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MEDIAID	TITLEID	TITLE	SUBTITLE	AUTHOR	NARRATOR	ANNOTATION
LTE	1	BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF JEWISH HISTORY		ROTH, CECIL		A COMPREHENSIVE PERSPECTIVE ON JEWISH HISTORY FROM THE TIME OF ABRAHAM. DESIGNED TO STIMULATE FURTHER STUDY.
LTE	3	DOWN HOLIDAY LANE		GOLUB, ROSE W.		STORIES ABOUT THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS, CUSTOMS, AND CEREMONIES. FOR CHILDREN IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
LTE	4	ILIF MILIM (A THOUSAND WORDS AND MORE BOOK II)		ROSEN, AARON & BEN-SCHAFER, Y.		CONTAINS 1,000 BASIC STREET WORDS AS IN BOOK 1.
LTE	10	BIBLE TALES FOR VERY YOUNG CHILDREN - BOOK II		COHEN, LENORE		AN ELEMENTARY READER FOR THE THIRD GRADE.
LTE	11	JEWISH HEROES. BK. I		WEILERSTEIN, SADIE ROSE		A BOOK ABOUT JEWISH HEROES FROM THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM TO THE TIME OF KING SOLOMON. WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN.
LTE	19	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.
LTE	20	SIDDUR SHVIL CHADASH (A NEW PATH)		WEISBERG, ISIDOR		A COMPLETE PRAYERBOOK FOR WEEKDAYS AND SABBATH.
LTE	22	JEWS, GOD AND HISTORY		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. © 1967
LTE	24	PATHWAYS THROUGH THE BIBLE		COHEN, MORTIMER J., ED.		A SIMPLIFIED VERSION OF THE TORAH, THE PROPHETS, AND THE WRITINGS.
LTE	26	STORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE - ACTIVITY BOOK ONE		KLAPERMAN, GILBERT & LIBBY		THIS BOOK COVERS THE CREATION STORY TO BUILDING OF THE 2ND TEMPLE.
LTE	32	I AND THOU		BUBER, MARTIN		A PHILOSOPHICAL WORK ON MAN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD BY THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY THINKER. TRANSLATED BY RONALD GREGOR SMITH, 2ND ED., 1958
LTE	33	STAR OF DANGER		LEVIN, JANE W.		A MOVING STORY OF TWO JEWISH BOYS WHO WERE SMUGGLED INTO SWEDEN IN 1943 BY THE DANISH GOVERNMENT.
LTE	38	HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN AMERICA		PESSIN, DEBORAH		A HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN AMERICA, WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN, BEGINNING WITH THE FIRST JEWISH SETTLERS IN NEW YORK AND CONTINUING THROUGH THE 1950S.
LTE	46	JEWISH CARAVAN, THE		SCHWARZ, LEO W.		TIMELESS STORIES FROM THE LITERATURE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE SPANNING A PERIOD OF TWENTY-FIVE CENTURIES.
LTE	48	HISTORIA LEYELADIM, CHELEK SHLISHI (HISTORY FOR CHILDREN PART III)		SCHARFSTEