOVEL DEALS WITH THE LOVE TRIANGLE OF A JEWISH PEDIATRICIAN, HIS WIFE AND HIS PARTNER.
BR 5675 BRONX PRIMITIVE PORTRAITS IN A CHILDHOOD SIMON, KATE OBSERVATIONS ON THE STREETS, SCHOOLS AND HOUSES OF THE BRONX WHERE THE AUTHOR GREW UP.
BR 5676 MY OWN GROUND NISSENSON, HUGH A NOVEL ABOUT IMMIGRANT LIFE ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE IN THE EARLY 1900S.
BR 5677 TERRIBLE SECRET, THE LAQUEUR, WALTER LAQUEUR EXPLORES WHEN AND HOW THE OUTSIDE WORLD LEARNED ABOUT THE NAZI EXTERMINATION OF EUROPEAN JEWS, AND THE RESPONSES TO THIS KNOWLEDGE.
BR 5678 WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY OUR JEWISH FOREMOTHERS HENRY, SONDRA & EMILY TAITZ USING HISTORICAL REPORTS, LETTERS, AND OTHER DOCUMENTS, JEWISH WOMEN ARE REDISCOVERED IN HISTORY, PROVING, SAY THE AUTHORS, THAT THEIR PRESENCE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A VITAL FORCE IN THE PROGRESSION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 5679 SEARCH FOR PEACE TALAL, HASSAN BIN A GENTLE, THOUGHTFUL LOOK AT THE CURRENT POLITICAL CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST WHICH EMBODIES A POLITICAL VISION CHARACTERIZED BY DIGNITY AND REASON.
BR 5680 MIND-BODY PROBLEM, THE REBECCA GOLDSTEIN THE HEROINE RENEE FACES A CLASSIC DILEMMA OF THE HIGHLY EDUCATED FEMALE: SEX VERSUS CEREBRATION.
BR 5681 ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER THE STORY OF A STORYTELLER KRESH, PAUL THE LIFE OF THE WELL-KNOWN WRITER IS PRESENTED IN BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY FORM SIMPLIFIED FOR YOUNG ADULTS.
BR 5682 THERE IS ALWAYS TIME TO DIE STARKOPF, ADAM THE STORY OF A YOUNG CHILD WHO WAS SMUGGLED BY HER PARENTS OUT OF THE WARSAW GHETTO IN A COFFIN.
BR 5683 HERITAGE CIVILIZATION AND THE JEWS EBAN, ABBA THIS COMPANION VOLUME TO THE PUBLIC TELEVISION SERIES OF THE SAME NAME, TRACES OVER 4,000 YEARS OF JEWISH HISTORY.
BR 5684 MRS MOSKOWITZ & THE SABBATH CANDLESTICKS SCHWARTZ, AMY MRS. MOSKOWITZ NEEDS HER SABBATH CANDLESTICKS IN ORDER TO TRANSFORM HER NEW APARTMENT INTO A JEWISH HOME.
BR 5686 GENTLE CYNIC, A JASTROW, MORRIS A TRANSLATION OF ECCLESIASTES, WITH AN INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS.
BR 5687 ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE BIBLE MAGNUSSON, MAGNUS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE CULTURAL CONTEXT IN WHICH THE BIBLE WAS WRITTEN, BASED ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
BR 5688 MENDEL THE MOUSE FINKELSTEIN CLOSELY RELATED TO MICKEY OF MICKEY MOUSE FAME, MENDEL'S EXAMPLES HAVE GONE A LONG WAY IN TEACHING SHMIRAS HA'MITZVOS (KEEPING THE MITZVOS).
BR 5689 EVERYMAN'S TALMUD COHEN, A. AN EXAMINATION OF THE LITERARY LABOR OF NUMEROUS TALMUDIC SCHOLARS FOR A PERIOD OF SOME 700 YEARS.
BR 5690 PROFESSOR OF DESIRE, THE ROTH, PHILIP DAVID KEPESH, THE HERO IN PHILIP ROTH'S TENTH NOVEL, IS JEWISH AND UNHAPPY, ECHOING A THEME DEALT WITH BY ROTH IN PREVIOUS NOVELS.
BR 5691 TREASURY OF YIDDISH POETRY, A HOWE, IRVING & ELIEZER GREENBERG, ED A COLLECTION OF POEMS THAT PORTRAY JEWISH LIFE IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES. THE INTRODUCTION DISCUSSES THE DEVELOPMENT OF YIDDISH POETRY.
BR 5692 WOMEN IN THE KIBBUTZ TIGER, LIONEL & JOSEPH SHEPHER A STUDY OF THE KIBBUTZ SYSTEM IN ISRAEL AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN WHO LIVE AND WORK ON THE COLLECTIVE SETTLEMENTS. THE AUTHORS CONTEND THAT EVEN WITHIN THE KIBBUTZ, ROLES ARE DEFINED BY GENDER AND RESISTANT TO CHANGE.
BR 5694 THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A CHANUKA BUSH SUSSMAN, SUSAN A CHILDREN'S BOOK WHICH EXPRESSES THE GOOD FEELING OF BEING JEWISH.
BR 5695 AFTERGLOW CARESS, IRVING A COLLECTION OF LOVE POEMS.
BR 5696 DAUGHTERS OF CHUTZPAH HUMOROUS VERSE ON THE JEWISH WOMAN KRUGER, MOLLEE THIS BOOK OF HUMOROUS VERSE ON THE JEWISH WOMAN IS BY MOLLEE KRUGER, A COLUMNIST FOR NEW YORK'S 'JEWISH WEEK.'
BR 5697 ARARAT A COLLECTION OF HUNGARIAN-JEWISH S HANDLER, ANDREW TWENTY WORKS ILLUMINATE JEWISH LIFE IN THAT COUNTRY BETWEEN 1920 AND 1945.
BR 5698 STRANGERS IN PARADISE THE HOLLYWOOD EMIGRES 1933-1950 TAYLOR, JOHN RUSSELL THE STORY OF THE FILMMAKERS, WRITERS AND COMPOSERS WHO CAME TO HOLLYWOOD DURING HITLER'S RISE TO POWER.
BR 5700 ADMIRABLE WOMAN COHEN, ARTHUR A. HERBERT A. MORGENROTH A NOVEL ABOUT ERIKA HERTZ, BASED ON THE CHARACTER OF HANNAH ARENDT, ABOUT AN INTELLECTUAL WOMAN WHO IS A WRITER, PHILOSOPHER, AND HISTORIAN. ALTHOUGH ERIKA CLAIMS THAT HER INTELLECT IS CENTRAL, SHE ADMITS ON HER DEATHBED THAT HER LIFE WAS SHAPED BY PASSION.
BR 5701 FIRST FRUITS MICHENER, JAMES A., ED. A COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN SHORT STORIES BY ISRAELI AUTHORS, COMPILED AS A TRIBUTE TO ISRAEL ON ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY.
BR 5702 ISRAEL DIVIDED IDEOLOGICAL POLITICS IN THE JEWISH ISAAC, RAEL JEAN AN ASSESSMENT OF ISRAEL'S EXTREMIST MOVEMENTS.
BR 5703 YENNE VELT (THE OTHER WORLD) THE GREAT WORKS OF JEWISH FANTASY NEUGROSCHEL, JOACHIM, ED. A COLLECTION OF GREAT LITERARY WORKS OF JEWISH FANTASY AND OCCULT.
BR 5704 GOING HOME TULMAN, VICTOR DAVID A MEMOIR OF THE SON OF AN ORTHODOX RABBI IN PRE-WORLD WAR I HUNGARY WHO WAS SENT OUT INTO THE WORLD, AT THE AGE OF EIGHT TO MAKE HIS WAY AS A TALMUDIC SCHOLAR.
BR 5705 EVIL THAT MAN DO, THE HILL, R. LANCE AN ISRAELI COMMANDO TEAM ATTEMPTS TO ASSASSINATE THE TORTURE EXPERT KNOWN AS THE DOCTOR. THE TEAM IS LEAD BY TWO WHO HAVE SURVIVED HIS EVIL GENIUS.
BR 5706 JEWISH MIND, THE PATAI, RAPHAEL STUDY OF 6 HISTORIC ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN THE JEWS AND OTHER CULTURES OVER 2000 YEARS. EMPHASIZES MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT AND ATTITUDES.
BR 5707 RABBI'S LIFE CONTRACT, THE GREENBERG, MARILYN RABBI ROSENSTOCK IS ABOUT TO RETURN TO HIS CONGREGATION AFTER A SABBATICAL YEAR IN THE HOLY LAND, BUT THE CONGREGATION HAS ALREADY FOUND A YOUNGER REPLACEMENT.
BR 5708 MESSIAH TEXTS, THE PATAI, RAPHAEL A COMPILATION OF JEWISH TEXTS ON THE ADVENT OF THE MESSIAH, BEGINNING WITH THE BIBLE AND ENDING WITH THE MESSIANIC DREAMS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 5710 ZIONISM AND ISRAEL KORMAN, MICHAEL AN ACTIVITY BOOK FOR THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT OR OLDER, THIS BOOK EXAMINES THE HISTORICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THEIR ANCESTRAL HOMELAND.
BR 5711 ELIJAH'S VIOLIN AND OTHER JEWISH FAIRY TALES SCHWARTZ, HOWARD THIRTY-FOUR STORIES ABOUT KING, PRINCESSES, GOLDEN MOUNTAINS, ETC, TAKEN FROM FOLKLORE AND THE MIDRASH.
BR 5712 EAST RIVER ASCH, SHOLEM CHARLOTTE OS A NOVEL ABOUT TENEMENT LIFE ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 5713 WORLDLY GOODS KORDA, MICHAEL THE SON OF A HOLOCAUST VICTIM VOWS TO AVENGE HIS FATHER'S DEATH ON HIS UNCLE, THE HEAD OF AN INTERNATIONAL EMPIRE.
BR 5714 SPRING REMEMBERED A SCOTTISH JEWISH CHILDHOOD COWAN, EVELYN BERYL HERSHM IN THE GLASGOW GORBALS, A THEN NOTORIOUS SLUM, A SMALL COMMUNITY OF JEWISH IMMIGRANTS FLOURISHED AND MADE THEIR RICH CONTRIBUTION TO SCOTTISH CULTURE. COWAN SKETCHES THE RICHES OF JEWISH FAMILY LIFE EVEN IN POVERTY; THE SORROWS, JOYS AND RITUALS, THE COLORFUL NEIGHBORS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF AN 8-YEAR OLD TOMBOY.
BR 5715 UNCONQUERABLE SPIRIT, THE ZUKER, SIMON A COLLECTION OF VIGNETTES OF RELIGIOUS JEWS WHO WERE PUT TO THE ULTIMATE TEST, YET THE NAZIS COULD NOT DESTROY THEIR SPIRIT.
BR 5716 MEMOIRS IN PROFILE LIPSKY, LOUIS A PROFESSIONAL ZIONIST, THE AUTHOR'S LIFE WAS DEVOTED TO BUILDING A JEWISH STATE IN PALESTINE AND THE BUILDING OF A LEADERSHIP OF AMERICAN JEWISH INSTITUTIONS.
BR 5717 ON BEING A JEWISH FEMINIST A READER HESCHEL, SUSANNAH, ED. A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS WHICH REPRESENTS THE LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY VIEWS OF FEMINISTS WHO ARE TRYING TO STAY WITHIN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY.
BR 5719 EXILE OF THE WORD, THE FROM THE SILENCE OF THE BIBLE TO T NEHER, ANDRE THE AUTHOR REFLECTS ON THE THEME OF SILENCE AS THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING BOTH THE BIBLICAL CONFRONTATION BETWEEN GOD AND MAN AND GOD'S SEEMING INACTION AT AUSCHWITZ.
BR 5720 KEEPING POSTED-FEB. 1975 SAMUEL, EDITH: EDITED BY A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES ON THE PALESTINIANS, THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM,' AND THE VARIOUS GROUPS: THE (PLO, PFLP, ETC.) THAT CHAMPION THEIR CAUSE.
BR 5722 TIMELY TORAH TOPICS II BNAI BRITH INTERNATIONAL THIS BOOK PROVIDES READINGS FROM THE TORAH FOR GROUP DISCUSSIONS, BULLETINS AND THE FAMILY TABLE.
BR 5726 LAW OF RETURN, THE BLOCH, ALICE THIS NOVEL FOLLOWS THE EXPERIENCES OF A YOUNG WOMAN WHO MOVES TO ISRAEL IN THE SUMMER OF 1969.
BR 5727 CITY SCRIPTURES MODERN JEWISH WRITING BAUMGARTEN, MURRAY AN ANALYSIS OF THE COMMON BONDS OF JEWISH TRADITIONS IN THE WORKS OF JEWISH AUTHORS SUCH AS THE ISRAELI AMOS OZ AND THE AMERICAN CYNTHIA OZICK. THE AUTHOR ALSO TRACES THE INFLUENCE OF VARIOUS URBAN SETTINGS IN WHICH THESE WRITERS LIVE.
BR 5728 BEING BERNARD BERENSON AN INQUIRY SECREST, MERYLE A BIOGRAPHY FOCUSING ON ASPECTS OF THE ART CONNOISSEUR'S SELF-CONCEALED JEWISHNESS AND THE APPRAISALS AND INVESTMENTS DEPENDENT ON HIS ARTISTIC JUDGMENT.
BR 5734 MEDICAL ETHICS ZWERIN, RABBI R.A. & MARCUS, A.F. ANOTHER A.R.E. 'MINI COURSE,' WHICH DEALS WITH JEWISH SOURCES ON MAJOR CONTROVERSIES IN THE AREA OF EUTHANASIA, ORGAN TRANSPLANTS, ABORTION, ETC.
BR 5735 JEWS OF SPAIN MARCUS, A.F., WOLF, M., ZWERIN, RB R A 'MINI COURSE' DESIGNED FOR STUDENTS IN THE SEVENTH, EIGHTH AND NINTH GRADES, IT IS A BASIC INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY & CULTURE OF THE JEWS IN SPAIN.
BR 5736 DELIVERANCE IN SHANGHAI AGEL, JEROME; BOE, EUGENE THIS FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF EUROPEAN JEWS FINDING REFUGE FROM NAZISM IN SHANGHAI, CHINA IS BASED IN PART ON INTERVIEWS WITH SURVIVORS OF THE SHANGHAI GHETTO.
BR 5737 FEET OF THE MESSENGER, THE YEHOASH THIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF A TRIP BY THE AUTHOR TO PALESTINE, WHICH DIRECTED ATTENTION TO THE ANCIENT JEWISH HOMELAND.
BR 5738 SOMETHING HAPPENED HELLER, JOSEPH BETWEEN ANXIETIES BOTH IN THE OFFICE AND AT HOME, BOB SLOCUM, THE PROTAGONIST OF THE STORY CIRCLES AND RECIRCLES THE QUESTION OF WHAT WENT WRONG WITH HIS LIFE.
BR 5739 DAVITA'S HARP POTOK, CHAIM THE PROTAGONISTS OF POTOK'S NOVEL REJECT ORTHODOX JUDAISM FOR COMMUNISM. BUT IT IS THEIR AGNOSTICISM THAT ULTIMATELY DRIVES THEIR CHILDREN BACK TO ORTHODOXY.
BR 5740 FAITH AND COURAGE AND OTHER STORIES LEHMANN, MARCUS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN 19TH CENTURY GERMANY EACH OF THESE STORIES IS A REALISTIC DEPICTION OF THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL FORCES IN JEWISH HISTORY.
BR 5741 IN GRANDPA'S HOUSE SENDAK, PHILIP A DREAMLIKE COLLECTION OF LEGENDS SET IN A POLISH-JEWISH SHTETL.
BR 5742 LITTLE BIT MARRIED, A PARENT, GAIL A WRY NOVEL AND REAL PAGE TURNER ABOUT THE WEISSMAN FAMILY WHO IS FACING A DIFFICULT SUMMER. THE BOOK INCLUDES EXPLICIT SEXUAL DESCRIPTIONS.
BR 5743 RELIGION FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES HECHT, FAE THIS IS A COLLECTION OF HUMAN INTEREST STORIES.
BR 5745 SHAKE A PALM BRANCH CHAIKIN, MIRIAM CHAIKIN EXPLAINS THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF SUKKOT AND PRESENTS SUKKOT CUSTOMS OF THE UNITED STATES.
BR 5746 MUSICAL VARIATIONS ON JEWISH THOUGHT D'ALLONES, OLIVIER REVAULT A PROFESSOR OF AESTHETICS ANALYZES ELOHIM AND YAHWEH AS 'NOMADIC AND SEDENTARY' GODS, AND LOOKS AT JEWISH TRAITS IN MUSICAL, RATHER THAN HISTORICAL, TERMS.
BR 5747 SHABBAT CATALOGUE, THE BRIN, RUTH F. ANECDOTES AND EXPLANATIONS, PRAYERS AND SONGS, PROJECTS AND RECIPES, ALL DEVOTED TO THE SABBATH AND DESIGNED TO ADD NEW DIMENSIONS OF MEANING TO THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK.
BR 5748 GOOD IF IT GOES PROVOST, G. & LEVINE-FREIDUS, G. FUNNY, FAST-TALKING SPORTS-WHIZ DAVID NEWMAN HAS BEEN ASKED BY HIS PARENTS TO MOVE HIS BAR MITZVAH UP 4 MONTHS BECAUSE HIS BELOVED GRANDFATHER MAY NOT LIVE TO SEE IT.
BR 5749 LOUIS D. BRANDEIS JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE STRUM, PHILIPPA STRUM CHRONICLES THE LIFE AND THOUGHT OF LOUIS BRANDEIS, WHO WAS SUPREME COURT JUSTICE FROM 1916 TO 1939.
BR 5750 FRIENDS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX DAVIDSON, SARA STORY OF A DIVORCED FILMMAKER AND THE RELATIONSHIP SHE HAS WITH A COLLEAGUE, BOTH PROFESSIONALLY AND EMOTIONALLY.
BR 5751 WHERE MOUNTAINS ROAR A PERSONAL REPORT FROM THE SINAI A HAZLETON, LESLEY HERB L. MORG ONE OF THE FEW GREAT BOOKS WITH THE DESERT AS SUBJECT. A 'REPORT' BY AN ACCOMPLISHED, ACUTELY OBSERVANT, ADVENTUROUS JOURNALIST, KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT HISTORY, BIOLOGY, GEOLOGY, ARCHEOLOGY. DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES CONVEY CRYSTALLINE IMAGES. THE WRITER'S EXPLORATION OF THE DESERT IS AT THE SAME TIME AN INNER JOURNEY.
BR 5752 CHILDREN'S TREASURY OF CHASIDIC TALES, A ADLER, DAVID A. THIS IS A FASCINATING COLLECTION OF STORIES OF THE CHASIDIM OF EASTERN EUROPE.
BR 5753 UNLOCKED DOORS SELECTED POEMS SIEGEL, DANNY A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS AND POETRY ON TOPICS INCLUDING ISRAEL, EASTERN EUROPE, LOVE, LIFE AS A JEW TODAY AND PSALMS.
BR 5755 BELARUS SECRET, THE LOFTUS, JOHN HOW THE U. S. STATE DEPARTMENT SECRETLY RECRUITED FORMER SS MEMBERS FOR GUERILLA WARFARE IN THE SOVIET UNION.
BR 5756 SOUND OF DREAMS, THE WEISS, HERMAN THIS LOVE STORY BETWEEN JOURNALIST RICK BARON AND ELEANORA, AN ITALIAN GIRL, IS TRACED THROUGH THEIR FIRST MEETING IN ROME IN 1944 UP TO THEIR RECONCILIATION IN ITALY SOME THIRTY YEARS LATER.
BR 5757 CANNIBAL GALAXY, THE OZICK, CYNTHIA FRENCH HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR JOSEPH BRILL IDOLIZES HIS SCHOOL, HIS LOVE AND HIMSELF, AND IDOLATRY CANNOT GO UNPUNISHED.
BR 5758 LEAD PENCIL STORIES AND SKTECHES BOTWINIK, BERL THESE 20 SHORT STORIES AND SKETCHES DEPICT THE JEWISH IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY. BOTWINIK WAS A WRITER FOR 'THE JEWISH DAILY FORWARD.'
BR 5759 ARE WE ALL NAZIS? ASHKENASY, HANS A CHALLENGING AND CONTROVERSIAL THESIS CONCERNING THE NAZIS WHO ORGANIZED AND CARRIED OUT THE MURDER OF MILLIONS OF JEWS.
BR 5760 LOVE, SEX, DEATH AND THE MEANING OF LIFE HIRSCH, FOSTER LEE SAMELSON THE STORY OF WOODY ALLEN'S CAREER, FROM GAG WRITER AND STAND-UP COMIC TO FILM DIRECTOR AND STAR. HIS WORK, AS REVEALED BY AN ANALYSIS OF HIS MAJOR PRODUCTIONS, IS A SYNTHESIS OF TECHNIQUES BORROWED FROM EARLIER ARTISTS, ROOTED IN THE TRADITION OF URBAN JEWISH WRITING.
BR 5761 ANGELS SIEGEL, DANNY THE INTRIGUING THOUGHTS AND MUSINGS OF A YOUNG JEWISH POET, WRITER, THINKER AND CHARITY COLLECTOR, WHICH HAVE APPEARED IN DIVERSE JEWISH PERIODICALS, ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER IN ONE BOOK.
BR 5762 ELIE HALEVY AN INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY CHASE, MYRNA A STUDY OF THE 20TH CENTURY HISTORIAN AND HIS VIEWS ON LIBERTY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS.
BR 5763 VENGEANCE THE TRUE STORY OF AN ISRAELI COUNT JONAS, GEORGE THE INSIDE STORY OF A SERIES OF MURDERS COMMITTED BY AGENTS OF THE ISRAELI SECRET SERVICE IN REVENGE FOR THE SLAUGHTER OF 11 ISRAELI ATHLETES AT THE MUNICH OLYMPICS IN 1972.
BR 5764 BODY, THE BEN-SAPIR, RICHARD HAS DR. SHARON GOLBAN, AN ISRAELI ARCHAEOLOGIST, FOUND THE BODY OF JESUS AND, IN SO DOING, DISPROVED THE RESURRECTION AND TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF CHRISTIAN BELIEF? THAT IS WHAT FATHER JIM FOLAN HAS BEEN ASSIGNED BY THE POPE TO FIND OUT. A FAST-PACED, INTELLIGENT SUSPENSE STORY.
BR 5765 NONE IS TOO MANY ABELLA, IRVING; TROPER, HAROLD THE STORY OF CANADA AND JEWISH IMMIGRATION DURING THE HOLOCAUST. USUALLY CONSIDERED TOLERANT AND UNBIGOTED, CANADA, THEN UNDERPOPULATED, ADMITTED LESS THAN 5,000 JEWS BETWEEN 1933-1945, THE LEAST OF ANY WESTERN NATION.
BR 5766 KEPLER BANVILLE, JOHN BASED ON 'STANDARD BIOGRAPHIES' OF THE SCIENTIST, EACH OF KEPLER'S DISCOVERIES IS CHARGED WITH THE SUBLIMITY AND POETRY THAT THEY HELD FOR THE ASTRONOMER HIMSELF.
BR 5767 BOOK OF JEWISH CONCEPTS, A BIRNBAUM, PHILIP A STUDY OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES, THEMES, AND PRACTICES OF JUDAISM WRITTEN BY AN ORTHODOX SCHOLAR.
BR 5768 FROM RENAISSANCE TO RENAISSANCE - VOL. I SILBERSCHLAG, EISIG HEBREW LITERATURE FROM 1492-1870. IN HIGHLY READABLE PROSE THE AUTHOR OFFERS EVIDENCE OF THE MODERNIZING OF HEBREW LITERATURE AFTER THE JEWS' EXPULSION FROM SPAIN IN 1492.
BR 5769 SUICIDE MURDERS, THE ENGEL, HOWARD THIS MYSTERY FOLLOWS A JEWISH PRIVATE DETECTIVE AS HE TRIES TO PROVE THAT A SUPPOSED SUICIDE WAS ACTUALLY A MURDER.
BR 5770 ANCIENT EVENINGS MAILER, NORMAN MAILER'S CHARACTERS WHO, THOUGH MEANT TO BE PERCEIVED AS EXHILARATINGLY FREE-SPIRITED, STAND FORTH INSTEAD AS LUDICROUS BLENDS OF MEL BROOKS AND THE MARQUIS DE SADE.
BR 5771 CHAINS, THE GREEN, GERALD A SAGA OF THREE GENERATIONS OF A BRAWLING, SEMI-CRIMINAL BROOKLYN JEWISH FAMILY.
BR 5772 COLD RAIN ON THE WATER BLUE, ROSE THE STORY OF A SENSITIVE TEENAGER AND HIS IMPRESSIONS OF HIS FAMILY'S RESETTLEMENT IN AMERICA FROM SOVIET RUSSIA.
BR 5773 TAKING SIDES AMERICA'S SECRET RELATIONS WITH A GREEN, STEPHEN DRAWING ON RECENTLY DECLASSIFIED GOVERNMENT PAPERS, THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT THE U.S. AND ISRAEL HAVE BEEN `COVERT' SECURITY ALLIES SINCE THE 1960'S WHEN A MAJOR POLICY SHIFT OCCURRED UNDER PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
BR 5774 LOVE DESPITE HATE CHILD SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST A MOSKOVITZ, SARAH MANY CHILD SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST WHO FOUND SHELTER IN ENGLAND WERE SENT TO LINGFIELD HOUSE WHERE ALICE GOLDBERGER, A GERMAN REFUGEE AND A PSYCHOANALYST, BECAME THEIR SUPERVISOR AND FRIEND. THE AUTHOR EXAMINES HOW, WITH GOLDBERGER'S HELP, THESE CHILDREN SURVIVED THEIR EXPERIENCES.
BR 5775 CONVERSATIONS WITH ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS & RICHARD BUR IN A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS, SINGER, THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR, TALKS ABOUT EVERYTHING FROM SEX AND LOVE TO GOD AND LITERATURE.
BR 5777 CECIL ROTH HISTORIAN WITHOUT TEARS ROTH, IRENE THE SUBJECT'S WIDOW REMINISCES ABOUT THEIR LIFE AT OXFORD AS INTELLECTUALS AND FRIENDS OF THE PROMINENT.
BR 5778 THIS PROMISED LAND GOLDREICH, GLORIA THIS IS A NOVEL OF THE BIRTH OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND THE JOYS AND STRUGGLES OF THE EARLY SETTLERS (CIRCA 1888-1922).
BR 5780 ABANDONMENT OF THE JEWS AMERICA AND THE HOLOCAUST, 1941-19 WYMAN, DAVID A DOCUMENTED STUDY OF AMERICA'S RESPONSE TO THE NAZI ASSAULT ON EUROPEAN JEWRY.
BR 5781 MARGIN OF HOPE, A HOWE, IRVING HOWE'S MEMOIR EXPLORES A RANGE OF TOPICS, INCLUDING LITERARY INFLUENCES AND RADICALISM FROM THE 1930S TO THE TIME OF THE PUBLICATION OF THIS BOOK IN 1982.
BR 5782 PASSING THROUGH HAVANA ROSSHANDLER, FELICIA A FICTIONAL MEMOIR OF A JEWISH CHILD, FLEEING NAZI GERMANY FOR CUBA. THIS IS A SENSITIVE PORTRAYAL OF A GIRL'S GROWTH TO ADULTHOOD UNDER THE MOST EXTREME CIRCUMSTANCES.
BR 5783 GYM SHOES AND IRISES SIEGEL, DANNY SIEGEL USES EXAMPLES TO ILLUSTRATE THE CONCEPT OF CHARITY.
BR 5785 BERTOLD BRECHT IN AMERICA LYON, JAMES K. WHEN HE ARRIVED IN HOLLYWOOD IN 1941 IN FLIGHT FROM NAZISM, BRECHT ADULATED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BUT LAMENTED THEIR GOVERNMENT. HIS REVOLUTIONARY EPIC THEATRE PIONEERED A NEW MOVEMENT IN PERFORMANCE ART. PROFESSOR LYON HAS DRAWN ON THOUSANDS OF HITHERTO UNAVAILABLE LETTERS, FBI DOCUMENTS AND INTERVIEWS
BR 5786 SILENT SHOFAR, THE HUBNER, CAROL KORB IN THIS, THE FIFTH IN THE SERIES OF DEVORA DORESH BOOKS, DEVORA ONCE AGAIN USES HER YESHIVA EDUCATION TO SOLVE MYSTERIES.
BR 5787 GREAT JEWS IN SPORTS SLATER, ROBERT AN INTERNATIONAL GALAXY OF NOTED JEWS IN SPORTS INCLUDING MANY ELECTED TO THE JEWISH HALL OF FAME IN ISRAEL. SKETCHES OF 'NEAR GREATS' AND ISRAELI SPORTS FIGURES ARE ALSO INCLUDED.
BR 5788 JEWISH FAMILY BOOK, THE STRASSFELD, SHARON AND GREEN, KATHY ESSAYS ON RELATED TOPICS, AIMED SPECIFICALLY AT THE JEWISH PARENT. THEY INCLUDE WAYS IN WHICH TO DEAL WITH CHILDREN.
BR 5790 LIVES OF THE POETS DOCTOROW, E.L. EACH OF THESE SIX SHORT STORIES AND A NOVELLA DEAL WITH A DIFFERENT ASPECT OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR.
BR 5791 TALK TO G-D...I'LL GET THE MESSAGE GELLER, NORMAN THIS WORK OFFERS AN APPROACH TO EASING A YOUNG PERSON'S SORROW BEFORE OR AFTER THE LOSS OF A RELATIVE OR FRIEND.
BR 5792 CRESCENT CITY PLAIN, BELVA THIS NOVEL DEPICTS 19TH-CENTURY NEW ORLEANS THROUGH THE EYES OF A YOUNG JEWISH WOMAN UPROOTED FROM HER NATIVE GERMANY.
BR 5794 PARACHUTISTS, THE KLEIN, ED A WORLD WAR II THRILLER INVOLVING AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST EICHMANN AND THE RESCUING OF HUNGARIAN JEWS.
BR 5796 ACTS OF FAITH ROSS, DAN FROM TURKEY TO CHINA, FROM INDIA TO ETHIOPIA, THERE ARE COMMUNITIES OF PEOPLE WHO THINK OF THEMSELVES AS JEWS. ARE THEY RIGHT? WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE JEWISH? WITHOUT A COMMON LANGUAGE, WITHOUT A COMMON COUNTRY, WITHOUT EVEN A COMMON RELIGION, THEY SHARE A SINGLE ACT OF FAITH: THEY ARE JEWS.
BR 5797 UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES KLUGER, RICHARD A WOULD-BE WRITER AT HARVARD IN THE 1920'S IS INTRODUCED TO THE LEADING INTELLECTUALS OF THE TIME BY THE GIRL HE LOVES.
BR 5798 NAZI HUNTING LYTTLE, RICHARD B. FOR AGES TEN TO FIFTEEN, THIS BOOK PRESENTS THE ONGOING SEARCH FOR NAZI WAR CRIMINALS AND EFFORTS TO BRING THEM TO TRIAL. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE HOLOCAUST IS INCLUDED.
BR 5799 HIM WITH HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH BELLOW, SAUL FIVE STORIES BY THE NOTED AMERICAN-JEWISH WRITER. MOST FEATURE THE SAME TYPE OF PROTAGONIST, A JEWISH INTELLECTUAL AND LOVER OF THE ARTS FROM A TOUGH IMMIGRANT BACKGROUND. THE NARRATIVE DEALS WITH UNIVERSALS, AND SHEDS LIGHT ON SUCH QUESTIONS AS THE 'PROFOUND PHILOSOPHICAL DISSONANCE OF MODERN LIFE.'
BR 5800 SIMPLE TRUTHS LEVIN, SHEILA THE DAUGHTER OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, CAUGHT BETWEEN A LIFE-NEGATING MARRIAGE TO ONE MAN AND SEXUALLY OBSESSED WITH ANOTHER, IS CLOSE TO GIVING UP.
BR 5801 I LEARN ABOUT GOD BOGOT, H. I. & SYME, D. B. THROUGH THE EVERYDAY EVENTS AND FEELINGS OF CHILDHOOD, PRESCHOOL CHILDREN ARE INTRODUCED TO THE JEWISH CONCEPT OF G-D. AN EXCELLENT CHILD'S FIRST BOOK ON THEOLOGY.
BR 5802 LOST IN THE ZOO EREV SHABBOS DEVORAH LEAH TWO SMALL CHILDREN ARE LOST IN THE ZOO EREV SHABBOS (SABBATH EVE). A NUMBER OF HUMOROUS ANIMALS HELP THEM FIND THEIR WAY HOME IN TIME TO GREET THE SABBATH. WRITTEN IN RHYME.
BR 5803 VOICE FROM THE FOREST, A KOHN, NAHUM & ROITER, HOWARD THE MEMOIRS OF A JEWISH PARTISAN, NAHUM KOHN, WHO AFTER HIS NUMEROUS ADVENTURES AND ESCAPES FINALLY JOINED THE DETACHMENT OF THE FAMOUS SOVIET PARTISAN, MEDVEDEV.
BR 5804 KARPOV'S BRAIN GREEN, GERALD A KGB AGENT HAS DRASTIC BRAIN SURGERY WHICH RESULTS IN MODIFIED PERCEPTIONS OF GOOD AND EVIL SO THAT HE EXHIBITS GOOD WILL, INSTEAD OF HOSTILITY, TOWARD JEWS.
BR 5805 MODERN ISRAELI DRAMA JOSEPH, HERBERT S. SIX PLAYS BY NEW ISRAELI PLAYWRIGHTS INCLUDING MEGGED, BAR YOSEF AND SHAMIR SHOW HOW MODERN ISRAELI DRAMATISTS DEAL WITH QUESTIONS OF JEWISH IDENTITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION.
BR 5806 MAKE ME A HERO BROOKS, JEROME A JEWISH BOY ON THE EVE OF HIS BAR MITZVAH LEARNS THE TRUE MEANING OF HEROISM WHILE TRYING TO FIGHT OFF NEIGHBORHOOD BULLIES.
BR 5807 BUTCHER OF LYON, THE THE STORY OF THE INFAMOUS NAZI-KLA MURPHY, BRENDAN AN ACCOUNT OF THE GESTAPO OFFICER WHO WORKED IN FRANCE AND WAS LATER SMUGGLED INTO BOLIVIA BY THE U.S.
BR 5808 TRIAL OF GOD, THE A PLAY IN THREE ACTS WIESEL, ELIE A DRAMA WHICH UNFOLDS ON PURIM EVE IN 1649, AS THREE PURIM PLAYERS WANDER INTO A VILLAGE WHOSE ONLY JEWISH INHABITANTS ARE TWO SURVIVORS OF A DEVASTATING POGROM. THE PLAYERS AGREE TO STAGE A MOCK TRIAL WITH GOD AS DEFENDANT, HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATROCITIES INFLICTED ON THE JEWS.
BR 5809 PARTISAN, THE ARAD, YITZHAK THE AUTHOR TRACES HIS PROGRESS FROM THE MISERY OF THE GHETTO THROUGH THE ATROCITIES OF THE NAZI TERROR AND HIS ODYSSEY AS A JEWISH PARTISAN, AND HIS EMERGENCE AS A FREEDOM FIGHTER IN PALESTINE.
BR 5810 MAREK AND LISA KARMEL-WOLFE, HENIA THIS NOVEL FOLLOWS THE RELATIONSHIP OF TWO YOUNG PEOPLE WHO FALL IN LOVE IN NAZI OCCUPIED POLAND. THEY'RE DEPORTED TO DIFFERENT LABOR CAMPS AND FIND EACH OTHER AT THE END OF THE WAR.
BR 5811 INVISIBLE MENDING BUSCH, FREDERICK ZIMMER, THE PROTAGONIST AND NARRATOR OF THIS NOVEL, IS DRAWN BY AN EARLY LOVE INTO THE PURSUIT OF A BLIND LIBRARY PATRON SUSPECTED OF BEING A ROMANIAN NAZI WAR CRIMINAL. IN THE COURSE OF THE NOVEL ZIMMER COMES TO CONFRONT HIS ISOLATION FROM HIS JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 5813 ISRAEL IN THE MIDDLE EAST RABINOVICH, ITAMAR & REINHARZ, YEHUD FOR THE FIRST TIME THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PUBLIC IS PROVIDED WITH CONVENIENT ACCESS TO THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DOCUMENTS OF ISRAEL'S DOMESTIC & FOREIGN POLICIES FROM 1948-PRESENT.
BR 5814 ON THE THIRD DAY DELAHAYE, MICHAEL A THRILLER ABOUT AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST WHO DISCOVERS THAT THE ISRAELIS HAVE UNEARTHED A CRUCIFIED SKELETON WHICH MAY BE THAT OF JESUS.
BR 5815 NEW COVENANT, THE GIRGUS, SAM B. THIS STUDY EXPLORES HOW JEWISH WRITERS AND THINKERS HAVE ESTABLISHED A 'NEW COVENANT' WITH AMERICA, AND CHALLENGED IT TO LIVE UP TO ITS IDEALS.
BR 5816 GOLEM, THE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER RETELLS THE LEGEND OF THE GOLEM, THE CLAY GIANT WHO AIDED THE JEWS IN THEIR TIME OF NEED. THE STORY IS SET IN THE OLD PICTURESQUE CITY OF PRAGUE, IN THE TIME WHEN THE GREAT KABBALIST RABBI LOEW (THE MAHARAL) WAS CHIEF RABBI.
BR 5817 HEBREW SCRIPTURES, THE AN INTRODUCTION TO THEIR LITERATUR SANDMEL, SAMUEL THIS BOOK DRAWS ON TECHNIQUES OF MODERN SCHOLARSHIP AS WELL AS HISTORICAL, LITERARY, AND LINGUISTIC METHODS TO STUDY THE BIBLE.
BR 5818 IT'S NOT THE JEWISH CHRISTMAS GELLER, NORMAN THIS STORY INVOLVES TWO BOYS, ONE JEWISH AND ONE CHRISTIAN, WHO EXPLORE THE MEANINGS AND PRACTICES OF CHANUKAH AND CHRISTMAS.
BR 5819 BLOOD OF ABRAHAM, THE CARTER, JIMMY THIS BOOK WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1985. IT PRESENTS FORMER UNITED STATES PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER'S ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND HIS IDEAS FOR THEIR RESOLUTION.
BR 5821 BEWARE OF PITY ZWEIG, STEFAN A STORY OF HUMAN EMOTIONS CONSTRAINED BY AN AGE OF MANNERS AND MORALS.
BR 5822 ANNE'S YOUTH GLADSTONE, FRANCES A FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF A YOUNG GIRL GROWING UP IN NEW YORK CITY TENEMENTS IN A LOWER-CLASS JEWISH COMMUNITY, EXPLORING NEW IDEAS AND NEW RELATIONS WITH HER PEERS.
BR 5823 IT'S ALL FISH SMITH, PAULA & SEAMAN, DOROTHY THE FIRST 'ALL FISH' KOSHER COOKBOOK, WITH RECIPES FOR EVERYTHING FROM ENTREES TO MAIN MEALS AND FROM BASIC TO GOURMET.
BR 5825 FROM MOSCOW TO MAIN STREET AMONG THE RUSSIAN EMIGRES RIPP, VICTOR THIS WORK LOOKS AT RUSSIAN EMIGRES TO THE UNITED STATES AT THE TIME OF THE BOOK'S PUBLICATION IN 1984.
BR 5826 TALE OF THE RING, THE A KADDISH STIFFEL, FRANK FROM THE WARSAW GHETTO TO TREBLINKA TO AUSCHWITZ, STIFFEL BEARS WITNESS TO THE HUMAN CAPACITY TO SURVIVE THE MOST ADVERSE SITUATIONS.
BR 5827 COMING OUT OF THE ICE HERMAN, VICTOR A SIMPLY WRITTEN BUT ELOQUENT STORY OF ONE AMERICAN'S INVINCIBILITY IN THE FACE OF UNEXPLAINED SOVIET IMPRISONMENT AND 18 YEARS OF HARD LABOR IN SIBERIA.
BR 5828 LOVE OF ELSPETH BAKER, THE KAUFMAN, MYRON S. THE STORY OF A STRONGWILLED YOUNG HEROINE WITH A PASSIONATE BELIEF IN A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO BE THE MISTRESS OF HER FATE.
BR 5830 BACK TO THE SOURCES READING THE CLASSIC JEWISH TEXTS HOLTZ, BARRY W. A NON-ACADEMIC GUIDE TO THE CLASSIC JEWISH TEXTS WHICH INCLUDES HIGHLY SPECIALIZED ESSAYS.
BR 5831 PURIM GREENFIELD, HOWARD THIS IS THE STORY OF PURIM WITH ITS COLORFUL HISTORY AND TRADITIONS.
BR 5832 BEST OF OLOMEINU, THE. BOOK 6 SUKKOT AND OTHER STORIES FRUCHTER, RABBI YAAKOV AN ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES TAKEN STRAIGHT FROM THE PAGES OF THE CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE, 'OLOMEINU - OUR WORLD'.
BR 5833 FIELDS OF OFFERINGS SANUA, VICTOR: EDITED BY THIS IS A FASCINATING JUBILEE VOLUME IN HONOR OF THE NOTED ACADEMICIAN RAPHAEL PATAI. AMONG THE SUBJECTS INCLUDED ARE THOSE ON ANTHROPOLOGY, ZIONISM, ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST, ETC.
BR 5834 INDECENT EXPOSURE MCCLINTOCK, DAVID A TALE OF A MACHIAVELLIAN BATTLE FOR CONTROL OF A CORPORATION'S DESTINY, STARTING WITH AN EMBEZZLEMENT.
BR 5836 ROOMS OF THE SOUL SCHWARTZ, HOWARD SCHWARTZ HAS COLLECTED TALES OF THE HASIDIM OF BUCZACZ, SET IN 19TH CENTURY POLAND.
BR 5837 LEVINE WESTLAKE, DONALD E. A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, CHRONICLING THE LIFE AND WORK OF ABE LEVINE, A BROOKLYN POLICE DETECTIVE.
BR 5838 ON EQUAL TERMS JEWS IN AMERICA 1881-1981 DAVIDOWICZ, LUCY S. THIS FAMOUS HOLOCAUST WRITER TELLS OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS AND HARDSHIPS OF THE PAST CENTURY.
BR 5840 DOUBLE VISION HOW AMERICA'S PRESS DISTORTS OUR V CHAFETS, ZE'EV THE FORMER HEAD OF ISRAEL'S GOVERNMENT PRESS OFFICE GIVES AN ANALYSIS OF U.S. PRESS COVERAGE OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND RAISES SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT ITS ACCURACY, ESPECIALLY IN REPORTS ABOUT ISRAEL.
BR 5841 REST OF US, THE BIRMINGHAM, STEPHEN THIS IS A HISTORY, WRITTEN IN NARRATIVE STYLE, OF THE IMMIGRATION OF EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWS TO THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN 1882 AND 1915.
BR 5842 LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL, THE LE CARRE, JOHN AN ACTION-PACKED SPY THRILLER SET IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
BR 5843 SECRET SPINNER, THE TALES OF RAV GEDALIA CUSHNIR, HOWARD RABBINIC WISDOM AND COMPUTER-AGE TECHNOLOGY CREATE A BOND BETWEEN A LEARNED SAGE AND HIS SUBURBAN DAY-SCHOOL PUPILS.
BR 5845 HITLER'S WAR AGAINST THE JEWS DAWIDOWICZ, LUCY S. ADAPTED BY DAVID A YOUNG READER'S VERSION OF 'THE WAR AGAINST THE JEWS: 1933-1945'.
BR 5846 DRY TEARS TEC, NECHAMA THE AUTHOR RECOUNTS HER JEWISH FAMILY'S EXPERIENCES OF POSING AS CHRISTIANS IN POLAND DURING WORLD WAR II.
BR 5847 DURING CEASEFIRE BEN-TOV, SHARONA THIS IS A VARIETY OF POETRY MODES, AN EXPLORATORY FIRST COLLECTION WHICH ANSWERS THE QUESTION 'WHY NOT?' INSTEAD OF 'I MUST'.
BR 5848 SIDNEY REILLY THE TRUE STORY OF THE WORLD'S GREA KETTLE, MICHAEL THE STORY OF SIGMUND GEORGIEVICH ROSENBLUM AKA SIDNEY REILLY, AN EXPERT ON THE RUSSIAN ARMED FORCES WHO BECAME A RUSSIAN SPY FOR THE BRITISH SECRET SERVICE. INCLUDES SPECULATION BY THE AUTHOR AS TO REILLY'S FATE AFTER HIS CAPTURE BY THE RUSSIANS.
BR 5849 BEST OF OLOMEINU, THE. BOOK V PESACH AND OTHER STORIES FRUCHTER, RABBI YAAKOV, ED. THIS IS AN ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES TAKEN STRAIGHT FROM THE PAGES OF 'OLOMEINU' (OUR WORLD) MAGAZINE. INCLUDED ARE STORIES ABOUT PESACH.
BR 5850 GERMANS AND JEWS MOSSE, GEORGE L. A SERIES OF ESSAYS ANALYZE THE GROWTH OF GERMAN NATIONALISM FROM THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY UNTIL WWII SHOWING HOW STEREOTYPES, PARTICULARLY JEWISH FED INTO THE MOVEMENT.
BR 5853 EVE THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA PHILLIPS, J. A. PHILLIPS HAS COMPILED VISIONS OF EVE FROM RABBIS, CHURCH FATHERS, PROTESTANT REFORMERS, POETS AND PAINTERS.
BR 5854 ODYSSEY BIERMAN, JOHN BIERMAN FOLLOWS 500 JEWS WHO SET OFF FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN 1940 ON WHAT WOULD BECOME A FOUR YEAR JOURNEY TO REACH PALESTINE.
BR 5856 WORLD IS A ROOM, THE AMICHAI, YEHUDA THESE TEN SHORT STORIES BY THE ISRAELI POET FOCUS ON RELATIONSHIPS AND MEANING.
BR 5857 SOMEDAY THE RABBI WILL LEAVE KEMELMAN, HARRY RABBI DAVID SMALL IS CONFRONTED WITH A CRIME WHICH HE SOLVES WITH HIS EXPERTISE IN JEWISH LAW. PART OF KEMELMAN'S SERIES OF 'RABBI' MYSTERIES.
BR 5858 UNORTHODOX BOOK OF JEWISH RECORDS AND LISTS, THE GOULD, ALLAN & DANNY SIEGEL A SORT OF JEWISH 'RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT', THIS BOOK IS A COMPILATION OF RECORDS AND LISTS OF JEWISH ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND IDIOSYNCRASIES.
BR 5859 QUIET NEIGHBORS PROSECUTING NAZI WAR CRIMINALS IN RYAN, ALLAN, JR. THE STORY OF THE PROSECUTION OF NAZI WAR CRIMINALS LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES BY A SMALL OFFICE IN THE U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 40 YEARS AFTER WORLD WAR II.
BR 5860 CONSTANT REMINDER, A CHARCHAT, ISAAC THIS ACTION-PACKED NOVEL FOCUSES ON THE MOVEMENT OF JEWS TO ISRAEL. IT PRESENTS THE FACTS OF HISTORY THROUGH THE VITALITY OF ITS CHARACTERS.
BR 5861 CERTAIN PEOPLE, A AMERICAN JEWS AND THEIR LIVES TODA SILBERMAN, CHARLES S. THE AUTHOR EXAMINES JEWISH LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 5862 DANCING BEAR BERMANT, CHAIM A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN CHRONICLE OF ONE MAN'S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY. HE HAS NO REASON TO QUESTION HIS LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HIS ORIGINS UNTIL HIS WIFE CLAIMS HE IS A JEW.
BR 5863 ZIONIST DREAM REVISITED, THE RUBINSTEIN, AMNON A RENOWNED ISRAELI LAWYER AND MEMBER OF KNESSET CALLS FOR A RETURN TO THE IDEAS OF HERZL AND OTHER LIBERAL LEADERS TO COMBAT THE MALAISE FACING ISRAELI SOCIETY AND ZIONISM.
BR 5864 LEVANTINE DELACORTE, PETER A THRILLER SET IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
BR 5865 KOSHER CUISINE NASH, HELEN NASH PROVIDES KOSHER ADAPTATIONS FOR HUNDREDS OF RECIPES FROM CLASSIC FRENCH AND CHINESE CUISINES.
BR 5867 CHILD'S INTRO. TO TORAH, A-WORKBOOK 1 KRAFT, STEPHEN A COMPANION TO THE TEXT, IT REINFORCES THE VARIOUS BIBLE STORIES THE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN TAUGHT.
BR 5869 BEN GURION AND THE PALESTINIAN ARABS TEVETH, SHABTAI TEVETH FOLLOWS THE HISTORICAL TRAJECTORY FROM BEN-GURION'S 1906 PLAN FOR PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE BETWEEN JEWS AND PALESTINIANS TO JEWISH-PALESTINIAN WAR.
BR 5870 HEIGHTS OF COURAGE, THE A TANK LEADER'S WAR ON THE GOLAN KAHALANI, AVIGDOR KAHALANI WRITES OF HIS BATTLEFIELD EXPERIENCE AS AN ISRAELI TANK COMMANDER ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS DURING THE 1973 ARAB-ISRAELI WAR.
BR 5871 WALTER BENJAMIN WOLIN, RICHARD DESPITE A DEEP IMMERSION IN SOME FEARSOMELY COMPLEX GERMAN TEXTS, WOLIN HAS EMERGED WRITING LIVELY, UNPOMPOUS PROSE ON THIS AESTHETIC OF REDEMPTION.
BR 5872 FOREVER STREET MORTON, FREDERIC THIS IS THE SAGA OF THE SPIEGELGLASS FAMILY, WHICH BECOMES PROSPEROUS IN VIENNA, BETWEEN 1873 AND THE NAZI ANSCHLUSS IN 1938. © 1984
BR 5873 HISTORY OF JEWISH LITERATURE, VOL VI ZINBERG, ISRAEL THE DEVELOPMENT AND DECLINE OF GERMAN-POLISH JEWRY FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE END OF THE 18TH CENTURY WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE MASSACRES OF 1648.
BR 5875 WOMAN'S WAY, A THE MEMOIRS OF FLORA SOLOMON SOLOMON, FLORA & BARRY LITVINOFF THE AUTHOR RECOUNTS A LIFE LIVED AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE MAJOR POLITICAL EVENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. BORN A WEALTHY JEW IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA, SHE EMIGRATED TO ENGLAND AND EVENTUALLY BECAME INVOLVED IN THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT.
BR 5876 UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN KORENBLIT, MICHAEL & JANGER, KATHLEE A TRUE HOLOCAUST STORY OF LOVE AND WAR, SEPARATION AND REUNION OF TWO POLISH TEENAGERS AS CHRONICLED BY THEIR SON.
BR 5877 ISRAEL'S LEBANON WAR SCHIFF, ZE'EV & EHUD YA'ARI A CONTROVERSIAL, DETAILED NARRATIVE BY TWO ISRAELI JOURNALISTS WHO LAY THE BLAME FOR ISRAEL'S INVASION OF LEBANON ON DEFENSE MINISTER ARIEL SHARON AND HIS QUEST FOR POWER.
BR 5878 CHOSEN PEOPLE IN AMERICA, THE A STUDY IN JEWISH RELIGIOUS IDEOLO EISEN, ARNOLD M. A STUDY IN JEWISH RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGY WHICH TRACES THE INTERPRETATIONS AND REINTERPRETATIONS OF THREE GENERATIONS OF AMERICAN JEWS.
BR 5879 SOFT PRETZELS WITH MUSTARD BRENNER, DAVID THIS NEW COMEDIAN, OFTEN SEEN ON THE NIGHT CLUB CIRCUIT, REMINISCES, JOKES AND RECOUNTS ANECDOTES ABOUT HIS FAMILY, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERS.
BR 5880 YANOV TORAH, THE HERMAN, EDWIN & AGNES HERMAN A TORAH SMUGGLED INTO THE YANOV WORK CAMP DURING THE NAZI OCCUPATION IS RESCUED AFTER THE WAR AND BROUGHT TO THE UNITED STATES BY A SOVIET JEWISH EMIGRE.
BR 5881 EVIL AND THE MORALITY OF GOD SCHULWEIS, HAROLD M. STRESSING NOT GOD, THE SUBJECT, BUT GOD'S MORAL VALUES AND ATTRIBUTES, CALLED ELOHUT, THIS WORK RECONCILES THE THEOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES OF A GOOD SUPREME BEING WITH EVIL.
BR 5882 JEWISH LIFE UNDER THE TSARS ARONSON, CHAIM; NORMAN MARSDEN, ED. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CHAIM ARONSON, 1825-1888, A MASKIL (INTELLECTUAL) WHO MOVED FROM A SMALL EASTERN EUROPEAN COMMUNITY INTO THE FERMENT OF LARGER CITIES.
BR 5883 NEW JEWISH IDENTITY IN AMERICA, THE ROSENBERG, STUART AN ANALYSIS OF THE 'NEW' JEWISH SOCIETY BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE CHANGES IN RELIGION AND CULTURE AS INFLUENCED BY LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES.
BR 5886 BIRTHRIGHT AMIEL, JOSEPH SET IN EUROPE, NEW YORK AND MODERN ISRAEL, THIS IS THE STORY OF A FATHER AND DAUGHTER LOCKED IN A BITTER CONTEST FOR CONTROL OF EUROPE'S GREATEST BANKING HOUSE.
BR 5887 JEWISH CHILD, THE HALAKHIC PERSPECTIVES MATZNER BEKERMAN, SHOSHANA AN OVERVIEW FROM A TRADITIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT JEWISH LAW HAS TO SAY ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT AND RAISING OF CHILDREN.
BR 5888 WIDOWS DORFMAN, ARIEL THIS IS A NOVEL ABOUT THE CITIZENS 'DISAPPEARED' BY THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS IN CHILE AND OTHER SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES.
BR 5889 CAPTIVE SULTAN & OTHER STORIES, THE TEICHMAN, AVIGAL INSPIRING STORIES RELATING TO SPECIAL TIMES OF THE JEWISH YEAR. THE READER WILL TRAVEL TO CONSTANTINOPLE, POLAND, RUSSIA, ETC. TO SHARE THE GRIEF AND JOY OF AN ARRAY OF CHARACTERS.
BR 5890 JEWISH LEGENDS OF THE SECOND COMMONWEALTH NADICH, JUDAH THE AGGADOT, OR LEGENDS, OF THE JEWS DURING THE BABYLONIAN, PERSIAN, GREEK AND ROMAN ERAS. DESPITE EXTERNAL PRESSURES, THESE CENTURIES WITNESSED EXTRAORDINARY JEWISH ACHIEVEMENT.
BR 5891 MAKING OF A PUBLIC MAN, THE LINOWITZ, SOL AS A CORPORATE LAWYER, CLOSELY CONNECTED WITH THE RISE OF THE XEROX CORPORATION, AND AS A 1960S DIPLOMATIC FIGURE WORKING ON CENTRAL AMERICAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN MATTERS LINOWITZ HAS LIVED TWO LIVES AND RECOUNTS HOW HE HAS BEEN HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL IN BOTH.
BR 5892 LEAH'S CHILDREN GOLDREICH, GLORIA THIS NOVEL FOLLOWS LEAH GOLDFEDER'S THREE CHILDREN ON THEIR JOURNEYS THROUGH LIFE.
BR 5893 PHOENIX RISING KALECHOFSKY, ROBERTA: EDITOR AN ECLECTIC COLLECTION OF NEW JEWISH WRITING ON DIVERSE SUBJECTS, RANGING FROM ACADEMIC JOKESTERS, TO THE MODERN APPLICATION OF TALMUDIC LORE TO FAMILY LIFE, TO MYSTIC POETRY.
BR 5894 GOD AND HARVEY GROSBECK MILLSTEIN, GILBERT IN THIS NOVEL GOD, PORTRAYED AS A PUERTO RICAN WOMAN, APPEARS TO HARVEY GROSBECK AS HE LIES IN AN INTENSIVE CARE WARD. SHE TAKES HIM ON A TOUR OF HEAVEN, WHICH IS MODELED ON THE TIMES SQUARE SUBWAY STATION.
BR 5895 FLIGHT FROM BABYLON HADDAD, HESKEL M., M.D. IN THIS NARRATIVE BY AN IRAQI-JEWISH DOCTOR, THE READER IS TREATED TO AN INTIMATE ACCOUNT OF IRAQI-JEWISH LIFE, A RICH CULTURE OF WHICH LITTLE IS KNOWN IN THE WEST.
BR 5896 HANUKKAH CAT BURSTEIN, CHAYA LENNY ADOPTS A STRAY CAT ON THE FIRST NIGHT OF HANUKKAH. THE HANUKKAH STORY AND TRADITIONS PROVIDE A BACKDROP FOR THE CAT'S ADVENTURES.
BR 5897 ISRAEL AFTER BEGIN GAVRON, DANIEL ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1984, GAVRON, A JOURNALIST FOR 'THE JERUSALEM POST,' GIVES HIS PERSONAL VIEWS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL AT THAT TIME.
BR 5898 BOOK OF ABRAHAM, THE HALTER, MAREK IN A MIX OF SPECULATION AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, THE AUTHOR TRACES THE HISTORY OF HIS FAMILY FROM THE FIRST ABRAHAM, WHO WITNESSED THE FALL OF JERUSALEM IN 70 A.D., TO HIS GRANDFATHER, ABRAHAM, WHO DIED IN THE WARSAW GHETTO IN 1943.
BR 5899 WHEN ALL YOU'VE EVER WANTED ISN'T ENOUGH THE SEARCH FOR A LIFE THAT MATTE KUSHNER, RABBI HAROLD S. THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF THIS GUIDE FOR THE SPIRITUALLY BANKRUPT PERSON. KUSHNER PROVIDES REASONS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DOUBTS ON WHETHER LIFE IS WORTH LIVING AND EMPHASIZES THAT EVERY PERSON MATTERS.
BR 5900 HANUKKAH BOOK ROCKLAND, MAE SHAFTER A COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY AND TRADITIONS OF HANUKKAH. ALSO INCLUDED IS DETAILED INFORMATION ON GIFTS, FOOD, AND PARTIES.
BR 5901 ESCAPE TO SHANGHAI HERTZMAN, RABBI ELCHONON YOSEF TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW NES HATZALAH (MIRACLE OF RESCUE) IT IS A TESTAMENT TO THE MIRACLE THAT OCCURRED WHEN THE SCHOLARS FROM MIR YESHIVA ESCAPED THE CLUTCHES OF BOTH THE NAZIS AND THE RUSSIANS.
BR 5902 ARROWS OF THE ALMIGHTY BAR-ZOHAR, MICHAEL THE TRUE STORY OF PAUL FACKENHEIMER, A GERMAN JEW IMPRISONED IN DACHAU, WHO WAS TAKEN BY THE ABWEHR AND TRAINED AS A SPY TO GET MILITARY INTELLIGENCE FROM THE BRITISH IN PALESTINE.
BR 5903 FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION CHANIN, HARRY THIS BOOK FOLLOWS THE HISTORY OF THE AUTHOR'S OWN FAMILY FROM THEIR EMIGRATION FROM RUSSIA IN 1904, AIDED BY THE HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY, TO THEIR PRESENT DAY LIFE IN CALIFORNIA.
BR 5904 BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND JERUSALEM BLITZER, WOLF THE WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF FOR THE 'JERUSALEM POST' PROVIDES INSIGHTS ON FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST IN AN ANECDOTAL BUT INFORMATIVE TEXT.
BR 5905 VOICES OF JACOB, HANDS OF ESAU JEWS IN AMERICAN LIFE AND THOUGHT WHITFIELD, STEPHEN J. A STUDY THAT EXAMINES HOW HISTORIANS HAVE SOUGHT TO IDENTIFY THE 'DISTINCTIVENESS' OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE INCLUDING A LOOK AT HOW JEWS, AS A MINORITY CULTURE, FORMED A POLITICAL RESPONSE TO AMERICAN SOCIETY.
BR 5906 STORY OF MIMMY AND SIMMY GANZ, YAFFA TWO FRIENDS, ONE RICH AND ONE POOR, ARE BOTH VERY UNHAPPY AND DECIDE TO CHANGE PLACES. BASED ON AN OLD JEWISH MAXIM, THE TALE HAS A HAPPY ENDING. FOR KINDERGARTEN AGE.
BR 5907 MOVING FINGER, THE BASS, MILTON IN THIS FIRST NOVEL IN A NEW SERIES SET IN SAN DIEGO, BENNY FREEDMAN IS A TOUGH-YET-COMPASSIONATE JEWISH IRISH COP WHO DEALS WITH KIDNAPPERS, SURVIVALISTS AND THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE.
BR 5909 BIBLE AND SWORD ENGLAND AND PALESTINE FROM THE BRO TUCHMAN, BARBARA THIS IS A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENGLAND AND PALESTINE FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE BALFOUR DECLARATION IN 1917.
BR 5910 IMAGE AND OTHER STORIES, THE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS THE SETTINGS FOR THESE 22 STORIES RANGE FROM WARSAW IN THE 1900S TO MANHATTAN IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY. THE NOBEL LAUREATE DRAWS A SENSITIVE AND HUMOROUS PORTRAIT OF PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES ARE PERMEATED BY THEIR JEWISHNESS.
BR 5912 AMERICAN SAGA THE STORY OF HELEN THOMAS AND SIMONE REXNER FLEXNER, JAMES THOMAS THE AUTHOR'S PORTRAIT OF HIS PARENTS. HIS FATHER, SIMON FLEXNER, WAS A SELF-EDUCATED BOHEMIAN JEW WHO BECAME A LEADING PATHOLOGIST. HIS MOTHER, HELEN THOMAS, WAS A DESCENDANT OF AN OLD-LINE QUAKER FAMILY.
BR 5913 BLAZING FOUNTAIN, A ROSENBERG, DAVID A UNIQUE INSPIRATIONAL BOOK FOR HANUKKAH WHICH BRINGS THE AUTHENTIC SOURCES TOGETHER AND OFFERS A FRESH PRESENTATION: WELDING ANCIENT THOUGHT TO A CONTEMPORARY IDIOM.
BR 5914 WHY DO THE JEWS NEED A LAND OF THEIR OWN? ALEICHEM, SHOLOM ALEICHEM'S AMUSING DEPICTION OF THE CONTROVERSIES AND HOPES INHERENT IN ZIONISM'S EARLY BEGINNINGS.
BR 5915 HERMAN WOUK BEICHMAN, ARNOLD AN ANALYSIS OF THE WELL-KNOWN WRITER DRAWN FROM PAPERS, MANUSCRIPTS AND PERSONAL INTERVIEWS DEMONSTRATING THAT HE IS ONE OF THE FEW SOCIAL HISTORIANS CONCERNED WITH VIRTUE.
BR 5916 MAN WITHOUT SHOES, A SANFORD, JOHN A NOVEL WHICH GIVES US A PICTURE OF THE MIND OF THE 30'S AND IS WRITTEN IN THE FORM OF A LOVE LETTER TO THE COMMON MAN.
BR 5917 FROM WHERE I STAND HALPERN, HARRY A COMPILATION OF 160 OF THE BEST COLUMNS HE WROTE FOR THE CONGREGATIONAL BULLETIN OF THE EAST MIDWOOD JEWISH CENTER.
BR 5920 STREETS OF GOLD JACOBSON, SIDNEY A FAMILY SAGA WHICH FOLLOWS TWO BROTHERS FROM THEIR RUSSIAN SHTETL IN THE 1880S TO AMERICA, WHERE THEY EMIGRATE WITH THEIR FAMILIES.
BR 5921 JEWS AND GERMAN PHILOSOPHY ROTENSTREICH, NATHAN THIS BRILLIANT INTELLECTUAL HISTORY RECREATES THE PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE OVER THE MERITS OF JUDAISM AND THE JEWISH STRUGGLE FOR GERMAN CITIZENSHIP AND SPIRITUAL INTEGRITY.
BR 5922 NAZI GOLD SAYER, IAN & BOTTING, DOUGLAS THE STORY OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST ROBBERY AND ITS AFTERMATH, WHAT HAPPENED TO MORE THAN $15 MILLION IN GOLD AND OTHER TREASURES OF THE NAZIS THAT DISAPPEARED AFTER WWII.
BR 5923 HOROWITZ PLASKIN, GLENN A BIOGRAPHY OF THE PIANIST VLADIMIR HOROWITZ, COMPILED FROM INTERVIEWS WITH THE ARTIST'S ASSOCIATES, RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.
BR 5924 LEWIS AND LEWIS JUXON, JOHN THIS BIOGRAPHY OF SIR GEORGE LEWIS (1833-1911) FOLLOWS HIS LIFE AND LAW CAREER AS HE MEETS SUCH VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN CELEBRITIES AS OSCAR WILDE AND GILBERT AND SULLIVAN. INCLUDES RE-CREATIONS OF SOME OF LEWIS' CELEBRATED COURT CASES.
BR 5925 FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL THE ORIGINS OF THE ARAB-JEWISH CON PETERS, JOAN A CONTROVERSIAL EXAMINATION OF THE ORIGINS OF THE ARAB-JEWISH CONFLICT OVER PALESTINE/ISRAEL IN THE MODERN ERA.
BR 5926 SOMEBODY PLEASE LOVE ME HELLMAN, AVIVA DESPITE BEAUTY, FAME AND INTELLIGENCE, CAT WILLINGHAM, AT 37, MUST FACE THE FORCES THAT LED HER FROM AN ORTHODOX JEWISH CHILDHOOD TO THE TOP OF THE FASHION INDUSTRY.
BR 5927 PORTRAITS OF A CHOSEN PEOPLE LIPSON, RABBI NORMAN IN POETRY AND PROSE, THE AUTHOR PRESENTS PORTRAITS OF JEWS THROUGH THE AGES.
BR 5928 GATE BEHIND THE WALL, THE A PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM HEILMAN, SAMUEL HEILMAN'S ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE-CHANGING PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM.
BR 5929 WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME THIS FAR, A POEMS, 1978-1981 RICH, ADRIENNE THE WORKS OF ONE OF AMERICA'S MAJOR POETESSES.
BR 5930 I AM A MEMORY COME ALIVE KAFKA, FRANZ THIS WORK GIVES THE READER INSIGHTS INTO THE TIMES IN WHICH KAFKA LIVED, AND THE FORCES THAT SHAPED HIS PERSONAL LIFE AND THE WORKS HE GAVE TO THE WORLD.
BR 5931 WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR AN UNCOMPROMISING LOOK AT THE NEW SALISBURY, HARRISON E. AN EXAMINATION OF THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WHICH EXISTS BETWEEN THE NEWSPAPER AND NEW YORK CITY'S JEWISH COMMUNITY.
BR 5932 CODE EZRA COURTER, GAY A NOVEL BASED ON THE REAL-LIFE INCIDENTS OF ISRAELI SPYMASTER ELI KATZAR AND THE THREE WOMEN HE RECRUITED TO FORM HIS 'EZRA' TEAM.
BR 5933 KING SOLOMON GARY ROMAIN WEALTHY, A FORMER CLOTHING MERCHANT, BECOMES OBSESSED WITH THE PARISIAN TELEPHONE COUNSELING SERVICE HE RUNS.
BR 5934 AND THE SUN KEPT SHINING A WOMAN'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE HOLO FERDERBER-SALZ, BERTHA THE AUTHOR RECOUNTS HER ORDEAL IN BERGEN-BELSEN AND HOW SHE MANAGED TO SURVIVE.
BR 5935 TSAR NICHOLAS I AND THE JEWS STANISLAWSKI, MICHAEL THE REIGN OF NICHOLAS I OF RUSSIA (1825-1855) WITNESSED AN UNPRECEDENTED INTRUSION OF THE CZARIST GOVERNMENT INTO THE INTERNAL WORKINGS OF JEWISH SOCIETY, LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR REVOLUTIONARY NEW MODES OF JEWISH IDENTITY LATER IN THE CENTURY. THIS PROVOCATIVE STUDY IS BASED ON PRIMARY SOURCES IN MANY LANGUAGES.
BR 5936 PROBLEM CALLED CHAVIE, A VOGIEL, EVA IN A QUIET ENGLISH SUBURB, SHIFRA AND HER FRIENDS TRY TO DO ALL THEY CAN FOR CHAVI MENDEL, BUT IT ALWAYS SEEMS TO BACKFIRE. AND THEN AN ACCIDENT CHANGES EVERYTHING IN THIS NOVEL FOR YOUNG TEENAGERS.
BR 5937 MUSLIM DISCOVERY OF EUROPE, THE LEWIS, BERNARD JOURNALS, LETTERS, DIARIES, DISPATCHES AND BOOKS TELL HOW ISLAM AND THE WEST ENCOUNTERED EACH OTHER.
BR 5938 GIDEON CHESTER, AARON BLONDE BLUE-EYED GIDEON RESENTS JUDAISM BUT RISKS HIS LIFE TO HELP GHETTO SURVIVORS. YOUNG GIDEON MAY BE A FICTIONAL CHARACTER BUT HIS EXPERIENCES REFLECT TRUE HORRORS SUFFERED BY NAZI VICTIMS IN EUROPE. THE AUTHOR SERVED WITH AN AMERICAN TROOP WHICH OPENED DEATH CAMPS AT THE END OF WORLD WAR 11.
BR 5940 CONSECRATE EVERY DAY SOCHEN, JUNE PORTRAITS OF WOMEN WHICH STRESS THEIR PUBLIC, RATHER THAN PRIVATE LIVES AS WORKERS, RADICALS, VOLUNTEERS, AND WRITERS AND OTHER CAREER WOMEN.
BR 5941 LISA'S BOY MACHLIS, JOSEPH CARRIES US FROM JEWISH IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN BROOKLYN TO WORLD OF CLASSICAL MUSIC IN NEW YORK TO GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF MEANING OF LOVE.
BR 5942 LATER THE SAME DAY PALEY, GRACE A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY GRACE PALEY. HER CHARACTERS TEND TO THE OUTSPOKEN AND ENTHUSIASTIC.
BR 5943 MODERN JEWISH COOKING LONDON, BONNE RAE THE FIRST STRICTLY KOSHER COOKBOOK DESIGNED FOR USE WITH THE LATEST KITCHEN AIDS (MICROWAVE OVENS, FOOD PROCESSORS, ETC.). CONVENTIONAL INSTRUCTIONS ARE ALSO GIVEN.
BR 5944 NAZI-SKOKIE CONFLICT, THE A CIVIL LIBERTIES BATTLE HAMLIN, DAVID ROBERTA POLL THE ACCOUNT OF THE LEGAL CONTROVERSY GENERATED BY THE NAZIS' ATTEMPT TO HOLD A PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION IN SKOKIE, ILLINOIS IN 1978. HAMLIN, WHO AT THE TIME DIRECTED THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION CAMPAIGN, DESCRIBES THE ISSUES, EVENTS AND PERSONALITIES INVOLVED FROM PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE.
BR 5945 GIFT OF LIFE, THE YOMTOOB, PARICHEHR & SCHWARZ, TED THE CHRONICLE OF DAVID YOMTOOB'S FIGHT AGAINST A LIVER DISEASE WHICH LED TO A LIFE SAVING TRANSPLANT. THE DISEASE AND TRANSPLANT PROCEDURES ARE DESCRIBED IN DETAIL.
BR 5946 WHEN CHILDREN ASK ABOUT GOD KUSHNER, HAROLD S. THIS BOOK OFFERS A REASONABLE, NON-SUPERNATURAL WAY OF EXPLAINING G-D AND FAITH TO CHILDREN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 4 AND 14.
BR 5947 RASHI THE MAN AND HIS WORLD SHERESHEVSKY, ESRA THIS WORK BOTH EXPLAINS THE ANCIENT PHILOSOPHER'S IDEAS AND ILLUMINATES THE WORLD IN WHICH HE LIVED.
BR 5949 LIBERATION OF JERUSALEM, THE NARKISS, UZI AN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF JERUSALEM IN JUNE, 1967 WHICH CULMINATED IN THE CITY'S LIBERATION. ALSO DESCRIBED ARE REMINISCES OF THE 1948 WAR WHICH LED TO THE DIVISION OF THE CITY.
BR 5950 HISTORY OF ANTI-SEMITISM, THE. VOL. 3 FROM VOLTAIRE TO WAGNER POLIAKOV, LEON THE THIRD VOLUME OF THIS SERIES LOOKS AT THE JEWS OF EUROPE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE, ENGLAND, GERMANY, AND THE UNITED STATES.
BR 5951 AFTER GOLIATH CASSIL, J. V. A NOVEL ABOUT BIBLICAL FIGURES WHO ARE STRIPPED OF THEIR MYTHICAL QUALITIES AND DEPICTED AS REAL PEOPLE.
BR 5953 BEST OF OLOMEINU, THE. VOL. 4 SHAVUOT AND SUMMER STORIES FRUCHTER, RABBI YAAKOV AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHAVUOT AND SUMMER STORIES TAKEN FROM THE PAGES OF 'OLOMEINU' (OUR WORLD) MAGAZINE.
BR 5954 DEBORAH KREITMAN, ESTHER AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL BY THE SISTER OF ISSAC BASHEVIS SINGER ABOUT THE FRUSTRATIONS OF A YOUNG, INTELLIGENT, AND SENSITIVE GIRL STRUGGLING WITHIN THE CONFINES OF TRADITIONAL POLISH-JEWISH CULTURE.
BR 5955 JEWISH QUEST, THE ESSAYS ON BASIC CONCEPTS OF JEWISH AGUS, JACOB B. THESE ESSAYS DEAL WITH THE NATURE OF REVELATION IN AN ECUMENICAL SETTING AND THE EXPOSITION OF MAIMONIDES' PHILOSOPHY OF 'CONTINUOUS CREATIVITY' AND OF 'NEO-MAIMONISM.'
BR 5956 IMAGES OF MOSES SILVER, DANIEL JEREMY A SCHOLAR OF JEWISH HISTORY EXAMINES THE FACTORS THAT, OVER THE COURSE OF 2,500 YEARS, HAVE SHAPED INTERPRETATIONS OF THIS CENTRAL FIGURE IN JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS.
BR 5957 JEWS OF HOPE, THE GILBERT, MARTIN THE AUTHOR DEPICTS DAILY LIFE UNDER OFFICIAL STATE HOSTILITY FOR THOSE REFUSED PERMISSION TO EMIGRATE FROM RUSSIA TO ISRAEL.
BR 5958 NIGHTINGALE, THE ALEICHEM, SHOLOM YOSELE THE CANTOR IS ENTICED INTO MARRYING THE SOPHISTICATED PERELE AND LEAVES HIS FIRST LOVE ESTHER. TOO LATE, HE REGRETS HIS CHOICE AND, HEARTBROKEN, HE LOSES HIS 'GOLDEN' VOICE.
BR 5960 PASSION FOR SHARING, A THE LIFE OF EDITH ROSENWALD STERN KLEIN, GERDA WEISSMAN AS THE DAUGHTER OF JULIUS ROSENWALD, WHO HELPED BUILD SEARS ROEBUCK COMPANY INTO A RETAIL EMPIRE, STERN AND HER FAMILY WERE INVOLVED IN THE GROWTH OF NEW ORLEANS AND IN EFFORTS TO GAIN CIVIL RIGHTS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND RESCUE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 5961 OUR GANG JOSELIT, JENNA WEISSMAN A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF JEWISH CRIMINALS IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE EARLY PART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 5962 STORIES BLINKIN, MEIR A LEADER OF THE YOUNG LITERARY MOVEMENT, THE AUTHOR HIGHLIGHTS THE CHARACTERS OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO REFUSE TO FOLLOW THE DICTATES OF COMMUNITY OPINION IN THEIR MORES OR RELIGION.
BR 5964 LIBERAL JUDAISM BOROWITZ, EUGENE B. PUBLISHED IN 1984, BOROWITZ' BOOK PRESENTS THE REFORM MOVEMENT'S UNDERSTANDING OF A WIDE RANGE OF ISSUES.
BR 5967 FROM MY GRANDMOTHER'S KITCHEN MINER, V. & KRINN, L. HERE ARE SOME UNUSUAL AND DELICIOUS INTERNATIONAL RECIPES CREATED AND ADAPTED BY GENERATIONS OF COOKS FROM A SEPHARDIC JEWISH FAMILY.
BR 5968 COLOR OF THE AIR, THE SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF AN AMERICA SANFORD, JOHN A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR'S EARLY YEARS, FROM 1904 TO 1927, WHICH EVOKE THE TIMES AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF A JEWISH BOY IN AMERICA.
BR 5969 I LIFT MY LAMP EMMA LAZARUS AND THE STATUE OF LIB LEVINSON, NANCY SMILER THE BOOK, INTERSPERSED WITH LAZARUS'S POEMS, TELLS THE STORY OF LAZARUS'S SHELTERED UPBRINGING AND HER EMERGENCE AS A JEWISH SPOKESPERSON.
BR 5970 IMA ON THE BIMA MY MOMMY IS A RABBI PORTNOY, MINDY THE STORY OF A WOMAN RABBI IS REVEALED THROUGH THE EYES OF HER YOUNG DAUGHTER.
BR 5972 DEVIL AND THE JEWS THE MEDIEVAL CONCEPTION OF THE JEW TRACHTENBERG, JOSHUA THIS WORK ADDRESSES BOTH THE LITERAL AND FIGURATIVE MEDIEVAL CONCEPTION OF THE JEW AS DEVIL. USING DOCUMENTS, ANALYSIS, AND ILLUSTRATION, THE AUTHOR PRESENTS THE VARIOUS DEMONIC GUISES ATTRIBUTED TO THE JEW SUCH AS SORCERER, RITUAL MURDERER, HERETIC, USURER, AND INFIDEL.
BR 5973 PROMISED LAND THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT ANTIN, MARY AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY THE WRITER WHO EMIGRATED FROM RUSSIA AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, DESCRIBING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF AMERICA TO THE FOREIGN BORN.
BR 5974 GOD AND SARAH PEDLOCK LONGSTREET, STEPHEN SARAH, A CONCERT PIANIST, IS CAUGHT BETWEEN HER JEWISH HERITAGE AND EPISCOPALIAN UPBRINGING. HURT BY SEVERAL LOVE AFFAIRS, SHE RETIRES FROM PUBLIC LIFE AND FINALLY FALLS IN LOVE FOR GOOD.
BR 5976 BROTHERS A HEBREW LEGEND FREEDMAN, FLORENCE THE AUTHOR RETELLS FOR CHILDREN THE STORY OF JOEL AND DAN, THE SONS OF SETH.
BR 5977 JEWISH LEGENDS OF MIDDLE AGES PASHELES, WOLFF TWELVE CLASSIC JEWISH FOLK-TALES FOR THE YOUNG READER.
BR 5978 IN THE STORM ALEICHEM, SHOLOM THIS NOVEL, SET IN A SMALL RUSSIAN TOWN UNDER CZARIST RULE, FOLLOWS SEVERAL FAMILIES THROUGH SITUATIONS OF TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH.
BR 5979 BRANDEIS AND FRANKFURTER BAKER, LEONARD AN ACCOUNT OF TWO CLOSE FRIENDS AND SUPREME COURT JUSTICES WHO HELPED TO SHAPE MUCH OF AMERICAN LIFE FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY. LEONARD BAKER IS A PULITZER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR.
BR 5980 NOT WANTED ON THE VOYAGE FINDLAY, TIMOTHY THIS NOVEL IS A RADICAL REVISION OF THE BIBLICAL STORY OF NOAH.
BR 5981 LEGACY OF NIGHT FINE, ELLEN S. THE LITERARY UNIVERSE OF ELIE WIESEL: THIS VOLUME CLARIFIES WIESEL'S INTENTIONS IN HIS BOOK 'NIGHT' ESPECIALLY ILLUMINATING THE COMPLEX VARIATIONS ON THE THEME OF SPEECH AND SILENCE.
BR 5982 SWASTIKA ON THE SYNAGOGUE DOOR, THE ROMM, J. LEONARD THIS BOOK PORTRAYS JEWISH REALITIES IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS, ANTI-SEMITISM IN AMERICA, AND THE REAL WEAKNESSES OF CULTS THROUGH THE LIVES OF THE THREE LAZARUS CHILDREN, WHO, EACH IN HIS OWN WAY, COPES WITH DIFFERENT FORMS OF ANTI-SEMITISM.
BR 5983 TORAH FROM OUR SAGES NEUSNER, JACOB AN EASILY UNDERSTOOD TRANSLATION AND EXPLANATION OF SELECTIONS FROM RABBINIC TEACHING.
BR 5984 UNCOMMON SENSE THE WORLD'S FULLEST COMPENDIUM OF TELUSHKIN, JOSEPH A BOOK ON THE WIT AND WISDOM OF EVERYONE FROM ARISTOTLE TO GEORGE BERNARD SHAW TO DE GAULLE TO ANNE FRANK TO MAE WEST. INCLUDED ARE QUOTES ON LOVE AND MARRIAGE, MORALITY AND SIN, HAPPINESS AND SUFFERING, AND WAR AND PEACE.
BR 5986 VISION LEVIN, ALEXANDER L. THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN, HARRY FRIEDENWALD, A FAMILY, AND OF THE EMERGING TYPE OF AMERICAN JEW DURING THE PAST CENTURY.
BR 5987 BEST OF OLOMEINU, THE. BOOK 3 CHANUKAH AND OTHER STORIES FRUCHTER, RABBI YAAKOV AN ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES ABOUT CHANUKAH STRAIGHT FROM THE PAGES OF THE MAGAZINE, 'OLOMEINU' (OUR WORLD).
BR 5988 CHANGING ISRAEL, A GROSE, PETER GROSE GIVES A JOURNALIST'S PERSPECTIVE ON ISRAEL AT THE TIME OF THIS BOOK'S PUBLICATION IN 1985.
BR 5989 ISRAEL IN THE MIND OF AMERICA GROSE, PETER STORY OF THE U.S.'S 150-YEAR-OLD FASCINATION WITH THE IDEA OF A JEWISH STATE.
BR 5990 WIDER WORLD, A SIMON, KATE A SEQUEL TO 'BRONX PRIMITIVE,' THE AUTHOR RECALLS THE JOYS AND TERRORS OF ADOLESCENCE IN NEW YORK DURING THE DEPRESSION YEARS OF THE 1930S.
BR 5991 QUEST FOR THE RED PRINCE, THE BAR-ZOHAR, MICHAEL & EITAN HABER AN ACCOUNT OF HOW THE MOSSAD, THE ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE SERVICE, TRACKED DOWN AND ASSASSINATED ALI HASSAN SALAMEH, THE MASTERMIND BEHIND THE 1972 MUNICH OLYMPIC GAMES.
BR 5992 BEGIN THE HAUNTED PROPHET SILVER, ERIC SILVER, A JOURNALIST, EXAMINES THE LIFE AND THOUGHT OF FORMER ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER AND NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER, MENACHEM BEGIN.
BR 5993 FACING THE HOLOCAUST RAMRAS-RAUCH, GILA & JOSEPH MICHMAN- AN ANTHOLOGY OF SELECTED ISRAELI SHORT STORIES ABOUT HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS.
BR 5994 AND DID YOU ONCE SEE SIDNEY PLAIN? WILK, MAX THE BOOK, WHOSE TITLE IS A WORD-PLAY ON S. J. PERELMAN'S OWN STYLE OF BOOK TITLING, IS A COLLECTION OF RANDOM ANECDOTES ABOUT THE LATE HUMORIST.
BR 5995 STATIC ELEMENT, THE SELECTED POEMS OF NATAN ZACH EVERWINE, P & S. YASNY-STARKMAN A COLLECTION OF POETRY FROM ONE OF ISRAEL'S MAJOR POETS WHO IS ALSO THE MOST DIFFICULT TO TRANSLATE BECAUSE OF HIS IRONIC WIT AND CONFLICTING SPEECH PATTERNS.
BR 5996 JEWISH LIFE IN THE U.S. PERSPECTIVES ON THE SOCIAL SCIENCE GITTLER, JOSEPH A PRESENTATION OF SCIENTIFIC DATA FROM DISCIPLINES OF DEMOGRAPHY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, ECONOMICS, SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY.
BR 5997 CONFESSIONS OF A PREGNANT FATHER GREENBURG, DAN THE MAN WHO WROTE 'HOW TO BE A JEWISH MOTHER' HAS, IN FACT, BECOME ONE!! GREENBURG OFFERS HUMOROUS ADVICE ON WHAT HE BELIEVES COUPLES NEED TO FACE THE WORLD OF PARENTING IN THE 1980S.
BR 5998 JUDAISM AND VEGETARIANISM SCHWARTZ, RICHARD H. THE AUTHOR EXPLORES THE ETHICAL ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS OF ANIMALS, ALONG WITH ADVICE FROM FAMOUS JEWISH VEGETARIANS AND 22 PAGES OF RECIPES.
BR 5999 TRAVELS AMICHAI, YEHUDA THIS BOOK-LENGTH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POEM IS A SERIES OF LINKED MEDITATIONS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LIFE OF THE POET AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 6000 TIME TO SEEK, A AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY JEWIS JOSELOFF, SAMUEL H. THIS ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY CONTAINS POEMS TRANSLATED FROM YIDDISH AS WELL AS ORIGINAL ENGLISH POEMS. INCLUDED ARE WORKS BY RUKEYSER, KUNITZ, IGNATOV, AND NEMEROV.
BR 6001 ORAL TORAH, THE THE SACRED BOOKS OF JUDAISM NEUSNER, JACOB TRACES THE ORAL LAW GIVEN TO MOSES ON SINAI WHICH WAS TRANSMITTED FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. THIS WAS FINALLY WRITTEN DOWN AS THE MISHNAH AND FORMS THE BASIS FOR THE JERUSALEM AND BABYLONIAN TALMUD. THE AUTHOR PROVIDES CRITICAL INSIGHTS AND SHOWS HOW THE ORAL PORTION COMPLEMENTS THE WRITTEN TORAH.
BR 6002 HANNAH SZENES A SONG OF LIGHT SCHUR, MAXINE THIS BIOGRAPHY INCLUDES EXCERPTS FROM SZENES'S WRITING AND DESCRIBES HER CHILDHOOD, HER EMIGRATION TO PALESTINE IN 1939, AND HER DECISION FOUR YEARS LATER TO RETURN TO HUNGARY TO HELP RESCUE JEWS FROM THE HOLOCAUST. CAPTURED, IMPRISONED, AND TORTURED, SZENES WAS EXECUTED IN 1944 AT THE AGE OF 23.
BR 6003 BOOK OF LEGENDS, THE-PART THREE GOLDIN, HYMAN E. A CONTINUATION OF THE HAGGADAH (LEGENDS) STARTING WITH THE JEWS UNDER GREEK RULE, THEIR FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE, AND THE LIVES OF THE SAGES.
BR 6004 DEPTHS OF GLORY STONE, IRVING A BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL OF CAMILLE PISSARRO WHICH ILLUMINATES ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FIGURES IN ART HISTORY, AND THE 'FOUNDER' OF THE FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST MOVEMENT. CONTAINS DETAILS OF JEWISH BACKGROUND.
BR 6005 JEWISH AND FEMALE CHOICES AND CHANGES IN OUR LIVES T SCHNEIDER, SUSAN WEIDMAN THE EDITOR OF 'LILITH', THE FOREMOST JEWISH FEMINIST JOURNAL, CONFRONTS THE CHANGING ROLE OF JEWISH WOMEN IN THE FAMILY AND IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY.
BR 6006 AMERICAN JEWISH WOMAN 1654-1980 MARCUS, JACOB RADER A CONCISE HISTORY OF AMERICAN JEWISH WOMEN IN AMERICA.
BR 6007 CLASSICS OF JEWISH LITERATURE LIEBERMAN, LEO & ARTHUR BERINGAUSE A PANORAMA OF JEWISH LITERATURE FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY WITH SELECTIONS FROM THE BIBLE, FOLKLORE, ESSAYS, POETRY, DRAMA, AND FICTION IN TRANSLATIONS FROM HEBREW, YIDDISH AND GERMAN. ALSO INCLUDED ARE INTERPRETATIONS OF THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE BY WRITERS SUCH AS AHAD HA'AM AND SHOLOM ALEICHEM.
BR 6009 BOOK OF LEGENDS, THE-PART TWO GOLDIN, HYMAN E. STORIES OF THE BIBLICAL PERIOD BEGINNING WITH THE DEATH OF MOSES AND CONCLUDING WITH THE STORY OF ESTHER AND THE DOWNFALL OF HAMAN.
BR 6010 HEALTH & MEDICINE IN THE JEWISH TRADITION FELDMAN, DAVID M. AMONG THE ISSUES DISCUSSED ARE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH, MARRIAGE AND MARITAL RELATIONS, PROCREATION, ABORTION; 'RIGHT TO LIFE,' NEONATAL AND TERMINAL; AGING, TRANSPLANTATION AND AUTOPSY.
BR 6011 SEASONS OF THE HEART FREEMAN, CYNTHIA A STORY OF 'THE THRILL OF YOUTHFUL INFATUATION, THE SADNESS OF INTIMATE DISAPPOINTMENT AND THE PEACE OF A MATURE ROMANCE', WHOSE FIRST THIRD OFFERS A POIGNANT LOOK AT AN EARLIER ERA.
BR 6012 STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND YOUNG JEWS IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA SICHROVSKY, PETER FIFTEEN FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNTS OF THE CHILDREN OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS COMPRISE THIS PORTRAIT OF YOUNG JEWS WHO GREW UP IN POST-WAR GERMANY AND AUSTRIA.
BR 6013 JOSEPH TRUMPELDOOR LIPOVETZKY, P. THE LIFE AND WORKS OF A MAN WHO LIVED AND DIED FOR THE CAUSE OF MAKING PALESTINE A HOMELAND FOR THE JEWS.
BR 6014 MASK OF ABRAHAM MORGENSTERN PANGER, DANIEL WIDOWER ABRAHAM MORGENSTERN, DYING OF CANCER, UNDERTAKES A SECRET AUTOBIOGRAPHY FOR HIS GROWN CHILDREN IN WHICH HE MAKES A SHOCKING REVELATION. HE HAS BEEN MASQUERADING AS A JEW FOR MANY YEARS BUT, IN REALITY, HE IS A FORMER NAZI LIEUTENANT.
BR 6015 BOSTON BOY HENTOFF, NAT IN THIS MEMOIR OF GROWING UP JEWISH IN THE BOSTON OF THE 1930S AND '40S, HENTOFF, A NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST AND AUTHOR, LOOKS AT HIS YOUTH AND THE FORCES THAT SHAPED HIS LIBERTARIAN VIEWS.
BR 6016 YEARNING FOR THE HOLY LAND HASIDIC TALES OF ISRAEL RAPPEL, YOEL REPRESENTING 150 YEARS OF HASIDIC WRITING, THESE TALES, LEGENDS, LETTERS, AND PRAYERS ARE TOPICALLY ARRANGED TO HIGHLIGHT THE BOOK'S KEY THEMES: THE PAIN OF EXILE AND A YEARNING FOR REDEMPTION UNDER MESSIANIC LEADERSHIP IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
BR 6017 FIDDLER'S MOLL LIFE WITH YEHUDI MENUHIN, DIANA THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN UNCONVENTIONAL WOMAN MARRIED TO THE VIOLINIST, YEHUDI MENUHIN.
BR 6018 KLAUS BARBIE-THE BUTCHER OF LYONS BOWER, TOM RECOUNTS THE ACTIVITIES OF ONE OF THE MOST INFAMOUS GESTAPO OFFICERS OF WORLD WAR II BOTH DURING AND AFTER THE WAR, WHEN HE BECAME AN INFLUENTIAL FIGURE IN SOUTH AMERICA. HIS EVENTUAL CAPTURE AND EXTRADITION IS ALSO COVERED AS ARE THE LARGER ISSUES OF HIS CASE SUCH AS THE DIFFICULTIES OF NAZI-HUNTERS AND POST-WAR ANTI-COMMUNISM.
BR 6019 WHEN MEMORY COMES FRIEDLANDER, SAUL MEMOIRS BY THE AUTHOR OF HIS CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES OF THE HOLOCAUST, DEFINING HIS ULTIMATE FEELINGS ON BEING A JEW AND A ZIONIST.
BR 6020 TRADING WITH THE ENEMY AN EXPOSE ON THE NAZI-AMERICAN MON HIGHAM, CHARLES DETAILS OF SECRET BUSINESS DEALS CONDUCTED IN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA, WITH THE ACTUAL NAMES OF LARGE CORPORATIONS.
BR 6021 ROOFTOP SECRETS AND OTHER STORIES OF ANTI-SEMITISM BUSH, LAWRENCE THESE EIGHT SHORT STORIES, WHICH EXPLORE THE NATURE OF PREJUDICE AND THE DYNAMICS OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, SPAN 500 YEARS AND ARE WRITTEN FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A JEWISH CHILD CONFRONTING ANTI-SEMITISM IN SETTINGS SUCH AS INQUISITIONAL SPAIN, COLONIAL AMERICA, NAZI GERMANY, PRE-STATE ISRAEL, AND THE SOVIET UNION.
BR 6022 SPECIAL DESTINY, A EPSTEIN, SEYMOUR THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN AN AMERICAN JEWISH YOUTH AND A YOUNG REFUGEE FROM HITLER'S GERMANY HELPS THE YOUNG AMERICAN DEVELOP INTO A MATURE AND WISER PERSON.
BR 6023 NEW DIPLOMACY, THE EBAN, ABBA EBAN AGAIN BRINGS HIS WEALTH OF PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE TO THE SUBJECT OF DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS IN A MODERN AGE.
BR 6024 ISLAND ON BIRD STREET, THE ORLEV, URI BASED ON THE AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCES IN A WARSAW GHETTO THIS NOVEL FOLLOWS THE HOUR-BY-HOUR EXISTENCE OF 11-YEAR-OLD ALEX, WHO IS IN HIDING AS HE WAITS FOR HIS FATHER TO RETURN.
BR 6025 P.L.O., THE BECKER, JILLIAN THIS IS A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION WITH THE ONLY HOPE FOR THE PALESTINIANS, IRONICALLY, BEING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE P.L.O.
BR 6026 DOCTOR AND THE DAMNED, THE HAAS, DR. ALBERT A DOCTOR OF FRENCH AND HUNGARIAN DESCENT, PRACTICING MEDICINE IN FRANCE, JOINS THE ANTI-NAZI RESISTANCE, GETS CAPTURED, AND IS DEPORTED. UNAWARE OF HIS JEWISH IDENTITY, THE NAZIS FORCE HIM TO PRACTICE MEDICINE IN THE CAMPS. A TRUE STORY BY A RECIPIENT OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE.
BR 6027 REDEMPTION SONG THE STORY OF OPERATION MOSES RAPOPORT, LOUIS AN ACCOUNT OF THE CLANDESTINE AIRLIFT OF ETHIOPIAN JEWS TO ISRAEL.
BR 6028 PIERRE MENDES FRANCE LACOUTURE, JEAN A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FRENCH POLITICIAN WHO SERVED AS PRIME MINISTER FROM 1954-1955. DISCUSSIONS INCLUDE HIS WAR EXPERIENCES, TRIAL BY THE VICHY GOVERNMENT AND HIS INFLUENCE ON FRENCH POLITICS.
BR 6029 CONGREGATION, THE LEVINE, RABBI MORTON & KANTOR, HAL THE TRANSFORMATION OF AN IDEALISTIC YOUNG RABBI INTO A POWERFUL AND CONTROVERSIAL JEWISH LEADER IS A FASCINATING STORY. IT IS A NOVEL OF SURVIVING FAITH AND EMOTIONAL STRENGTH.
BR 6031 SEMITES AND ANTI-SEMITES AN INQUIRY INTO CONFLICTS AND PREJ LEWIS, BERNARD AN ANALYSIS OF ANTI-SEMITISM WHICH INCLUDES A LOOK AT ITS HISTORY AND PRESENCE IN THE ARAB WORLD, A DEBUNKING OF THE NOTION THAT JEWS AND ARABS ARE SEMITES, AND A COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF JEWISH EXISTENCE UNDER CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM RULE.
BR 6032 WINTER IN THE MORNING BAUMAN, JANINA THE MEMOIR OF A YOUNG GIRL GROWING UP IN THE MIDST OF THE HOLOCAUST IN THE WARSAW GHETTO. UNLIKE ANNE FRANK, A CONTEMPORARY, BAUMAN HAS LIVED TO WRITE AN ACCOUNT LONG AFTER THE EVENTS.
BR 6033 BROTHERHOOD OF MEMORY, A JEWISH LANDSMANSHAFTN IN THE NEW W WEISSER, MICHAEL R. A STUDY OF JEWISH IMMIGRANTS TO NEW YORK WHO REMAINED LARGELY UNASSIMILATED, TRYING TO MAINTAIN LIFE AS THEY HAD KNOWN IT IN EASTERN EUROPEAN SHTETLS.
BR 6034 S. J. PERELMAN A LIFE HERRMANN, DOROTHY A BIOGRAPHY OF THE BROOKLYN-BORN AUTHOR WHO LIVED FROM 1904 TO 1979. DESCRIBES HIS EARLY BOYHOOD IN RHODE ISLAND, HIS BUDDING CAREER, AND HIS RELATIONSHIPS.
BR 6035 ANATOLY AND AVITAL SHARANSKY THE JOURNEY HOME THE JERUSALEM POST THE 12-YEAR ORDEAL OF THE SHARANSKYS IS TOLD AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE SOVIET JEWRY MOVEMENT. THE BOOK COVERS THE COUPLE'S SEPARATION THE DAY AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE, ANATOLY'S ARREST, THEIR REUNION, AND THEIR LIFE IN ISRAEL TODAY.
BR 6036 MONDAY IN ODESSA SHERMAN, EILEEN BLUESTONE A 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL TRIES TO BECOME A FINALIST IN AN ODESSA STORYTELLING CONTEST TO KEEP HER PARENTS FROM APPLYING FOR AN EXIT VISA TO LEAVE RUSSIA, WHERE HER LIFE IS COMFORTABLE AND PLEASANT.
BR 6037 1949 THE FIRST ISRAELIS SEGEV, TOM THIS IS AN ISRAELI JOURNALIST'S CHRONICLE OF HIS COUNTRY'S FIRST YEAR OF INDEPENDENCE. DECLASSIFIED PAPERS, DIARIES, AND LETTERS ARE USED TO ARGUE THAT THE PROBLEMS FACING ISRAEL IN THE 1980S HAVE THEIR ROOTS IN THOSE FIRST MONTHS.
BR 6038 OUR GOLDA ADLER, DAVID A. A LIVELY AND ANECDOTAL BIOGRAPHY OF GOLDA MEIR. HER CHILDHOOD IN RUSSIA AND AMERICA TO HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL ARE ALL INCLUDED.
BR 6039 HOSTAGE TORAH, THE THE FORMATION OF EMES JUNIOR INTER WINKLER, GERSHON IN THE ISRAELI EMBASSY OF AN ISLAMIC NATION, 34 JEWISH HOSTAGES CANNOT BE RESCUED EXCEPT FOR THE HELP OF THREE SPECIAL PEOPLE.
BR 6040 BAR KOCHBA WHITEMAN, AMRAM AN IMAGINARY ACCOUNTING OF SIMON BAR KOCHBA'S PERSONAL LIFE DETAILING HIS RELATIONSHIP TO HIS MENTOR, RABBI AKIVA, AND HIS ROLE AS A COMMANDER OF THE JUDEAN ARMED FORCES.
BR 6041 GREAT CODE, THE FRYE, NORTHROP THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE, AND HAS CULLED IN COMPARATIVE RELIGION, ANTHROPOLOGY, HISTORY, CLASSICAL STUDIES, SEMIOTICS, ETC.
BR 6042 SAUL BELLOW AND HISTORY NEWMAN, JUDIE A LECTURER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND, DEMONSTRATES BELLOW'S SENSE OF HISTORY AS DEVELOPED IN THE THEMES OF HIS WRITING.
BR 6043 FLOATING MINYAN OF PIRATE'S COVE, THE ZAKON, MIRIAM STARK THE SEARCH FOR A MISSING IRGUN HERO TAKES TWO YOUNG ADVENTUROUS DETECTIVES TO PIRATE'S COVE, GEORGIA, WHERE THEY FIND, AMONG OTHER THINGS, A FLOATING MINYAN.
BR 6044 VIKING JEWS, THE A HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF DENMARK BAMBERGER, IB NATHAN A ONE HUNDRED-YEAR LOOK AT HOW THE JEWS OF THIS COUNTRY STRUGGLED TO MAINTAIN CIVIL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC EQUALITY.
BR 6045 ZUCKERMAN BOUND ROTH, PHILIP HERE, ONCE MORE, WE SEE THE WRITER A SLAVE TO HIS LITERARY VOCATION. HE FEELS A HEAVY SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY TO WRITERS LESS FORTUNATE THAN HIMSELF, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ENDURED THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 6046 VICTIMS AND NEIGHBORS A SMALL TOWN IN NAZI GERMANY REMEM HENRY, FRANCES THE AUTHOR EXAMINES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JEWS AND GENTILES IN THE SMALL GERMAN TOWN OF SONDERBURG IN THE YEARS PRIOR TO THE HOLOCAUST. SHE CONCLUDES THAT THE TWO GROUPS HAD ACHIEVED A STABLE ACCOMMODATION BEFORE THE RISE OF NAZISM.
BR 6047 JUDAISM DESPITE CHRISTIANITY ROSENSTOCK-HUESSY, EUGEN SIGNIFICANT CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ROSENSTOCK-HUESSY AND FRANZ ROSENZWEIG WRITTEN IN 1916, THIS IS AN ILLUSTRATION OF DIALOGUE IN WHICH TWO FRIENDS FRANKLY DEFEND THEIR RESPECTIVE FAITHS.
BR 6048 FIRST ENCOUNTER CHAGALL, BELLA THIS MEMOIR BEGINS WITH BELLA CHAGALL'S ADOLESCENCE IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA AND ENDS WITH HER FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH THE PAINTER MARC CHAGALL.
BR 6049 BARON PHILIPPE THE VERY CANDID AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF B LITTLEWOOD, JOAN BARON PHILIPPE DE ROTHSCHILD RECOUNTS HIS WORLD WAR II ACTIVITIES AND DESCRIBES THE EVENTS OF HIS LIFE.
BR 6050 BLANCE AND NICKY WEST, ELLIOT BLANCHE IS A NICE JEWISH WOMAN WHO HAS A SON, NICKY. SHE ALSO HAPPENS TO BE A PROSTITUTE. HER FREQUENT SEXUAL EXPLOITS NEVER SEEM TO INTERFERE WITH HER PREPARATION OF NOURISHING MEALS FOR HER SON.
BR 6051 SPECIAL LEGACY, A AN ORAL HISTORY OF SOVIET JEWISH E ROTHCHILD, SYLVIA THE ORAL HISTORIES OF 178 SOVIET JEWS WHO EMIGRATED TO THE U.S. IN THE 1980'S.
BR 6052 LETTERS FROM WESTERBORK HILLESUM, ETTY HILLESUM WAS IMPRISONED AT WESTERBOOK, THE LAST STOP FOR MANY DUTCH JEWS BEFORE THEY WENT TO AUSCHWITZ. HER LETTERS, WHICH SHE WROTE BEFORE SHE WAS EXECUTED BY THE NAZIS, PAINT A PORTRAIT OF LIFE INSIDE A NAZI CAMP.
BR 6053 MAGGID OF DUBNO AND HIS PARABLES, THE HEINEMANN, BENNO THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE POPULAR ANTHOLOGY OF THE MAGGID'S PARABLES IN ENGLISH.
BR 6054 MARKOFF WOMEN, THE SINGER, JUNE FLAUM WHEN EVE BRODKIN UNWILLINGLY MARRIES DAVID MARKOFF YOUNGEST OF THE LEGENDARY MARKOFF MEN KNOWN FOR THEIR SHORT TEMPERS AND FEATS OF STRENGTH, SPARKS FLY.
BR 6055 OPERATION MOSES PARFITT, TUDOR THIS IS THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE SECRET EXODUS OF THE ETHIOPIAN JEWS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR THEM TO AGAIN TAKE THEIR PLACE AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
BR 6056 EXPLORING EXODUS THE HERITAGE OF BIBLICAL ISRAEL SARNA, NAHUM M. A SEQUEL TO 'UNDERSTANDING GENESIS,' THIS BOOK EXPLORES THE LEADERSHIP OF MOSES, PASSOVER, THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT AND THE REVELATION AT SINAI.
BR 6057 SOLDIERS FROM THE GHETTO CHOLAWSKI, SHALOM THE MEMOIRS OF SHALOM CHOLAWSKI, THE POLISH JEW WHO LED ARMED UPRISINGS AGAINST THE NAZIS.
BR 6059 CHANGING OF THE GODS FEMINISM AND THE END OF TRADITIONA GOLDENBERG, NAOMI R. PUBLISHED IN 1979, GOLDENBERG EXAMINES WHAT RELIGIOUS FORCES MAY BE EMERGING TO REPLACE TRADITIONAL MALE IMAGES OF GOD. SHE OFFERS A FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF RELIGION AND PSYCHOANALYSIS.
BR 6060 FIRST BOOK OF MACCABEES, THE FISCHEL, H.A. A COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST BOOK OF MACCABEES, WHICH DEALS WITH A CRUCIAL PERIOD IN JEWISH HISTORY: THE UPRISING OF A TINY BAND OF VALIANT MACCABEES AGAINST THE TYRANNY OF THE SYRIAN KINGS.
BR 6061 YORDIM LEAVING THE PROMISED LAND FOR THE LEV, MICHA A NOVEL THAT PROBES THE LIVES, LOVES, AND CONFLICTS OF ISRAELIS WHO CHOOSE TO LEAVE ISRAEL FOR AMERICA.
BR 6062 ANATOMY LESSON ROTH, PHILIP ROTH'S MAIN CHARACTER, ZUCKERMAN, STRUGGLES WITH PHYSICAL DETERIORATION, MIDDLE AGE AND WRITER'S BLOCK.
BR 6063 HANNAH ARENDT FOR LOVE OF THE WORLD YOUNG-BRUEHL, ELISABETH THE AUTHOR OFFERS NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHER INCLUDING HER CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE, FRIENDSHIPS, MARRIAGES AND HER LOVE AFFAIR.
BR 6065 HIS MAJESTY'S AGENT SHAHAR, DAVID MILDRED FRID A STORY OF LOVE AND POLITICAL INTRIGUE SET AGAINST ISRAEL'S STRUGGLES FOR INDEPENDENCE AND SURVIVAL. THE UNNAMED NARRATOR, A LIEUTENANT IN THE ISRAELI ARMY, IS ASSIGNED TO ACT AS MILITARY LIAISON TO AN ENIGMATIC AMERICAN FILM MAKER COVERING THE WAR.
BR 6066 GUTS AND RUTS THE JEWISH PIONEER ON THE TRAIL IN FIERMAN, FLOYD S. THE STORY OF JEWISH SETTLERS IN THE SOUTHWEST.
BR 6067 UNDER THE CANOPY STRAUS, DOROTHEA THE AUTHOR WRITES OF THE CONTRASTING PRIVATE LIVES OF HERSELF AND FELLOW YIDDISH AUTHOR, ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER.
BR 6068 PERIODIC TABLE, THE LEVI, PRIMO LEVI'S MEMOIR IS ARRANGED IN 21 CHAPTERS NAMED AFTER THE ELEMENTS OF THE PERIODIC TABLE. HE DISCUSSES A WIDE RANGE OF LIFE EVENTS, INCLUDING HIS SEARCH FOR IDENTITY IN ADOLESCENCE AND WAITING FOR DEPORTATION TO AUSCHWITZ.
BR 6069 LEAK IN THE HEART, A TALES FROM A WOMAN'S LIFE MOSKOWITZ, FAYE PERSONAL MEMORIES OF GROWING UP IN AN ORTHODOX JEWISH FAMILY OUTSIDE OF DETROIT IN THE 1930'S AND 40'S.
BR 6070 JEWISH LAW REVIEW, THE-VOL. 1 FEINSTEIN, RABBI MORLEY THIS WORK EXPLAINS THE VARIOUS LAWS OF DAMAGES AS FOUND IN THE MISHNAH. WE LEARN OF A JEW'S RESPONSIBILITY TO HIMSELF AND OTHERS IN EVERYDAY LIFE.
BR 6071 ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR RASHKE, RICHARD RASHKE PRESENTS THE HISTORY OF THE REVOLT AND ESCAPE OF 600 JEWS FROM SOBIBOR, A NAZI DEATH-CAMP.
BR 6072 LITERARY CRITICISM AND THE STRUCTURES OF HISTORY ERICH AUERBACH AND LEO SPITZER GREEN, GEOFFREY DEMONSTRATES HOW THESE TWO IMPORTANT CRITICS FROM THE BACKGROUND OF THE HOLOCAUST GIVE DIFFERENT RESPONSES TO HISTORICAL FACTORS OF WAR AND FASCISM.
BR 6073 CHRONICLE OF THE LODZ GHETTO 1941-1944, THE DOBROSZYCKI, LUCJAN, ED. WRITTEN AS EVENTS WERE UNFOLDING BY A GROUP OF SCHOLARS AND JOURNALISTS, THESE HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS REVEAL THE DAILY LIFE IN THE LODZ GHETTO FROM 1941-1944.
BR 6074 TORN COUNTRY AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE ISRAELI WAR BANKS, LYNNE REID TRANSCRIPTS OF INTERVIEWS WITH SOLDIERS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE ISRAELI WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. INCLUDES INTERVIEWS WITH THEIR FAMILIES.
BR 6075 MY WAR DIARY LEBANON YERMIYA, DOV A LIEUTENANT COLONEL ASSIGNED TO CIVILIAN RELIEF DURING THE ISRAELI INVASION OF LEBANON, KEPT DIARIES OF THE SHOCKING TREATMENT GIVEN ARAB PRISONERS AND CIVILIAN NON-COMBATANTS.
BR 6076 PASSOVER GOURMET ROUSSO, NIRA OVER 200 PASSOVER RECIPES FOR THE GOURMET COOK.
BR 6077 BIG SUKKAH, THE SCHRAM, PENINNAH BERL, WHOSE HOUSE IS TOO SMALL TO INVITE RELATIVES FOR THE HOLIDAYS, HAS A YARD BIG ENOUGH FOR A SUKKAH THAT IS THE ENVY OF THE TOWN.
BR 6078 ADIEU VOLODYA SIGNORET, SIMONE SET IN PARIS, THIS IS THE STORY OF PEOPLE WHO SURVIVE BOTH THE MEMORIES OF PAST PERSECUTION IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE THREATS OF NAZISM ON THE RISE IN FRANCE.
BR 6079 ELLIS ISLAND STEWART, FRED MUSTARD FIVE YOUNG IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE AT ELLIS ISLAND IN 1907 AND FIND THEIR LIVES DRAMATICALLY INTERTWINED IN THE COUNTRY TO THE FUTURE OF WHICH THEY WILL CONTRIBUTE.
BR 6080 LAZAR MALKIN ENTERS HEAVEN STERN, STEVE NINE STORIES ABOUT JEWISH LIFE ON MYTHICAL NORTH MAIN STREET IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.
BR 6081 REFLECTIONS DEMETZ, PETER: EDITOR AN EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, APHORISMS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS OF WALTER BENJAMIN A MODERN THINKER AND CULTURAL CRITIC.
BR 6082 FROM PLOTZK TO BOSTON ANTIN, MARY THE AUTHOR RELATES HER EXPERIENCES AS A 13-YEAR-OLD EMIGRATING WITH HER FAMILY FROM SOVIET RUSSIA TO AMERICA.
BR 6083 LOVING KINDNESS ROIPHE, ANNE A NOVEL ABOUT ANNIE JOHNSON, AN ASSIMILATED JEWISH WOMAN AND A SINGLE PARENT. DEALS WITH ISSUES OF RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM, PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS, AND FEMINISM.
BR 6084 JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM HAZLETON, LESLEY REFLECTIONS OF A WOMAN WHO ADMITS SHE CANNOT LIVE WITH OR WITHOUT THE CITY OF JERUSALEM. SHE WRITES OF ITS PASSIONS AND WARS, ITS RELIGIOUS-SECULAR CONFLICTS, AND THE MANY ATTRACTIONS WHICH LURE HER BACK, NO MATTER HOW OFTEN SHE LEAVES. CONVERSATIONS WITH WRITERS AND INTELLECTUALS HELP PORTRAY LIFE IN MODERN ISRAEL.
BR 6085 JUDAISM BEYOND GOD WINE, RABBI SHERWIN A RADICAL NEW WAY TO BE JEWISH IS PRESENTED BY THE FOUNDER OF THE SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISM, A NON-ESTABLISHMENT, PRAGMATIC, SECULAR APPROACH TO JUDAISM.
BR 6086 TRIANGLES GELLER, RUTH THIS NOVEL FOCUSES ON A WOMAN COMING TO TERMS WITH HER JEWISH HERITAGE AND HIGHLIGHTS CONCERNS WITH SUCH ISSUES AS NONVIOLENCE, MOTHERING AND INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM.
BR 6087 CRISIS OF IDENTITY ISRAEL AND ZIONISM SEGRE, DAN V. IN THIS WORK, THE AUTHOR CLAIMS THAT A MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE BASIC CHARACTER OF ZIONISM HAS LED TO A 'CRISIS OF IDENTITY' IN THE PRESENT STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 6088 COOKING THE SEPHARDIC WAY ROSEMAN, PEARL: EDITOR THESE EXCELLENT GOURMET RECIPES ARE PARTICULARLY EXOTIC AND POPULAR BECAUSE THEY ARE A COMBINATION OF DISHES FROM SPAIN, TURKEY, GREECE, AND SYRIA.
BR 6089 JEWISH MEDITATION A PRACTICAL GUIDE KAPLAN, ARYEH THIS IS A STEP-BY-STEP INTRODUCTION TO THE JEWISH TRADITIONAL METHODS OF MEDITATION THAT WERE PART OF MAINSTREAM JUDAISM UNTIL THE 18TH CENTURY.
BR 6090 MEMOIRS OF AN ANTI-SEMITE A NOVEL IN FIVE STORIES VON REZZORI, GREGOR FIVE INTERRELATED WORKS WHICH TRACE THE LIFE OF A YOUNG RUMANIAN BOY BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS.
BR 6091 DEFENDING MY ENEMY NEIER, ARYEH LEGAL, PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY OF IMPLICATIONS OF ATTEMPTED NAZI MARCH THROUGH SKOKIE, HOME OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, NEIER WAS DEFENSE LAWYER FOR NAZIS.
BR 6092 DAYS AND WAYS GAMORAN, MAMIE, G. HARRIET GILB A PRESENTATION OF JEWISH HOLIDAYS AND CEREMONIES WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN.
BR 6093 GREAT MARCH, THE - BOOK I LURIE, R.G. STORIES OF OUTSTANDING PERSONALITIES AND EVENTS IN JEWISH HISTORY.
BR 6094 WHEN THE JEWISH PEOPL WAS YOUNG SOLOFF, MORDECAI A HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOR USE IN THE LOWER GRADES OF THE HEBREW SCHOOL.
BR 6096 AFTER LEBANON SCHENKER, HILLEL THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONNECTION WITH FOCUS ON THE WAR IN LEBANON, THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE ISRAELIS TO THE PALESTINIANS AND A PROPOSAL FOR PEACE BETWEEN THE TWO PEOPLES.
BR 6097 GOD KNOWS HELLER, JOSEPH THE BIBLICAL KING DAVID IS THE HERO OF THIS HUMOROUS YET SERIOUS NOVEL. WHILE ON HIS DEATHBED HIS LIFE IS REVIEWED THROUGH FLASHBACKS.
BR 6098 INSIDE, OUTSIDE WOUK, HERMAN FOR A JEWISH, MIDDLE-AGED ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT NIXON DURING WATERGATE, LIFE CONSISTS OF THE 'INSIDE' WORLD OF PIETY, CLANNISH JEWS AND OBSERVED TRADITIONS, AND THE 'OUTSIDE' WORLD RIFE WITH ANTI-SEMITISM.
BR 6099 SPRING SONATA A FABLE RUBENS, BERNICE THE NARRATOR OF THIS NOVEL IS THE NEWLY-CONCEIVED FETUS THAT SHEILA, A MIDDLE-CLASS LONDON JEW, HAS LONG-AWAITED.
BR 6100 JEWISH HOLIDAYS A GUIDE AND COMMENTARY STRASSFELD, MICHAEL BLENDING TRADITION AND INNOVATION, THIS GUIDE GIVES EACH HOLIDAY ITS OWN CHAPTER, WITH AN OVERVIEW, A DESCRIPTION OF ITS LAWS AND CUSTOMS AND NEW APPROACHES AND INTERPRETATION.
BR 6101 BRANDEIS/FRANKFURTER CONNECTION THE SECRET POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF MURPHY, BRUCE ALLEN THE FULL STORY OF HOW THE MENTOR AND HIS PROTEGE ENGAGED IN A WIDE RANGE OF POLITICAL ACTIVITIES.
BR 6102 RABBI OF CASINO BOULEVARD, THE APPEL, ALLAN THIS NOVEL ADDRESSES THE ISSUES OF BEING JEWISH IN THE EIGHTIES, THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN ONE'S EMOTIONAL LIFE, AND THE MEANING OF FAITH VERSUS THE TRAPPINGS OF FAITH.
BR 6103 ILLUSIONS OF LOVE FREEMAN, CYNTHIA THE UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF A ROMANCE THAT SOARS ACROSS DECADES, SHADOWING AND SHAPING THREE LIVES WITH AN UNDYING LOVE THAT BRAIDS THEIR DESTINIES TOGETHER-AND THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.
BR 6104 TESHUVAH STEINSALTZ, ADIN A GUIDE FOR NEWLY OBSERVANT JEWS (BA'ALEI TESHUVAH), THE BOOK EXPLORES THE PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIAL, AND INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGES ENCOUNTERED IN THE ONGOING PROCESS OF SPIRITUAL AWAKENING.
BR 6105 LAND OF TWO PEOPLES, A MARTIN BUBER ON JEWS AND ARABS MENDES-FLOHR, PAUL R., ED. THESE SELECTED SPEECHES, LETTERS, ARTICLES AND REVIEWS BY MARTIN BUBER REPRESENT HIS THINKING ON ZIONISM AND ISRAEL FROM THE BALFOUR DECLARATION IN 1917 UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1965.
BR 6106 HONI AND HIS MAGIC CIRCLE GERSHATOR, PHYLLIS A SIMPLE BUT PROFOUND STORY WHICH TELLS OF HONI, THE RAINMAKER, WHO PLANTED CAROB TREES ALL OVER ISRAEL AND LIVED TO SEE THEM BEAR FRUIT.
BR 6107 NARROWEST BAR MITZVAH, THE SCHNUR, STEVEN FACED WITH A DISASTER ON THE EVE OF ALEX'S BAR MITZVAH, A FAMILY DISPLAYS TRUE RESOURCEFULNESS.
BR 6108 CLARA'S STORY ISAACMAN, CLARA AN ACCOUNT FOR CHILDREN OF THE TRUE STORY OF A GIRL WHO, WITH HER FAMILY, FLED FROM ROMANIA TO BELGIUM TO ESCAPE NAZI PERSECUTION.
BR 6109 THIS LAND OF LIBERTY KENVIN, HELENE SCHWARTZ A DESCRIPTION OF 350 YEARS OF AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH JEWISH EYES DESCRIBING WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE A JEW IN DUTCH NEW AMSTERDAM, QUAKER PENNSYLVANIA, AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AMONG OTHER NOTABLE ERAS.
BR 6110 SECRET OF THE SABBATH FISH, THE ARONIN, BEN ELIJAH THE PROPHET INSTRUCTS TANTE MASHE ON HOW TO PREPARE ONE FISH TO FEED AN ENTIRE TOWN-MIX IN SOME HISTORY AND MAKE IT GEFILTE.
BR 6111 CASTLE ON HESTER STREET, THE HELLER, LINDA A LITTLE GIRL HEARS TWO DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF HER GRANDPARENTS' EMIGRATION TO AMERICA. THIS IS A CHARMING 'TALL-TALE.'
BR 6112 EFFECTIVE JEWISH PARENTING LEVI, MIRIAM THE AUTHOR OFFERS GUIDANCE FOR JEWISH PARENTS, COMBINING AUTHORITATIVE TORAH PRINCIPLES AND METHODS BASED ON COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY.
BR 6113 TALE OF MESHKA THE KVETCH, THE CHAPMAN, CAROL ALL OF MESHKA'S COMPLAINTS COME TRUE AND ONLY THE RABBI'S SAGE ADVICE CAN LIFT 'THE CURSE OF THE ITCHING TONGUE!'
BR 6114 BUTCHERS AND BAKERS, RABBIS AND KINGS GREENE, JACQUELINE DENBAR HERE THE JEWS OF TUDELA, SPAIN, IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY CONVINCED THEIR NEW RULER THEY WERE ESSENTIAL TO HIS KINGDOM AND THEREFORE DESERVED HIS PROTECTION.
BR 6117 FIRE IN THE ICE SCHOLEFIELD, ALAN THIS NOVEL FOLLOWS SIR DAVID KADE, ONCE THE OBSCURE RUSSIAN-JEWISH IMMIGRANT DAVID KADESHINSKY. IN 1917, HE IS SENT TO SIBERIA IN 1917 BY THE BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE TO NEGOTIATE FOR THE RUSSIAN CROWN JEWELS.
BR 6118 POWER AND POWERLESSNESS IN JEWISH HISTORY BIALE, DAVID THIS WORK TACKLES THE MYTH OF JEWISH POLITICAL PASSIVITY BETWEEN THE FALL OF AN INDEPENDENT JEWISH COMMONWEALTH IN 70 A.D. AND THE REBIRTH OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN 1948.
BR 6119 ON EAGLES' WINGS AND OTHER THINGS STEINER, CONNIE COLKER FOUR REPRESENTATIVE STORIES OF THE MASS INFLUX OF IMMIGRANTS EXPERIENCED BY ISRAEL AT HER BIRTH. FOR CHILDREN AGES 5-9.
BR 6120 BUBBIE AND ZADIE COME TO MY HOUSE BLOOM, DANIEL HALEVI THE AUTHOR BRINGS A 'BUBBIE AND ZADIE' (YIDDISH FOR GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDFATHER) TO LIFE IN THIS FOLKTALE.
BR 6121 POTATO PANCAKES ALL AROUND HIRSH, MARILYN A PEDDLER SETTLES A LONG-STANDING DISPUTE BETWEEN TWO GRANDMOTHERS AS TO WHOSE POTATO PANCAKES ARE BETTER.
BR 6122 ONLY NINE CHAIRS MILLER, DEBORAH U. HILARIOUS HAPPENINGS OCCUR AT A SEDER WHEN THERE ARE MORE GUESTS THAN CHAIRS.
BR 6123 ALINA MEIR, MIRA THE STORY OF A NINE-YEAR-OLD RUSSIAN GIRL WHO HAS JUST ARRIVED IN ISRAEL, AND THE PROBLEMS SHE FACES IN ADJUSTING TO HER NEW LIFE.
BR 6124 ODD POTATO, THE SHERMAN, EILEEN BLUESTONE A YOUNG GIRL HELPS HER FATHER READJUST TO LIFE WHEN SHE USES AN OLD POTATO FOR A CHANUKAH.
BR 6125 EMET VE-EMUNAH JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, ETAL THIS TEXT OFFERS A SET OF FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES FOR PUBLIC DISCOURSE THROUGHOUT THE CONSERVATIVE JEWISH MOVEMENT.
BR 6126 MOLLY'S PILGRIM COHEN, BARBARA AN IMMIGRANT JEWISH GIRL EMBARRASSED BY HER MOTHER'S INTERPRETATION OF A CLASS ASSIGNMENT LEARNS FROM HER TEACHER THAT IMMIGRANTS ARE ALSO PILGRIMS.
BR 6127 EISENHOWER AND THE JEWS NADICH, JUDAH AS ADVISOR ON JEWISH AFFAIRS TO GENERAL EISENHOWER IN THE EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS, NADICH WAS IN A POSITION TO WITNESS EISENHOWER'S TREATMENT OF THE JEWS FOLLOWING THE END OF WORLD WAR II.
BR 6128 ENCHANTMENT MERKIN, DAPHNE A NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG, NEW YORK WOMAN OF ORTHODOX GERMAN-JEWISH HERITAGE, HER FIVE SISTERS AND BROTHERS, THE COMPLICATED POWER OF FAMILIES, AND THE OBSESSIVE WORKINGS OF MEMORY.
BR 6129 BUILDING A PRISON KORNILOV, VLADIMIR KORNILOV HAS CONSISTENTLY REFUSED TO ADAPT HIS WRITINGS TO SUIT SOVIET AUTHORITIES. THIS NOVEL, THE FIRST TO BE PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH, IS THE UNCENSORED STORY OF A JEWISH FAMILY AND THEIR FRIENDS.
BR 6130 TO THE LAND OF THE CATTAILS APPELFELD, AHARON A WOMAN'S JOURNEY WITH HER ADOLESCENT SON ACROSS EASTERN EUROPE MAKES TANGIBLE THE AWFUL HELPLESSNESS OF A EUROPEAN JEWRY TRAPPED AMONG ENEMIES.
BR 6131 MEMOIRS OF A FORTUNATE JEW AN ITALIAN STUDY SEGRE, DAN VITTORIO THE STORY OF THE AUTHOR'S RETURN TO HIS JEWISH HERITAGE. RAISED AS AN ASSIMILATED JEW IN ITALY'S PIEDMONT REGION AND IGNORANT OF ZIONISM, THE AUTHOR WAS ONE OF THE FIRST ITALIAN JEWS TO EMIGRATE TO PALESTINE IN 1938 WHEN THE RACIAL LAWS AGAINST JEWS WENT INTO EFFECT.
BR 6132 FROM THE FAIR ALEICHEM, SHOLOM IN THIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, THE WELL-KNOWN YIDDISH WRITER DEPICTS THE LOST WORLD IN WHICH HE LIVED.
BR 6133 MAIMONIDES' PRINCIPLES KAPLAN, RABBI ARYEH THE FUNDAMENTALS OF JEWISH FAITH THE PRINCIPLES WHICH OPEN THE DOOR OF TORAH LIVING AND LEARNING AND GIVE A KEENER UNDERSTANDING OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF JEWISH RESPONSIBILITY.
BR 6135 ELIE WIESEL WITNESS FOR LIFE STERN, ELLEN NORMAN AN INTERVIEW WITH THE MOST ELOQUENT OF WRITERS OF THE HOLOCAUST. HE DISCUSSES HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS.
BR 6136 MORE ALL-OF-A-KIND FAMILY TAYLOR, SYDNEY THE SEQUEL TO ALL-OF-A-KIND FAMILY, IT IS THE CONTINUING STORY OF THE FIVE SISTERS AND THEIR LITTLE BROTHER AND LIFE ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE. THE BOOK ENDS WITH THEIR MOVE TO THE BRONX.
BR 6137 STORY OF DONA GRACIA MENDES, THE STADTLER, BEA THE BIOGRAPHY OF A MARRANO WOMAN REVEALS HOW SHE BECAME THE HEAD OF A LARGE EUROPEAN BANKING HOUSE, RE-ASSUMED HER JEWISH IDENTITY, AND BECAME A PATRON OF JEWISH LEARNING.
BR 6138 SEASONS OF OUR JOY A CELEBRATION OF MODERN JEWISH REN WASKOW, ARTHUR THE TALES, PRACTICES, CUSTOMS AND SONGS BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS YEARLY CYCLE. THE WORK ALSO ANSWERS SUCH QUESTIONS AS WHEN DO THE CYCLE AND THE YEAR BEGIN.
BR 6139 CHERNOWITZ ARRICK, FRAN A HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENT KEEPS SECRET THE ANTI-SEMITIC CAMPAIGN THAT IS WAGED AGAINST HIM BY FELLOW STUDENTS OVER THE COURSE OF TWO YEARS. WHEN HE EVENTUALLY RETALIATES, HIS GUILT FORCES THE ISSUE INTO THE OPEN CAUSING UNINTENDED RESULTS.
BR 6140 JEWS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION HAYM SOLOMON AND OTHERS SCHWARTZ, LAURENS R. A PORTRAIT OF THE JEWS WHO WERE DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THE REVOLUTION AS FINANCIERS, SABOTEURS, AGENT PROVOCATEURS, AND MORE.
BR 6141 I AM A WOMAN AND A JEW MORTON, LEAH THE PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN WHO OVERCAME GENDER AND CLASS BARRIERS BETWEEN 1900 AND 1927.
BR 6142 KING MATT THE FIRST KORCZAK, JANUSZ A EUROPEAN CHILDREN'S TALE OF A YOUNG KING WHO TRIES TO MAKE A WORLD WHERE CHILDREN AND ADULTS TRULY UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER.
BR 6143 JEWISH COOKING FROM AROUND THE WORLD BACON, JOSEPHINE LEVY THIS COLLECTION OF RECIPES INCLUDES ASHKENAZIC, SEPHARDIC, ITALIAN, MIDDLE EASTERN, AND NORTH AFRICAN DISHES.
BR 6145 TEVYE THE DAIRYMAN AND THE RAILROAD STORIES ALEICHEM, SHOLOM THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES IS A SERIES OF VIGNETTES OF SHTETL LIFE IN THE JEWISH PALE IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO WORLD WAR I.
BR 6146 DISTURBANCES IN THE FIELD SCHWARTZ, LYNNE SHARON A NOVEL ABOUT AN ASSIMILATED JEW AND HOW EFFECTIVE HER BUTTRESSES OF CULTURE AND THE INNER LIFE REALLY ARE, AGAINST LIFE'S DIFFICULTIES.
BR 6147 HAVEN AND HOME A HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN AMERICA KARP, ABRAHAM J. THE AUTHOR TRACES THE JEWISH RESPONSE TO HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL FORCES OVER A 350-YEAR PERIOD. HE CONTENDS THAT JEWS HAVE FOUND EMANCIPATION AND PROSPERITY IN AMERICA NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF AMERICAN IDEALS AND TRADITIONS BUT ALSO BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN IDEALS AND INTERIOR ORGANIZATION.
BR 6148 TWILIGHT WIESEL, ELIE WIESEL DRAWS ON THE EXPERIENCES OF THE HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR IN THIS NOVEL OF A MAN OBSESSED BY GUILT FOR A FRIEND WHO GAVE UP HIS SANITY TO SAVE THE MAN'S BROTHER.
BR 6149 SIMPLE STORY AGNON, S. Y. AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, SZYBUSZ, A TOWN IN NORTHERN POLAND, IS THE SCENE OF THIS BITTERSWEET ROMANCE WITH SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS.
BR 6150 WINE, WOMEN AND DEATH MEDIEVAL HEBREW POEMS ON THE GOOD SHEINDLIN, RAYMOND P. TRANSLATIONS AND COMMENTARY ON THE SECULAR POETRY OF THE GREAT RABBI/PHILOSOPHERS OF SPAIN'S GOLDEN AGE.
BR 6151 MY MOTHER'S SABBATH DAYS GRADE, CHAIM A MEMOIR DESCRIBING THE AUTHOR'S YOUTH IN VILNA, HIS SURVIVAL OF THE HOLOCAUST, AND HIS RETURN HOME AFTER THE WAR.
BR 6152 IN SEARCH OF THE JEWISH WOMAN A TORAH JOURNEY MILLER, RABBI YISROEL A GUIDE FOR THE JEWISH WOMAN ON HOW TO CONDUCT HER LIFE INCLUDING MORAL INSTRUCTION, RABBINIC SOURCES, AND TORAH SCHOLARSHIP.
BR 6153 FOOTSTEPS ON THE STAIR BRINIG, MYRON A NOVEL OF FAMILY LIFE IN MONTANA, DEALING WITH THE INTERACTIONS OF THE JEWISH AND IRISH BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY.
BR 6155 COUNTERLIFE ROTH, PHILIP THROUGH A SERIES OF NARRATIVES BY THE PROTAGONIST, NATHAN ZUCKERMAN, THIS NOVEL EXAMINES WHAT HAPPENS TO SOMEONE WHO IS TAKING STOCK OF HIS LIFE AND HIS JEWISH IDENTITY.
BR 6156 MIRIAM'S WELL RITUALS FOR JEWISH WOMEN AROUND TH ADELMAN, PENINA V. A COMPILATION OF WOMAN-CENTERED JEWISH RITUALS DESIGNED FOR WOMEN'S GROUPS, BASED ON ROSH HODESH GATHERINGS CONCEIVED TO HONOR EACH MONTH ON THE JEWISH CALENDAR.
BR 6157 MIXED BLESSINGS MARRIAGE BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND JE COWAN, PAUL & RACHEL COWAN AN INTERMARRIED COUPLE EXPLORE THE CONFLICTS INHERENT IN INTERFAITH MARRIAGES AND OFFER ADVICE ON HOW TO BLEND SOME DIFFERENCES WHILE PRESERVING OTHER ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS CHARACTERISTICS.
BR 6158 HANUKKAH-EIGHT LIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD SUSSMAN, SUSAN THIS COLLECTION OF EIGHT STORIES ABOUT THE CELEBRATION OF THE HOLIDAY REVEALS THAT AMIDST THE DIFFERENT CUSTOMS AND DIVERSITY, THERE IS A UNITY OF PURPOSE AND TRADITION.
BR 6159 WHY THE JEWS? THE REASON FOR THE WORLD'S GREATEST HATRED PRAGER, DENNIS & JOSEPH TELUSHKIN THE AUTHORS STATE THAT IT IS THE JEWISH RELIGION, BASED ON VALUES AND ALLEGIANCES THAT CHALLENGE THOSE OF NON-JEWS, THAT IS THE REASON FOR CENTURIES OF UNIVERSAL HATRED.
BR 6160 CAPTIVE SOUL OF THE MESSIAH, THE NEW TALES ABOUT REB NACHMAN SCHWARTZ, HOWARD THIS ANTHOLOGY PRESENTS NEW STORIES ABOUT THE LATE 18TH AND EARLY 19TH CENTURY HASIDIC LEADER, REB NACHMAN OF BRESLAV.
BR 6161 PATTERN CRIMES BAYER, WILLIAM DAVID BAR-LEV, A YOUNG CAPTAIN IN THE JERUSALEM POLICE DEPARTMENT, HEADS ITS PATTERN CRIMES UNIT. HE SEEKS TO SOLVE WHAT APPEARS TO BE ISRAEL'S FIRST SERIAL MURDER CASE.
BR 6162 GOLDEN CUP, THE PLAIN, BELVA SET IN THE WORLD OF JEWISH IMMIGRANTS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, THIS IS THE STORY OF HENNIE ROTH, A SUFFRAGETTE AND FIGHTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE. SHE STRUGGLES TO RECONCILE THE DEMANDS OF FAMILY AND OF HER CONSCIENCE WITH THE DEMANDS OF HER HEART.
BR 6163 JERRY FALWELL AND THE JEWS SIMON, MERRILL AN EXTENDED INTERVIEW OF THE FUNDAMENTALIST PREACHER BY AN AMERICAN ZIONIST WRITER. DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS: FALWELL ON JUDAISM; ON ISRAEL; AND ON FALWELL.
BR 6164 ORAL HISTORY AND THE HOLOCAUST POEMS BY JULIE HEIFETZ HEIFETZ, JULIE SET AGAINST THE BACKGROUND MUSIC OF A GUITAR, THE AUTHOR EXPRESSES HER FEELINGS ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST IN POETRY FORM.
BR 6165 THIRTEEN PETALLED ROSE, THE STEINSALTZ, ADIN THE AUTHOR PRESENTS HIS OWN THEOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS, SHOWING HOW, IN JEWISH THINKING, BELIEF AND ACTION, FAR FROM BEING SEPARATE OR IN OPPOSITION, ARE BOTH EARTHLY MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SAME DIVINE PRINCIPLE.
BR 6166 DREIDLE CHAMP AND OTHER HOLIDAY STORIES, THE SIDI, SMADAR SHIR DRAMATIC STORIES FOR OLDER CHILDREN ABOUT THE SEVEN MAJOR JEWISH HOLIDAYS. INCLUDED IS A GLOSSARY OF JEWISH TERMS AND INFORMATION ABOUT EACH ONE.
BR 6167 NIGHTMARE YEARS 1930-1940 20TH CENTURY JOURNEY, VOL. II SHIRER, WILLIAM L. A JOURNALIST, WHO BEGAN HIS CAREER AS AN AMERICAN OVERSEAS RADIO CORRESPONDENT, GIVES A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY DAYS OF THE NAZI RISE TO POWER AND THE EVENTS THAT LED TO THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 6168 AMERICAN REFORM RESPONSA COMMITTEE ON RESPONSA A COLLECTION OF RABBINIC ANSWERS TO FORMAL QUESTIONS ABOUT JEWISH LAW FROM A REFORM PERSPECTIVE.
BR 6169 ESCAPE FROM AUSCHWITZ KULKA, ERICH THE SUSPENSEFUL ACCOUNT OF SIEGFRIED WHO ESCAPED FROM THE DEATH CAMP IN POLAND. THIS EPISODE PROVIDES A SEARING DELINEATION OF THE HORRORS OF THE NAZI REGIME.
BR 6170 SPECTRUM WISE, DAVID SPECTRUM IS THE CODE NAME OF A TOP-SECRET CIA PROJECT INVOLVING THE SMUGGLING OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO ISRAEL. THE CIA ALSO SAVES SOME OF THESE WEAPONS FOR ITS OWN USE, THUS BECOMING A MAJOR NUCLEAR POWER WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRESIDENT. TRAVERS, CHIEF OF THE LONDON DIVISION, DECIDES TO REVEAL WHAT IS HAPPENING, RISKING HIS LIFE.
BR 6172 BOOK OF ADAM TO MOSES, THE SEGAL, LORE THE AUTHOR RETELLS BIBLE STORIES FOR CHILDREN.
BR 6173 WEST TO EDEN GOLDREICH, GLORIA A FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF JEWISH PIONEERS WHO HELPED MAKE ARIZONA THE FORTY-EIGHTH STATE.
BR 6176 PENGUIN BOOK OF MODERN YIDDISH VERSE, THE HOWE, I., WISSE, R., SHMERVK, K. AN ANTHOLOGY OF OVER 200 POEMS BY 39 POETS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND TEXTUAL NOTES. BIBLIOGRAPHY IS INCLUDED.
BR 6177 PIONEER JEWS A NEW LIFE IN THE FAR WEST ROCHLIN, HARRIET & FRED ROCHLIN THE AUTHORS EXPLORE THE INFLUENCE OF JEWS IN THE AMERICAN FAR WEST FROM THE 16TH CENTURY ON.
BR 6179 BARBRA STREISAND THE WOMAN, THE MYTH, THE MUSIC CONSIDINE, SHAUN A CANDID BIOGRAPHY, BASED ON INTERVIEWS WITH FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND COLLEAGUES, TELLS THE UNCENSORED STORY OF THE SINGER AND SHOW BUSINESS PERSONALITY.
BR 6180 NAMESAKE GOLDBERG, MICHAEL MEMOIRS OF ENCOUNTERS WITH ANTI-SEMITISM IN FRANCE AND THE CONTEMPLATING OF MURDER TO AVENGE HIS FATHER'S DEATH.
BR 6181 HAMMER HAMMER, ARMAND & NEIL LYNDON THIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE INDUSTRIALIST EMPHASIZES HIS ROLE AS A PHILANTHROPIST AND SOVIET-AMERICAN GO-BETWEEN.
BR 6182 IF NOT NOW, WHEN? LEVI, PRIMO THE AUTHOR PORTRAYS THE JEW NOT AS A VICTIM OF NAZISM, BUT AS A FIGHTER, AFFIRMING HIS HUMANITY AGAINST IMPOSSIBLE ODDS.
BR 6183 MAINSTREAM AND MARGINS JEWS, BLACKS AND OTHER AMERICANS ROSE, PETER I. PUBLISHED IN 1983, THE BOOK EXAMINES MINORITY AND ETHNIC ISSUES IN AMERICA.
BR 6184 DEVIL'S ADVOCATE, THE WEST, MORRIS L. NANCY SCHIER THIS NOVEL FOCUSES ON A CATHOLIC BISHOP'S STRUGGLE WITH HIMSELF AND HIS RELATIONSHIP TO GOD. THE BOOK ALSO DESCRIBES THE BISHOP'S INTERACTION WITH A JEWISH DOCTOR WHO IS A REFUGEE FROM NAZI GERMANY, AND IS DEDICATED TO CARING FOR THE LOCAL VILLAGERS.
BR 6185 OH SAY, CAN YOU SEE GOOTNICK, ABRAHAM THIS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT REVEALS HOW A FAMILY TRIED TO GET OUT OF RUSSIA AFTER THE REVOLUTION.
BR 6186 RETREAT, THE APPELFELD, AHARON THE ISRAELI AUTHOR TAKES HIS READERS TO A REMOTE HOTEL IN AUSTRIA ON THE BRINK OF THE HOLOCAUST. ITS PATRONS ARE ALL JEWS TAKING LESSONS IN ASSIMILATION: HOW TO LOOK, TALK, AND THINK LIKE A GENTILE.
BR 6187 BEST OF OLOMEINU, THE-BK 7 FRUCHTER, RABBI YAAKOV ENJOY THE DOWNFALL OF MAYOR SHMOE; LISTEN TO THE MEGILLAH WITH A LION; AND TASTE THE ONLY HAMANTASH A TOWN HAD (OR NEEDED) IN THESE PURIM TALES AND OTHER EXCITING STORIES.
BR 6188 GODLESS JEW, A FREUD, ATHEISM, AND THE MAKING OF GAY, PETER A HISTORICAL INQUIRY INTO FREUD'S JEWISH CULTURAL IDENTITY AND HOW THEY AFFECTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIS PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY. INCLUDES A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND AN INDEX.
BR 6189 TOWN BEYOND THE WALL WIESEL, ELIE AN EXCELLENT AND SENSITIVE NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG JEW WHO HAS SURVIVED NAZI ATROCITIES AND RETURNS TO HIS NATIVE TOWN BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN.
BR 6190 ORDINARY HEROES CHANA SZENES AND THE DREAM OF ZION HAY, PETER DRAWING ON EXTENSIVE INTERVIEWS, AS WELL AS UNPUBLISHED DIARIES AND LETTERS, THE AUTHOR DRAMATIZES THE HOLOCAUST AND JEWISH RESISTANCE THROUGH THE EXPERIENCES OF CHANA SZENES AND HER FAMILY.
BR 6191 RETURN OF MORRIS SCHUMSKY, THE SCHNUR, STEVEN ON THE DAY OF REBECCA'S WEDDING, GRANDPA DISAPPEARS. WHILE WAITING FOR HIM TO RETURN, YOUNG READERS LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS AND VALUES OF THE JEWISH WEDDING.
BR 6192 SECRET OF SAMBATYON, THE WINKLER, GERSHON IN THIS FOURTH ADVENTURE OF THE JEWISH 'HARDY BOYS', THE BOYS FIND THEMSELVES IN THE JUNGLE OF AFRICA. THEY DISCOVER HERE A SECRET WORLD, WHICH TESTS THEIR FAITH.
BR 6193 SMOKE AND ASHES THE STORY OF THE HOLOCAUST ROGASKY, BARBARA THE AUTHOR EXAMINES HITLER'S RISE TO POWER IN THE CONTEXT OF ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE DEVASTATION WROUGHT BY HIS POLICIES OF IMPRISONING AND EXTERMINATING JEWS. INCLUDED ARE RECORDS KEPT BY NAZI OFFICERS AS WELL AS A COMPARISON TO HOLOCAUSTS SUFFERED BY OTHERS TO DEMONSTRATE WHAT MADE THIS ONE UNIQUE. FOR AGES 11 AND UP.
BR 6194 AVAILABLE LIGHT PIERCY, MARGE A COLLECTION OF POEMS IN WHICH THE AUTHOR EXPLORES COMING TO TERMS WITH HERSELF AND HER PARENTS, FALLING IN LOVE, AND REDISCOVERING HER JEWISH IDENTITY.
BR 6195 LOVES OF FRANZ KAFKA, THE GLATZER, NAHUM N. KAFKA'S RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE WOMEN HE LOVED IS REVEALED THROUGH PASSAGES FROM HIS LETTERS AND DIARIES. INCLUDES ANNOTATIONS BY THE AUTHOR.
BR 6196 STORIES AND PARABLES OF THE HAFETZ HAYYIM ZARETSKY, DAVID A PRESENTATION OF THE PARABLES AND STORIES OF THE HAFETZ HAYYIM WHICH AIM TO TEACH THE READER IMPORTANT LESSONS.
BR 6198 STRANGE NATION OF RAFAEL MENDES, THE SCLIAR, MOACYR IN THE MIDST OF PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL CRISES, RAFAEL MENDES DISCOVERS THAT HE IS A DESCENDENT OF MAIMONIDES. AS HE COPES WITH THE FINANCIAL AND SEXUAL MISCONDUCT OF THOSE AROUND HIM, HE DELVES INTO THE HISTORICAL NOTEBOOKS THAT REVEAL HIS ANCESTRY AND LEARNS THE STORY OF HIS LINEAGE.
BR 6199 JOKES OF SIGMUND FREUD, THE ORING, ELLIOTT A STUDY IN HUMOR AND JEWISH IDENTITY: TRACES HIS MARRIAGE, OCCULT PHENOMENA, RELIGION AND HIS OWN JEWISHNESS AS REFLECTED IN HIS INTEREST IN JOKES.
BR 6200 HISTORY OF THE JEWS, A JOHNSON, PAUL A CATHOLIC JOURNALIST DESCRIBES HIS SELF-EDUCATION IN JEWISH HISTORY AS HE TRACES THE EARLIEST ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY THROUGH THE MEDIEVAL JEWISH EXPERIENCE TO THE ERA OF EMANCIPATION. RATHER THAN DEFINING JEWISH EXPERIENCE AS A FUNCTION OF CHRISTIANITY JOHNSON TRIES TO UNDERSTAND JEWS ON THEIR OWN TERMS
BR 6201 BREAKING RANKS PODHORETZ, NORMAN THIS IS THE AUTHOR'S STORY OF HIS OWN 'RADICALIZATION AND DERADICALIZATION' IN WHICH 'THERE IS A LARGER STORY ABOUT THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF THIS COUNTRY.'
BR 6202 PARNAS, THE BAR AM, MEIR THIS NOVEL FOR TEENAGERS EXAMINES THE CHRISTIAN CRUSADERS OF 1096, MARAUDERS OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES ALONG THE RHINE.
BR 6203 FAMILY MASHBER, THE DER NISTER WRITTEN IN THE 1930S BY ONE OF THE LEADING YIDDISH WRITERS IN THE SOVIET UNION, IT IS AN ACCOUNT OF LIFE IN RUSSIA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION.
BR 6204 SEED OF ABRAHAM, THE ARABS AND JEWS IN CONTACT AND CONF PATAI, RAPHAEL AN EXPLORATION OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ROOTS OF THE THIRTEEN CENTURY HISTORY OF ARAB-JEWISH ENMITY. PATAI ALSO UNDERSCORES AND ANALYZES THE COMMONALITIES THAT HAVE LINKED JEWS AND ARABS THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES.
BR 6205 FATE OF THE JEWS, THE FEUERLICHT, ROBERTA STRAUSS FROM A LANDLESS, GHETTOIZED, PERSECUTED PEOPLE TO A MIDDLE EAST SUPERPOWER, THE RESILIENCY OF THE JEWS IS SHOWN THROUGH AN INTERNALIZED MORAL CODE AND THE TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHETS.
BR 6206 SELECTED POEMS OF YANKEV GLATSHTEYN FEIN, RICHARD J., TRANS. A COLLECTION OF POEMS THAT SERVE AS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORKS OF THE WELL-KNOWN YIDDISH POET WHO LIVED IN AMERICA FROM 1914 TILL HIS DEATH IN 1971.
BR 6207 SONG OF THE WIND SWINDELLS, MADGE HATRED FOR ALL GERMAN DEVOURS A YOUNG GIRL'S WARMTH AFTER HER PARENTS ARE MURDERED BY THE NAZIS. A GERMAN U-BOAT ENGINEER REVIVES HER EMOTIONS UNTIL SHE FINDS OUT HE IS GERMAN.
BR 6209 EINSTEIN IN AMERICA SAYEN, JAMIE THE STORY OF ALBERT EINSTEIN'S YEARS IN PRINCETON. DESCRIBES THE TWO YEARS PRIOR TO EINSTEIN'S DEATH WHICH HE SPENT WORKING ON A NEW THEORY AND TEACHING AT THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY. EINSTIEN'S STORY IS SET AGAINST HIS GERMAN-JEWISH BACKGROUND AND THE AUTHOR EXAMINE
BR 6210 BOY FROM OVER THERE, THE BERGMAN, TAMAR SET ON A KIBBUTZ IN THE JORDAN VALLEY IN 1948, THIS BOOK IS ABOUT CHILDREN LIVING THROUGH ISRAEL'S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
BR 6211 NOW THESE ARE THE NAMES A NEW ENGLISH RENDITION OF THE BOO FOX, EVERETT, TRANS. AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS WHICH ATTEMPTS TO ECHO THE ORIGINAL HEBREW IN THE USE OF SUCH LITERARY ELEMENTS AS REPETITION, ALLUSION, WORD PLAY, AND ALLITERATION. INCLUDES EXPLANATORY NOTES.
BR 6212 PRAYING FOR RAIN WEIDMAN, JEROME IN THE GRIP OF 'THE ARCHEOLOGIST'S IMPULSE TO FIND THE MEANING OF THE PRESENT BY DIGGING UP THE PAST', WEIDMAN HAS SET DOWN THE STORY OF HIS LIFE.
BR 6213 CHOSEN PEOPLE, THE NYBURG, SIDNEY L. A NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG RABBI AND THE CONFLICTS HE ENCOUNTERS IN HIS BALTIMORE CONGREGATION.
BR 6214 BEYOND BELIEF THE AMERICAN PRESS AND THE COMING LIPSTADT, DEBORAH THE AUTHOR CONTENDS THAT DESPITE GOOD PRESS COVERAGE FROM GERMANY DURING WORLD WAR II, AMERICAN NEWSPAPER EDITORS PRESENTED THE FACTS OF THE SITUATION IN A FEEBLE AND PERFUNCTORY FASHION. AN IMPERFECT UNDERSTANDING OF JEWS AS WELL AS THE AMERICAN TRADITION OF SKEPTICISM ARE OFFERED AS EXPLANATIONS.
BR 6215 LIFE & TIMES OF MENACHEM BEGIN, THE PERLMUTTER, AMOS THIS BIOGRAPHY TRACES BEGIN FROM HIS EARLY DAYS IN POLAND TO HIS LAST DAYS AS PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL. IT EXPLORES THE COMPLEXITY OF THE MAN AND TRIES TO UNCOVER WHAT LIES BEHIND THE PUBLIC FACADE.
BR 6216 JEWS IN AMERICA TODAY BRENNER, LENNI THE IMPACT OF THE MODERN, LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY JEW ON AMERICA AND ON ISRAEL. INCLUDED ARE QUESTIONS SUCH AS, 'HOW IMPORTANT IS ANTI-SEMITISM IN TODAY'S POLITICS?' AND, 'ARE JEWS AS A GROUP STILL LIBERAL?'
BR 6217 IN KINDLING FLAME ATKINSON, LINDA A FINE, MOVING PORTRAIT OF SENESH'S TRANSFORMATION FROM A PAMPERED, SELF-ABSORBED SCHOOLGIRL TO A PROUD JEWISH FIGHTER IS WOVEN INTO THIS SKILLFULLY TOLD TALE OF IDEALISM AND BRAVERY.
BR 6218 GRANDMOTHER'S CLUB, THE CHEUSE, ALAN A SORORITY OF ELDERLY WOMEN WHO MEET TO EXCHANGE MEMORIES AND PONDER LIFE'S MYSTERIES WITH THE PREVAILING VOICE BEING THAT OF MRS. BLOCH, THE MOTHER OF RABBI BLOCH, WHOSE STORY THIS REALLY IS.
BR 6219 BERNSTEIN A BIOGRAPHY PEYSER, JOAN THE AUTHOR TRACES BERNSTEIN'S LIFE, FROM HIS BOSTON CHILDHOOD AND TIN PAN ALLEY APPRENTICESHIP TO HIS CAREER AS A CONDUCTOR AND COMPOSER.
BR 6220 LOVESONG BECOMING A JEW LESTER, JULIUS THE ODYSSEY OF THE FORMER CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, AUTHOR, AND ACADEMIC WHICH CULMINATED IN HIS CONVERSION TO JUDAISM.
BR 6221 GERSHWIN JABLONSKI, EDWARD A BIOGRAPHY OF THE COMPOSER AND SONGWRITER WITH AN EMPHASIS ON PLACING GERSHWIN'S WORK IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.
BR 6222 CLASSIC CUISINE OF THE ITALIAN JEWS, THE MACHLIN, EDDA SERVI THIS BOOK CONTAINS 200 RECIPES WHICH COMBINE ITALIAN DISHES WITH JEWISH DIETARY LAWS, AS WELL AS SEPHARDIC-ITALIAN COOKING.
BR 6223 MYSTERY OF THE COINS, THE BURSTEIN, CHAYA JAMIE, SARAH, AND THEIR GRANDMOTHER UNCOVER THE MYSTERY BEHIND A COLLECTION OF CENTURIES-OLD COINS.
BR 6224 WINTER IN JERUSALEM D'ALPUGET, BLANCHE A NOVEL WHICH EXPOSES THE BRITTLE, NERVE-RACKING ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH ISRAELIS LIVE. TOLD THROUGH THE CHARACTER OF DANIELLE WHO HAS RETURNED TO ISRAEL, HER BIRTHPLACE, TO FIND HER FATHER.
BR 6225 EASE MY SORROWS A MEMOIR KOPELEV, LEV THIS WELL-KNOWN SOVIET DISSIDENT SPENT SEVEN YEARS IN THE GULAG FOR HIS HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVITIES.
BR 6226 ENCOUNTER WITH EMANCIPATION THE GERMAN JEWS IN THE UNITED ST COHEN, NAOMI THIS IN-DEPTH STUDY OF THE FIRST GERMAN-JEWISH IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES EXPLORES THE INSTITUTIONS THEY ESTABLISHED WHICH LED TO THE LARGE-SCALE IMMIGRATION OF EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWS AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY.
BR 6228 BLACK BOX, THE OZ, AMOS THIS NOVEL TRACES THE LIFE OF A HAPPILY MARRIED WOMAN WHO REMAINS OBSESSIVELY ATTACHED TO HER EX-HUSBAND.
BR 6229 SCRAP OF TIME FINK, IDA THESE 22 SHORT STORIES AND A BRIEF ONE-ACT PLAY PORTRAY THOSE LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 6230 TAPESTRY PLAIN, BELVA THE CHARACTERS OF 'THE GOLDEN CUP' ENTER ADULTHOOD IN THIS NOVEL.
BR 6231 MY VERY OWN SHAVUOT BOOK SAYPOL, JUDYTH ROBBINS & WIKLER,MADE AN INTRODUCTION TO THIS HOLIDAY OF HARVEST; A MIDRASH ON THE GIVING OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS; A DISCUSSION OF TORAH AND JEWISH LEARNING; THE STORY OF RUTH AND NAOMI.
BR 6233 POLITICS OF RESCUE, THE THE ROOSEVELT ADMINSTRATION AND TH FEINGOLD, HENRY L. FEINGOLD CHRONICLES THE ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION'S RESPONSE TO THE HOLOCAUST FROM 1938 TO 1945.
BR 6234 NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1940-1986 SHAPIRO, KARL POEMS SELECTED BY THE AUTHOR FROM OVER 50 YEARS OF WRITING.
BR 6235 STORIES FOR CHILDREN SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS IN THIS COLLECTION OF OLD AND NEW SELECTIONS, EACH STORY IS DELIVERED IN SINGER'S FAMILIAR, UNCLUTTERED STYLE THAT STILL MANAGES TO EVOKE A WIDE RANGE OF IDEAS AND EMOTIONS.
BR 6236 EXILED IN PARADISE HEILBUT, ANTHONY THE BOOK RECOUNTS THE EXPERIENCES AND DEVELOPING IDEAS OF GERMAN REFUGEE ARTISTS AND INTELLECTUALS IN AMERICA FROM THE 1930'S TO THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 6237 ROOTS AND BOOTS FROM CRYPTO-JEW IN NEW SPAIN TO CO FIERMAN, FLOYD S. A SEQUEL TO 'GUTS AND RUTS,' THIS BOOK CHRONICLES THE HISTORY OF THE CRYPTO-JEWS OF OLD MEXICO AND DEALS WITH THE MODERN JEWISH SETTLEMENT IN THE AREA DATING FROM THE 1860S.
BR 6238 HIGH WALLS OF JERUSALEM, THE A HISTORY OF THE BALFOUR DECLARATI SANDERS, RONALD THE AUTHOR, WORKING FROM FORMERLY CLASSIFIED ARCHIVAL MATERIAL, CONTENDS THAT IT WAS THE BALFOUR DECLARATION THAT ESTABLISHED THE POLITICAL CHARACTER OF LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY MIDDLE EAST.
BR 6239 WORLD OF HASSIDISM, THE RABINOWICZ, HARRY M. A HISTORY OF HASIDISM WHICH DISCUSSES THE PRINCIPLES OF ECSTASY IN PRAYER, TRUST IN GOD, AND JOYFUL AFFIRMATION OF LIFE.
BR 6240 DEATH OF METHUSELAH AND OTHER STORIES, THE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS THESE STORIES - SET IN BIBLICAL TIMES, PRE-WORLD WAR II POLAND, AND THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY - ALLUDE TO THE HOLOCAUST, TO THE ROOTLESSNESS OF EXILE, AND TO BETRAYAL.
BR 6241 TEDDY KOLLEK MAYOR OF JERUSALEM SHEPHERD, NAOMI A LOOK AT THE STYLE, TRIUMPHS, SETBACKS, AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE FORMER LONG-TERM MAYOR OF JERUSALEM. THE AUTHOR ALSO EXPLORES THE CHALLENGES OF RUNNING A CITY THAT IS SACRED TO THREE MAJOR RELIGIONS AND GOVERNED BY ISRAELIS.
BR 6242 OPERATION BABYLON HILLEL, SHLOMO THE STORY OF THE 1950S AIRLIFT OF 125,000 IRAQI JEWS TO ISRAEL AND THE ROLE PLAYED BY THE AUTHOR, AN ISRAELI POLITICIAN WHO WAS AN UNDERCOVER AGENT AT THE TIME.
BR 6243 IMMORTAL BARTFUSS, THE APPELFELD, AHARON IN A BLEND OF ALLEGORY AND REALISM, APPELFELD PRESENTS AN EMBITTERED HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR WHO COPES WITH EVERYDAY LIFE IN MODERN ISRAEL.
BR 6244 EAST WIND ELLIS, JULIE A JEWISH ORPHAN LIVING IN HONG KONG MEETS A BRILLIANT YOUNG MAN WHO HELPS HER TO CONFRONT HER FAITH.
BR 6246 JEWISH COOKING MADE SLIM WEINER, MARJORIE THESE RECIPES HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM JEWISH COOKBOOKS PUBLISHED BY JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA AND REWORKED TO REMOVE EXTRA CALORIES. INCLUDED IS A SPECIAL PASSOVER SECTION AND A PER SERVING CALORIE COUNT FOR EACH RECIPE.
BR 6247 OUT OF THE GHETTO KATZ, JACOB THE SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF JEWISH EMANCIPATION, 1770-1870, PRESENTED FROM BOTH JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH POINTS OF VIEW.
BR 6248 EVE HER STORY FARMER, PENELOPE A REINTERPRETATION OF THE ROLE OF MEN AND WOMEN BASED ON STORIES AND IDEAS FROM THE BIBLE, RABBINIC TEACHINGS, AND SCHOLARLY TEXTS.
BR 6249 THIRTEENTH GATE, THE TRAVELS AMONG THE LOST TRIBES OF I PARFITT, TUDOR A TRAVEL BOOK AND A HISTORY OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN ASIA AND AFRICA. EXPLORED ARE SUCH GROUPS AS THE MAKUYA AND BEIT SHALOM IN JAPAN, THE LEMBA IN SOUTH AFRICA AND ZIMBABWE, AND THE BENE ISRAEL IN BOMBAY.
BR 6250 JEWISH WRY ESSAYS ON JEWISH HUMOR COHEN, SARAH BLACHER, ED. AN ANALYSIS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF JEWISH HUMOR FROM ITS ROOTS IN EASTERN EUROPE THROUGH THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE IRVING HOWE, ROBERT ALTER, SANFORD PINSKER, AND ESTHER FUCHS.
BR 6251 JUDAIC ETHICS FOR A LAWLESS WORLD GORDIS, ROBERT THE AUTHOR LAMENTS WHAT HE SEES IS A LACK OF A MORAL ORDER IN TODAY'S SOCIETY. HE SUGGESTS THAT A RETURN TO THE PRINCIPLES OF 'NATURAL LAW,' REVITALIZED BY A JUDAIC VIEW, WOULD RESTORE THAT ORDER.
BR 6252 AND THEN THERE WERE FOUR ELIAS, MIRIAM THIS SEQUEL TO 'TRY FOR A DREAM' DEALS WITH FRIENDSHIPS AND ALL THE COMPLICATIONS AND FRUSTRATIONS THAT GO ALONG WITH THEM.
BR 6253 BELZEC, SOBIBOR, TREBLINKA ARAD, YITZHAK THIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF 'OPERATION REINHARD' THE DESTRUCTION OF 1.5 MILLION JEWS IN OCCUPIED POLAND FROM 1941-1943.
BR 6254 RETURN, THE LEVITIN, SONIA TOLD THROUGH THE FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE OF AN ETHIOPIAN JEWISH GIRL, THIS IS A FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF THE ESCAPE AND FLIGHT OF THE ETHIOPIAN JEWS TO ISRAEL FROM 1984 TO 1985. THE BOOK IS ALSO RICH IN ETHNOGRAPHIC DETAIL OF THE ETHIOPIAN JEWS' WAY OF LIFE AND THEIR UNIQUE FAITH.
BR 6256 JEWISH STORIES ONE GENERATION TELLS ANOTHER SCHRAM, PENINNAH A COLLECTION OF 64 JEWISH FOLKTALES RETOLD BY THE AUTHOR, A WELL-KNOWN JEWISH STORYTELLER. INCLUDES AN INFORMATIVE INTRODUCTION TO EACH STORY.
BR 6257 SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ AND THE REAWAKENING LEVI, PRIMO IN THESE ACCOUNTS OF HIS CONCENTRATION CAMP EXPERIENCES, LEVI FOCUSES ON HIS CAPTORS AND HIS COMPANIONS AND HOW HE RE-ENTERED THE WORLD WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER. INCLUDES AN AFTERWARD IN WHICH LEVI EXPLAINS WHY HE HAS EXPRESSED NO HATRED FOR THE GERMANS AND NO DESIRE FOR REVENGE.
BR 6258 BREAKING THE SILENCE LAQUEUR, WALTER & RICHARD BREITMAN THE STORY OF EDUARD SCHULTE, THE GERMAN WHO FIRST PASSED ON TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD THE NEWS OF HITLER'S EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS.
BR 6259 FINDING HOSEYN MACKINNON, COLIN IN 1977 TEHERAN, AN ISRAELI SPY IS KILLED AND THE SEARCH IS ON TO DISCOVER WHO KILLED HIM AND WHY. THE SEARCH TAKES READERS THROUGH THE VARIOUS RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL STRATA OF MIDDLE EAST POLITICS.
BR 6260 CROSSTOWN SABBATH A STREET JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY MORTON, FREDERIC A MEMOIR WHICH ALTERNATES BETWEEN PRESENT DAY MANHATTAN AND THE VIENNA OF MORTON'S CHILDHOOD. THE MEMORY OF HOW HIS FAMILY OBSERVED THE SABBATH IS CENTRAL TO THE BOOK'S THEME WHICH IS A CRITIQUE OF THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN ETHIC.
BR 6261 SIGN OF THE EIGHTIES, A PARENT, GAIL SHELLEY SILVER IS 35, PROFESSIONALLY SUCCESSFUL, AND CONVINCED THAT EDUCATED WOMEN IN THEIR 30S HAVE ONLY A SLIM CHANCE OF MARRYING. CASTING ASIDE HER FEMINIST PRINCIPLES, SHE DECIDES TO TAKE ACTION.
BR 6262 IN PRAISE OF IMPERFECTION MY LIFE, MY WORK MONTALCINI, RITA LEVI THE ACCOUNT OF A JEWISH WOMAN WHO GREW UP IN FASCIST ITALY AND OVERCAME ANTI-SEMITIC REPRESSION TO WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE.
BR 6263 KING OF THE FIELDS, THE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER'S INTERPRETATION OF PRIMITIVE HISTORY DEPICTS THE TRANSITION OF POLAND FROM A HUNTER-GATHERER SOCIETY TO A SOCIETY BASED ON AGRICULTURE.
BR 6264 JEWS IN POLISH CULTURE, THE HERTZ; ALEKSANDER THE AUTHOR, A SOCIOLOGIST, DISCUSSES THE ROLE THE JEWS PLAYED IN POLISH SOCIETY. THEIR AMBIVALENT IMAGE AND ASSIMILATION ARE TWO MAIN TOPICS.
BR 6265 FLAME BEARERS, THE CHERNIN, KIM DRAWING ON THE KABBALAH AND OTHER SOURCES OF JEWISH MYSTICISM, THE AUTHOR TELLS THE STORY OF RAE SHADMI WHO RETURNS TO SAN FRANCISCO TO TAKE OVER THE FAMILY BUSINESS: A CENTURIES-OLD CULT RUN BY WOMEN.
BR 6266 MEMBERS OF THE TRIBE ON THE ROAD IN JEWISH AMERICA CHAFETS, ZE'EV TRAVELING ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AFTER A 20-YEAR ABSENCE, CHAFETS OFFERS HIS OPINIONS ON THE STATE OF AMERICAN JEWRY IN THE LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY. INCLUDED ARE HIS DEPICTIONS OF SMALL JEWISH COMMUNITIES HE VISITS: FROM A GAY SYNAGOGUE IN SAN FRANCISCO TO JEWISH PRAYER SERVICES IN A PENNSYLVANIA PRISON.
BR 6267 GIDEON'S SPRING A MAN AND HIS KIBBUTZ GILEAD, ZERUBAVEL & DOROTHEA KROOK THE AUTHOR, ACTIVE IN THE KIBBUTZ MOVEMENT, DISCUSSES THE ROLE OF THE KIBBUTZ IN ISRAELI SOCIETY IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 6268 YELLOW WIND, THE GROSSMAN, DAVID A RECORD OF TWO DECADES OF ISRAELI OCCUPATION OF THE WEST BANK AND THE GAZA STRIP AND ITS EFFECT ON PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS.
BR 6269 PAST CONTINUOUS SHABTAI, YAAKOV TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL HEBREW, THIS WORK RECOUNTS THE EMOTIONAL DECAY OF A FAMILY IN MODERN ISRAEL.
BR 6270 RHYTHMS OF JEWISH LIVING, THE A SEPHARDIC APPROACH ANGEL, MARC D. A DISCUSSION OF THE DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SEPHARDIC APPROACH TO THE OBSERVANCES AND CONCEPTS OF JUDAISM. THE AUTHOR LOOKS AT ISSUES SUCH AS THE FAMILY, THE APPLICATION OF HALACHA TO MODERN LIFE, ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS, AND CONVERSION.
BR 6271 JEWISH POSSIBILITIES THE BEST OF MOMENT MAGAZINE FINE, LEONARD, ED. AN ANTHOLOGY OF ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS, EDITORIALS, AND REVIEWS FROM THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF 'MOMENT' MAGAZINE. INCLUDED ARE PIECES BY OR INTERVIEWS WITH CAVIN TRILLIN, JACOB NEUSNER, CYNTHIA OZICK, ABBA EBAN, ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER, JANE FONDA, AND IMMANUEL JAKOBOVITS.
BR 6272 WHAT IS JUDAISM? AN INTERPRETATION FOR THE PRESENT FACKENHEIM, EMIL L. IN THIS OVERVIEW OF JUDAISM, THE AUTHOR WRESTLES WITH UNCOMFORTABLE TRADITIONAL CONCEPTS AND DRAWS ON STORIES FROM THE MIDRASH.
BR 6273 NIGHTMARE IN HISTORY, A THE HOLOCAUST, 1933-1945 HAIKIN, MIRIAM A HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BR 6274 MIRACLE OF INTERVALE AVENUE, THE THE STORY OF A JEWISH CONGREGATION KUGELMASS, JACK THE STORY OF THE LAST SYNAGOGUE IN NEW YORK'S SOUTH BRONX AND THE ELDERLY PEOPLE WHO MANAGE TO ENSURE ITS SURVIVAL YEAR AFTER YEAR.
BR 6275 GHETTO OF VENICE, THE CALIMANI, RICCARDO A DESCRIPTIVE HISTORY OF THE VENICE GHETTO AND ITS INHABITANTS FROM 1516 TO 1797, WITH A FOCUS ON ITS ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND RELIGIOUS TIES TO VENICE AT THAT TIME.
BR 6276 GOD'S WATER CARRIERS SPERBER, MANES THE FIRST VOLUME OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TRILOGY IN WHICH SPERBER DESCRIBED HIMSELF AS AN 'OLD REVOLUTIONARY' WHO WAS CONSTANTLY CHALLENGING GOD AND HIS FAITH.
BR 6277 PASSAGE FROM HOME ROSENFELD, ISAAC THE AUTHOR PITS HIS ALTER EGO, BERNARD MILLER, AGAINST HIS FATHER IN A GENERATIONAL BATTLE SET IN CHICAGO OF THE 1930S. INCLUDES VIVID DEPICTIONS OF JEWISH FAMILY LIFE.
BR 6278 HISTORY OF THE ISRAELI ARMY, A SCHIFF, ZE'EV THE AUTHOR'S REVISED VERSION OF HIS 1974 HISTORY INCLUDES ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS ON ISRAEL'S MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SERVICES, THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM, AND THE 1982 LEBANON CAMPAIGN.
BR 6279 POEMS OF JERUSALEM AMICHAI, YEHUDA IN THIS ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS JERUSALEM DOMINATES AS AMICHAI DELIGHTS IN CONTRASTING THE CITY'S RELIGIOUS IMAGERY WITH THE MUNDANE CONCERNS OF DAILY LIFE.
BR 6280 MAN YOU LOVED TO HATE, THE ERICH VON STROHEIM AND HOLLYWOOD KOSZARSKI, RICHARD THIS BIOGRAPHY EXAMINES THE LIFE OF ERICH VON STROHEIM, AN AUSTRIAN JEW WHO MIGRATED TO AMERICA, EVENTUALLY BECOMING PROMINENT IN THE HOLLYWOOD OF THE SILENT SCREEN ERA.
BR 6281 CONFLICTS AND CONTRADICTIONS BENVENISTI, MERON ESSAYS BY A FORMER JERUSALEM DEPUTY MAYOR FOR ARAB AFFAIRS EXPLORING THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT.
BR 6282 BY THE WATERS OF MANHATTAN REZNICOFF, CHARLES THE NOVEL, TOLD IN TWO PARTS, FIRST TELLS THE STORY OF SARAH VOLSKY, A RUSSIAN JEWESS, WHO CAME TO AMERICA TO ESCAPE POVERTY AND OPPRESSION, FOUND A JOB AND MARRIED. THE FORTUNES OF HER ELDEST SON, A GREENWICH VILLAGE BOOK STORE OWNER, ARE RELATED IN THE SECOND PART OF THE BOOK.
BR 6283 KIDDUSH HASHEM JEWISH RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL LIFE HUBERBAND, RABBI SHIMON A TRANSLATION FROM YIDDISH OF THE HOLOCAUST ARCHIVAL MATERIALS COLLECTED AND WRITTEN BY HUBERBAND, A RABBI AND HISTORIAN WHO WAS MURDERED IN TREBLINKA IN 1942. THE MAJORITY OF THE WORK DEPICTS RELIGIOUS LIFE FOR THE JEWS UNDER THE NAZI RULE.
BR 6284 YEMENITE COOKBOOK, THE LEVI, ZION & AGABRIA, HANI WOVEN THROUGHOUT THIS COLLECTION OF YEMENITE JEWISH RECIPES ARE FOLKLORE AND LITERARY QUOTES.
BR 6286 INVENTOR, THE LIND, YAKOV THE SUBJECT OF THE BOROVSKY BROTHERS LETTERS TO EACH OTHER IS BROTHER MANNY'S SUPER-COMPUTER, A MACHINE FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE WORLD.
BR 6287 VOLUNTEERS, THE SCLIAR, MOACYR SET IN 1970, THIS NOVEL BLENDS THE MYSTICAL AND THE REAL AS IT TELLS THE STORY OF THE VOYAGE OF THE 'VOLUNTARIOS,' A TUGBOAT SAILING FROM PORTUGAL TO ISRAEL WITH AN ECLECTIC GROUP OF PASSENGERS. ITS MISSION IS TO BRING A DYING MAN TO JERUSALEM.
BR 6289 CENTAUR IN THE GARDEN, THE SCLIAR, MOACYR A FANTASY ABOUT A CENTAUR WHO IS BORN INTO A JEWISH FAMILY. HE JOINS A CIRCUS WHERE HE MARRIES A FEMALE CENTAUR WHO ALSO DREAMS OF BEING 'NORMAL.'
BR 6290 DAUGHTERS OF THE LAW ASHER, SANDY A YOUNG JEWISH GIRL MUST DECIDE WHETHER TO STUDY AND HAVE A BAT-MITZVAH. HER DEAD FATHER, HER RELIGIOUS AUNT, AND HER UNINVOLVED MOTHER ALL FIGURE IN HER DECISION BUT IT IS A LOCAL POLITICAL SQUABBLE THAT HELPS HER DECIDE.
BR 6291 HOLOCAUST IN HISTORY, THE MARRUS, MICHAEL R. BY ASSESSING THE LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST, THE AUTHOR PLACES THE HOLOCAUST IN A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND EXAMINES ATTEMPTS TO CATEGORIZE THE BEHAVIOR OF ITS VICTIMS.
BR 6292 LEON BLUM LACOUTURE, JEAN THE YOUNG LAWYER WHO DEFENDED EMILE ZOLA IN 1898 SURVIVED TWO WARS AND A CONCENTRATION CAMP TO BECOME HEAD OF A FRENCH CABINET THREE YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH.
BR 6293 ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED THE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO HELPED GIES, MIEP THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE WOMAN WHO HELPED TO HIDE THE FRANK FAMILY DURING THE HOLOCAUST. © 1987
BR 6294 EUROPEAN JEWRY AND THE FIRST CRUSADES CHAZAN, ROBERT IN HIS WORK, CHAZAN EXPLORES THE IMPACT OF THE CRUSADES ON THE JEWISH CONDITION AND ON THE JEWISH HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS.
BR 6295 SHABBAT JUNGK, PETER S. THIS IS THE ACCOUNT OF A PASSIONATE YOUNG MAN, RAISED AS AN 'ASSIMILATED JEW' WHO STRUGGLES TO FIND THE MEANING OF HIS FAITH AND THE ROLE OF RELIGION.
BR 6296 PEOPLE LIKE US COHEN, BARBARA FIFTEEN-YEAR OLD DINAH ADLER DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHY HER FAMILY OBJECTS TO HER DATING A NON-JEWISH BOY. THIS STORY TELLS HOW DINAH MUST DEAL WITH ISSUES OF PERSONAL IDENTITY AND FAMILY LOYALTY.
BR 6297 MYSTIC QUEST, THE AN INTRODUCTION TO JEWISH MYSTICIS ARIEL, DAVID S. A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF JEWISH MYSTICISM GEARED TO THE LAY READER.
BR 6298 ISIDOR HOFFMAN ISAIAH ON CAMPUS FREID, JACOB HOFFMAN PIONEERED THE CONCEPT OF AN ON-CAMPUS ORGANIZATION FOR JEWISH STUDENTS THAT PROVIDED THEM WITH GUIDANCE AND RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES. FRIED DESCRIBES HERE THE IMPACT THIS HAD ON GENERATIONS OF JEWISH STUDENTS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, WHERE HOFFMAN WAS COLLEGE CHAPLAIN FOR MANY YEARS.
BR 6299 LIFE IT BRINGS, THE ONE PHYSICIST'S BEGINNINGS BERNSTEIN, JEREMY AN ACCOUNT OF THE UNLIKELY SERIES OF EVENTS THAT MADE THE AUTHOR A SCIENTIST.
BR 6300 ISRAEL BUILDING A NEW SOCIETY ELAZAR, DANIEL J. ELAZAR EXAMINES THE INTERPLAY OF POLITICS WITH OTHER ASPECTS OF ISRAELI LIFE IN ORDER TO ASSESS THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS AND SUGGEST THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF ISRAELI POLITICS.
BR 6301 FEAR NO EVIL SHARANSKY, NATAN THE SOVIET DISSIDENT AND JEWISH ACTIVIST RECOUNTS HIS NINE YEARS IN KGB CUSTODY.
BR 6304 FACTS, THE A NOVELIST'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY ROTH, PHILIP IN THIS MEMOIR, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SEQUEL TO 'THE COUNTERLIFE,' ROTH RELATES THE FIRST 35 YEARS OF HIS LIFE, BEGINNING WITH HIS LOWER MIDDLE-CLASS JEWISH CHILDHOOD IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY AND ENDING WITH THE CULTURAL TURBULENCE THAT LED HIM TO WRITE 'PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT' IN 1969.
BR 6305 YOUNG HEROES, THE TCHACK, HARRY FOR CHILDREN, THIS IS AN ADAPTATION OF A STORY ABOUT YAAKOV CHURGIN.
BR 6306 CONFESSIONS OF A GOOD ARAB KANIUK, YORAM AS THE SON OF AN ISRAELI MOTHER AND AN ARAB FATHER, YOSEF IS CONSUMED BY ANGER OVER HIS REJECTION BY BOTH THE ISRAELI AND ARAB WORLDS. THROUGH HIS PROTAGONIST, THE AUTHOR PRESENTS AN INDICTMENT OF THE ZIONIST DREAM AND EXPLORES THE THEMES OF ALIENATION AND LONGING.
BR 6307 LETTERS & DRAWINGS OF BRUNO SCHULZ FICOWSKI, JERZY: EDITOR THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE MURDERED AUTHOR'S (BY THE SS IN 1942) COLLECTED LETTERS. THEY SHED LIGHT ON HIS IMAGINATIVE LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT THAT WERE LATER DEVELOPED IN HIS FICTION.
BR 6308 ALL IN A LIFETIME WESTHEIMER, DR. RUTH THE AMERICAN SEX THERAPIST TELLS OF HER FLIGHT FROM THE NAZIS, HER WORK IN THE HAGANAH, AND HER MOVE TO PARIS IN THE EARLY 1950S. WESTHEIMER OFFERS CANDID LOOKS AT HER MARRIAGES, HER CHILDREN, AND HER UNIQUE CAREER.
BR 6309 EARLY BOOKS OF YEHUDA AMICHAI, THE AMICHAI, YEHUDA AN INTRODUCTION TO THE POET'S EARLY WORK WHICH INFLUENCED POETS-PARTICULARLY IN THE CONTRASTS HE CREATED BETWEEN MODERN SPOKEN HEBREW AND CLASSICAL HEBREW OF THE HOLY TEXTS.
BR 6310 MY FATHER, HIS DAUGHTER DAYAN, YAEL THE AUTHOR, A WRITER AND ISRAELI POLITICIAN, DESCRIBES HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER FATHER, ISRAELI GENERAL MOSHE DAYAN.
BR 6311 GODS OF RAQUEL, THE SCLIAR, MOACYR IN SEARCH OF HER JEWISH IDENTITY IN CATHOLIC BRAZIL, RAQUEL BELIEVES SHE MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY. SHE DENIES HERSELF PARTICIPATION IN EITHER RELIGION BUT CANNOT BE SATISFIED UNTIL HER DILEMMA IS ULTIMATELY RESOLVED.
BR 6313 FROM THE WISDOM OF MISHLE HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL TWENTY-TWO ESSAYS, BASED ON THEMES FROM THE 'BOOK OF PROVERBS', OFFER INSIGHT AND GUIDANCE ON THE HUMAN SITUATION AND ITS DILEMMAS.
BR 6314 JACOB THE BAKER BEN SHEA, NOAH AN ENTIRE TOWN SEEKS THE ADVICE OF A PIOUS BAKER AFTER HE ACCIDENTALLY BAKES A NOTE OF PERSONAL REFLECTION INTO ONE OF HIS LOAVES.
BR 6315 ITALIANS AND HOLOCAUST, THE PERSECUTION, RESCUE AND SURVIVAL ZUCCOTTI, SUSAN A STUDY THAT MAKES USE OF THE NARRATIVES OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS. THE READER IS CONFRONTED WITH STORIES OF ATROCITIES AS WELL AS EXAMPLES OF COURAGEOUS BEHAVIOR.
BR 6316 REMEMBERING BOX CLIFFORD, ETH EDITH WALDMAN JOSHUA ENJOYS HIS SABBATH VISITS WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER, BUT MOST OF ALL HE LIKES THE STORIES FROM HER 'REMEMBERING BOX.' FUNNY AND EXCITING STORIES ABOUT THE PEOPLE FROM WHOM HE COMES.
BR 6317 ROAD TO EIN HAROD, THE KENAN, AMOS THIS NOVEL DEPICTS AN ISRAEL HEADING TOWARD FASCISM AFTER A MILITARY COUP. EIN HAROD, A LEGENDARY KIBBUTZ FOUNDED BY SOCIALIST ZIONISTS, IS THE LAST CENTER OF ISRAELI RESISTANCE.
BR 6318 NATIONAL COLD STORAGE COMPANY SHAPIRO, HARVEY ALTHOUGH HIS CAREER IN PUBLISHING HAS OVERSHADOWED HIS POETRY, THIS COLLECTION OF NEW AND SELECTED POEMS SHOWS HOW EXCELLENT SHAPIRO'S POETRY CAN BE.
BR 6319 VERY GOOD LAND TO FALL WITH, A SANFORD, JOHN THE THIRD VOLUME IN AN EPIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN WHICH SANFORD SEEKS TO REUNITE WITH HIS JEWISH SELF. INCLUDED ARE MOVING DIALOGUES WITH HIS FATHER AND STORIES OF RED-BAITING AND BLACKLISTING.
BR 6320 HOMECOMING POSELL, ELSA BASED ON THE AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCE IN RUSSIA DURING THE REVOLUTION.
BR 6321 FALASHAS, THE THE FORGOTTEN JEWS OF ETHIOPIA KESSLER, DAVID AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF THE FALASHAS, OR 'BETA ISRAEL' AS THEY PREFER TO BE CALLED, ONE OF THE OLDEST JEWISH DIASPORA COMMUNITIES.
BR 6322 REFLECTIONS OF NAZISM AN ESSAY ON KITSCH AND DEATH FRIEDLANDER, SAUL THE AUTHOR, A HISTORIAN, DISCUSSES HIS UNEASE AT THE CHANGING IMAGE OF NAZI GERMANY SINCE THE EARLY 1970S. HE DEMONSTRATES HOW FILMS AND BOOKS THAT EMPHASIZE THE EMOTIONS AND IMAGES ASSOCIATED WITH NAZISM HAVE INADVERTENTLY REKINDLED A FASCINATION WITH THE MOVEMENT.
BR 6323 I DIDN'T SAY GOODBYE INTERVIEWS WITH CHILDREN OF THE HO VEGH, CLAUDINE SEVENTEEN FRENCH JEWS DESCRIBE THE LOSS OF THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR OWN PERILOUS EXISTENCE DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1940 THROUGH 1944.
BR 6324 I AM A STAR-CHILD OF THE HOLOCAUST AUERBACHER, INGE THROUGH WORDS AND POETRY, THE AUTHOR, A SURVIVOR OF NAZI GERMANY, DESCRIBES FOR YOUNG READERS THE STORY OF HER CHILDHOOD YEARS IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMP TEREZIN.
BR 6325 NATION AGAINST NATION FRANCK, THOMAS AN ANALYSIS OF THE POLITICAL BRANCHES OF THE UN WITH EMPHASIS ON THE TRANSITION OF U.S. POLICY FROM THE 1940S TO THE PRESENT, INCLUDING SUCH FOCUS ISSUES AS ISRAEL.
BR 6326 JEWS AND ZIONISM SHIMONI, GIDEON A STUDY OF THE ZIONIST JEWISH COMMUNITY OF SOUTH AFRICA, ITS ORIGINS, POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ZIONISM IN SOUTH AFRICA AND ITS INVOLVEMENT IN THE EMERGENCE OF ISRAEL.
BR 6328 SIX DAYS OF DESTRUCTION, THE MEDITATIONS TOWARD HOPE WIESEL, ELIE & ALBERT H. FRIEDLANDER THESE SIX CHRONICLES BY WIESEL OF ONE PERSON'S EXPERIENCE DURING THE HOLOCAUST ARE WOVEN AROUND THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVES OF THE CREATION. INCLUDES A LITURGY BY FRIEDLANDER FOR HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAYS.
BR 6329 LOVE AND TRADITION MARRIAGE BETWEEN JEWS AND CHRISTIA MAYER, EGON DRAWING ON HISTORICAL AND LITERARY SOURCES AS WELL AS PERSONAL ACCOUNTS, THE AUTHOR TACKLES THE MANY LARGE AND SMALL ISSUES OF INTERMARRIAGE BETWEEN JEWS AND CHRISTIANS FROM CHILD REARING, HOLIDAYS, AND RITUALS TO CHOICE OF CUISINE.
BR 6330 FESTIVAL OF ESTHER THE STORY OF PURIM SILVERMAN, MAIDA A SIMPLE RETELLING OF THE PURIM STORY INCLUDING A RECIPE FOR 'HAMENTASCHEN.'
BR 6331 KID'S KOSHER INCREDIBLE EDIBLES GRAHAM, BEATRICE E. A NICE VARIETY OF GOOD HEALTHY RECIPES-DAIRY, MEAT AND PAREVE-FROM CHINESE FLOWER SOUP TO PESACH LIGHTNING COOKIES.
BR 6332 BURNING BUSH, THE ANTI-SEMITISM AND WORLD HISTORY LITVINOFF, BARNET THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT NAZISM WAS ABLE TO EXTERMINATE SO MANY JEWS BECAUSE FASCISM IN GENERAL (NOT NAZISM ALONE) EXTOLLED RACIAL 'PURITY,' AND FOUND MANY SUPPORTERS.
BR 6333 OUR SAGES, GOD, AND ISRAEL AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE TALMUD OF THE NEUSNER, JACOB AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE LESSER-KNOWN PALESTINIAN TALMUD, WHICH WAS WRITTEN IN ISRAEL RATHER THAN BABYLONIA.
BR 6335 DAYS OF HONEY THE TUNISIAN BOYHOOD OF RAFAEL UZA AWRET, IRENE THE BOYHOOD OF THE FAMOUS PAINTER RAFAEL UZAN WHOSE WORK IS FLAVORED BY THE NORTH AFRICAN TOWN OF HIS CHILDHOOD.
BR 6336 LATE DIVORCE YEHOSHUA, A. B. THIS NOVEL OF NINE DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE TURBULENT KAMINKA FAMILY ALSO SERVES AS AN ALLEGORY FOR THE MODERN ISRAELI CONDITION AS UNDERSTOOD BY THE AUTHOR.
BR 6337 WORLD OF OUR MOTHERS, THE THE LIVES OF JEWISH IMMIGRANT WOME WEINBERG, SYDNEY STAHL BASED ON ORAL HISTORIES, THIS BOOK CHRONICLES THE LIVES OF JEWISH WOMEN FROM RUSSIA AND POLAND WHO SETTLED IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 6338 BELLE MOSKOWITZ WOMAN IN POLITICS PERRY, ELIZABETH ISRAELS THE STORY OF A JEWISH WOMAN DURING THE PROGRESSIVE ERA WHO WORKED EXTENSIVELY TO ENRICH THE LIVES OF THE GHETTO DWELLERS ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE.
BR 6339 UNDERSTANDING THE PROPHETS BLANK, SHELDON H. AN ANALYSIS OF THE TEACHINGS OF THE EARLY AND LATE PROPHETS, THEIR RELEVANCE TODAY AND THE WAY THE PROPHETIC MESSAGE WAS CONVEYED TO A SKEPTICAL PEOPLE.
BR 6340 INTERMARRIAGE HANDBOOK, THE PETSONK, JUDY & REMSEN, JIM A COMPREHENSIVE CRADLE-TO-GRAVE GUIDE TO THE DECISIONS AND PROBLEMS FACED BY EVERYONE INVOLVED IN AN INTERFAITH MARRIAGE.
BR 6341 ORPHANED ADULT, THE CONFRONTING THE DEATH OF A PARENT ANGEL, MARC D. PRESENTING PRACTICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES, THIS BOOK MOVES FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF ADULT ORPHANHOOD TO MORE GENERAL THEMES OF MORTALITY, MOURNING, AND THE LASTING INFLUENCE OF PARENTS.
BR 6342 YIDDISH FOLKTALES WEINREICH, BEATRICE SILVERMAN A COLLECTION OF 178 EXAMPLES OF MORAL ALLEGORIES, RELIGIOUS STORIES WITH ETHICAL MESSAGES, CHILDREN'S FAIRY AND HUMOROUS TALES, AND LEGENDS OF SAINTS, VILLAINS AND SUPERNATURAL DEMONS.
BR 6343 GARDEN WHERE WOLVES AND LIONS DO NO HARM SIEGEL, DANNY POEMS THAT DEPICT A RANGE OF JEWISH EVENTS AND EMOTIONS FROM THE AGONY OF THE HOLOCAUST TO THE JOYS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 6344 SURVIVORS SPEAK OUT VARIOUS CONTRIBUTORS IN POETRY AND PROSE, SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST WRITE WHAT IS ON THEIR MINDS AND IN THEIR HEARTS.
BR 6345 FROM BERLIN TO JERUSALEM MEMORIES OF MY YOUTH SCHOLEM, GERSHOM A PERSONAL AND INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY AN INNOVATOR IN 20TH CENTURY JEWISH THOUGHT, FROM HIS BEGINNINGS IN GERMANY TO MODERN DAY ISRAEL.
BR 6346 SHIMONI'S LOVER LEVIN, JENIFER A PORTRAIT OF THE EFFECT THAT DAILY KIBBUTZ LIFE HAS ON ITS CHARACTERS, FOUR SONS OF AN ISRAELI MILITARY LEADER, IN POSTWAR ISRAEL.
BR 6347 BIBLE STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN - VOL. 4 HOLLANDER, BETTY R. FROM JOB TO NEHEMIAH: A NEWLY REVISED PROGRAM PROVIDING CHILDREN WITH THEIR FIRST OPPORTUNITY TO IDENTIFY WITH THEIR JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 6348 PAST PERFECT SHABTAI, YAAKOV MEIR, AN ENGINEER LIVING IN TEL AVIV, DISCOVERS HE HAS HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND IS CONVINCED OF HIS IMPENDING DEATH. THE NOVEL ILLUSTRATES THE INEVITABLE AND CORROSIVE EFFECTS OF TIME.
BR 6349 BELLAROSA CONNECTION, THE BELLOW, SAUL THE AGING NARRATOR REMEMBERS AN ACQUAINTANCE WHO WAS SAVED FROM THE NAZIS AND, FOR YEARS, IS THWARTED IN HIS ATTEMPTS TO THANK HIS RESCUER.
BR 6350 JOURNEY TO TRADITION THE ODYSSEY OF A BORN-AGAIN JEW LEVIN, MICHAEL G. THE ODYSSEY OF A JEW WHO, IN 12 DAYS OF INTENSE STUDY IN AN ORTHODOX JERUSALEM YESHIVA, WAS TRANSFORMED FROM AN ASSIMILATED AMERICAN JEW TO A SEEKER OF HIS RELIGIOUS ROOTS.
BR 6351 MITLA PASS URIS, LEON WITH HIS MARRIAGE IN TURMOIL AND HIS WRITING CAREER AT A STANDSTILL, GIDEON ZADOK GOES TO ISRAEL DURING THE 1956 SINAI WAR TO TRY TO REDEEM HIMSELF AS A WRITER AND A JEW.
BR 6352 FINANCIER THE BIOGRAPHY OF ANDRE MEYER REICH, CARY STORY OF THE FRENCH JEW WHO FLED OCCUPIED FRANCE TO BECOME THE HEAD OF THE NEW YORK INVESTMENT BANKING HOUSE OF LAZARD FRERES & CO.
BR 6353 GERMAN JEWS BEYOND JUDAISM MOSSE, GEORGE L. THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE ASSIMILATION OF GERMAN JEWRY, THEIR REJECTION BY THE GERMANS, AND THE LOSS OF JEWISH IDENTITY FOR MANY GERMAN JEWS.
BR 6354 WALKING THROUGH ISRAEL GAVRON, DANIEL ONE OF THE BEST-KNOWN JOURNALISTS THERE TRIED TO GET TO KNOW HIS COUNTRY BY TRAMPING IT FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER ON FOOT.
BR 6355 JEWISH CELEBRITIES HALL OF FAME, THE BOXER, TIM PROFILES OF THE JEWISH 'MOVERS' AND 'SHAKERS' IN THE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT. INCLUDED ARE STARS OF STAGE, SCREEN, AND TELEVISION.
BR 6356 FIFTH WHEEL, THE SHAMIR, MOSHE THIS NOVEL FEATURES THE MISADVENTURES OF A KIND-HEARTED KIBBUTZNIK.
BR 6357 OTHER JEWS, THE THE SEPHARDIM TODAY ELAZAR, DANIEL J. ELAZAR OVERTURNS STEREOTYPES AND CHALLENGES WIDELY-HELD ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT SEPHARDIM IN ISRAEL AND PROVIDES READERS WITH A TOUR OF SEPHARDI COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD.
BR 6358 BIBLE STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. VOL. 1. HOLLENDER, BETTY A RETELLING OF BIBLE STORIES FOR CHILDREN, FROM NOAH'S ARK TO THE TIME OF MOSES.
BR 6359 DIAMONDS OF THE NIGHT LUSTIG, ARNOST FICTIONALIZATION OF LUSTIG'S EXPERIENCES AS A BOY IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS. ALSO DEALS WITH THE WARSAW UPRISING, AND THE LIBERATION OF PRAGUE.
BR 6360 FROM THAT PLACE AND TIME A MEMOIR 1938-1947 DAWIDOWICZ, LUCY S. THE AUTHOR, AN AMERICAN HISTORIAN, RECOUNTS THE YEAR SHE SPENT IN 1938 WORKING AT THE YIVO ARCHIVES IN VILNA SHORTLY BEFORE THE NAZIS SWEPT IN AND MURDERED NEARLY ALL THAT CITY'S JEWS.
BR 6361 CUP OF TEARS, A LEWIN, ABRAHAM A DIARY OF THE WARSAW GHETTO COVERING THE PERIOD APRIL 1942-JANUARY 1943. IT PROVIDES A WEALTH OF INFORMATION ON GHETTO-RELATED TOPICS WHILE THE INTRODUCTION OFFERS HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.
BR 6362 NIGHT TALES REMEMBERED FABLES FROM THE SHAMMAS KATZ, MICHAEL JAY THE STORYTELLER IN THIS NOVEL IS THE SYNAGOGUE CARETAKER WHO RETELLS HIS JEWISH FABLES TO HIS RABBI NIGHT AFTER NIGHT. THE STORIES CENTER AROUND THE CENTRAL YESHIVA IN COLOGNE IN AN INDETERMINATE TIME HEAVILY LACED WITH MYTH, LEGEND, AND FOLKLORE.
BR 6363 BIBLE STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN - VOL. II HOLLENDER, BETTY R. THESE BIBLE STORIES RETOLD ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG CHILDREN COVER THE PERIOD FROM JOSHUA TO SOLOMON.
BR 6364 BIBLE STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN - VOL. III HOLLENDER, BETTY R. THESE BIBLE STORIES RETOLD ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG CHILDREN COVER THE PERIOD FROM ELIJAH TO JEREMIAH.
BR 6365 JUDAISM DE LANGE, NICHOLAS THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF JUDAISM ARE EXAMINED IN ORDER TO SHOW THE ESSENTIAL UNITY THAT EXISTS BECAUSE OF A COMMON HISTORICAL HERITAGE.
BR 6366 JEWISH LIFE IN PHILADELPHIA 1830-1940 FRIEDMAN, MURRAY, ED. FOCUSES ON JEWISH LEADERS, SCHOLARS AND BUSINESSMEN OF PHILADELPHIA.
BR 6367 SHIRA'S SUMMER LAZEWNIK, LIBBY SHIRA WHO IS ALMOST BAS MITZVAH DISCOVERS THAT MOVING TO THE SUBURBS AND MAKING NEW FRIENDS CAN BE FUN AND VERY EXCITING.
BR 6368 LITTLE LOVE IN BIG MANHATTAN, A WISSE, RUTH R. THE AUTHOR TELLS THE STORY OF TWO POETS, MANNY LEIB AND MOSHE LEIB HALPERN, WHO WERE PROMINENT MEMBERS OF 'DI YUNGE,' A GROUP OF YIDDISH POETS AND WRITERS WHO CAME TO AMERICA IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 6369 TO PRAY AS A JEW DONIN, RABBI HAYIM HALEVY A LUCID GUIDE FOR THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO PRAY IN THE JEWISH WAY BUT DON'T KNOW HOW. THE BOOK IS ALSO INTENDED FOR PEOPLE WHO PRAY BY ROTE EVERY DAY BUT WOULD LIKE A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THEY ARE SAYING. BLENDING HALAKHA AND HISTORY, MIDRASH AND PHILOSOPHY, DONIN CLARIFIES THE CONTENT AND STRUCTURE OF THE PRAYERS.
BR 6370 JOKES OF OPPRESSION, THE THE HUMOR OF SOVIET JEWS HARRIS, DAVID A. & IZRAIL RABINOVICH A COLLECTION OF JOKES THAT FINDS HUMOR IN THE OFTEN DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES OF BEING A JEW IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.
BR 6371 LORD IS A WHISPER AT MIDNIGHT, THE PSALMS AND PRAYERS SIEGEL, DANNY A COLLECTION OF PSALMS AND PRAYERS WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR FOR PERSONAL OR CONGREGATIONAL USE. SOME ARE MODERN INTERPRETATIONS OF BIBLICAL PSALMS; SOME ARE THE AUTHOR'S OWN CREATIONS.
BR 6372 SLOPES OF LEBANON, THE OZ, AMOS A SERIES OF ARTICLES AND SPEECHES WRITTEN BETWEEN 1982 AND 1988 WHOSE SUBJECTS INCLUDE KURT WALDHEIM AND THE AUSTRIAN ORIGINS OF MANY NAZIS, CLAUDE LANZMANN'S HOLOCAUST FILM, 'SHOAH,' THE 1984 HIJACKING OF A BUS BY ARAB TERRORISTS, THE WEAKENING OF ISRAEL'S LABOR PARTY, AND THE SEARCH FOR PEACE IN ISRAEL.
BR 6373 CONVERSATIONS WITH PRIMO LEVI CAMON, FERDINANDO THE TWO ITALIAN WRITERS DISCUSS FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES, SUCH AS THE VALUE OF LITERATURE AND REFLECTIONS ON HUMAN SUFFERING.
BR 6374 BLESSINGS PLAIN, BELVA JENNIE RAKOWSKY, A LAWYER WHO SPECIALIZES IN DEFENDING THE RIGHTS OF IMPOVERISHED WOMEN, IS ABOUT TO MARRY A FELLOW ATTORNEY. BUT HER WELL-ORDERED LIFE IS SHATTERED WHEN THE CHILD SHE GAVE UP FOR ADOPTION APPEARS ON HER DOORSTEP.
BR 6375 JEPTHE'S DAUGHTER RAGEN, NAOMI THE STORY OF BATSHEVA HA-LEVI WHO FLEES AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE AND HER CLOISTERED HASIDIC COMMUNITY IN JERUSALEM FOR LONDON. DESPITE THE MANY APPEALING ASPECTS OF HER NEW LIFE, HA-LEVI DECIDES TO RETURN TO JERUSALEM TO CONFRONT HER HUSBAND AND HER OLD LIFE.
BR 6376 SURVIVING THE SEASONS KUPFER, FERN JAKE AND SARA FELDMAN SPEND THEIR GOLDEN YEARS IN FLORIDA WHERE THEY ARE SURROUNDED BY A VARIETY OF CHARACTERS. THE AUTHOR PROVIDES INTIMATE GLIMPSES INTO THE LIVES OF THESE IN THIS NOVEL OF THE 'EVENTS' OF DAILY LIFE.
BR 6377 MINE ENEMY BARNEA, AMALIA & BARNEA, AHARON THE BOOK TRACES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE AUTHORS, ISRAELI JOURNALISTS AND A CAPTURED PLO LIEUTENANT COL. THEY FIND TO THEIR CONFUSION THAT STEREOTYPICAL VIEWS DO NOT FIT THE MAN THEY MEET.
BR 6378 FINAL OPUS OF LEON SOLOMON, THE BADANES, JEROME LEON SOLOMON, A TRAGIC-COMIC FIGURE AND HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, IS ABOUT TO COMMIT SUICIDE. IN THE COURSE OF HIS EXPLANATION, SOLOMON RECOUNTS HIS INTERNMENT AT AUSCHWITZ, HIS ESTRANGEMENT FROM HIS WIFE AND SON, AND HIS AMOROUS ADVENTURES.
BR 6379 DARKER SIDE OF GENIUS, THE KATZ, JACOB THIS STUDY EXAMINES ATTITUDES TOWARD JEWS IN EARLY 19TH CENTURY GERMANY, PARTICULARLY THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF THE COMPOSER RICHARD WAGNER.
BR 6380 BEFORE OUR VERY EYES READINGS FOR A JOURNEY THROUGH ISR SIEGEL, DANNY AN ANTHOLOGY OF PROSE AND POETRY THAT CAN HELP EXPRESS SOME OF THE READER'S FEELINGS WHILE WALKING THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
BR 6382 CIRCLE OF THE BA'AL SHEM TOV, THE HESCHEL, ABRAHAM JOSHUA THIS BOOK CONTAINS FOUR ESSAYS THAT WERE UNFINISHED AT THE TIME OF HESCHEL'S DEATH IN 1972. THE ESSAYS DISCUSS THE BA'AL SHEM TOV, THE FOUNDER OF THE HASIDIC MOVEMENT.
BR 6383 JACOB'S LADDER COLLINS, ALAN IN AN ORPHANAGE SURROUNDED BY YOUNG REFUGEES FROM HITLER'S GERMANY, JACOB IS TAUGHT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS HERITAGE. BUT IT TAKES A SERIES OF TRAGEDIES FOR JACOB TO BEGIN TO LIVE HIS LIFE FULLY.
BR 6384 JEWISH SPIRITUALITY I FROM THE BIBLE TO THE MIDDLE AGES GREEN, ARTHUR, ED. FIFTEEN U.S. AND ISRAELI SCHOLARS EXPLORE JUDAISM'S SPIRITUALITY FROM ITS FOUNDATION IN THE BIBLICAL AGE AND ITS EMERGENCE IN THE RABBINIC AGE TO THE PERIOD OF REFLECTION IN THE MEDIEVAL AGE.
BR 6385 ADVENTURES OF K'TONTON A LITTLE JEWISH TOM THUMB WEILERSTEIN, SADIE ROSE A CLASSIC COLLECTION OF STORIES ABOUT A MINIATURE BOY GROWING UP IN A JEWISH HOUSEHOLD. WHILE HIS ATTEMPTS TO NAVIGATE A NORMAL-SIZED WORLD ARE AMUSING, THE JEWISH LESSONS LEARNED ARE ALSO INSTRUCTIVE.
BR 6386 INTERNATIONAL COOKING FOR THE KOSHER HOME GOLDBERG, BETTY S. A COLLECTION OF INTERNATIONAL DISHES WHICH HAVE BEEN ADAPTED BOTH TO THE AMERICAN PALATE AND TO KOSHER DIETARY LAWS. A BRIEF DISCUSSION OPENS EACH CHAPTER.
BR 6387 SHIRA'S NEW START LAZEWNIK, LIBBY THIS SEQUEL TO 'SHIRA'S SUMMER' EXPANDS ON THE CHARACTERS INTRODUCED IN THE EARLIER BOOK. SHIRA AND DAWN GRUBER ARE ENTERING A NEW SCHOOL AND THE YEAR GETS OFF TO A TURBULENT START.
BR 6388 WATERS OF DARKNESS, THE SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF AN AMERICA SANFORD, JOHN THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE AUTHOR'S MEMOIRS EVOKING THE SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF A YOUNG JEW IN AMERICA.
BR 6389 CHRISTMAS REVOLUTION, THE COHEN, BARBARA A FINE AND PERCEPTIVE EXPLORATION OF SOME OF THE CONFLICTS AND PRESSURES ENGENDERED IN THE LIVES OF SOME JEWISH FOURTH-GRADERS DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON.
BR 6390 HOLY DAYS THE WORLD OF A HASIDIC FAMILY HARRIS, LIS THE AUTHOR BEFRIENDED A LUBAVITCH HASIDIC FAMILY AND PENETRATED A SECT KNOWN FOR ITS ADHERENCE TO OLD WORLD CUSTOMS AND REVERENCE OF ITS HASIDIC RABBIS.
BR 6391 RAGMAN'S SON, THE DOUGLAS, KIRK THE CHILD OF JEWISH-RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS, RAISED IN POVERTY, DOUGLAS BECAME A MOVIE STAR AND A MILLIONAIRE. HE RECOUNTS HIS EARLY YEARS, HIS RISE TO FAME, AND HIS PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS.
BR 6392 SPRINGS OF JEWISH LIFE, THE RAPHAEL, CHAIM AN EXAMINATION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE'S ENCOUNTER WITH GENTILE CULTURES, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON BIBLICAL TIMES, HELLENISM, AND THE ROMAN PERIOD. THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT A POSITIVE WORLD VIEW AND A NEED FOR A MEANINGFUL EXISTENCE HAVE ENABLED THE JEWS TO ENDURE.
BR 6393 CREATING THE PALESTINIAN STATE A STRATEGY FOR PEACE SEGAL, JEROME M. THE AUTHOR OUTLINES BASIC STRATEGIES FOR CONSTRUCTING A VIABLE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. HIS PLAN IS BASED ON THE CONCEPT OF ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN MUTUAL RECOGNITION OF COMMON GOALS, NEEDS FOR SECURITY, AND RIGHTS FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SELF-DETERMINATION.
BR 6394 JEWISH STORIES AND HEBREW MELODIES HEINE, HEINRICH THE FIRST COMPILATION OF JEWISH STORIES BY THE ROMANTIC GERMAN POET, THE SELECTION INCLUDES 'THE RABBI OF BACHERACH', 'THE HEBREW MELODIES' AND 'JESSICA.'
BR 6395 JOLSON THE LEGEND COMES TO LIFE GOLDMAN, HERBERT G. AARON NORDWI AL JOLSON IS PROBABLY BEST REMEMBERED FOR THE FILM "THE JAZZ SINGER." BUT IN HIS TIME, HE WAS AN IMMENSELY POPULAR PERFORMER WHOSE GIFT WAS THE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE MAGICALLY WITH LIVE AUDIENCES. COMPREHENSIVELY RESEARCHED AND WRITTEN, GOLDMAN DETAILS JOLSON'S COMPLEX LIFE AND CAREER, FROM EARLY BEGINNINGS AS A STREET PERFORMER THROUGH HIS MULTIFACETED CAREER.
BR 6396 JEWISH FAMILY MYTHS & REALITY COHEN, STEVEN M. & HYMAN, PAULA MIRIAM TITCOMB DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN, EUROPEAN, AND ISRAELI SCHOLARS EXAMINE THE HISTORY, SOCIOLOGY, AND CULTURE OF THE JEWISH FAMILY IN ITS VARIED SETTINGS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
BR 6397 NEW JEWISH CUISINE, THE BERKOWITZ, GILA RECIPES FOR JEWISH DISHES THAT EMPHASIZE HEALTHFUL INGREDIENTS. INCLUDES SECTIONS ON VEGETARIAN, HOLIDAY, AND ISRAELI FOODS.
BR 6398 ISRAEL IN AMERICA A TOO COMFORTABLE EXILE? NEUSNER, JACOB PUBLISHED IN 1985, NEUSNER EXAMINES THE CONDITION OF JEWS IN AMERICA.
BR 6399 ANZIA YEZIERSKA A WRITER'S LIFE HENRIKSEN, LOUISE LEVITAS NICKNAMED THE 'HESTER STREET CINDERELLA,' THE YIDDISH WRITER, WHO DIED IN 1970, IS BROUGHT TO LIFE THROUGH HER PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE.
BR 6400 TOUCH WOOD ROTH-HANO, RENEE THE AUTHOR RECOUNTS HER GIRLHOOD IN NAZI OCCUPIED FRANCE. SHE AND HER SISTERS WERE SENT TO A CATHOLIC WOMEN'S RESIDENCE IN NORMANDY WHERE THEY REMAINED UNTIL THE WAR ENDED.
BR 6401 TERRITORY OF LIES THE EXCLUSIVE STORY OF JONATHAN J. BLITZER, WOLF BLITZER, A JOURNALIST, RECOUNTS THE STORY OF JONATHAN J. POLLARD, THE AMERICAN JEW WHO SPIED ON THE UNITED STATES FOR ISRAEL, AND ANSWERS SOME DISTURBING QUESTIONS.
BR 6402 CITY BOY WOUK, HERMAN A HUMOROUS NOVEL ABOUT HERBIE BOOKBINDER AND HIS EXPERIENCES GROWING UP IN THE BRONX.
BR 6404 BRONSTEIN'S CHILDREN BECKER, JUREK BEVERLY STER JUREK BECKER HAS DEVISED SOMETHING BETWEEN STORY AND ALLEGORY TO EVOKE THE COLD GENERATIONAL MILLENNIUM THAT SEPARATES A FATHER, WITH HIS CONCENTRATION CAMP MEMORIES, FROM A SON, ADRIFT IN A SOCIETY WITH NO MEMORIES WHATSOEVER.
BR 6405 OUT OF MANY WATERS GREENE, JACQUELINE DEMBAR IN 1654, A YOUNG PORTUGUESE GIRL STOWS AWAY ABOARD A DUTCH SHIP HEADED FOR NEW AMSTERDAM. THROUGH THE HEROINE'S ADVENTURES, THE YOUNG READER IS INTRODUCED TO AMERICAN AND JEWISH HISTORY.
BR 6406 SUSTAINING UTTERANCE DISCOURSES ON CHASIDIC THOUGHT STEINSALTZ, ADIN A COMPANION VOLUME TO 'THE LONG SHORTER WAY,' IN WHICH STEINSALTZ CONTINUES HIS COMMENTARY ON THE 'TANYA,' THE CLASSIC HABAD HASIDIC TEXT. THE BOOK DEALS WITH SEVERAL FUNDAMENTAL THEOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF JEWISH THOUGHT.
BR 6407 HURRAY FOR ALI BABA BERNSTEIN HURWITZ, JOHANNA THE HUMOROUS ADVENTURES OF DAVID BERNSTEIN, AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD WHO IS BORED WITH LIFE AND CHANGES HIS NAME TO ALI BABA BERNSTEIN.
BR 6408 SHAWL, THE A STORY AND A NOVELLA OZICK, CYNTHIA OZICK STEERS THE READER THROUGH THE MIND OF ROSA, A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, WHO RELIVES THE PAST BY WRITING LETTERS IN HER HEAD TO HER DEAD DAUGHTER, MAGDA. THE SHAWL OF THE TITLE IS MAGDA'S WHICH ROSA HAS PRESERVED AS BOTH TALISMAN AND SECURITY BLANKET.
BR 6409 ARROGANT ARI LEARNS A LESSON GOLDING, GOLDIE ARROGANT ARI THOUGHT HE WAS THE BEST, BRIGHTEST AND MOST HANDSOME ANIMAL IN THE WORLD. NOBODY LIKED HIM. THEN SOMETHING VERY SCARY HAPPENED. NOW, EVERYONE IS HIS FRIEND.
BR 6410 ELI AND HIS LITTLE WHITE LIE GOLDING, GOLDIE WHEN ELI TELLS A LIE, HE THINKS IT'S FUN AND WHEN THE LIE COMES TO PLAY WITH HIM, IT'S EVEN MORE FUN. YET, ELI DISCOVERS THAT WHILE A LIE MIGHT SEEM TO BE FUN, IT'S REALLY NOT.
BR 6411 JEWS IN AMERICA, THE FOUR CENTURIES OF AN UNEASY ENCOUN HERTZBERG, ARTHUR THIS HISTORY FOCUSES ON CONTROVERSIAL OR SELDOM-DISCUSSED ISSUES SUCH AS THE ROLE OF JEWS IN SMUGGLING DURING THE CIVIL WAR; JEWS' ADULATION OF FORMER-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; AND THE BIRTH OF THE 'JEWISH MOTHER' FIGURE. THROUGH THESE EVENTS, THE AUTHOR ATTEMPTS TO CLARIFY THE RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL DILEMMAS FACED BY JEWS IN AMERICA.
BR 6412 LANGUAGE OF FAITH GLATZER, NAHUM N. A SELECTION OF 100 PRAYERS FROM THE MOST EXPRESSIVE PRAYERS IN TRANSLATIONS THAT STRIVE FAITHFULLY TO REPRODUCE THE DIRECTNESS OF SPEECH OF THEIR ORIGINALS.
BR 6413 WHO NEEDS GOD KUSHNER, HAROLD, RABBI THE AUTHOR ASSERTS THAT EVERYONE NEEDS GOD AND INSISTS THAT GOD HEARS PEOPLE EVEN WHEN THEY PROTEST DIVINE 'MISHANDLING' OF THEIR AFFAIRS.
BR 6414 HIS DAUGHTER KANIUK, YORAM THE DISAPPEARANCE OF HIS DAUGHTER FORCES RETIRED BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOSEPH KRIEGER TO REASSESS HIS LIFE AND FACE HIS INADEQUACIES AS A HUSBAND, FATHER, AND MAN.
BR 6415 REFUGE FROM DARKNESS, A SHEPHERD, NAOMI THE STORY OF WILFRED ISRAEL, BUSINESSMAN FROM BERLIN, DISSIDENT ZIONIST AND RETIRING PACIFIST WHO BECAME GERMAN JEWRY'S CHIEF EMISSARY AND AN UNACKNOWLEDGED HERO OF THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 6416 MISHNAH AN INTRODUCTION NEUSNER, JACOB THE AUTHOR INTRODUCES READERS TO THE MISHNAH, THE CODIFICATION OF JEWISH ORAL LAW WHICH FORMS THE BASIS OF BOTH THE BABYLONIAN AND PALESTINIAN TALMUDS. NEUSNER DESCRIBES HOW THE MISHNAH SHOULD BE READ AND EXPLAINS HOW ITS WISDOM APPLIES TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 6417 SUMMER WORLD, A THE ATTEMPT TO BUILD A JEWISH EDEN KANFER, STEFAN THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS FROM 1753 THROUGH THE 1970S.
BR 6418 DROWNED AND THE SAVED, THE LEVI, PRIMO A POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED 'LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT' WHICH ASKS WHETHER THOSE WHO RETURNED FROM THE CAMPS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO UNDERSTAND AND MAKE OTHERS UNDERSTAND THEIR EXPERIENCE. THE AUTHOR ALSO CAUTIONS HIS READERS TO BEWARE OF SIMPLIFICATIONS, STEREOTYPES, AND THE FALLACIOUSNESS OF HUMAN MEMORY.
BR 6419 MIRACLE HATER, THE HAREVEN, SHULAMITH SET IN BIBLICAL TIMES, ESHKAR IS A HEBREW BORN INTO SLAVERY IN EGYPT. HE TAKES PART IN THE EXODUS BUT SEPARATES HIMSELF FROM THE OTHER TRIBES WHEN HE SEES THAT MOSES'S MIRACLES CAUSE ONLY PAIN. HE REMAINS IN THE DESERT, CYNICAL AND ALONE.
BR 6420 GOLDWYN A BIOGRAPHY BERG, A. SCOTT A COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF THE PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE OF THE FAMOUS HOLLYWOOD STUDIO HEAD. BERG INCLUDES MANY OF GOLDWYN'S FAMOUS MALAPROPISMS, ANECDOTES ABOUT HIS SUCCESSES AND FAILURES, AND DETAILS ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE CELEBRITIES OF HIS ERA.
BR 6421 JOSEPHUS THE JEWISH WAR CORNFELD, GAALYA JOSEPH BEN MATTHIAS WHO LATER BECAME FLAVIUS JOSEPH THE NOTED HISTORIAN HERE TELLS THE STORY OF MASADA, THE CLIMAX TO THE SAGA OF ASSAULT AND RESISTANCE THAT TOOK PLACE FROM 100 B.C.E. TO 73 C.E.
BR 6422 JERUSALEM ON EARTH PEOPLE, PASSIONS AND POLITICS IN T RABINOVICH, ABRAHAM A PORTRAIT OF JERUSALEM OVER THE TWO DECADES SINCE ITS REUNIFICATION IN THE SIX DAY WAR.
BR 6423 WHAT YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT JUDAISM 341 COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT JE BULKA, RABBI REUVEN P. RABBI BULKA CLARIFIES COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT JEWISH LIFE ON SUCH TOPICS AS THE HOLIDAYS, RITUALS, LIFE-CYCLE EVENTS, AND TRADITIONS. SOURCES ARE ALSO PROVIDED.
BR 6424 VARIABLE DIRECTIONS PAGIS, DAN THE SELECTED POETRY OF DAN PAGIS (1930-1986) WHO WAS ONE OF THE MOST VIBRANT VOICES IN ISRAELI POETRY.
BR 6425 JOURNEY FROM PRAGUE STREET, THE DEMETZ, HANA THE STORY OF HELENE, AN ORPHAN OF THE HOLOCAUST, WHO MEETS PAUL IN POST-WORLD WAR II PRAGUE AND AGREES TO MARRY HIM DESPITE HIS PHILANDERING. THE NOVEL FOLLOWS THE COUPLE TO AMERICA IN THE 1950S WHERE HELENE FINDS HER SKILLS AS A SURVIVOR TESTED AGAIN.
BR 6426 EXPLAINING REFORM JUDAISM BOROWITZ, EUGENE B. & PATZ, NAOMI THIS WORK ADDRESSES THE MAJOR QUESTIONS POSED BY REFORM JEWS, SUCH AS: 'WHAT DO REFORM JEWS BELIEVE?'; 'WHO TELLS REFORM JEWS WHAT TO DO AND BELIEVE?'; AND 'WHAT IS A REFORM JEW SUPPOSED TO DO?'
BR 6427 LAST ARAB JEWS, THE UDOVITCH, ABRAHAM L. & LUCETTE VALEN THE LIFE AND HISTORY OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF JERBA, AN ISLAND OFF TUNISIA. THEY ARE THE ONLY JEWS OF ALL THE COMMUNITIES OF MOROCCO, ALGERIA AND TUNISIA WHO HAVE RESISTED ASSIMILATION AND MIGRATION.
BR 6428 FIVE SEASONS YEHOSHUA, A.B. YEHOSHUA WRITES OF THE PAINFUL AND AWKWARD READJUSTMENT TO LIFE OF A PASSIVE CIVIL SERVANT WHO HAD NURSED HIS WIFE THROUGH A LONG AND FATAL ILLNESS.
BR 6429 HEROES OF ISRAEL PROFILES IN JEWISH COURAGE HERZOG, CHAIM THE PHYSICAL AND MORAL COURAGE OF EACH JEWISH HERO FROM BIBLICAL TIMES TO THE 1976 ENTEBBE RESCUE IS DEPICTED ALONG WITH THE CONDITIONS AND ENEMIES AGAINST WHICH THEY BATTLED.
BR 6430 WHERE ARE WE? THE INNER LIFE OF AMERICA'S JEWS FEIN, LEONARD USING SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND DRAWING FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, THE AUTHOR EXPLORES HOW AMERICAN JEWS DEFINE THEMSELVES. HE ASSERTS THAT THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CAN SURVIVE ONLY IF IT LEARNS TO EMPHASIZE VALUES AND MORAL STANDARDS.
BR 6431 JERUSALEM CITY OF MIRRORS ELON, AMOS THE AUTHOR EXAMINES JERUSALEM'S BIBLICAL LANDSCAPE AGAINST A PAST AND PRESENT CHOKED WITH RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL STRIFE.
BR 6432 DEVIL'S ARITHMETIC, THE YOLEN, JANE HANNAH, A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD JEWISH GIRL, RESENTS THE TRADITIONS OF HER HERITAGE UNTIL TIME TRAVEL PLACES HER IN THE MIDDLE OF A SMALL JEWISH VILLAGE IN NAZI-OCCUPIED POLAND.
BR 6433 FREUD A LIFE FOR OUR TIME GAY, PETER DRAWING ON A VAST STORE OF UNPUBLISHED AND PREVIOUSLY INACCESSIBLE DOCUMENTS, GAY PROBES FREUD'S MIND, UNCOVERS FREUD'S PASSIONS, AND FOLLOWS HIS ASTONISHING CAREER.
BR 6434 MAX AND THE CATS SCLIAR, MOACYR A STORY THAT SEEKS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE CONSCIENCES OF GERMANS WILL COMPEL THEM TO CONFRONT THE NAZIS IN THEIR MIDST. MAX SCHMIDT IS A TEENAGER WITH AN OVERBEARING FATHER AND A HOST OF IRRATIONAL FEARS. A MISHAP AT HIS FAMILY STORE FORCES HIM TO FLEE TO BRAZIL WHERE HE LEARNS THAT HE MUST FACE REALITY AND HIS DEMONS.
BR 6435 EMPIRE OF THEIR OWN, AN GABLER, NEAL A WIDE-RANGING, IN-DEPTH ACCOUNT OF THE JEWISH STUDIO EXECUTIVES, THEATRE OWNERS, PRODUCERS, WRITERS, ETC., WHO DOMINATED THE AMERICAN FILM INDUSTRY UNTIL SHORTLY AFTER WW II.
BR 6436 ZION AND STATE NATION, CLASS AND THE SHAPING OF M COHEN, MITCHELL THIS ANALYSIS OF THE STRUGGLE WITHIN THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL CONCENTRATES ON THE PIVOTAL CONFLICTS OF THE 1920S AND 1930S. THE AUTHOR DEMONSTRATES HOW THE RISE OF THE LABOR PARTY'S DOMINANCE MADE THE BIRTH OF THE JEWISH STATE POSSIBLE.
BR 6437 PROPHET HAREVEN, SHULAMITH A NOVEL DEPICTING THE BIRTH THROES OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A CANAANITE SOOTHSAYER, HIVAI, WHO SPENDS SEVEN YEARS IN A HEBREW CAMP AFTER HIS NATIVE CITY IS BESIEGED.
BR 6438 PESACH SAMPLER STERN, LEAH G. & AVRUTICK, FRANCES R. FROM APPETIZER TO AFIKOMAN: A CREATIVE APPROACH TO PESACH COOKERY, INCLUDING OLD FAMILY FAVORITES AND ORIGINAL CREATIONS DEVELOPED SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS BOOK.
BR 6439 WHY I AM A REFORM JEW SYME, RABBI DANIEL B. A VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNION OF AMERICAN HEBREW CONGREGATIONS WRITES ABOUT HIS ROOTS IN CANADA, HIS DECISION TO BECOME A RABBI, THE HISTORY OF REFORM JUDAISM AND HOW HE WAS INFLUENCED BY THE MOVEMENT.
BR 6440 HIDEOUT, THE HEUCK, SIGRID IN A NOVEL THAT BLENDS FANTASY AND REALISM, TWO CHILDREN MEET IN AN ORPHANAGE DURING WORLD WAR II. THE MYTHICAL KINGDOMS THEY CREATE IN THEIR STORIES BECOME MORE REAL TO THEM THAN THE BATTLES AND AIR RAIDS RAGING RIGHT OUTSIDE THEIR DOOR.
BR 6441 CRISIS OF GERMAN IDEOLOGY, THE INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF THE THIR MOSSE, GEORGE L. AN EXAMINATION OF THE ROOTS OF NAZISM WHICH THE AUTHOR CONTENDS WERE ORIGINALLY BASED ON SENTIMENT RATHER THAN INTELLECT.
BR 6443 JESTERS MARKISH, DAVID COMIC AND TRAGIC ELEMENTS ARE USED IN THIS HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT PETER THE GREAT AND HIS THREE JEWISH ADVISERS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIA. THE AUTHOR EMPHASIZES THE FINE LINE ONCE WALKED BY AMBITIOUS EUROPEAN JEWS AS THEY HAD TO BE BOTH CLEVER AND NON-THREATENING TO THOSE IN POWER.
BR 6444 UPHEAVAL IN THE QUIET ZONE A HISTORY OF HOSPITAL WORKERS' UNI FINK, LEON & BRIAN GREENBERG THE STORY OF THE JEWISH ORGANIZERS WHO HELPED CREATE THE CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS IN THE 1930S, THEIR PURGE WHEN THE COLD WAR BEGAN, AND THREE WHO SURVIVED THE WITCH HUNTS.
BR 6445 CELLA THE SURVIVORS WERFEL, FRANZ HANS BODENHEIM IS A JEWISH LAWYER IN AN AUSTRIAN TOWN MARRIED TO A CHRISTIAN WOMAN AND FATHER OF CELLA, A PIANO PRODIGY. THIS IS THE STORY OF HIS PERSECUTION BY THE NAZIS, HIS ARREST, AND HIS ESCAPE ENROUTE TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP.
BR 6446 GREAT LETTER E SCHOR, SANDRA BARRY GLASSMAN IS AN OPTOMETRIST WHOSE MARRIAGE AND BUSINESS IS FALLING APART. HE BURIES HIMSELF IN PHILOSOPHY AND JEWISH THEOLOGY AND DEVELOPS A FASCINATION WITH ALL THINGS THAT BEGIN WITH THE LETTER 'E,' INCLUDING HIS SEXY COUSIN ENID.
BR 6447 THREE MERCHANTS AND OTHER STORIES, THE WEINBACH, SHAINDEL A COLLECTION OF STORIES ON THE LIVES OF SEPHARDIC JEWS, THE HASIDIC COURTS OF EASTERN EUROPE, AND OF MODERN JEWRY. FOR CHILDREN 8 AND UP.
BR 6448 INVISIBLE THREAD, THE A PORTRAIT OF JEWISH AMERICAN WOME BLETTER, DIANA A COLLECTION OF ORAL HISTORIES OF WOMEN DESCRIBING HOW JEWISH TRADITION SHAPES THEIR LIVES. INCLUDED ARE STORIES FROM THE NAVY'S FIRST FEMALE CHAPLAIN, A HASIDIC BUTCHER, AN IRANIAN IMMIGRANT, AND A BLACK WOMAN FROM NEW YORK CITY.
BR 6449 COMPLETE AMERICAN JEWISH RECIPES - PASSOVER RECIPES LONDON, ANNE & BIOCHOV, BERTHA THIS IS A PERFECT ADDITION TO ANY PASSOVER KITCHEN. THE RECIPES ARE EASY TO PREPARE AND ARE ALSO VERY TASTY.
BR 6450 AND HANNAH WEPT INFERTILITY, ADOPTION AND THE JEWI GOLD, MICHAEL THE AUTHOR PROVIDES BOTH RABBINIC AND PRACTICAL EVALUATIONS OF MEDICAL TREATMENTS FOR INFERTILITY, INCLUDING IN-VITRO FERTILIZATION, ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION, AND SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD.
BR 6451 JUDEA, SAMARIA AND GAZA VIEWS ON THE PRESENT AND FUTURE ELAZAR, DAVID J., ED. PUBLISHED IN 1982, CONTRIBUTORS OFFER MAINLY OFFICIAL ISRAELI VIEWS, BOTH PRESENT AND FUTURE, ON AGRICULTURE, WATER RESOURCES, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE STATUS OF ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA.
BR 6452 CONVERSATIONS WITH RABBI SMALL KEMELMAN, HARRY TALMUDIC DETECTIVE RABBI DAVID SMALL RESUMES HIS ORIGINAL ROLE AS CLERGYMAN. THIS TIME IT IS TO COUNSEL A NON-JEWISH GIRL WHO IS ABOUT TO MARRY A JEW. THROUGH HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH HER, HE GAINS INSIGHT INTO THE RELATIONS BETWEEN JEW AND NON-JEW, AND ALSO INTO HIS OWN PREJUDICES.
BR 6453 EARTH TO ANDREW O. BLECHMAN ZALBEN, JANE BRESKIN MR. PEARLSTEIN, AN OLD VAUDEVILLIAN, HAS AGREED TO TEACH COMEDY ROUTINES TO ANDREW, AN ASPIRING FOURTH GRADE COMEDIAN. IN RETURN ANDREW WILL PREPARE MR. PEARLSTEIN FOR THE BAR MITZVAH HE NEVER HAD. BUT WHEN MR. PEARLSTEIN ASKS ANDREW'S GRANDMOTHER FOR A DATE, ANDREW BEGINS TO WORRY ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP.
BR 6454 NISHING AMERICAN* ..LEBOWITZ.. THIS WORK TRACES THE MIGRATION OF SEVERAL FEMININE IMAGES AND SITUATIONS FROM BIBLICAL WRITINGS TO MODERN HEBRAIC LITERATURE.
BR 6455 USEFUL GIFTS GLICKFELD, CAROLE L. RUTHIE, THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF A DEAF COUPLE, SERVES AS A TRANSLATOR FOR HER PARENTS IN THESE INTERCONNECTED SHORT STORIES ABOUT GROWING UP JEWISH IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1940S.
BR 6456 DADDY'S HOME SCHNUR, STEVEN REFLECTIONS OF A FAMILY MAN: THESE 31 LOOSELY WOVEN PIECES COMPRISE THE AUTHOR'S COLLECTION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REFLECTIONS ABOUT PARENTHOOD.
BR 6457 SO IT WAS JUST A SIMPLE WEDDING KASDAN, SARA A HUMOROUS NOVEL OF THE PERIOD BETWEEN ENGAGEMENT AND WEDDING AND THE ADVENTURES OF A FAMILY DURING THIS PERIOD.
BR 6458 HITLER'S GERMAN ENEMIES PORTRAITS OF HEROES WHO FOUGHT THE SNYDER, LOUIS L. A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS DETAILING THE EXPERIENCES OF 15 CITIZENS OF THE THIRD REICH WHO RISKED THEIR LIVES TO SAVE JEWS.
BR 6459 HAPPILY INTERMARRIED ROSENBERG, R., MEEHAN, P. & PAYNE, J A RABBI, A CATHOLIC PRIEST AND A PROTESTANT MINISTER OFFER AUTHORITATIVE ADVICE FOR A JOYOUS JEWISH-CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE.
BR 6460 SAFE DEPOSIT AND OTHER STORIES, THE ABOUT GRANDMOTHERS, OLD LOVERS AND KERRY OLITZKY, ED. A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY VARIOUS JEWISH WRITERS DEPICTING THEIR DIVERSE RESPONSES TO OLD AGE. INCLUDES STORIES BY GRACE PALEY, ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER, EDNA FERBER, AND HUGH NISSENSON AMONG OTHERS.
BR 6461 STRUGGLE ZYSKIND, SARA ELIEZER IS A POLISH-JEWISH CHILD WHOSE ADOLESCENCE IS SPENT IN GHETTOS AND CONCENTRATION CAMPS WHERE, ONE-BY-ONE, HE LOSES HIS ENTIRE FAMILY. A STORY OF SURVIVAL AGAINST ALL ODDS.
BR 6462 LIFE WITH A STAR WEIL, JIRI SET IN THE 1940S, THIS WARTIME NOVEL IS ABOUT A FORMER BANK TELLER ASSIGNED TO SWEEP A CEMETERY IN PRAGUE. THE PEACEFULNESS OF HIS LOCATION CONTRASTS SHARPLY WITH THE INCREASING PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS STILL LEFT IN THAT CITY.
BR 6463 MISSING HERMAN, MICHELLE RIVKE VASILEVSKY IS A LONELY OLD WOMAN WHO LIVES WITH HER MEMORIES AND RELIES ON PHONE CALLS FROM HER GRANDCHILDREN. A PACKET OF BEADS FROM A BELOVED OLD DRESS UNACCOUNTABLY DISAPPEARS AND THE TURMOIL THIS CAUSES REVEALS THE COMPLEXITY OF OLD AGE.
BR 6464 WE WERE NOT LIKE OTHER PEOPLE SEVELA, EPHRAIM MERYL ROSENT A NOVEL THAT DEPICTS THE EXPERIENCES OF A NINE-YEAR-OLD SOVIET BOY DURING WORLD WAR II. FORCED TO WANDER THROUGH THE COUNTRY AFTER HIS FATHER IS TAKEN AWAY, HE IS REUNITED WITH HIS ENTIRE FAMILY AFTER THE WAR.
BR 6465 JEWISH FOLKTALES SADEH, PINHAS A COLLECTION OF 200-PLUS STORIES DRAWN FROM EASTERN EUROPEAN, MIDDLE EASTERN AND NORTH AFRICAN SOURCES, FILLED WITH PASSION, MAGIC AND HUMOR.
BR 6466 JUSTICE AT NUREMBERG CONOT, ROBERT E. AN ACCOUNT OF THE NUREMBERG TRIALS, BASED ON OFFICIAL COURT TRANSCRIPTS. INCLUDED ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE 21 NAZI WAR CRIMINALS GATHERED FROM INTERVIEWS, MEMOIRS, LETTERS, AND THEIR OWN DEPOSITIONS BEFORE THE COURT.
BR 6467 DANCE WITH THE DEVIL DOUGLAS, KIRK THE STORY OF DANNY DENNISON, A RUSSIAN-JEWISH IMMIGRANT WHO RISES TO FAME IN HOLLYWOOD AS A MOVIE DIRECTOR. DENNISON'S MEETING WITH LUBA, A LONDON PROSTITUTE WHO WAS A POLISH REFUGEE, HELPS HIM CONFRONT HIS PAST AS A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR.
BR 6468 CHILD'S BOOK OF MIDRASH 52 STORIES FROM THE SAGES GOLDIN, BARBARA DIAMOND STORIES FROM THE TALMUD AND OTHER MIDRASHIC SOURCES FILLED WITH HEROIC PERSONALITIES THAT ILLUMINATE JEWISH ETHICAL AND MORAL VALUES. THE AUTHOR ALSO PROVIDES AN INTRODUCTION, A GLOSSARY OF TERMS, AND SOURCE REFERENCES FOR EACH STORY.
BR 6469 ADVENTURES OF ALI BABA BERNSTEIN HURWITZ, JOHANNA EIGHT-YEAR-OLD DAVID BERNSTEIN WAS LOOKING FOR MORE EXCITEMENT IN HIS LIFE, SO HE CHANGED HIS NAME TO ALI BABA BERNSTEIN, AND THEN THE FUN BEGAN.
BR 6470 GOOD BOOK COOKBOOK, THE RECIPES FROM BIBLICAL TIMES GOODMAN, NAOMI, ROBERT MARCUS & SUSA THE 140 RECIPES IN THIS BOOK SPAN 3,000 YEARS OF CULINARY AND BIBLICAL HISTORY. THE EVERYDAY MEALS OF BIBLICAL TIMES AS WELL AS A VARIETY OF MENUS FOR BOTH JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS AND FEASTS ARE RECREATED.
BR 6471 STREETS ARE PAVED WITH GOLD, THE WEISSENBERG, FRAN IN THIS COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL SET IN BROOKLYN IN THE 1920S, DEBBIE GOLD CHRONICLES HER EIGHTH-GRADE YEAR. AS SHE CONFRONTS HER FIRST LOVE, NEW FRIENDSHIPS, AND FAMILIAL RESPONSIBILITY, SHE ALSO STRUGGLES TO BALANCE HER IMMIGRANT FAMILY LIFE WITH HER DESIRE TO BECOME AN AMERICAN.
BR 6472 SOLOMON GURSKY WAS HERE RICHLER, MORDECAI FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS, MOSES BERGER, A RHODES SCHOLAR 'GONE BAD,' HAS BEEN DOING RESEARCH ON THE DISDAINED, DISGRACED AND DEAD SOLOMON GURSKY. WHAT HE DISCOVERS HAS AN UNEXPECTED IMPACT ON HIS LIFE.
BR 6473 WINDOW, THE RAVIKOVITCH, DAHLIA THESE NEW AND SELECTED POEMS BY AN IMPORTANT ISRAELI POET ARE ROOTED IN BIBLICAL IMAGERY, YET THEY CRY OUT TO ALL WOMEN ACROSS ALL CULTURAL BARRIERS.
BR 6474 ONE BY ONE, BY ONE MILLER, JUDITH THE AUTHOR EXAMINES SIX COUNTRIES, GERMANY, AUSTRIA, FRANCE, THE NETHERLANDS, THE USSR AND THE U.S., FOR THE WAYS IN WHICH EACH ATTEMPTS TO PRESERVE, TO INTERPRET, OR TO EXPUNGE THE HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 6475 ETHEL THE FICTIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY NASON, TEMA A FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF ETHEL ROSENBERG, WHO WAS EXECUTED BY THE UNITED STATES, ALONG WITH HER HUSBAND, JULIUS, FOR PASSING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION TO RUSSIA. NASON DEPICTS ETHEL'S YOUTH, CONVICTION, AND TRIAL AND CONTENDS THAT THE COUPLE WAS FRAMED BY THE FBI.
BR 6476 LEVITATION FIVE FICTIONS OZICK, CYNTHIA THESE FIVE STORIES DEAL WITH LEVITATION, HALLUCINATION, TRANSFORMATION AND EVEN THE 'THWACK OF INFATUATION.'
BR 6477 COURT JESTERS, THE DAGAN, AVIGDOR FOUR PRISONERS ARE KEPT ALIVE IN A NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP AS 'COURT JESTERS' TO ENTERTAIN THE CAMP COMMANDANT. YEARS LATER, THREE OF THEM MEET IN JERUSALEM AND SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES AFTER THE WAR, WHICH, FOR ONE OF THE SURVIVORS, INVOLVES VENGEANCE FOR HIS WIFE'S DEATH.
BR 6478 JEWISH RESPONSE TO GERMAN CULTURE, THE REINHARZ, JEHUDA & SCHATZBERG, WALTE PROMINENT HISTORIANS, PHILOSOPHERS AND LITERARY SCHOLARS EXPLORE THE INTERACTION BETWEEN JEWISH AND GERMAN CULTURE DURING THE 200 YEARS PRIOR TO THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 6479 POEMS OF PAUL CELAN CELAN, PAUL. MICHAEL HAMBURGER, TRAN IN THIS COLLECTION OF POETRY, CELAN, A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, PROVIDES READERS WITH GLIMPSES OF HIS PERSONAL VISIONS AND PRIVATE FEARS. TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GERMAN.
BR 6480 FUR HAT, THE VOINOVICH, VLADIMIR A SATIRICAL LOOK AT THE FORMER SOVIET UNION WHICH CENTERS ON YEFIM RAKHLIN, A WRITER OF ADVENTURE STORIES. WHEN THE SOVIET WRITERS' UNION DISTRIBUTES FUR CAPS, RAKHLIN DISCOVERS HE MERITS THE LOWEST CATEGORY, A HAT MADE OF CAT FUR. FEELING HIS JEWISH ORIGINS ARE TO BLAME, HE PETITIONS TO BE UPGRADED.
BR 6481 FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM FRIEDMAN, THOMAS L. A NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALIST FROM BEIRUT AND JERUSALEM ATTEMPTS TO PROVIDE NEW UNDERSTANDING TO AGE-OLD PROBLEMS.
BR 6482 HADASSAH MAGAZINE JEWISH PARENTING BOOK, THE BELL, ROSELYN, ED. A SERIES OF PRACTICAL ARTICLES ON A VARIETY OF TOPICS RELEVANT TO THE JEWISH FAMILY IN AMERICA IN THE LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED RANGE FROM HOW TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTH OF A DAUGHTER TO TEACHING JEWISH CHILDREN CIVIL RESPONSIBILITY TO FACING THE 'DECEMBER DILEMMA.'
BR 6483 I LIVE IN ISRAEL FRANKEL, MAX & JUDY HOFFMAN PUBLISHED IN 1979, THIS IS A COMBINED TEXT AND ACTIVITY BOOK THAT HAS AS ITS THEME THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF ISRAELI LIFE.
BR 6484 BOOK OF JEWISH HOLIDAYS, THE KOZODOY, RUTH AN EXPLANATION OF THE CELEBRATIONS, FEASTS, AND FASTS OF THE JEWISH YEAR DESIGNED TO PROVIDE CHILDREN WITH A FOUNDATION IN HOLIDAY AND SABBATH OBSERVANCE. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE BOOK.
BR 6485 LONE STAR BARRIE, BARBARA WHEN JANE MILLER'S FAMILY IS FORCED TO MOVE FROM CHICAGO TO CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, JANE MUST FACE THE PROBLEM OF GROWING UP JEWISH IN THE 1940S IN A LARGELY NON-JEWISH COMMUNITY.
BR 6486 HERMIT OF 69TH STREET, THE KOSINSKI, JERZY BILLED AS 'AUTO FICTION,' IT PURPORTS TO BE THE UNFINISHED MANUSCRIPT LEFT BEHIND BY NORBERT KOSKY, FAMOUS AND BRILLIANT NOVELIST, WHEN HE IS LOST AT SEA. ANNOTATED WITH INTRIGUING FOOTNOTES.
BR 6487 POPULAR ACTIVITIES AND GAMES FOR BLIND, VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND DISABLED PEOPLE RICKARDS, PETER A COMPILATION OF INDOOR AND OUTDOOR GAMES SUITABLE FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN WITH VISUAL AND OTHER DISABILITIES.
BR 6489 EVIL AND EXILE DE SAINT CHERON, PHILIPPE & ELIE WIE IN A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS WITH THE FRENCH JOURNALIST, WIESEL, A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR AND WRITER, DISCUSSES JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS, ANTI-SEMITISM, HASIDISM, POLITICS, JEWISH THOUGHT, AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF OTHER WRITERS TO HIS VISION.
BR 6490 HANUKAH PLAY, THE GARVEY, ROBERT TWINS RACHEL AND DAVID ARE ANGRY. AGAIN THIS YEAR MISS KEENE GAVE THEM BABY PARTS IN THE HANUKAH PLAY. THEY DECIDE TO ACT OUT THE PLAY FOR THEIR PARENTS AT HOME WITH UNEXPECTED AND AMUSING RESULTS.
BR 6493 JOHN AND ANZIA AN AMERICAN ROMANCE ROSEN, NORMA THE AUTHOR BASES HER WORK ON ARCHIVAL EVIDENCE THAT THE PHILOSOPHER AND TEACHER JOHN DEWEY HAD AN AFFAIR IN 1917 WITH THE POLISH-JEWISH WRITER, ANZIA YEZIERSKA. INCLUDES AN EXPLANATORY FOREWORD AND AFTERWORD BY ROSEN AS WELL AS FIRST-PERSON NARRATIVE SEGMENTS IN THE VOICE OF ANZIA.
BR 6494 FREUD'S VIENNA AND OTHER ESSAYS BETTELHEIM, BRUNO ESSAYS BY THE AUTHOR, A PSYCHOANALYST, WHICH REFLECT HIS CONCERNS AS BOTH CHILD THERAPIST AND HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR. INCLUDED ARE PIECES ON THE AUTHOR'S RETURN TO DACHAU WHERE HE HAD BEEN A PRISONER, MIEP GIES, WHO HAD SHELTERED ANNE FRANK FROM THE NAZIS, AND A DISCUSSION ON SEX AND DEATH IN BETTELHEIM'S NATIVE VIENNA.
BR 6495 SEVENTH SANCTUARY, THE EASTERMAN, DANIEL A STORY OF INTRIGUE INVOLVING AN AMERICAN AND A PALESTINIAN GUIDE WHO ARE TRYING TO STOP A SCHEME TO DESTROY ISRAEL AND REBUILD THE NAZI REICH.
BR 6496 PALACE OF SHATTERED VESSELS, THE. VOL. 2 A VOYAGE TO UR OF THE CHALDEES SHAHAR, DAVID THE SECOND VOLUME IN THIS SERIES DEPICTS LIFE IN JERUSALEM IN THE 1930S UNDER OTTOMAN RULE. INCLUDES DETAILS OF JEWISH HISTORY AND FOLKLORE.
BR 6499 CHILD'S BIBLE LESSONS FROM THE TORAH ROSSEL, SEYMOUR A RETELLING OF THE GREAT BIBLE STORIES WHICH APPLIES THEM TO CHILDREN'S OWN PERSONAL LIVES AND CONCERNS. EACH STORY CONTAINS A 'PESHAT' (MEANING), 'DERASH' (WHAT IT TEACHES, AND 'REMEZ' (LESSON)
BR 6500 JOYS OF YIDDISH, THE A RELAXED LEXICON ROSTEN, LEO STANLEY R. B THE HUMOR AND DELIGHT OF THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE, INCLUDING MANY WORDS THAT HAVE BECOME COMMONPLACE IN THE ENGLISH VERNACULAR.
BR 6503 INTERMARRIAGE THE CHALLENGE OF LIVING WITH DIFFE SCHNEIDER, SUSAN WEIDMAN A REALISTIC GUIDE FOR INTERFAITH COUPLES WITH ADVICE ON HOW TO COPE WITH FAMILIES AND GUIDELINES ON SPECIFIC RITES AND EVENTS.
BR 6504 WHEN SHE WAS BAD THE STORY OF BESS, HORTENSE, SUKHR ALEXANDER, SHANA THE STORY OF THE MESSY DIVORCE TRIAL OF ANDY AND NANCY CAPASSO, WHICH INVOLVED THE FORMER MISS AMERICA AND POLITICIAN, BESS MYERSON, THE PRESIDING JUDGE, HORTENSE GABEL, AND HER DAUGHTER, SUKHREET.
BR 6505 KISSING THROUGH GLASS THE INVISIBLE SHIELD BETWEEN AMERI STARR, JOYCE R. AN ANALYSIS OF THE INNATE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AMERICANS AND ISRAELIS AND HOW EACH GROUP PERCEIVES THE OTHER.
BR 6506 IF I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW...SO WHAT? GETTY, ESTELLE IN HER WONDERFULLY FUNNY BOOK, THE STAR OF TV'S 'GOLDEN GIRLS' GIVES US A LIGHTHEARTED LOOK AT LIFE, LOVE AND LAUGHTER.
BR 6507 HOME GROUND FREED, LYNN A YOUNG GIRL SEARCHES FOR HER OWN 'HOME GROUND' AMIDST THE CONFUSION OF HER ECCENTRIC THEATRICAL JEWISH FAMILY IN SOUTH AFRICA.
BR 6508 CHANUKKAH GUEST KIMMEL, ERIC Q. ON CHANUKAH, BUBBA BRAYNA, WHO DOESN'T HEAR OR SEE TOO WELL ANYMORE, MAKES A BATCH OF POTATO LATKES FOR THE RABBI, WHO IS COMING TO VISIT. HER GUEST COMES, HE EATS, AND LEAVES. WHEN THE RABBI COMES LATER, BUBBA TRIES TO FIGURE OUT WHO HER FIRST GUEST WAS.
BR 6509 DOUBLE IDENTITY A MEMOIR KUBAR, ZOFIA S. THE AUTHOR FLED THE WARSAW GHETTO AND ASSUMED A NEW IDENTITY AS A NON-JEWISH POLE. AFTER A SERIES OF NARROW ESCAPES, KUBAR TURNED TO AN OLD SCHOOL FRIEND WHO HID HER AND ULTIMATELY SAVED HER LIFE.
BR 6510 JAGENDORF'S FOUNDRY MEMOIR OF THE ROMANIAN HOLOCAUST 1 JAGENDORF, SIEGFRIED THE STORY OF A FAILED JEWISH ENTREPRENEUR WHO MANAGED TO CONVINCE THE NAZIS TO LET HIM CONVERT AN ABANDONED FACTORY INTO A JEWISH LABOR CAMP. OUTMANEUVERING ROMANIAN OFFICIALS, JAGENDORF SAVED 15,000 JEWS FROM DEATH.
BR 6511 BECH IS BACK UPDIKE, JOHN THIS NOVEL CONTINUES UPDIKE'S CHRONICLING OF THE LIFE OF HIS CHARACTER HARRY BECH, A JEWISH AMERICAN WRITER.
BR 6512 HEALER OF SHATTERED HEARTS, THE A JEWISH VIEW OF GOD WOLPE, DAVID J. DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM THE BIBLE, THE TORAH AND THE MIDRASH, THE AUTHOR, A CONSERVATIVE RABBI, PROVIDES GUIDANCE TO THOSE SEEKING A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
BR 6513 TELL ME YOUR SECRET COHEN, BARBARA AT A SUMMER WORKSHOP FOR TEENAGE WRITERS, CRUNCH IS INTRIGUED WITH THE MYSTERIOUS EVE, WHO IGNORES HIM. WHEN A PRANK HE INSTIGATES ENDS BADLY, EVE REVEALS TO CRUNCH HER DIFFICULTIES AS THE DAUGHTER OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS.
BR 6514 SACRED FRAGMENTS RECOVERING THEOLOGY FOR THE MODERN GILLMAN, NEIL EMPLOYING A WIDE RANGE OF JEWISH PERSPECTIVES AND THE IDEAS OF INFLUENTIAL TWENTIETH-CENTURY JEWISH THINKERS, THE AUTHOR ADDRESSES MANY COMPLEX PROBLEMS IN JEWISH THEOLOGY.
BR 6515 MY GRANDMOTHER'S STORIES A COLLECTION OF JEWISH FOLKTALES GERAS, ADELE EACH OF THE 10 CHAPTERS IN THIS BOOK DESCRIBES A CHILD'S VISIT TO GRANDMA'S, DURING WHICH A SIMPLE ACT, SUCH AS TRYING ON AN AUNT'S HIGH HEELED SHOES, INSPIRES GRANDMA TO TELL AN EASTERN EUROPEAN FOLK TALE.
BR 6516 BOOK OF J, THE ROSENBERG, DAVID & HAROLD BLOOM A CONTROVERSIAL TRANSLATION AND ANALYSIS OF PARTS OF THE PENTATEUCH. THE AUTHORS BELIEVE THAT THESE PASSAGES WERE AUTHORED BY A WOMAN, REFERRED TO AS 'J' BY MODERN BIBLE CRITICS, WHO LIVED IN THE TIME OF KING SOLOMON'S COURT AND WROTE THESE SELECTIONS AS A LITERARY WORK.
BR 6517 BOOK OF RUTH, A A LOVE STORY LEAHY, SYRELL ROGOVIN A ROMANTIC STORY ABOUT A WOMAN FROM A MIDDLE-CLASS JEWISH BACKGROUND WHO FALLS IN LOVE WITH A MAN WHOSE TRAGIC PAST DRIVES HIM INTO THE PRIESTHOOD FOR EXPIATION.
BR 6518 MY JEWISH WORLD THUM, ROBERT & SUSAN DWORSKI THE AUTHORS TAKE AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO A BASIC JUDAIC CURRICULUM AND COMBINE A HOLIDAY TEXT, A LIFE CYCLE TEXT AND A CIVIC TEXT INTO ONE VOLUME. INCLUDED ARE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE VARIOUS FORMS OF JEWISH LEADERS, JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS, AND THE MEANING OF VARIOUS JUDAIC OBJECTS.
BR 6519 STARTING WITH SERGE STONE, LAURIE THIS CHRONICLE OF '50S AND '60S NEW YORK FOCUSES ON JULIE WHOSE PSYCHOANALYST IS ATTEMPTING TO SEDUCE HER. SHE ALSO LEARNS TO COEXIST WITH HER RAGE WHEN HER FATHER DIES.
BR 6520 EXILE IN THE PROMISED LAND FREEDMAN, MARCIA A FORMER ISRAELI NNESSET MEMBER DESCRIBES HER STRUGGLE TO BRING WOMEN'S LIBERATION TO ISRAEL DURING THE '50S AND '60S IN A BITING MEMOIR EXTREMELY CRITICAL OF THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT.
BR 6521 KING HEROD'S DREAM CAESAREA ON THE SEA HOLUM, KENNETH G., ROBERT L. HOHLFEL AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT ISRAELI CITY OF CAESAREA BUILT ON THE MEDITERRANEAN BY KING HEROD, FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TO ITS DESTRUCTION IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
BR 6522 MAMA LEAH'S JEWISH KITCHEN FISHER, LEAH LOEB WITH MARIA POLUSHK PILING SCHMALTZ IN BOTH HER RECIPES AND CHATTER, 'MAMA' PRESENTS THE SHTETL CUISINE OF EASTERN EUROPE. INCLUDED IS AUTHENTIC FLANKEN, HERRING DISHES, KUGELS AND, OF COURSE, CHICKEN SOUP.
BR 6523 WHEN LIVING HURTS GORDON, SOL GORDON HELPS TEENAGERS FIND HOPE AND HELP IN THIS GUIDEBOOK FOR THE DISCOURAGED, LONELY, HOPELESS, ANGRY, DEPRESSED, OR SUICIDAL.
BR 6524 NIGHT TRAIN TO MOTHER LENTIN, RONIT THIS SAGA SPOTLIGHTS THE LIFESTYLES OF WELL-TO-DO ORTHODOX ROMANIAN JEWISH FAMILIES OF THE ERA, FROM THE HORRORS OF WW II THE IRON GUARD FASCISTS OF THE 1930S, AND THE HOLOCAUST OF WW II.
BR 6525 WALK IN THE FIRE, A SANFORD, JOHN JOHN SANFORD, ALIAS JULIAN SHAPIRO, CONTINUES THE STORY OF HIS LIFE IN THIS FINAL INSTALLMENT.
BR 6526 SHCHARANSKY HERO OF OUR TIME GILBERT, MARTIN A BOOK ABOUT SHCHARANSKY'S NINE-YEARS IN A SOVIET PRISON AND HIS RELEASE AND REUNION WITH HIS WIFE IN ISRAEL. THE STRUGGLES OF THE REFUSENIKS IN THE FORMER U.S.S.R. AND THEIR CAMPAIGNS IN THE WEST PROVIDE THE BACKDROP TO SHCHARANSKY'S STORY.
BR 6527 ARGUING WITH G-D LAYTNER, ANSON THE AUTHOR EXAMINES BIBLICAL, RABBINIC, MEDIEVAL HASIDIC, AND CONTEMPORARY TEXTS TO SUPPORT HIS THESIS THAT ARGUING WITH G-D IS A TIME-HONORED ASPECT OF JEWISH PRAYER.
BR 6528 VASE FOR A FLOWER, A TALES OF AN ANTIQUE DEALER PINKUS, DENNY STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AN ANTIQUES DEALER IN TEL AVIV, WHICH DEPICT LIFE IN ISRAEL, THE BUYERS AND SELLERS IN THE ANTIQUES TRADE, AND GROWING UP WITH HIS GRANDPARENTS IN BOLIVIA.
BR 6529 SEARCH FOR GOD AT HARVARD, THE GOLDMAN, ARI GOLDMAN, A FORMER NEW YORK TIMES RELIGION REPORTER, WAS SENT TO HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL IN 1985. IN THIS BOOK HE DESCRIBES THE YEAR IN WHICH HE IMMERSED HIMSELF IN THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS, CONFRONTED PAST TRAUMAS, AND CLARIFIED HIS OWN BELIEFS.
BR 6530 SHADOW MOUNTAIN SEGAL, HARRIET COUSINS CHARLEE FIELDS AND LAUREN JACOB ENJOY A WARM RELATIONSHIP GROWING UP IN 1930S NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL CHARLEE HAS AN AFFAIR WITH LAUREN'S HUSBAND DAVID.
BR 6531 CARP IN THE BATHTUB, THE COHEN, BARBARA RUTH LEVINST A CHILDREN'S STORY ABOUT A FAMILY IN NEW YORK, AND THEIR PREPARATIONS FOR THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS.
BR 6532 DEFENDERS OF GOD LAWRENCE, BRUCE B. A DISCUSSION OF EUROCENTRISM, NATIONALISM AND THE MARGINALIZATION OF RELIGION WITH CASE STUDIES DRAWN FROM THE THREE MAJOR MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS.
BR 6533 LOVE AND EXILE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER, THE NOBEL-PRIZE WINNING YIDDISH WRITER, RECOUNTS HIS YOUTH IN POLAND, HIS EXILE TO AMERICA, AND HIS MANY COMPANIONS AND LOVERS.
BR 6534 THIS IMMORTAL PEOPLE COHN, EMIL BERNHARD THIS POPULAR BOOK ON JUDAISM FOR THE 1940S AND 1950S HAS NOW BEEN BROUGHT UP TO DATE. AIT PROVIDES A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE MAJOR EVENTS AND CRUCIAL PERIODS IN JEWISH HISTORY.
BR 6535 I CAME A STRANGER THE STORY OF A HULL-HOUSE GIRL EPSTEIN, HILDA SATT POLACHECK THE AUTHOR RECOUNTS HER EMIGRATION FROM POLAND TO CHICAGO IN 1892 AND HER INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LIFE, HER MARRIAGE, SUPPORT OF CIVIL RIGHTS, WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE, AND EXPERIENCES AS A WRITER FOR THE WPA.
BR 6536 AND RACHEL WAS HIS WIFE ANONYMOUS PAM MERRILL THIS HISTORICAL NOVEL FOCUSES ON THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE GREAT TALMUDIC SAGE RABBI AKIVA, AS RELATED BY A FRIEND OF HIS WIFE, RACHEL.
BR 6537 ALLRIGHTNIKS ROW 'HAUNCH PAUNCH AND JOWL' THE MAKING OF A PROFESSIONAL JEW ORNITZ, SAMUEL A STUDY OF JEWS WHO MOVED UP FROM THE GHETTOS OF NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE TO THE FASHIONABLE 'ALLRIGHTNIKS ROW'. © 1985
BR 6538 CAKES AND MIRACLES A PURIM TALE GOLDIN, BARBARA DIAMOND AS PURIM APPROACHES, HERSHEL, WHO IS BLIND, WISHES HE COULD HELP HIS MOTHER PREPARE FOR THE HOLIDAY. HIS DREAM ABOUT AN ANGEL AND WHAT THE ANGEL TELLS HIM LEADS TO AN EXCITING SURPRISE FOR HIS ENTIRE VILLAGE. INCLUDES A RECIPE FOR 'HAMANTASHEN.'
BR 6539 HARRIET RUBIN'S MOTHER'S WOODEN HAND HAHN, SUSAN THE IMMIGRANT JEWISH CULTURE OF CHICAGO PROVIDES THE BACKGROUND FOR THESE STORIES WHICH DESCRIBE THE NEUROSES, SECRETS, GOOD HUMOR, DEFEATS, AND TRIUMPHS OF THREE GENERATIONS.
BR 6540 HOLOCAUST, THE THE DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN JEWRY LEVIN, NORA A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY AND ANALYSIS OF THE SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN JEWRY BY NAZI GERMANY FROM 1933-45, TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE COUNTERMEASURES POSED BY THE JEWISH RESISTANCE.
BR 6541 TALMUD, THE A REFERENCE EDITION STEINSALTZ, ADIN A COMPREHENSIVE WORK WHICH PROVIDES AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIQUE SYSTEM OF TALMUDIC LOGIC. IT DESCRIBES THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE TALMUD AS WELL AS ITS NATURE, METHODOLOGY, TERMINOLOGY AND LEGAL CONCEPTS.
BR 6542 ARGUMENTS FOR THE SAKE OF HEAVEN EMERGING TRENDS IN TRADITIONAL JUDAISM SACKS, JONATHAN THE CHIEF RABBI ELECT OF GREAT BRITAIN DISCUSSES CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN JUDAISM.
BR 6543 ISRAELI PACIFIST THE LIFE OF JOSEPH ABILEAH BING, ANTHONY C. JOSEPH ABILEAH, A MUSICIAN LIVING IN HAIFA, IS A PACIFIST, QUAKER, AND CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR. BING DEPICTS ABILEAH'S EFFORTS TO PROTECT MINORITY RIGHTS IN ISRAEL AND TO BRING TOGETHER JEWS AND ARABS ON COOPERATIVE PROJECTS.
BR 6544 BEN-GURION THE BURNING GROUND 1886-1948 TEVETH, SHABTAI SHIRLEY SOMM THE FIRST PART OF A MULTIVOLUME 'LIFE' OF ISRAEL'S FIRST PRIME MINISTER. TEVETH UNCOVERS THE STORY OF THE MAN WHOSE DESTINY WAS INTERTWINED WITH THAT OF THE CREATION OF THE NEW COUNTRY. DISAPPOINTED IN HIS FAMILY LIFE AND IN PARTY LOYALTY, HE WAS GALVANIZED INTO BECOMING HIS OWN STRONGEST RESOURCE.
BR 6545 PLOTS AND PLAYERS MELNIKOFF, PAMELA SET IN 1654, THIS NOVEL HAS ROBIN FERNANDEZ, A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD BOY WHO LIVES IN LONDON, ASKING WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, 'WHY MUST THE JEW BE THE VILLAIN? WHY CAN'T HE BE THE HERO?' ALONG WITH HIS SISTER FRANCES, ROBIN PROMPTS THE PLAYWRIGHT AND THOSE AROUND HIM TO RECONSIDER THEIR PREJUDICES.
BR 6547 TRESPASSES BRIDGWOOD, CAROLINE ORPHANED AT AGE EIGHT, KITTY CONWAY IS SENT TO LIVE WITH HER UNCLE AND HIS SIX CHILDREN. AS WORLD WAR II APPROACHES AND THE COUSINS MATURE, EACH OF THEM MAKE CHOICES THAT WILL HAVE LASTING EFFECTS ON THE PEOPLE THEY LOVE.
BR 6548 GRANDMOTHERS, MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS ORAL HISTORIES OF THREE GENERATIONS OF ETHNIC AMERICAN WOMEN KRAUSE, CORINNE AZEN EIGHTEEN WOMEN FROM THE PITTSBURGH AREA RECOUNT THEIR HISTORIES OF CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION, COURTSHIP, MARRIAGE AND WORK. THEY REPRESENT THREE ETHNIC GROUPS-JEWS, SLAVS, AND ITALIANS.
BR 6549 BY NIGHT UNDER THE STONE BRIDGE PERUTZ, LEO FOURTEEN INTERWOVEN STORIES ABOUT EMPEROR RUDOLF II OF PRAGUE AND MORDECHAI MEISL WHICH DEPICT HOW RUDOLF'S INTERESTS IN BEAUTY AND MONEY WOULD LINK THE TWO MEN FOREVER. EVENTUALLY MEISL'S WIFE, THE SERVANTS OF THE COURT, AND THE JEWS OF THE GHETTO ALL BECOME INVOLVED. THE STORIES ARE NARRATED CENTURIES LATER BY MEISL'S DESCEND
BR 6550 EVEN A FIST WAS ONCE AN OPEN PALM WITH FINGERS AMICHAI, YEHUDA THESE LOVE POEMS INCLUDE FAMILIAR AMICHAI THEMES: ISRAEL'S WARS STILL INTERMINGLE WITH THE POET'S LIFE AND BIBLICAL IMAGES ARE ONCE AGAIN MADE PERSONAL.
BR 6551 WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT GUILT LEARNING TO LIVE WITH IT SINCE WE WECHSLER, HARLAN J. THE AUTHOR EXAMINES THE CAUSES OF GUILT AND OFFERS GUIDELINES ON HOW TO RESPOND TO IT APPROPRIATELY.
BR 6552 UPSTAIRS ROOM, THE REISS, JOHANNA THE STORY OF A YOUNG JEWISH DUTCH GIRL WHO WAS HIDDEN BY A FARM FAMILY FOR TWO YEARS DURING THE NAZI OCCUPATION OF HOLLAND.
BR 6553 EXACT IMAGE OF MOTHER, THE FRIEDMANN, PATTY IN THIS COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL, THIRTY-YEAR-OLD DARBY COOPER, WHO HAS ALWAYS BEEN ESTRANGED FROM THE WEALTHY JEWISH COMMUNITY INTO WHICH SHE WAS BORN, IS STILL TRYING TO COME TO TERMS WITH HER SELF-ABSORBED MOTHER. BECOMING A MOTHER HERSELF HELPS COOPER REALIZE SHE MUST LEAVE NEW ORLEANS AND FINALLY GROW UP.
BR 6554 COSMETIC EFFECTS SINCLAIR, CLIVE IN A HUMOR-LACED, CYNICAL NOVEL THAT TOUCHES ON ADULTERY, TERRORISM, AND THE MORAL COSTS OF ISRAEL'S POLICIES WITH THE PALESTINIANS, AN ENGLISH PROFESSOR UNWITTINGLY GETS INVOLVED WITH A PLO-LIKE GROUP. THE PROFESSOR LOSES AN ARM, SUFFERS AMNESIA, AND ACCUSES HIS PREGNANT WIFE OF ADULTERY WHILE CONDUCTING AN ILLICIT AFFAIR OF HIS OWN.
BR 6555 INDECENT DREAMS LUSTIG, ARNOST THESE THREE NOVELLAS DEAL WITH THE ORDINARY CITIZENS OF PRAGUE DURING WORLD WAR II AT A TIME WHEN THEIR NAZI MASTERS ARE ABOUT TO BE DEFEATED.
BR 6556 BARBARA WALTERS AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OPPENHEIMER, JERRY THE AUTHOR INTERVIEWED OVER 400 PEOPLE TO TELL THE STORY OF THE WELL-KNOWN TELEVISION PERSONALITY. WHILE SOME OF THE RESPONDENTS ADMIRE WALTERS, OTHERS REGARD HER AS SELF-CENTERED AND RUTHLESS.
BR 6557 JUDAISM AND THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS BAMBERGER, DAVID A COURSE ON COMPARATIVE RELIGIONS WHICH DISCUSSES WHAT HINDUISM, BUDDHISM, ISLAM, AND CHRISTIANITY SHARE WITH JUDAISM AND HOW THEY DIFFER. THE AUTHOR EXAMINES THE HISTORY, BELIEFS, PRACTICES, AND TEACHINGS OF EACH, AS SEEN THROUGH JEWISH EYES.
BR 6558 TREE STILL STANDS, A JEWISH YOUTH IN EASTERN EUROPE TOD STROM, YALE THE AUTHOR INTERVIEWED CHILDREN GROWING UP IN EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES IN THE 1980S AND DESCRIBES THEIR REACTIONS TO THEIR JEWISHNESS. SOME DID NOT KNOW THEY WERE JEWISH; SOME REJECTED THE FACT; AND, OTHERS WANTED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THEIR HERITAGE.
BR 6559 CELEBRATION ROSH HASHANAH AND YOM KIPPUR WOMEN'S LEAGUE FOR CONSERVATIVE JUDA THIS MANUAL INCLUDES A DISCUSSION OF THE HISTORY OF ROSH HASHANAH AND YOM KIPPUR, INFORMATION ON CEREMONIAL ART, PRAYERS IN THE SYNAGOGUE, PERSONAL OBSERVANCES AND HOLIDAY RECIPES.
BR 6560 MODEH ANI MEANS THANK YOU LIPSON, RUTH THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST PRAYERS THAT CHILDREN LEARN. IN A CHARMING AND SIMPLE WAY THE BOOK TEACHES CHILDREN TO THANK HASHEM FOR EVERYTHING HE DOES FOR US, AND THE THINGS WE ENJOY EACH DAY.
BR 6561 MITZVOS WE CAN DO ROSENTHAL, YAFFA FROM ALEF TO TAF, WE LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE MITZVOS (GOOD DEEDS) THAT HASHEM WANTS US TO KEEP AND DO.
BR 6562 ZACHARY A NOVEL PINTOFF, ERNEST SET IN SUBURBAN CONNECTICUT IN 1945, THIS IS THE STORY OF 12-YEAR-OLD ZACHARY SILVER WHO WITNESSES THE STABBING DEATH OF A TEACHER BY 'BIG LAW' HEINZ, AN ANTI-SEMITIC POLICEMAN. ZACHARY HELPS CATCH THE MURDERER AND A HIGH RANKING EX-NAZI WHOM HEINZ MAY HAVE BEEN PROTECTING.
BR 6563 HEBREW GODDESS, THE PATAI, RAPHAEL PATAI DEMONSTRATES THAT THE JEWISH RELIGION, FAR FROM BEING PURE MONOTHEISM, CONTAINED FROM EARLIER TIMES STRONG POLYTHEISTIC ELEMENTS, CHIEF OF WHICH WAS THE CULT OF THE MOTHER GODDESS.
BR 6564 PINK SLIPPERS, BAT MITZVAH BLUES WOLFF, FERIDA EXPECTED TO MAKE HER OWN DECISIONS AFTER HER BAT MITZVAH, ALYSSA CHOOSES TO CONTINUE HER DANCE LESSONS UNTIL HER BEST FRIEND BECOMES ILL AND HER JEWISH IDENTITY TAKES ON A GREATER IMPORTANCE. EVENTUALLY, ALYSSA REALIZES THAT DIVERSIONS AND RESPONSIBILITY CAN COEXIST IF SHE IS STRONG ENOUGH TO MAKE DIFFICULT DECISIONS.
BR 6565 CRIERS AND KIBITZERS, KIBITZERS AND CRIERS ELKIN, STANLEY CONSTANCE FE A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES ABOUT JEWISH LIFE FILLED WITH HUMOR, TRAGEDY, AND FANTASY.
BR 6566 FACING A CRUEL MIRROR ISRAEL'S MOMENT OF TRUTH BAR-ZOHAR, MICHAEL THE AUTHOR PRESENTS CLOSE-UPS OF SEVERAL WELL-KNOWN ISRAELI FIGURES INCLUDING SHIMON PERES AND MENACHEM BEGIN. HE ALSO PROVIDES A COMPREHENSIVE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAELI POLITICS AND SOCIETY FROM THE SIX DAY WAR IN 1967 TO THE PALESTINIAN UPRISING IN THE LATE 1980S.
BR 6567 EMMA ANSKY-LEVINE AND HER MITZVAH MACHINE BUSH, LAWRENCE THIS BOOK PROVIDES CHILDREN WITH LESSONS IN JEWISH SUBJECTS SUCH AS TZEDAKAH, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, AND GOD.
BR 6568 FROM THE DESERT TO THE BOOK DIALOGUES WITH MARCEL COHEN JABES, EDMOND IN A SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS WITH THE AUTHOR, COHEN DISCUSSES HIS FRIENDSHIPS AND INFLUENCES, HIS FASCINATION WITH WORDS, THE MYSTERY OF CREATION, AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING A JEWISH WRITER AND A JEW WHO IS A WRITER.
BR 6569 RAISING YOUR CHILD TO BE A MENSCH KURSHAN, RABBI NEIL RABBI KURSHAN OFFERS GUIDANCE AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO PARENTS WHO ARE CONCERNED NOT ONLY WITH WHAT THEIR CHILDREN WILL ACHIEVE, BUT ALSO WITH THE KIND OF PEOPLE THEY WILL BECOME.
BR 6570 WAITING FOR ANYA MORPURGO, MICHAEL BEBE RICHARD IN THIS NOVEL SET DURING THE HOLOCAUST, A BEAR CHASE BRINGS JO, A NON-JEWISH BOY, INTO CONTACT WITH BENJAMIN, A JEW, WHO IS SEPARATED FROM HIS DAUGHTER ANYA AND HAS BEEN HIDING OTHER JEWISH CHILDREN AND LEADING THEM TO SAFETY IN NEARBY SPAIN. JO ASSISTS HIM AND LEARNS THAT NOT ALL THE GERMAN OCCUPIERS ARE UNIFORMLY EVIL.
BR 6571 WHAT IS A JEWISH JOKE? AN EXCURSION INTO JEWISH HUMOR EILBIRT, HENRY THE AUTHOR OFFERS A SAMPLING OF JEWISH JOKES WHILE PROVIDING AN ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENON OF JEWISH HUMOR.
BR 6572 CRIMES OF THE CITY ROSENBERG, ROBERT TWO NUNS, A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, ARE SAVAGELY KILLED IN THE RUSSIAN MISSION IN JERUSALEM. AVRAM COHEN, HEAD OF JERUSALEM'S CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT, MUST SOLVE THE MURDERS WITHOUT OFFENDING THE RUSSIANS.
BR 6573 TO TOUCH A DREAM HELLMAN, AVIVA A NOVEL THAT DEPICTS THE EVOLUTION OF ISRAEL FROM 1912 UNTIL THE 1980S THROUGH THE ACTIVITIES OF THE POLITICALLY DIVERSE DANZIGER FAMILY.
BR 6574 I REMEMBER RHODES LEVY, REBECCA AMATO THIS MEMOIR OF HER EARLY YEARS BY A WOMAN IN HER 70S IS ALSO A RECOLLECTION OF THE SPANISH-JEWISH TRADITION AND CULTURE.
BR 6575 PERSONAL EFFECTS PIESMAN, MARISSA ATTORNEY NINA FISCHMAN AGAIN TRIES HER HAND AT SLEUTHING IN AN ATTEMPT TO FIND THE MAN WHO MURDERED HER OLDEST FRIEND. SHE MUST SEPARATE THE LADY-KILLERS FROM THE MAN WHO REALLY IS A LADY KILLER.
BR 6577 JESUS' JEWISHNESS EXPLORING THE PLACE OF JESUS IN EA CHARLESWORTH, JAMES H., ED. A SCHOLARLY DISCUSSION OF JESUS' JEWISHNESS WHICH INCLUDES CONTRIBUTIONS FROM AN INTERNATIONAL ARRAY OF JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS.
BR 6578 RESCUE THE STORY OF HOW GENTILES SAVED TH MELTZER, MILTON THE AUTHOR RECOUNTS ACTS OF GENEROSITY AND COURAGE PERFORMED BY NON-JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST. HE EMPHASIZES THAT NOBODY COULD HAVE SURVIVED WITHOUT HELP FROM OTHERS AND THAT THOUSANDS OF JEWS WERE SAVED BECAUSE OF DARING ACTS OF KINDNESS.
BR 6579 FIEDLER ON THE ROOF ESSAYS ON LITERATURE AND JEWISH ID FIEDLER, LESLIE IN THESE ESSAYS ON LITERATURE AND JEWISH IDENTITY, THE AUTHOR EXPOSES ANTI-SEMITISM IN WRITERS SUCH AS HEMINGWAY AND FITZGERALD AND DEMONSTRATES HOW STEREOTYPES IN CHAUCER, SHAKESPEARE, AND GRIMM HAVE REINFORCED ANTI- JEWISH SENTIMENT. HE ALSO CONFRONTS ASSIMILATED JEWISH-AMERICAN WRITERS AND DISCUSSES THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 6580 TOUCH OF HEAVEN, A ETERNAL STORIES FOR JEWISH LIVING LABOVITS, ANNETTE & EUGENE LABOVITS A COLLECTION OF STORIES WHICH EMPHASIZE THE SPIRITUAL NOTIONS AS WELL AS THE ETHICAL AND MORAL VALUES FOUND IN THE JEWISH TRADITION. EACH STORY IS SUPPLEMENTED BY A BRIEF INSPIRATIONAL PASSAGE.
BR 6581 AMERICAN RHAPSODY THE STORY OF GEORGE GERSHWIN KRESH, PAUL A BIOGRAPHY ABOUT THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE AMERICAN COMPOSER. DISCUSSES HIS MUSICAL COMEDIES, POPULAR SONGS, SYMPHONIC WORKS, AND THE OPERA 'PORGY AND BESS.'
BR 6582 MUSICAL CHAIRS FRIEDMAN, KINKY AFTER THREE EX-BAND MEMBERS DIE MYSTERIOUSLY, FRIEDMAN, A RETIRED MUSICIAN TURNED PRIVATE EYE, SOLVES THE CRIME WITH THE HELP OF THE SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE BAND AND LOTS OF LIQUOR, ESPRESSO, AND CIGARS.
BR 6583 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS'S JEWISH ROOTS AMLER, JANE FRANCES THE AUTHOR EXAMINES COLUMBUS'S LIFE AND THE MYSTERIES THAT SURROUNDED IT. ONE QUESTION SHE ATTEMPTS TO ANSWER: WAS COLUMBUS OF ITALIAN ANCESTRY OR ACTUALLY A DESCENDANT OF CATALONIAN JEWS?
BR 6584 LEGENDS OF THE BIBLE GINZBERG, LOUIS LEGENDARY BACKGROUND OF THE SIGNIFICANT PERSONS AND EVENTS IN THE BIBLE.
BR 6585 READING THE BOOK MAKING THE BIBLE A TIMELESS TEXT VISOTZKY, BURTON L. AN INTRODUCTION TO READING THE BIBLE. THE AUTHOR SHOWS READERS HOW TO DECIPHER ITS LANGUAGE, DISCOVER ITS MYSTERIES, AND UNDERSTAND ITS RELEVANCE TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 6586 MARRIED LIFE VOGEL, DAVID SET IN VIENNA IN THE EARLY 1920S, THIS IS THE STORY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A PENNILESS JEWISH WRITER AND A DEBASED AUSTRIAN ARISTOCRAT.
BR 6587 SAMARITAN TREASURE, THE LUBAN, MARIANNE A COLLECTION OF FIVE STORIES IN WHICH THE AUTHOR TRAVERSES THE AGES FROM THE REIGN OF AHAB AND JEZEBEL TO THE WANING DAYS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE AS A BACKDROP FOR HER TITLE STORY. OTHER STORIES, SET IN THE 1800S AND 1900S, EMPHASIZE ROMANCE, JEWISH IDENTITY, AND HOLOCAUST SURVIVAL.
BR 6588 TWILIGHT AND OTHER STORIES HAREVEN, SHULAMITH IN THIS COLLECTION OF STORIES, THE AUTHOR EXPLORES WHAT SEPARATES THE REAL FROM THE IMAGINED IN HER DEPICTIONS OF JERUSALEM AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF ITS INHABITANTS.
BR 6589 STORYTELLER, THE. VOL. 2 MINDEL, NISSAN THE SECOND VOLUME OF SHORT STORIES TAKEN FROM THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE 'TALKS AND TALES.' THE STORIES COVER A WIDE RANGE OF SUBJECTS FROM JEWISH HOLIDAYS TO RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE TO THE HOLOCAUST AND ARE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES.
BR 6590 ALWAYS AND FOREVER FREEMAN, CYNTHIA KATHY ROSS TRAVELS FROM AMERICA TO WAR-RAVAGED HAMBURG IN 1945 TO AID IN RESETTLING REFUGEES. THERE SHE BECOMES INVOLVED WITH DAVID KOHN, AN IDEALISTIC DOCTOR WHOSE PARENTS WERE KILLED IN THE HOLOCAUST, AND HIS COUSIN PHIL KOHN, WHO IS IN GERMANY TO SMUGGLE STOLEN ART BACK TO AMERICA.
BR 6591 IT HAPPENED IN THE CATSKILLS KATZ, MYRNA & HARVEY FROMMER THIS NOSTALGIC HISTORY OF THE BORSCHT BELT OF THE MIDDLE 1900S IN UPSTATE NEW YORK IS RECOUNTED BY THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED IN IT: WORKERS, HOTEL OWNERS, ENTERTAINERS, EXECUTIVES, AND THE GUESTS.
BR 6592 MOLLY PICON A GIFT OF LAUGHTER PERL, LILA AS PART OF THE JPS YOUNG BIOGRAPHY SERIES, THIS BOOK LOOKS AT THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE WELL-KNOWN TWENTIETH-CENTURY YIDDISH ACTRESS. THE AUTHOR EMPHASIZES PICON'S FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES FOR ISRAEL AND HER VISITS WITH CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVORS AFTER WORLD WAR II.
BR 6593 STORYTELLER, THE. VOL. 3 MINDEL, NISSAN A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES SELECTED FROM THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE, 'TALKS AND TALES.' SUBJECTS INCLUDE RIGHTEOUS SCHOLARS, JEWISH LIFE IN EASTERN EUROPE IN MEDIEVAL AND PRE-HOLOCAUST TIMES, THE HOLOCAUST, AND THE STRUGGLE TO KEEP JUDAISM ALIVE BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN.
BR 6594 JOYS OF YINGLISH THE ROSTEN, LEO CRAMMED WITH ANECDOTES, CONVERSATIONS, JOKES, AND HISTORICAL SNIPPETS, THIS IS A DICTIONARY OF YIDDISH WORDS AND PHRASES THAT ARE PART OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
BR 6595 GATES TO THE NEW CITY A TREASURY OF MODERN JEWISH TALES SCHWARTZ, HOWARD: EDITOR THESE TALES BY FAMOUS AS WELL AS LITTLE KNOWN AUTHORS ARE CATEGORIZED ACCORDING TO THE THEMES WHICH INSPIRED THEM; BIBLICAL, HASIDIC, KABBALISTIC, ETC. A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION.
BR 6596 CHOOSING JUDAISM KUKOFF, LYDIA THE AUTHOR, A CONVERT TO JUDAISM, RECOUNTS GROWING UP AS A CHRISTIAN AND LIVING HER ADULT LIFE AS A JEW.
BR 6597 TASTE FOR TREASON, A MENDELS, ORA THE IDENTITY OF A TOP ISRAELI AGENT, WHO HAS BEEN POSING AS A PALESTINIAN LEADER, IS IN DANGER OF BEING EXPOSED. DAN SHEMTOV, CHIEF OF ISRAELI SECURITY, MUST DEVISE A PLAN TO PROTECT HIM, EVEN IF THAT MEANS BETRAYING OTHERS.
BR 6598 DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, THE THE CRITICAL EDITION FRANK, ANNE PREPARED BY THE NETHERLANDS STATE INSTITUTE FOR WAR DOCUMENTATION TO COMMEMORATE WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN FRANK'S 60TH BIRTHDAY, IT CONTAINS THE ORIGINAL TEXT WITHOUT DELETIONS.
BR 6599 UNANSWERED QUESTIONS NAZI GERMANY AND THE GENOCIDE OF T FURET, FRANCOIS: EDITOR A SERIES OF ESSAYS WHICH ADDRESS HITLER'S GENOCIDAL POLICIES REGARDING EUROPEAN JEWRY. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE SAUL FRIEDLANDER, RAUL HILBERG, MICHAEL R. MARRUS, YEHUDA BAUER, ETAL.
BR 6600 LAUGHING THROUGH THE YEARS A NEW TREASURY OF JEWISH HUMOR GROSS, DAVID C. HUNDREDS OF ROLLICKING STORIES, SOME BRAND-NEW, SOME ALMOST CLASSICS. THEY ENCOMPASS JEWISH LIFE IN THE U.S., ISRAEL, AND THE COLLECTIVE STATES (FORMERLY RUSSIA). MANY ARE BASED ON REAL EVENTS.
BR 6601 JACOB'S JOURNEY WISDOM BEN SHEA, NOAH JACOB, A BAKER, FINDS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO PURSUE HIS LIVELIHOOD BECAUSE OF THE POPULARITY OF HIS WISE SAYINGS. HE DECIDES THAT HE MUST GO ON A JOURNEY TO REDISCOVER LIFE'S SIMPLE PLEASURES.
BR 6602 SOME FREAKS MAMET, DAVID THE AUTHOR, A PLAYWRIGHT AND ESSAYIST, IS KNOWN FOR HIS FASCINATION WITH EXTREMES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR. IN AN EFFORT TO PROBE BENEATH THE SURFACE OF SEEMING TRIVIALITIES HE EXPLORES SUCH TOPICS AS PLAYING CARDS, THE THEATRE, THE DECOR OF THE JEWISH HOME, AND POLITICS.
BR 6603 FAR MORE PRECIOUS THAN JEWELS PERSPECTIVES ON BIBLICAL WOMEN DARR, KATHERYN PFISTERER THE AUTHOR COMBINES INSIGHTS FROM MODERN CRITICAL SCHOLARSHIP, ANCIENT RABBINICAL COMMENTARY, AND CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST REFLECTIONS WITH HER OWN IDEAS IN THIS EXAMINATION OF PROMINENT WOMEN FROM THE BIBLE.
BR 6605 ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN ISRAEL'S YOUNG GENERATION SICHROVSKY, PETER THE AUTHOR, A VIENNESE JOURNALIST, INTERVIEWED 26 YOUNG ISRAELI JEWS. THE NARRATIVES COMPRISE A MULTI-FACETED PORTRAIT OF ISRAEL'S 'YOUNG GENERATION' OF THE EARLY 1990S.
BR 6606 DEATH OF A 'JEWISH AMERICAN PRINCESS' THE TRUE STORY OF A VICTIM ON TRIA FRONDORF, SHIRLEY THE STORY OF RESTAURATEUR STEVEN STEINBERG WHO KILLED HIS WIFE AND WAS ACQUITTED OF MURDER. THE AUTHOR ASSERTS THAT BY BEING AN OVERPOWERING 'JEWISH AMERICAN PRINCESS,' ELANA STEINBERG MAY HAVE PROVOKED HER VIOLENT END.
BR 6608 STONES IN THE SOUL ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN KAMIN, RABBI BEN A REFORM RABBI SHARES THE GRIEF, THE HAPPINESS, AND HIS THOUGHTS IN A DAY OF DEALING WITH THE PROBLEMS AND CRISES OF HIS CONGREGATION.
BR 6609 LOVE IN YOUR LIFE A JEWISH VIEW OF TEENAGE SEXUALITY GITTELSOHN, ROLAND B. THE BOOK COVERS SUCH TOPICS AS PREMARITAL SEX AND INTERMARRIAGE.
BR 6610 REMEMBERING CHARLIE THE STORY OF A FRIENDSHIP EPSTEIN, JERRY A FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF THE REAL AND BARELY REVEALED CHARLIE CHAPIN, AS TOLD BY HIS COLLEAGUE AND CLOSE FAMILY FRIEND FOR 30 YEARS. INCLUDES REVEALING ANECDOTES, HILARIOUS SCENES AND MOVING MOMENTS.
BR 6611 STARTING FROM HOME A WRITER'S BEGINNINGS MELTZER, MILTON MELTZER, THE AUTHOR OF NUMEROUS HISTORIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, RECREATES THE CENTRAL EPISODES OF HIS OWN LIFE FROM HIS BIRTH IN 1915 TO THE YEAR HE ENTERED COLLEGE.
BR 6612 JEWISH MOTHERS' HALL OF FAME, THE BERNSTEIN, FRED A. 25 INTERESTING AND AMUSING INTERVIEWS WITH JEWISH PEOPLES' MOTHERS, INCLUDING CLARA SUSSMAN, MOTHER OF NOBEL MEDALIST ROSALYN YALOW AND LEAH ADLER, MOTHER OF STEVEN SPIELBERG.
BR 6613 FELIX FRANKFURTER JUDICIAL RESTRAINT AND INDIVIDUAL UROFSKY, MELVIN I. A BIOGRAPHY THAT FOCUSES ON FRANKFURTER'S PUBLIC LIFE AS A WASHINGTON ADMINISTRATOR, A POLITICALLY ENGAGED LAW PROFESSOR, AND, ULTIMATELY, A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE.
BR 6614 YOUR PEOPLE, MY PEOPLE FINDING FULFILLMENT AND ACCEPTANCE ROMANOFF, LENA & LISA HOSTEIN THE AUTHOR, DIRECTOR OF THE JEWISH CONVERTS NETWORK AND HERSELF A CONVERT, OFFERS GUIDANCE AND DIRECTION TO THOSE CONSIDERING CONVERSION TO JUDAISM. INCLUDED ARE CHAPTERS ON THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT OF CONVERSION, INTEGRATING INTO A SPOUSE'S FAMILY, MAINTAINING RELATIONS WITH THE NON-JEWISH FAMILY, AND RAISING CHILDREN.
BR 6615 CARDOZO A STUDY IN REPUTATION POSNER, RICHARD A. A LOOK AT BENJAMIN CARDOZO'S RISE FROM NEW YORK'S SEPHARDIC JEWISH ELITE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY TO HIS APPOINTMENT BY HERBERT HOOVER TO THE SUPREME COURT. POSNER ANALYZES CARDOZO'S IDEAS ABOUT LAW IN SOCIETY AND HIS INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN COMMON LAW.
BR 6616 INFORMED SOUL, THE INTRODUCTORY ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWIS GOTTLIEB, DOVID THE AUTHOR PRESENTS A PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY'S PROVOCATIVE LECTURES.
BR 6617 SCUM SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS MAX BARABANDER, A TRANSPLANTED POLISH JEW, RETURNS TO POLAND IN THE EARLY 1900S WHERE HE FINDS COMPANIONSHIP IN THE UNDERWORLD AND WITH WOMEN. BUT THOSE WHO BEFRIEND BARABANDER ARE ULTIMATELY DECEIVED BY HIM AND VIOLENCE ENSUES.
BR 6618 DIASPORA AN INQUIRY INTO THE CONTEMPORARY J SACHAR, HOWARD M. THE AUTHOR, A HISTORIAN OF THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH AND MIDDLE EASTERN SCENE, BRINGS TOGETHER HIS MANY YEARS OF RESEARCH.
BR 6619 JEWISH IMAGE IN AMERICAN FILM, THE 70 YEARS OF HOLLYWOOD'S VISION OF FRIEDMAN, LESTER D. A SURVEY OF 70 YEARS OF AMERICAN FILMS WHICH EXPLORES HOW JEWS HAVE BEEN PORTRAYED IN MOVIES FROM THE SILENT ERA TO THE LATE 1980S.
BR 6620 TAKING THE HEAT ZUKERMAN, EUGENIA NORA WATTERMAN'S ATTEMPTS TO REPAIR HER 20-YEAR-OLD MARRIAGE AFTER AN AFFAIR ARE DEVASTATED WITH THE SUDDEN DEATH OF HER SON. BUT A TRIP TO POLAND WHERE SHE LEARNS MORE ABOUT HER MOTHER, A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, ENABLES HER TO COPE WITH HER FUTURE PROSPECTS.
BR 6621 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED...FROM A WOMAN'S POINT OF VIEW GANZ, YAFFA A HUMOROUS LOOK, LACED WITH TRADITIONAL TORAH SOURCES AND ATTITUDES, AT LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY LIFE.
BR 6622 BLIND THIEF AND OTHER STORIES, THE SOCHERTOV, RABBI YISROEL PESACH SOCHERTOV CONTEMPORIZES THE PARABLES OF THE MAGGID OF DUBNO, A NINETEENTH-CENTURY RABBI AND PREACHER, BUT PRESERVES THE TORAH LESSON WITHIN EACH STORY.
BR 6623 CELEBRATIONS OUR JEWISH HOLIDAYS GREENBERG, MELANIE HOPE A COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S POETRY WHICH CHRONICLES THE SABBATH AND THE FESTIVALS OF THE JEWISH YEAR. THE AUTHOR FOCUSES ON A CENTRAL THEME FOR EACH POEM.
BR 6624 NEXT OF KIN ZEITLIN, MARIANNE AFTER THE DEATH OF ESTHER PERSKY IN A VIOLENT CAR CRASH, HER SISTER, SARAH, RECALLS THE FAMILY HISTORY AS ITS MEMBERS MOURN THEIR LOSS. SHE TELLS OF GROWING UP IN AN ORTHODOX JEWISH HOME IN TORONTO, OF HER ROLE AS ESTHER'S PROTECTOR, AND OF HER EVENTUAL ESTRANGEMENT FROM HER SISTER.
BR 6625 PAYMENT IN FULL DENKER, HENRY DESPITE THE ADVICE OF FAMILY AND PROFESSIONALS, A CHILDLESS YOUNG JEWISH COUPLE ADOPT AN ORPHANED BLACK CHILD. ELVIRA GROWS TO WOMANHOOD LEARNED IN JEWISH WAYS, YET WITH HER OWN ETHNICITY INTACT.
BR 6626 FESTIVAL DAYS A HISTORY OF JEWISH CELEBRATIONS RAPHAEL, CHAIM A BOOK ABOUT THE CYCLE OF JEWISH FESTIVALS (INCLUDING FASTS), THEIR ORIGINS, THEIR INTERCONNECTEDNESS AND THEIR BIBLICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL ROOTS AS WELL AS LATER ADAPTATIONS. THE STRESS IS ON THE RITUAL AND ITS MEANING.
BR 6627 TWICED BLESSED ON BEING LESBIAN, GAY AND JEWISH BALKA, CHRISTIE & ANDY ROSE AN ANTHOLOGY IN WHICH THE CONTRIBUTORS DESCRIBE HOW THEY ATTEMPT TO COMBINE GAY PRIDE WITH ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN JUDAISM. AMONG THE ESSAYS INCLUDED IS A DISCUSSION BY A RABBI ON HER LIFE AS A LESBIAN MOTHER; THE FOUNDING OF GAY AND LESBIAN SYNAGOGUES; HETEROSEXIST ASSUMPTIONS IN JEWISH TEXT; AND RESPONSES TO AIDS.
BR 6628 ROSENDORF QUARTET, THE SHAHAM, NATHAN A STRING QUARTET OF GERMAN JEWISH REFUGEES PLAYING IN PALESTINE BETWEEN 1936 AND 1938 RUMINATE ON ZIONISM, THE NATURE OF EXILE, AND THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF SEX. EACH OF THE FOUR MUSICIANS 'AUTHOR' A CHAPTER IN WHICH A PERSONAL SECRET IS REVEALED. THE FINAL CHAPTER IS A JOURNAL KEPT BY A NOVELIST WHO HAS BEFRIENDED THEM.
BR 6629 JEWISH IDENTITY IN THE MODERN WORLD MEYER, MICHAEL A. THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THREE MAIN FORCES THAT, IN HIS VIEW, HAVE COMPELLED JEWS TO REEVALUATE THEIR SELF-DEFINITION: ANTI-SEMITISM, SECULARISM, AND AN IDENTIFICATION WITH THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 6630 CELEBRATION PESACH WOMEN'S LEAGUE FOR CONSERVATIVE JUDA A DISCUSSION OF THE PASSOVER HAGGADAH, AND THE PERIOD LEADING UP TO THE HOLIDAY. INCLUDED IS A BRIEF HISTORY OF PASSOVER AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE, A GUIDE TO THE NECESSARY PREPARATIONS, A RESOURCE LIST, AND A GLOSSARY.
BR 6631 HAUNTED SHUL AND OTHER DEVORAH DORESH MYSTERIES, THE HUBNER, CAROL KORB DEVORAH DORESH, STAR TALMUD STUDENT AT THE YOCHEVED ACADEMY, PUTS EVEN RABBI SMALL TO SHAME AS SHE USES PILPUL TECHNIQUES TO SOLVE MYSTERIES.
BR 6633 MOTHER EARTH AN EPIC DRAMA OF EMMA GOLDMAN'S LI DUBERMAN, MARTIN A PORTRAYAL OF THE LIFE OF A WOMAN WHO TESTED THE STRENGTH OF THE DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM BY DEMANDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
BR 6634 RITUAL BATH, THE KELLERMAN, FAYE THE WORLD OF ORTHODOX JUDAISM IS THE SETTING FOR THIS MYSTERY WHICH INVOLVES THE MURDER OF A WOMAN AT A RITUAL BATH.
BR 6635 SACRED AND PROFANE KELLERMAN, FAYE SOME ORTHODOX JEWISH BOYS FIND TWO CHARRED BODIES WHILE ON A CAMPING TRIP AND IT IS UP TO LOS ANGELES DETECTIVE PETER DECKER TO SOLVE THE MURDER. DECKER'S OUTWARD JOURNEY AS HE HUNTS DOWN THE KILLER IS PARALLELED BY HIS SPIRITUAL JOURNEY THROUGH JUDAISM AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH A JEWISH WIDOW.
BR 6637 MR. BLUE JEANS A STORY ABOUT LEVI STRAUSS WEIDT, MARYANN N. & LYDIA M. ANDERSO THE AUTHORS TRACE THE LIFE OF THE IMMIGRANT JEWISH PEDDLER WHO WENT ON TO FOUND LEVI STRAUSS AND COMPANY, THE WORLD'S FIRST AND LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF DENIM JEANS.
BR 6638 MY JEWISH FACE AND OTHER STORIES KANTROWITZ, MELANIE KANTROWITZ TAKES READERS ON A GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL TOUR OF THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT TRAVELING FROM BROOKLYN, HARLEM, AND BERKELEY IN THE 1960S TO THE FEMINIST POLITICS OF THE 1970S AND RENEWED ACTIVISM OF THE 1980S. THE AUTHOR EXPLORES THE ISSUES CONFRONTING JEWISH WOMEN IN POLITICS, IN AMERICA, AND IN DAILY LIFE.
BR 6640 ON BEING A JEW WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A JEW? KUGEL, JAMES MODELED ON 'THE KUZARI,' THIS NOVEL IS AN EXTENDED CONVERSATION BETWEEN JUDD LEWIS, WHO WANTS TO LEARN THE BASICS OF JUDAISM, AND ALBERT ABBADI, A JEWISH-SYRIAN IMMIGRANT. THEIR DISCUSSION TAKES LEWIS FROM THE BRINK OF INTERMARRIAGE TO A DECISION TO LEAD AN OBSERVANT JEWISH LIFE.
BR 6641 ATONEMENT OF MINDY WISE, THE KAYE, MARILYM DURING YOM KIPPUR, A 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL REFLECTS ON THE SINS SHE COMMITTED DURING THE PAST YEAR.
BR 6642 WHAT DINAH THOUGHT METZGER, DEENA A MULTIDIMENSIONAL NOVEL IN WHICH THREE DINAHS ARE INTERWOVEN: THE BIBLICAL DINAH, THE AUTHOR DEENA, AND DINAH Z., A JEWISH-AMERICAN FILMMAKER ON LOCATION IN ISRAEL. THE STORIES OF THESE THREE WOMEN PORTRAY THE ISSUES OF BIBLICAL AND MODERN WOMEN.
BR 6643 WHEN THE WORLD WAS WHOLE THREE CENTURIES OF MEMORIES FENYVESI, CHARLES THE AUTHOR, A JOURNALIST, RECREATES THE VILLAGES OF HUNGARY WHERE HIS JEWISH ANCESTORS PROSPERED AND WERE WELL-RESPECTED BY BOTH GENTILES AND JEWS. FENYVESI DEPICTS HOW WORLD WAR I REDUCED THE FAMILY'S WEALTH AND FORCED THEM TO MOVE TO ANOTHER CITY. A LARGE PART OF HIS FAMILY WAS KILLED IN AUSCHWITZ DURING WORLD WAR II.
BR 6645 KEEPING QUILT, THE POLACCO, PATRICIA A STORY ABOUT A QUILT THAT WAS PASSED DOWN FROM MOTHER TO DAUGHTER FOR ALMOST A CENTURY. FOR FOUR GENERATIONS, THE QUILT SERVED AS A SABBATH TABLE COVER, A WEDDING CANOPY, AND A BLANKET TO WELCOME BABIES INTO THE WORLD.
BR 6646 NO MINOR CHORDS MY DAYS IN HOLLYWOOD PREVIN, ANDRE THE AUTHOR, A SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR AND THE SON OF GERMAN-JEWISH REFUGEES, LOOKS BACK AT HIS RISE TO FAME IN HOLLYWOOD. HE OFFERS THE DETAILS BEHIND HIS START AS AN 18-YEAR-OLD MUSIC ARRANGER FOR A MOVIE STUDIO, HIS CAREER AS A COMPOSER AND CONDUCTOR, AND HIS FOUR ACADEMY AWARDS.
BR 6648 INVENTING CHAMPAGNE THE MUSICAL WORLDS OF LERNER AND L LEES, GENE THE AUTHOR ADDS ANALYSES AND GOSSIP TO HIS CHRONICLE OF TWO OF AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATER'S MOST DISTINGUISHED COLLABORATORS; ALAN JAY LERNER (1919-1986) AND 'FRITZ' LOEWE (1901-1985).
BR 6649 STANDING AGAIN AT SINAI JUDAISM FROM A FEMINIST PERSPECTIV PLASKOW, JUDITH A DISCUSSION OF HOW TRADITION MUST BE TRANSFORMED IF WOMEN ARE TO PARTICIPATE WITHOUT CONTRADICTION BETWEEN THEIR PRESENCE AND THE WORDS THEY SAY AS PART OF THE RITUAL.
BR 6650 FLYING WITH DANIEL BRAILOFSKY, MALKY ON A TRIP TO ERETZ YISROEL, DANIEL FINDS HIMSELF IN MANY INTERESTING SITUATIONS, BEGINNING WITH A SKYJACKING TO FINDING AN ANCIENT TREASURE.
BR 6651 FAITHFUL SOLDIERS LEADER, R.L. IN THIS ACTION-PACKED NOVEL, YANKELEH 13-YEAR-OLD SON OF A CHASIDIC REBBE, FACES DEPRIVATION AND A CONSTANT TEST OF FAITH WHEN HE IS CONSCRIPTED INTO THE CZAR'S ARMY.
BR 6652 GOLDA MEIR A LEADER IN PEACE AND WAR AMDUR, RICHARD THIS BIOGRAPHY WRITTEN FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL PUPILS DESCRIBES MEIR'S CHILDHOOD IN EUROPE, ON A KIBBUTZ IN PALESTINE AND HER DEFENSE OF ISRAEL AS ITS PRIME MINISTER DURING THE OCTOBER 1973 YOM KIPPUR WAR.
BR 6653 JEWISH HERITAGE TRAVEL A GUIDE TO CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUR GRUBER, RUTH ELLEN PART TRAVEL GUIDE, PART HISTORY PRIMER, THIS BOOK DESCRIBES THE HERITAGE OF EUROPEAN JEWRY AND THE PHYSICAL AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THEIR BUILDINGS, TOWNS AND CITIES.
BR 6654 IMAGINE A GREAT WHITE LIGHT SCHWARTZ, SHEILA NINE STORIES THAT DEPICT JEWISH-AMERICAN LIFE FROM THE 1960S TO THE 1980S. THE AUTHOR WRITES OF THE TRAUMAS OF CHILDHOOD, THE DIFFICULTY OF MAINTAINING A RELATIONSHIP, AND THE STRUGGLE TO COME TO TERMS WITH ONE'S PAST.
BR 6655 THIS IS THE TORAH KOLATCH, ALFRED J. THIS BOOK USES A QUESTION-AND-ANSWER FORMAT TO ADDRESS OVER 500 QUESTIONS FREQUENTLY ASKED ABOUT THE TORAH. INCLUDED ARE QUERIES REGARDING THE TORAH'S ORIGINS, ITS HANDLING IN THE SYNAGOGUE, AND ITS USE IN THE LITURGY AND SERVICE.
BR 6656 FRIENDLY PERSUADER AND OTHER STORIES, THE WEINBACH, SHAINDEL A MASTER STORYTELLER RETURNS WITH MORE OF HER TRADEMARK STORIES.
BR 6657 WHAT DOES BEING JEWISH MEAN FRIEDMAN, E. B., JAN GREENBERG & KAR ISABEL RUBIN A REFERENCE BOOK THAT PROVIDES ANSWERS TO MORE THAN 180 QUESTIONS JEWISH CHILDREN FREQUENTLY ASK ABOUT THEIR RELIGION. IT ADDRESSES THE BASICS OF JEWISH CUSTOM AND PRACTICE AND ALSO ANSWERS QUESTIONS ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF JEWISH BELIEF, SUCH AS MIRACLES AND THE MESSIAH.
BR 6658 WHERE DOES GOD LIVE? QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR PARENTS GELLMAN, RABBI MARC & MONSIGNOR THOM TWO CLERGYMEN RESPOND TO THEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS IN AN ECUMENICAL WAY.
BR 6659 HOUSE ON THE ROOF, THE ADLER, DAVID A. A HUMOROUS HOLIDAY STORY FOR CHILDREN, CENTERING AROUND AN OLD MAN AND THE SUKKAH HE BUILT IN AN UNUSUAL PLACE - ON THE ROOF OF A HOUSE.
BR 6660 SHIRA APPELFELD, AHARON CAPTURING THE JEWISH REFUGEES' PRECARIOUS DAY-TO-DAY EXISTENCE IN PALESTINE IN THE LATE 1930S, THE NARRATIVE IS THICK WITH TALES OF IMMIGRANTS, DREAMS AND FANTASIES.
BR 6661 HEART-STIRRING SERMON AND OTHER STORIES, THE REISEN, AVRAHAM IN THESE THREE STORIES, REISEN, A YIDDISH WRITER WHO DIED IN 1953, DEPICTS THE PRE-WORLD WAR II LIFE OF EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWS.
BR 6662 HEY TAXI! TELLER, HANOCH IN THIS COLLECTION, TELLER WRITES OF THE SPIRITUAL STORIES WHICH HE HEARD IN TAXIS, TOLD BY CABDRIVERS AND PASSENGERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
BR 6663 AND THE BRIDGE IS LOVE LIFE STORIES MOSKOWITZ, FAYE A COLLECTION OF ANECDOTES CHRONICLING VARIOUS HUMOROUS, TRAGIC, AND SURPRISING EPISODES OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE. MANY OF THE STORIES TOUCH ON THE ISOLATION SHE HAS FELT AS A JEW IN A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY.
BR 6664 CERTIFICATE, THE SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS IN THIS NOVEL BY THE NOBEL LAUREATE, SINGER RETURNS TO THE UNIVERSE OF POLISH JEWRY BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS. EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD DAVID BENDIGER IS OFFERED A CERTIFICATE THAT WILL PERMIT HIM TO EMIGRATE TO ISRAEL. HE FINDS HIMSELF VACILLATING BETWEEN THREE WOMEN, UNABLE TO DECIDE WHOM HE SHOULD CHOOSE TO TAKE.
BR 6665 TIMELY JEWISH QUESTIONS, TIMELY RABBINIC ANSWERS COHEN, RABBI J. SIMCHA RABBI COHEN PROVIDES HALACHIC RESEARCH ON A VARIETY OF PRACTICAL CONCERNS, EXPLAINING THEIR SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR MODERN LIVING.
BR 6666 MRS. KATZ AND TUSH POLACCO, PATRICIA THE AUTHOR BLENDS AFRICAN-AMERICAN WITH RUSSIAN AND POLISH-JEWISH CULTURE IN THIS TALE OF A JEWISH BUBEE (GRANDMOTHER) AND HER TAILLESS CAT TUSH.
BR 6667 ORDAINED TO BE A JEW A CATHOLIC PRIEST'S CONVERSION TO SCALAMONTI, JOHN DAVID SCALAMONTI'S ACCOUNT OF HIS SPIRITUAL ODYSSEY AS A YOUNG AMERICAN CATHOLIC PRIEST WHO LOST FAITH IN HIS BIRTH RELIGION AND BECAME AN ORTHODOX JEW.
BR 6669 JERUSALEM DIARIES AND OTHER STORIES ZAKON, MIRIAM STARK THESE FESTIVAL STORIES SPAN 2,000 YEARS OF THE HOLY CITY'S HISTORY.
BR 6670 PUTTING GOD ON THE GUEST LIST SALKIN, RABBI JEFFREY E. THIS BOOK EXAMINES THE MEANING OF THE BAR MITZVAH RITUAL FROM A HISTORICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL, AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVE.
BR 6671 CONQUER THE DARKNESS FLORANS, ESTIE AN UNEXPECTED PHONE CALL TAKES RENIE BACK A DECADE TO HER TEENAGE YEARS. SHE AND HER FRIENDS WERE LIVING CAREFREE LIVES UNTIL A TRAGEDY STRUCK THAT MADE THEIR WORLD OF MAKE-BELIEVE NUMBINGLY REAL.
BR 6672 BAMBOO CRADLE, THE A JEWISH FATHER'S STORY SCHWARTZBAUM, AVRAHAM THE TRUE STORY OF HOW AN AMERICAN COUPLE ADOPTED A CHINESE INFANT FOUND ABANDONED IN A TAIWAN RAILROAD STATION. THE SUBTEXT OF THE BOOK IS THE DISCOVERY OF THEIR JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 6673 JOSHUA'S DREAM A JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL SEGAL, SHEILA A YOUNG BOY FULFILLS HIS DREAM OF BUILDING ISRAEL WITH HIS OWN HANDS WHEN HE PLANTS A TREE IN THE NEGEV. INCLUDES A BASIC HISTORY OF ZIONISM.
BR 6674 LEONARD BERNSTEIN NOTES FROM A FRIEND CHAPIN, SCHUYLER MARION FELDI A MEMOIR OF THE COMPOSER REPLETE WITH ANECDOTES AND A SENSE OF THE HARD WORK AND DEDICATION THAT WENT INTO CREATING THE MUSIC, AND THE EDUCATIONAL VENTURES WITH WHICH HE WAS INVOLVED.
BR 6675 UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI WAHL, THE TELUSHKIN, JOSEPH THE MURDER OF A FEMALE RABBI AFTER HER APPEARANCE ON A RADIO TALK SHOW HAS THE HOST, RABBI WINTER, DISCOVERING A SECULAR TALENT FOR DETECTION.
BR 6676 GRANDMA'S SOUP KARKOWSKY, NANCY WHEN GRANDMA'S CHICKEN SOUP SUDDENLY DOESN'T TASTE GOOD, HER GRANDDAUGHTER HAS TO CONFRONT THE FACT OF HER GRANDMOTHER'S SENILITY.
BR 6677 EICHMANN IN MY HANDS MALKIN, PETER Z. & HARRY STEIN THE AUTHOR, A MEMBER OF THE ISRAELI SECRET POLICE, WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CAPTURE OF ADOLF EICHMANN. HERE HE REVEALS THE DETAILS BEHIND THE OPERATION AS WELL AS CONVERSATIONS HE HAD WITH THE NOTORIOUS NAZI OFFICER.
BR 6678 GOLDIN BOYS, THE EPSTEIN, JACOB IN THIS COLLECTION OF STORIES, THE AUTHOR PROBES THE LIVES OF SECOND-AND THIRD-GENERATION JEWISH AMERICANS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE.
BR 6679 SEASONS FOR CELEBRATION A CONTEMPORARY GUIDE TO THE JOYS, FOX, RABBI KAREN L. & MILLER, PHYLLI THIS SIMPLIFIED GUIDE IS INTENDED FOR USE BY ANYONE FACED WITH THE TASK OF CREATING A TRADITIONAL JEWISH HOME. THE FOCUS IS ON THE ORIGIN OF THE HOLIDAY AND THE VARIOUS TRADITIONS APPROPRIATE TO THE DAY. RECIPES ARE INCLUDED.
BR 6680 STORYTELLER, THE. VOL. I SELECTED SHORT STORIES MINDEL, NISSAN A COLLECTION OF SELECTED SHORT STORIES FROM THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE, 'TALKS AND TALES.' SUBJECTS RANGE FROM JEWISH LIFE IN EASTERN EUROPE IN MEDIEVAL TIMES TO THE HOLOCAUST TO KEEPING JUDAISM ALIVE IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.
BR 6681 ONE FINE DAY THE RABBI BOUGHT A CROSS KEMELMAN, HARRY WHILE VACATIONING IN JERUSALEM, RABBI SMALL MUST OUTWIT ARMS SMUGGLERS AND A MURDERER IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE ARREST OF AN INNOCENT MAN.
BR 6682 CLOSING THE SEA KATZIR, YEHUDIT FULL OF THE BEAUTY AND RAWNESS OF LIFE, THESE FOUR RICH, LYRICAL AND SURREAL NOVELLAS OFFER A UNIQUE LOOK INSIDE THE REAL ISRAEL, ONE STRIPPED OF MYTHS AND HISTORY.
BR 6683 SHARKEY'S KID OSTRANSKY, LEROY A MEMOIR ABOUT THE JEWISH GHETTO OF MANHATTAN'S LOWER EAST SIDE IN THE 1920S FOCUSING ON THE AUTHOR'S RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FATHER. SHARKEY RAN A SALOON DURING THE PROHIBITION ERA, PUBLICLY DESECRATED THE SABBATH, AND TYRANNIZED HIS SON.
BR 6684 MALKE'S SECRET RECIPE A CHANUKAH STORY FROM CHELM ADLER, DAVID A. ESTELLE WALL MALKE'S LIGHT AND CRUNCHY POTATO LATKES ARE THE TALK OF CHELM, AND THIS YEAR BERL IS DETERMINED TO STEAL HER RECIPE. BUT HIS WIFE CHALLENGES THE WISDOM OF EACH OF MALKE'S INGREDIENTS, AND THE RESULTS TASTE NOTHING LIKE THE LEGEND.
BR 6685 BEST OF OLOMEINU, THE SHABBOS AND OTHER STORIES. BOOK 2 FRUCHTER, YAAKOV, RABBI TWENTY STORIES FROM THE CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE, 'OLOMEINU', INCLUDING 'SHABBOS IN THE DEATH CAMPS,' 'INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF RASHI' AND ' A TRUE STORY ABOUT THE MASHIACH.'
BR 6686 TWELVE JEWISH STEPS A PERSONAL GUIDE TO TURNING FROM A OLITZKY, KERRY M. & COPANS, STUART THIS BOOK OFFERS A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE ON THE 12-STEP RECOVERY PROGRAM.
BR 6687 JEWISH WISDOM A TREASURY OF PROVERBS, MAXIMS, AP GROSS, DAVID C. & ESTHER R. GROSS AN ANTHOLOGY OF JEWISH 'WISDOM' THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE LEARNED IN ITS LONG, TURBULENT HISTORY. THE 300 TOPICS ARE ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY AND ARE MEANT TO INSTRUCT, INSPIRE, AND GUIDE THE READER.
BR 6688 JUDAS ISCARIOT AND THE MYTH OF JEWISH EVIL MACOBY, HYAM THE AUTHOR RETURNS TO THE SOURCES OF CHRISTIANITY TO SEE HOW THE IMAGE OF THE JEW AS A FIGURE OF EVIL CAME TO BE INGRAINED IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CHRISTIAN EUROPE.
BR 6689 HEALER, THE APPELFELD, AHARON SET IN PRE-WORLD WAR II VIENNA, THIS IS THE STORY OF A WEALTHY FAMILY, WHO, WHILE NO LONGER PRACTICING JEWS, JOURNEY TO A REMOTE JEWISH HAMLET TO CONSULT A HEALER WHO TELLS THEM TO PRAY AND STUDY THE SCRIPTURES. THE FAMILY'S EFFORTS TO RETURN TO VIENNA DEMONSTRATE THE ANTI-SEMITISM THAT WILL SOON ENGULF THE CITY.
BR 6690 MARRIAGES OF JACOB, THE A POEM-NOVELLA MANDEL, CHARLOTTE THIS POETIC RETELLING OF THE BIBLICAL STORY OF JACOB'S MARRIAGES TO RACHEL AND LEAH FOCUSES ON THEIR DISPARATE DESTINIES FIRST AS SISTERS, AND THEN AS WIVES OF THE SAME MAN.
BR 6691 GOD WAS IN THIS PLACE AND I, I DID NOT KNOW FINDING SELF, SPIRITUALITY AND ULT KUSHNER, LAWRENCE THE AUTHOR PRESENTS INTERPRETATIONS BY SEVEN RABBIS THROUGHOUT HISTORY OF JACOB'S DREAM IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS.
BR 6692 DRUGS, SEX AND INTEGRITY WHAT DOES JUDAISM SAY? POLISH, DANIEL/SYME, DANIEL/ZLOTOWIT DILEMMAS PERTAINING TO ALCOHOLISM, SEX, INTEGRITY OR JEWISH RELIGIOUS VALUES ARE PRESENTED. FOR THESE ISSUES, BIBLICAL OR TALMUDIC RESPONSES ARE GIVEN, AS WELL AS THOSE FROM A REFORM JEWISH VIEWPOINT.
BR 6694 SAMPLER OF JEWISH-AMERICAN FOLKLORE, A SHERMAN, JOSEPHA AN ANTHOLOGY OF TALES LACED WITH HUMOR, IRONY, AND WISDOM AND FILLED WITH DEMONS, DYBBUKS, AND ALLEGORIES PREACHING HUMILITY AND CHARITY. SHERMAN DISCUSSES THE HISTORY OF SOME OF THESE STORIES AND POINTS OUT THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN JEWISH FOLKTALES AND THOSE OF OTHER ETHNIC TRADITIONS.
BR 6695 TO KNOW A WOMAN OZ, AMOS AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE, ISRAELI ESPIONAGE AGENT, YOEL RAVID, RETIRES. IN THE MIDST OF AN AFFAIR WITH HIS NEIGHBOR AND HIS ATTEMPTS TO HELP HIS TEENAGE DAUGHTER, RAVID SUFFERS FROM HALLUCINATIONS AND FLASHBACKS WHICH FORCE HIM TO CONFRONT UNRESOLVED ISSUES IN HIS MARRIAGE AND IN HIS LIFE.
BR 6696 DAYS OF AWE STORIES FOR ROSH HASHANAH AND YOM KIMMEL, ERIC A. THREE TRADITIONAL TALES ABOUT ROSH HASHANAH AND YOM KIPPUR THAT EACH ILLUSTRATE ONE OF THE MAJOR THEMES OF THE HIGH HOLIDAY SEASON: REPENTANCE, PRAYER, AND CHARITY.
BR 6697 LADIES OF GENESIS HOLENDER, BARBARA A COLLECTION OF POEMS PORTRAYING WOMEN FROM THE BIBLE AND JEWISH LORE, INCLUDING EVE, LOT'S WIFE, SARAH, HAGAR, LILITH, SUSANNA, ZIPPORAH, RUTH, JOB'S WIFE, JAEL, JUDITH, VASHTI AND ESTHER.
BR 6698 GREAT JEWISH QUIZ BOOK, THE SPECTOR, BARBARA RANGING FROM JEWISH HISTORY TO JEWISH ATHLETES, THIS IS A COLLECTION OF 836 BRAIN-TEASING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON JEWISH TRIVIA.
BR 6699 SKULLCAPS AND SWITCHBLADES SURVIVAL STORIES OF AN ORTHODOX JE LAZERSON, DAVID B. THE TRUE STORY OF AN ORTHODOX JEW ASSIGNED TO A CLASS OF LEARNING-IMPAIRED CHILDREN IN A BLACK GHETTO SCHOOL IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK. THE AUTHOR DEPICTS HOW HE AND THE STUDENTS OVERCOME THEIR RESERVATIONS ABOUT EACH OTHER AND DEVELOP A RELATIONSHIP OF MUTUAL TRUST AND REGARD.
BR 6700 NOT THE WORK OF A DAY THE STORY OF THE ANTI-DEFAMATION L UNKNOWN THIS IS THE HISTORY OF THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF B'NAI B'RITH AND THE MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE WORKED ON BEHALF OF THE AGENCY.
BR 6701 JOURNEY BACK, THE REISS, JOHANNA THE STORY OF A JEWISH FAMILY WHO WENT UNDERGROUND IN HOLLAND DURING THE HOLOCAUST BUT WERE SAVED AND REUNITED IN 1944.
BR 6702 COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS A BOOK OF B'RAKHOT WOMEN'S LEAGUE FOR CONSERVATIVE JUDA A COMPILATION OF THE MOST OFTEN RECITED PRAYERS WITH EXPLANATIONS, TRANSLITERATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS.
BR 6703 BAKER'S DOZEN #6 TRAPPED! FEATURING THE GIRLS FROM LAZEWNIK, LIBBY, MIRIAM ZAKON & EMMY THE BAKER GIRLS ARE ALL SET TO SPEND THEIR FIRST SHABBOS ALONE WHILE, ACROSS TOWN, THE STAFF OF THE B.Y. TIMES IS HOLDING ITS USUAL PRE-SHABBOS MEETING. MEANWHILE, WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE DETERIORATING AND SOON ALL THE GIRLS FIND THEMSELVES STRANDED IN THE MANSION, TRAPPED BY A RAGING TORNADO.
BR 6704 FIRE AND GRACE THE LIFE OF ROSE PASTOR STOKES ZIPSER, ARTHUR & PEARL ZIPSER SOCIALIST-FEMINIST STOKES WAS A RUSSIAN JEWISH IMMIGRANT WHO MARRIED A WEALTHY NEW YORK BANKER IN 1905. SHE PLAYED A PROMINENT ROLE IN HARD-FOUGHT LABOR STRUGGLES, THE BATTLE FOR BIRTH CONTROL, AND WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.
BR 6705 HAVEN THE UNKNOWN STORY OF 1,000 WORLD W GRUBER, RUTH THE AUTHOR WAS SENT TO EUROPE IN 1944 TO BRING 1,000 REFUGEES (MOSTLY JEWISH, BUT ALSO PROTESTANT, CATHOLIC AND GREEK ORTHODOX) TO THE UNITED STATES AS 'GUESTS' OF THE GOVERNMENT, BY THE SPECIAL ORDER OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. GRUBER RECOUNTS THE HARROWING EXPERIENCES OF THESE REFUGEES AND THEIR STRUGGLE TO FIGHT DEPORTATION.
BR 6706 KATERINA APPELFELD, AHARON AT AGE 79 AND LIVING ALONE ON HER PARENTS DESERTED FARM KATERINA, A POLISH HOUSEKEEPER, NARRATES HER LIFE STORY IN WHICH SHE WORKED FOR JEWISH FAMILIES, RAISED HER SON AS A JEW, AND SPENT 40 YEARS IN PRISON FOR KILLING HIS MURDERER.
BR 6707 MIDLIFE/THE WISE WOMAN A RITE OF PASSAGE/CELEBRATION FINE, IRENE IN THE FIRST SECTION OF THIS BOOK, FINE EXPLORES THE MIDLIFE TRANSITION PERIOD OF WOMEN AND OFFERS CEREMONIES THAT ACKNOWLEDGE THE CHANGED STATUS THIS PERIOD ENGENDERS. IN THE SECOND SECTION, THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE WISDOM OF WOMEN AND CELEBRATES WOMEN'S ELDERHOOD.
BR 6708 JEWISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE KATZ, MOLLY A HUMOROUS 'GUIDE' FOR NON-JEWS WHO MARRY JEWS. SUBJECTS INCLUDE: DEVELOPING JEWISH CONVERSATIONAL SKILLS, WORRYING, RAISING YOUR JEWISH CHILD AND FEEDING YOUR NEW JEWISH STOMACH.
BR 6709 BOOK OF THE JUST, THE THE SILENT HEROES WHO SAVED JEWS F SILVER, ERIC SARENE MEYER THE AUTHOR PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE NON-JEWS WHO RISKED THEIR LIVES AND THEIR FREEDOM TO SAVE JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST. RECOUNTED BY SURVIVORS AND RESCUERS, THE STORIES DEMONSTRATE HOW PEOPLE OF VARYING BACKGROUNDS, FAITHS, AND POLITICAL VIEWS ALL FELT THE NEED TO ASSERT A COMMON HUMANITY.
BR 6710 BURSTING THE BONDS? A JEWISH-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE ON JESUS AND PAUL SWIDLER, J./ERON, J./SLOYAN, G./DEAN THE AUTHORS, TWO JEWISH AND TWO CHRISTIAN, EXPLORE THE HISTORY AND THEOLOGY OF JESUS AND PAUL.
BR 6711 MARTIN BUBER AND THE ETERNAL FRIEDMAN, MAURICE AN EXAMINATION OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF BUBER'S PHILOSOPHY ON ETHICS, THE HISTORY OF RELIGION, INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE, AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.
BR 6712 DISSENTER IN THE HOUSE OF GOD, A ROSENFELD, ALVIN SET IN THE 1950S, THIS IS THE STORY OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR HYMAN SCHWARTZ, AN ACCOUNTANT IN NEW YORK CITY. SCHWARTZ COMPULSIVELY USES NUMBERS TO BLOT OUT MEMORIES OF HIS FAMILY, ALL OF WHOM WERE KILLED IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, BUT HIS DEFENSES ARE LOWERED WHEN HE BEFRIENDS A YOUNG JEWISH REFUGEE AND BEGINS TO THINK OF HIM AS A SON.
BR 6713 PHILOSOPHY-WHO NEEDS IT? RAND, AYN RAND QUESTIONS ONE'S NEED FOR A PHILOSOPHY, WHICH SHE DEFINES AS A JUNK HEAP OF UNWARRANTED CONCLUSIONS, AND ADVOCATES, INSTEAD, A RATIONAL, DISCIPLINED PROCESS.
BR 6714 JESSIE BERNARD THE MAKING OF A FEMINIST BANNISTER, ROBERT C. THIS IS THE STORY OF A REMARKABLE WOMAN WHO IN 1970 AT AGE 67 JOINED THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT AND ALSO REDISCOVERED HER JEWISH ROOTS.
BR 6715 BAKER'S DOZEN #5 THE INSIDE STORY LAZEWNIK, LIBBY A MAGAZINE IS DOING A FEATURE STORY ON THE BAKER QUINTUPLETS BUT THREE OF THE BROTHERS ARE ANGRY THAT THEY WERE NOT CONSULTED. AS THEIR SISTERS PREPARE, THE BOYS MAKE PLANS TO RUIN THE INTERVIEW. IT TAKES A SERIES OF MISHAPS TO BRING ALL THE SIBLINGS TO THEIR SENSES.
BR 6716 OPERATED JEW, THE TWO TALES OF ANTI-SEMITISM ZIPES, JACK: TRANSLATED WITH COMMENT IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THESE LITERARY ODDITIES; 'THE OPERATED JEW' WRITTEN IN 1893, AND 'THE OPERATED GOY' (AN IN VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL TALE) IN 1922, REFLECT AND ANTICIPATE JUDAISM'S HISTORY IN THE 20TH CENTURY.
BR 6717 HAND IN THE DARKNESS, A THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A REFUSENIK NUDEL, IDA THE STORY OF NUDEL'S STRUGGLE TO LEAVE THE SOVIET UNION AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT, HARASSMENT AND EXILE. IN 1986, SHE WAS REUNITED WITH HER FAMILY IN ISRAEL.
BR 6718 EXPLORING JUDAISM A RECONSTRUCTIONIST APPROACH ALPERT, REBECCA T. & JACOB J. STAUB THE AUTHORS PRESENT THE HISTORY AND FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF RECONSTRUCTIONIST JUDAISM.
BR 6719 TOMORROW TAYLOR, ELISABETH RUSSELL FOR FIFTEEN YEARS SINCE THE END OF WORLD WAR II ELISABETH DANZIGER HAS MADE HER ANNUAL VISIT TO THE TAMARISKS, HER CHILDHOOD HOME, WITH THE HOPE OF BEING REUNITED WITH HER COUSIN WITH WHOM SHE HAD FALLEN IN LOVE BEFORE THE WAR.
BR 6720 HEADING UPTOWN A NINA FISCHMAN MYSTERY PIESMAN, MARISSA APPOINTED EXECUTRIX OF AN ACQUAINTANCE'S WILL, LAWYER NINA FISCHMAN IS ASKED TO INVESTIGATE THE MAN'S DEATH AT THE REQUEST OF HIS TEENAGE DAUGHTER. FISCHMAN MIXES CAREFUL PLANNING WITH HUMOROUS ETHNIC PALAVER.
BR 6721 JEWISH IDENTITY IN AN AGE OF IDEOLOGIES AGUS, JACOB B. RABBI AGUS EXPLORES THE RESPONSE OF JEWISH THINKERS TO THE SIGNIFICANT IDEAS AND MOVEMENTS OF THE LAST TWO CENTURIES IN THE WESTERN WORLD. HIS WORK CAN BE READ AS A HISTORY OF MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT.
BR 6722 FROM MY FATHER'S SHABBOS TABLE A TREASURY OF CHABAD CHASSIDIC STORIES SHITRIK, RABBI YEHUDAH THE AUTHOR OFFERS US AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHASSIDIC STORIES THAT HAVE BEEN HANDED DOWN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.
BR 6723 STORY A DAY, A Tishrei - Cheshvan SOFER, G. THESE ARE WONDERFUL CHILDREN'S STORIES THAT TELL ABOUT THE VARIOUS HOLIDAYS AND EVENTS THAT OCCUR IN THE MONTHS OF TISHREI AND CHESHVAN.
BR 6724 MAN WHO THOUGHT HE WAS MESSIAH, THE LEVIANT, CURT RABBI NACHMAN OF BRATZLAV, THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LEADER OF A HASIDIC SECT, IS AT THE CENTER OF A VARIETY OF EVENTS IN THIS NOVEL. AMONG HIS ADVENTURES, HE TRAVELS TO VIENNA, TO ISRAEL, TO TURKEY; HE IS ALMOST PERSUADED THAT HE IS THE MESSIAH; HE LOSES HIS ABILITY TO READ BECAUSE OF GUILT; AND, HE BECOMES THE CONFIDANT OF BEETHOVEN.
BR 6725 KABBALAH FOR THE LAYMAN - BOOK ONE BERG, RABBI PHILIP S. MASTER KABBALIST RABBI BERG, OFFERS A WEALTH OF DETAIL ON THE MYSTERIES OF KABBALAH. HE EXAMINES THE PERSONAL LIVES AND INTIMATE THOUGHTS OF NOTED KABBALIST THINKERS, WHILE FOCUSING ON KABBALAH AS A PATH TO SPIRITUAL AWAKENING.
BR 6726 MOMMY NEVER WENT TO HEBREW SCHOOL PORTNOY, MINDY AVRA THE STORY OF DAVID'S MOTHER, WHO EXPLAINS TO HER SON THE REASONS FOR HER CONVERSION TO JUDAISM. HER EXPLANATION INCLUDES A DESCRIPTION OF THE STUDY PROCESS INVOLVED AND THE CEREMONY AT THE MIKVEH.
BR 6727 CHICKEN SUNDAY POLACCO, PATRICIA POLACCO BLENDS AFRICAN-AMERICAN, RUSSIAN, AND POLISH- JEWISH CULTURE IN THIS STORY OF A BLACK 'GRAMMA' WHO IS ALSO AN ADOPTED 'BUBBIE' TO A LITTLE JEWISH GIRL WHOSE GRANDMOTHER HAS JUST DIED. AN ELDERLY ORTHODOX JEWISH SHOPKEEPER HELPS THE LITTLE GIRL AND GRAMMA'S TWO GRANDCHILDREN GET GRAMMA HER DREAM EASTER BONNET.
BR 6728 VOICE OF SARAH, THE FEMININE SPIRITUALITY AND TRADITIO FRANKIEL, TAMAR THE AUTHOR DEMONSTRATES HOW A TRADITIONAL JEWISH WOMAN CAN FULFILL FEMINISM'S HIGHEST ASPIRATIONS.
BR 6729 COHENS OF TZEFAT, THE ZAKON, MIRIAM STARK THE MOVING AND EXCITING STORY OF A FAMILY TRACED THROUGH 2,000 YEARS OF VIGNETTES OF HISTORICAL FICTION.
BR 6730 STORYTELLER, THE - BOOK 4 Selected Short Stories MINDEL, NISSAN THE NEXT VOLUME OF SHORT STORIES TAKEN FROM THE POPULAR MONTHLY MAGAZINE TALKS AND TALES. THE BOOK FEATURES A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS INCLUDING FESTIVALS; TZADDIKIM AND SCHOLARS AND THE HOLOCAUST. STORIES FOR YOUNG AND OLD.
BR 6731 MR. MANI YEHOSHUA, A. B. IN THIS NOVEL ABOUT SIX GENERATIONS OF THE MANI FAMILY, THE AUTHOR EMPLOYS MYSTERY, COINCIDENCE AND FATE, AS HE GRADUALLY DISCLOSES THE TRAGEDY THAT HAUNTS EVERY GENERATION OF THE FAMILY. ARRANGED IN THE FORM OF FIVE CONVERSATIONS, THE NARRATIVE MOVES FROM 1982 TO 1848 AS IT PLACES ITS DOMESTIC EVENTS WITHIN A HISTORICAL CONTEXT.
BR 6732 PEACHY WAGMAN, FREDRICA PEACHY MARVEL IS GRAPPLING WITH MIDDLE AGE. HER CHANCE ENCOUNTER WITH AN ILLUSTRIOUS AUTHOR MAKE HER THINK OF HER JEWISH UPBRINGING AND HER RUMINATIONS GIVE HER THE INSIGHT SHE NEEDS TO GET HER LIFE TOGETHER.
BR 6733 GOLEM AND THE DRAGON GIRL, THE LEVITIN, SONIA WHEN JONATHAN, WHO IS JEWISH, AND LAUREL, WHO IS CHINESE, HEAR STRANGE NOISES IN LAUREL'S OLD HOUSE, THEY SUSPECT A SUPERNATURAL SPIRIT AS EXPRESSED IN THEIR HERITAGES.
BR 6734 JEWISH WOMEN IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE RASKIN, JUDITH R., ED. IN THESE ESSAYS THE AUTHOR EXPLORES THE ROLE OF JEWISH WOMEN IN A MALE-DOMINATED PUBLIC, AND HOW THE REALITIES OF THEIR LIVES WERE OFTEN DIFFERENT FROM RABBINIC DESIGN.
BR 6735 CHARTREUSE CLUE, THE LOVE, WILLIAM F. WHEN A MONK WAKES UP IN THE APARTMENT OF A MURDERED WOMAN IT IS UP TO BISOP FRANCIS BACON, A WHEELCHAIR-BOUND GENIUS, AND HIS ASSISTANT, DAVID GOLDMAN, A JEWISH PRIVATE DETECTIVE, TO FIGURE OUT WHO THE REAL KILLER IS. TOGETHER, THE PAIR OUTWIT THE POLICE AND UNRAVEL THE MYSTERY.
BR 6736 BEST OF STORYLINES, THE STORIES FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY TELLER, HANOCH IN THIS COLLECTION, RABBI TELLER USES HIS OLD AND NEW STORIES TO PROVIDE READERS WITH A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE ON ANSWERS TO THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS OF LIFE. EACH STORY DEMONSTRATES HOW A PERSON CAN TRIUMPH OVER ADVERSITY, HELP OTHERS, AND LEARN WHAT IS IMPORTANT IN THIS WORLD.
BR 6737 AROUND THE TABLE FAMILY STORIES OF SHOLOM ALEICHEM SHEVRIN, ALIZA, ED. SET IN THE LATE 1800S, THESE FIVE STORIES FROM SHOLOM ALEICHEM RECOUNT EXPERIENCES OF HOLIDAY PREPARATIONS AND FAMILY GATHERINGS. FOCUSSING ON CHILDHOOD ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS, THE STORIES EVOKE THE RICHNESS OF JEWISH CULTURE.
BR 6738 HEROES TALES FROM THE ISRAELI WARS HELLMAN, PETER A COLLECTION OF STORIES ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF WAR ON ISRAELI SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS. TOPICS RANGE FROM REPORTS ON THE COMBAT EXPERIENCES OF MILITARY RECRUITS TO A LOOK AT UNUSUAL ISRAELI HEROINES.
BR 6739 EYE FOR AN EYE TELUSHKIN, JOSEPH THE MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN SETS OFF A CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT THREATENS RABBI DAVID WINTER'S POSITION IN HIS TEMPLE AND DISRUPTS THE HARMONY BETWEEN HIM AND HIS WIFE. A SECOND MURDER AND THE DILEMMA OF A WOMAN WHOSE HUSBAND WON'T GIVE HER A JEWISH DIVORCE MAKES THIS A CASE THAT WINTER MUST SOLVE.
BR 6740 FALSE PROPHET KELLERMAN, FAYE LAPD DETECTIVE PETER DECKER AND HIS WIFE RINA LAZARUS ARE INVOLVED IN A TALE OF DECEPTION, GREED AND MURDER WHEN DECKER INVESTIGATES THE RAPE AND ROBBERY OF LILAH BRECHT, DAUGHTER OF FILM GREAT, DAVIDS EVENSONG. AS THE CASE EXPANDS TO COVER TWO HOMICIDES, DECKER DISCOVERS THE FAMILY'S SECRETS.
BR 6741 DICTIONARY OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY, A COHN-SHERBOK, DAN CAROL LOWENS A DICTIONARY THAT DEFINES AND COMPARES THE KEY CONCEPTS, BELIEFS, AND PRACTICES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY, EXPLAINING BOTH THE PARALLELS AND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO RELIGIONS.
BR 6742 JOURNEY, THE FINK, IDA AN EXPLORATION OF SURVIVAL DURING THE HOLOCAUST IN WHICH TWO JEWISH SISTERS, ARMED ONLY WITH POORLY FORGED PAPERS, ESCAPE FROM A POLISH GHETTO. POSING AS CHRISTIANS, THEY GO THROUGH A SERIES OF ESCAPES AND IDENTITIES AND ENCOUNTER THE BRUTALITY OF THE NAZI REGIME.
BR 6743 TOWARD A THEOLOGICAL ENCOUNTER JEWISH UNDERSTANDING OF CHRISTIANITY KLENICKI, LEON, RABBI HELEN STEWAR EIGHT JEWISH SCHOLARS, SOME OF THEM ORTHODOX, HAVE WRITTEN ESSAYS ON CHRISTIANITY FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE. IN ITS ATTEMPT TO HELP BUILD A FRAMEWORK FOR JEWISH- CHRISTIAN RELATIONS, THE BOOK FULFILLS ITS PURPOSE.
BR 6744 JEWISH PRIMER, THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON JEWISH FA HIMELSTEIN, RABBI DR. SHMUEL AN INTRODUCTION FOR JEWS AND NON-JEWS TO THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH AND ITS PRACTICES. WRITTEN IN A QUESTION AND ANSWER FORMAT, THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THEOLOGY, THE DIETARY LAWS, THE SABBATH, THE HOLY DAYS, MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, JEWISH MEDICAL VIEWS, AND THE JEWISH LIFE CYCLE. INCLUDES A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF OTHER JEWISH MOVEMENTS.
BR 6745 ESSENTIAL JERUSALEM Travel Guide Series CASHMAN, GREER FAY THIS TRAVEL GUIDE TO JERUSALEM INCLUDES LISTINGS OF ACCOMMODATIONS, RESTAURANTS, AND ENTERTAINMENT, WHERE TO SHOP AND WHAT TO BUY, ADVICE FOR PEOPLE ON A TIGHT BUDGET, AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND.
BR 6746 ISRAEL'S FATEFUL HOUR HARKABI, YEHOSHAFAT THE AUTHOR PERCEIVES A NEW MODERATION AMONG THE ARABS AND ARGUES THAT ONLY FACE-TO-FACE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND ARABS CAN POSSIBLY ACHIEVE PEACE BETWEEN THE TWO PEOPLES.
BR 6747 FINDING OUR WAY JEWISH TEXTS AND THE LIVES WE LIVE HOLTZ, BARRY W. IN THIS SEQUEL TO 'BACK TO THE SOURCES,' HOLTZ ADDRESSES THOSE READERS WHO LIVE IN A PREDOMINANTLY SECULAR WORLD BUT WANT TO EXPLORE THE RELEVANCE OF JEWISH TEACHINGS TO THEIR LIVES.
BR 6748 MAN WHO WAS LATE, THE BEGLEY, LOUIS JULIET RATNE JACK, A WRITER AND A HARVARD WASP, NARRATES THE STORY OF HIS FRIEND BEN, A HARVARD-EDUCATED JEWISH BANKER WHO IS UNABLE TO CONFRONT WHO HE IS. AN AFFAIR WITH JACK'S COUSIN BRINGS OUT BEN'S FATAL FLAW AND LEADS TO TRAGEDY.
BR 6749 KINDERTRANSPORT DRUCKER, OLGA LEVY A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCES DURING THE HOLOCAUST. TAKEN TO ENGLAND AS PART OF A PROGRAM TO SAVE GERMAN JEWISH CHILDREN IN 1939, DRUCKER DID NOT SEE HER FAMILY AGAIN FOR SIX YEARS. SHE RECALLS HER BEWILDERMENT AND HER STRUGGLES TO ADJUST AND PROVIDES A HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR HER STORY.
BR 6750 MILK AND HONEY KELLERMAN, FAYE WHEN NEARLY AN ENTIRE FAMILY IS FOUND MURDERED, DETECTIVE PETER DECKER AND RINA LAZARUS, AN ORTHODOX JEWISH WIDOW, BECOME INVOLVED IN THE CASE. THE UNWANTED PRESENCE OF DECKER'S ARMY BUDDY COMPLICATES MATTERS AND ENDANGERS THE COUPLE'S RELATIONSHIP AS WELL AS LAZARUS'S LIFE.
BR 6751 DENYING THE HOLOCAUST THE GROWING ASSAULT ON TRUTH AND MEMORY LIPSTADT, DEBORAH E. AN EXPOSE THAT REVEALS THE WORLDWIDE MOVEMENT OF HOLOCAUST DENIAL AND ITS JOURNALS, INSTITUTES AND PAMPHLETS. ALSO UNMASKED ARE THE DENIERS' STRATEGY OF DISTORTION, WHICH THEY USE TO CAMOUFLAGE THEIR IDEOLOGY.
BR 6752 LOST CHILDHOOD, THE A MEMOIR NIR, YEHUDA A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCES DURING THE HOLOCAUST. NIR RECOUNTS THE HARDSHIP HIS ONCE AFFLUENT POLISH FAMILY ENDURED AT THE HANDS OF PRO-NAZI UKRAINIANS AS WELL AS THE EXPERIENCE OF SERVING AS A COURIER IN THE SEWER SYSTEM DURING THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING.
BR 6753 JEWS OF SPAIN, THE A HISTORY OF THE SEPHARDIC EXPERIE GERBER, JANE S. AN EXAMINATION OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF SPANISH JEWRY, THE TENSIONS BETWEEN SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ASHKENAZIM AND SEPHARDIM, AND A LOOK AT SEPHARDIC COMMUNITIES IN ISRAEL, FRANCE, THE UNITED STATES AND SPAIN IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BR 6754 UNINVITED DAUGHTERS SPIELBERG, ELINOR IN HER 30S, ODESSA LEVIN IS STILL SEARCHING FOR A COMFORTABLE IDENTITY WHEN SHE LEAVES HER UPPER MIDDLE CLASS, LONG ISLAND JEWISH BACKGROUND FOR A SMALL VERMONT TOWN. THERE SHE MEETS 10-YEAR-OLD MEGAN, WHO LOOKS TO LEVIN AS A MOTHER FIGURE, AND HER 'WICKED' STEPMOTHER, WHO IS RUNNING FROM THE VERMONT HERITAGE LEVIN CRAVES.
BR 6755 BAKER'S DOZEN #1 ON OUR OWN LAZEWNIK, LIBBY DURING A SPRING CLEANING PROJECT, MRS. BAKER IS HURT AND WINDS UP IN THE HOSPITAL. HER CHILDREN, THE BAKER'S 'DOZEN,' ASSURE HER THEY CAN MANAGE UNTIL SHE RETURNS HOME. CHAOS ENSUES AS SOME CHILDREN ARE LOST, SOME MONEY DISAPPEARS, AND FOOD GOES FLYING AROUND THE HOUSE.
BR 6756 ISRAEL AND ME ALEXANDER, MORRIS THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES HIS EXPERIENCES AS AN AMERICAN JEW ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL AND LATER AS AN IMMIGRANT THERE FOR FOUR YEARS.
BR 6757 JEWISH PROFILES GREAT JEWISH PERSONALITIES AND INS POLNER, MURRAY, ED. ESSAYS CULLED FROM 'PRESENT TENSE' MAGAZINE PROFILING SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT JEWISH PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS OF THE 1900S.
BR 6758 ISRAEL A CONCISE POLITICAL HISTORY BEILIN, YOSSI THE AUTHOR, A KNESSET MEMBER, STUDIES HOW THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT REALLY WORKS. HE EXAMINES THE RULERS OF ISRAEL AND THE VARIOUS INNER AND OUTER PRESSURE GROUPS AND EXPLORES THE ISRAEL-ARAB IMPASSE.
BR 6759 UNTO THE SOUL APPELFELD, AHARON AMALIA AND HER OLDER BROTHER GAD LEAD A SPARTAN EXISTENCE AS CARETAKERS OF A MOUNTAINTOP CEMETERY CONSECRATED TO JEWISH MARTYRS. AFTER GAD SEDUCES AMALIA, SHE DISCOVERS SHE IS PREGNANT. HE BEGS FORGIVENESS BUT HIS BELATED ATONEMENT CANNOT PREVENT THE TRAGEDY THAT FOLLOWS.
BR 6760 START WORRYING, DETAILS TO FOLLOW AN INSIDER'S IRREVERENT (BUT LOVIN VORSPAN, ALBERT A COLLECTION OF HUMOROUS ESSAYS THAT LOOK AT VARIOUS ASPECTS OF AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE.
BR 6761 RETURNING TO TRADITION THE CONTEMPORARY REVIVAL IN ORTHOD DANZGER, HERBERT M. THIS BOOK EXPLORES THE REVIVAL IN ORTHODOX JUDAISM AMONG JEWISH YOUTH IN THE LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY. DANZGER DISCUSSES THE REASONS FOR THE REVIVAL, THE VALUES AND CONFLICTS IT HAS ENGENDERED, AND EXAMINES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CHRISTIAN REBIRTH AND JUDAIC RETURN.
BR 6762 RACHEL THE CLEVER AND OTHER JEWISH FOLKTALES SHERMAN, JOSEPHA A COLLECTION OF FOLKTALES FROM POLAND, CENTRAL ASIA, AND MOROCCO.
BR 6763 EYE FOR COLOR SILVER, NORMAN IN THIS COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES, A YOUNG SOUTH AFRICAN JEWISH BOY COPES WITH THE CONFUSION AND ANXIETY OF ADOLESCENCE BOTH AS A JEW AND AS A MEMBER OF A SEGREGATED AND UNJUST SOCIETY.
BR 6764 PEARL MOSCOWITZ'S LAST STAND LEVINE, ARTHUR A. WHEN THE CITY THREATENS TO CUT DOWN THE LAST TREE ON HER BLOCK, MOSCOWITZ TAKES A MILITANT STAND TO PREVENT THE ACTION. THE AUTHOR DETAILS THE DYNAMICS OF MOSCOWITZ'S URBAN STREET AS IT IS FIRST SETTLED BY JEWISH IMMIGRANTS, THEN BY AFRICAN AMERICANS, LATINOS, AND ASIANS.
BR 6765 RECOVERY FROM CODEPENDENCE A JEWISH 12-STEP GUIDE TO HEALING OLITZKY, KERRY M. A DISCUSSION OF THE 12 STEPS OF RECOVERY AS ADAPTED FOR ADDICTED JEWISH INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR FAMILIES. THE AUTHOR INCLUDES REFERENCES FROM THE TALMUD AND JEWISH SPIRITUAL TRADITION THAT ARE RELEVANT TO EACH STEP.
BR 6766 CIRCLEMAKER, THE SCHUR, MAXINE ROSE WHEN THE TZAR'S SOLDIERS COME TO HIS SHTETL TO CONSCRIPT ALL JEWISH BOYS FOR 25-YEARS OF SERVICE, 12-YEAR-OLD MENDEL RUNS AWAY. HE CUTS OFF HIS EARLOCKS BUT PLEDGES TO PRESERVE HIS TIES TO JUDAISM AS HE PLUNGES INTO A NEW WORLD.
BR 6767 LINE FIVE THE INTERNAL PASSPORT SNYDERMAN, ELAINE P. & WITKOVSKY, MA 'LINE FIVE' REFERS TO THE JEWISH 'NATIONALITY' ON THE SOVIET CITIZEN'S INTERNAL PASSPORT. THESE ARE STUDIES OF JEWS WHO IMMIGRATED TO CHICAGO FROM 1986 TO 1991, AND AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR STRUGGLES WITH SOVIET AUTHORITIES.
BR 6768 FRANCINE PRINCE'S NEW JEWISH CUISINE OVER 175 RECIPES FOR HOLIDAYS AND PRINCE, FRANCINE PRINCE OFFERS RECIPES FOR HEALTH-CONSCIOUS JEWISH COOKING. THERE ARE TRADITIONAL DISHES MADE LIGHTER AS WELL AS 'NEW AMERICAN JEWISH RECIPES' LIKE POMEGRANATE CHICKEN.
BR 6769 PLAYS OF THE HOLOCAUST AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY FUCHS, ELINOR, ED. THE AUTHOR HAS SELECTED 6 PLAYS THAT LOOK AT THE ENORMITY OF HITLER'S WAR AGAINST THE JEWS. WHILE EACH PLAY HAS A DIFFERENT STYLE AND NATIONAL ORIGIN, THE COMMON THEME IS ONE OF COLLECTIVE SUFFERING.
BR 6770 GOLDEN WINDOWS AND OTHER STORIES OF JERUSALEM GERAS, ADELE IN THIS COLLECTION OF FIVE STORIES, THE AUTHOR CHRONICLES FOUR GENERATIONS OF THE GENZEL FAMILY AND THEIR LIVES IN JERUSALEM'S JEWISH QUARTER BETWEEN 1910 AND 1954. FOCUSING ON PNINA, HER NIECE, DASKEH, AND DASKEH'S COUSIN, MALKA, GERAS DEPICTS THE CITY, JEWISH FAMILY LIFE, AND THE HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THE DAY.
BR 6771 LIVING WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE (INCLUDING YOURSELF) ADAHAN, MIRIAM THE AUTHOR'S APPROACH TO IMPROVING INTER-PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE FAMILY.
BR 6772 JOURNEY THROUGH JUDAISM THE BEST OF 'KEEPING POSTED' BENNETT, ALLEN D., ED. AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF JEWISH NEWS FOR TEENAGERS.
BR 6773 AS A NEW DAY BREAKS A CONTEMPORARY VIEW OF MASHIACH AN TOUGER, RABBI ELIYAHU RABBI TOUGER OFFERS A THOUGHT-PROVOKING VIEW ON THE SUBJECT OF THE MASHIACH AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO PREPARE OURSELVES FOR THE FINAL REDEMPTION.
BR 6774 FLOWERS IN THE BLOOD COURTER, GAY MIRIAM ALIMO BEAUTIFUL DINAH SASSOON, DAUGHTER OF AN AFFLUENT OPIUM TRADER AND PILLAR OF CALCUTTA'S TIGHT-KNIT JEWISH COMMUNITY, SEES HER PRIVILEGED FUTURE DESTROYED WHEN HER MOTHER IS MYSTERIOUSLY MURDERED. THIS TRAGIC EVENT LEAVES DINAH DISHONORED AND VIRTUALLY UNMARRIAGEABLE, UNTIL EDWIN SALE SPARKS HER INDOMITABLE SPIRIT AND AMBITION.
BR 6775 SHORES OF REFUGE A HUNDRED YEARS OF JEWISH EMIGRATI SANDERS, RONALD THE AUTHOR EXPLORES THE IMMIGRATION OF THE JEWS TO THE UNITED STATES IN TWO DISTINCT ERAS: THE MASS IMMIGRATION THAT OCCURRED FROM 1881 TO 1923 AND THE IMMIGRATION FROM 1924 TO THE LATE 1980S. WHILE MANY OF THE ACCOUNTS QUOTED HERE ARE LACED WITH HUMOR AND ADVENTURE, THE DOMINANT THEME OF THESE MIGRATIONS IS ANTI-SEMITISM.
BR 6776 MAIMONIDES A GUIDE FOR TODAY'S PERPLEXED SEESKIN, KENNETH STANLEY SERX SEESKIN MAINTAINS THAT MAIMONIDES'S 'GUIDE TO THE PERPLEXED' IS DIFFICULT FOR MODERN READERS BECAUSE OF GAPS IN THEIR PHILOSOPHICAL EDUCATION. SEESKIN PRESENTS MAIMONIDES'S IDEAS IN AN ACCESSIBLE FORM FOR THE LAYMAN.
BR 6777 LIVING TOGETHER SEPARATELY ARABS AND JEWS IN CONTEMPORARY JER ROMANN, MICHAEL & ALEX WEINGROD THE AUTHORS, AN ARAB AND A JEW AND BOTH LONG-TIME JERUSALEM RESIDENTS, EXAMINE THE DAILY INTERACTION OF ARABS AND JEWS IN JERUSALEM. THEY CONCLUDE THAT THE ISRAELI GOAL OF A UNIFIED PEOPLE WITHIN A UNIFIED CITY HAS NOT YET BEEN ACHIEVED.
BR 6778 MOTHER COUNTRY TAYLOR, ELISABETH RUSSELL JUDY TESSER AS SHE SITS BY HER DYING MOTHER'S BED, ANTONIA FINDS HERSELF RECALLING THE PAINFUL MEMORIES OF HER CHILDHOOD. HER STRUGGLE TO BURY THE PAST WITH HER MOTHER'S BODY EVENTUALLY LEADS HER TO ISRAEL AND TO HER JEWISH HERITAGE.
BR 6779 SWEET NOTES, SOUR NOTES LEVINSON, NANCY SMILER IN THIS STORY OF A YOUNG BOY DETERMINED TO MASTER THE VIOLIN, THE AUTHOR DEPICTS A PRE-WAR URBAN AMBIANCE AND THE QUIET WARMTH OF A CLOSELY KNIT JEWISH FAMILY.
BR 6780 FEATHERS GORDON, RUTH HARRIET GUSS THE 'WISE MEN' OF CHELM TRAVEL TO OTHER VILLAGES TO COLLECT FUNDS FOR A BATHHOUSE. AFRAID THEY'LL BE ROBBED, THEY EXCHANGE THE MONEY FOR FEATHERS, FLING THEM INTO THE WIND AND WAIT FOR THEM TO FLOAT BACK TO CHELM.
BR 6781 SABBATH LION, THE A JEWISH FOLKTALE FROM ALGERIA SCHWARTZ, HOWARD AND BARBARA RUSH SUSAN FELDMA WHEN 10-YEAR-OLD YOSEF'S MOTHER RECEIVES AN INHERITANCE, HE OFFERS TO TRAVEL TO EGYPT TO COLLECT IT. ALONE IN THE DESERT ON THE SABBATH, YOSEF PRAYS HARD TO GOD AND IS SENT A MAGNIFICENT LION WHO GUARDS HIM FROM DANGER.
BR 6782 BAKER'S DOZEN #2 GHOSTBUSTERS SIEGEL, MALKY MOVING TO THE NEW MANSION SEEMS LIKE A DREAM COME TRUE FOR THE BAKER FAMILY, BUT STRANGE NOISES AND AN INTRUDER THREATEN TO TURN THE DREAM INTO A NIGHTMARE.
BR 6783 MORE SECRETS OF HEBREW WORDS BLECH, RABBI BENJAMIN JUST AS IN HIS PREVIOUS VOLUME, THE SECRETS OF HEBREW WORDS, RABBI BLECH BRINGS READERS INTO THE FASCINATING WORLD OF GEMATRIA (THE RECKONING OF NUMBERS) AND ACRONYMS TO UNCOVER THE PROFUNDITY HIDDEN IN EVERYDAY HEBREW.
BR 6784 THAT HUNGARIAN'S IN MY KITCHEN 125 HUNGARIAN/AMERICAN RECIPES RADKE, LINDA F. THESE FAVORITE RECIPES, ASSEMBLED FROM THE FILES OF A HUNGARIAN-JEWISH-AMERICAN FAMILY, ITS FRIENDS, OR RELATIVES BRING A TASTE OF HUNGARY TO GOURMET COOKS AND ALL WHO WANT TO ADD A TASTE OF HUNGARY TO THEIR CUISINE.
BR 6785 YOUR CHANUKAH GUIDE LUBAVITCH YOUTH ORGANIZATION THIS GUIDE INTRODUCES JEWISH YOUTH TO EVERYTHING THEY WANT TO KNOW ABOUT CHANUKAH.
BR 6786 MYSTICAL DIMENSION, THE - VOL. 3 'DEEP CALLING UNTO DEEP' SHOCHET, J. IMMANUEL THE AUTHOR OFFERS US INSIGHT INTO THE IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER IN EVERYDAY LIFE AND HOW THE MITZVAH OF TZEDAKAH INFLUENCES OUR VERY BEING.
BR 6787 MYSTICAL DIMENSION, THE - VOL. 3 CHASSIDIC DIMENSIONS SHOCHET, J. IMMANUEL THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE CHASSIDIC DIMENSIONS IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE LUBAVITCH MOVEMENT.
BR 6788 MESHUGAH SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS A NOVEL BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING WRITER THAT DEALS WITH A ROMANTIC TRIANGLE OF MIRIAM, A YOUNG POLISH IMMIGRANT AND HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR; MAX, A 67-YEAR-OLD WOMANIZING INVESTOR; AND, AARON, A MIDDLE-AGED YIDDISH NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST. THE TRIO ARE UNABLE TO RESOLVE THEIR MORAL DILEMMAS UNTIL THEY MEET AFTER A LONG SEPARATION IN ISRAEL.
BR 6789 MY ROCK AND MY REDEEMER SPITZER, LENA IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE 19TH CENTURY THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR WAS A VIBRANT, OFTEN DANGEROUS PLACE. IT WAS ESPECIALLY SO FOR ASHER PARNESS, A DEVOTED YOUNG JEW AND A FUGITIVE FROM HIS MAJESTY'S ROYAL NAVY.
BR 6790 REINCARNATION THE WHEELS OF A SOUL BERG, RABBI PHILIP S. LONG SHROUDED IN SECRECY, THE TENETS OF KABBALISTIC REINCARNATION ARE REVEALED IN THIS VOLUME. THE AUTHOR EXPLORES THE NUANCES OF THE KABBALISTIC VIEW OF REINCARNATION.
BR 6791 HOLOCAUST TESTIMONIES THE RUINS OF MEMORY LANGER, LAWRENCE L. AFTER ANALYZING 300 OF THE MORE THAN 1,400 HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR VIDEOTAPED INTERVIEWS PRESERVED AT YALE UNIVERSITY, LANGER EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF MEMORY REVEALED BY THEM AND EXPLORES WAYS FOR PEOPLE TO LEARN HOW TO LISTEN TO THESE EXPERIENCES.
BR 6792 KENTUCKY SCHWARTZ, I.J. WRITTEN IN THE EARLY 1900S BY A YIDDISH POET, THIS POEM GIVES AN IMMIGRANT'S IMPRESSION OF THE SOUTHERN AMERICAN LANDSCAPE AND ITS HISTORICAL PREDICAMENT AFTER THE CIVIL WAR. SCHWARTZ ALSO WRITES ABOUT THE JEWS WHO SETTLED THERE.
BR 6793 ANNIE'S PROMISE LEVITIN, SONIA SET IN THE POST-WORLD WAR II ERA OF CALIFORNIA, ANNIE IS ENTERING ADOLESCENCE AND IS JUST BEGINNING TO REBEL AGAINST THE STRICT 'OLD WORLD' VIEWS OF HER PARENTS. BUT WHEN SHE IS INVITED TO ATTEND AN INTERDENOMINATIONAL QUAKER CAMP, SHE RECEIVES A PAINFUL LESSON IN LOVING ONE'S NEIGHBOR.
BR 6794 MISS JACOBSON'S JOURNEY DUNN, CAROLA TO SECURE PASSAGE HOME TO ENGLAND, MIRIAM JACOBSON ACCEPTS A PATRIOTIC MISSION FROM THE ROTHSCHILD FAMILY THROUGH FRANCE AND SPAIN. ON HER JOURNEY, SHE IS ACCOMPANIED BY TWO MEN: ONE, AN INTOLERABLE ARISTOCRAT AND ONE, A JEW LIKE MIRIAM WHO SEEMS TO BE ANGRY AT HER.
BR 6795 TIME ZONES YOUR KEY TO CONTROL BERG, RABBI PHILIP S. RABBI BERG EXPLORES THE PRINCIPLES AND NUANCES OF KABBALISTIC ASTROLOGY AND ITS USE IN TRANSCENDING THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN SUCCESS AND FAILURE, HOPE AND DESPAIR.
BR 6796 MEMORY FIELDS BREZNITZ, SHLOMO IN THIS MEMOIR, THE AUTHOR RECALLS HIS EXPERIENCES IN A CATHOLIC ORPHANAGE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA DURING WORLD WAR II, WHERE HE WAS HIDDEN WITH HIS SISTER. BREZNITZ DESCRIBES HOW THIS PERIOD WAS PAINFULLY REINVOKED BY AN ANTI-SEMITIC INCIDENT HE EXPERIENCED AS AN ISRAELI STUDENT IN HUNGARY.
BR 6797 GIFT OF ASHER LEV, THE POTOK, CHAIM AFTER TWENTY YEARS IN EXILE, ASHER LEV, AN ARTIST, RETURNS TO THE HASIDIC COMMUNITY OF HIS CHILDHOOD FOR THE FUNERAL OF HIS FAVORITE UNCLE. THE CONFLICT THAT EMERGES BETWEEN THE CULTURE THAT LEV WAS BORN INTO AND THE CULTURE THAT HE HAS CHOSEN FORCES HIM TO CONFRONT BOTH WORLDS.
BR 6798 KABBALAH FOR THE LAYMAN - VOL. 3 BERG, RABBI PHILIP S. DRAWING FROM THE WISDOM OF RABBI YEHUDA ASHLAG'S TEN LUMINOUS EMINATIONS, RABBI BERG USHERS US FROM THE FAMILIAR WORLD OF ROBOTIC CONSCIOUSNESS TO A STARTLING NEW AWARENESS OF THE UNIVERSE AND OURSELVES.
BR 6799 BIRTH OF THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE PROBLEM, THE 1947-1949 MORRIS, BENNY THE AUTHOR USES ISRAELI, BRITISH AND AMERICAN MATERIAL IN PRESENTING A COMPLETE AND DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF HIS SUBJECT.
BR 6800 BEYOND DESPAIR APPELFELD, AHARON IN A SERIES OF LECTURES, APPELFELD ANALYZES THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS. HE REVEALS THAT THE HOLOCAUST, WHICH CLAIMED THE LIVES OF BOTH HIS PARENTS, TESTED BUT DID NOT DESTROY HIS RELIGIOUS FAITH. INCLUDES AN INTERVIEW WITH PHILIP ROTH IN WHICH HE DISCUSSES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HIS NOVELS AND HISTORICAL REALITY.
BR 6801 PATRIMONY A TRUE STORY ROTH, PHILIP THIS MEMOIR TAKES THE FORM OF A KADDISH TO THE AUTHOR'S DECEASED FATHER. ROTH DETAILS HIS FATHER'S LIFE AND DESCRIBES HIS SLOW DEATH FROM A BRAIN TUMOR AS ROTH IS FORCED TO STAND HELPLESSLY AT HIS SIDE.
BR 6802 HIS MASTER'S VOICE KOTLOWITZ, ROBERT IN A STORY THAT PITS LIFE'S UNEXPECTED TRICKS AGAINST FAITH, A SYNAGOGUE CANTOR IS A SECRET AGNOSTIC WHO IS BOTHERED BY HIS LUSTFUL IMPULSES, HIS BOYHOOD MEMORIES OF POLAND, AND HIS DAUGHTER, WHO IS DATING A GENTILE.
BR 6803 COMPLETE BOOK OF JEWISH OBSERVANCE, THE A PRACTICAL MANUAL FOR THE MODERN TREPP, LEO THIS VOLUME OFFERS A GENERAL, NON-JUDGMENTAL GUIDE TO JEWISH LIVING, PRESENTING THE COMPLETE REQUIREMENTS OF THE FAITH BUT ALLOWING READERS TO DIFFERENTIATE AND CHOOSE THE RELIGIOUS PRACTICES THEY PREFER.
BR 6804 CEREMONIES SAMPLER, A NEW RITES, CELEBRATIONS AND OBSERV LEVINE, ELIZABETH RESNICK, ED. THE AUTHOR PROVIDES JEWISH WOMEN WHO WANT TO BECOME MORE INVOLVED IN JEWISH RITUAL WITH RITES THAT ARE EITHER DESIGNED FOR WOMEN ONLY OR FOR WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
BR 6805 MENORAHS, MEZUZAS, AND OTHER JEWISH SYMBOLS CHAIKIN, MIRIAM CHAIKIN EXPLAINS THE HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF MANY JEWISH SYMBOLS, SUCH AS THE SHIELD OF DAVID, THE MENORAH, AND THE MEZUZAH. SHE ALSO DISCUSSES HOLIDAY SYMBOLS AND RITUALS.
BR 6806 SWORN ENEMIES MATAS, CAROL JUDY TESSER SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD AARON, THE STAR OF HIS ODESSA YESHIVA, HAS BEEN SPARED THE 25-YEAR ARMY SERVICE THAT OTHER JEWISH BOYS ARE FORCED INTO. BUT WHEN HIS ARCH-ENEMY ZEV TURNS HIM OVER TO THE SOLDIERS, AARON'S FAITH AND COURAGE ARE TESTED.
BR 6807 JUDAH WHO ALWAYS SAID 'NO!' FEDER, HARRIET THIS STORY TELLS OF YOUNG JUDAH MACCABEE'S STUBBORN RESISTANCE WHICH LED THE JEWS TO THE GREAT VICTORY OF HANUKAH.
BR 6808 MATZAH BALL A PASSOVER STORY PORTNOY, MINDY AVRA CORINNE SHAF BECAUSE OF PASSOVER, AARON CAN'T EAT HIS USUAL FARE AT THE BALLPARK. BUT HIS FRIENDS PREFER HIS PASSOVER FOOD AND HE SOON FINDS HIMSELF WITHOUT LUNCH. A KIND STRANGER PROVIDES SOME NOURISHMENT ALONG WITH A SURPRISE ENDING.
BR 6809 YOUR PASSOVER GUIDE LUBAVITCH ORGANIZATION THIS GUIDE TEACHES THE YOUNG CHILD ALL THE BASIC LAWS AND RITUALS OF PASSOVER FROM PREPARATION THROUGH OBSERVANCE.
BR 6810 UNDERSTANDING THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS A READER FROM THE BIBLICAL ARCHAEO SHANKS, HERSHEL: EDITOR THESE ESSAYS BY SCHOLARS IN THE ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD SHED FURTHER LIGHT ON THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS WHICH WERE DISCOVERED IN THE QUMRAM CAVES EAST OF JERUSALEM IN 1947. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE LAWRENCE SCHIFFMAN, YIGAL YADIN, HARTMUT STEGEMANN AND JOHN STRUGNELL.
BR 6811 NOTES FROM A SEALED ROOM AN ISRAELI VIEW OF THE GULF WAR WERMAN, ROBERT DURING THE GULF WAR, WERMAN, AN ISRAELI PHYSICIAN, SENT DAILY REPORTS OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK. BETWEEN ALERTS HE AND HIS FAMILY ATTEMPTED TO LIVE NORMALLY, OBSERVING THE SABBATH, ENTERTAINING FRIENDS AND FOLLOWING THE NEWS. WERMAN EXPERIENCED THE LAST THREE ATTACKS IN AN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT AFTER SUFFERING A HEART ATTACK.
BR 6812 SAIGON TO JERUSALEM CONVERSATIONS WITH ISREAL'S VIETNA LEE, ERIC THIS IS AN ORAL HISTORY OF 19 JEWISH AMERICANS WHO MOVED TO ISRAEL AFTER SERVING IN VIETNAM; THEIR EXPERIENCES GROWING UP IN AMERICA, THEIR BRUSHES WITH ANTI-SEMITISM, THEIR EXPERIENCES IN THE JUNGLES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA, AND THEN THEIR RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES AND SUBSEQUENT MOVE TO ISRAEL.
BR 6813 RESCUERS PORTRAITS OF MORAL COURAGE IN THE BLOCK, GAY & MALKA DRUCKER INTERVIEWS WITH 49 INDIVIDUALS WHO RISKED THEIR LIVES TO SAVE JEWS DURING THE NAZI HOLOCAUST. INCLUDES POLISH-CATHOLIC NANNY GERTRUDE BABILINSKA, WHO RESCUED HER JEWISH CHARGE AND BROUGHT HIM TO ISRAEL AFTER THE WAR WHERE SHE RAISED HIM AS A JEW. MOST OF THE RESCUERS HERE INSIST THAT THEIR ACTIONS WERE NOT EXTRAORDINARY.
BR 6814 AFTER THE HOLIDAYS KENAZ, YEHOSHUA SET IN PALESTINE IN THE EARLY 1900S, THIS IS THE STORY OF AN IMMIGRANT FAMILY LIVING IN A SMALL FARMING VILLAGE. THEIR ORDERED LIFE SLOWLY BEGINS TO UNRAVEL AS THE FAMILY'S BIZARRE IMPULSES START TO SURFACE.
BR 6815 TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN ABOUT GOD A MODERN JEWISH APPROACH WOLPE, DAVID J. RABBI WOLPE OFFERS A GUIDE TO EXPLAINING GOD TO JEWISH CHILDREN FROM AGES FOUR TO 14.
BR 6816 JEWISH LITERATURE BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND THE MISHNAH MICKELSBURG, GEORGE W. E. THIS COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF JEWISH LITERATURE CONTAINS INTRODUCTIONS TO THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE APOCRYPHA (THE HIDDEN BOOKS OF THE BIBLE) AND THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS. THE AUTHOR HAS INCLUDED BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND AN INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
BR 6817 IN THE TRADITION OF MOSES AND MOHAMMED JEWISH AND ARAB FOLKTALES SERWER-BERNSTEIN, BLANCHE L. SHIRLEY RADC A COLLECTION OF FOLKTALES CULLED FROM THE ISRAEL FOLKLORE ARCHIVES AND FROM LIBRARIES IN JERUSALEM, HAIFA, AND HARVARD UNIVERSITY. THE JEWISH STORIES DEAL WITH WITCHES AND DEMONS AND INCLUDE TALES OF CHELM. THE ARAB STORIES DEAL WITH HUMAN CHARACTER, CHANGES IN MEN, AND TELL TALES OF HUMOR AND ENTERTAINMENT.
BR 6818 BEAUTIFUL DEATH, A HAYMON, S. T. WHEN A BOMB EXPLODES IN HIS CAR AND KILLS HIS FIANCEE, DETECTIVE BEN JURNET FOLLOWS A NUMBER OF LEADS IN HIS SEARCH FOR THE MURDERER. HE WINDS UP TRAILING THE SON OF A NOTORIOUS TERRORIST TO IRELAND BUT DISCOVERS THAT THE SOLUTION COULD LIE WITH A CRIPPLED ISRAELI WOMAN.
BR 6819 STORM FROM PARADISE THE POLITICS OF JEWISH MEMORY BOYARIN, JONATHAN SEVEN INTERLOCKING ESSAYS ON THE FUNCTION OF MEMORY IN CONTEMPORARY JEWISH THOUGHT. THE THEME IS 'OTHERING,' THE PROCESS BY WHICH JEWS AND OTHER PERENNIAL OUTSIDERS ARE SET APART.
BR 6820 BAKER'S DOZEN #11 THE DO-GOODERS STEIN, AIDEL GAIL PECK J WHILE SEVEN OF THE BAKER CHILDREN ARE ENGAGED IN A CONTEST OF SORTS IN WHICH THEY ARE EACH DETERMINED TO DO MORE GOOD DEEDS THAN THE OTHERS, THEIR OLDER SISTER IS BROODING OVER A MYSTERIOUS PROBLEM AT SCHOOL. THEIR LITTLE BROTHER IS SUFFERING FROM NIGHTMARES AND THEIR LITTLE SISTER HAS A NEW TENDENCY TO WANDER AWAY.
BR 6821 COLLUSION ACROSS THE JORDAN KING ABDULLAH, THE ZIONIST MOVEMEN SHLAIN, AVI LARGELY BASED ON HITHERTO UNAVAILABLE SOURCE MATERIALS, THIS IS A LUCID AND METICULOUS STUDY OF THE 30-YEAR POLITICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ZIONIST (LATER ISRAELI) LEADERSHIP ON ONE SIDE OF THE RIVER JORDAN AND THE EMIR (LATER KING) ABDULLAH ON THE OTHER, ENDING ONLY WITH THE ASSASSINATION OF KING ABDULLAH IN 1951.
BR 6822 MRS. WASHINGTON AND HOROWITZ, TOO DENKER, HENRY NORMA WARANC A CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE THAT LOOKS AT DEVASTATING BIG-CITY PROBLEMS. SAMUEL HOROWITZ, ALMOST 70, IS FEELING MORE AND MORE USELESS. HARRIET WASHINGTON THE BLACK PHYSICAL THERAPIST WHO ORIGINALLY BULLIED HIM BACK TO HEALTH SETS OUT TO RESTORE HIS ZEST FOR LIFE. SHE MANEUVERS A ROMANTIC ENCOUNTER BETWEEN SAM AND WIDOW MOLLY MENDELSOHN.
BR 6823 ART OF BIBLICAL POETRY, THE ALTER, ROBERT THIS FRESH INTERPRETATION OF BIBLICAL POETRY ALSO EXAMINES 'HOW IT WORKS.'
BR 6824 TWENTY-TWO GATES TO THE GARDEN, THE ROSMAN, STEVEN M. BERNICE FOER A COLLECTION OF TALES DRAWN FROM THE AUTHOR'S STUDIES AND EXPERIENCES OF KABBALISTIC TRADITION. EACH TALE LEADS TO A WORLD OF MYSTERY AND DISCOVERY AND OFFERS THE READER A CHANCE TO SEE HIS OR HER WORLD IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
BR 6825 MAKE A WISH, MOLLY COHEN, BARBARA CRUELLY TAUNTED BY A CLASSMATE BECAUSE SHE CANNOT EAT AT A CLASSMATE'S PARTY DURING PASSOVER, MOLLY LEARNS FROM HER WISE IMMIGRANT MOTHER THAT BEING DIFFERENT CAN BE GOOD.
BR 6826 WORLD OF ISRAEL WEISSBREM, THE WEISSBREM, ISRAEL SACRED AND SECULAR CONFLICT THROUGHOUT THIS PAIR OF NOVELS BY THE LATE 19TH CENTURY POLISH-JEWISH WRITER. THE AUTHOR EXPLORES THE TENSIONS OF AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE EMERGING JEWISH MIDDLE CLASS IN 19TH CENTURY EASTERN EUROPE.
BR 6827 HAPPY NEW YEAR, BENI ZALBEN, JANE BRESKIN ROSH HASHANAH FOR BENI MEANS A VISIT WITH HIS COUSIN MAX WHOSE RELENTLESS MISBEHAVIOR DAMPENS THE HOLIDAY MOOD. ZALBEN INTRODUCES READERS TO THE SIGHTS, SOUNDS AND TASTES OF THE HOLIDAY AS THE BEAR FAMILY PARTICIPATES IN ALL THE RITUALS. IN THE END THE COUSINS ARE ABLE TO RECONCILE THEIR DIFFERENCES FOR THE TIME BEING.
BR 6828 REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE STORIES ABOUT BEING JEWISH HAUTZIG, ESTHER HAUTZIG, WHO WAS EXILED TO SIBERIA WITH HER FAMILY IN WORLD WAR II, AND THEN MOVED TO NEW YORK, WRITES OF JEWS WHO FLEE TO JAPAN, OF LONG LOST FRIENDS WHO REAPPEAR, AND OF JEWS WHO MOVE TO ISRAEL. THROUGH THESE STORIES, THE AUTHOR EXAMINES THE CHALLENGE AND SOLACE OF JUDAISM AND PAINTS A PORTRAIT OF A MULTIFACETED LIFE.
BR 6829 BOAT OF STONE EARL, MAUREEN BASED ON A FACTUAL EPISODE, THIS IS THE STORY OF 1,580 GERMAN JEWS WHO SPENT 4 1/2 YEARS IN A BRITISH PENAL COLONY ON THE ISLAND OF MAURITIUS AFTER THEIR DEPORTATION FROM PALESTINE IN 1940. THE NARRATOR, A PLUCKY OLD WIDOW NOW LIVING IN ISRAEL, SHUTTLES BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT IN THIS STIRRING TALE OF ULTIMATE TRIUMPH.
BR 6830 AND YOU SHALL BE A BLESSING AN UNFOLDING OF THE SIX WORDS THAT GRISHAVER, JOEL LURIE BETTY SMITH GRISHAVER LOOKS AT THE FIRST SIX WORDS THAT BEGIN EVERY BLESSING AND DISCOVERS IN THEM A KEY TO A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF JEWISH PRAYER IN GENERAL, AT THE SAME TIME OFFERING A PROFOUND GRASP OF THE JEWISH VIEW OF LIFE ITSELF.
BR 6831 WEED AMONG THE ROSES, A VOGIEL, EVA SET IN 1947 IN THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE, THE BOOK FOCUSES ON A NEW JEWISH GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL WHOSE STUDENT BODY CONSISTS MAINLY OF REFUGEES FROM EUROPE AND ENGLISH GIRLS WHOSE OWN SCHOOL WAS DESTROYED IN THE BLITZ. WHEN TWO STUDENTS DISAPPEAR UNDER MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES THE STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND LOCAL POLICE UNITE TO FIND THEM.
BR 6832 ALWAYS STRAIGHT AHEAD A MEMOIR NEUMAN, ALMA SILVIA HORENSTEIN THIS IS THE PERSONAL ODYSSEY OF MUSICIAN AND ARTIST ALMA NEUMAN, A JEWISH-AMERICAN WOMAN WHO MARRIED THE WRITER JAMES AGEE AND LATER, THE GERMAN EXILE AND COMMUNIST WRITER BODO UHSE. NEUMAN LATER MOVED TO BERLIN WITH HER FAMILY, BUT EVENTUALLY RETURNED TO AMERICA AND THE BOHEMIAN LIFE SHE ENJOYED.
BR 6833 I REMEMBER NOTHING MORE THE WARSAW CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND SZWAJGER, ADINA BLADY A POLISH-JEWISH PEDIATRICIAN RECALLS HER EXPERIENCES IN WARSAW DURING WORLD WAR II. SZWAJGER WRITES OF THE SUFFERING OF THE SICK JEWISH CHILDREN IN THE GHETTO, THE HORRIFIC ACT SHE FELT FORCED TO COMMIT AS THE GERMANS WERE CLOSING IN, AND HER ROLE AS A COURIER FOR THE JEWISH FIGHTING ORGANIZATION.
BR 6834 SCHOOL TIES CHIEL, DEBORAH THE STORY OF DAVID GREENE, A JEWISH STUDENT AT AN ELITE NEW ENGLAND PREP SCHOOL, WHO IS TORN BETWEEN HIS BELIEFS AND HIS DESIRE TO FIT IN.
BR 6835 KOMMANDANT'S MISTRESS, THE SZEMAN, SHERRI RACHEL LEVI, A JEWISH-CZECH NOVELIST, IS CONFINED TO THE OFFICE OF AN ALCOHOLIC AND SADISTIC NAZI COMMANDER TO FULFILL HIS SEXUAL NEEDS. THE STORY IS RELATED ALTERNATELY BY LEVI AND BY THE COMMANDER AND CULMINATES IN A VIOLENT CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE TWO.
BR 6836 LIEUTENANT BIRNBAUM A SOLDIER'S STORY BIRNBAUM, MEYER & YONASON ROSENBLUM BIRNBAUM, AN ORTHODOX JEW, SERVED AS THE LIAISON BETWEEN THE AMERICAN MILITARY AND DISPLACED PERSONS AFTER WORLD WAR II. HE RECOUNTS HIS MEETINGS WITH SURVIVORS OF BUCHENWALD AND HIS SUBSEQUENT EFFORTS TO INVOLVE FELLOW JEWS IN ORTHODOXY.
BR 6837 BAKER'S DOZEN #10 DO NOT DISTURB STEIN, AIDEL HELEN STEWAR THE PROBLEM WITH BEING A QUINTUPLET IS THAT YOU NEVER SEEM TO HAVE ANY PRIVACY SO DINI DECIDES TO TAKE MATTERS INTO HER OWN HANDS. MEANWHILE, THE BAKER BOYS ARE IN HOT WATER OF THEIR OWN. IT TAKES AN EMERGENCY TRIP TO THE HOSPITAL AND A LONG, LONG NIGHT TO BRING THEM ALL BACK TO THEIR SENSES-AND BACK TOGETHER AGAIN.
BR 6838 PETAIN'S CRIME THE COMPLETE STORY OF FRENCH COLLA WEBSTER, PAUL SYLVIA OSHIN TRACING THE HISTORY OF FRENCH ANTI-SEMITISM TO ITS CLIMAX IN 1940, THE AUTHOR PROVIDES DETAILS ON WHAT HE TERMS 'THE MOST SHAMEFUL PERIOD IN FRENCH HISTORY.' HE FOCUSES ON MARSHAL PETAIN AND HIS PROGRAM AGAINST JEWS IN FRANCE AND PRESENTS EVIDENCE THAT THE PROGRAM WAS CONCEIVED AND CARRIED OUT INDEPENDENTLY OF THE GERMANS.
BR 6839 TO LIFE A CELEBRATION OF JEWISH BEING AND KUSHNER, HAROLD S. KUSHNER WRITES OF THE TRADITIONS AND PRACTICES OF JUDAISM WITH ALL THE WISDOM, UNDERSTANDING, AND HUMOR FOR WHICH HE IS SO WELL KNOWN. HE EXPLAINS WHY PRAYER MATTERS, HOW HOLIDAY OBSERVANCES AND LIFE-CYCLE EVENTS TEACH US TO BE HUMAN AND WHY THE WORLD NEEDS COMMITTED JEWS TO MAKE GOD'S PURPOSES COME ABOUT.
BR 6840 WHEN YOUR JEWISH CHILD ASKS WHY ANSWERS FOR TOUGH QUESTIONS OLITZKY, KERRY, STEVE ROSMAN, & D. K A GUIDE DESIGNED FOR JEWISH PARENTS WHOSE YOUNG CHILDREN BEGIN ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT GOD, RELIGION, JUDAISM, AND THEIR JEWISH IDENTITY. THE QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED BY PROMINENT EDUCATORS AND RABBIS, FROM A REFORM AND RECONSTRUCTIONIST POINT OF VIEW.
BR 6841 RETURN TO JUDAISM RELIGIOUS RENEWAL IN ISRAEL AVIAD, JANET BASED ON THREE YEARS OF INTERVIEWS AND STUDY OF 375 INDIVIDUALS IN ISRAEL, THIS BOOK-LENGTH STUDY FOCUSES ON THE IMPORTANT PRESENCE IN CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL OF SEVERAL THOUSAND NEWLY-OBSERVANT JEWS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE DAILY MAINSTREAM OF ISRAELI LIFE.
BR 6842 BAKER'S DOZEN #7 IMA COME HOME STEIN, AIDEL MRS. BAKER'S NEW JOB IS A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR HER, BUT IT CREATES PROBLEMS FOR THE REST OF THE FAMILY. AS THEY ALL WAIT FOR THEIR MOTHER TO COME HOME, THE BAKER CHILDREN HAVE TO DEAL WITH A HYSTERICAL HOUSEKEEPER, A SCIENCE PROJECT RUN AMOK, AND A HOUSE THAT'S GONE CRAZY.
BR 6843 RABBI TALKS WITH JESUS, THE AN INTERMILLENNIAL, INTERFAITH EXC NEUSNER, JACOB NEUSNER, AN EMINENT SCHOLAR OF JUDAISM, ENGAGES IN AN IMAGINARY DIALOGUE WITH JESUS AND EXPLAINS THE VARIOUS REASONS WHY HE WOULD HAVE REFUSED TO JOIN JESUS AND HIS CIRCLE OF DISCIPLES.
BR 6844 RACHEL'S DAUGHTERS NEWLY ORTHODOX JEWISH WOMEN KAUFMAN, DEBRA RENEE SUSANNAH BAI THE AUTHOR INTERVIEWED 150 BA'ALOT TESHUVAH IN FIVE MAJOR U.S. URBAN AREAS OVER A THREE YEAR PERIOD. SHE DISCOVERED THAT THE WOMEN PERCEIVE THEIR ROLE IN SOCIETY AS MORE LIBERATING RATHER THAN OPPRESSIVE, WHICH IS THE GENERAL ASSUMPTION. THE WOMEN ALSO DISCUSS THEIR HAVING FOUND SHARED MEANING AND ORDER IN ORTHODOXY.
BR 6845 IN THE WAKE OF THE GODDESSES WOMEN, CULTURE AND THE BIBLICAL TR FRYMER-KENSKY, TIKVA THE AUTHOR INTERPRETS THE FUNCTIONS OF FEMALE DEITIES IN SUMERIAN POLYTHEISM AND DISCUSSES THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THE ABSENCE OF GODDESSES FROM THE BIBLE.
BR 6846 IT HAPPENED IN BROOKLYN FROMMER, MYRNA KATZ & HARVEY FROMMER THE AUTHORS HAVE INTERVIEWED AN ARRAY OF THEIR FELLOW BROOKLYN BORN-AND-BRED WHO GREW UP BETWEEN THE ERAS OF PEARL HARBOR AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISM 25 YEARS LATER. MANY ARE NOTABLE PEOPLE AND MOST OF THEM ARE JEWISH BUT NO LONGER LIVE THERE.
BR 6847 OUR FOOD THE KOSHER KITCHEN UPDATED HIRSCH, ANITA BETTY SANDOK A TRAINED NUTRITIONIST WHO KEEPS A KOSHER KITCHEN, HIRSCH HAS REWORKED CLASSIC RECIPES, LIGHTENING THEM, TAKING OUT MUCH OF THE FAT AND CHOLESTEROL, AND SUBSTITUTING FRESH HERBS AND SPICES FOR SALT. THE BOOK CONTAINS ALL THE TRADITIONAL DISHES THAT HAVE INSPIRED KOSHER COOKS FOR GENERATIONS.
BR 6848 FUNDAMENTALS OF MURDER, THE LOVE, WILLIAM F. KATHERINE AB JERRY FANNING, A YOUNG OKLAHOMA FUNDAMENTALIST, HAS NO IDEA WHEN HE COMES TO NEW YORK CITY TO CONVERT SINNERS THAT HE WILL SOON BE JAILED FOR MURDER. TO HIS RESCUE COMES THE UNLIKELY DUO, PARAPLEGIC BISHOP REGAN AND HIS EX-COP ASSISTANT JEWISH DANNY GOLDMAN. THIS IS A BRISK WHODUNIT WITH A SMASHING CLIMAX.
BR 6849 MOM AMONG THE LIARS YAFFE, JAMES WHEN EDNA PULASKI, A MADAM, IS STRANGLED, HOMELESS HARRY STUBBINS IS ACCUSED OF THE CRIME AND DAVE, AN INVESTIGATOR IN THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE, IS INCLINED TO AGREE. BUT THEN DAVE'S 75-YEAR-OLD MOTHER LEADS HIM IN THE DIRECTION OF THE REAL MURDERER.
BR 6850 SECRET OF SUCCESS AND OTHER STORIES, THE (AUTHOR UNAVAILABLE) THESE ARE STORIES WITH A MORAL TAKEN FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE LUBAVITCH LIBRARY.
BR 6851 COMPLETE STORY OF PURIM, THE MINDEL, NISSAN THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL RENDITION OF THE STORY OF PURIM BY THE AUTHOR OF THE STORYTELLER SERIES.
BR 6852 JEWELS AND ASHES ZABLE, ARNOLD BARBARA JUST AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR ZABLE WRITES A MOVING STORY OF A SEARCH FOR HIS ROOTS IN EASTERN EUROPE. BLENDING HISTORY, INTERVIEWS AND HIS PARENTS' RECOLLECTIONS, HE EVOKES THE VIBRANT SHTETL LIFE OF 1920S AND '30S POLAND AND DOCUMENTS IN DETAIL THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BIALYSTOK GHETTO.
BR 6853 LILY AND JOEL A NOVEL OF LIFE, LOVE AND AUDIOTAP HENLEY, ARTHUR IN HIS FORTIES, JOEL FLOM IS STILL STRUGGLING WITH HIS JEWISH GUILT. BUT WHEN HIS SON ANNOUNCES HIS IMMINENT MARRIAGE TO A PARKING LOT MOGUL'S DAUGHTER AND HIS ANALYST GOES ON VACATION, FLOM PANICS.
BR 6854 DAY THE RABBI RESIGNED, THE KEMELMAN, HARRY THE DEATH OF A COLLEGE PROFESSOR AND THE POLICE CHIEF'S SUSPICION OF FOUL PLAY PUT RABBI DAVID SMALL'S PLAN TO RESIGN HIS PULPIT POSITION ON HOLD. SMALL MUST USE HIS WIT AND SKILLS TO FIND THE CULPRIT.
BR 6855 GOOD, PROTECTED LIFE, A KAUFMAN, JOSEPH MURRAY ORLOFF AND HIS FATHER, CHARLIE, TRAVEL FROM ISRAEL TO AFRICA IN SEARCH OF CHARLIE'S ESTRANGED BROTHER, DANIEL. DURING THEIR TREK THROUGH THE DESERT, CHARLIE BECOMES DANGEROUS AND MURRAY IS FORCED TO ABANDON HIM. MURRAY FINALLY FINDS HIS UNCLE AND, IN THE PROCESS, GAINS A RENEWED SENSE OF HIMSELF AS A MAN AND AS A JEW.
BR 6856 FOR EVERY SIN APPELFELD, AHARON THIS NOVEL PORTRAYS A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, WHO SPENT FOUR YEARS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, TENTATIVELY JOINING THE COMPANY OF SURVIVORS.
BR 6857 LESSER CHILD, A GERSHON, KAREN SHEILA PENN GERSHON (1924-1993) GIVES A SEARING ACCOUNT OF GROWING UP AS A JEWISH CHILD IN HITLER'S GERMANY. REFERRING TO HERSELF AS KATE, SHE EVOKES THE SLOW EROSION OF CIVIL RIGHTS FOR GERMAN JEWS AND HOW THIS INCREASED THE TENSION WITHIN HER FAMILY. IN 1938 KATE'S FATHER WAS ABLE TO EVACUATE HER AND ONE OF HER SISTERS TO ENGLAND.
BR 6858 ARTHUR MILLER AND COMPANY ARTHUR MILLER TALKS ABOUT HIS WORK BIGSBY, CHRISTOPHER, ED. OVER THE COURSE OF TEN YEARS, THE AUTHOR CONDUCTED AN EXTENDED INTERVIEW WITH THE PLAYWRIGHT WHICH HE ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY FOR THIS BOOK.
BR 6859 FORGOTTEN WIESEL, ELIE HORRIFIED THAT HE IS LOSING HIS MEMORY DUE TO ILLNESS, A ROMANIAN JEWISH HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR ENTRUSTS HIS AND OTHERS' ACCOUNTS OF SURVIVAL TO HIS SON, MALKIEL, A JOURNALIST. AT HIS FATHER'S REQUEST, MALKIEL JOURNEYS TO THE CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS TO EXPLORE THE MYSTERIES THAT STILL CONFOUND HIS FATHER.
BR 6860 BROKEN PLACES PETROVICS-OFNER, LASZLO THROUGH THE EYES OF PISTI, A YOUNG HUNGARIAN-JEWISH BOY, READERS WITNESS THE RAMPAGING OF HUNGARY'S FASCISTS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF HUNGARIAN JEWRY. PISTI SURVIVES THE NAZI OCCUPATION AND LATER WITNESSES THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION WHICH IMPELS HIM TO ESCAPE TO THE WEST.
BR 6861 STAR OF WONDER EPSTEIN, DANIEL MARK NINE STORY-ESSAYS BY 1977 PRIX DE ROME WINNER EPSTEIN RECALL HIS ECUMENICAL CHILDHOOD WITH A CHRISTIAN MOTHER AND JEWISH FATHER; THE TITLE RECALLS HIS FAMILY'S HOLIDAY ATTENTION TO BOTH THE STAR OF DAVID AND THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM. THERE IS LIVELY VARIETY IN THE COLLECTION, A TREAT FOR ALL WHO RESPOND TO THOUGHTS OF SPECIAL OCCASIONS.
BR 6862 STORY OF KING SAUL AND KING DAVID, THE SEGAL, LORE THE BIBLICAL STORIES OF SAUL, THE FIRST KING OF ISRAEL, AND HIS YOUNG PROTEGE, DAVID, ARE TALES OF PARTICULAR PATHOS. HERE IN A TRANSLATION THAT IS BOTH GRACEFUL AND PRECISE, THE AUTHOR BRINGS TO LIFE THE GREATNESS AND HUMAN WEAKNESS OF THESE FLESH-AND-BLOOD HEROES WHO ASSUME THE STEWARDSHIP OF ANCIENT ISRAEL.
BR 6863 BEGGAR'S CUP, THE BLAU, ERIC HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR AND HORROR MOVIE MOGUL MORRIS COHEN WANTS TO PRODUCE A SERIOUS MOVIE ABOUT ZIONIST LEADER, THEODOR HERZL. WHEN HE HIRES SCREENWRITER ZACHARY BARTHELMES, HIS RESEARCH CAUSES HIM TO DISCOVER HIS OWN JEWISH ROOTS. CAMEOS OF WELL-KNOWN PERSONALITIES LIKE DAVID BEN-GURION, GOLDA MEIR, AND JOHN WAYNE ARE INCLUDED.
BR 6864 BEILIS TRANSCRIPTS, THE THE ANTI-SEMITIC TRIAL THAT SHOOK LEIKIN, EZEKIEL THIS BOOK PROVIDES IN ABBREVIATED FORM, THE 'CHEMISTRY' OF THE BEILIS TRIAL ITSELF. THE AUTHOR DISCOVERED THE COURT TRANSCRIPTS AMONG THE PERSONAL PAPERS OF HIS FATHER WHO SERVED AS CHIEF RABBI OF KAZAN, RUSSIA. BY TRANSLATING THE TRANSCRIPTS, LEIKIN GIVES US A LOOK AT THE MOST INFAMOUS ATTEMPT TO VILIFY AND DISCREDIT JEWS.
BR 6865 RESISTANCE THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING GUTMAN, ISRAEL BETTY SMITH GUTMAN USES DIARIES, LETTERS, UNDERGROUND PRESS ARTICLES, SURVIVORS' ACCOUNTS, AND NAZI DOCUMENTS TO PAINT A PICTURE OF DAILY LIFE IN THE GHETTO AND THE TEMPORARY ALLIANCES FORGED AMONG JEWISH FIGHTING FACTIONS TORN BY IDEOLOGICAL RIFTS. HE ALSO DEPICTS WARSAW'S PRE-WORLD WAR II JEWISH COMMUNITY.
BR 6866 BAKER'S DOZEN #4 STARS IN THEIR EYES STEIN, AIDEL SINGING STAR AVI SHOHAM'S PRE-PURIM CONCERT HAS BEEN SOLD OUT FOR MONTHS, BUT THE BAKER QUINTUPLETS ARE ANXIOUS TO ATTEND. THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET TICKETS, EVEN IF IT MEANS PRETENDING TO BE FRIENDS WITH AVI'S QUIET COUSIN, IDY.
BR 6867 DESPITE ALL ODDS THE STORY OF LUBAVITCH HOFFMAN, EDWARD AN AUTHORIZED HISTORY OF THE ORIGINS AND BELIEFS OF THE HASIDIC MOVEMENT AND A PORTRAIT OF ITS LEADER.
BR 6868 NEGEV PROJECT, THE WITHAM, LARRY SET IN THE MIDDLE EAST, SAN FRANCISCO, LENINGRAD, AND LONDON, THIS NOVEL WEAVES TOGETHER THE EFFORTS OF ARAB AND JEWISH MODERATES TO FIND A ROAD TO PEACE; THE SALE OF ANTIQUITIES TO FINANCE RADICAL ACTIVITIES; AND, ARCHAEOLOGISTS' ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN EARLY CHRISTIAN LIFE.
BR 6869 RUNNING THE PALESTINE BLOCKADE THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE PADUCAH PATZERT, RUDOLPH W. HAROLD SIEGE IN 1947, PATZERT, A 35-YEAR-OLD NON-JEWISH NEW YORKER AND SHIP CAPTAIN, WAS ENLISTED BY THE JEWISH UNDERGROUND TO SMUGGLE HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS PAST THE BRITISH BLOCKADE. BY THE TIME THE BRITISH TOOK CUSTODY OF THE SHIP, PATZERT IDENTIFIED SO STRONGLY WITH THE SURVIVORS THAT HE WILLINGLY JOINED THEM IN A BRITISH INTERNMENT CAMP.
BR 6870 GRIEVOUS SIN A PETER DECKER/RINA LAZARUS MYSTER KELLERMAN, FAYE WHILE IN THE HOSPITAL ENJOYING THE BIRTH OF HIS FIRST CHILD, DETECTIVE PETER DECKER IS DRAWN INTO A MYSTERY WHEN AN INFANT VANISHES FROM THE HOSPITAL NURSERY. WHEN THE NURSE WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE UNIT DISAPPEARS AS WELL, DECKER MUST DETERMINE WHETHER SHE IS A CRIMINAL OR A VICTIM HERSELF.
BR 6871 SPIRIT AND NATURE WHY THE ENVIRONMENT IS A RELIGIOUS ROCKEFELLER, STE. C.; ELDER, JOHN C. THE AUTHORS HAVE ASSEMBLED A PANEL OF THEOLOGIANS AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS REPRESENTING CHRISTIAN, JEWISH, BUDDHIST, ISLAMIC, NATIVE AMERICAN AND OTHER TRADITIONS TO EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS ON SAVING THE PLANET.
BR 6872 B. Y. HIGH #1 SHANI PLUS THREE GOODMAN, SARAH CYNTHIA KREM SHANI, RAIZY AND ALL THEIR FRIENDS ARE READY TO START THEIR OWN HIGH SCHOOL IN BLOOMFIELD. IT'S A DREAM COME TRUE, BUT SHANI'S THREE BOARDERS, WHO COME FROM OUT OF TOWN TO ATTEND THE SCHOOL, MAKE THINGS A LITTLE COMPLICATED. IT IS UP TO SHANI AND HER FRIENDS TO WORK THESE PROBLEMS OUT.
BR 6873 TO BE A JEWISH WOMAN AIKEN, LISA FRANCES WALD DR. AIKEN, A CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST AND A RETURNEE TO ORTHODOX JUDAISM, WRITES ABOUT THE COMPLEX ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE JEWISH FAMILY, THE SYNAGOGUE AND GENERAL SOCIETY.
BR 6874 SHLOMO'S STORIES CARLEBACH, SHLOMO WITH SUSAN YAEL ME RETOLD BY THE LEGENDARY STORYTELLER AND RECORDING ARTIST, RABBI SHLOMO CARLEBACH, THESE ARE HEAVENLY STORIES FROM BEYOND TIME AND SPACE, DEEPER THAN JOY AND SADNESS. THESE STORIES ARE FILLED WITH LIFE AND LIFE IS EVERYTHING.
BR 6875 TREASURY OF JEWISH INSPIRATIONAL STORIES, A EPSTEIN, LAWRENCE J. EPSTEIN SHOWS US HIS REMARKABLE SKILL IN GATHERING TALES AND HIS TALENT FOR RETELLING THEM IN A VOICE THAT SPEAKS CLEARLY TO A CONTEMPORARY AUDIENCE. THEY ALL HAVE A SINGULAR THEME AND GOAL; RENEWED FAITH IN DIVINE GUIDANCE OR IN THE HUMAN CAPACITY TO DO GOOD DEEDS.
BR 6876 SHOEMAKER'S TALE, THE ARI, MARK IN THIS WORK, ARI PRESENTS A SERIES OF LINKED FANTASIES, FABLES, AND SURREAL VIGNETTES THAT ARE PART ALLEGORICAL TALES, PART HASIDIC PARODIES AND PART MAGICAL REALISM.
BR 6877 MERCHANT OF GROSKI, THE AND OTHER TALES MY GREAT-GREAT GRA KANTOR, HERMAN I. ZITA FRIEDLA THE 27 SHORT STORIES IN THIS BOOK ARE PRESENTED AS THE FICTIONALIZED EXPERIENCES OF KANTOR'S ACTUAL GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER, SHMUL, A RESIDENT OF THE SHTETL OF ORSHA IN CENTRAL RUSSIA, FIRST AS A YOUNG NEWSPAPER 'GOFER,' THEN AS THE TOWN RABBI.
BR 6878 SKIRTS ALBERT, MIMI WITH BITING HUMOR AND A KEEN SENSE OF PLACE, ALBERT EVOKES A SCENE THAT WAS BOTH EXCITING AND DANGEROUS; THE NEW YORK BOHEMIAN SUBCULTURE IN THE EARLY 1960S. BOLSTERED BY A GRITTY AND BRUTAL CITY BACKGROUND AND ENRICHED BY A COLORFUL LOT OF SCRUFFY INTELLECTUALS, THIS BECOMES A HEADY TALE OF LOSS OF INNOCENCE.
BR 6879 AMERICAN JEWS AND THE SEPARATIONIST FAITH THE NEW DEBATE ON RELIGION IN PUBLIC LIFE DALIN, DAVID G, ED. THE VIEWS OF 38 PROMINENT AMERICAN JEWISH INTELLECTUALS ON THE ISSUE OF THE SEPARATION BETWEEN RELIGION AND THE STATE. WHILE AMERICAN JEWRY HAS TRADITIONALLY ADVOCATED RIGID SEPARATION, SOME JEWISH GROUPS CONCERNED WITH THE GROWING SECULARIZATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY ARE RETHINKING THIS CONCEPT.
BR 6880 LONELY MAN OF FAITH, THE SOLOVEITCHIK, RABBI JOSEPH B. FUSING THE EXISTENTIAL ACUITY OF KIERKEGAARD WITH THE WISDOM OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, BOSTON ORTHODOX RABBI SOLOVEITCHIK HAS PRODUCED A TIMELESS SPIRITUAL GUIDE FOR MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL RELIGIONS.
BR 6881 YIDDISH CUISINE A GOURMET'S APPROACH TO JEWISH COO STERNBERG, ROBERT RABBI STERNBERG BRINGS A UNIQUE APPROACH TO JEWISH COOKING IN THIS CLASSIC KOSHER COOKBOOK AND TEXTBOOK ON THE TRADITIONAL FOODS OF YIDDISH-SPEAKING JEWRY. ITS RECIPES EVOKE THE SPIRIT AND FLAVOR OF THE JEWISH KITCHENS OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE AND TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA.
BR 6882 ADAM'S SOUL THE COLLECTED TALES OF HOWARD SCHWARTZ SCHWARTZ, HOWARD CHARLES KORN A COLLECTION OF THE AUTHOR'S WRITINGS IN WHICH SCHWARTZ PROVIDES READERS WITH STORIES IN A VARIETY OF STYLES INCLUDING MIDRASHIC STORIES, JEWISH FOLKTALES, AND HASIDIC TALES.
BR 6883 ZERO MOSTEL BROWN, JARED A STUDY IN CONTRADICTIONS, MOSTEL WAS A SERIOUS AND TALENTED PAINTER, AS WELL AS AN ACTOR AND COMIC WHOSE LARGER-THAN-LIFE PERSONALITY OFTEN TOOK THE ROLES HE PLAYED. THE MANY ANECDOTES PRESENTED HERE OFFER A CLEAR LOOK AT BOTH SIDES OF MOSTEL'S PERSONALITIES.
BR 6884 NIGGUN STORIES BEHIND THE CHASIDIC SONGS STAIMAN, MORDECHAI THE AUTHOR RELATES 38 TALES IN WHICH NIGGUNIM AFFECT THE LIVES OF JEWS. THE STORIES RANGE FROM THE GREAT CHASIDIC MASTERS OF THE PAST TO NIGGUNIM HELPED TO SAVE PEOPLE FROM THE NAZIS TO A NIGGUN THAT BRINGS HOLIDAY MAGIC TO PRISONERS ON RIKERS ISLAND TO A TUNE THAT SO MOVED LEONARD BERNSTEIN THAT HE PUT ON TEFILLIN FOR THE FIRST TIME
BR 6885 BROKEN ALLIANCE THE TURBULENT TIMES BETWEEN BLACKS KAUFMAN, JONATHAN AN ACCOUNT OF THE JEWISH INVOLVEMENT IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS COALITION WHICH THE AUTHOR ATTRIBUTES TO THE FLOOD OF JEWISH IMMIGRANTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THE RISE OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE UNITED STATES, AND THE HOLOCAUST. AFTER PRECIPITATING GREAT CHANGES, THE COALITION EVENTUALLY FELL APART.
BR 6886 GABRIEL'S PALACE JEWISH MYSTICAL TALES SCHWARTZ, HOWARD A COLLECTION OF RABBINIC, KABBALISTIC, HASIDIC, AND OTHER MYSTICAL TALES FROM THE INTERNATIONAL JEWISH TRADITION. AMONG THE THEMES COVERED ARE THE NATURE OF GOD, THE MYSTERIES OF CREATION, DREAMS AND VISIONS, MIRACLES, AND AWAITING THE MESSIAH. THE SOURCE OF EACH TALE IS GIVEN, AND A GLOSSARY OF HEBREW TERMS IS PROVIDED.
BR 6887 JEWISH COOKING IN AMERICA NATHAN, JOAN NATHAN'S NEW BOOK IS AN IMPORTANT ADDITION TO THE EXCELLENT COOKS AMERICAN SERIES. SHE HAS RESEARCHED HER SUBJECT EXTENSIVELY, AND THE RESULT IS AS MUCH CULTURAL HISTORY AS COOKBOOK.
BR 6888 SEASONS OF CAPTIVITY THE INNER WORLD OF P.O.W.S LEIBLICH, AMIA THE AUTHOR, A PSYCHOLOGIST, SPENT HUNDREDS OF HOURS INTERVIEWING 10 ISRAELIS WHO WERE CAPTURED IN 1969 AND SPENT 3 1/2 YEARS, DURING THE WAR OF ATTRITION, MOSTLY IN A SINGLE CELL IN CAIRO. SHE FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF MENTAL BREAKDOWN, SELF-DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR OR PROLONGED DEPRESSION VERY UNIQUE FOR WARTIME EXPERIENCES.
BR 6889 UNINVITED GUEST AND OTHER JEWISH HOLIDAY TALES JAFFE, NINA A COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT SPAN THE JEWISH HOLIDAY CALENDAR FROM ROSH HASHANAH TO PASSOVER. BASED ON TRADITIONAL SOURCES, THE STORIES DEMONSTRATE FAITH AND RITUAL THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES. INCLUDES A BRIEF HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO EACH STORY AND A GLOSSARY OF HEBREW AND YIDDISH TERMS.
BR 6890 COLLECTED PROSE CELAN, PAUL A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, LETTERS, PARABLES, AND SPEECHES, BY THE ROMANIAN-BORN POET WHO SURVIVED A NAZI LABOR CAMP. INCLUDES INTRODUCTIONS TO CELAN'S TRANSLATIONS OF RUSSIAN POETS INTO GERMAN.
BR 6891 YERUSHALMI, THE AN INTRODUCTION NEUSNER, JACOB THE YERUSHALMI OR JERUSALEM TALMUD IS THE LESSER KNOWN OF THE TWO TALMUDS OF JEWISH TRADITION. DR. NEUSNER OFFERS THE FIRST CLEAR AND CAREFUL BOOK LENGTH STUDY OF THE YERUSHALMI. HE PROVIDES THE MODERN READER WITH A RICH UNDERSTANDING OF ITS HISTORY, ITS CONTENT, AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE.
BR 6892 TOTAL IMMERSION GOODMAN, ALLEGRA IN THESE 11 SHORT STORIES, THE AUTHOR GENTLY SATIRIZES THE LIVES OF OBSERVANT JEWS LIVING IN ENGLAND AND HAWAII WHO, WHILE COMMITTED TO THEIR PRINCIPLES, MUST ADAPT TO AN ALIEN AND SEDUCTIVE WORLD.
BR 6893 WHILE STANDING ON ONE FOOT PUZZLE STORIES AND WISDOM TALES FR JAFFE, NINA AND STEVE ZEITLIN THE HEROES AND HEROINES OF THESE 18 GEMS OF JEWISH FOLKLORE HAVE ONLY MINUTES TO FRAME SOLUTIONS TO THORNY QUESTIONS OR DILEMMAS-IN MANY CASES THEIR ANSWERS WILL MEAN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH. A WIDE RANGE OF SETTINGS ALLOW THE AUTHORS TO INTRODUCE EPISODES IN JEWISH HISTORY. CONTAINS GLOSSARY AND SOURCE NOTES.
BR 6894 BAKER'S DOZEN #8 HEY WAITER! ZITTER, EMMY THE BAKERS DECIDE TO GO TO THE RILEY LAKE RESORT HOTEL FOR PASSOVER. WHILE MR. AND MRS. BAKER PLAN ON A RESTFUL VACATION, OF THEIR CHILDREN HAVE PLANS OF THEIR OWN THAT INEVITABLY LEAD TO A CHAOTIC BUT ENJOYABLE EXPERIENCE.
BR 6895 BOOK OF WORDS, THE TALKING SPIRITUAL LIFE, LIVING SPI KUSHNER, LAWRENCE IN THIS BOOK, RABBI KUSHNER ATTEMPTS TO REVITALIZE HEBREW/ENGLISH HOLY WORDS. HE INCLUDES HIS OWN MEDITATIVE REFLECTIONS ON THESE WORDS, SUPPLEMENTED BY BIBLICAL AND TALMUDIC WISDOM.
BR 6896 VOICES FROM MARSHALL STREET JEWISH LIFE IN A PHILADELPHIA NEIG ELLISON, ELAINE KRASNOW & ELAINE MAR RENEE GOODST FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, MARSHALL STREET WAS PHILADELPHIA'S VERSION OF MANHATTAN'S LOWER EAST SIDE. THE AUTHORS HAVE ASSEMBLED A COLLECTION OF ORAL HISTORIES THAT ALLOW THE READER TO EXPERIENCE MARSHALL STREET AS IT ONCE WAS.
BR 6897 JEW IN THE LOTUS, THE A POET'S REDISCOVERY OF JEWISH IDE KAMENETZ, ROGER BETTY SMITH KAMENETZ, A POET AND PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, ACCOMPANIED A GROUP OF EIGHT JEWISH LEADERS TO DHARAMIN IN OCTOBER 1990 FOR AN INTERFAITH EXCHANGE WITH THE DALAI LAMA AND LESSER TIBETAN BUDDHIST LEADERS. INSPIRED BY THE ENCOUNTER BOTH AS A HUMAN BEING AND AS A JEW, HE DRAWS INTERESTING PARALLELS BETWEEN THE TWO FAITHS.
BR 6898 MYRIAM MENDILOW THE MOTHER OF JERUSALEM CYTRON, PHYLLIS & BARRY CYTRON A BIOGRAPHY OF MYRIAM MENDILOW, A JERUSALEMITE WHO LIVED FROM 1909 TO 1989. SHE FOUNDED LIFELINE FOR THE OLD, A PROJECT THAT BEGAN AS A BOOKBINDING WORKSHOP AND GREW INTO AN EXTENSIVE NETWORK OF CRAFT WORKSHOPS, MEDICAL CLINICS, AND OTHER PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO ASSIST THE ELDERLY IN THEIR DAILY LIVING SKILLS.
BR 6899 BUNGALOW, THE FREED, LYNN RUTH FRANK RETURNS TO SOUTH AFRICA, HER MARRIAGE A FAILURE. SHE MEETS AND FALLS FOR A MAVERICK LIBERAL WHO REFUSES TO TAKE SERIOUSLY THE RACIST RANTING AND SOCIAL POSTURING OF HIS PEERS. HE IS MURDERED AND SHE IS LEFT, PREGNANT, TO SORT OUT HER LIFE.
BR 6900 BOOK OF JEWISH WOMEN'S TALES, THE RUSH, BARBARA SEVENTY-FIVE STORIES, TOLD AND TRANSMITTED IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BY JEWISH WOMEN FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
BR 6901 SLEEPLESS NIGHTS BERGMAN, ANDREW ALAN BENJAMI THE STORY OF BOBBY WEISGLASS'S EMERGENCE INTO MANHOOD AND HIS DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY. HIS SISTER CAROL IS GORGEOUS AND SEXUALLY OVERCHARGED; HIS OVERPROTECTIVE MOTHER MAKES HER HOLOCAUST EXPERIENCES AN EXCUSE FOR HER BEHAVIOR; AND, HIS FATHER IS A SILENT OBSERVER THROUGH IT ALL.
BR 6902 CELEBRATING OUR DIFFERENCES LIVING TWO FAITHS IN ONE MARRIAGE ROSENBAUM, MARY HELENE & STANLEY NED AN ACTIVE ROMAN CATHOLIC WOMAN AND A JEWISH MAN WHO REGULARLY LEADS SABBATH SERVICES HAVE WRITTEN AN IMPORTANT BOOK THAT EXPLORES FOUR APPROACHES TO INTERFAITH MARRIAGE: 'CONVERSION, COMPROMISE, LOVE CONQUERS ALL, AND OUR WAY-KEEPING BOTH FAITHS ALIVE.'
BR 6903 O, THE GOD I BELIEVE IN HABERMAN, JOSHUA SARENE MEYER THE AUTHOR INTERVIEWED 14 DISTINGUISHED JEWS ON THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. INCLUDED ARE CYNTHIA OZICK, NORMAN PODHORETZ, ADIN STEINSALTZ, YESAYAHU LEIBOWITZ, ARNO PENZIAS, AND RACHEL COWAN.
BR 6904 GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF KABBALAH LUZZATTO, RABBI MOSHE CHAIM IN THIS PENETRATING INTERPRETATION OF THE TEN SEFIROT, RABBI LUZZATTO EXPLORES THE NATURE OF PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS AND UNVEILS INVIOLABLE TRUTHS ABOUT THE LINK BETWEEN HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS AND ALL-EMBRACING UNITY WE CALL LORD.
BR 6905 JEWISH COOKERY LEONARD, LEAH H. FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1949, JEWISH COOKERY IS ONE OF THE EARLIEST AUTHORITATIVE KOSHER COOKBOOKS TO APPEAR. IT NOT ONLY INCLUDES HUNDREDS OF TRADITIONAL JEWISH DISHES, BUT ALSO GIVES INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAINTAINING A KOSHER HOME AND SUGGESTIONS FOR PREPARING SABBATH AND HOLIDAY MEALS. THE BOOK ALSO OFFERS COMPLETE GUIDELINES FOR PASSOVER DINING.
BR 6906 TELLING THE TALE A TRIBUTE TO ELIE WIESEL ON THE OC CARGAS, HARRY J., ED. ELYSE WEISBE A COLLECTION OF WORKS BY AND ABOUT THE NOBEL-PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR. THE TOPICS RANGE FROM A RESEARCHER'S PREP NOTES FOR A TV INTERVIEWER, TO AN APOLOGY BY A GERMAN WHO THANKS HIM FOR TEACHING HER THE TRUE CHRIST, TO WIESEL'S OWN PRAISE OF YIDDISH.
BR 6907 WHY THE BAAL SHEM TOV LAUGHED FIFTY-TWO STORIES ABOUT OUR GREAT CITRON, STERNA AN ANTHOLOGY OF HASIDIC TALES THAT BRINGS TO LIFE THE REBBES WHO PASSED ON THEIR LEGACIES AND MEMORIES TO THE MODERN GENERATION OF JEWS.
BR 6908 BAKER'S DOZEN #3 AND THE WINNER IS... STEIN, AIDEL THERE IS A LOT OF EXCITEMENT IN THE BAKER HOUSEHOLD WHEN MR. BAKER RUNS FOR TOWN COUNCILMAN, BRACHA GETS A LEAD IN THE SCHOOL PLAY, AND MOISHY THINKS HE WILL RECEIVE THE BEST STUDENT AWARD. BUT AS EACH OF THEIR FORTUNES TURN, THE FAMILY LEARNS A VALUABLE LESSON.
BR 6909 THEY CALLED HER REBBE THE MAIDEN OF LUDOMIR WINKLER, GERSHON THE STORY OF CHANA ROCHEL WERBERMACHER, A WOMAN WHO BECAME A TORAH SCHOLAR AND WAS CALLED 'REBBE' BY MANY WHO SOUGHT HER ADVICE. HER POSITION BECAME THE FOCUS OF GREAT CONTROVERSY IN HER SHTETL AND IN THE JEWISH WORLD AT LARGE.
BR 6910 HARRY KAPLAN'S ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND STERN, STEVE SET IN WATERLOGGED MEMPHIS DURING THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1939, THIS IS THE STORY OF A 15-YEAR-OLD JEWISH BOY WHO ABANDONS WORK IN HIS FATHER'S PAWNSHOP TO LINK UP WITH SOME LOCAL CHARACTERS AND EXPLORE THE SEAMIER SIDE OF THE CITY.
BR 6911 NIGHTFATHER FRIEDMAN, CARL AN ACCOUNT OF THREE SIBLINGS WHO STRUGGLE TO UNDERSTAND THEIR FATHER, A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR WHO IS PLAGUED BY NIGHTMARES AND HORRIFIC MEMORIES. EVENTUALLY THE FATHER TELLS HIS CHILDREN ALL THAT HE ENDURED.
BR 6912 WHEN LIFE FALLS IT FALLS UPSIDE DOWN MYERS, LOU THIS NOVEL, SET IN THE 1920S, LOOKS AT GROWING UP JEWISH AND IMPOVERISHED IN THE BRONX. THROUGH A SERIES OF VIGNETTES, LEON MEHLER'S LIFE IS TRACED FROM HIS FATHER'S FATAL ACCIDENT TO HIS TURBULENT ADOLESCENCE TO CITY COLLEGE AND HIS UNEVEN CAREER.
BR 6913 DOES GOD BELONG IN THE BEDROOM? GOLD, RABBI MICHAEL RABBI GOLD DRAWS ON BIBLICAL AND RABBINIC SOURCES IN THIS OUTLINE OF A JEWISH SEX ETHIC. HE OFFERS ADVICE ON SUCH TOPICS AS RAPE, INCEST, AND BIRTH CONTROL AND HOW TO RAISE SEXUALLY RESPONSIBLE CHILDREN.
BR 6914 CELEBRATE THE COMPLETE JEWISH HOLIDAY HANDBO ROSS, LESLI KOPPELMAN THIS INNOVATIVE HOW-TO GUIDE AND REFERENCE BOOK ON THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS PROVIDES A WELL-ROUNDED FOUNDATION FOR BOTH KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION. THE BOOK IS NONDENOMINATIONAL AND COMPREHENSIVE IN APPROACH. INCLUDED ARE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT, RELIGIOUS IMPORTANCE, AND PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF EACH JEWISH HOLY DAY.
BR 6915 FATAL EMBRACE, THE JEWS AND THE STATE GINSBERG, BENJAMIN GINSBERG DISCUSSES THE ROLE JEWS OFTEN PLAY IN GOVERNMENTS - OFFERING THEIR SERVICES AND SKILLS IN EXCHANGE FOR PROTECTION AND OPPORTUNITY. HE MAINTAINS THAT THIS FREQUENTLY PROVOKES ORGANIZED ANTI-SEMITISM.
BR 6916 INDIAN-JEWISH COOKING HYMAN, MAVIS THE CALCUTTA-BORN AUTHOR PRESENTS THE WORLD OF INDIAN-JEWISH COOKING AS DEVELOPED AND PASSED DOWN IN THE INDIAN-JEWISH SETTLEMENTS OF BOMBAY, CALCUTTA AND COCHIN. HYMAN EXPLORES THE CULINARY TRADITION IN A HISTORICAL, SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS CONTEXT. RECIPES ARE ORGANIZED BY CATEGORY AND INCLUDE FOODS FOR THE JEWISH FESTIVALS.
BR 6917 JUSTICE NOT VENGEANCE WIESENTHAL, SIMON THE RENOWNED NAZI-HUNTER RECALLS HIS ESCAPES FROM DEATH IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS WHERE HIS FAMILY PERISHED, COPING WITH HIS GUILT AT HAVING SURVIVED, AND HIS CAREER TRACKING DOWN WAR CRIMINALS.
BR 6918 SHIFTING LANDSCAPES A COMPOSITE, 1925-1987 ROTH, HENRY A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, FRAGMENTS OF MEMOIRS, AND ARTICLES FROM THE AUTHOR OF 'CALL IT SLEEP.' THESE PIECES DEMONSTRATE ROTH'S ROOTS IN JUDAISM, HIS INTEREST IN POLITICS, AND HIS DEVOTION TO WRITING.
BR 6919 PLAGUE OF DREAMERS, A STERN, STEVE STERN BLENDS FANTASY WITH REALISM IN THESE STORIES: A JEWISH COMMUNITY IN MEMPHIS IN WHICH A GROCER'S ASSISTANT CAN TUNE INTO PEOPLE'S DREAMS; A MUSICIAN IS OBSESSED WITH DUPLICATING HOUDINI'S TRICKS DESPITE NUMEROUS ACCIDENTS; AND A YOUNG THIEF REBELS AGAINST HIS HARDWORKING FATHER BY JOINING A TRAVELING CARNIVAL.
BR 6920 TROPICAL SYNAGOGUES SHORT STORIES BY JEWISH LATIN-AMER STAVANS, ILAN: EDITOR HARRY GARTEN TALES OF ADVENTURE, CULTURAL ALIENATION, TRADITION AND EXOTICISM MAKE UP THIS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES CREATED BY WRITERS IN LATIN AMERICA FROM 1910 TO THE PRESENT. THE 21 WRITERS FROM ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, PERU, VENEZUELA, GUATEMALA, AND MEXICO REPRESENT AN ETHNICALLY DIVERSE CULTURE WITH ROOTS IN EASTERN EUROPE AS WELL AS SPAIN.
BR 6921 KYZYL KISHLAK REFUGEE VILLAGE TAUBE, HERMAN THIS BOOK IS A UNIQUE LENS ON THE LITTLE-KNOWN LIFE OF REFUGEES TRAPPED IN AN OUT-OF-THE-WAY UZBEKISTAN OUTPOST DURING WORLD WAR II. TAUBE DRAMATIZES THE WRENCHING PHYSICAL TRIBULATIONS THE REFUGEES ENDURED AND GIVES US A MOVING STORY OF LOVE, COMPASSION, COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE AND OF THE LONELY TRIUMPHS OF MAN'S BETTER NATURE.
BR 6922 BUT HE WAS GOOD TO HIS MOTHER THE LIVES AND CRIMES OF JEWISH GAN ROCKAWAY, ROBERT A. A SANGUINE LOOK AT THE MURDEROUS WORLD OF JEWISH GANGS AND GANGSTERS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. THIS FACT-FILLED BOOK ANSWERS MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ERA AND ABOUT THE HISTORY OF ORGANIZED CRIME.
BR 6923 TO KNOW AND TO CARE AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHASSIDIC STORIES THIS BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY CHASSIDIC STORIES BY ONE OF THE GREAT RABBIS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ARE MEANT TO INSTRUCT AS WELL AS INSPIRE JEWS OF ALL AGES AND BACKGROUNDS.
BR 6924 SPY IN CANAAN, A MY LIFE AS A JEWISH-AMERICAN BUSIN SCHACK, HOWARD H. & H. PAUL JEFFERS JOE ISRAEL DISMAYED BY ISRAEL'S VULNERABILITY DURING THE 1973 YOM KIPPUR WAR, SCHACK VOLUNTEERED HIS SERVICES TO THE MOSSAD. SOON, HE WAS POSING AS A NON-JEW, GATHERING INTELLIGENCE IN ARAB COUNTRIES FROM THE MID-1970S TO THE LATE 1980S. SCHACK LACES HIS ACCOUNT WITH HUMOR AND OBSERVATIONS OF ARAB CULTURE AND CUSTOMS.
BR 6925 JEWISH MARRIAGE RABBINIC LAW, LEGEND, AND CUSTOM LEWITTES, MENDELL THIS VOLUME CONSISTS OF TWO PARTS WHICH DEAL WITH ALL THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OF JEWISH MARRIAGE. THE FIRST PART IS A SURVEY OF JEWISH MARRIAGE FROM BIBLICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT. THE SECOND PART DEALS WITH ALL AREAS OF DIVORCE IN JEWISH LAW AND CUSTOM.
BR 6926 FRIENDS, LOVERS, ENEMIES VICTOR, BARBARA HYLA MELNICK TV JOURNALIST SASHA BEALE FINDS HERSELF AT THE SITE OF A TERRORIST BOMBING IN ROME IN WHICH A CHILD IS KILLED. SCHEDULED TO INTERVIEW PLO LEADER TAMAR KARAMI WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTACK, SHE IS SEDUCED BY AN AGENT OF THE MOSSAD WHO HAS TARGETED KARAMI FOR ASSASSINATION.
BR 6927 IN LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP NORMAN, HILARY TWO YOUNG BOYS, ONE JEWISH AND ONE GENTILE STRIKE UP A FRIENDSHIP DESPITE PARENTAL OBJECTION THE THREAT TO CAUSE TROUBLE FOR THE JEWISH BOY. THEY GO THEIR SEPARATE WAYS AS THEY GROW OLDER AND EACH ESTABLISHES A LIFE WITH FAMILY AND PROFESSION. MANY YEARS LATER THEY MEET AGAIN AND FIND THAT THEIR FRIENDSHIP HAS ENDURED.
BR 6928 ADDRESS UNKNOWN TAYLOR, KRESSMANN GAIL PECK J IN 1932, A JEWISH ART-GALLERY OWNER, MAX EISENSTEIN, BIDS FAREWELL TO HIS FRIEND AND PARTNER MARTIN SCHULSE, WHO IS RETURNING WITH HIS FAMILY TO GERMANY. MARTIN'S LETTERS TO MAX BECOME INCREASINGLY ANTI-SEMITIC AND WHEN HE REFUSES REFUGE TO MAX'S SISTER, SHE IS MURDERED BY THE NAZIS. MAX TAKES HIS REVENGE THROUGH A CLEVER EPISTOLARY PLOY.
BR 6929 BETWEEN TWO WORLDS CHOICES FOR GROWN CHILDREN OF JEWI GOODMAN-MALAMUTH, LESLIE & ROBIN MAR THE AUTHORS DISCUSS WAYS OF LIVING WITHIN BOTH THE JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN WORLDS.
BR 6930 MANNY AND ROSE PETERS, JOAN K. THE STORY OF SEPTUAGENARIAN MANNY HERMAN WHO TRIES TO RECAPTURE THE ONCE-OVERPOWERING PRESENCE OF HIS DEAD WIFE, ROSE, THROUGH A HANDFUL OF HER EMBROIDERIES.
BR 6931 CHILDREN AND FOOLS FRIED, ERICH TOBY MORGENS THIS COLLECTION BY THE VIENNESE-BORN POET EXAMINES THE HOLOCAUST FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE OPPRESSORS AND THE OPPRESSED. FRIED WRITES OF HIS YOUTH, HIS FAMILY'S DESTRUCTION AT THE HANDS OF THE NAZIS, AND THE LACK OF A GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN RESPONSE TO THE DEVESTATION.
BR 6932 ADVENTURE OF THE REDHEAD GANG, THE #2 THE SPY FROM THE TOP APARTMENT RON-FEDER, GALILA SHELLEY MILL MOSHIK AND UDI SUSPECT MICHAEL, THE NEW NEIGHBOR LIVING IN THE PENTHOUSE, OF BEING A RUSSIAN SPY. THEY HAVE A LOT OF EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM. BUT WHEN THEY START TO CONDUCT SURVEILLANCE ON HIM, THEIR ADVENTURE BEGINS.
BR 6933 WHAT GOD WANTS BRETT, LILY ALL THE CHARACTERS IN THIS COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES ARE BOUND TOGETHER BY A SHARED PAST; THEY ARE THE CHILDREN OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS. THE WOMEN SHINE WITH ORIGINALITY AND STRENGTH; THE MEN FOR THE MOST PART EXIST IN THE BACKGROUND, BETRAYING OR SUPPORTING THEIR WIVES. ABOVE ALL, ALL HAVE A NEED FOR BELONGING TO THE FAITH.
BR 6935 ESCAPE FROM EGYPT LEVITIN, SONIA FRANCES WALD IN THIS COMING OF AGE STORY SET DURING THE JEWS' EXODUS FROM EGYPT, A HALF-EGYPTIAN, HALF-SYRIAN SLAVE GIRL AND A JEWISH SLAVE BOY STRIVE TO RECONCILE INTEGRITY AND PASSION.
BR 6936 CLOSE QUARTERS A NINA FISCHMAN MYSTERY PIESMAN, MARISSA WHILE SPENDING A WEEKEND AT FIRE ISLAND, NINA IS CONFRONTED WITH MURDER WHEN A HOUSE GUEST IS POISONED. THE CHIEF SUSPECT IS NINA'S NEW LOVE INTEREST. BECAUSE SHE BELIEVES HIM TO BE A 'GOOD CATCH,' SHE SETS OUT TO FIND THE REAL KILLER.
BR 6937 WHAT IS A JEW? (REVISED EDITION) KERTZER, RABBI MORRIS N. WITH LAWREN MAY BURROWS A REVISED AND UPDATED VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT WITH MUCH NEW MATERIAL ADDED. IT ADDRESSES MANY OF THE TRADITIONAL QUESTIONS AS WELL DISCUSSING NEWER CONCERNS SUCH AS THE JEWISH ATTITUDE TOWARD FEMINISM AND WHY JEWS PERSIST IN REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 6938 YEARS OF WRATH, DAYS OF GLORY MEMOIRS FROM THE IRGUN BEN-AMI, YITSHAQ THIS BOOK IS A PARTIALLY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CHRONICLE OF EVENTS IN PALESTINE, EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES IN THE 1930S AND 1940S, A TIME WHEN EUROPEAN JEWRY WAS DESTROYED AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL WAS BORN. BEN-AMI, WHOSE FAMILY HISTORY IS TRACEABLE FROM THE 14TH CENTURY, COORDINATED THE IRGUN'S ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION FROM 1937 TO 1939.
BR 6939 BAR MITZVAH A JEWISH BOY'S COMING OF AGE KIMMEL, ERIC A. KAREN KAPLAN, RABBI A GUIDE TO THE CONCEPTS AND RITUALS OF THE BAR MITZVAH IN WHICH KIMMEL UNITES STORYTELLING WITH AN UNDERSTANDING OF ITS RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL ASPECTS. HE ACCOMMODATES JEWISH READERS FROM VARIOUS BACKGROUNDS AND INCLUDES FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNTS OF THE CEREMONY.
BR 6940 MIRACULOUS MILK COW, THE ...MORE TALES MY GREAT-GREAT GRAND KANTOR, HERMAN I. & ERIC LARSON RABBI KAREN STORIES ABOUT THE LIVES OF THE INHABITANTS OF A RUSSIAN GHETTO IN THE EARLY 1900S. THE PROTOGANISTS INCLUDE A PAIR OF STAR-CROSSED LOVERS, A REVELER WHO AWAKENS IN THE CEMETERY, A BAKER'S APPRENTICE WHO NEARLY RUINS THE SHABBOS DINNER, A REAL-LIFE HAMAN AT A PURIM CELEBRATION, AND A YENTA WHO CAUSES A SCANDAL WITH A TIN BROOCH.
BR 6941 DEATH IN JERUSALEM BOLAND, JOHN STOCKBROKER DONALD MCCARRY ARRIVES IN ISRAEL TO INSPECT THE COMPANY HE HAS BEEN ASKED TO INVEST IN. HIS HOST, HARRY BRICKMAN, IS IMMEDIATELY KINAPPED, AND MCCARRY DISCOVERS THAT THE COMPANY IS PART OF A FINANCIAL SCAM. AS HE WAITS FOR NEWS OF BRICKMAN, MCCARRY SETS OUT TO FIND OUT WHETHER HE KNEW ABOUT THE SCAM.
BR 6942 SHAINDY STRIKES AGAIN TYBERG, SARAH WHEN SHAINDY MILLER'S FRIEND, MIRIAM, IS FEELING HOMESICK FOR THE COUNTRY AND CLASS SHE LEFT BEHIND, SHAINDY UNDERSTANDS. SHE HAD MOVED TO ISRAEL WITH HER FAMILY TWO YEARS BEFORE. SHAINDY DECIDES TO HELP HER FRIEND BY MAKING HER A SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY. SHE DIDN'T REALIZE THAT SHE WAS ALSO MAKING TROUBLE.
BR 6943 GREAT JEWISH WOMEN SLATER, ELINOR & ROBERT SLATER SHIRLEY RADC PROFILES OF MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED JEWISH WOMEN INCLUDING GOLDA MEIR, RUTH BADER GINSBURG, NELLY SACHS, BARBRA STREISAND, WENDY WASSERSTEIN, AND DIANNE FEINSTEIN. EACH WOMAN'S ACHIEVEMENTS ARE NOTED AND HER RELATIONSHIP TO JUDAISM IS HIGHLIGHTED.
BR 6944 ADVENTURES OF MONA PINSKY ZISKIN, HARRIET ELEANOR SCHWARTZ 64-YEAR-OLD RESTAURANT HOSTESS MONA OVERHEARS A GROUP OF MEN DISCUSSING A CRIME. WHEN ROBBERIES BEGIN OCCURRING IN THE AREA, SHE DECIDES TO INVESTIGATE. HER FAMILY BEGS HER TO STOP ACTING LIKE A CRAZY LADY BUT MONA WANTS TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY.
BR 6945 BAKER'S DOZEN #12 THE BAKER FAMILY CIRCUS ROSE, MIRIAM DANIELLE STA A BAS MITZVAH SHOULD BE A JOYOUS EVENT BUT THE BAKER QUINTUPLETS ARE MISERABLE BECAUSE THEY CANNOT AGREE ON WHAT KIND OF PARTY TO HAVE. ALSO, ASHI IS IN TROUBLE AT SCHOOL AND TIKVAH FEELS LIKE SHE IS LOSING THE MOST PRECIOUS THING OF ALL. THE BAKERS MUST WORK THROUGH THESE PROBLEMS TOGETHER.
BR 6946 RESPONSE TO MODERNITY A HISTORY OF THE REFORM MOVEMENT I MEYER, MICHAEL A. MEYER TRACES THE ORIGINS OF THE REFORM MOVEMENT TO CHANGES IN RELIGIOUS SERVICES IN THE SYNAGOGUES OF HAMBURG AND BERLIN IN THE EARLY 1800S. THIS SCHOLARLY HISTORY FOLLOWS THE RABBINICAL RIVALRIES, IDEOLOGICAL POLEMICS, AND INNOVATIONS THAT HAVE MARKED REFORM JUDAISM.
BR 6947 GREATEST RABBIS HALL OF FAME, THE GOLDMAN, RABBI ALEX J. A WHO'S WHO OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN RABBIS: THE STORIES OF 22 RABBIS WHO IN THE LAST TWO CENTURIES HAVE COUNSELED, INSPIRED, AND LEFT THEIR MARK ON THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
BR 6948 FINGERPRINTS ON THE UNIVERSE SEARCHING FOR BELIEF AND MEANING I POLLACK, LOUIS HARRY SMALL IS THERE CONFLICT BETWEEN JUDAISM AND SCIENCE? DOES THE LITERATURE SHED LIGHT ON THE MATTER? HAS THE ADVANCE OF TECHNOLOGY, LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, AND POLITICAL THOUGHT MADE BELIEF OBSOLETE? CAN MODERN MAN FIND BELIEF AND MEANING EVEN TODAY? THE RESULTS OF POLLACK'S RESEARCH ARE STARTLING AND ENLIGHTENING.
BR 6949 STORY A DAY, A AV-ELUL SOFER, G. HERE ARE WONDERFUL CHILDREN'S STORIES THAT TELL ABOUT THE VARIOUS HOLIDAYS AND EVENTS THAT OCCUR IN THE MONTHS OF AV AND ELUL.
BR 6950 SOTAH RAGEN, NAOMI SET IN THE WORLD OF ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEWS, THE STORY FOCUSES ON THE REICH FAMILY'S THREE DAUGHTERS AND HOW THEY FARE IN THE COMMUNITY'S CRUCIAL RITE OF PASSAGE: MARRIAGE. THE DRAMA CENTERS ON THE DEVOUT MIDDLE DAUGHTER, DINA, AND HOW SHE BECOMES A 'SOTAH,' OR A WOMAN SUSPECTED OF ADULTERY.
BR 6951 CRACKS IN THE WALL RASKIN, URI SHIRLEY RICH REB YOSSEL, AN ELDERLY JERUSALEM JEW, SUFFERS A HEART ATTACK AND DEVELOPS A FRIENDSHIP WITH HIS CARDIOLOGIST WHO IS SEARCHING FOR MEANING IN HIS LIFE. AS HIS LIFE EBBS AWAY, YOSSEL GIVES THE PROBING, SKEPTICAL PHYSICIAN THE BENEFIT OF HIS LIFETIME OF LEARNING AND EXPERIENCE.
BR 6952 LITTLE BLACK BOX, THE-PART TWO THE SECOND SECRET LAZEWNIK, LIBBY SYLVIA ESTES FOR SHRAGA MORGENSTERN AND PINNY KATZ, THE LAKE VIEW HOTEL IS FRAUGHT WITH DANGER. THE NEW AND DEADLY SECRET WEAPON THEIR FATHERS HAVE BEEN WORKING ON HAS DISAPPEARED. CAN THE BOYS CLEAR THE CLOUD OF SUSPICION THAT HANGS OVER THEIR FATHERS' HEADS-AND SURVIVE THE SINISTER 'ACCIDENTS' THAT THREATEN THEIR OWN LIVES?
BR 6953 RECALLED TO LIFE THE STORY OF A COMA GOSHEN-GOTTSTEIN, ESTHER FOLLOWING BYPASS SURGERY, MOSHE GOSHEN-GOTTSTEIN, AN ISRAELI PROFESSOR, LAPSED INTO A COMA FOR NEARLY FOUR MONTHS. THIS BOOK, WRITTEN BY HIS WIFE, IS A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE ENTIRE PROCESS THAT LED TO HIS MEDICALLY MIRACULOUS RECOVERY.
BR 6954 FLYING LESSONS SEMEL, NAVA ELYSE WEISBE 12-YEAR-OLD MOTHERLESS HADARA, WHO LIVES IN A REMOTE VILLAGE IN ISRAEL, DECIDES TO LEARN TO FLY. SHE VISITS MONSIEUR MAURICE, THE VILLAGE SHOEMAKER, WHO FIRES HER IMAGINATION WITH MAGICAL TALES AND AGREES TO TEACH HER. HER MAIDEN FLIGHT FROM A TALL TREE RESULTS IN A BROKEN LEG AND A SADDENED MONSIEUR MAURICE.
BR 6955 ALTERNATE SIDES A NINA FISCHMAN MYSTERY PIESMAN, MARISSA BARBARA JUST LEGAL SERVICES LAWYER NINA FISCHMAN INVESTIGATES THE DEATH OF A DOORMAN FOUND SLAIN IN HER BOYFRIEND JONATHAN'S CAR. NINA'S ANGST OVER MOVING IN WITH JONATHAN AND HER DESCRIPTION OF THE MINUTIAE OF PARKING IN NEW YORK CITY MAKE AN AMUSING FRAMEWORK FOR THIS MYSTERY.
BR 6956 CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM THE NEW CENTURY GILLMAN, NEIL RITA FEDER AN OVERVIEW OF THE KEY ISSUES, CONFLICTS, AND DILEMMAS THAT HAVE FORCED THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT TO COME TO TERMS WITH ITS IDENTITY, INCLUDING THE DEMAND TO ORDAIN WOMEN, THE PRESSURE TO ACCEPT GAY AND LESBIAN RABBIS, AND THE IMPACT OF THE REFORM AND ORTHODOX WORLD ON CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM.
BR 6957 GATHERING OF ANGELS, A ANGELS IN JEWISH LIFE AND LITERATU MARGOLIES, RABBI MORRIS B. BERNICE BERN MARGOLIES DISCUSSES THE PLACE OF ANGELS IN LITERATURE AND JEWISH THOUGHT. HE MINES TWO MILLENNIUMS OF SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS WRITINGS, FROM THE BIBLE AND THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS TO SHAKESPEARE TO BERNARD MALAMUD AND ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER.
BR 6958 CHANUKAH WITH BINA, BENNY AND CHAGGAI HAYONAH GANZ, YAFFA ALLISON JAKA A CHILD'S EYE VIEW OF CHANUKKAH. IT'S TIME TO LIGHT THE CANDLES WITH BINA, BENNY AND CHAGGAI THE HOLIDAY DOVE. AND WHILE THE CANDLES ARE BURNING, CHAGGAI WILL TAKE YOU TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL AND RIGHT INTO THE STORY OF YEHUDAH HAMACCABEE, CHANNAH AND HER SEVEN SONS, AND THE MIRACLE OF THE OIL. SO TAKE OUT YOUR DREIDL AND GET READY TO SPIN.
BR 6959 BAKER'S DOZEN #14 SUMMER JOBS STEIN, AIDEL SUMMERTIME IS FUN TIME AND ALL OF THE BAKER KIDS ARE 'BUSY' IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER. BUT FOR THE BAKER FAMILY THIS SUMMER, ONLY ONE RULE, AS USUAL, PREVAILS; EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED!
BR 6960 COUSINS, THE JAFFE, RONA RITA FEDER THE STORY OF A WEALTHY DEPARTMENT-STORE CLAN ONCE HELD TOGETHER BY THEIR SUMMER MANSE BUT NOW SCATTERED ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
BR 6961 UPON THE DOORPOST OF THY HOUSE JEWISH LIFE IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE GRUBER, RUTH ELLEN ELLEN COHON EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE WAS ONCE HOME TO OVER FIVE MILLION JEWS AND NOW HAS ABOUT 120,000. GRUBER TRAVELED THROUGHOUT THIS REGION TO EXPLORE JEWISH LIFE THERE IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND, IN HISTORICAL SKETCHES, TO EXAMINE ITS CONNECTIONS WITH THE PAST.
BR 6962 JEWISH BOOK OF WHY KOLATCH, RABBI ALFRED J. THE 'HOW' AND 'WHY' OF NEARLY EVERY SYMBOL AND CUSTOM IN JUDAISM EXPLAINED CLEARLY AND CONCISELY BY RABBI KOLATCH.
BR 6963 TALES OUT OF SCHOOL TAYLOR, BENJAMIN SYLVIA JACOB THIS FIRST NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR IS ABOUT A GENTEEL, WEALTHY GERMAN-JEWISH FAMILY LIVING IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY GALVESTON, TEXAS.
BR 6965 TEN BEST JEWISH CHILDREN'S STORIES SPERBER, RABBI DANIEL & CHANA SPERBE BEATRICE DAV/MITZIE SCHRAGER TEN STORY CLASSICS THAT HAVE BECOME PART OF THE JEWISH HOME AND ITS ORAL TRADITION. FOR TWO MILLENNIA, CHILDREN HAVE GLEANED FROM THEM THE MORAL AND ETHICAL VALUES FOUND IN THE BIBLE AND RABBINIC LORE.
BR 6966 WHO BY FIRE ABRAMSON, CHAYA M.; TSCHOLKOWSKY, E. HARRIET SEID THE STORY OF A YOUNG MOTHER WHO WAS BADLY BURNED WHILE RESCUING HER SMALL CHILDREN AND GRANDMOTHER FROM THEIR BLAZING APARTMENT. THE BOOK ALSO DETAILS THE COMMUNITY'S SUPPORT AND DESCRIBES ABRAMSON'S FAITH WHICH ENABLED HER TO WITHSTAND THE EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL TRIALS OF HER ORDEAL.
BR 6967 LITTLE BLACK BOX, THE PART 3 - THE SECRET REVEALED SCHREIBER, PEREL ANDREA ROSS JUST WHEN SHRAGA AND PINNY THINK THEY HAVE SOLVED THE MYSTERY OF THE STOLEN BLACK BOX, ANOTHER LAYER UNFOLDS. NOW THEY MUST GATHER THEIR WITS AND ALL THEIR COURAGE TO UNMASK THE SINISTER FIGURE BEHIND THE CRIME. BEFORE THEY ARE DONE, THEY ARE GOING TO FIND THEMSELVES IN GREATER DANGER THAN THEY'D EVER DREAMED POSSIBLE!
BR 6968 OFF STAGE COMDEN, BETTY MIMI GREENST THIS VERY INTIMATE BOOK IS A PERSONAL REMEMBRANCE-A HUMOROUS AND MOVING TRIP THROUGH AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFETIME. IT IS THE STORY OF A WOMAN OF MANY TALENTS AND INTERESTS WHO TRIED TO HAVE IT ALL-AND VERY NEARLY SUCCEEDED.
BR 6969 STORY A DAY, A NISSAN-IYAR SOFER, G. IN THIS VOLUME THERE ARE STORIES FOR EVERY DAY AND SPECIAL TALES FOR PESACH.
BR 6970 STORY A DAY, A SHEVAT-ADAR SOFER, G. IN THIS BOOK THERE ARE STORIES FOR EVERYDAY AND SPECIAL ONES FOR TU B'SHEVAT AND PURIM.
BR 6971 JEWISH PERSONAL NAMES THEIR ORIGIN, DERIVATION AND DIMIN GORR, RABBI SHMUEL THIS DIRECTORY OF JEWISH FIRST NAMES INCLUDES HEBREW AND YIDDISH NAMES WITH DERIVATIONS. NAMES ARE ORGANIZED BY ROOT NAME WITH ALL VARIANTS OF THE ROOT NAME SHOWN TOGETHER WITH FOOTNOTES EXPLAINING HOW THESE VARIANTS WERE DERIVED. FAMILY NAMES ORIGINATING FROM PERSONAL NAMES ARE ALSO PRESENTED.
BR 6972 JEWISH 100, THE A RANKING OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SHAPIRO, MICHAEL ALEX SAMUELS A COLLECTION OF SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF 100 INFLUENTIAL JEWISH MEN AND WOMEN. HIS SELECTIONS RUN FROM MOSES, RANKED AT NUMBER ONE, THROUGH SUPERMAN CREATORS JERRY SIEGEL AND JOE SHUSTER, AT NUMBER 100.
BR 6973 ON BEING FREE STEINSALTZ, ADIN SARENE MEYER TALMUDIC SCHOLAR STEINSALTZ EXPLORES TOPICS RANGING FROM THE NATURE OF JEWISH IDENTITY AND THE CHARACTER OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL TO INTERPRETATION OF THE FIVE MEGILLOT. ALSO INCLUDED ARE TWO INTERVIEWS THAT PROVIDE GLIMPSES INTO THE INTENSITY THAT MARKS THE LIFE AND WORK OF THIS GREAT TEACHER.
BR 6974 BRIDGE BUILDER'S STORY, THE FAST, HOWARD MARRIED ONLY ELEVEN DAYS, AMERICAN ENGINEERING STUDENT SCOTT WARING AND HIS WIFE MARTHA ARE ARRESTED BY THE GESTAPO AT A NAZI RALLY. SCOTT'S WIFE IS MURDERED BUT HE MANAGES TO ESCAPE AND HE RETURNS TO THE U. S., DEVASTATED. EVENTUALLY HE FINDS THAT HE CAN LOVE AGAIN.
BR 6975 SUMMING UP AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY SHAMIR, YITZHAK FAITH GARFIE IN THIS FRANK AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ISRAEL'S FORMER PRIME MINISTER DEFENDS HIS PARTY'S HARD-LINE POLICIES, RECALLS HIS EXPLOITS AS A MOSSAD INTELLIGENCE AGENT AND AS A FOREIGN MINISTER AND GIVES AN INSIDER'S ACCOUNT OF THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE'S DESTRUCTION OF AN IRAQI NUCLEAR FACILITY IN 1981.
BR 6976 MESSAGES FROM MY FATHER TRILLIN, CALVIN TANYA SHERMA TRILLIN RECALLS HIS FATHER, A TACITURN, STUBBORNLY HONEST KANSAS CITY GROCER WHO COMMUNICATED VALUES OF MODESTY AND RESPONSIBILITY TO HIS SON.
BR 6977 SAND AND STARS THE JEWISH JOURNEY THROUGH TIME GANZ, YAFFA WITH RABBI BEREL WEIN THERE IS NO MORE EXCITING, INSPIRING-OR IMPROBABLE-STORY ANYWHERE THAN THE JEWISH PEOPLE'S MARCH THROUGH THE MENACES OF HISTORY. MANY OF THE OPPRESSORS ARE GONE, BUT THE JEWS ARE STILL HERE, AND THRIVING. A GRIPPING, ABSORBING STORY LEAVENED THROUGHOUT WITH THE UNSHAKEABLE CONVICTION THAT THE CHOSEN PEOPLE MUST SURVIVE.
BR 6978 MAGGID SPEAKS, THE FAVORITE STORIES AND PARABLES OF R KROHN, RABBI PAYSACH A SELECTION OF STORIES AND PARABLES BY RABBI SHOLOM SCHWARDON, A MASTER PREACHER LIVING IN JERUSALEM.
BR 6979 JUSTICE A PETER DECKER/RINA LAZARUS NOVEL KELLERMAN, FAYE JERRY O'NEIL CALLED TO INVESTIGATE THE SHOCKING MURDER OF A HIGH SCHOOL'S PROM QUEEN, DETECTIVE PETER DECKER CONFRONTS THE ROOTLESS, AFFLUENT, SOMETIMES VIOLENT TEENAGERS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. WHEN A DISTURBED YOUNG MAN IS IDENTIFIED AS THE PRIME SUSPECT, EVERYONE IS RELIEVED EXCEPT FOR DECKER, WHO COMES TO A DIFFERENT CONCLUSION.
BR 6980 SOULS AND SECRETS HASIDIC STORIES PATAI, JOSEPH RABBI BRUCE IN THESE TWENTY-FIVE FICTIONALIZED STORIES, JOSEPH PATAI EVOKES THE WORLD OF THE HASIDIM, IN WHICH EVERY SINGLE ACT AND EVENT IN THEIR LIVES IS INTERPRETED AS A SIGN OF DIVINE MEANING.
BR 6981 FRUITS OF THE EARTH A HARVEST OF RECIPES FROM THE LAND FRIESEM, RICKY & NAOMI MOUSHINE ELLEN ESTRIN A COLLECTION OF ASSORTED ISRAELI RECIPES.
BR 6982 INVISIBLE LINES OF CONNECTION SACRED STORIES OF THE ORDINARY KUSHNER, LAWRENCE ALYCE DOMENI THROUGH HIS EVERYDAY ENCOUNTERS WITH FAMILY, FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES AND STRANGERS, KUSHNER TAKES US DEEPLY INTO OUR OWN LIVES, FINDING FLASHES OF SPIRITUAL INSIGHT IN THE PROCESS. HE DEMONSTRATES HOW OTHERWISE ORDINARY MOMENTS CAN ACTUALLY BE TOUCHSTONES FOR THE SACRED.
BR 6983 INTIMATE ENEMIES JEWS AND ARABS IN A SHARED LAND BENVENISTI, MERON RENEE GOODST THE AUTHOR'S THEME IS THE INTERETHNIC VIOLENCE BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS IN THE VORTEX OF RELIGION AND GEOPOLITICS THAT IS 1990S ISRAEL. HIS CONTENTION IS THAT THE VIOLENCE ESCALATED TO A POINT WHERE A DECISION HAD TO BE MADE AND THE PEACE PROCESS WAS CHOSEN. BENVENISTI ASSERTS THAT THERE IS LITTLE ROOM FOR COMPROMISE.
BR 6984 SHEPHERD OF JERUSALEM A BIOGRAPHY OF RABBI ABRAHAM ISAAC ELKINS, DOV PERETZ A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST CHIEF RABBI OF PALESTINE UNDER THE BRITISH MANDATE, A MAJOR RELIGIOUS LEADER AND MYSTIC.
BR 6985 BEING GOD'S PARTNER HOW TO FIND THE HIDDEN LINK BETWEE SALKIN, JEFFREY K. ACCORDING TO RABBI SALKIN, THE SPIRITUAL LIVES OF MANY JEWS ARE DIVORCED FROM THEIR WORKING LIVES. SALKIN SETS OUT TO HEAL THIS SPLIT BY USING TORAH AND RABBINIC LITERATURE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE INTEGRATION OF WORK AND SPIRITUALITY IS CENTRAL TO THE THEOLOGICAL HERITAGE OF JUDAISM.
BR 6986 DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE HENRIETTA SZOLD AND HADASSAH KRANTZ, HAZEL THIS IS THE STORY OF A REMARKABLE JEWISH WOMAN WHO WAS DETERMINED TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF JEWISH SETTLERS IN PALESTINE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY. SHE ACCOMPLISHED THIS AND MORE AND THIS BOOK IS A TRIBUTE TO HER TIRELESS EFFORT AT AN AGE WHEN MOST PEOPLE WOULD HAVE RETIRED.
BR 6987 EVE'S TATTOO PRAGER, EMILY A 40-YEAR-OLD WOMAN GETS TATOOED WITH THE ID NUMBER OF A CONCENTRATION CAMP VICTIM AND FINDS HERSELF BECOMING OBSESSED WITH WOMEN IN NAZI GERMANY.
BR 6988 MURDERING MR. MONTI A MERRY LITTLE TALE OF SEX AND VIO VIORST, JUDITH THE FUTURE FATHER-IN-LAW OF BRENDA KOVNER'S SON BLAMES THE KOVNERS FOR HIS DAUGHTER'S CONVERSION TO JUDAISM. HE ATTEMPTS TO BANKRUPT THEM AND KOVNER, A 46-YEAR-OLD ADVICE COLUMNIST, BELIEVES HE WANTS TO KILL HER SON. SHE DECIDES TO MURDER HIM FIRST BUT SHE QUICKLY DISCOVERS THAT MURDER MAY BE MORE TROUBLE THAN ITS WORTH.
BR 6989 JEWISH HOLIDAY CAKES SHAULOV, HANA A PRIZE WINNING, SUMPTUOUS COLLECTION OF CAKES FOR JEWISH HOLIDAYS, INCLUDING NEW AND TRADITIONAL RECIPES, FROM HAMANTASCHEN TO HONEY CAKE.
BR 6990 IMA, I'M BORED A SUPER COLLECTION OF ACTIVITIES, RUBINOFF, AVIVA AVIVA RUBINOFF, AN EXPERIENCED EDUCATOR AND MOTHER, HAS COMPILED A UNIQUE AND EXCITING COLLECTION OF CRAFTS, PROJECTS AND GAMES GUARANTEED TO KEEP CHILDREN-AND THEIR PARENTS-BUSY AND HAPPY FOR HOURS AND HOURS.
BR 6991 RUBY OF COCHIN AN INDIAN JEWISH WOMAN REMEMBERS DANIEL, RUBY AND BARBARA C. JOHNSON THIS IS THE FIRST BOOK WRITTEN BY A JEWISH WOMAN FROM COCHIN. IT IS A RICH DESCRIPTION OF JEWISH LIFE IN THIS EXOTIC CULTURE, SPANNING MANY CENTURIES. THIS IS TRULY A HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF COCHIN FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT UNTIL TODAY WHERE A DYING COCHIN COMMUNITY IS FINDING NEW LIFE IN ISRAEL.
BR 6992 STREETS A MEMOIR OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE SPEWACK, BELLA SHIRLEY RADC SPEWACK, A JOURNALIST AND PLAYWRIGHT, RECOUNTS HER TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY CHILDHOOD IN NEW YORK'S TEEMING TENEMENTS. SHE DESCRIBES THE POVERTY AND CACOPHONY THAT PERMEATED TENEMENT LIFE AND BREATHES LIFE INTO THE CAST OF CHARACTERS WHO PASSED THROUGH HER EARLY YEARS.
BR 6993 ADVENTURE OF THE REDHEAD GANG #1 THE COMMANDER - HERO OF THE HOSPIT RON-FEDER, GALILA ISABELLA ISO EIGHT-YEAR-OLD UDI SHAHAR, COMMANDER OF THE REDHEAD GANG, HAS TO GO INTO THE HOSPITAL FOR AN OPERATION. HE IS SECRETLY FRIGHTENED BUT OVERCOMES HIS FEAR AND PRETENDS THAT HE IS A COURAGEOUS HERO.
BR 6994 ADVENTURES OF HERSHEL OF OSTROPOL KIMMEL, ERIC A. MARK SIMON HERSHEL OF OSTROPOL WAS A FAMOUS JEWISH FOLK HERO WHO LIVED DURING THE FIRST PART OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. ALTHOUGH HE SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE AS A WANDERING BEGGAR, HE NEVER ALLOWED MISERY TO DAMPEN HIS WIT OR HIS SPIRITS. THE COMMON PEOPLE OF THE UKRAINE SAW THEMSELVES IN HERSHEL AND MADE HIM IMMORTAL BY PASSING ON HIS STORIES.
BR 6995 CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER GARDNER, HERB THIS PLAY, ABOUT THE AUTHOR'S FAMILY, ATTEMPTS TO PORTRAY THE NEW YORK JEWISH EXPERIENCE FROM IMMIGRATION TO A FORM OF ASSIMILATION. COVERING FORTY YEARS OF A FAMILY LIVING IN AND RUNNING A NEW YORK CITY BAR AND GRILL, THE PLAY EXPLORES THE DESTRUCTIVE INFLUENCE OF A FRUSTRATED, FUNNY PATRIARCH.
BR 6996 NEW JEWISH BABY BOOK, THE NAMES, CEREMONIES, CUSTOMS; A GUID DIAMANT, ANITA DIAMANT'S PIONEERING THE JEWISH BABY BOOK (1988) WAS A HIGHLY PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR LIBERAL JEWISH PARENTS-TO-BE AND NEW PARENTS. SHE HAS NOW REVISED AND EXPANDED THAT EXCELLENT BOOK TO INCLUDE HANDOUTS TO COPY FOR CEREMONIES, A SPECIAL SECTION FOR INTERFAITH FAMILIES, AND NEW CEREMONIES FOR GIRLS.
BR 6997 PURIM WITH BINA, BENNY AND CHAGGAI HAYONAH GANZ, YAFFA A CHILD'S EYE VIEW OF PURIM. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF SHUSHAN! IT'S TIME FOR A PURIM TOUR WITH BINA, BENNY AND CHAGGAI, THE HOLIDAY DOVE. IN SHUSHAN, NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS, AND NOTHING TURNS OUT THE WAY YOU THINK. BUT OF COURSE CHAGGAI KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPPEN FROM THE VERY BEGINNING AND SO WILL YOU, ONCE YOU'VE READ THE STORY.
BR 6998 TRAVELLERS IN MAGIC GOLDSTEIN, LISA BETTY SMITH A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES THAT RANGE FROM WORKS OF SCIENCE FICTION TO MYTHS TO FAIRY TALES, WITH MANY OF THE STORIES TOUCHING ON THE THEMES OF JEWISH EXPERIENCE.
BR 6999 DEATH IN THE RAIN ALMOG, RUTH MARION FELDI IN THIS NOVEL SET IN ISRAEL AND GREECE, THE LIVES AND REFLECTIONS OF FOUR CHARACTERS UNFOLD THROUGH DRAMATIC INTERSECTING NARRATIVES. THE CENTRAL CHARACTER IS A SENSITIVE WRITER WHO ACCOUNTS HER ULTIMATELY TRAGIC INVOLVEMENTS WITH AN AMBITIOUS ACADEMIC, A MENTALLY UNSTABLE SCIENTIST, AND A GIFTED, DOOMED POET.
BR 7000 BLUE STAR OVER RED SQUARE RAIZ, CARMELA SARAJEAN SHE RAIZ'S RELATES THE LONG, TORTUROUS ROUTE HER FAMILY TOOK FROM VILINIUS, LITHUANIA WHERE THEY WERE THIRD-GENERATION 'REFUSNIKS' FOR 70 YEARS TO JERUSALEM. RAIZ ALSO DESCRIBES HOW THE FAMILY WENT FROM A COMMUNIST-IMPOSED IGNORANCE OF THEIR JEWISH HERITAGE TO A FULLY OBSERVANT LIFE IN ISRAEL.
BR 7001 EASTER IN KISHINEV ANATOMY OF A POGROM JUDGE, EDWARD H. IN FEBRUARY, 1903, THE BODY OF A YOUNG BOY WAS DISCOVERED IN A SMALL TOWN IN SOUTHWESTERN RUSSIA. RUMORS THAT HE HAD BEEN MURDERED BY LOCAL JEWS SPREAD AND IN KISHINEV A MAJOR POGROM RESULTED. THE AUTHOR EXPLORES THE CAUSES OF THE RIOTS, THE JEWISH SITUATION IN RUSSIA AT THE TIME, AND THE SPIRAL OF VIOLENCE THAT ENSUED.
BR 7002 TO CROSS A LINE RAY, KAREN IN 1938 NAZI GERMANY A YOUNG JEWISH BOY CONFRONTS THE GESTAPO WITH DISASTROUS RESULTS. HE BECOMES A FUGITIVE AND EVENTUALLY ARRIVES AT THE DANISH BORDER WHERE HE GAINS HIS FREEDOM THROUGH THE GOOD WILL OF A DANISH SERGEANT.
BR 7003 BAKER'S DOZEN #13 SOMETHING'S FISHY STEIN, AIDEL NITZA WILON THE BAKER BOYS AND GIRLS HAVE DIFFERENT IDEAS ABOUT SUMMERS, SO FOR TWO DAYS THEY DECIDE TO TAKE SEPARATE VACATIONS. MR. BAKER AND HIS SONS GO FISHING IN THE MOUNTAINS WHILE THE GIRLS AND THEIR MOTHER HEAD FOR NEW YORK AND A SHOPPING SPREE. ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES SOON FOLLOW.
BR 7005 CIRCLING EDEN A NOVEL OF ISRAEL IN STORIES MAGUN, CAROL A POIGNANT AND ROMANTIC RENDERING OF A YOUNG AMERICAN SEEKING HER ROOTS IN ISRAEL. HER QUEST IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN SHE HAD IMAGINED SINCE HER ISRAELI BRETHREN SEEM AMBIVALENT TOWARD A SINGLE WOMAN, AN AMERIKAT, AN ASSIMILATED JEW.
BR 7006 GOOD POLICEMAN, THE CHARYN, JEROME IN THIS ACTION PACKED MYSTERY, JEWISH NEW YORK CITY POLICE COMMISSIONER ISAAC SIDEL CUTS SHORT HIS LECTURE TOUR TO RETURN TO NEW YORK WHERE HE HOPES TO UNCOVER THE WHEREABOUTS OF A MISSING MOB LAWYER, A MOB ACCOUNTANT AND A FORMER ROMANIAN 'PRINCESS.' DISREGARDING THE DIRECTIVES OF HIS BOSS, SIDEL'S UNORTHODOX METHODS LAND HIM IN JAIL.
BR 7007 GANG OF FOUR, THE KUNG FOOEY TO THE RESCUE PETERSEIL, YAACOV MARILYN PERE USING A COMPUTER, FOUR SIBLINGS FOIL A TERRORIST PLOT.
BR 7008 CLASSIC CHASSIDIC TALES LEVIN, MEYER MEYER LEVIN, A MASTER STORYTELLER, HAS GATHERED THE SCATTERED LEGENDS OF THE BAAL SHEM TOV TO FORM THE LEGENDARY LIFE STORY OF RABBI ISRAEL, THE ESTEEMED LEADER OF THE CHASSIDIC MOVEMENT.
BR 7009 OUT OF THE SHADOW A RUSSIAN JEWISH CHILDHOOD ON THE COHEN, ROSE FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1918, COHEN'S NARRATIVE CONVEYS A POWERFUL SENSE OF THE ASPIRATIONS AND FRUSTRATIONS OF AN IMMIGRANT JEWISH FAMILY IN AN ALIEN CULTURE.
BR 7010 DISGRACEFUL AFFAIR, A LAMBLIN, BIANCA SILVIA HOREN THIS IS THE STORY OF BIANCA BIENENFELD, A 17-YEAR-OLD STUDENT, WHO WAS SEDUCED BY HER PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR, SIMON DE BEAUVOIR AND THEN PASSED ON TO DE BEAUVOIR'S PARTNER/LOVER JEAN-PAUL SARTRE. ABANDONED AFTER A YEAR, LAMBLIN RESUMED A PLATONIC FRIENDSHIP WITH DE BEAUVOIR AFTER WW II AND THEY MET EVERY MONTH FOR FORTY YEARS.
BR 7011 I. L. PERETZ READER WISSE, RUTH R., ED. A COLLECTION OF STORIES BY THE YIDDISH WRITER WHO LIVED FROM 1852 TO 1915. PERETZ DESCRIBES GROWING UP ORTHODOX IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY POLAND AND DEPICTS GRINDING POVERTY SIDE BY SIDE WITH A BELIEF IN MIRACLES AND A STOIC ACCEPTANCE OF LIFE'S REALITIES.
BR 7012 SACRIFICE OF TAMAR RAGEN, NAOMI TAMAR FEINGOLD IS A HAPPY, CHASTE YOUNG BRIDE IN ONE OF BROOKLYN'S ULTRA-ORTHODOX ENCLAVES. THIS ALL CHANGES WHEN SHE IS RAPED ONE NIGHT BY A BLACK MAN WHILE SHE IS CARING FOR HER SISTER'S BABY. DISCOVERING SHE IS PREGNANT, TAMAR HIDES WHAT HAPPENED, BUT A SHOCKING TURN OF EVENTS ULTIMATELY FORCES TAMAR TO FACE THE TRUTH.
BR 7013 RUE ORDENER, RUE LABAT KOFMAN, SARAH SYLLA HASKEL KOFMAN, WHO TAUGHT PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOANALYSIS, ART AND LITERATURE AT THE SORBONNE, WROTE ABOUT HER CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES IN PARIS DURING THE GERMAN OCCUPATION.
BR 7014 IN THE YEAR 1096 THE FIRST CRUSADE AND THE JEWS CHAZAN, ROBERT SHIRLEY RADC CHAZAN RELATES STORIES OF CHRISTIAN ENEMIES, BUT ALSO OF CHRISTIAN FRIENDS, AND OF JEWISH MARTRYS, BUT ALSO OF JEWISH NEGOTIATORS AND CONVERTS. HE DEVOTES THE SECOND HALF OF THE BOOK TO TRACING VARIOUS EVENTS THROUGH THE INTERVENING NINE CENTURIES OF JEWISH HISTORY.
BR 7015 LIFE AND MANY DEATHS OF HARRY HOUDINI, THE BRANDON, RUTH CHRISTINE WA BRANDON RELATES THE LIFE HOUDINI FROM HIS CHILDHOOD IN BUDAPEST AS THE SON OF AN UNSUCCESSFUL RABBI TO HIS CAREER AS A FAMOUS MAGICIAN. SHE EXPLAINS THE SECRETS OF HOUDINI'S FAMOUS ESCAPES, HIS OBSESSION WITH DEATH AND HIS CAMPAIGN TO EXPOSE FAKE MEDIUMS AS WELL AS A DESCRIPTION OF HIS FABLED DEATH.
BR 7016 YESTERDAY'S KITCHEN JEWISH RECIPES FROM A VANISHING AG BURR, GILLIAN & MARION COHEN, EDITOR ARLENE SELEK A COLLECTION OF PRE-1939 RECIPES FROM CONTRIBUTORS WHO LIVED OR STILL LIVE IN JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN 38 COUNTRIES. THE AMAZING VARIETY OF FOODS AND PREPARATION OF DISHES FROM ORIENT AND OCCIDENT, ALL ABIDING BY THE LAWS OF KASHRUT, SUDDENLY GIVES ONE A NEW, COLORFUL KALEIDOSCOPIC VIEW OF THE DIASPORA.
BR 7017 HEROES AND HUSTLERS, HARD HATS AND HOLY MEN INSIDE THE NEW ISRAEL CHAFETS, ZE'EV AN ACCOUNT OF THE NEW ISRAEL BY AN AMERICAN TURNED PSEUDO-SABRA. CALLING ISRAEL 'A GOOD COUNTRY IN A BAD NEIGHBORHOOD,' THE AUTHOR GIVES A VOICE TO ITS NEW GENERATION WHO BELIEVES THAT IT IS 'A REAL COUNTRY WITH THE FLAWS AND WEAKNESSES OF REAL COUNTRIES EVERYWHERE.'
BR 7018 NO TROPHY, NO SWORD AN AMERICAN VOLUNTEER IN THE ISRAE LIVINGSTON, HAROLD AN ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCES AS ONE OF A HANDFUL OF AMERICAN JEWS WHO VOLUNTEERED TO FLY MILITARY SUPPLIES THROUGH THE BRITISH BLOCKADE TO ISRAEL DURING THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE. HE RECALLS THE TENSE FLIGHTS IN OVERLOADED PLANES, THE SQUABBLING BETWEEN THE IRGUN AND THE HAGANAH, AND HIS DECISION TO REMAIN AN AMERICAN.
BR 7019 BOOK THAT WAS LOST, A S. Y. AGNON MINTZ, A. AND A. G. HOFFMAN: EDITORS HARRY SMALL A COLLECTION OF STORIES BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING ISRAELI NOVELIST. AGNON TRANSFORMS TRADITIONAL THEMES AND SOURCES AND WRITES OF COMMUNITY AND DISLOCATION, LONGING AND LOSS.
BR 7020 POLITICS OF MEMORY, THE THE PATH OF A HOLOCAUST HISTORIAN HILBERG, RAUL IN THIS DEFENSIVE, DRYLY WRITTEN, SOMETIMES ACRIMONIOUS MEMOIR, HILBERG SETTLES SCORES WITH HIS OPPONENTS, NOTABLY HOLOCAUST HISTORIAN LUCY DAWIDOWICZ AND DISTANCES HIMSELF FROM HANNAH ARENDT. HE RELIVES PERSONAL MOMENTS OF INTENSE DRAMA, HIS ESCAPE FROM AUSTRIA IN 1939 AND HIS RETURN TO MUNICH AS AN AMERICAN SOLDIER AT WAR'S END.
BR 7021 SMILE FOR SAMMY, A STERN, SARA SAMMY IS THE TERROR OF THE CLASS. THINGS HAVEN'T BEEN THE SAME SINCE HE CAME. BUT AVI HAS HIS OWN IDEAS ABOUT SAMMY. THE SEVENTH-GRADERS AT NOAM HATORAH DON'T SEE IT THAT WAY AT ALL. WILL AVI BE ABLE TO CONVINCE THEM?
BR 7022 METAPHOR AND MEMORY OZICK, CYNTHIA A SELECTION OF ESSAYS, REVIEWS AND ORATIONS CULLED FROM VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS WHICH REFLECT OZICK'S LITERARY AND SOCIAL INTERESTS AND COMMITTMENTS.
BR 7023 QUALITY OF MERCY, THE KELLERMAN, FAYE SET IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND, THIS IS THE STORY OF REBECCA, A SPANISH JEW POSING AS AN ANGLICAN, WHO MEETS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. THE ENCOUNTER IRREVOCABLY CHANGES BOTH THEIR LIVES.
BR 7024 GHOST STORIES BRONER, E. M. SHIRLEY SOMM DEATH DOES NOT RESOLVE THE EMOTION, ANGER, AND TENSION BETWEEN LEILA, A MIDDLE-AGED, PROFESSIONAL JEWISH WOMAN, AND HER MOTHER. AT A FRIDAY NIGHT SYNAGOGUE SERVICE LEILA DISCOVERS HER MOTHER'S GHOST SITTING BESIDE HER AND FOR THE NEXT 11 MONTHS, THE WOMEN TALK, TRYING TO RECONCILE THEIR DIFFERENCES.
BR 7025 CHILDREN OF CIRCUMSTANCES ISRAELI EMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK SHOKEID, MOSHE THE AUTHOR EXPLORES ONE OF THE LARGEST COMMUNITIES OF ISRAELI IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES.
BR 7026 ON STAGE, OFF STAGE MEMORIES OF A LIFETIME IN THE YIDD KADISON, LUBA & JOSEPH BULOFF WITH I THE CAREERS OF THE GREAT YIDDISH ACTOR AND ACTRESS (HUSBAND AND WIFE) WERE INTIMATELY INVOLVED WITH YIDDISH THEATER FOR OVER 60 YEARS. FROM THE DAYS OF THE VILNA TROUPE TO THEIR SUCCESS ON THE AMERICAN YIDDISH STAGE, THIS RECORD INCLUDES THEATER MEMORABILIA THAT HAS BEEN DONATED TO THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
BR 7027 AROUND THE MAGGID'S TABLE THE SEQUEL TO 'THE MAGGID SPEAKS' KROHN, RABBI PAYSACH J. THIS SEQUEL TO THE MAGGID SPEAKS IS PACKED WITH WONDERFUL STORIES AND THEIR MORALS, AS TOLD BY SOME OF JEWRY'S MOST ELOQUENT AND POPULAR SPEAKERS. THIS BOOK MASTERFULLY CAPTURES THE DISTINCTIVE ART OF THE MAGGID. © 1989
BR 7028 MAZEL GOLDSTEIN, REBECCA RABBI KAREN FOR SASHA SAUNDERS BORN IN A POLISH SHTETL AND NOW A SOPHISTICATED NEW YORKER, MAZEL IS THE PREDOMINANT FACTOR IN HER LIFE. GOLDSTEIN DEPICTS THE HEADY EXCITEMENT, THE INTELLECTUAL FERMENT AND THE CULTURAL VIGOR OF SHTETL LIFE IN WARSAW BEFORE THE WAR AND THE COMPLEXITIES OF NEW YORK JEWISH COMMUNITY LIFE.
BR 7029 MAHATMA GANDHI IN A CADILLAC ROSEN, GERALD AUDREY FLAMB OFFERED A SUMMER JOB IN SEATTLE, DANNY SCHWARTZ, A JEWISH BOY FROM THE BRONX, SETS OFF ON THE ROAD TO AMERICA. ON THE FIRST DAY HE MEETS LESLIE SCHMIDT, A FARMER'S DAUGHTER AND MUSICIAN AND SOON FALLS IN LOVE.
BR 7030 STRANGE ATTRACTORS GOLDSTEIN, REBECCA MELINDA DAVI A COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT EXPLORES THE INTERACTIONS OF THOUGHT AND FEELING, MIND AND HEART, TO REVEAL THE DEEP, MYSTERIOUS TIES BETWEEN SEEMINGLY UNRELATED LIVES.
BR 7031 IT'S A MITZVAH! STEP BY STEP TO JEWISH LIVING ARTSON, BRADLEY SHAVIT MELVIN DAVIS A BOOK ABOUT MITZVOT AND A GUIDE TO LEADING A MORAL, CIVILIZED LIFE. ARTSON OFFERS PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO IMPLEMENT THE MITZVOT AND INCLUDES PERSONAL ANECDOTES.
BR 7032 FUNERAL AT NOON KOREN, YESHAYAHU TAMIR
JBI S
HAGAR, A CHILDLESS, FRUSTRATED HOUSEWIFE WHO IS DRIFTING APART FROM HER HUSBAND, FORMS A SPECIAL ATTACHMENT TO HER NEIGHBOR'S SON. THE BOY SPIES HAGAR AND A SOLDIER IN A SEXUAL LIAISON IS UPSET AND VANISHES. HAGAR CONCEALS THE AFFAIR AND MISREPRESENTS THE REASONS FOR THE BOY'S DISAPPEARANCE WHICH COMPOUNDS THE ENSUING TRAGEDY.
BR 7033 JERUSALEM ANTHOLOGY, THE A LITERARY GUIDE HAMMER, REUVEN: EDITOR A COLLECTION OF LITERATURE, POETRY, SONGS AND HISTORY FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN TIMES.
BR 7034 AMI AVED, JOE STEVE SPRARA A NOVEL THAT OPENS WITH THE HIJACKING OF AN AIRLINER IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE KIDNAPPING OF AN ISRAELI INFANT BY A PALESTINIAN TERRORIST.
BR 7036 TOPOL'S TREASURY OF JEWISH HUMOR, WIT AND WISDOM TOPOL, CHAIM, COMPILED BY SANDI SKODNI THE REMARKABLE ACTOR, BEST KNOWN FOR HIS MEMORABLE PERFORMANCE AS TEVYE IN FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, HAS GATHERED TOGETHER HIS FAVORITE JOKES, STORIES, SAYINGS AND WISE WORDS FROM THE WORLD OF THE JEWS. THE RESULT IS A CHARMING, RIB-TICKLING COMPENDIUM OF THE BRIGHTEST, FUNNIEST AND OFTEN MOST POIGNANT ASPECTS OF JEWISH LIFE.
BR 7047 HOUSE OF GUILT ROSENBERG, ROBERT JANET KALISH ONCE AGAIN, AVRAM COHEN RELUCTANTLY RETIRED FROM THE JERUSALEM POLICE, IS EMBROILED IN ISRAEL'S TUMULTUOUS POLITICAL SCENE AS WELL AS A NEW MURDER MYSTERY. DID PALESTINIAN EXTREMISTS MURDER THE RICH GRANDSOM OF ISRAELI BANKER RAPHAEL LEVI-TSUR, OR WAS IT ACTUALLY JEWISH EXTREMISTS AS COHEN IS MORE INCLINED TO BELIEVE.
BR 7048 IKE AND MAMA AND TROUBLE AT SCHOOL SNYDER, CAROL SET IN THE BRONX IN THE 1920S, THIS CAPTIVATING BOOK DEPICTS THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF 12-YEAR-OLD IKE GREENBERG. HE'S BEING PURSUED AND INTIMIDATED BY ZIGGY, A BULLY WHO CALLS HIM A DITY JEW AND SCOLDED BY HIS MORNING TEACHER. THEN THE PRINCIPAL HANDS HIM A SEALED NOTE TO GIVE TO HIS PARENTS...
BR 7049 AWARENESS THE KEY TO ACCEPTANCE, FORGIVENESS ADAHAN, MIRIAM AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF THE NINE PRINCIPLE PERSONALITY TYPES, BASED ON AN AMAZINGLY ACCURATE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM CALLED THE ENNEAGRAM. THE AUTHOR DEMONSTARTES HOW AN UNDERSTANDING OF ONE'S STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES CAN LEAD TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH.
BR 7051 MURDER AT CITY HALL KOCH, EDWARD I. 'RIDICULOUS!' PROCLAIMS HIZZONER WHEN HE FINDS HIMSELF ON THE N.Y.P.D.'S LIST OF PRIME SUSPECTS. DRAWING ON HIS WIDE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS - IN AND OUT OF CITY HALL-KOCH FIGHTS TO CLEAR HIS NAME WHILE RUNNING THE CITY AND SECRETLY FOLLOWING A CRIME TRAIL THAT STRETCHES FROM GRAND ARMY PLAZA TO THE WEST SIDE RAILROAD YARDS.
BR 7052 COMPLETE AMERICAN-JEWISH COOKBOOK, THE LONDON, ANNE & BERTHA KAHN BISHOV THIS GIANT EASY-TO-USE VOLUME INCLUDES OVER 3,500 DELICIOUS WAYS TO COOK IN ACCORSANCE WITH JEWISH DIETARY LAWS.
BR 7054 JEWISH WISDOM ETHICAL, SPIRITUAL, AND HISTORICAL TELUSHKIN, JOSEPH, RABBI RABBI TELUSHKIN PROVIDES A LIVELY COMPANION TO HIS POPULAR JEWISH LITERACY IN THIS COLLECTION OF HUNDREDS OF INFLUENTIAL QUOTATIONS TAKEN FROM THE JEWISH RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR CANON DATING FROM THE TALMUD TO ISAAC SINGER AND AMOS OZ.
BR 7055 GOD AND THE BIG BANG DISCOVERING HARMONY BETWEEN SCIENC MATT, DANIEL C. MARK YOHALEM DRAWING ON THE INSIGHTS OF PHYSICS AND JEWISH MYSTICISM, MATT UNCOVERS THE SENSE OF WONDER THAT CONNECTS US WITH THE UNIVERSE AND GOD. HE SHOWS PARALLELS BETWEEN MODERN COSMOLOGY AND ANCIENT JEWISH KABBALAH AND DEMONSTRATES HOW SCIENCE AND RELIGION TOGETHER CAN ENRICH OUR SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING.
BR 7056 JEWS OF GERMANY, THE A HISTORICAL PORTRAIT GAY, RUTH PAULINE M. SCOTT THIS HIGHLY READABLE AND INFORMATIVE HISTORY OF GERMANY'S JEWS EXTENDS FROM THE EMPEROR CONSTANTINE'S COURT IN 321 C.E. TO THE LAST SHIPMENT OF JEWISH ARMAMENT WORKERS FROM BERLIN TO AUSCHWITZ ON FEBRUARY 27, 1943. ALTHOUGH THE BOOK DOES NOT NEGLECT THE HOLOCAUST OR MEDIEVAL JEWRY, IT IS MORE A CELEBRATION THAN A LAMENTATION.
BR 7057 MY BALTIMORE LANDSMEN A DOCUMENTARY NOVEL TAUBE, HERMAN THIS IS A MOVING TALE ABOUT SURVIVORS AND THEIR BENEFACTORS IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. THE NOVEL COMPELS US TO CONFRONT THE VANISHED PAST, THE SHTETLS THAT NO LONGER EXIST, THE TRIBULATIONS AND PERILS OF THE HOLOCAUST, AND THE COMPASSION AND ACCEPTANCE THE SURVIVORS FOUND IN AMERICA AFTER WORLD WAR II.
BR 7058 RACHEL CALOF'S STORY A JEWISH HOMESTEADER ON THE NORTHE CALOF, RACHEL BELLA SYLVIA JACOB IN 1894, THE 18-YEAR-OLD CALOF, A RUSSIAN JEW, WAS SHIPPED TO THE U.S. TO MARRY AN UNKNOWN MAN AND STAKE A HOMESTEADING CLAIM WITH HIM IN NORTH DAKOTA. OCCASIONALLY REVEALING A BITING SENSE OF HUMOR, CALOF WRITES OF HER DIFFICULT AND OFTEN PATHETIC CIRCUMSTANCES, YET SHE REMEMBERS THE PLEASANT TIMES TOO.
BR 7060 DAYS AND THE SEASONS, THE FRIESEL, EVYATAR NINA MELTZER FRIESEL (JEWISH HISTORY, HEBREW UNIV.) HAS COMBINED A PERSONAL MEMOIR WITH AN EXAMINATION OF THE PLACE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN CONTEMPORARY LIFE. HE TELLS OF HIS FAMILY'S ESCAPE FROM GERMANY IN 1939. HIS CHILDHOLD YEARS IN BRAZIL AND HIS SETTLEMENT IN ISRAEL IN 1950, WHERE HE STILL MAKES HIS HOME.
BR 7061 SILENTS, THE ABRAMS, CHARLOTTE RITA FEDER THIS IS A STORY OF LIFE DURING THE DEPRESSION. IT IS ALSO AN ACCOUNT OF TWO DEAF JEWISH PARENTS WHO TRIED TO PROVIDE A 'REGULAR' LIFE FOR THEIR CHILDREN.
BR 7062 STRANGER IN THE MIDST A MEMOIR OF SPIRITUAL DISCOVERY FINK, NAN SILVIA HOREN FINK WRITES OF HER SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL DISCOVERIES AFTER SHE CONVERTED TO JUDAISM AT MIDLIFE. THE CHANGES SHE MADE PROVED TO BE FAR MORE DIFFICULT THAN SHE EVER ANTICIPATED, AND AT ONE POINT FINK QUESTIONED THE RELIGION SHE HAD ADOPTED. BUT HER COMMITMENT TO JUDAISM REMAINS STRONG AND MEANINGFUL.
BR 7063 TALMUDIC IMAGES STEINSALTZ, ADIN SARENE MEYER THIS VOLUME IS NOT INTENDED AS A HISTORY OF THE SAGES NOR DOES IT ATTEMPT TO DESCRIBE THEIR DIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT. STEINSALTZ'S INTENTION IS TO GIVE A CERTAIN IMPRESSION, A SKETCH OF PERSONALITIES, NOT ONLY AS THINKERS AND SCHOLARS, BUT ALSO AS HUMAN BEINGS, WHOM WE OURSELVES CAN SEE STANDING BEFORE US TODAY.
BR 7064 DANGER! THREE JEWISH PEOPLES AVI-HAI, AVRAHAM THE AUTHOR ANALYZES THE EMERGENCE OF THREE SEPARATE JEWISH COMMUNITIES; THE NEW ISRAELIS, WHO ARE MODERN AND SECULAR; AMERICAN JEWS WHO HAVE FADED INTO AN ASSIMILATED LIFESTYLE AND CIVIL RELIGION; AND THE ULTRA-ORTHODOX WHO LIVE IN ISOLATED COMMUNITIES AND ARE FEARFUL OF CHANGE. HE WARNS OF SCHISMS AND PROPOSES WAYS TO WORK TOWARD UNITY.
BR 7065 JEWISH WAR, THE REICH, TOVA MARILYN WEIN FORMER BRONX SOCIAL WORKER JERRY GOLDBERG HAS BECOME YEHUDI HAGOEL, CULT LEADER OF A BAND OF AMERICAN JEWISH ZEALOTS WHO ESTABLISH A SHORT-LIVED SECESSIONIST KINGDOM ON ISRAEL'S WEST BANK. JOINING HIM IN THIS DOOMED QUEST ARE HIS THREE WIVES, A COMRADE FROM BROOKLYN AND OTHER FANATICS WILLING TO DIE FOR THEIR CAUSE.
BR 7066 100 YEARS, 100 STORIES BURNS, GEORGE FRANK SWEENE GEORGE BURNS' CAREER SPANNED THE HISTORY OF MODERN SHOW BUSINESS. HE STARRED IN VAUDEVILLE, RADIO, TELEVISION, THE MOVIES, AND THE RECORDING INDUSTRY AND ON THE NIGHTCLUB STAGE. HERE HE DELIVERS HUMOROUS ANECDOTES ON HIS LIFE AND CAREER.
BR 7067 SWINE'S WEDDING, THE WEISS, DAVID EVAN CHRISTINE WA IN A BIZARRE AND BITING STORY, THE DOOMED ENGAGEMENT OF SOLOMON BENEVISTE UNFOLDS THROUGH THE JOURNALS OF THE TWO WOMEN WHO LOVE HIM; HIS JEWISH MOTHER AND HIS WASPY FIANCEE. THE TWO NARRATORS ARE COMPLEX, UNSELFCONSCIOUS AND BELIEVABLE. TOGETHER, THEY PROVIDE A COMPELLING, IF GROTESQUE, REASON TO REMAIN TRUE TO ONE'S IDENTITY.
BR 7069 ABOUT SCHMIDT BEGLEY, LOUIS TANYA SHERMAN A PATRICIAN LAWYER IN LOVE, HIS YUPPIE DAUGHTER AND HER JEWISH FIANCE PLAY PARTS IN THIS NOVEL SET AMIDST A FADING WASP SOCIETY AND RISING NEW FORTUNES IN NEW YORK AND THE HAMPTONS.
BR 7070 JACK AND ROCHELLE A STORY OF LOVE AND RESISTANCE SUTIN, LARRY: EDITOR MELISSA WOLF SUTIN CRAFTED THIS HOLOCAUST ACCOUNT FROM INTERVIEWS HE CONDUCTED WITH HIS PARENTS. THEY DESCRIBE HOW THEY FLED FROM POLISH GHETTOS, THEIR HARROWING ENCOUNTERS WITH ANTI-SEMITIC RUSSIAN SOLDIERS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP BOTH DURING AND AFTER THE WAR. THE SUTINS MARRIED AND EMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES AFTER THE WAR.
BR 7071 MRS. HORNSTIEN WAGMAN, FREDRICA MARJORIE RAP SPANNING 30 YEARS, THIS NOVELLA HIGHLIGHTS THE INCREASINGLY TOUCHING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MARTY HORNSTIEN AND HER FORMIDABLE MOTHER-IN-LAW, GOLDA, THROUGH TRAGEDIES AND OTHER LIFE-SHAPING EVENTS.
BR 7072 PICTURING THE WRECK SHAPIRO, DANI TANYA SHERMA AS A RESULT OF A DESTRUCTIVE AFFAIR WITH A PATIENT 30 YEARS AGO, AGING PSYCHOANALYST SOLOMON GROSSMAN LOST BOTH A PRESTIGIOUS JOB AND HIS FAMILY. GROSSMAN RECOGNIZES HIS LONG-LOST SON ON A TV BROADCAST AND THE RESULTING REUNION BETWEEN FATHER AND SON IS AWKWARD YET MOVING AND INSIGHTFUL.
BR 7073 DUTCHMAN'S DILEMMA, THE MEYERS, MAAN SARENE MEYER IN THIS FOURTH VOLUME IN THE TONNEMAN FAMILY SAGA, SHERIFF PIETER TONNEMAN IS ORDERED BY HIS OLD ENEMY, FIRST COUNCILLOR NICASIUS DE SILLE, TO FIND THE MISCREANT WHO RITUALLY KILLED THE GOVERNOR'S PRIZE HORSE. URGENCY IS ADDED TO THE INVESTIGATION WHEN WHISPERS OF WITCHCRAFT BEGIN, AIMED AT THE LOCAL JEWISH COMMUNITY.
BR 7074 RABBI AND THE NUN, THE SCHREIBER, MORDECAI FRANK SWEENE RABBI KAYE AND SISTER EVE ARE PASSIONATELY COMMITTED TO THEIR RELIGIOUS VOCATIONS. YET IN SPITE OF THEIR DIFFERING BELIEFS, THEY BECOME ATTRACTED TO EACH OTHER. THEY TEAM UP IN THEIR SPIRITUAL SEARCH, ONLY TO DISCOVER THAT THEY HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER.
BR 7075 REMARKABLE JEWISH WOMEN REBELS, RABBIS AND OTHER JEWISH WO TAITZ, EMILY & SONDRA HENRY HISTORIANS TAITZ AND HENRY OFFER YOUNG READERS A KALEIDOSCOPE OF JEWISH WOMEN FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD OF THE BIBLE TO MODERN TIMES. IN THIS COLLECTION OF MORE THAN 80 PORTRAITS, THE AUTHORS SHOW THESE WOMEN WITHIN A CAREFULLY RESEARCHED HISTORICAL, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT.
BR 7078 LITTLE BLACK BOX, THE PART ONE - TOP SECRET LAZEWNIK, LIBBY MARK TAFOYA/ A GROUP OF TOP-NOTCH SCIENTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE GETTING TOGETHER FOR A SPECIAL CONFERENCE AT A LUXURIOUS CATSKILLS RESORT. BUT SOMETHING MORE IS BREWING. SHRAGA MORGENSTERN AND PINNY KATZ TRAVEL TO THE HOTEL WITH THEIR SCIENTIST FATHERS AND A SECRET WEAPON, NEVER DREAMING OF THE PERILS THAT LIE IN WAIT FOR THEM.
BR 7079 TEDDY KOLLEK BUILDER OF JERUSALEM RABINOVICH, ABRAHAM AS A YOUNG BOY IN VIENNA, TEDDY KOLLEK JOINED A ZIONIST CLUB, HOPING TO BUILD A JEWISH HOMELAND IN PALESTINE. NOT ONLY DID KOLLEK FULFILL HIS DREAM OF BECOMING A PIONEER, HE WENT ON TO BECOME A SECRET AGENT, A DIPLOMAT, A TRUSTED AIDE TO ISRAEL'S FOUNDING FATHER, AND FOR SOME 25 YEARS, THE MOST FAMOUS MAYOR IN THE WORLD.
BR 7080 DAY THE RABBI LEFT TOWN, THE KEMELMAN, HARRY SANDI SKODNI RABBI SMALL HAS RESIGNED AS RABBI OF BARNARD'S CROSSING'S TEMPLE AND ACCEPTED A PROFESSORSHIP AT WINDEMERE COLLEGE. THE BODY OF AN ENGLISH PROFESSOR IS FOUND IN A SNOWDRIFT. HEART ATTACK? RABBI SMALL THINKS NOT, FOR A MAN AS SUBLIMELY SELF-INTERESTED AS PROFESSOR KENT MUST HAVE RACKED UP MANY A GRUDGE. AND, AS USUAL, THE RABBI IS RIGHT.
BR 7081 GREAT TOPICS OF THE WORLD GOLDBARTH, ALBERT SHIRLEY RADC POET GOLDBARTH'S ESSAYS ARE SINGULAR HYBRIDS, SEAMLESSLY MELDING AUTOBIOGRAPHY, HISTORY, FANTASY AND MYTH. DEATH, EROS, HOPE FOR THE FUTURE AND RUEFUL WISDOM ARE INSEPARABLY INTWINED IN THESE WONDROUS ESSAYS FULL OF INTRIGUING LORE AND SURPRISING CONNECTIONS.
BR 7082 MAN IN THE BOX, THE MORAN, THOMAS IN A SMALL VILLAGE IN AUSTRIA DURING WORLD WAR II, A JEWISH DOCTOR SHOWS UP AT THE HOME OF A 'RIGHTEOUS GENTILE' FAMILY SEEKING REFUGE FROM THE NAZIS. YEARS BEFORE HE HAD SAVED THEIR ONLY SON. DESPITE THE DANGERS OF HARBORING JEWS, THE MAN IS HIDDEN IN A FALSE ROOM, NO BIGGER THAN A BOX, IN THE BARN FOR TWO YEARS.
BR 7083 LIEBERMAN'S LAW KAMINSKY, STUART ELYSE WEISBE WHEN A SYNAGOGUE IS DEFACED AND A TORAH STOLEN AGING CHICAGO COP ABE LIEBERMAN TAKES IT PERSONALLY; IT'S HIS SHUL AND HIS WIFE IS THE PRESIDENT. ABE IS ALSO BATTLING A KOREAN GANG AND HIS OWN FAMILY PROBLEMS AS HE HITS THE TRAIL OF A PERVERSE ALLIANCE OF WHITE SKINHEADS AND ARAB MILITANTS.
BR 7084 NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH PARRISH, RICHARD PAUL N. KRAM BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS LAWYER JOSHUA RABB, ON RETAINER TO MOBSTER MEYER LANSKY, IS CALLED IN WHEN THE BODY OF A HASIDIC JEW IS DISCOVERED ON THE LOCAL INDIAN RESERVATION. HE SOON FINDS HIMSELF ENMESHED IN ORGANIZED CRIME, EVEN AS HIS FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER BECOMES INVOLVED IN A ROMANCE WITH MAFIOSO JOE BONNANO'S SON.
BR 7085 B. Y. HIGH #3 GOING HOME SCHREIBER, PEREL NITZA WILON PASSOVER MEANS GOING HOME, BUT TAMAR, ELISHEVA, AND ROCHEL EACH HAVE REASONS TO BE DISAPPOINTED IN THEIR HOLIDAY PLANS. IT TAKES AN UNEXPECTED EVENT TO TEACH THE GIRLS HOW TO VALUE WHAT IS PRECIOUS IN THEIR LIVES.
BR 7086 SANCTUARY KELLERMAN, FAYE STAN STONE WHILE LAPD DETECTIVE PETER DECKER IS INVESTIGATING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF DIAMOND DEALER ARIK YALOM AND HIS FAMILY, HIS WIFE RINA IS PLAYING HOSTESS TO A FRIEND FROM BROOKLYN. BUT WHEN YALOM AND HIS FAMILY ARE FOUND MURDERED AND RINA'S FRIEND DISAPPEARS AFTER HER HUSBAND IS FOUND DEAD, CLUES LEAD DECKER AND HIS WIFE TO ISRAEL.
BR 7087 GEOGRAPHY OF THE HEART A MEMOIR JOHNSON, FENTON RAMU DAMODAR A MEMOIR TELLING THE STORY OF TWO MEN, OPPOSITES IN MANY WAYS: CATHOLIC AND JEW, SOUTHERNER AND CALIFORNIAN, DESCENDANT OF APPALACHIAN FOLK AND HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS' SON, HIV NEGATIVE AND HIV POSITIVE, WHO MET, FELL IN LOVE, AND EXPERIENCED DEATH IN ONE OF THE WORST EPIDEMICS OF OUR TIME.
BR 7088 COLOR OF WATER, THE A BLACK MAN'S TRIBUTE TO HIS WHITE MCBRIDE, JAMES TANYA SHERMA JAMES MCBRIDE GREW UP ONE OF 12 CHILDREN OF A BLACK MINISTER AND A WHITE MOTHER IN A BROOKLYN HOUSING PROJECT. IN THIS MOVING MEMOIR IN WHICH MCBRIDE RECOUNTS HIS EMBARRASSMENTS AND STRAINS, HIS MOTHER, BORN AN ORTHODOX JEW, TELLS THE STORY OF HER OWN PAST, A STORY JAMES MCBRIDE DID NOT LEARN UNTIL HE WAS AN ADULT.
BR 7089 VANISHING AMERICAN JEW, THE IN SEARCH OF JEWISH IDENTITY FOR T DERSHOWITZ, ALAN SPENCER RAIN DERSHOWITZ ARGUES THAT AMERICAN JEWRY IS IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION BY THE MIDDLE OF THE NEXT CENTURY, BECAUSE OF SKYROCKETING RATES OF INTERMARRIAGE AND ASSIMILATION, COMBINED WITH LOW BIRTH RATES. HE PROPOSES AN OVERHAUL OF JEWISH EDUCATION TO MAKE CLASSES AND STUDY GROUPS MORE ACCESSIBLE, WIDESPREAD AND RELEVANT TO SECULAR JEWS.
BR 7090 CREATING ANGELS STORIES OF TZEDAKAH GOLDIN, BARBARA DIAMOND RITA FEDER THE AUTHOR HAS COLLECTED AND RETOLD TWENTY-FOUR STORIES ABOUT TZEDAKAH, OR CHARITY SOME OF WHICH ARE FROM THE ORAL TRADITION WHILE OTHERS ARE HASIDIC OR MIDRASHIC IN ORIGIN.
BR 7091 QUARRY, THE GROSSINGER, HARVEY AUDREY FLAMB GROSSINGER'S FLANNERY O'CONNER AWARD-WINNING COLLECTION OF FIVE STORIES AND ONE SHORT NOVELLA FOCUSES ON JEWISH FAMILIES, FATHER-AND-SON RELATIONSHIPS, AND THE VICISSITUDES OF LIFE.
BR 7092 DO UNTO OTHERS HOW GOOD DEEDS CAN CHANGE YOUR LIF TWERSKI, ABRAHAM J., M.D., RABBI SARENE MEYER DO UNTO OTHERS IS A COMBINATION OF THE TWO TEACHING TRADITIONS THAT HAVE DEFINED DR. TWERSKI'S LIFE-A CULMINATION OF HIS EXPERIENCES AS A PSYCHIATRIST AND RABBI. THE ENTRIES WITHIN THE BOOK INCLUDE STORIES HE'S WITNESSED FIRSTHAND, PLUS AWE-INSPIRING STORIES FROM CHASSIDIC AND OTHER FOLKLORE.
BR 7093 AFTERLIFE DIET PINKWATER, DANIEL HAROLD SIEGE IN THIS NEW YORK JEWISH FANTASY, HUGELY OBESE EDITOR MILTON CRAMER IS MURDERED AND FINDS HIMSELF IN A HEAVEN THAT IS A CATSKILL RESORT WHERE EVERYONE IS 'CIRCUMFERENTIALLY CHALLENGED,' GOD IS A STAND-UP COMIC AND THERE ARE NO PRUNES.
BR 7094 FINAL JUDGEMENT, THE EASTERMAN, DANIEL WHEN HIS YOUNG SON IS KIDNAPPED, ARYEH LEVIN CALLS ON HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, YOSEF ABUHATSEIRA, TO HELP. ALTHOUGH YOSEF SAVES THE BOY, THE CHILD'S PARENTS ARE BRUTALLY MURDERED AND THE MOSSAD ENLISTS YOSEF TO ASSIST THEM IN SOLVING A SERIES OF MURDERS.
BR 7095 GEORGE ELIOT THE JEWISH CONNECTION LEVITT, RUTH THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN AS A RESULT OF EXTENSIVE RESEARCH BY THE AUTHOR INTO THE LIFE OF GEORGE ELIOT, BEST KNOWN FOR HER WORK, DANIEL DERONDA.
BR 7097 MIHU THE DETECTIVE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE BUDGIE HALPERN, CHAIKY BEATRICE DAV WHEN PENNY THE BLUE BUDGIE FLEW OUT THE OPEN WINDOW OF THE FINE'S NEW HOME, HILLEL WAS SURE HE WOULD NEVER SEE HIS PET AGAIN. BUT RENA AND REUVEN FIND THE LITTLE BIRD, AND WITH THE HELP OF MIHU THE DETECTIVE, PENNY IS RETURNED TO HIS OWNER AND HILLEL FINDS NEW FRIENDS.
BR 7098 FROM JERUSALEM TO THE EDGE OF HEAVEN MEDITATIONS ON THE SOUL OF ISRAEL ELON, ARI RAYMA FELDMA AN INNOVATIVE COMBINATION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY, FICTION, TALMUDIC COMMENTARY AND REFLECTIONS ON MODERN JEWISH AND ISRAELI IDENTITY.
BR 7099 RESCUE OF MEMORY, THE SUCHER, CHERYL PEARL MARJORIE RAP THE DAUGHTER OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, RACHAEL WALLFISH IS RAISED IN A COMFORTABLE BUT ALMOST STIFLING ENVIRONMENT FILLED WITH FAMILY STORIES OF WARTIME ATROCITIES. TWENTY YEARS LATER, RACHAEL, NOW A SUCCESSFUL FILM PRODUCER, STRUGGLES WITH THE TENSIONS IN HER LIFE IN AN EFFORT TO DEFINE HER SENSE OF SELF.
BR 7100 KRAVEN IMAGES ISLER, ALAN NICHOLAS MARCUS KRAVEN, A VISITING LECTURER, IS A COMPULSIVE LIAR, A CAD, AND A WOULD-BE SEDUCER OF STUDENTS. HE IS AN IMPOSTER AS WELL, POSING AS HIS DEAD ENGLISH COUSIN. YET KRAVEN IS A MAN WHO IS HAUNTED BY HIS PAST-BY THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, SOON AFTER THE FAMILY ESCAPED FROM NAZI OCCUPIED POLAND, AND HIS OWN DEMONS.
BR 7101 DARK LADY FROM BELORUSSE, THE CHARYN, JEROME LESLIE CARRO IT WAS A DARKLY ROMANTIC TIME. THE BRONX SAT NEAR THE ATLANTIC OCEAN WITHOUT A PROPER SEAWALL, AND THERE WAS TALK OF ATTACK SQUADS ARRIVING IN LITTLE RUBBER BOATS OFF SOME TRICKY SUBMARINE. BUT WHAT POWER WOULD A NAZI HAVE HAD AGAINST THE SHIMMERING OUTLINE OF CHARYN'S MOTHER IN HER SILVER FOX COAT; THE DARK LADY FROM BELORUSSE.
BR 7102 FOUNDER A PORTRAIT OF THE FIRST ROTHSCHILD ELON, AMOS AUDREY FLAMB FROM DOCUMENTS AND INTERVIEWS, ISRAELI JOURNALIST ELON HAS RECONSTRUCTED THE LIFE OF MAYER AMSCHEL ROTHSCHILD, FOUNDER OF THE DYNASTY OF FAMILY BANKERS.
BR 7103 LION OF JUDAH OSTROVSKY, VICTOR IN AN EFFORT TO PROTECT THEIR MOSSAD MOLE, SYRIAN POLICE PLOT TO FRAME MOSSAD OFFICER NATAN STONE. STONE MUST UNCOVER THE TRAITOR TO CLEAR HIMSELF AND TO STOP THE TERRORIST ACTIVITY THAT THREATENS TO UNDERMINE MIDDLE EAST PEACE TALKS.
BR 7104 TALES OUT OF SHUL THE UNORTHODOX JOURNAL OF AN ORTHO FELDMAN, EMANUEL GINGER RICH THIS JOURNAL TAKES US ON A VIVID AND UNFORGETTABLE TOUR OF FORTY YEARS IN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL CAREERS IN THE AMERICAN RABBINATE, AS RABBI FELDMAN RECORDS HIS ACHIEVEMENTS AND DEFEATS, HIS HOPES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS. HIS INSIGHTS INTO HUMAN NATURE AND CONTEMPORARY JEWISH HISTORY ARE PERCEPTIVE AND WITTY.
BR 7105 JUDAH P. BENJAMIN THE JEWISH CONFEDERATE EVANS, ELI N. SHIRLEY M. HANDLEY THE AUTHOR MAINTAINS THAT JUDAH BENJAMIN, A FIGURE IN CIVIL WAR AND SOUTHERN JEWISH HISTORY, WAS DRIVEN INTO PUBLIC LIFE BY HIS JEWISHNESS. THE BOOK TRACES BENJAMIN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH JEFFERSON DAVIES.
BR 7106 DOUBLE DARE OF THE GOOBLYGLOP GUTTMANN, TOVA MARJORIE RAP JOIN SAMMY AND JONATHAN IN SOME VERY EXCITING ADVENTURES, BUT BE WARNED! GOOBLY'S DARES MAKE PEOPLE DO THE CRAZIEST THINGS.
BR 7107 SMALL MIRACLES EXTRAORDINARY COINCIDENCES FROM EV HALBERSTAM, YITTA & JUDITH LEVENTHAL JANET KALISH A COLLECTION OF OVER SIXTY STORIES THAT ARE MOVING, HEARTWARMING AND INSPIRATIONAL. THESE UNUSUAL COINCIDENCES, OFTEN CONTAINING MORAL, PROFOUND, AND EVEN DIVINE MESSAGES, DRAW US OUT OF THE ORDINARINESS OF EVERYDAY LIFE.
BR 7108 HOMECOMING PLAIN, BELVA IT IS A CRISP DECEMBER DAY WHEN ANNETTE BYRNE DROPS FIVE SEALED LETTERS INTO THE MAILBOX. SHORTLY THEREAFTER, WITH THE HOLIDAYS APPROACHING, HER ESTRANGED FAMILY, INTIMATE ENEMIES, WILL BE GATHERED AT HER COUNTRY ESTATE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS. BUT, NOT EVEN ANNETTE'S INDIMITABLE SPIRIT CAN HEAL THE RIFT-UNTIL A TRAGEDY OCCURS.
BR 7109 GATES OF NOVEMBER, THE CHRONICLES OF THE SLEPAK FAMILY POTOK, CHAIM SYLVIA HOREN FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE CHOSEN, THE TUMULTUOUS TRUE CHRONICLE OF A JEWISH FATHER AND SON IN THE SOVIET UNION-THE FATHER AN INFLEXIBLE OLD-GUARD BOLSHEVIK; THE SON A 'REFUSNIK' HERO PERSECUTED FOR 18 YEARS FOR ATTEMPTING TO LEAVE RUSSIA.
BR 7112 CARTONS IN THE AIR AND OTHER STORIES WEINBACH, SHAINDEL TRUE STORIES OF SCHOLARS, SCOUNDRELS, SHNORRERS, SHEITEL MACHERS, ROSH YESHIVOS AND RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS, SET IN OLD AND NEW JERUSALEM, EASTERN EUROPE, THE COURTYARDS OF EGYPT, PRAGUE, A SHTETL IN GALICIA, A STALINIST PRISON CAMP AND THE MIRRER YESHIVAH.
BR 7113 ELIJAH VISIBLE ROSENBAUM, THANE CONRAD WOLFS IN THIS DEBUT COLLECTION OF NINE INTERLINKED STORIES FEATURING DISAFFECTED LAWYER ADAM POSNER, THE AUTHOR, A CHILD OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, PORTRAYS JEWS ANGUISHING OVER RELIGIOUS IDENTIFICATION AND FAMILY FRAGMENTATION.
BR 7114 WORDS THAT HURT, WORDS THAT HEAL HOW TO CHOOSE WORDS WISELY AND WEL TELUSHKIN, JOSEPH RABBI TELUSHKIN DRAWS ON JEWISH TEACHINGS, PRIMARILY THE TALMUD, AND TRADITIONAL JEWISH STORIES TO EXPLORE HOW OUR WORDS CAN HARM OTHERS AND HOW WE CAN APPROACH THE ACT OF SPEAKING IN A MORE ETHICAL, EVEN SACRED MANNER.
BR 7115 SHADOW MAN GORDON, MARY POPULAR FEMINIST NOVELIST AND SHORT STORY WRITER GORDON DISCOVERS THAT THE FATHER SHE HAD IDEALIZED, THE MAN WHO SET HER COURSE AS A WRITER, WAS A LIAR AND AN IMPOSTOR. IN THIS DEEPLY MOVING MEMOIR, WE WATCH GORDON RECONSTRUCT HER IDENTITY, COME TO TERMS WITH HER FATHER AND RECOGNIZE HER OWN NEWLY DISCOVERED JEWISH ROOTS.
BR 7116 OXFORD BOOK OF HEBREW SHORT STORIES, THE ABRAMSON, GLENDA, EDITOR ETHEL E. MAD THIS COLLECTION OF HEBREW SHORT STORIES CONTAINS THE WORKS OF THE GREAT MODERN HEBREW PROSE WRITERS (EXCEPT FOR AGNON) IN EUROPE AND ISRAEL. THE SORROWS AND PROBLEMS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THEIR EXILE AND RETURN ARE COMBINED WITH WORKS OF PERSONAL ANGUISH AND HAPPINESS TO REVEAL THE GREAT SCOPE OF HEBREW LITERATURE.
BR 7117 HOW GOOD DO WE HAVE TO BE? A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF GUILT AND FORGIVENESS KUSHNER, RABBI HAROLD AMY S. GOLDB A NEW INTERPRETATION OF ADAM AND EVE'S QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE AND THEIR SUBSEQUENT FALL FROM GRACE. KUSHNER CONTENDS THAT THE EATING OF THE FRUIT FROM THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE WAS NOT AN ACT OF DISOBEDIENCE BUT A COURAGEOUS STEP TOWARD SPIRITUAL SELF-REALIZATION.
BR 7118 PROMISES TO KEEP ONE MAN'S JOURNEY AGAINST INCREDIB MICHEL, ERNEST W. ESTELLE ADEN THE AUTHOR, A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, RECALLS HIS TWO YEARS IN AUSCHWITZ WHERE, AS AN ORDERLY, HE DEALT WITH VICTIMS OF DR. MENGELE'S EXPERIMENTS. ESCAPING DURING AN EVACUATION IN 1945, MICHEL BEFRIENDED AN AMERICAN SOLDIER WHO LATER HELPED HIM GET A NEW START IN THE U.S. WHERE HE SERVED FOR 42 YEARS AS A LEADER OF THE UJA-FEDERATION.
BR 7119 HOLOCAUST, THE THE WORLD AND THE JEWS 1933-1945 ROSSEL, SEYMOUR FROM THE THRIVING PRE-WAR YEARS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN BERLIN TO THE END OF THE NUREMBERG TRIALS, THIS TEXTBOOK USES PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL TO PROVIDE A UNIQUE VIEW OF THE HOLOCAUST. EACH CHAPTER ENDS WITH A REVIEW SECTION, BRIEFLY SUMMING UP THE CRITICAL FACTS OF THE CHAPTER, AND AN ISSUES SECTION FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION.
BR 7120 ISRAEL, PALESTINE AND PEACE ESSAYS OZ, AMOS TAMIR JBI S A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS AND SPEECHES IN WHICH THE ISRAELI AUTHOR DISCUSSES A VARIETY OF ISSUES SUCH AS THE ROLE OF WRITERS IN SOCIETY, THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT, AND THE ZIONIST DREAM.
BR 7121 IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE MAGGID SHORT STORIES AND PARABLES KROHN, RABBI PAYSACH J. THE THIRD BOOK IN THE MAGGID SERIES IS FILLED WITH INSPIRATIONAL STORIES AND PARABLES ABOUT EMINENT PEOPLE OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY.
BR 7123 REQUIEM FOR MOSES KIENZLE, WILLIAM X. HERBERT ABRA MOE GREEN'S WIDOW INSISTS THAT FATHER KOESLER HOLD A WAKE FOR HER NOMINALLY JEWISH HUSBAND. AS THE PRIEST BEGINS TO SPEAKS, MOE'S SISTER SOPHIE SEES HER DEAD BROTHER BLINK. IN THE ENSUING MELEE MOE INDICATES HE WANTS TO BE TAKEN HOME. NOW KOESLER MUST EXPLAIN TO HIS BISHOP WHY HE AGREED TO HOLD THE WAKE AND IF THERE REALLY WAS A MIRACLE.
BR 7124 LOVE INVENTS US BLOOM, AMY SANDRA CAREY THIS FIRST NOVEL CHRONICLES A YOUNG GIRL'S JOURNEY INTO ADULTHOOD AND HER SEARCH FOR LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE. ELIZABETH TAUBE IS A CHUBBY, LONELY NEGLECTED CHILD WHO BEGINS TO FIND COMFORT IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES UNTIL AT 16, SHE MEETS HUDDIE LESTER. A TRUE LOVE STORY, MINUS ALL THE SUGAR COATING.
BR 7125 LEAVING A DOLL'S HOUSE A MEMOIR BLOOM, CLAIRE LESLIE CARRO THROWING ASIDE THE USUAL BRITISH RESERVE, BLOOM CANDIDLY LAYS BARE HER LIFE. SHE DISCUSSES GROWING UP JEWISH AND VIRTUALLY FATHERLESS IN 1930S AND '40S ENGLAND AND HER TROUBLED MARRIAGES ESPECIALLY TO PHILIP ROTH. AN EXTREMELY REVEALING AND FASCINATING GLIMPSE INSIDE AN ACTRESS WHOSE COOL EXTERIOR BELIES THE TURMOIL WITHIN.
BR 7126 ROMANCE READER ABRAHAM, PEARL BARBARA JUST STORY OF A YOUNG GIRL'S COMING-OF-AGE IN AN ULTRAORTHODOX HASIDIC HOME. RACHEL, THE ELDEST OF SIX CHILDREN, YEARNS FOR SOME OF THE FORBIDDEN FRUITS OF THE SECULAR WORLD SHE LEARNS ABOUT FROM ROMANCE NOVELS. SHE AGREES TO AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE, BUT WHEN THE MATCH GOES AWRY, HER SOLUTION IS BITTERSWEET.
BR 7127 NANOTIME KOSKO, BART GREGORY D. S THE YEAR IS 2030, THE WORLD POPULATION HAS ALMOST DOUBLED AND ENTREPENEURS ARE RACING TO FIND A CHEAPER ALTERNATIVE FOR EXPENSIVE AND SCARCE FUEL OIL. JOHN GRANT HAS PATENTED A PROCESS THAT CAN PRODUCE AN ALMOST LIMITLESS SUPPLY OF HYDROGEN FUEL, BUT HE NEEDS HELP. SUDDENLY HE DISCOVERS HE CANNOT TRUST ANYONE.
BR 7128 RAISING A THOUGHTFUL TEENAGER A BOOK OF ANSWERS AND VALUES FOR P KAMIN, RABBI BEN
BR 7129 RABBI, RABBI KANE, ANDREW ROSE SPANIER YAKOV IS A YOUNG MAN FULFILLING HIS FAMILY'S EXPECTATIONS IN BECOMING AN ORTHODOX RABBI. REBECCA IS A YOUNG WOMAN DEFYING HER FAMILY'S EXPECTATIONS IN BECOMING A REFORM RABBI. AS THEY STRUGGLE WITH THEIR CHOICES, THEIR STORY OF LOVE, FAITH AND COURAGE IS SET IN A WORLD ALTERED BY THE HOLOCAUST AND THE FORMATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BR 7130 GREAT JEWS ON STAGE AND SCREEN LYMAN, DARRYL A COLLECTION OF BIOGRAPHIES AND SKETCHES OF JEWISH VAUDEVILLIANS, SINGERS, DRAMATIC AND COMIC ACTORS, DANCERS AND OTHERS WHO MADE A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PERTFORMING ARTS.
BR 7131 MEZUZAH IN THE MADONNA'S FOOT, THE ALEXY, TRUDI THE AUTHOR GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF HER TRIPS TO SPAIN, ISRAEL, CANADA, MEXICO, AND BRAZIL WHERE SHE ATTEMPTED TO RECONNECT WITH HER FAMILY'S JEWISH ROOTS.
BR 7132 FORGOTTEN VICTIMS THE ABANDONMENT OF AMERICANS IN HITLER'S CAMPS BARD, MITCHELL G. BASED ON ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND INTERVIEWS WITH SURVIVORS, THE AUTHOR REVEALS THAT WASHINGTON OFFICIALS KNEW U.S. CITIZENS WERE BEING BRUTALIZED AND KILLED IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS YET DID NOTHING TO SAVE THEM. BARD DESCRIBES THE FATE OF AMERICANS CAUGHT IN EUROPE AND THE MISTREATMENT OF AMERICAN MILITARY POWS, ESPECIALLY JEWS.
BR 7133 I LOVE GOOTIE MY GRANDMOTHER'S STORY APPLE, MAX GINGER RICH IN THIS MOVING AND OFTEN HILARIOUS MEMOIR, MAX APPLE CHRONICLES THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ROCKY'S (ROOMMATES) WIFE, PARTNER, AND HARSHEST CRITIC, GOOTIE. HE DESCRIBES WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE AN AMERICAN BOY RAISED BY A YIDDISH-SPEAKING GRANDMOTHER WHO APPROACHED EVERYTHING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TIME AND PLACE LONG PAST.
BR 7134 STORY A DAY, A SIVAN-TAMMUZ SOFER, G. HERE ARE WONDERFUL CHILDREN'S STORIES THAT TELL ABOUT THE VARIOUS HOLIDAYS AND EVENTS THAT OCCUR IN THE MONTHS OF SIVAN AND TAMMUZ.
BR 7135 GENIUS OF THE JEWISH JOKE, THE BERGER, ARTHUR ASA IN THIS SCHOLARLY LOOK AT THE JEWISH JOKE, ARTHUR BERGER DISSECTS JEWISH HUMOR FROM PSYCHOLOGICAL, LITERARY, POLITICAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS. HE CONTENDS THAT JEWS USED HUMOR AS A 'SURVIVAL MECHANISM' TO COPE WITH SUFFERING, POWERLESSNESS AND MARGINALITY.
BR 7136 AMONG THE GINZBURGS PALL, ELLEN ARLENE CARME THIS NOVEL COVERS ONE WEEKEND IN THE LIVES OF THE FIVE GINZBURG SIBLINGS AND THEIR FATHER, MEYER. HAVING ABANDONED HIS CHILDREN 25 YEARS EARLIER, MEYER, IN THE FINAL STAGES OF AN ILLNESS, HAS COME HOME TO DIE.
BR 7137 ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER A LIFE HADDA, JANET EVE ROSHEVSK SINGER, THE PRE-EMINENT YIDDISH AMERICAN WRITER OF THE 20TH CENTURY, IS PORTRAYED AS A MAN PLAGUED BY FAMILY GUILT AND LITERARY JEALOUSY, PRONE TO SNIDE COMMENTS AND BLATANT SEXUAL LIAISONS. IN 1935 HE EMIGRATED FROM POLAND TO NEW YORK CITY WHERE HE WORKED AS A COLUMNIST FOR THE FOWARD. IN 1978 SINGER WON THE NOBEL PRIZE.
BR 7138 ONCE REMOVED APPELFELD, DAVID ALYCE DOMENI JACOB SIMON AND HIS DAUGHTER JANE ARE HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS. JANE, BECAUSE OF HER EXPERIENCES HAS SUFFERED IDENTITY PROBLEMS. UPON RETIREMENT JACOB BEGINS A DIARY, DEDICATED TO HIS BELOVED GRANDSON, WHICH IS SURREPTITOUSLY READ BY A YOUNG NURSE IN THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE IS DYING.
BR 7139 POMEGRANATE PENDANT, THE WAYSMAN, DVORA SILVIA HOREN THIS STIRRING SAGA SET AGAINST A BACKDROP OF THE OLD YISHUV, SPANS FOUR GENERATIONS OF A FAMILY OF YEMENITE GOLDSMITHS AT THE VORTEX OF HISTORY IN ERETZ YISROEL. THEIR TRAGEDIES, TRIUMPHS, SORROWS AND JOYS, AND THE HEROINE'S PROFOUND LOVE FOR THE HOLY CITY, CREATE AN IMAGE OF AN ANCIENT LAND RISING FROM SLUMBER TO SPLENDOR.
BR 7140 MONA IN THE PROMISED LAND JEN, GISH MIRIAM FRIED HELEN AND RALPH CHANG HAVE MOVED UP THE AMERICAN DREAM LADDER WITH A THRIVING BUSINESS AND LUXURIOUS HOME IN SUBURBIA IN THIS HUMOROUS NOVEL. BUT THE ACTIVITIES OF THEIR YOUNGER DAUGHTER, MONA, INCLUDING HER CONVERSION TO JUDAISM, ARE PROVING TOO MUCH FOR THEM.
BR 7141 JEW STORE, THE A FAMILY MEMOIR SUBERMAN, STELLA AMY GOLDBERG THIS IS THE HEARTWARMING STORY OF AARON BRONSON, WHO LIKE OTHER ENTERPRISING JEWISH IMMIGRANTS DURING THE 1920S, SET OUT FROM NEW YORK CITY IN SEARCH OF A PLACE TO SETTLE HIS FAMILY AND PROVE HIMSELF AS A BUSINESSMAN AND PROVIDER. HE PROVED THAT...AND MUCH MORE IN HIS 'JEW STORE.'
BR 7142 SHALOM FRIEND THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF YITZHAK RAB STAFF OF THE JERUSALEM REPORT A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FALLEN LEADER WHICH FOCUSES PRIMARILY ON THE LAST FOUR YEARS, AND THE EVENTS BEFORE AND AFTER THE ASSASSINATION.
BR 7143 EVERYTHING I KNOW BASIC LIFE RULES FROM A JEWISH MOT STRASSFELD, SHARON ALICE SHEINE WHAT BEGAN AS A MOTHER'S LETTER TO A COLLEGE-BOUND CHILD IS NOW A VOLUME FILLED WITH LESSONS THAT WE ALL WANT OUR CHILDREN TO TAKE ON THEIR LIFELONG JOURNEY. THE BOOK IS ROOTED IN THE WARMTH OF TRADITIONAL JEWISH CULTURE, YET THROUGH ITS CELEBRATION OF YIDDISH WIT AND WISDOM, IT DELIVERS ON A SUBJECT THAT ALL PARENTS HOLD DEAR.
BR 7144 BIALIK ABERBACH, DAVID AUGUSTA ZIMM DAVID ABERBACH EXPLORES THE HISTORICAL, SOCIAL, AND LITERARY BACKGROUND TO CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK'S (1873-1934) DEVELOPMENT AS A ROMANTIC-NATIONALIST POET, HIS AMBIVALENCE TOWARD THIS NATIONAL ROLE, HIS OBSESSION WITH INTENSELY PRIVATE THEMES, AND THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE PUBLIC FIGURE AND THE CONFESSIONAL LYRIC POET.
BR 7145 FARAWAY SUMMER HURWITZ, JOHANNA PEARL WAGNER IT IS THE SUMMER OF 1910, HER MOTHER HAS RECENTLY DIED AND ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD DOSSI, A NEW YORK CITY CHILD IS BEING SENT TO VACATION ON A FARM IN VERMONT. AS SHE STRUGGLES TO UNDERSTAND THE MEADES, HER CHRISTIAN HOST FAMILY AND THEIR DIFFERENT WAY OF LIFE, DOSSI BEGINS TO REALIZE THAT SOMETIMES, WORLDS APART ARE NOT SO FARAWAY AFTER ALL.
BR 7146 ZIGZAG KID GROSSMAN, DAVID SILVIA HOREN TWELVE-YEAR-OLD NONNY FEUERBERG ASPIRES TO BECOME A DETECTIVE LIKE HIS FAMOUS FATHER, BUT HIS WILD SIDE KEEPS GETTING IN THE WAY. THEN A TRAIN HE IS RIDING ON IS HIJACKED BY INTERNATIONAL OUTLAW FELIX GLICK, A KINDLY KIDNAPPER WHO SEEMS TO KNOW MORE ABOUT NONNY'S LONG DESEASED MOTHER THAN THE BOY HIMSELF KNOWS.
BR 7147 ACTIVIST'S DAUGHTER BACHE, ELLYN REJECTING ALL ATTEMPTS BY HER LIBERAL JEWISH FAMILY TO INTEREST HER IN SOCIAL JUSTICE, BERYL ROSINSKY BELIEVES SHE'S ESCAPED THEIR INFLUENCE WHEN SHE ENTERS THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AS A FRESHMAN. THERE, INEVITABLY, SHE WITNESSES THE RACISM AND BIGOTRY THAT ARE INTERTWINE WITH THE GENTILITY AND SOCIAL PROPRIETY OF THE SOUTH. LONGING TO FIT IN, BERYL NEVERTHELESS EMPATHIZES WITH THE PAIN OF THOSE WHO DON'T. MEANWHILE, HER FAMILY PERIODICALLY URGES HER TO REMAIN FAITHFUL TO HER RELIGIOUS HERITAGE. OUTWARDLY, BERYL REMAINS RESOLUTELY UNINVOLVED UNTIL THE DAY SHE REACTS INSTINCTIVELY TO AN ACT OF PURE MEANNESS AND FINDS SHE'S TAKEN THE FIRST STEP TOWARD ACTIVISM. © 1997
BR 7148 TESSIE AND PEARLIE HOROWITZ, JOY SHIRLEY RICH JOURNALIST HOROWITZ UNDERTOOK WHAT TURNED OUT TO BE THE MOST INSPIRING ASSIGNMENT OF HER LIFE, SPENDING TIME ALONE WITH HER TWO JEWISH GRANDMOTHERS, TESSIE AND PEARLIE, WHO ARE IN THEIR NINETIES. A CELEBRATION OF FAMILY AND OF AGING WITH GRACE.
BR 7149 BUBBEH BERMAN, SABINA SANDRA CAREY BUBBEH IS THE CHARMING STORY OF A YOUNG GRANDDAUGHTER PAYING HOMAGE TO THE FAMILY MEMBER WHO SHOWED HER THE SUBTLETY AND SANCTITY OF LIFE.
BR 7150 DON'T CALL IT NIGHT OZ, AMOS TAMIR JBI THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEO AND HIS YOUNGER LOVER NO'A IS STARTING TO WEAR THIN. THEN ONE OF NO'A'S STUDENTS DIES, APPARENTLY OF A DRUG OVERDOSE, AND THE BEREAVED FATHER COMES TO OPEN A DRUG REHABILITATION CLINIC, PUTTING NO'A IN CHARGE. OZ EXAMINES THE IMPACT OF NO'A'S NEW JOB ON HER LOVE RELATIONSHIP.
BR 7151 JEWISH HISTORY IN 100 NUTSHELLS PASSACHOFF, NAOMI & ROBERT J. LITTMA THE AUTHORS HAVE SELECTED, ACCORDING TO THEIR LIGHTS, THE 100 MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS AND PEOPLE IN JEWISH HISTORY FROM ABRAHAM DOWN TO MODERN-DAY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. EACH OF THE 100 'NUTSHELLS' AUTHORITATIVELY DESCRIBES SOME SIGNIFICANT EVENT, PERSONALITY, OR CONCEPT THAT SHAPED JEWISH HISTORY OF JUDAISM.
BR 7153 TOUGH JEWS FATHERS, SONS, AND GANGSTER DREAMS COHEN, RICH GUY LEBOW THIS IS THE FIRST IN-DEPTH PORTRAIT OF THE JEWISH GANGSTER, THE MUSCLE THAT MADE POSSIBLE THE SUCCESS OF GANGSTER STATESMEN SUCH AS BUGSY SIEGEL, MEYER LANSKY AND LUCKY LUCIANO. COHEN INTERVIEWED SURVIVORS, PROSECUTORS, AND RELATIVES AND WADED THROUGH POLICE RECORDS AND COURT REPORTS TO EXCAVATE THE REAL STORIES BEHIND THE LEGENDS.
BR 7154 CONVERSATIONS ABOUT BERNSTEIN BURTON, WILLIAM WESTBROOK RITA FEDER BURTON INTERVIEWED FELLOW COMPOSERS, RECORDING ENGINEERS, ORCHESTRA MEMBERS, SINGERS AND OTHER JOURNALISTS WHO KNEW LEONARD BERNSTEIN. HE DEPICTS BERNATEIN'S EARLY PROMISE, HIS PROFLIGATE LIFE, HIS AGONIES ABOUT INSUFFICIENT RECOGNITION AS A COMPOSER, AND THE SELF-DEFEATING BEHAVIOR OF HIS LATER YEARS.
BR 7155 SWIMMING ACROSS THE HUDSON HENKIN, JOSHUA DAVID THOMPS WHEN BEN SUSKIND, ADOPTED AND RAISED AS A JEW, MEETS HIS GENTILE BIRTH MOTHER, HIS ABSORPTION IN THE HISTORY OF HIS BIOLOGICAL FAMILY THREATENS THE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS ADOPTIVE PARENTS. UNABLE TO MOVE FOWARD, BEN GRADUALLY COMES TO UNDERSTAND THAT HE CAN BE A LEGITIMATE JEW WITHOUT RECOURSE TO THE OLD TESTAMENT.
BR 7156 WALKING ON WALNUTS MY GRANDMOTHERS' RECIPES FOR RUGEL RING, NANCY JEAN BASS FOR EIGHT YEARS, STRUGGLING ARTIST NANCY RING WAITED TABLES IN NEW YORK CITY. FINALLY SHE DECIDED TO PUT AN END TO HER SERVITUDE BY ANSWERING A NEWSPAPER AD SEEKING AN ASSISTANT PASTRY CHEF. SO BEGAN NANCY'S ODYSSEY THROUGH CRAZY RESTAURANT KITCHENS AND HER JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY.
BR 7157 PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD KELLERMAN, FAYE ELLEN WERTHE WHEN CELEBRATED HEART SURGEON AZOR SPARKS IS MURDERED, LIEUTENANT PETER DECKER AND HIS TEAM OF DETECTIVES BEGIN WORKING OVERTIME TO UNRAVEL THE MYSTERY. THE DEEPER THEY PROBE, THE MORE MURKY THE CASE GROWS. TO FURTHER COMPLICATE THE INVESTIGATION, OLD SECRETS ARE RESURRECTED.
BR 7158 KOSHER SEX A RECIPE FOR PASSION AND INTIMACY BOTEACH, SHMULEY SARENE MEYER THE FOCUS OF THIS BOOK IS SEX AND THE CENTRAL POSITION IT OCCUPIES WITHIN MARRIAGE AND RELATIONSHIPS. SEX FOR PLEASURE IS AN END IN ITSELF. BUT KOSHER SEX IS THE FIRE OF SEXUAL ATTRACTION THAT CREATES UNION IN THE BEDROOM AND CLOSENESS AND INTIMACY IN LIFE.
BR 7159 IN THE PAST NIGHT THE SIBERIAN STORIES STONOV, DIMITRY ALLAN BENJAM IN 1949, DURING STALIN'S ANTI-JEWISH CAMPAIGN, STONOV, A RENOWNED RUSSIAN-JEWISH WRITER, WAS SENTENCED TO A SIBERIAN WORK CAMP. THESE 17 STORIES SMUGGLED OUT TO FAMILY MEMBERS REVEAL THE LIFE OF THE POLITICAL PRISONERS OF THAT ERA. AN AFTERWARD, BASED ON TALKS WITH STONOV'S WIFE, EXPLAINS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS OF THE STORIES.
BR 7160 SMALL MIRACLES II HEARTWARMING GIFTS OF EXTRAORDINAR HALBERSTAM, YITTA & JUDITH LEVENTHAL IN THIS SECOND VOLUME AUTHORS HALBERSTAM AND LEVENTHAL HAVE ASSEMBLED A COLLECTION OF MORE THAN SIXTY-FIVE NEW STORIES, EACH RECALLING A COINCIDENCE THAT IS MOVING, HEARTWARMING, AND INSPIRATIONAL.
BR 7161 EDUCATION OF ROBERT NIFKIN, THE PINKWATER, DANIEL SUSAN WITTY IF ROBERT NIFKIN'S FIRST HIGH SCHOOL IS A HORROW SHOW, THE NEXT ONE IS A CARNIVAL, A PLACE WHERE FREAKS, BEATNIKS AND CRAZIES ARE IN CHARGE. THIS IS AN IMPROVEMENT, BUT WHAT ROBERT REALLY NEEDS IS TO MOVE ON TO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
BR 7162 PUTTERMESSER PAPERS, THE OZICK, CYNTHIA ARLYNN GREEN RUTH PUTTERMESSER FINDS HERSELF MIRED IN THE LOWEST CIRCLES OF CITY BUREAUCRACY. HER LOVE LIFE IS HOPELESS. STILL, SHE TURNS OUT TO BE THE BEST MAYOR NEW YORK CITY HAS EVER ELECTED. BUT THE IMPACT OF GETTING EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT AND THEN LOSING IT PLAYS ITSELF OUT IN A DRAMATIC AND SURPRISING FASHION.
BR 7163 MANNY ROSEN, ISAAC MELVIN DAVIS ROSEN'S DEBUT NOVEL IS A COMING-OF-AGE TALE.REBELLIOUS 16-YEAR-OLD JOSH LIPKIN HAS RUN AWAY FROM HIS DYSFUNCTIONAL JEWISH FAMILY, BUT SEEKS HUMAN CONTACT BY SNEAKING INTO NURSING HOMES AND BEFRIENDING OCTOGENARIANS. HE FINDS A SOUL MATE IN A WOMAN TWICE HIS AGE. BOTH ARE SEEKERS AND GO ON THE ROAD TOGETHER.
BR 7164 IT'S NOT AS TOUGH AS YOU THINK HOW TO SMOOTH OUT LIFE'S BUMPS TWERSKI, RABBI ABRAHAM J. , M. D. HELEN STEWAR RABBI ABRAHAM J. TWERSKI IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL RABBI. AND ABRAHAM J. TWERSKI, M.D. IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL PSYCHIATRIST. SINCE THESE TWO TWERSKIS ARE ONE AND THE SAME, THIS IS FAR FROM YOUR TYPICAL SELF-HELP BOOK. THANKS TO DR. TWERSKI'S UNIQUE APPROACH, WHICH COMBINES SENSITIVITY AND PRACTICAL PSYCHIATRIC INSIGHT, YOU'LL ACHIEVE A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE AND A REFRESHING APPROACH AS TO HOW TO DEAL WITH LIFE'S INEVITABLE PROBLEMS, BOTH BIG AND SMALL.
BR 7165 CACTUS BLOSSOMS POMERANTZ, RACHEL TANYA SHERMA RONNY ARZI HAS TWO FAMILIES. NOW HE MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM. AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF SADDAM HUSSEIN'S TERRIFYING THREATS, BARBARA AND CHAIM SILBER FACE A BATTLE OF THEIR OWN; THE FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO RAISE THEIR FOSTER SON, RONNY, IN A TORAH LIFE.
BR 7166 NEW AND GLORIOUS LIFE, A HERMAN, MICHELLE SUSAN WITTY IN THIS COLLECTION OF NOVELLAS MICHELLE HERMAN LOOKS AT THE LIVES OF A WIDE RANGE OF CONTEMPORARY MEN AND WOMEN-SOME OF THEM EVENTUALLY GLORIOUS AND OTHERS SAD BUT HOLDING THEIR OWN.
BR 7167 ACTUAL A NOVELLA BELLOW, SAUL DAVID THOMPSON HARRY TRELLMAN'S PARENTS CONSIGNED HIM TO AN ORPHANAGE AND SHADY BUSINESS DEALINGS KEPT HIM IN THE THIRD WORLD FOR MOST OF HIS ADULTHOOD. MEANWHILE, HIS HIGH-SCHOOL SWEETHEART HAS GROWN OLD IN THE ARMS OF OTHER MEN. NOW IN LATE MIDDLE AGE, HARRY HAS RETURNED TO THE CHICAGO OF HIS YOUTH TO RECOVER WHAT HE CAN OF THE LIFE HE HAS MISSED.
BR 7168 SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST KELLERMAN, JONATHAN BARIE SNIDER THE DAUGHTER OF AN ISRAELI DIPLOMAT IS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD. HER FATHER ADAMANTLY DENIES ANY POLITICAL MOTIVE, WHICH LEAVES LAPD DETECTIVE MILO STURGIS AND HIS PSYCHOLOGIST FRIEND ALEX DELAWARE PUZZLED. THEN THERE IS ANOTHER KILLING AND DELAWARE, STURGIS AND ISRAELI INSPECTOR DANIEL SHARAVI JOIN FORCES TO UNCOVER A MURDERER.
BR 7169 SHIP OF THE HUNTED ELBERG, YEHUDA BETTY SMITH THE WARSAW GHETTO IN 1943 IS NOTHING LIKE THE PREWAR VILLAGE OF DOMBROVKA. THE FAMILY OF GOLDA, HER HUSBAND, SHIYA, AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN DO THE BEST THEY CAN. THE GHETTO IS IN FLAMES AND JEWS ARE BEING BRUTALLY KILLED. GOLDA'S HUSBAND AND ONE OF HER CHILDREN ARE SENTENCED TO DIE AT AUSCHWITZ. SHE IS TAKEN TO TREBLINKA, BUT MANAGES TO ESCAPE AFTER WHICH SHE WANDERS THE POLISH COUNTRYSIDE. YOSSEL, GOLDA'S SON, WHO WITH HIS COLORING IS ABLE TO ASSUME THE IDENTITY OF A CHRISTIAN HIDES OUT WITH HIS YOUNGER SISTER ON A FARM, BUT EVEN THERE TRAGEDY AWAITS. ELBERG TRACES THE FATES OF THIS SUNDERED FAMILY, AS SOME SURVIVE (AND SOME DON'T) TO SEE THE END OF THE WAR AND ATTEMPT THE DIFFICULT PASSAGE FROM EUROPE TO PALESTINE ON A "SHIP OF THE HUNTED."
BR 7170 MASADA THE LAST FORTRESS MIKLOWITZ, GLORIA D. ALICE SHEINM IN THE YEAR 72 C.E., AFTER A FOUR YEAR BATTLE BETWEEN ROME AND JUDEA, ONLY ONE FORTRESS REMAINS FREE, MASADA. SIMON BEN ELEAZAR THE SON OF THE JEWISH LEADER RECORDS THE SIEGE OF THE ROMAN LEGION AS WELL AS THE JEWS' LAST STAND EVEN AS HE STRUGGLES WITH HIS FEELINGS FOR A YOUNG WOMAN AND THE PAINFUL DECISION HE MUST MAKE.
BR 7171 ACCIDENTAL MURDER ROSENBERG, ROBERT AUDREY FLAMB SOMEONE WANTS TO KILL AVRAM COHEN-OR SO IT SEEMS-IN THIS LATEST BOOK ABOUT THE RETIRED JERUSALEM DETECTIVE. BUT THEN NISSIM LEVY, COHEN'S LONGTIME PROTEGE IS FOUND MURDERED. IS THIS A REVENGE KILLING AGAINST COHEN FOR HIS PAST ACTIONS? COHEN MUST LOOK AT HIS OWN GUILT BEFORE HE CAN UNVEIL A KILLER WITH A MISGUIDED MOTIVE FOR MURDER.
BR 7172 IRON TRACKS, THE APPELFELD, AHARON PETER JONES ERWIN SIEGELBAUM HAS BEEN OBSESSIVELY RIDING THE TRAINS OF POSTWAR AUSTRIA FOR THE PAST FORTY YEARS. HIS MISSION IS TO COLLECT THE MENORAHS, KIDDUSH CUPS AND HOLY BOOKS THAT HAVE SURVIVED THEIR VANISHED OWNERS, AND THE HOPE THAT HE WILL MEET THE NAZI OFFICER WHO MURDERED HIS PARENTS-AND HAVE THE STRENGTH TO KILL HIM.
BR 7173 OLD RELIGION, THE MAMET, DAVID DAVID NATALE THIS IS A NOVEL BASED ON REAL EVENTS; THE 1914 TRIAL OF LEO FRANK, A JEWISH FACTORY MANAGER IN GEORGIA FALSELY ACCUSED OF RAPING AND MURDERING A YOUNG SOUTHERN WHITE GIRL. IN AN UNDERLYING POLEMIC, MAMET ALSO DEVELOPS THE THEMES OF JEWISH INSECURITY IN A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY AND THE CONFLICTED PSYCHOLOGY OF ASSIMILATED JEWS.
BR 7174 FIRST STONE, THE BRILEY, JOHN HARRY SMALL JEWISH COLLEGE STUDENT LISA COOPER DECIDES TO JOIN THE MOSSAD WHEN HER ISRAELI NIECE AND NEPHEW ARE KILLED. HER ASSIGNMENT? MEET AND MARRY A SAUDI ARABIAN STUDENT AND LIVE WITH HIM UNTIL THE MOSSAD CONTACTS HER. AS TIME PASSES SHE BEGINS TO CARE FOR HER HUSBAND AND FINDS SHE MUST ULTIMATELY CHOOSE BETWEEN HIM OR HER PEOPLE.
BR 7175 BRING US THE OLD PEOPLE STARK, MARISA KANTOR SANDI SKODNI THE GUILT OF A TERRIBLE DECISION HAUNTS THIS PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN'S LIFE, WHICH INVOKES TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY POLAND, POSTWAR NEW YORK, AND A PRESENT DAY NURSING HOME. THE AUTHOR CAPTURES THE VOICE OF NINETY-TWO-YEAR-OLD MAIME WITH PERFECT PITCH AS SHE STRUGGLES TO COME TO GRIPS WITH AN AWFUL MOMENT UNFAIRLY FORCED ON HER BY HISTORY.
BR 7176 MITZVOT AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICES A JEWISH GUIDEBOOK FOR THE SOUL CHASIN, ESTHER G. BOBBY DOR BASED ON ESTHER CHASIN'S POPULAR 'LA'ASOT' (TO DO) COURSES, THE BOOK USES THE MYSTICAL TEACHINGS OF JUDAISM AND THE SPIRITUAL POTENTIAL OF MITZVOT AS TECHNIQUES TO HELP THE READER BECOME MORE SELF-AWARE, CONFRONT UNWANTED PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS, AND REPLACE THEM WITH POSITIVE QUALITIES FOR GREATER PERSONAL HARMONY.
BR 7177 IT'S A SMALL WORD AFTER ALL THE AMAZING IMPACT OF A KIND GESTU TELLER, HANOCH HARRY SMALL IN THIS COLLECTION OF NEW, INSPIRING STORIES, EVER-POPULAR HANOCH TELLER DEMONSTRATES HOW A TENDER WORD AND A FRIENDLY GESTURE, OR THE SMALLEST ACT OF LOVINGKINDNESS CAN HAVE FAR-REACHING RAMIFICATIONS AND EVEN CHANGE SOMEONE'S LIFE FOREVER.
BR 7178 STRUDEL STORIES ROCKLIN, JOANNE THIS WARM AND TOUCHING NOVEL FOLLOWS A JEWISH FAMILY THROUGH SEVEN GENERATIONS AND MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS AS THEY BRAVE WAR, DARE THE DIFFICULTIES OF IMMIGRATION, AND ENJOY THE SIMPLE PLEASURES OF FRIENDSHIP AND SPORTS. COMPLETE WITH A FAMILY TREE AND AN AUTHOR'S NOTE AS WELL AS THE RECIPE FOR GRANDPA WILLY'S STRUDEL.
BR 7179 GHOST OF HANNAH MENDES, THE RAGEN, NAOMI WHEN CATHERINE DE COSTA LEARNS SHE HAS ONLY A SHORT TIME TO LIVE, SHE IS DETERMINED TO TRANSFER THE FAMILY LEGACY TO HER GRANDDAUGHTERS. PERSUADED OUT OF LOYALTY TO TRAVEL TO EUROPE AND REACQUAINT THEMSELVES WITH THEIR HERITAGE, THEY FIND THEIR LIVES IRREVOCABLY CHANGED BY THE GHOST OF FAMILY MATRIARCH HANNAH MENDES (A TRUE HISTORICAL FIGURE).
BR 7180 HELLO HEDDY LEVI GANZ, YAFFA HAL BRISTER WHETHER SHE'S BAKING STRANGE BIRTHDAY CAKES OR BABYSITTING IN FLAMINGO POOLS; COLLECTING HOMELESS DOGS OR DEVELOPING CHOCOLATE ALLERGIES, HEDDY LEVI'S LIFE IS FULL OF UNUSUAL PROBLEMS AND FUNNY SURPRISES. WITH THE HELP OF HER BEST FRIEND, A SPECIAL ZEIDY AND HER PARENTS, HEDDY MAKES HER WAY THROUGH A LIVELY YEAR OF GROWING UP.
BR 7181 WAY MEAT LOVES SALT, THE A CINDERELLA TALE FROM THE JEWISH JAFFE, NINA MAJORIE RAPP MANY YEARS AGO IN POLAND, THERE LIVED A RABBI, HIS WIFE AND THREE DAUGHTERS. THEY LIVED HAPPILY UNTIL THE DAY THE RABBI ASKS HIS CHILDREN A POWERFUL QUESTION: HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE ME? WHEN MIRELEH THE YOUNGEST DECLARED, 'I LOVE YOU THE WAY MEAT LOVES SALT,' SHE WAS BANISHED FROM HER FATHER'S HOUSE. AND SO BEGAN MIRELEH'S MAGICAL JOURNEY.
BR 7182 CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN MY SEARCH FOR MEANING DOUGLAS, KIRK GUY LEBOW HERE IS KIRK DOUGLAS'S INTIMATE ACCOUNT OF HIS COURAGEOUS FIGHT TO RECOVER FROM A STROKE THAT LEFT HIM UNABLE TO SPEAK. IT IS ALSO THE STORY OF THE SEARCH FOR HIS ROOTS AND HIS LONG JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY, A QUEST NOT ONLY FOR THE MEANING OF LIFE AND HIS OWN RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, BUT FOR HIS OWN IDENTITY AS A JEW.
BR 7183 STRANGE AND UNEXPECTED LOVE A TEENAGE GIRL'S HOLOCAUST MEMOIRS HELLER, FANYA GOTTESFELD ISABELLE RUB THIS IS HELLER'S ACCOUNT OF FIVE TEENAGED YEARS OF NAZI TERROR WHICH CULMINATED, IRONICALLY, AT THE TIME OF THEIR LIBERATION, WHEN HER FATHER WAS MURDERED. THE FAMILY'S SUFFERINGS ARE HAIR-RAISING AND WELL-TOLD, BUT THE MYSTERY OF HER FATHER'S DEATH REMAINS UNSOLVED.
BR 7184 STRANGE HAVEN A JEWISH CHILDHOOD IN WARTIME SHAN TOBIAS, SIGMUND SARENE MEYER SIGMUND TOBIAS GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF HIS FAMILY'S FLIGHT FROM GERMANY IN THE WAKE OF KRISTALLNACHT TO SHANGHAI. THERE HE GREW FROM A SIX-YEAR-OLD CHILD TO AN ADOLESCENT, SAFE FROM WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN EUROPE. HE OBSERVES THE UNDERLIFE OF SHANGHAI, THE TENSIONS BETWEEN CHINESE AND JAPANESE DURING THE WAR, AND THE APPROACH OF THE COMMUNIST "LIBERATORS" AFTERWARD. AN EPILOGUE DESCRIBES THE CHANGES TOBIAS ENCOUNTERED ON A VISIT TO SHANGHAI FORTY YEARS LATER.
BR 7185 HARRY'S CHOICE HOFFMAN, MOSHE ROSE SPANIER THIS IS THE STORY OF HARRY BERGER, A STREETWISE KID FROM THE SLUMS WHO WANTS TO BE A MAGICIAN-AND WHAT HAPPENS TO HIM WHEN HE ENCOUNTERS THE MAGIC OF JERUSALEM. ENTER GOLDBERG, JERUSALEM PRIVATE EYE AND FORMER CHICAGO COP…SCHWAN, EX-NAZI HYPNOTIST…FATHER BELLINI, WHO RUNS HOLY LAND HEALTH FOODS…AND LONELY, AGING MAX ZLOTKIN, HARRY'S GUARDIAN ANGEL.
BR 7186 COMMITTED LIFE, THE PRINCIPLES FOR GOOD LIVING FROM OU JUNGREIS, REBBETZIN ESTHER AUGUSTA ZIMM THE COMMITTED LIFE IS FOR ANYONE EAGER TO CONNECT WITH ANCIENT WELLSPRINGS OF FAITH. EACH CHAPTER OFFERS ITS OWN LESSON ON SUCH SUBJECTS AS RESPONSIBILITY, FORGIVING, BANISHING FEAR, AND HOPE. WRITTEN WITH THE REBBETZIN'S COMBINATION OF HONESTY, LOVE, AND CHUTZPAH, THE STORIES ARE UNIVERSAL AND YET VERY PERSONAL.
BR 7187 LEGACY OF SILENCE PLAIN, BELVA ARLYNN GREEN A PROSPEROUS FAMILY IN BERLIN ADOPT A POOR ORPHAN GIRL, LORE, INSTANTLY AN OLDER SISTER TO THEIR BIOLOGICAL DAUGHTER CAROLINE. IT IS 1939 AND THE YOUNG WOMEN ESCAPE TO SWITZERLAND WHEN THEIR PARENTS ARE SEIZED BY THE NAZIS. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT WILL CHANGE THEIR LIVES FOREVER.
BR 7188 REFORMER'S APPRENTICE, THE A NOVEL OF OLD SAN FRANCISCO ROCHLIN, HARRIET SHIRLEY RICH COMBINING ROMANCE WITH A COLORFUL RECREATION OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE AMERICAN WEST, THIS NOVEL PORTRAYS AN INDEPENDENT-MINDED WOMAN WHO REBELS AGAINST THE ORTHODOX RELIGIOUS STRICTURES OF HER POLISH JEWISH IMMIGRANT PARENTS IN 1870S SAN FRANCISCO.
BR 7189 NEVER NOSH A MATZO BALL SHARON KAHN B. SANDOCK FORGET EVERYTHING YOUR MOTHER EVER TOLD YOU ABOUT CHICKEN SOUP-TEMPLE RITA'S VERSION IS LETHAL. THAT'S WHY RUBY ROTHMAN, RECENTLY WIDOWED FROM RABBI STU, IS BACK ON THE CASE IN THIS SECOND TALE OF JEWISH LIFE IN SMALL-TOWN ETERNAL, TEXAS. RUBY SOON HAS LOTS TO PONDER BESIDES MATZO BALLS, INCLUDING A DEAD BODY, RABBI KEVIN'S MATRIMONIAL INTENSIONS, AND WHAT'S GOING ON AT THE FIT AND RURAL REDUCING RANCH, WHERE RICH CALIFORNIA PEOPLE COME TO EXPERIENCE ETERNAL'S HEALTHY LIFESTYLE. JUST KEEP THEM AWAY FROM THE INTERFAITH PASSOVER SEDERS AND THE MATZO BALLS.
BR 7190 NATURE OF BLOOD CARYL PHILLIPS J. GOLDMAN THE NOVEL'S PRIMARY VOICE BELONGS TO EVA STERN, A YOUNG WOMAN WHO HAS JUST BEEN LIBERATED BY THE ENGLISH ARMY FROM A GERMAN CAMP. THROUGH A SERIES OF FLASHBACKS, EVA REMEMBERS LIFE WITH HER FAMILY, AND THEN HER EXPERIENCE IN THE CAMP.
BR 7191 COAT FOR THE MOON AND OTHER JEWISH TALES SCHWARTZ, HAROLD F. LIEBERMAN IN THIS NEW COLLECTION, WHICH BRINGS TOGETHER FIFTEEN CLASSIC JEWISH FOLK TALES, THE AUTHORS SHARE SOME OF JEWISH TRADITION FROM COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE WORLD, INCLUDING FRANCE, TURKEY, ISRAEL, YEMEN, EGYPT AND IRAQ.
BR 7192 GOD SENT A RAINBOW AND OTHER BIBLICAL STORIES YONA ZELDIS J. LOMBARDO MORE THAN A DOZEN BIBLE STORIES ARE RETOLD FOR CHILDREN INCLUDING THE CREATION, NOAH AND THE ARK, THE SACRAFICE OF ISAAC, JOSEPH THE DREAMER ADN PHAROH'S DAUGHTER SAVES MOSES.
BR 7193 HAPPINESS FORMULAS, STORIES AND INSIGHTS ZELIG PLISKIN P. RUBIN THIS BOOK SHOWS WHERE TO FIND HAPPINESS AND HOW.
BR 7194 HIDING ROOM JONATHAN WILSON L. BURIN THIS BOOK TELLS THE JOURNEY OF DANIEL WEISS TO TRY AND DISCOVER THE IDENTITY OF HIS FATHER, WHOM HE NEVER KNEW.
BR 7195 WISE WORDS JEWISH THOUGHTS & STORIES THROUGH COMPILED BY JESSICA GRIBETZ G. ODETTE A COLLECTION FO APHORISMS AND POETRY FROM THE BIBLE, THE TALMUD, HASIDIC TALES AND CONTEMPORARY HUMOR AND LITERATURE-WITH A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE ALL TOO FORGOTTEN VOICES OF WOMEN.
BR 7196 WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST AN ORAL HISTORY EDITED BY ROHDA G. LEWIN G. SIWOFF THIS COLLECTION OF 60 ACCOUNTS OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AND CONCENTRATION CAMP LIBERATORS NOW LIVING IN MINNESOTA PRESERVES THE FLAVOR OF THE INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEW.
BR 7197 MAKING OF A JEW EDGAR M. BRONFMAN E. SWENSON PRESIDEN OF THE WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS SINCE 1981, BRONFMAN REBELLED AGAINST HIS ZIONIST FATHER BY REJECTING JUDAISM ALTOGETHER. BUT HE DID A COMPLETE TURNAROUND BY BECOMING PRESIDENT OF SEAGMAN COMPANY LTD., THE DISTILLERY HIS FATHER FOUNDED AND BY ACTIVELY EMBRACING THE JEWISH FAITH.
BR 7199 KIBBUTZ JOURNAL REFLECTIONS ON GENDER, RACE AND MI KATHY E. FERGUSON J. LOMBARDO FERGUSON, WHO USUALLY CALLS HAWAII HOME, TRAVELED HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD TO SPEND A YEAR ON AN ISRAELI KIBBUTZ. USING A NECESSARY DISJOINTED JOURNAL FORMAL, FERGUSON DESCRIBES EVERYDAY ISRAELI LIFE, LETTING HER AFFECTIONATE, CONFLICTED VOICE BECOME A BRIDGE FOR ISRAEL'S IDIOSYNCRASIES.
BR 7200 DAWN OF THE PROMISED LAND THE CREATION OF ISRAEL BEN WICKS ADA CREIGHTON IN 1917, WHEN THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT DECLARED THAT IT "FAVORED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL HOMELAND FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE," IT PROVOKED AN EXODUS TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL THAT HAS PROVEN UNSTOPPABLE. BEN WICKS CHRONICLES THE ENSUING YEARS WHEN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JEWS STREAMED INTO THE PROMISED LAND.
BR 7201 TIME'S TAPESTRY 4 GENERATIONS OF A NEW ORLEANS FAM LETA WEISS MARKS B. SHAPIRO IN A BLEND OF FACT AND FICTION, LETA MARKS WEAVES A TAPESTRY OF FAMILY MEMBERS AND EVENTS, DRAWING MAINLY UPON INTERVIEWS WITH HER NONAGENARIAN MOTHER AND AUNT. LETTERS, ARCHIVAL RESEARCH, AND MARKS' OWN RECOLLECTIONS AND IMAGINATION ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMPOSITION, AN INTIMATE FAMILY ALBUM AND A PRICELESS RECORD OF NEW ORLEANS' CULTURAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL HISTORY.
BR 7202 LONELY DAYS WERE SUNDAYS REFLECTIONS OF A JEWISH SOUTHERNER ELI N. EVANS G. STEINBERG WRITTEN OVER A PERIOD OF TWNETY YEARS, THE 31 ESSAYS COLLECTED HERE REFLECT THE AUTHOR'S LOVE OF HISTORY AND PRIDE IN HIS IDENTITY AS A JEWISH SOUTHERNER.
BR 7203 TUESDAY'S WITH MORRIE AN OLD MAN, A YOUNG MAN & LIFE'S ALBOM, MITCH V.MIODUSZEWS MORRIE SCHWARTZ WAS A COLLEGE PROFESSOR WHO UNDERSTOOD MITCH ALBOM WHEN HE WAS YOUNG AND SEARCHING. MITCH TELLS OF THE VISITS HE PAID EVERY TUESDAY TO HIS OLD PROFESSOR BEFORE MORRIE DIED.
BR 7204 ANIMAL'S WALTZ CARY FAGAN E. SILVERMAN AT AGE31, COLLEGE DROPOUT SHEILA HERSH LEADS A SCHIZIOD EXISTENCE. BY DAY, AS ADVERTISING COPYWRITER IN HER FATHER'S TORONTO STORE SHE IS THE DUTIFUL JEWISH DAUGHTER. AT NIGHT, SHE FREQUENTS A TRENDY CLUB-HOPPING SCENE. THE STORE IS LOSING MONEY, HER FATHER HAS IRRATIONAL, VIOLENT OUTBURSTS AND HIS NEW LADY FRIEND MAY BE A GOLD DIGGER. THEN SHEILA BECOMES OBSESSED WITH A BOOK OF POEMS LEFT BY HER DECEASED MOTHER. THE AUTHORESS, AN OBSCURE JEWISH VIENNESE PIANIST DROWNED IN A CANAL IN 1925. SHEILA SETS OUT TO UNLOCK THE MYSTERY OF HER DEATH AS WELL AS COME TO TERMS WITH HER MOTHER'S DEATH. SHE, AND HER FATHER, TRAVEL TO VIENNA WHERE THEY EACH FIND NEW LOVE.
BR 7205 TURBULENT SOULS CATHOLIC SON'S RETURN TO JEWISH FA STEPHEN J. DUBNER F. BOHEN STEPHEN J. DUBNER, THE YOUNGEST OF EIGHT CHILDREN, GREW UP IN A FAMILY THAT WAS INDUSTRIOUS, RAMBUNCTIOUS, AND ABOVE ALL, CATHOLIC. BUT STEPHEN JOURNEYS TO FIND OUT ABOUT HIS FAMILY HISTORY AND LEARNS ABOUT A RELIGION HIS FAMILY ABANDODED.
BR 7206 KADDISH FOR A CHILD NOT BORN KERTESZ, IMRE ADA CREIGHTON IMRE KERTESZ'S NOVEL IS A TALE OF IDENTITY AND MEMORY-THE STORY OF A MIDDLE-AGED MAN WHO IS TAKING STOCK OF HIS LIFE IN TH EEVERPRESENT SHADOW OF THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 7207 VIKTOR FRANKL RECOLLECTIONS VIKTOR E. FRANKL F. LIEBERMAN THIS WORLD KNOW PSYCHIATRIST AND AUTHOR REVEALS THE WARMLY HUMAN SIDE OF A LIFE THAT HAS CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH TO THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRIC SCIENCE. DURING WWII, FRANKL LOST HIS WIFE AND IMMEDIATE FAMILY AND WAS HIMSELF IN FOUR CONCERNTRATION CAMPS. THROUGH HIS BELIEFS HE WAS ABLE TO TRIUMPH OVER HIS WAR EXPERIENCES AND REBUILD HIS PROFESSIONAL AND PRIVATE LIFE IN POSTWAR VIENNA.
BR 7208 TEN COMMANDMENTS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GOD'S LAWS IN EVERYDAY LIFE SCHLESSINGER, LAURA; VOGEL, STEWART ADA CREIGHTON DR. SCHLESSINGER (THE RADIO PSYCHOLOGIST) AND RABBI VOGEL PRESENT A MODERN APPLICATION OF GOD'S LAWS, INCORPORATING LIVELY DISCUSSION ON THE BIBLE AND THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES DERIVED FROM IT. © 1998
BR 7209 SLOW WAY BACK JUDY GOLDMAN C. CREIGHTON THE FIRST NOVEL TRACES THREE GENERATIONS OF A SOUTHERN JEWISH FAMILY. IT IS A TALE ABOUT DEEPLY ROOTED FAMIY SECRETS, THE COMPLEX LOVE BETWEEN SISTERS, AND THE CONSTANT STRUGGLE TO KEEP ONE'S FAMILY ALIVE.
BR 7210 POSTVILLE CLASH OF CULTURES IN HEARTLAND AM STEPHEN G. BLOOM B. SANDOCK STEPHEN BLOOM SHAES HIS BIRD'S-EYE VIEW ON THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF THE LUBAVITCHERS, AN ORTHODOX JEWISH SECT, LIVING IN POSTVILLE, IOWA.
BR 7211 WHERE SHE CAME FROM DAUGHTER'S SEARCH FOR MOTHER'S HIS HELEN EPSTEIN E. MINKOFF WHEN HER MOTHER DIED IN 1989, HELEN EPSTEIN SET OUT TO RESEARCH AND RECONSTRUCT TEH LIVES OF HER MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER, AND GREAT GRANDMOTHER. USING HER JOURNALIST TRAINING, SHE PIECED TOGETHER AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES OF THE WOMEN IN HER FAMILY AND THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN JEWS.
BR 7212 SIMON'S FAMILY FREDRIKSSON, MARIANNE ZELVY, TERRY EVER SINCE CHILDHOOD, SIMON LARSSON HAS STRUGGLED WITH FEELINGS THAT SOMETHING FROM HIS PAST IS NOT QUITE RIGHT. DESPITE HIS PARENTS' SIMPLE LIVES, HISTORY FORCES THEM TO CONCEAL A SHATTERING SECRET FROM SIMON-ONE THAT, IF EVER REVEALED, THREATENS TO DESTROY THEM ALL. AS THE SHADOW OF WORLD WAR II FALLS OVER EUROPE, SIMON FORMS A FRIENDSHIP WITH A JEWISH CLASSMATE. IT IS A RELATIONSHIP THAT WILL FOREVER CHANGE BOTH THEIR LIVES, AS THE LARSSONS AND LENTOVS ARE IRREVOCABLY DRAWN TOGETHER TO CREATE A MAKESHIFT FAMILY ALL THEIR OWN.
BR 7213 EDGE OF EUROPE BIANCHINI, ANGELA AHIGIN, BARNA IN 1941, A YOUNG ITALIAN JEWISH WOMAN FLEES HER COUNTRY FOLLOWING THE PROMULGATION OF ITALY'S SO CALLED RACIAL LAWS. ALTHOUGH EMOTIONALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY DISPLACED, THE YOUNG WOMAN COMES TO RECOGNIZE HER EXILE AS A RITE OF PASSAGE, AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE A NEW AWARENESS OF HERSELF. ANGELA BIANCHINI EXPLORES THE THEME OF EXILE FROM A VARIETY OF PERSPECTIVES AS SHE OFFERS A GLIMPSE INTO ITALIAN CULTURE AS A MAJOR HISTORICAL JUNCTURE.
BR 7214 ILLUMINATED SOUL STOLLMAN, ARYEH LEV SANDOCK, BETTY THE BOOK FOLLOWS THE LIFE OF EVA LAQUEDEM AND THE AUGSBURG MISCELLANY, A FIFTEENTH CENTURY HEBREW ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT SHE SMUGGLES OUT OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA AT THE OUTBREAK OF WWII. STOLLMAN'S NOVEL EMBRACES ISSUES OF MEMORY AND LONGING THROUGH THE TALES OF EVA'S TRAVELS, THE DANGERS SHE FACES, AND THE BEAUTY SHE ENCOUNTERS.
BR 7215 SHIKSA GODDESS (OR HOW I SPENT MY FORTIES) ESSAYS WASSERSTEIN, WENDY SCHRAGER, MITZIE WENDY WASSERSTEIN WAS AN AWARD-WINNING AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT WHO RECEIVED THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA AND A TONY AWARD FOR BEST PLAY. WHEN WASSERSTEIN TURNED FORTY, SHE MADE A TO DO LIST COMPOSED MOSTLY OF ITEMS LEFT OVER FROM WHEN SHE TURNED THIRTY. IN THIS COLLECTION OF ESSAYS WASSERSTEIN WROTE ABOUT EACH OF HER QUESTS AND MIDLIFE OBSESSIONS AS WELL AS HER SISTER'S BATTLE WITH BREAST CANCER, AND HER OWN PREGNANCY AND THE BIRTH OF HER FIRST CHILD AT FORTY-EIGHT. WASSERSTEIN DIED OF LYMPHOMA 4 YEARS AFTER PUBLISHING THE "SHIKSA GODDESS."
BR 7216 DIANNE FEINSTEIN NEVER LET THEM SEE YOU CRY ROBERTS, JERRY MOTHEN, LILLIAN ROBERTS PENETRATING BIOGRAPHY OF DIANNE FEINSTEIN GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF THE THRICE-MARRIED JEWISH WOMAN WHO CAM CLOSE TO BEING PICKED AS WALTER MONDALE'S RUNNING MATE IN THE 1984 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. HE RECOUNTS HER DIFFICULT CHILDHOOD AND HER EVOLUTION FROM AN ALOOF, CALCULATING LOCAL APPOINTEE TO THE WARMLY ENGAGING, HIGHLY VISIBLE LEADER ON THE NATIONAL SCENE.
BR 7217 SMALL MIRACLES FOR WOMEN MANDELBAUM, YITTA; LEVENTHAL, JUDITH ADA CREIGHTON SMALL MIRACLES FOR WOMEN IS A COLLECTION OF TRUE EXPERIENCES, EACH FEATURING A SPECIAL WOMAN AND THE MIRACLES THAT HAVE BLESSED HER
BR 7218 REASON FOR WINGS KORNBLATT, JOYCE REISER LIEBERMAN, FLORENCE RACHEL SILVER, A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR NOW LIVING IN ARGENTINA, UNDERTAKES "THE DUTIES OF WITNESS," SETTING DOWN FOR HER MISSING GRANDDAUGHTER MARCELLA A HISTORY OF THE FAMILY'S SURVIVAL.
BR 7219 REDEMPTION FAST, HOWARD CHARLES CREIGHTON WHEN IKE GOLDMAN, A RETIRED LAW PROFESSOR AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, DISSUADES A MUCH YOUNGER WOMAN FROM COMMITTING SUICIDE, HE NEVER SUSPECTS THAT HIS SELFLESS ACTION WILL LEAD TO LOVE AND THE POSSIBLE DEFENSE OF A WOMAN WHO IS ACCUSED OF MURDERING HER ABUSIVE EX-HUSBAND. EVENTUALLY HE MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN FOLLOWING HIS HEART OR THE LOSS OF HIS FAITH IN LOVE.
BR 7220 REFUGE MICHAEL, SAMI LISELOTT, BURIN THE TIME IS 1973, THE SETTING THE YOM KIPPUR WAR. COMMUNIST AND ZIONIST, ISRAELI ARAB, PALESTINIAN REFUGEE AND ASHKENAZY JEW CLASH IN THIS STORY OF LOVE AND HATRED. MARDUCH, COMMUNIST SURVIVOR OF AN IRAQI PRISON (LIKE THE AUTHOR) AND ZIONIST BY DEFAULT, HAS GONE TO FIGHT FOR ISRAEL--THE COUNTRY THAT GAVE HIM REFUGE. WHEN MARDUCH'S WIFE IS ASKED TO SHELTER AN ARAB COMRADE SLATED FOR PREVENTIVE DETENTION, THE ANGUISH OF MORAL, POLITICAL, AND SEXUAL TENSIONS SURFACE. WHO IS GIVING WHOM REFUGE? WHERE DOES ONE'S LOYALTY LIE?
BR 7221 SUNRISE SHOWS LATE MEKLER, EVA CHARLES CREIGHTON THE SETTING FOR THIS FIRST NOVEL IS A DP CAMP IN AMERICAN-OCCUPIED GERMANY IN 1946-47. THE PROTAGONIST, MANYA GERSON, SURVIVED THE WAR BY PASSING AS A GENTILE WITH FORGED IDENTITY PAPERS. NOW PREGNANT, SHE MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN TWO MEN; HER LOVER, AN ARDENT ZIONIST, AND A SUITOR WHO CAN OFFER HER A STABLE LIFE.
BR 7222 PROMISED LAND VELTFORT, RUHAMA PERLMAN- ALLEN, EDITH YITZHAK, THE RENEGADE SON OF AN ORTHODOX RABBI IN THE SHTETLS OF POLAND, FLEES TO THE NEW WORLD WITH HIS YOUNG WIFE, CHANA, TO ESCAPE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION AND SUSPICION ABOUT HIS POWERFUL CHARISMA AND FERVENT BELIEFS. SETTLING WITH HIS FOLLOWERS UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF A WEALTHY FAMILY IN ST. LOUIS. YITZHAK IS DRIVEN BY RECURRING VISIONS TO LEAD HIS FAMILY AND HIS FLOCK ON A PERILOUS TREK WEST. IT IS ON THIS ADVENTURE-FILLED WITH INDIANS, SETTLERS, RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS, TRUE BELIEVERS, AND ALL OF THE DANGERS AND GRANDEUR OF THE AMERICAN WILDERNESS-THAT YITZHAK'S FAITH IS TRIED AND CHANA'S MORE PRAGMATIC BELIEFS ARE TESTED AGAINST BOTH THE JOURNEY AND ITS SURPRISING RESOLUTION.
BR 7223 SNOW IN AUGUST HAMILL, PETE BAYER, RUTH IN BROOKLYN IN 1947, 11-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL DEVLIN MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF A NEWLY EMIGRATED ORTHODOX RABBI. IN EXCHANGE FOR LESSONS IN ENGLISH AND BASEBALL, RABBI HIRSCH TEACHES MICHAEL YIDDISH AND MYSTERIES OF THE KABBALAH. SOON, THOUGH, ANTI-SEMITISM APPEARS IN THE FORM OF A GANG OF TOUGHS THAT IT SEEMS ONLY A GOLEM CAN STOP.
BR 7224 FERTILE GROUND KRICH, ROCHELLE MAJER SANDOCK, BETTY LISA BROCKMAN IS A STAFF PHYSICIAN AT A PRESTIGIOUS FERTILITY CLINIC THAT HAS COME UNDER FIRE FOR ALLEGED EGG SWITCHING. THE MURDER OF A YOUNG EGG DONOR AND THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF DR. MATTHEW GORDON, THE CLINIC'S FOUNDER AND LISA'S FIANCEE PUTS HER MEDICAL CAREER IN JEOPARDY. IN DESPERATION LISA LAUNCHES HER OWN SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH.
BR 7225 MAGIC SECRETS WYLER, ROSE AND GERALD AMES EVANS, GERTRUDE CHILDREN'S MAGIC BOOKS.
BR 7226 CARRY ME ACROSS THE WATER CANIN, ETHAN SANDOCK, BETTY TAKE THE ADVICE OF NO ONE, THE YOUNG AUGUST KLEINMAN IS TOLD BY HIS MOTHER AS THE NAZI PARTY RISES TO POWER AROUND THEM IN HAMBURG. WITH THESE WORDS TO GUIDE HIM, YOUNG AUGUST ESCAPES TO AMERICA, WHERE HE GOES ON TO BUILD A FOTUNE, A FAMILY, AND A LIFE ON HIS OWN TERMS.
BR 7227 SAME SEA OZ, AMOS SCHENCKEL-SILVERMAN, REGINA THE STORY ABOUT A FAMILY AND WHAT THEY GO THROUGH WHEN THE MATRIARCH OF THE FAMILY PASSES AWAY.
BR 7228 SABBATH ERLICH, JOSEPH CHARLES CREIGHTON SET IN THE POLISH-JEWISH SHTETL OF WOLBROM IN THE 1930S, WHERE JOSEF ERLICH SPENT HIS YOUTH, HIS ACCOUNT OF HOW THE CHARACTER FEIVEL AND HIS FAMILY OBSERVE THE SABBATH HAS THE FLAVOR OF A DOCUMENTARY NARRATIVE AS THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES IN INTRICATE DETAIL THE RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE AND FOLKWAYS OF THIS HOLIEST OF DAYS. IT IS A RICH ARCHIVE FOR READERS UNFAMILIAR WITH THE ORTHODOX RELIGIOUS TRADITION AS IT WAS PRACTICED FOR CENTURIES IN EUROPE AND AS IT CONTINUES TO BE PRACTICED AMONG PIOUS DESCENDANTS TODAY.
BR 7229 ELEANOR'S REBELLION A MOTHER, A SON, AND HER SECRET SIFF, DAVID ROSEMARY E. FOLTZER WHEN AT THE AGE OF FORTY DAVID SIFF LEARNED THAT HE WAS ADOPTED, HE BEGN A JOURNEY INTO HIS FAMILY'S PAST. HIS DISCOVERD THE TRUTH ABOUT HIS BIOLOGICAL FATHER, HOW HIS MOTHER GAVE HIM UP AND LATER ADOPTED HIM AND THE ROOTS OF HIS OWN PUZZLING BEHAVIOR. THIS IS DAVID SIFF'S ACCOUNT OF THE PROCESS BY WHICH HE FINALLY CAME TO KNOW HIS MOTHER.
BR 7230 BUS DRIVER WHO WANTED TO BE GOD AND OTHER STORIES KERET, ETGAR BETTY SANDOK FROM ONE OF ISRAEL'S BEST SELLING YOUNG AUTHORS COMES A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES THAT ILLUMINATE THE HIDDEN TRUTHS OF LIFE IN ISRAEL TODAY.
BR 7231 ASCENT OF ELI ISRAEL AND OTHER STORIES JOHN PAPERNIK BETTY SANDOK WRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN REPORTER WHO LIVED IN ISRAEL FOR SEVERAL YEARS, THESE STRANGE AND FICTIONAL SHORT STORIES PRESENT A BEAUTIFUL, SURREALISTIC, AND AT TIMES UNSETTLING VIEW OF MODERN DAY ISRAEL FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF THOSE EXPERIENCING THE CONFLICT FIRSTHAND.
BR 7232 BARBED WIRE ON THE ISLE OF MAN THE WARTIME BRITISH INTERNMENT OF JEWS RAMATI, ALEXANDER BETTY SANDOK
BR 7233 WHAT REMAINS DELBANCO, NICHOLAS KARYN PREMEAU THIS BOOK TELLS THE STORY OF A FAMILY WHO LIVED IN GERMANY FOR MANY YEARS AND HAD TO ESCAPE FROM HITLER AND WHILE DOING SO STRUGGLE TO COME TO TERMS WITH A PAST REPLETE WITH LARGE ANCESTRAL HOMES, A PRESENT FILLED WITH IMPOVERISHED RELATIVES WHO HAVE FLED THE NAZI REGIME, AND A DUBIOUS FUTURE ELSEWHERE.
BR 7234 WORLDPERFECT THE JEWISH IMPACT ON CIVILIZATION SPIRO, RABBI KEN CHARLES CREIGHTON WHAT CONSTITUTES A PERFECT WORLD? AFTER INTERVIEWING OVER 1,500 PEOPLE OF ALL BACKGROUNDS, RABBI SPIRO HAD A LIST OF 6 CORE ELEMENTS. HE THEN DOCUMENTED THE JEWISH ORIGINS OF THESE UNIVERSAL VALUES.
BR 7235 JUST REVENGE DERSHOWITZ, ALAN M. REGINA SCHENKMAN-SILVERSTEIN PROFESSOR MAX MANUCHEN HAS FOUND THE MAN WHO KILLED HIS ENTIRE FAMILY IN COLD BLOOD MORE THAN A HALF A CENTURY AGO. MAX, WHO HAS NEVER BROKEN A LAW, CANNOT TURN DOWN HIS CHANCE FOR REVENGE.
BR 7236 CHRIST OF FISH HOFFMAN, YOEL CHARLES CREIGHTON IN THE CHRIST OF FISH, YOEL HOFFMANN CREATES A NOVEL OUT OF A MOSAIC OF TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE PIECES OF AUNT MAGDA'S LIFE IN TEL AVIV. ORIGINALLY FROM VIENNA, HOFFMANN'S HEROINE IS A WIDOW WHO STILL SPEAKS GERMAN AFTER DECADES IN ISRAEL. THE MYRIAD MINI-CHAPTERS OFFER MANY VIEWS OF AUNT MAGDA-HER CHILDHOOD, HER MARRIAGE-A FAVORITE CAFÉ AND A GENTLEMAN ADMIRER. HOFFMANN CREATES A DREAM-LIKE YET PRECISE PORTRAIT OF AN ENCHANTING WOMAN. TRANSLATED FROM HEBREW.
BR 7237 CROSS BY DAY, THE MEZUZAH BY NIGHT SIEGEL, DEBORAH SPECTOR REGINA SCHENKMAN-SILVERSTEIN
BR 7238 HAREM MOSSANEN, DORA LEVY REGINA SCHENKMAN-SILVERSTEIN THE STORY OF THREE GENERATIONS OF WOMEN FROM THE PERSIAN JEWISH QUARTER IN IRAN AND THE LIVES EACH ONE LEADS.
BR 7239 JERICHO MOSAIC WHITTEMORE, EDWARD BARBARA AHIGIAN WHAT SEEMS APPARENT IS NOT ALWAYS THE TRUTH IN THIS NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG SYRIAN WHO GIVES UP HIS SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS TO HELP THE ARAB CAUSE. IN REALITY, HE IS AN IRAQI JEW WORKING FOR ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE.
BR 7240 CLIMBING JACOB'S LADDER ONE MAN'S JOURNEY TO REDISCOVER A JEWISH SPIRITUAL TRADITION MORINIS, ALAN REGINA SCHENKMAN- SILVERSTEIN IN EXPLORING HIS JEWISH HERITAGE, THE AUTHOR CAME UPON THE JEWISH SPIRITUAL PRACTICE CALLED MUSSAR. THIS BOOK SHOWS THE CENTRAL TEACHINGS AND PRACTICES OF MUSSAR AND HOW THEY HELPED THE AUTHOR AND CAN HELP OTHERS.
BR 7241 SHTETL THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A SMALL TOWN HOFFMAN, EVA REGINA SCHENKMAN-SILVERSTEIN AN IMMIGRANT FROM POLAND, HOFFMAN RECONSTRUCTS THE LOST WORLD OF THE SHTETL AND ITS JEWISH INHABITANTS, FROM ITS EARLY BEGINNINGS TO FINAL DESTRUCTION DURING THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 7242 NAZI OFFICER'S WIFE HOW ONE JEWISH WOMAN SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST BEER, EDITH HAHN WITH SUSAN DWORKIN REGINA SCHENKMAN-SILVERSTEIN EDITH HAHN WAS A YOUNG WOMAN STUDYING LAW IN VIENNA WHEN THE GESTAPO FORCED HER AND HER MOTHER INTO A GHETTO. EDITH WAS TAKEN AWAY TO A LABOR CAMP, AND, WHEN SHE RETURNED HOME MONTHS LATER, SHE FOUND HER MOTHER HAD BEEN DEPORTED. KNOWING SHE WOULD BECOME A HUNTED WOMAN, EDITH WENT UNDERGROUND. USING A CHRISTIAN FRIEND'S IDENTITY PAPERS, SHE FLED TO MUNICH WHERE SHE MET WERNER VETTER, A NAZI PARTY MEMBER WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH HER. DESPITE HER PROTESTS AND EVEN HER EVENTUAL CONFESSION THAT SHE WAS JEWISH, HE MARRIED HER AND KEPT HER IDENTITY A SECRET. YET, DESPITE THE RISK IT POSED TO HER LIFE, EDITH CREATED A REMARKABLE RECORD OF SURVIVAL WHICH IS NOW PART OF THE PERMANENT COLLECTION AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
BR 7243 TERRIBLE POWER OF A MINOR GUILT LITERARY ESSAYS YEHOSHUA, ABRAHAM B. CHARLES CREIGHTON CELEBRATED A.B. YEHOSHUA DISCUSSES NINE LITERARY WORKS-FROM THE EARLY CLASSICS, STORIES FROM HEBREW LITERATURE AND WORLD LITERATURE IN ORDER TO SHOW HOW THE "MORAL ISSUE" RENDERS NEW READINGS AND UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE TEXTS.

BR 7244 BLACK SWAN CHARYN, JEROME REGINA SCHENKMAN-SILVERSTEIN A CONTINUATION OF HIS MEMOIR, "THE DARK LADY FROM BELORUSSE," THE AUTHOR RELATES HIS CHILDHOOD ADVENTURES IN THE POST-WAR BRONX.
BR 7245 ELLI COMING OF AGE IN THE HOLOCAUST BITTON-JACKSON, LIVIA THE TRUE STORY OF ELLI FRIEDMANN, WHO WAS TAKEN FROM HER HOMETOWN BETWEEN THE BEAUTIFUL CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS AND THE BLUE DANUBE RIVER AT A TIME WHEN MOST GIRLS ARE GROWING UP, HAVING BOYFRIENDS AND EMBARKING UPON THE ADVENTURE OF LIFE. WHEN ELLI EMERGED FROM AUSCHWITZ AND DACHAU JUST OVER A YEAR LATER, SHE WAS FOURTEEN. SHE LOOKED LIKE A SIXTY-YEAR-OLD.

BR 7246 DOWN-TO-EARTH JUDAISM WASKOW, ARTHUR (RABBI) ROSEMARY E. FOLTZER A GUIDE TO INFUSING THE SPIRITUAL CAPACITY OF JUDAISM IN MUNDANE ACTIVITIES. THE DISCUSSIONS ARE WIDE-RANGING WITH A FIRM GROUNDING IN TEXTUAL SOURCES. WASKOW'S AIM IS TO INCLUDE ALL JEWS IN MEANINGFUL WORSHIP AND COMMUNAL RESPONSIBILITY. © 1995
BR 7247 COSTUME FOR NOAH TOPECK, SUSAN REMICK WHILE NOAH'S NURSERY SCHOOL WORKS ON PURIM COSTUMES, NOAH'S PARENTS ARE MORE CONCERNED WITH A NEW BABY'S ARRIVAL.
BR 7248 ALWAYS PRAYER SHAWL OBERMAN, SHELDON WHEN ADAM AND HIS FAMILY EMIGRATE FROM RUSSIA TO AMERICA, HIS GRANDFATHER GIVES THE BOY HIS PRAYER SHAWL. AS ADAM LEARNS TO LIVE, DRESS AND SPEAK DIFFERENTLY, THE SHAWL CHANGES ALSO, BUT ADAM INSISTS THAT ITS ESSENCE REMAINS THE SAME. EVENTUALLY, HE IS ABLE TO SHOW IT TO HIS OWN GRANDSON.
BR 7249 OPERATION PEACE FOR GALILEE THE ISRAEL-PLO WAR IN LEBANON GABRIEL, RICHARD A. JEANNE STAUCH A BALANCED ACCOUNT OF THE 1982 WAR THAT EVALUATES MILITARY ACTIONS OF THE COMBATANTS AND REFUTES FALSE OR EXAGGERATED MEDIA ACCOUNTS. © 1985
BR 7250 TROPHY WIDOW A RACHEL GOLD NOVEL KAHN, MICHAEL A. TERRY ZELVY RACHEL GOLD, THE REFORM JEWISH LAWYER WITH THE ORTHODOX JEWISH BOYFRIEND, HAS ACQUIRED ANGELA GREEN, A CELEBRITY FOR SERVING TIME FOR THE MURDER OF HER HUSBAND, AS HER LATEST CLIENT. DURING THE CASE, HOWEVER, RACHEL DISCOVERS THAT HER CLIENT WAS FRAMED, AND THAT MONEY, NOT PASSION, WAS THE MOTIVE AND THAT THE TRUE MURDERER IS PROBABLY STILL AT LARGE. © 2002
BR 7251 HIMMELFARB A NOVEL KRUGER, MICHAEL DELORES RYAN RICHARD, A YOUNG GERMAN ETHNOLOGIST TRAVELS THROUGH THE AMAZON WITH HIMMELFARB, AN EXPATRIATE JEW WHO SERVES AS HIS GUIDE, MENTOR, AND FRIEND. FALLING ILL, HIMMELFARB DICTATES A MANUSCRIPT WHICH RICHARD PUBLISHES UNDER HIS OWN NAME, PRESUMING HIMMELFARB DEAD. RICHARD BECOMES FAMOUS BUT FIFTY YEARS LATER HIMMELFARB REAPPEARS. © 1994
BR 7252 DATING SECRETS OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS BOTEACH, SHMULEY RABBI BOTEACH OFFERS ADVICE ON FINDING THAT SPECIAL SOMEONE, ORGANIZING HIS GUIDE ALONG THE FRAMEWORK OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. ALTHOUGH HE SPEAKS FROM A VERY ORTHODOX PERSPECTIVE, HIS WRITING, WITH UP-TO-DATE CULTURAL REFERENCES AND HUMOR, IS AIMED AT SINGLES OF ALL FAITHS. © 2000
BR 7253 CROWN FOR THE KING IBN GABIROL, SOLOMON IN WHAT IS CONSIDERED HIS GREATEST POEM, SOLOMON IBN GABIROL (1021-1058) USES AS ITS THEME THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN PREDICAMENT. IBN GABIROL TALKS OF THE FRAILITY OF MAN AND HIS PROCLIVITY TO SIN, IN TENSION WITH A BENIGN PROVIDENCE THAT MUST LEAVE ROOM FOR THE OPERATION OF MAN'S FREE WILL AND ALSO MAKE AVAILABLE TO HIM THE MEANS FOR PENITENCE. THE ROYAL CROWN IS STILL PRINTED IN PRAYERBOOKS OF THE SEPHARDIC RITE FOR YOM KIPPUR AND AMONG NORTH-AFRICAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES (AND THEIR OFFSHOOTS IN ISRAEL AND ELSEWHERE). IT IS READ COMMUNALLY BEFORE THE MORNING SERVICE OF THE DAY. IN NORTHERN EUROPE AND THE WEST, THIS CUSTOM HAS LAPSED. HOWEVER, THE ROYAL CROWN IS STILL USED FOR PRIVATE PENITENTIAL READING.
BR 7254 BIG NAP WALDMAN, AYELET CHARLES CREIGHTON JULIET HASN'T SLEPT FOR MORE THAN FIFTEEN MINUTES SINCE HER FOUR-MONTH-OLD SON WAS BORN AND HER HUSBAND BEING A WORKAHOLIC DOESN'T HELP. JULIET FINALLY FINDS RELIEF WITH HER SON'S NEW BABYSITTER, A YOUNG HASIDIC WOMAN. BUT FRAYDLE, THE BABYSITTER, HAS GONE MISSING! WHAT IS FRAYDLE FLEEING FROM AND WHY WON'T HER PARENTS GET THE POLICE INVOLVED? © 2001
BR 7255 LETTERS TO AUNTIE FORI THE 5,000 YEAR HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THEIR FAITH GILBERT, MARTIN SIR MARTIN GILBERT TELLS THE SAGA OF FIVE THOUSAND YEARS OF JEWISH LIFE IN A SERIES OF PERSONAL LETTERS TO A FRIEND, "AUNTIE FORI." © 2002
BR 7256 JUDGES WIESEL, ELIE SET IN A CONNECTICUT PARLOR, FIVE STRANGERS STRANDED TOGETHER AFTER THEIR PLANE MAKES AN EMERGENCY LANDING, FIND THEMSELVES MANIPULATED BY A SADISTIC HOST WHO CALLS HIMSELF THE JUDGE AND DECLARES THAT ONE OF THEM WILL DIE BEFORE MORNING. © 1999
BR 7257 GLASS HEARTS PAUL, TERRI MINNIE SCHRAGER THIS FIRST NOVEL CENTERS AROUND SERENE, A YOUNG GIRL WHOSE FATHER HAS VANISHED FROM THEIR SMALL HUNGARIAN VILLAGE JUST BEFORE WORLD WAR I, LEAVING HIS BELEAGUERED JEWISH FAMILY TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES IN A TIME OF DANGER AND DISRUPTION. SERENE IS FIVE-AND-A-HALF YEARS OLD WHEN WE MEET HER IN THE AUTUMN OF 1913. FOR THE NEXT SIX YEARS, SHE SEEKS THROUGH DREAMS AND VISIONS TO RECOVER HER FATHER AND TO DEAL WITH THE CONFLICTING VALUES AND BELIEFS OF HER TIGHTLY KNIT FAMILY AND THE SOCIETY WHICH IS UNRAVELING AROUND HER. IN THE SUMMER OF 1916, THE FIGHTING SPREADS TO HER VILLAGE, FORCING THE FAMILY TO FLEE NORTH TO A SMALL TOWN NEAR BUDAPEST. WHEN THEY RETURN AFTER THE WAR, THEY FIND THEIR VILLAGE DESTROYED. IN 1919, SERENE MUST LEAVE IT BEHIND, WITH ITS GHOSTS, CHARMS AND DREAMS, AND START ANEW, IN A NEW COUNTRY. © 1999
BR 7259 SAMIR AND YONATAN CARMI, DANIELLE IN AN ISRAELI HOSPITAL WARD WITH FIVE BEDS LIES SAMIR, A PALESTINIAN BOY. NOTHING COULD BE MORE FRIGHTENING FOR SAMIR THAN TO BE TRAPPED AMONG THE VERY PEOPLE HE BLAMES FOR HIS BROTHER'S DEATH. YET AMID THIS EXPLOSIVE ATMOSPHERE, SAMIR BEGINS TO LEARN THE PERSONAL STORIES OF THE FOUR OTHER CHILDREN. ISRAELI CHILDREN-THEIR HURTS, AND THEIR OWN CONFLICTS. THERE, EVEN IN A LANGUAGE NOT HIS OWN, CONFRONTED WITH HIS OWN FEELINGS OF GUILT, SAMIR FINDS A NEW WORLD AND PLACE FOR HIMSELF. TRANSLATED FROM HEBREW BY YAEL LOTAN © 2000
BR 7260 BRIDGE ACROSS THE JORDAN THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN A JEWISH CARPENTER AND THE KING OF JORDAN SHUMSKY, ADAIA & ABRAHAM WHEN MENDEL COHEN, A JEWISH CARPENTER BORN IN JERUSALEM, MET KING ABDULLAH OF JORDAN, THEY FORGED AN UNLIKELY BUT ENDURING FRIENDSHIP. BASED ON COHEN'S MEMOIRS OF HIS YEARS AT THE JORDANIAN ROYAL COURT AS THE COURT CONTRACTOR, THIS IS ALSO A FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF A REGION ON THE BRINK OF CHANGE. IN 1995 KING HUSSEIN (ABDULLAH'S GRANDSON) INVITED MENDEL COHEN'S DAUGHTER (SHUMSKY) TO THE ROYAL PALACE IN AMMAN SO THAT THEY MIGHT RETRACE COHEN'S AND ABDULLAH'S FOOTSTEPS. © 1997
BR 7261 JOURNEY HOME JEWISH WOMEN AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY ANTLER, JOYCE THIS OVERVIEW OF THE LIVES OF OUTSTANDING AMERICAN JEWISH WOMEN FROM 1890 TO THE PRESENT EMPHASIZES THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THEIR RELIGION. SHE HAS TAKEN 50 WOMEN FROM MANY BACKGROUNDS INCLUDING LITERATURE, SHOW BUSINESS, ZIONISM, AND FEMINISM AND HERE GIVES A WELL-RESEARCHED AND LIVELY PORTRAIT OF EACH AS WELL AS HIGHLIGHTING THEIR CONNECTIONS TO THEIR RELIGION. ANTLER ALSO DESCRIBES HOW EACH WOMAN CAME TO TERMS WITH HAVING BOTH A FEMALE AND A JEWISH IDENTITY. © 1997
BR 7262 IN THE IMAGE HORN, DARA BETTY SANDOK FOLLOWING THE LOSS OF A HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND, LEORA CUTS OFF ALL EMOTIONAL TIES TO THE WORLD. IT IS THE GRANDFATHER OF HER DECEASED FRIEND WHO RECONNECTS LEORA TO LOVE AND FAITH THROUGH THE SLIDE IMAGES HE HAS TAKEN ON HIS EXPLORATION OF JUDAISM. © 2002
BR 7263 ROSE OF JERICHO FRIEDMAN, ROSEMARY THE SEQUEL TO 'PROOF OF AFFECTION', THIS IS THE CONTINUING STORY OF KITTY SHELTON AND HER ORTHODOX JEWISH FAMILY IN ENGLAND. © 1984
BR 7264 DISTANT SISTERS THE WOMEN I LEFT BEHIND ROTEM, JUDITH JO ANN HENRY A GROWING FASCINATION WITH THE HARDSHIPS OF WOMEN IN OTHER CULTURES MAKES THIS INSIDER'S LOOK AT THE HARSH LIVES OF ULTRA-ORTHODOX WOMEN AN INTRIGUING STUDY. ROTEM, WHO DIVORCED HER HUSBAND AND THIS WAY OF LIFE, SPOKE WITH DOZENS OF WOMEN. ALTHOUGH HER APPRAISAL OF THEIR LIFE IS OFTEN HARSH, SHE IS NEVER CRITICAL OF THE WOMEN THEMSELVES. TRANSLATED BY SHIRA ATIK, WITH FOREWORD BY NESSA RAPPOPORT. © 1997
BR 7265 OWL AND OTHER STORIES AUERBACH, JOHN REGINA SCHENCKEL-SILVERMAN THESE STORIES DRAW UPON THEMES FROM THE AUTHORS LIFE: HIS YEARS AT SEA, ON A KIBBUTZ, AS AN ALIENATED MAN IN AMERICA, AND HIS AND OTHERS' SURVIVAL OF WAR AND THE HOLOCAUST. THIS IS THE FIRST COLLECTION OF HIS STORIES TO APPEAR IN ENGLISH, THE LANGUAGE IN WHICH THEY WERE WRITTEN. PREFACE BY SAUL BELLOW. © 2003
BR 7266 SANDY KOUFAX A LEFTY'S LEGACY LEAVY, JANE A SPORTS WRITER INTERVIEWED SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS NAMES IN BASEBALL FOR THIS BIO OF THE CY YOUNG AWARD WINNING BROOKLYN DODGER, FAMED FOR HIS REFUSAL TO PLAY ON YOM KIPPUR AS MUCH AS FOR HIS MODESTY, GOOD LOOKS, AND AMAZING PITCHING SKILLS. © 2003
BR 7267 MUSICALLY SPEAKING A LIFE THROUGH SONG WESTHEIMER, DR. RUTH K. DR. RUTH, BEST KNOWN FOR HER ADVICE ON HUMAN SEXUALITY, TELLS HER STORY FROM A MUSICAL PERSPECTIVE. BY AGE 30, SHE HAD HAD LIVED IN FIVE COUNTRIES. WHILE UNABLE TO CARRY A TUNE HERSELF, LEARNING THE SONGS OF EACH NATION HELPED HER LEARN NEW LANGUAGES, MAKE NEW FRIENDS, AND CREATE ENDURING MEMORIES. © 2003
BR 7268 GORDIAN KNOT WEINSTOCK, YAIR BROCHA ROSENBERG FIVE GENERATIONS OF ONE FAMILY ARE TANGLED IN A MYSTERIOUS AND IMPORTANT SECRET INVOLVING A HIDDEN KABBALIST WHOSE GRANDCHILDREN - AND ALL JEWS - WILL BE DOOMED IF HIS WILL ISN'T FOUND; A SADISTIC NAZI WITH A HIDEOUS PLAN, AND A SIMPLE FARMER ON AN ISRAELI MOSHAV. © 1997
BR 7269 WAR AT HOME EISENBERG, NORA MITZIE SCHRAGER A BARELY FICTIONALIZED STORY NARRATED BY LUCY LEHMAN ABOUT HER OUTLANDISH, DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY WHO LIVE IN THE BRONX. LUCY'S FATHER COMES BACK FROM WWII ANGRY AND VIOLENT AND LEAVES HER MOTHER FOR HIS MISTRESS. THIS THROWS HER ALREADY ECCENTRIC MOTHER, TIPPY, INTO A DOWNWARD SPIRAL OF DRUGS AND BIZARRE BEHAVIOR THAT REQUIRES LUCY AND HER BROTHER NICK TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES. © 2002
BR 7270 DEATH IN VIENNA SILVA, DANIEL GABRIEL ALLON, ART RESTORER AND SOMETIME SPY, RETURNS IN A THIRD BOOK, THIS TIME ON A MISSION TO VIENNA TO INVESTIGATE A BOMBING. THE CONSPIRACY HE UNCOVERS HITS CLOSE TO HOME WHEN HIS MOTHER'S NAZI TORTURER, STILL ALIVE, IS CONNECTED TO THE CASE. © 2004
BR 7271 FATHERLAND FILES CLIFFORD, ALAN K. TRUDY SIWOFF CARDIOLOGIST PETER GOODMAN DISCOVERS THAT A GERMAN DRUG COMPANY IS RELUCTANT TO ADVERTISE A NEW DRUG. AT THE SAME TIME AN ISRAELI NEUROPHARMACOLOGIST IS TRACKING A LIBYAN CHEMICAL WEAPONS PROJECT. AFTER THE DEATH OF GOODMAN'S HOST, THEY JOIN FORCES AND UNCOVER A PATTERN OF DECEIT STRETCHING BACK TO A WORLD WAR II CONCENTRATION CAMP. © 1994
BR 7272 BREZNITZ LAPID, HAIM TERRY ZELVY REJECTED BY HIS LOVER AND RECOVERING FROM A NEAR-FATAL CAR CRASH, BREZNITZ RETURNS TO HIS POLICE UNIT AND IS ASSIGNED TO INVESTIGATE AN UNUSUAL MURDER. AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN IS FOUND NEAR JERUSALEM; AN ARAB SUSPECT IS APPREHENDED AND QUICKLY CONFESSES. BREZNITZ, HOWEVER, IS NOT CONVINCED THAT HE IS THE REAL KILLER. TRANSLATED FROM HEBREW (1992) BY YAEL LOTAN, © 2000
BR 7273 MURDER ON A KIBBUTZ A COMMUNAL CASE GUR, BATYA THE MURDER BY POISON OF OSNAT HAREL, BEAUTIFUL AND FORCEFUL KIBBUTZ SECRETARY, IS A MOST DISTURBING ONE. TOLD REPEATEDLY THAT "ONE WHO HASN'T LIVE ON A KIBBUTZ CAN'T POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND LIFE THERE," MICHAEL OHAYON, NOW HEAD OF THE NATIONAL DIVISION'S DEPARTMENT FOR INVESTIGATION OF SERIOUS CRIMES, BECOMES EVER MORE DETERMINED TO PENETRATE THE SPIRIT OF THIS WORLD HE MUST INVESTIGATE. DEFYING HIS COMMANDER'S ORDERS. OHAYON WORKS ALONE, CONVINCED THAT ONLY THROUGH DELICATE PROBING OF KIBBUTZ LIFE WILL HE UNCOVER THE MOTIVES BEHIND THIS STRANGE HOMICIDE. TRANSALATED FROM HEBREW BY DALYA BILU © 1991
BR 7274 SOLDIER OF PEACE THE LIFE OF YITZHAK RABIN 1922-1995 KURZMAN, DAN AN INTIMATE AND COMPREHENSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF THE ASSASSINATED ISRAELI LEADER, FROM HIS CHILDHOOD AS A SHY, TROUBLED BOY TO HIS POLITICAL CAREER ON THE WORLD STAGE. THE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR IS A JOURNALIST WHO SHARED A LONG PROFESSIONAL FRIENDSHIP WITH MR. RABIN. © 1998
BR 7275 SELBY PRINTOUT A TORAH TECHNO-THRILLER BENJAMIN, RUTH TRUDY ROSENBERG MICHAEL BERMAN, BANK EMPLOYEE AND BA'AL TESHUVAH (NEWLY OBSERVANT JEWS), WAS THE LAST PERSON TO WORK ON AN ACCOUNT THAT HAS NOW BEEN PLUNDERED IN A COMPUTER BREAK-IN, SO HE IS THE PRIME SUSPECT. WITH THE HELP OF HIS AGING GRANDFATHER, HE SETS OUT ON A PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL JOURNEY TO CLEAR HIS NAME, REGAIN THE CONTENTMENT AND SATISFACTION HE'D FELT UPON BECOMING ORTHODOX, AND FIND HIS PLACE IN THE JEWISH WORLD. © 1998
BR 7276 HEARTSTORM GERROND, CAROL BLAKE JUNE JACKSON ROMANCE WITH RELIGIOUS CONTENT © 1996
BR 7277 PLAYDATE WITH DEATH WALDMAN, AYELET CHARLES CREIGHTON PUBLIC DEFENDER TURNED STAY-AT-HOME MOM JULIET APPLEBAUM IS BACK, INVESTIGATING THE APPARENT BUT UNLIKELY SUICIDE OF PERSONAL TRAINER BOBBY KATZ.© 2002
BR 7278 TERRORIST HUNTER: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A WOMAN WHO WENT UNDERCOVER TO INFILTRATE THE RADICAL ISLAMIC GROUPS OPERATING IN AMERICA ANONYMOUS THE AUTHOR IS AN IRAQI JEW WHO ESCAPED TO ISRAEL AFTER SADDAM HUSSEIN'S REGIME EXECUTED HER FATHER. NOW LIVING IN NEW YORK, HER BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE HAVE HELPED HER BECOME A COUNTERTERRORISM EXPERT, AND SHE HAS UNCOVERED INFORMATION THAT THE FBI MISSED. BECAUSE OF HER UNDERCOVER WORK, HER NAME HAS BEEN KEPT SECRET. © 2003
BR 7279 HANDSOME IS ADVENTURES WITH SAUL BELLOW: A MEMOIR WASSERMAN, HARRIET POLLY WYLLIE WASSERMAN WAS BELLOW'S LITERARY AGENT FOR MANY YEARS, UNTIL HE SWITCHED TO ONE OF HER COMPETITORS. SHE WAS THERE FOR HIS MARRIAGES AND DIVORCES, HIS PULITZER AND NOBEL PRIZES, AND A VARIETY OF OTHER EPISODES IN THE NOVELIST'S LIFE, WHICH SHE SHARES IN THIS MEMOIR. © 1997
BR 7280 CHILDREN OF WILLESDEN LANE BEYOND THE KINDERTRANSPORT: A MEMOIR OF MUSIC, LOVE & SURVIVAL GOLABEK, MONA; COHEN, LEE LISELOTTE BURIN GOLABEK, THE CONCERT PIANIST, SHARES THE INSPIRATIONAL TRUE STORY OF HER MOTHER'S ESCAPE FROM PRE-WWII VIENNA TO A LONDON ORPHANAGE. AMIDST HER FELLOW JEWISH REFUGEES IN THE CITY, TEENAGED PIANO PRODIGY LISA JURA MAKES FRIENDS, FINDS ROMANCE, AND, AGAINST ALL ODDS, WINS A SCHOLARSHIP TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF LONDON, BUT NEVER GIVES UP HOPE OF BEING REUNITED WITH HER FAMILY. THROUGHOUT IT ALL, MUSIC CONTINUES TO BE A SOURCE OF STRENGTH FOR LISA AND THOSE AROUND HER, JUST AS HER MOTHER'S FINAL ADVICE TO HER HAD PREDICTED. (C) 2002
BR 7281 ELIJAH'S TEARS STORIES FOR THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS PEARL, SYDELLE FIVE ORIGINAL TALES BY SYDELLE PEARL FEATURING THE BIBLICAL FIGURE ELIJAH, HIS FICTIONAL SISTER ELIORA, AND THEIR SEARCH FOR GOOD DEEDS AROUND THE WORLD.
BR 7282 BETHLEHEM ROAD MURDER A MICHAEL OHAYON MYSTERY GUR, BATYA THE BODY OF A YOUNG WOMAN IS DISCOVERED IN THE ATTIC OF A HOUSE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD KNOWN TO BE IMPENETRABLE TO OUTSIDERS. OHAYON IS CALLED UPON TO DO THE INVESTIGATION, WHICH TAKES PLACE AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF TENSIONS BETWEEN ASHKENAZIM AND MIZRAHIM, AND JEWS AND ARABS.
BR 7283 REPORT FROM A PARISIAN PARADISE ESSAYS FROM FRANCE, 1925-1969 ROTH, JOSEPH REGINA SCHENKEL SILVERMAN CONSIDERED THE GREATEST NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT OF HIS AGE, ROTH LEFT THE DISINTEGRATING WEIMAR REPUBLIC IN 1925 AND SPENT THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN FRANCE. THE ESSAYS HE WROTE THERE PROVIDE A DESCRIPTIVE PORTRAIT OF FRANCE IN THE LATE 1920S AND 1930S. TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN BY MICHAEL HOFMANN © 2004
BR 7284 CASE FOR ISRAEL DERSHOWITZ, ALAN THE RENOWNED HARVARD LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR REFUTES THIRTY-TWO COMMON ACCUSATIONS AGAINST ISRAEL, WRITING IN THE STYLE OF LEGAL BRIEFS AND BACKING UP HIS DEFENSE ARGUMENTS WITH HISTORICAL FACTS. © 2003
BR 7285 MIGHTY HEART THE BRAVE LIFE AND DEATH OF MY HUSBAND PEARL, MARIANE BETTY SANDOK THE WIDOW OF MURDERED WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTER DANIEL PEARL DESCRIBES HIS KIDNAPPING, THE INTERNATIONAL EFFORT SHE LED TO RESCUE HIM, AND THROUGH THIS EFFORT, NEW KNOWLEDGE OF THE TERRORISTS' METHODS, IDEOLOGY, AND RUTHLESS VIOLENCE. SHE GOES ON TO TELL THE STORY OF THEIR LIFE TOGETHER AND THEIR SHARED IDEALS, INCLUDING A BELIEF IN THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD REPORTING. WITH SARAH CRICHTON © 2003
BR 7286 ELECTED MEMBER RUBENS, BERNICE REGINA SCHENKEL-SILVERMAN NORMAN IS THE CLEVER ONE OF A CLOSE-KNIT JEWISH FAMILY IN THE EAST END OF LONDON. INFANT PRODIGY, BRILLIANT BARRISTER, THE APPLE OF HIS PARENTS' EYES…UNTIL AT FOURTY-ONE HE BECOMES A DRUG ADDICT, CONFINED TO HIS BEDROOM, AT THE MERCY OF HIS HALLUCINATIONS AND PARANOIA.
FOR NORMAN, HIS COMMITTAL TO A MENTAL HOSPITAL REPRESENTS THE ULTIMATE ACT OF BETRAYAL. FOR RABBI ZWECK, NORMAN'S FATHER, HIS SON'S DETERIORATION IS A BITTER REMINDER OF HIS OWN GUILT AND FAILURE. ONLY BELLA, THE UNMARRIED SISTER, STILL IN HER CHILDHOOD WHITE ANKLE SOCKS, CAN REACH ACROSS THE ABYSS OF PAIN TO BRING FATHER AND SON THE ELUSIVE PEACE WHICH THEY BOTH DESPERATELY CRAVE.
BR 7287 MY ANECDOTAL LIFE A MEMOIR REINER, CARL CHARLES CREIGHTON - CONG RODFEI ZEDEK THE COMEDIAN-WRITER-ACTOR OFFERS 27 ANECDOTES ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES IN SHOW BUSINESS, FROM THE CATSKILLS TO HOLLYWOOD.© 2003
BR 7288 FLYING CAMEL ESSAYS ON IDENT BY WOMEN OF N AFRCAN & MID EASTRN JEWSH HERITAGE KHAZZOOM, LOOLWA, ED. ADA CREIGHTON - CONG RODFEI ZEDEK SEVENTEEN MIZRACHI AND SEPHARDI WOMEN WRITE ABOUT THEIR MULTIPLE IDENTITIES AS WOMEN, JEWS, AND NON-WESTERNERS. AS THEY DISCUSS THE IMPACT OF HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY TENSIONS BETWEEN ISLAM, JUDAISM, AND CHRISTIANITY ON THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES, THEY ALSO INTRODUCE THEIR UNIQUE CUSTOMS AND HERITAGE TO MAINSTREAM ASHKENAZI JEWRY, PROMOTING JEWISH MULTICULTURALISM. © 2003
BR 7289 SAVING MONTICELLO THE LEVY FAMILY'S EPIC QUEST TO SAVE THE HOUSE THAT JEFFERSON BUILT LEEPSON, MARC DELORES RYAN THIS IS THE STORY OF THE LEVY FAMILY, THEIR COMMITMENT TO THE PRESERVATION OF MONTICELLO AND HOW THEY ULTIMATELY SAVED JEFFERSON'S ESTATE.© 2001
BR 7290 SECRET ACCOUNTS LAZEWNIK, LIBBY CHARLES CREIGHTON DAVID BELLINSON IS A MEMBER OF THE GOVERNMENT UNIT CHARGED WITH THE TASK OF UNRAVELING THE PAPER TRAIL OF MONEY USED TO UNDERWRITE TERRORISM ACROSS THE WORLD. DAVID LOST AN UNCLE IN A TERRORIST BOMBING YEARS AGO. THIS IS THE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ONE MAN DECIDES THAT SOMEONE HAS TO PAY FOR ALL THE SPILLED BLOOD. WHAT HE DOESN'T REALIZE - UNTIL IT'S ALMOST TOO LATE- IS THAT HE HIMSELF MIGHT BE THE ONE TO PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE OF ALL.
BR 7291 KAFKA IN BRONTLAND AND OTHER STORIES YELLIN, TAMAR BETTY SANDOCK THIRTEEN STORIES ADDRESS UNIVERSAL THEMES OF YEARNING AND DISPLACEMENT, LOVE, LOSS AND THE STRUGGLE TO BELONG. BLENDING IRONY WITH PATHOS, THE MYTHICAL MYTH WITH THE MUNDANE, THIS BOOK GIVES VOICE TO A RICH MIX OF CHARACTERS LIVING OUTSIDE TRADITIONAL PATTERNS OF IDENTITY IN A WORLD OF COMPLEX MIGRATIONS AND TUMULTUOUS CHANGES.
BR 7292 SOMEONE NOT REALLY HER MOTHER CHESSMAN, HARRIET SCOTT FRAN SUSCA HANNAH PEARL LOST HER ENTIRE FAMILY IN THE HOLOCAUST, ESCAPED FROM FRANCE TO ENGLAND, MARRIED AN RAF PILOT, ALSO KILLED IN THE WAR, AND CAME TO CONNECTICUT TO RAISE MIRANDA, THEIR ONLY DAUGHTER. NOW IN HER 80S, WITH ALZHEIMER'S ADVANCING, THE PAST, SO LONG HIDDEN FROM HER FAMILY AND HERSELF, SPILLS INTO HER MEMORIES.
BR 7293 MARRANO LEGACY A CONTEMPORARY CRYPTO-JEWISH PRIEST REVEALS SECRETS OF HIS DOUBLE LIFE ALEXY, TRUDI BETTY SANDOCK ALEXY'S JEWISH FAMILY FLED FROM PRAGUE AND HID IN FASCIST SPAIN DURING WWII AS BAPTIZED CATHOLICS. SIMON IS A CRYPTO-JEWISH CATHOLIC PRIEST WHO READ ALEXY'S FIRST BOOK AND WAS INTRIGUED BY THE SIMILARITIES WITH HIS OWN FAMILY'S HISTORY OF HIDDEN IDENTITY. THIS BOOK CHRONICLES THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ALEXY AND SIMON, AND ALEXY'S STRUGGLES TO UNDERSTAND WHY SIMON CONTINUES TO LIVE IN DANGER OF DISCOVERY BY BOTH CATHOLICS AND MAINSTREAM JEWS, WHILE WRESTLING WITH DOUBT AND TRAGEDY THAT CAUSE HIM TO ALMOST ABANDON HIS FAITH IN GOD AND HIS JEWISH IDENTITY.
BR 7294 RESPONSIBLE LIFE THE SPIRITUAL PATH OF MUSSAR STONE, IRA F. REGINA SCHENKEL SILVERMAN LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR IS THE CENTRAL OBLIGATION OF JEWISH LIFE. MUSSAR, A LATE 19TH CENTURY JEWISH RENEWAL MOVEMENT, FOCUSED ON THIS PRECEPT AS A MEANS OF SELF-IMPROVEMENT AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH. THROUGH THE PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF MUSSAR, ONE CAN LEARN HOW TO AWAKEN TO A SPIRITUALITY THAT IS COMPASSIONATE, MORAL, AND GENEROUS. IN THIS BOOK, RABBI IRA STONE PROVIDES A CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING MUSSAR AND DESCRIBES HOW PARTICIPATION IN A MUSSAR GROUP CAN OFFER SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE FOR THIS POWERFUL SPIRITUAL PRACTICE.
BR 7295 HILDA AND PEARL MATTISON, ALICE SUSAN SCHILSON WHEN 11-YEAR-OLD FRANCES LEVENSON FINDS A PAIR OF BABY SHOES HIDDEN IN HER MOTHER HILDA'S BUREAU DRAWER, SHE BEGINS TO UNRAVEL A SECRET INVOLVING HER PARENTS AND HER AUNT PEARL. A SEDUCTION, A BABY OF DISPUTED PATERNAL PARENTAGE AND A TRAGIC DEATH MARK THE SHIFTS IN FAMILY DYNAMICS THAT PARADOXICALLY BRING HILDA AND PEARL CLOSER, THOUGH ONE IS A VICTIM AND MAKES A NOBLE SACRIFICE AND THE OTHER IS A TAKER WITH MAGIC CHARM.
BR 7296 MAIMONIDES NULAND, SHERWIN REGINA SCHENKEL SILVERMAN A BIOGRAPHY OF MAIMONIDES, THE MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHER,TORAH COMMENTATOR AND COURT PHYSICIAN. NULAND, A SURGEON AND PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE, PRESENTS MAIMONDES PRIMARILY IN LIGHT OF HIS ROLE AS A PHYSICIAN.
BR 7297 WONDER SPOT BANK, MELISSA ADA CREIGHTON A REFRESHINGLY HONEST INTERPRETATION OF ONE YOUNG WOMAN'S JOURNEY INTO ADULTHOOD AS WE FOLLOW HEROINE SOPHIE APPLEBAUM THROUGH A COMFORTABLE, YET AWKWARD CHILDHOOD IN SUBURBAN PENNSYLVANIA TO THE CHALLENGES OF FINDING LOVE AND A CAREER IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN.
BR 7298 SOUP HAS MANY EYES FROM SHTETL TO CHICAGO - A MEMOIR OF ONE FAMILY'S JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY LEONARD, JOANN ROSE CHARLES GREIGHTON AT HOME IN HER PENNSYLVANIA KITCHEN, JOANN LEONARD MAKES SOUP. IN HER GRANDFATHER'S POT, SHE IMPROVISES, USING HER GREAT-GRANDMOTHER'S UNWRITTEN RECIPE. WITH THE FRAGRANT STEAM RISING FROM THE POT COMES A STREAM OF MEMORIES, HALF-TOLD TALES, AND DEPARTED ANCESTORS ASKING THAT THEIR STORIES BE TOLD. IN A NATION WHERE MOST PEOPLE'S ROOTS LIE IN FARAWAY LANDS, THE SOUP HAS MANY EYES IS A RICH, POETIC, DEEPLY SATISFYING TESTAMENT TO THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY BONDS, SPIRITUAL INSIGHT, AND, MOST OF ALL, THE MIRACLE THAT HAPPENS WHEN WE INVITE THE PAST INTO OUR LIVES.
BR 7299 STARS OF DAVID PROMINENT JEWS TALK ABOUT BEING JEWISH POGREBIN, ABIGAIL LISELOTTE BURIN MORE THAN 60 PROMINENT AMERICAN JEWS SHARE THEIR FEELINGS ON WHAT BEING JEWISH MEANS TO THEM.
BR 7300 HIDDEN CHILD MILMAN, ISAAC CHARLES CRIGHTON THIS BIOGRAPHY FOCUSES ON A YOUNG PERSON HIDDEN DURING THE HOLOCAUST--BUT THIS CHILD SURVIVED. THE AUTHOR TELLS HIS OWN STORY. HIS FAMILY FLED FROM POLAND TO FRANCE BEFORE THE WAR, BUT AFTER THE GERMAN INVASION, HIS PARENTS WERE TAKEN AWAY. A WOMAN, HENA, FOUND HIM, THEN AGE NINE, SITTING ON A PARIS SIDEWALK. SHE TOOK HIM IN, AND CONCEALED HIS AND HER OWN JEWISH IDENTITY. DESPITE THE HORROR OF LOSING MOST OF HIS FAMILY, THE AUTHOR EXPRESSES HIS GRATITUDE FOR HIS SALVATION AND HIS EVENTUAL ADOPTION BY AN AMERICAN JEWISH FAMILY AT AGE 15. AN INSPIRING AND POWERFUL VIEW OF THIS TRAGIC PERIOD IN HUMAN HISTORY.
BR 7301 WORLD PERFECT THE JEWISH IMPACT ON CIVILIZATION SPIRO, KEN LILLIAN MCGEE IN PURSUIT OF AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION OF WHAT WOULD CONSTITUTE A PERFECT WORLD, AUTHOR KEN SPIRO QUESTIONED MORE THAN 1,500 PEOPLE OF VARIOUS ACKGROUNDS AND RELIGIONS. HIS FINDINGS REVEALED SIX CORE ELEMENTS: RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE; PEACE AND HARMONY; JUSTICE AND EQUALITY; EDUCATION; FAMILY; AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. HE THEN SET OFF ON A JOURNEY TO FIND OUT WHY THESE WERE SUCH COMMON GOALS ACROSS CULTURAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND RACIAL LINES, AND IN THE PROCESS, TRACED THE HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF WORLD RELIGIONS, VALUES AND ETHICS.
BR 7302 INVISIBLE WALL A LOVE STORY THAT BROKE BARRIERS BERNSTEIN, HARRY LISELOTTE BURIN IN THIS COMPELLING FAMILY SAGA, BLUMENTHAL, U.S. SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY UNDER PRESIDENT CARTER, TRACES THE HISTORICAL TRAJECTORY OF GERMAN JEWRY, FROM MEDIEVAL GHETTO TO THE HOLOCAUST, THROUGH THE LIVES OF SIX OF HIS ANCESTORS.
BR 7303 YOSSI AND LAIBLE ON THE BALL ROSENFELD, DINA BARBARA MANDELBAUM
BR 7304 TALI'S SLIPPERS, TOVA'S SHOES GANZ, YAFFA
BR 7305 WORLD'S TOUGHEST TONGUE TWISTERS ROSENBLUM, JOSEPH
BR 7306 PRACTICAL KABBALAH A GUIDE TO JEWISH WISDOM FOR EVERYDAY LIFE WOLF, LAIBL, RABBI PRACTICAL KABBALAH DRAWS UPON ANCIENT WISDOM BUT OFFERS A MODERN INTERPRETATION AND EASY-TO-UNDERSTAND TECHNIQUES FOR DELVING DEEPER INTO OUR SELVES AND OUR WORLD AND FOR REAPING THE BOUNTEOUS GIFTS THAT WERE ALWAYS MEANT FOR US. © 1999
BR 7307 TALE OF THREE WISHES SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS WHEN THEIR WISHES FAIL, THREE CHILDREN LEARN THAT THEY MUST DESERVE BY EFFORT WHAT THEY HAD WANTED TO GET TOO EASILY.
BR 7308 WHERE ARE YOU, HASHEM? GANZ, YAFFA
BR 7309 KIND LITTLE RIVKA ROSENFELD, DINA THE LATEST IN THE SERIES OF "THE LITTLE GREATS"--BIBLICAL FIGURES AS CHILDREN--IS KIND LITTLE RIVKA ABOUT THE MATRIARCH REBECCA AS A YOUNG GIRL. IT IS A SIMPLY NARRATED ACCOUNT OF HOW ABRAHAM'S TRUSTED SERVANT ELIEZER CHOSE RIVKA TO BE ISAAC'S WIFE--ALL BECAUSE OF HER KINDNESS.
BR 7310 FOOLS OF CHELM AND THEIR HISTORY SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS A VSATIRICAL LOOK AT THE RESIDENTS OF CHELM, THE LEGENDARY YIDDISH TOWN OF FOOLS.
BR 7311 AMERICAN JEWISH FICTION A CENTURY OF STORIES SHAPIRO, GERALD, ED. THIS ANTHOLOGY PRESENTS AN AMBITIOUS CROSS-SECTION OF AMERICAN-JEWISH SHORT FICTION. IT COVERS A FULL CENTURY OF EXTRAORIDINARY WRITINGS, FROM TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY IMMIGRANT FICTION TO STORIES BY SOME OF THE FINEST YOUNG CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WRITERS. © 1998
BR 7312 STORY OF MIMMY AND SIMMY GANZ, YAFFA MIMMY IS A WEALTHY CHILD WITH MANY MATERIAL POSSESSIONS. SIMMY LIVES IN A "RUMPLEDOWN" HOUSE WITH MANY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, MUCH WORK TO DO AND FEW DRESSES OR DOLLS. THEY ARE BOTH UNHAPPY AND JEALOUS OF EACH OTHER. THE DECIDED TO TRADE PLACES FOR ONE DAY.

BR 7313 LABELS FOR LAIBEL ROSENFELD, DINA LAIBEL AND HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, YOSSI, LEARN FIRSTHAND WHY "SHARING IS SOMETHING ALL PEOPLE MUST DO.".LAIBEL DOESN'T LIKE TO SHARE WITH HIS LITTLE BROTHER, SO HE DEVISES A CLEVER PLAN TO PUT AN END TO IT. BUT SOMEONE SOON OUTSMARTS LAIBEL, HELPING HIM TO DISCOVER WHY SHARING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HE THOUGHT.
BR 7314 FOLLOW THE MOON A JOURNEY THROUGH THE JEWISH YEAR GANZ, YAFFA CREATION OF THE JEWISH CALENDAR.
BR 7315 SHARING A SUNSHINE UMBRELLA A MIMMY AND SIMMY STORY GANZ, YAFFA WHEN A SILLY ARGUMENT TURNS INTO A SERIOUS FIGHT, MIMMY AND SIMMY LEARN THE VALUE OF PEACE.
BR 7316 SHUKI'S UPSIDE-DOWN DREAM GANZ, YAFFA COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S STORIES.
BR 7317 PESACH WITH BINA, BENNY AND CHAGGI NAUONAH GANZ, YAFFA BINA, BENNY AND CHAGGAI THE HOLIDAY DOVE OBSERVE PESACH.
BR 7318 PURIM WITH BINA, BENNY AND CHAGGI NAUONAH GANZ, YAFFA BINA, BENNY AND CHAGGAI THE HOLIDAY DOVE OBSERVE PURIM.
BR 7319 VERY BEST PLACE FOR A PENNY HERMAN ROSENFELD, DINA EMPHASIZES THE MITZVAH OR JEWISH COMMANDMENT OF GIVING CHARITY, THROUGH THE TALE OF A PENNY IN A DRAWER CONTEMPLATING THE VERY BEST PLACE FOR HIMSELF.
BR 7320 LITTLE LEAF SHARFSTEIN, CHANA IT'S THE CHEERFUL STORY OF A LEAF, FROM ITS FIRST SPRING APPEARANCE AS A BUD TO ITS DECAY AND UPLIFT BY THE WIND. A RECURRING REFRAIN THROUGHOUT THE LIFECYCLE IS "EVERYTHING THAT HASHEM DOES IS REALLY FOR THE BEST."
BR 7321 FISH FOR MRS. GARDENIA ABOLAFIA, YOSSI WHEN MR. BENNETT CATCHES A FINE FISH, HE INVITES HIS FRIEND, MRS.GARDENIA, OVER FOR DINNER. BUT BEFORE HE CAN GET THE FISH ONTO THE BACKYARD GRILL, IT SLIPS FROM MR. BENNETT'S GRASP, THROUGH A NEIGHBOR'S WINDOW AND INTO A PASSING MILK CAN. FURTHER TWISTS AND TURNS IN THE PLOT EVENTUALLY DELIVER THE FISH BACK TO A SIZZLING GRILL; DINNER IS A SUCCESS AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE OLD FRIENDS BLOSSOMS.
BR 7322 CONFUSED HANNUKAH KOONS, JON HANUKKAH IS FAST APPROACHING IN THE VILLAGE OF CHELM, BUT THE RABBI IS AWAY. UNFORTUNATELY, NOT ONE OF THE VILLAGERS REMEMBERS HOW HANUKKAH IS SUPPOSED TO BE CELEBRATED. SO THEY SEND YOSSEL, A SIMPLE YOUNG MAN, TO THE NEIGHBORING VILLAGE TO LEARN WHAT HE CAN. YOSSEL MAKES A WRONG TURN, BUT HE DOES FIND SOME PEOPLE CELEBRATING A HOLIDAY. THE QUESTION IS: IS IT THE RIGHT HOLIDAY?
BR 7323 GOOD IN BED WEINER, JENNIFER CANNIE SHAPIRO IS IN HER LATE TWENTIES, FUNNY AND INDEPENDENT. AFTER A "TEMPORARY" BREAK-UP WITH HER BOYFRIEND OF THREE YEARS, SHE READS HIS DEBUT COLUMN, "GOOD IN BED," IN THE WOMEN'S MAGAZINE MOXIE. TITLED "LOVING A LARGER WOMAN," THIS VERY PERSONAL PIECE TRIGGERS EVENTS THAT COMPLETELY TRANSFORM HER AND THOSE AROUND HER.
BR 7324 TATTOO FOR A SLAVE CALISHER, HORTENSE A TATTOO IS A BUGLE CALL, A SUMMONING THAT LINGERS IN THE EAR. CALISHER COMES FROM A VIRGINIAN-BORN FATHER WHO MOVED TO THE NORTH FOR BUSINESS. HE REPEATEDLY INSISTS THAT HER FAMILY NEVER KEPT SLAVES, AN ASSUMPTION THAT CALISHER MAINTAINED UNTIL BOTH OF HER PARENTS WERE DEAD. UPON GOING THROUGH THE CONTENTS OF HER PARENT'S SAFE-DEPOSIT BOX, SHE COMES ACROSS A RECEIPT FOR AN INSURANCE PAYMENT HER GRANDFATHER MADE FOR 2 "SERVANTS", AND BECOMES DETERMINED TO UNCOVER THE TRUTH ABOUT HER SLAVE-OWNING GRANDPARENTS.
BR 7325 TELL IT LIKE IT IS TOUGH CHOICES FOR TODAY'S TEENS FRANKEL, ELLEN; LEVINE, SARAH BROCHA BURNSTEIN THE BOOK PORTRAYS THE LIFE OF SARAH EISENBERG, A NINTH GRADER IN A NEW CITY AND A NEW SCHOOL. THE YOUNG TEEN FINDS HERSELF STRUGGLING WITH AN ETHICAL DILEMMA, FROM BEING IN WITH THE "IN CROWD" TO DEFENDING HER MENTALLY RETARDED BROTHER TO DEALING WITH DRUGS AT A PARTY TO EXPERIENCING ANTISEMITISM.
BR 7442 WHEN I LIVED IN MODERN TIMES GRANT, LINDA TOLD THROUGH THE EYES OF AN UNFORGETTABLE HEROINE, WHEN I LIVED IN MODERN TIMES IS ONE WOMAN'S STORY OF DISCOVERY-OF HERSLEF, OF HER HERITAGE AND THE LAND THAT WOULD ONE DAY BECOME ISRAEL.
BR 7741 DIGNITY OF DIFFERENCE HOW TO AVOID THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS SACKS, JONATHAN USING PHILOSOPHY, CHIEF RABBI OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, RABBI JONATHAN
SACKS, PROPOSES HOW TO RECONCILE HATRED AND PROMOTE PEACEFUL, RELIGIOUS
COEXISTENCE. SACKS ARGUES THAT WE MUST DO MORE THAN SEARCH FOR VALUES COMMON TO ALL FAITHS; WE MUST ALSO REFRAME THE WAY WE SEE OUR DIFFERENCES. SACKS SEES CERTAIN VALUES (E.G., EDUCATION, RESPONSIBILITY, CHARITY) AS VITAL TO ANY NEW WORLD ORDER AND DISCUSSES HOW THE ABSENCE OF THOSE VALUES CAUSES MANY PROBLEMS, REGARDLESS OF ONE'S RELIGIOUS BELIEFS.© 2002
BR 7768 SHADOWS OF SIN A JESSIE DRAKE MYSTERY KRICH, ROCHELLE DR. RONALD BUSHNELL AND TWO OF HIS EMPLOYEES ARE SHOT DEAD IN HIS ELEGANT OFFICE. THE PLASTIC SURGEON'S WOUNDS ARE SO SAVAGE, JESSIE DRAKE KNOWS THIS WAS NO RANDOM KILLING. SHE INVESTIGATES HIS PERSONAL LIFE AND FINDS THAT HIS TROUBLED FOSTER SON HAS DISAPPEARED. IS THE TEENAGER A WITNESS, ANOTHER VICTIM, OR EVEN THE MURDERER? THE JESSIE DRAKE MYSTERIES STAR A JEWISH WOMAN WHO IS A HOMICIDE DETECTIVE IN THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT.© 2001
BR 7790 HANA'S SUITCASE A TRUE STORY LEVINE, KAREN WHEN HANA BRADY'S SUITCASE ARRIVED AT A HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER IN TOKYO IN MARCH 2000, VISITING CHILDREN WANTED TO KNOW WHO SHE WAS AND WHAT BECAME OF HER. SO CURATOR FUMIKO ISHIOKA INVESTIGATED, LEARNING OF HANA'S IDYLLIC SMALL TOWN CHILDHOOD IN 1930S CZECHOSLOVAKIA, THE SUBSEQUENT NAZI INVASION, AND THE GIRL'S EVENTUAL DEATH AT AUSCHWITZ. IN THE COURSE OF HER RESEARCH, FUMIKO LOCATED HANA'S BROTHER GEORGE, AND BROUGHT HIM TO TOKYO TO MEET THE STUDENTS. THIS BOOK IS BASED ON A RADIO DOCUMENTARY, NARRATED BY FUMIKO ISHIOKA AND GEORGE BRADY.© 2003
BR 7815 COMING HOME TO JERUSALEM A PERSONAL JOURNEY ORANGE, WENDY THE AUTHOR, AN AMERICAN WRITER, WENT TO JERUSALEM WITH HER FAMILY FOR A TEN DAY CONFERENCE AND ENDED UP STAYING FOR SIX YEARS. HER EXPERIENCE WITH PEOPLE OF OPPOSING VIEWS AND BARELY CO-EXISTING SUBCULTURES IS ILLUMINATING AND EVOCATIVE.© 2000
BR 7928 GENIUS OF GENESIS A PSYCHOANALYST AND RABBI EXAMINES THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE SHULMAN, DENNIS G. DRAWING ON HIS PERSPECTIVE AS BOTH A RABBI AND A CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, RABBI SHULMAN, PH.D., OFFERS THIS INTERPRETATION IN THE HOPE THAT WE CAN FIND OURSELVES IN THE WISDOM THAT IS GENESIS. © 2003
BR 8119 SCHLEPPING THROUGH THE ALPS MY SEARCH FOR AUSTRIA'S JEWISH PAST WTH ITS LAST WANDERING SHEPHERD APPLE, SAM WHEN SAM APPLE, A NEW YORK BASED WRITER, HEARS ABOUT HANS BREUER, AUSTRIA'S ONLY WANDERING SHEPHERD WHO SINGS YIDDISH LULLABIES TO HIS SHEEP AND GIVES CONCERTS IN HISTORICALLY ANTI-SEMITIC TOWNS, HE SIGNS ON AS AN APPRENTICE. URBAN AND FASTIDIOUS, SAM FINDS THIS NO EASY TASK. SAM AND HANS MEANDER THROUGH NUMEROUS AUSTRIAN LANDSCAPES IN THIS HILARIOUS ADVENTURE, AND MEET AUSTRIANS OF MANY STRIPES.
SAM APPLE IS DETERMINED TO FIND OUT IF THERE ARE AS MANY ANTI-SEMITES IN AUSTRIA AS HE FEARS AND TO UNDERSTAND HOW HANS, WHO GREW UP FIGHTING NAZISM IN VIENNA BECAME A WANDERING SHEPHERD. APPLE'S DISCOVERIES ARE MORE FASCINATING THAN HE COULD HAVE IMAGINED.
BR 8135 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GOD A NOVEL LESTER, JULIUS REBECCA IS THE CHILD OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, A THERAPIST, AND A RABBI. ONE STUDENT WHO HAS COME TO HER FOR COUNSELING IS FOUND STRANGLED, AND REBECCA REALIZES THAT SHE KNOWS WHO THE KILLER IS. REBECCA COMES TO POSSES A TORAH SALVAGED FROM A EUROPEAN SHTETL, AND BECOMES THE RABBI FOR THE DEAD JEWS OF THAT TOWN WHOSE SPIRITS VISIT HER NIGHTLY. THEN GOD HIMSELF BEGINS TO VISIT REBECCA AFTER SHE READS HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ANXIOUS FOR REBECCA TO GET TO KNOW HIM. REBECCA MEETS A GOD WHO IS LONELY, MORALLY AMBIVALENT, AND FASCINATED WITH EVIL. THIS IS BOTH A MURDER MYSTERY AND A MYSTERY ABOUT THE NATURE OF GOD, WHICH READERS WILL FIND INTRIGUING, DISTURBING AND IRONIC.
BR 8145 TEN GREEN BOTTLES TRUE STORY OF FAMILY'S JOURNEY FROM WAR-TORN AUSTRIA TO SHANGHAI KAPLAN, VIVIAN JEANETTE NINI KARPEL, WHO GREW UP IN VIENNA DURING THE 1920S, LOVED THE CITY OF HER BIRTH. BUT WHEN HITLER SEIZED NEARBY GERMANY IN THE 1930S, AND ANTI-SEMITISM BECAME WIDESPREAD, THE KARPEL FAMILY SOUGHT REFUGE IN SHANGHAI, CHINA, WHICH IS A PLACE OF PRIVILEGE FOR SOME, POVERTY FOR MOST, WITH OPIUM DENS, DISEASE, AND WAR.
BR 8160 THOSE WHO SAVE US BLUM, JENNA FOR FIFTY YEARS, ANNA SCHLEMMER HAS REFUSED TO TALK ABOUT HER LIFE IN GERMANY DURING WORLD WAR II. TRUDY'S SOLE EVIDENCE OF THE PAST IS AN OLD PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING ANNA, TRUDY, AND A NAZI OFFICER. TRUDY, NOW A PROFESSOR OF GERMAN HISTORY, BEGINS INVESTIGATING THE PAST
BR 8164 NOT ME A NOVEL LAVIGNE, MICHAEL MICHAEL ROSENHEIM, A DIVORCED STAND-UP COMIC, IS CARING FOR HIS ALZHEIMER'S-AFFLICTED FATHER WHEN HE DISCOVERS 24 VOLUMES OF HIS FATHER'S JOURNALS. IN THEM, HESHEL ROSENHAIM HAS DETAILED, IN THE FORM OF A NOVEL, THAT HE IS NO CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVOR BUT A FORMER NAZI ACCOUNTANT AT BERGEN-BELSEN. INTENSE AND VIVID, THIS BOOK IS AN UNSPARING AND UNFORGETTABLE EXAMINATION OF FAITH, HISTORY, IDENTITY, AND LOVE.
BR 8182 DEAN AND ME A LOVE STORY LEWIS, JERRY: KAPLAN, JAMES OVER THE COURSE OF THEIR 10-YEAR PARTNERSHIP, LEWIS AND DEAN MARTIN MADE 16 WILDLY POPULAR MOVIES BUT THEIR REAL STRENGTH WAS THEIR PERFORMANCES IN NIGHTCLUBS, THEATERS AND ON TELEVISION. LEWIS WANTS TO GIVE HIS LATE PARTNER THE CREDIT HE FEELS CRITICS MISSED. LEWIS IS A WONDERFUL RACONTEUR, AND HIS TALES CAPTURE THE EXCITEMENT OF THEIR BUDDING CAREER AND THE SLOW, SAD EROSION OF THE FUN.
BR 8194 ALL WHOM I HAVE LOVED A NOVEL APPELFELD, AHARON FICTION.
BR 8198 BRIEF CHAPTER IN MY IMPOSSIBLE LIFE REINHARDT, DANA OLIVE SKINNED AND DARK EYED, SIMONE LOOKS NOTHING LIKE HER FAIR-HAIRED FAMILY. SHE IS, NONETHELESS, THE BELOVED DAUGHTER OF HER ADOPTIVE PARENTS. IT THEREFORE COMES AS A TERRIBLE INTRUSION IN SIMONE'S COMFORTABLE LIFE WHEN, AFTER 16 YEARS, HER BIRTH MOTHER RIVKA, A SELF-EXILED HASIDIC JEW, ASKS TO MEET HER.
BR 8202 BOOK DOCTOR A NOVEL COHEN, ESTHER NEW YORKER ARLETTE ROSEN NEVER INTENDED TO BECOME A BOOK DOCTOR. BUT AFTER SHE HELPS A FRIEND AND SALVAGES A MANUSCRIPT TITLED LIFE AND DEATH: ONE PROGNOSIS, SHE NEVER LACKS FOR CLIENTS. IN FACT, MUCH OF THIS SWEETLY CLEVER COMEDY CONSISTS OF THE LETTERS ARLETTE RECEIVES FROM DESPERATE WANNABE WRITERS HOPING THAT SHE WILL BE ABLE TO HELP THEM WRITE EVERYTHING FROM HOLOCAUST NOVELS TO AN ALZHEIMER'S JOKE BOOK.
BR 8211 LOVE WITH NOODLES AN AMOROUS WIDOWER'S TALE FREUND, HARRY L FREUND'S DEBUT NOVEL, SET AMONGST THE PARK AVENUE JEWISH SOCIAL SET, SKATES BY ON A BREEZE OF LIGHT SOCIAL COMEDY. TWO YEARS AFTER HIS BELOVED WIFE'S DEATH, 60-YEAR-OLD UPPER EAST SIDE STOCKBROKER DAN GELDER FINDS HIMSELF "BACK IN THE SADDLE," PURSUED BY ELIGIBLE WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE, EACH LOOKING FOR LOVE AND COMFORT IN THEIR RAPIDLY APPROACHING GOLDEN YEARS.
BR 8220 FORTUNE TELLER'S KISS AMERICAN LIVES SEROTTE, BRENDA SEROTTE'S MEMOIR TELLS OF HER GROWING UP IN THE BRONX IN A SEPHARDIC JEWISH FAMILY AMONG ASHKENAZI NEIGHBORS. SHE WRITES OF HER TURKISH-BORN RELATIVES, THEIR CUSTOMS AND RITUALS, AND HOW SHE CAME DOWN WITH POLIO SHORTLY BEFORE HER EIGHTH BIRTHDAY. DESCRIPTIONS OF HER FAMILY MEMBERS ARE WHAT MAKE THIS MEMOIR A JOY TO READ.
BR 8224 CATASTROPHIST LAWRENCE DOUGLAS ACADEMIC SUPERSTAR DANIEL WELLINGTON IS ON THE FAST TRACK AND IS VERY HAPPILY MARRIED. HOWEVER, WHEN HIS WIFE INFORMS HIM THAT SHE IS PREGNANT, HE IS STRICKEN WITH A CATASTROPHIC FEAR OF THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF FATHERHOOD. HIS BEHAVIOR BECOMES INCREASINGLY ERRATIC. WHILE WORKING AS A CONSULTANT ON A PROJECT TO BUILD A HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL IN BERLIN, HE FINDS HIMSELF COMPULSIVELY LYING IN INTERVIEWS, CLAIMING TO BE THE CHILD OF SURVIVORS. AS DANIEL'S LIFE IMPLODES ON ALL FRONTS, THE AUTHOR TAKES INCREASINGLY FUNNY SHOTS AT MARRIAGE, ACADEMIA, AND MODERN ART.
BR 8225 BORDER OF TRUTH A NOVEL VICTORIA REDEL AT 41, SARA, AN ACADEMIC IN MANHATTAN, REGISTERS WITH AN INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION AGENCY, AND SHE IS REQUIRED TO PROVIDE HER FAMILY HISTORY. SHE KNOWS HER LOVING, WIDOWED FATHER, RICHARD, CAME TO THE U.S. AS A HOLOCAUST REFUGEE IN THE 1940S, BUT HE DOES NOT TALK ABOUT IT. WHAT IS HE HOLDING BACK? AS THE FAMILY MYSTERY BUILDS TO A CLIMAX, THE REVELATIONS OF LOVE, GUILT, BETRAYAL, LOSS, AND DENIAL ARE HAUNTING.
BR 8243 WHO SHE WAS MY SEARCH FOR MY MOTHER'S LIFE FREEDMAN, SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN'S MOTHER, ELEANOR, DIED OF CANCER AT AGE 50. THIRTY YEARS LATER, HE HAS WRITTEN A VIVID STORY, HER STORY, WITH ALL THE NARRATIVE ENERGY OF A NOVEL. SHE WAS A LOVELY GIRL, AND SHE LOVED BEING ADMIRED. SHE GREW UP IN THE EAST BRONX, SURROUNDED BY JEWISH EASTERN EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS LIKE HER FAMILY. WITH TOUCHING ANECDOTES SUPPLIED BY FREEDMAN'S RELATIVES AND ELEANOR'S SURVIVING FRIENDS, THE AUTHOR RELAYS HOW ELEANOR CLASHED WITH HER DOMINEERING MOTHER, OVER ISSUES OF LOVE, MARRIAGE, EDUCATION, CULTURE AND CAREER.
BR 8252 BOOK ABOUT MY MOTHER TALBOT, TOBY A MEMOIR OF TOBY TALBOT'S MOTHER'S LIFE AND HER OWN CHILDHOOD. IT'S THE EXPERIENCE OF MOURNING, OF MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS, OF THE HANDING DOWN OF LIFE FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION, OF THE NEED TO GO ON.
BR 8254 MURDER IN JERUSALEM A MICHAEL OHAYON MYSTERY GUR, BATYA TIRZAH RUBIN, SET DESIGNER FOR ISRAELI TELEVISION, IS FOUND DEAD UNDER A FALLEN MARBLE PILLAR. MICHAEL OHAYON, THE QUIET, INTROSPECTIVE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ISRAELI POLICE, ARRIVES ON THE SCENE TO BEGIN AN INVESTIGATION OF WHAT FIRST APPEARS TO BE AN ACCIDENT AND SOON BECOMES A CRIME. WHEN THE KILLING IS FOLLOWED BY A SECOND AND THEN A THIRD DEATH AT THE STUDIO, OHAYON AND HIS STAFF DELVE FURTHER INTO THE DEEPLY INTERTWINED LIVES OF THE VICTIMS AND THE OTHER MAJOR PLAYERS IN THIS CLOSELY KNIT TELEVISION FAMILY.
BR 8255 POLISH WOMAN A NOVEL MEKLER, EVA SET IN 1967 NEW YORK, IT IS THE STORY OF JEWISH LAWYER PHILIP LANDAU, CHARGED WITH HANDLING THE ESTATE OF A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, WHEN A WOMAN APPEARS ON HIS DOORSTEP AND IDENTIFIES HERSELF AS THE SURVIVOR'S DAUGHTER, LONG SINCE PRESUMED DEAD. THE SITUATION APPEARS SUSPICIOUS YET PHILIP IS OBLIGATED TO RESEARCH AND EXAMINE HER STORY. IN THE PROCESS HE FALLS IN LOVE WITH HER. IN A TRIP TO POLAND, A NATION RIFE WITH POSTWAR ANTI-SEMITISM, THE TWO OF THEM UNCOVER THE FULL TRUTH THAT WILL FOREVER CHANGE THEIR RELATIONSHIP.
BR 8256 ONE GOD CLAPPING THE SPIRITUAL PATH OF A ZEN RABBI LEW, ALLAN LEW'S COMPELLING SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY TRACES A CIRCLE FROM HIS JEWISH BOYHOOD IN BROOKLYN THROUGH A LONG, INTUITIVE QUEST THAT BROUGHT HIM TO BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, WHERE HE PRACTICED ZEN BUDDHISM. AFTER 10 YEARS OF ZEN MEDITATION, LEW REALIZED THAT HIS IS AN UNDENIABLY JEWISH SOUL. THIS REVELATION, ACCOMPANIED BY DREAMS, VISIONS, AND UNCANNY COINCIDENCES, DROVE HIM BACK TO NEW YORK, HIS FAMILY, AND THE TEMPLE, CULMINATING IN HIS BECOMING A RABBI.
BR 8280 BLINDNESS OF THE HEART FRANCK, JULIA IN A CROWDED TRAIN STATION IN 1945, AS THRONGS OF GERMANS FLEE TO THE WEST, HELENE TELLS HER SEVEN-YEAR-OLD SON TO SIT ON A BENCH AND WAIT WHILE SHE GOES TO THE LAVATORY, BUT SHE NEVER RETURNS. AND THUS FRANCK'S U.S. DEBUT BEGINS WITH THE UNSETTLING QUESTION OF WHAT SORT OF CIRCUMSTANCES COULD LEAD A MOTHER TO ABANDON HER SON.
BR 8284 GOOD FOR THE JEWS A NOVEL SPARK, DEBRA PART MYSTERY AND PART STRANGER-COMES-TO TOWN STORY, THE BOOK IS LOOSELY BASED ON THE BIBLICAL BOOK OF ESTHER. LIKE ESTHER, THE CHARACTERS DEAL WITH ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE WAY THAT POWERFUL MEN---AND THE WOMEN WHO LOVE THEM---NEGOTIATE BUREAUCRACIES.
BR 8289 JEW GROWS IN BROOKLYN THE CURIOUS REFLECTIONS OF A FIRST-GENERATION AMERICAN EHRENREICH, JAKE JAKE OSTROWITZ AS A BOY, JAKE EHRENREICH WANTED NOTHING MORE THAN TO FIT IN. THE REALITY OF BEING THE FIRST AMERICAN-BORN CHILD OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS WITH THICK EUROPEAN ACCENTS MADE HIM CRINGE, AND HE DID EVERYTHING HE COULD TO FIT HIS VISION OF WHAT IT MEANT TO BE A 'REAL' AMERICAN.

BR 8303 AMOROUS BUSBOY OF DECATUR AVENUE A CHILD OF THE FIFTIES LOOKS BACK KLEIN, ROBERT THE COMEDIAN, ACTOR, AND WITTY OBSERVER OF OUR SOCIAL FOIBLES IS ALSO A FINE AND VERY FUNNY WRITER. WINNING A JOB WITH CHICAGO'S SECOND CITY IMPROVISATIONAL TROUPE IS REMEMBERED HERE FONDLY, AND KLEIN FILLS HIS STORY WITH INTERESTING AND REVEALING ANECDOTES ABOUT MANY SECOND CITY ALUMNI.
BR 8306 HARE WITH AMBER EYES A FAMILY'S CENTURY OF ART AND LOSS DE WAAL, EDMUND PAUL SPERRY EDMUND DE WAAL IS A WORLD-FAMOUS CERAMICIST. WHEN HE INHERITED A COLLECTION OF 264 TINY JAPANESE WOOD AND IVORY CARVINGS HE WANTED TO KNOW HOW THE COLLECTION HAD MANAGED TO SURVIVE. AND SO BEGINS THIS MEMOIR AND DETECTIVE STORY AS DE WAAL DISCOVERS THE STORY OF HIS FAMILY OVER FIVE GENERATIONS.
BR 8314 SARAH'S KEY DE ROSNAY, TATIANA PARIS, JULY 1942: SARAH, A TEN-YEAR-OLD JEWISH GIRL, IS TAKEN WITH HER PARENTS BY THE FRENCH POLICE. DESPERATE TO PROTECT HER YOUNGER BROTHER, SARAH LOCKS HIM IN A BEDROOM CUPBOARD AND PROMISES TO COME BACK FOR HIM. SIXTY YEARS LATER JULIA JARMOND, AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST, STUMBLES ONTO A TRAIL OF SECRETS THAT LINK HER TO SARAH.

BR 8315 SOMETHING FROM NOTHING GILMAN, PHOEBE WHEN JOSEPH WAS A BABY, HIS GRANDFATHER MADE HIM A SHIMMERING BLUE BLANKET ADORNED WITH THE MOON AND STARS. AS THE BOY GROWS AND THE BLANKET WEARS OUT, THE OLD TAILOR RECYCLES IT, IN SUCCESSION FASHIONING A JACKET, A VEST, A TIE AND, FINALLY, A CLOTH-COVERED BUTTON. BUT WHEN JOSEPH LOSES THE BUTTON, EVEN HIS GRANDFATHER CANNOT MAKE SOMETHING FROM NOTHING.
BR 8316 READER SCHLINK, BERNHARD FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL IS RESCUED FROM A FALL BY HANNA, A WOMAN TWICE HIS AGE WHO BECOMES HIS LOVER. SUDDENLY HANNA DISAPPEARS; THE NEXT TIME MICHAEL SEES HER, HE IS A LAW STUDENT AND SHE IS ON TRIAL FOR A HIDEOUS CRIME. AS THE TRIAL PROGRESSES, MICHAEL REALIZES SHE MAY BE GUARDING A SECRET SHE CONSIDERS MORE SHAMEFUL THAN MURDER.
BR 8317 MURDER OF CONVENIENCE BLANK, HANNAH INTELLECTUAL LIFE IN 1953 PARIS IS FLOURISHING; THE CAFES ARE ABUZZ WITH PHILOSOPHERS, ARTISTS, AND AMERICAN STUDENTS SPENDING A YEAR ABROAD. BUT THEIR PLEASANT ROUTINE IS INTERRUPTED WHEN A MYSTERIOUS YOUNG WOMAN IS FOUND MURDERED. AS THE POLICE INVESTIGATE, A YOUNG VETERAN OF THE INDOCHINA WAR, WHO NOW SERVES AS AN INTERPRETER, BEGINS AN AFFAIR WITH ONE OF THE AMERICAN GIRLS, GLEANING CRITICAL BITS OF INFORMATION THAT HELP TO SOLVE THE MURDER. © 1999
BR 8318 LOOK FOR ME A NOVEL RAVEL, EDEET THE STORY OF DANA AND HER QUEST TO FIND HER HUSBAND WHO DISAPPEARED WHILE SERVING IN THE ISRAELI ARMY.
BR 8319 UNCLE RUDOLF A NOVEL BAILEY, PAUL PETER LEVINE AT THE AGE OF SEVENTY, ANDREW PETERS LOOKS BACK ACROSS THE YEARS TO REMEMBER LIFE WITH HIS DOTING UNCLE RUDOLF, WHO RESCUED HIM FROM FASCIST ROMANIA AS A CHILD.
BR 8320 FROZEN RABBI A NOVEL STERN, STEVE JANICE MANN RABBI ZEPHYR WAS FROZEN IN A BLOCK OF ICE IN THE JEWISH PALE IN 1889. IN 1999, THE "GREAT THAW" BRINGS THE REANIMATED RABBI AND MISFIT TEEN BERNIE KARP TOGETHER IN A SUBURB OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY, THE SORT OF HUMOR THAT TAKES YOU BY SURPRISE.
BR 8321 IPHIGENIA IN FOREST HILLS ANATOMY OF A MURDER TRIAL MALCOLM, JANET DIANE LIPMAN THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT A MURDER TRIAL IN THE BUKHARAN-JEWISH COMMUNITY OF FOREST HILLS, QUEENS, WHICH CAPTURED NATIONAL ATTENTION. THE DEFENDANT, A YOUNG PHYSICIAN, IS ACCUSED OF HIRING AN ASSASSIN TO KILL HER ESTRANGED HUSBAND, MR. MALAKOV, AN ORTHODONTIST, IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR FOUR-YEAR OLD CHILD. THE PROSECUTOR CALLS IT AN ACT OF VENGEANCE: JUST WEEKS BEFORE MALAKOV WAS KILLED IN COLD BLOOD, HE WAS GIVEN CUSTODY OF A CHILD FOR INEXPLICABLE REASONS.
BR 8325 KAISER'S LAST KISS JUDD, ALAN PAM VASSIL A FICTIONALIZED ACCOUNT OF THE KAISER WILHELM'S LAST YEARS IN NAZI-OCCUPIED HOLLAND. THROUGH JUDD'S DEPICTION OF THE KAISER, THE NOVEL DRAWS UNIQUE PARALLELS BETWEEN GERMANY AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY AND HITLER'S GERMANY.
BR 8328 GIFT OF REST REDISCOVERING THE BEAUTY OF THE SABBATH LIEBERMAN, JOE, SENATOR MARY MURPHY SENATOR JOE LIEBERMAN SHOWS HOW HIS OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH HAS NOT ONLY ENRICHED HIS PERSONAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE BUT ENHANCED HIS CAREER AND ENABLED HIM TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY TO HIS GREATEST CAPACITY.
BR 8330 MURIEL'S WAR AN AMERICAN HEIRESS IN THE NAZI RESISTANCE ISENBERG, SHEILA NIKKI JAMES AN AMERICAN HEIRESS TURNED RESISTANCE HERO, MURIEL GARDINER SAVED COUNTLESS JEWS AND ANTI-FASCISTS, PROVIDING SHELTER AND DOCUMENTS ENSURING THEIR ESCAPE.
BR 8333 TATTOO ARTIST CIMENT, JILL LORNA KOCHE THE LIFE OF A NEW YORK SURREALIST ARTIST WHOSE 30 YEARS AMONG SOUTH PACIFIC NATIVES TEACHES HER THE SACRED ART OF TATTOOING.
BR 8345 HOW TO MARRY A JEWISH DOCTOR ZEIDMAN, LEE ELLEN DAVID SUSAN LIEBOWITZ'S DOMINEERING MOTHER ONLY WANTS HER TO MARRY A JEWISH DOCTOR, REGARDLESS OF HER OWN DREAMS. SUSAN'S RESULTING EXPERIENCES ARE A SERIES OF CRAZY EVENTS, FROM THE FUNNY TO THE HEARTBREAKING, PROVING THAT PEOPLE AREN'T ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM, AND THAT YOU REALLY CAN'T HURRY LOVE.
BR 8346 MY BEFORE AND AFTER LIFE A NOVEL MILLER, RISA ALLISON EDWARDS WHEN HONEY AND SUSAN'S ELDERLY FATHER EMBRACES ORTHODOX JUDAISM ON A TRIP TO ISRAEL, THEY ARE SHOCKED, BUT THEY HAVE DIFFICULTY EXPLAINING THEIR CONCERNS, WHILE HE TRIES TO TEACH THEM ABOUT RELIGIOUS LIFE. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ADULT CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS CAN SOMETIMES BE PRICKLY AS EACH GENERATION TRIES TO UNDERSTAND AND COME TO TERMS WITH THE OTHER'S CHOICES.
BR 8356 SACRED TRASH THE LOST AND FOUND WORLD OF THE CAIRO GENIZA HOFFMAN, ADINA; COLE, PETER DIANE LIPMAN THE STORY OF THE RETRIEVAL FROM AN EGYPTIAN GENIZA, OR REPOSITORY FOR WORN-OUT TEXTS, OF THE MOST VITAL CACHE OF JEWISH MANUSCRIPTS EVER DISCOVERED.
BR 8388 188TH CRYBABY BRIGADE CHASNOFF, JOEL TIM ZAGIN JOEL CHASNOFF IS TWENTY-FOUR YEARS OLD, AN AMERICAN, AND THE GRADUATE OF AN IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITY. WHEN HIS CAREER AS A STAND-UP COMIC FAILS TO GET OFF THE GROUND, CHASNOFF VOLUNTEERS FOR THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES. THE BOOK IS A NEW KIND OF COMING-OF-AGE STORY -- ONE THAT TEACHES US, MOVES US, AND MAKES US LAUGH.
BR 8390 TRUSTING CALVIN HOW A DOG HELPED HEAL A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR'S HEART PETERS, SHARON MAX EDELMAN WAS 17 WHEN THE NAZIS TOOK HIM TO THE FIRST OF FIVE WORK CAMPS WHERE HE WAS BEATEN INTO BLINDNESS BY GUARDS. AFTER WITNESSING A GERMAN SHEPHERD KILL A FELLOW PRISONER, HE DEVELOPED A LIFELONG FEAR OF DOGS. MAX SURVIVED AND MOVED ON. WHEN HE RETIRED, HE RECEIVED CALVIN, A CHOCOLATE LABRADOR RETRIEVER. THE REMARKABLE STORY OF A MAN WHO SURVIVED HISTORY AND THE DOG THAT UNLOCKED HIS HEART.
BR 8403 WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER TAITZ, SONIA THE STORY OF A CHILD OF A WATCHMAKER WHO SAVED LIVES WITHIN DACHAU PRISON, AND HIS WIFE, A GIFTED PIANIST ABOUT TO MAKE HER DEBUT WHEN THE NAZIS SEIZED POWER. THIS LEGACY LEADS THE AUTHOR TO FORGE A LIFE IN WHICH SHE SEEKS TO HEAL BOTH HER PARENTS AND HERSELF THROUGH TRAVEL, ACHIEVEMENT, AND A DARING LOVE AFFAIR.
BR 8404 RASHI'S DAUGHTERS BOOK 1, JOHEVED A NOVEL OF LOVE AND THE TALMUD IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE ANTON, MAGGIE MAGGIE SNYDER THE FIRST TWO NOVELS IN A DRAMATIC TRILOGY SET IN ELEVENTH-CENTURY FRANCE ABOUT THE LIVES AND LOVES OF THREE DAUGHTERS OF THE GREAT TALMUD SCHOLAR.
BR 8405 ONCE WE WERE BROTHERS BALSON, RONALD H THE GRIPPING TALE ABOUT TWO BOYS, ONCE AS CLOSE AS BROTHERS, WHO FIND THEMSELVES ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE HOLOCAUST.
BR 8416 MISSING FILE MISHANI,D.A.
BR 8423 MITZVAH MAN CLAYTON, JOHN J. RICHARD BERGMAN MOURNING THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE, ADAM FRIEDMAN FINDS SOLACE THROUGH LIVING THE MITZVOT. BUT WHILE SOME HAIL THE MITZVAH MAN AS A MODERN-DAY PROPHET, OTHERS BRAND HIM A MADMAN IN DANGER OF LOSING CUSTODY OF HIS ONLY CHILD.
BR 8440 SUPERMAN IS JEWISH HOW COMIC BOOK SPERHEROES CAME TO SERVE TRUTH AND JUSTICE BROD, HARRY POLLY ADAMS HARRY BROD REVEALS THE LINKS BETWEEN JEWS AND SUPERHEROES IN AN INVESTIGATION OF ICONIC COMIC BOOK FIGURES.
BR 8446 ACCIDENTS A NOVEL HEDAYA, YAEL MARY MURPHY YONATAN IS A WRITER, A FIFTY-YEAR-OLD WIDOWER LEFT TO RAISE HIS CHILD ALONE. WHEN HE MEETS SHIRA, A BESTSELLING AUTHOR PARALYZED BY STAGE FRIGHT, THE THAW BEGINS AS MAN, WOMAN, AND GIRL ENTER A HALTING RELATIONSHIP.
BR 8479 PAPER LOVE SEARCHING FOR THE GIRL MY GRANDFATHER LEFT BEHIND WILDMAN, SARAH MARIE HOFFMAN ONE WOMAN’S JOURNEY TO FIND THE LOST LOVE HER GRANDFATHER LEFT BEHIND WHEN HE FLED PRE-WORLD WAR II EUROPE, AND AN EXPLORATION INTO FAMILY IDENTITY, MYTH, AND MEMORY.
BR 8487 IN THE KING'S ARMS TAITZ, SONYA SONYA TAITZ IT'S THE STORY OF A WOMAN NAMED LILY TAUB, WHO GREW UP IN A JEWISH HOUSEHOLD, HER PARENTS BEING HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS. WHILE ATTTENDING UNIVERSITY SHE FALLS IN LOVE WITH PETER. WHAT SHE DOESN'T KNOW IS THAT PETER'S PARENTS ARE ANTI-SEMITIC AND WILL GIVE HER A HARD TIME WHEN SHE VISITS THEM..
BR 8510 BEST PLACE ON EARTH TSABARI, AYELET DIANE LIPMAN THE STORIES ABOUT CHARACTERS AT THE CROSSROADS OF NATIONALITIES, RELIGIONS AND COMMUNITIES: EXPATRIATES, TRAVELLERS, IMMIGRANTS AND LOCALS.
BR 8673 JEREMY'S DREIDEL GELLMAN, ELLIE B.; MOLA, MARIA AT THE DREIDEL-MAKING WORKSHOP, JEREMY’S FRIENDS THINK HE’S MOLDING A SECRET CODE ON HIS CLAY DREIDEL. BUT HE’S REALLY MAKING A SPECIAL GIFT FOR HIS FATHER, WHO IS BLIND. HOW WILL HE GET HIS FRIENDS TO APPRECIATE HIS SPECIAL DREIDEL?
BR 8674 PEDDLER AND THE BAKER MOLCHADSKY, YAEL A DELIGHTFUL RETELLING OF AN INSPIRING FOLKTALE, THE BOOK TEACHES THE IMPORTANCE OF SHARING AND INCLUSIVITY, THE BEAUTY OF SHABBAT AND THE IDEA THAT ANYONE, REGARDLESS OF THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES, HAS THE RIGHT TO FIND JOY IN THE WORLD.
BR 8675 HANUKKAH AT MONICA'S LIVNEY, VARDA NO ONE LOVES HANUKKAH MORE THAN MONICA. AND CELEBRATING THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS IS EVEN MORE FUN WITH FRIENDS. LUCKILY, MONICA HAS LOTS OF FRIENDS, INCLUDING A ROBOT, A PIRATE — EVEN A JELLYFISH! WHO’S GOING TO ARRIVE AT HER PARTY NEXT?
BR 8676 UNTIL THE BLUEBERRIES GROW KAM, JENNIFER WOLF UNTIL THE BLUEBERRIES GROW . . . . UNTIL THE FLOWERS BLOOM . . . BEN TRIES TO CONVINCE HIS GREAT-GRANDFATHER TO STAY IN HIS HOUSE JUST A LITTLE LONGER AS THE TWO CELEBRATE A YEARLY CYCLE OF JEWISH HOLIDAYS TOGETHER.
BR 10038 IMUNIM L'HASEFER, SEFER RISHON MARENOF, S.; SCHULTZ, E. A STUDENT WORKBOOK FOR THE HEBREW WORKBOOK HASEFER.
BR 10039 A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC SILVERSTEIN, SHEL An imaginative book of poems —a favorite of Shel Silverstein fans young and old. This special edition contains 12 never-before-published poems.
BR 10040 BY THE SHORE OF SILVER LAKE INGALIS WILDER, LAURA THE ADVENTURES OF LAURA INGALLS AND HER FAMILY CONTINUE AS THEY MOVE FROM THEIR LITTLE HOUSE ON THE BANKS OF PLUM CREEK TO THE WILDERNESS OF THE UNSETTLED DAKOTA TERRITORY.
BR 10041 ON THE BANK OF PLUM CREEK INGALIS WILDER, LAURA BASED ON THE REAL-LIFE ADVENTURES OF LAURA INGALLS WILDER, ON THE BANKS OF PLUM CREEK IS THE NEWBERY HONOR-WINNING FOURTH BOOK IN THE LITTLE HOUSE SERIES, WHICH HAS CAPTIVATED GENERATIONS OF READERS.
BR 10042 SKYLARK MACLACHIAN, PATRICIA THE SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES THAT BEGAN WITH THE NEWBERY MEDAL–WINNING SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL BY PATRICIA MACLACHLAN.
BR 10043 CALEB'S STORY MACLACHIAN, PATRICIA THE THIRD BOOK IN THE SERIES THAT BEGAN WITH THE NEWBERY MEDAL–WINNING SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL BY PATRICIA MACLACHLAN.
BR 10044 OUT OF DARKNESS THE STORY OF LOUIS BRAILLE FREEDMAN, RUSSELL A BIOGRAPHY OF THE MODEST FRENCHMAN WHO, AFTER BEING BLINDED AT THE AGE OF THREE, WENT ON TO DEVELOP A SYSTEM OF RAISED DOTS ON PAPER THAT ENABLED BLIND PEOPLE TO READ AND WRITE.
BR 10045 THE LONG WINTER INGALLS WILDER, LAURA THE SIXTH BOOK IN LAURA INGALLS WILDER’S TREASURED LITTLE HOUSE SERIES, AND THE RECIPIENT OF A NEWBERY HONOR.
BR 10046 A WRINKLE IN TIME L2ENGLE, MADELEINE MEG AND HER LITTLE BROTHER, CHARLES, WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR FATHER, A SCIENTIST WORKING FOR THE GOVERNMENT WHO HAS BEEN MISSING FOR SEVERAL YEARS. WHEN A STRANGE OLD LADY SHOWS UP AT THEIR DOOR, THE ADVENTURE TO FIND HIM BEGINS.
BR 10047 CHARLOTTE'S WEB WHITE, E.B. THIS BELOVED BOOK BY E. B. WHITE, AUTHOR OF STUART LITTLE AND THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN, IS A CLASSIC OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE THAT IS "JUST ABOUT PERFECT."
BR 10048 SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL MACLACHIAN, PATRICIA SET IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND TOLD FROM YOUNG ANNA'S POINT OF VIEW, THE BOOK TELLS THE STORY OF HOW SARAH ELISABETH WHEATON COMES FROM MAINE TO THE PRAIRIE TO ANSWER PAPA'S ADVERTISEMENT FOR A WIFE AND MOTHER.
BR 10049 THE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE INGALIDD WILDER BASED ON THE REAL-LIFE ADVENTURES OF LAURA INGALLS WILDER, LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE IS THE THIRD BOOK IN THE AWARD-WINNING LITTLE HOUSE SERIES, WHICH HAS CAPTIVATED GENERATIONS OF READERS.
BR 10050 MEET ABRAHAM LINCOLN CARY, BARBARA THIS WARMLY TOLD BIOGRAPHY OF OUR SIXTEENTH PRESIDENT IS ENRICHED BY MANY AUTHENTIC BUT SELDOM TOLD ANECDOTES THAT CAPTURE THE SPIRIT OF LINCOLN AND HIS ERA.
BR 10051 ARTHUR'S COMPUTER DISASTER BROWN, MARC ONCE AGAIN ARTHUR, D.W., AND FRIENDS LEAD US ON A HILARIOUS ADVENTURE KIDS WON'T WANT TO MISS.
BR 10052 THE BOY WHO LIVED WITH THE SEALS MARTIN, RAFE IN A TRADITIONAL STORY FROM THE CHINOOK PEOPLE OF THE NORTHWEST, A YOUNG BOY DISAPPEARS AND IS FOUND YEARS LATER, SWIMMING WITH THE SEALS.
BR 10053 LYLE, LYLE, CROCODILE WABER, BERNARD A CRANKY NEIGHBOR PUTS LYLE IN THE ZOO BUT EXPERIENCES A CHANGE OF HEART WHEN THE CROCODILE SAVES HIM FROM A FIRE.
BR 10054 IT DOESN'T SAY MEOW SCHENK DE REGNIERS, BEATRICE NINE RIDDLES CONTAIN CLUES IN VERSE TO WELL-KNOWN ANIMALS.
BR 10055 A FISH OUT OF WATER PALMER, HELEN IN THIS BELOVED BEGINNER BOOK WRITTEN BY MRS. DR. SEUSS (AKA HELEN PALMER), A YOUNG BOY HILARIOUSLY LEARNS THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS WHEN HE FEEDS TOO MUCH TO HIS GOLDFISH—CAUSING IT TO GROW AS BIG AS A WHALE!
BR 10056 MIRETTE ON THE HIGH WIRE ARNOLD MCCULLY, EMILY ONE DAY, A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER ARRIVES AT A BOARDINGHOUSE OF THE WIDOW GATEAU. WHEN THE WIDOW’S DAUGHTER, MIRETTE, DISCOVERS HIM CROSSING THE COURTYARD ON AIR, SHE BEGS HIM TO TEACH HER HOW HE DOES IT. MIRETTE DOESN’T KNOW THAT THE STRANGER WAS ONCE THE GREAT BELLINI—MASTER WIRE-WALKER. HE HAS BEEN STOPPED BY A TERRIBLE FEAR. AND IT IS SHE WHO MUST TEACH HIM COURAGE ONCE AGAIN.
BR 10057 HEIDI SPYRI, JOHANNA IT IS THE STORY OF HEIDI, A GIRL ORPHANED AT THE AGE OF FIVE, WHO IS SENT TO LIVE WITH HER GRANDFATHER IN THE SWISS ALPS BY HER AUNT DETIE.
BR 10058 THE STRANGER VAN ALLSBURG, CHRIS THE ENIGMATIC ORIGINS OF THE STRANGER THAT FARMER BAILEY HITS WITH HIS TRUCK AND BRINGS HOME TO RECUPERATE SEEM TO HAVE A MYSTERIOUS RELATION TO THE WEATHER. COULD HE BE JACK FROST?
BR 10059 FARMER BOY INGALLS WILDER, LAURA THE SECOND BOOK IN THE LITTLE HOUSE SERIES, IS LAURA INGALLS WILDER’S BELOVED STORY OF HOW HER HUSBAND, ALMANZO, GREW UP AS A FARMER BOY FAR FROM THE LITTLE HOUSE WHERE LAURA LIVED.
BR 10060 HANSEL AND GRETEL RETOLD BY RIKA LESSER THE TALE OF HANSEL AND GRETEL IS HUNDREDS OF YEARS OLD AND HAS BEEN TOLD TIME AND TIME AGAIN. RIKA LESSER'S RETELLING, HOWEVER, STRIVES TO BE A TRUE AS POSSIBLE TO THE TALE AS IT WAS FIRST PUBLISHED BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM.
BR 10061 FROG AND TOAD TOGETHER. A LIST AND THE GARDEN LOBEL, ARNOLD WINNER OF THE NEWBERY HONOR AWARD, FROG AND TOAD TOGETHER IS A LEVEL TWO I CAN READ BOOK, GEARED FOR KIDS WHO READ ON THEIR OWN BUT STILL NEED A LITTLE HELP.
BR 10062 FROG AND TOAD ALL YEAR - THE CORNER LOBEL, ARNOLD IN WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER, AND FALL, FROG AND TOAD ARE ALWAYS TOGETHER. FROM SLEDDING IN WINTER TO EATING ICE CREAM ON HOT SUMMER DAYS, THESE TWO FRIENDS HAVE FUN THE WHOLE YEAR ROUND!
BR 10063 CHICKEN LITTLE LOBEL, ARNOLD A CLASSIC STORY ABOUT LEARNING TO THINK FOR YOURSELF. CHICKEN LITTLE THINKS THE SKY IS FALLING DOWN AND SETS OFF ON A MISSION TO TELL THE KING.
BR 10064 LEAH'S PONY FRIEDRICH, ELIZABETH SET IN THE DUST BOWL OF THE 1930S, ELIZABETH FRIEDRICH'S DEEPLY FELT STORY TELLS OF ONE CHILD AND WHAT SHE WOULD SACRIFICE FOR LOVE OF HER FAMILY.
BR 10065 BRIDGE TO TERABITHA PATTERSON, KATHERINE IN THIS CLASSIC NOVEL, THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN YOUNG JESS AND LESLIE GROWS AS THEY MEET IN TERABITHIA--THEIR SECRET HIDING PLACE--AND ONLY ENDS WITH THE TRAGIC DEATH OF ONE OF THEM.
BR 10066 GOODNIGHT MOON WISE BROWN, MARGARET IN A GREAT GREEN ROOM, TUCKED AWAY IN BED, IS A LITTLE BUNNY. "GOODNIGHT ROOM, GOODNIGHT MOON." AND TO ALL THE FAMILIAR THINGS IN THE SOFTLY LIT ROOM —THE LITTLE BUNNY SAYS GOODNIGHT.
BR 10067 WEATHER SIMON, SEYMOUR EVER WONDER WHAT MAKES THE WIND BLOW? OR WHERE CLOUDS COME FROM, OR RAIN? AND WHAT ABOUT THE WARMTH OF A SUMMER DAY?
WITH CLEAR, SIMPLE TEXT READERS WILL LEARN ALL ABOUT THE WAY WEATHER WORKS IN THIS INFORMATIVE BOOK!
BR 10068 A CHAIR FOR MY MOTHER WILLIAMS, VERA B. After their home is destroyed by a fire, Rosa, her mother, and grandmother save their coins to buy a really comfortable chair for all to enjoy.
BR 10069 THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT PORTER, BEATRIX BEATRIX POTTER'S MOST POPULAR AND WELL-LOVED TALE. IT TELLS THE STORY OF A VERY MISCHIEVOUS RABBIT AND THE TROUBLE HE ENCOUNTERS IN MR MCGREGOR'S VEGETABLE GARDEN!
BR 10070 THE VELVETEEN RABBIT WILLIAMS, MARGERY A TIMELESS CLASSIC ABOUT THE MAGIC OF BOUNDLESS LOVE THAT'S BEEN TREASURED FOR GENERATIONS!
BR 10071 TOUCH THE STARS GRICE, NOREEN A BASIC VIEW OF THE MOST FAMOUS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS, AND SEVERAL OTHER ASTRONOMY SUBJECTS, INCLUDING ECLIPSES AND THE PHASES OF THE MOON.
BR 10072 PIPPY LONGSTOCKING LINDGREN PATTERSON, ASTRID THE BELOVED STORY OF A SPUNKY YOUNG GIRL AND HER HILARIOUS ESCAPADES.
BR 10073 THE MIDWIFE'S APPRENTICE CUSHMAN, KAREN A SPELLBINDING NOVEL SET IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND. THE GIRL KNOWN ONLY AS BRAT HAS NO FAMILY, NO HOME, AND NO FUTURE UNTIL SHE MEETS JANE THE MIDWIFE AND BECOMES HER APPRENTICE.
BR 10074 ANNE FRANK, LIFE IN HIDING HURWITZ, JOHANNA FROM JULY 1942 UNTIL AUGUST 1944, A YOUNG GIRL NAMED ANNE FRANK CHRONICLED THE TWO YEARS SHE AND HER FAMILY SPENT HIDING FROM THE GERMANS. THE AUTHOR EVOKES THE BACKGROUND OF WORLD WAR II WHILE CAPTURING THE UNFORGETTABLE SPIRIT AND TRAGEDY OF ANNE'S LIFE.
BR 10075 WAR DOG HEROES SANDERSON, JEANETTE True stories about dogs that served in the armed forces including guard and patrol dogs, messenger dogs, and rescue dogs.
BR 10076 THE JUNGLE BOOK KIPLING FRIEDRICH, RUDYARD A COLLECTION OF ENCHANTING FABLES SET IN INDIA.
BR 10077 LITTLE HOUSE ON ROCKY RIDGE LEE MCBRIDE, ROGER THE FIRST BOOK IN THE ROSE YEARS SERIES, THE STORY OF THE SPIRITED DAUGHTER OF THE AUTHOR OF THE BELOVED LITTLE HOUSE SERIES.
BR 10078 MY VERY FIRST WINNIE THE POOH: POOH'S BAD DREAM ZOEHFELD WEIDNER, KATHLEEN; MILNE, A.A. POOH HAS NIGHTMARES ABOUT A HEFFALUMP THAT STEALS HIS NEW POTS OF HONEY.
BR 10079 WIND IN THE DOOR L'ENGLE, MADELEINE WHEN CHARLES WALLACE FALLS ILL, MEG, CALVIN, AND THEIR TEACHER, MR. JENKINS, MUST TRAVEL INSIDE C.W. TO MAKE HIM WELL, AND SAVE THE UNIVERSE FROM THE EVIL ECHTHROS.
BR 10080 EVERYTHING ON A WAFFLE HORVATH, POLLY THE STORY OF AN ORPHAN PRIMROSE SQUARP AND HER SEARCH FOR PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING.
BR 10081 AMELIA EARHART PARLIN, JOHN AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LIFE OF AMELIA EARHART THAT LAYS OUT THE FACTS OF HER LIFE IN AN EASY WAY FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.
BR 10082 MEET THE AUSTINS L'ENGLE, MADELEINE A BOOK ABOUT A GIRL WHO EXPERIENCES THE DIFFICULTIES AND JOYS OF GROWING UP.
BR 10083 JOSH AND ALISHA CELEBRATE CHANUKAH GREENBERG, KAY FUN STORY OF SELEBRATING THE BELOVED HOLIDAY BY CHILDREN.
BR 11115 ETERNAL ROAD, THE SCHARFSTEIN, ZVI AN ABBREVIATED BIBLE TEXT CONTAINING MANY TESTS AND EXERCISES AND A HEBREW-ENGLISH VOCABULARY.
BR 11247 QUEST INFELD, LEOPOLD AN UNUSUALLY INTERESTING AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A WELL-KNOWN CONTEMPORARY SCIENTIST, WHO LATER BECAME AN ASSISTANT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN.
BR 11249 DRAMATIC MOMENTS JEW HISTORY SACHAR, ABRAM L. THE SIEGE AND FALL OF JERUSALEM IN 70 C.E., THE EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM SPAIN IN 1492, THE POLITICAL EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS IN THE 19TH CENTURY, ETC.
BR 11575 IVRIT LIMVUGARIM UL'NOAR PART II (HEBREW FOR ADULTS AND YOUTH) BRIDGER, DAVID A CONTINUATION OF PART ONE.
BR 11619 AND NOW, TOMORROW FIELD, R.L. CHARACTER STUDY OF EMILY BLAIR, WHOSE FAMILY OWNED THE BLAIR MILLS IN A NEW ENGLAND TOWN. AFTER A SEVERE ILLNESS EMILY WAS LEFT ABSOLUTELY DEAF.
BR 11624 SHAAR HAKRIYAH, HELEK RISHON (THE GATEWAY TO READING, PART I) SCHARFSTEIN, SOL A PRIMER FOR THE TEACHING OF HEBREW READING BY A COMBINATION OF THE PHONIC AND WHOLE WORD METHOD.
BR 11650 INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL HEBREW LAMBDIN, THOMAS O. SET UP FOR STUDY OF BIBLE.
BR 14560 SEA OF STONES BECKER, JUREK BECKER, AN EAST GERMAN SURVIVOR OF THE HOLOCAUST, CONTRIBUTES A MOST IRONIC AND PROFOUNDLY MOVING NOVEL ABOUT THE SHTETL EXPERIENCE UNDER THE NAZIS.
BR 15580 COULD ANYTHING BE WORSE? HIRSH, MARILYN THIS IS A GHOST STORY SURE TO SEND SHIVERS DOWN THE SPINE OF ANY CHILD. IT IS IN THE SAME VOLUME WITH 'COULD ANYTHING BE WORSE?'.
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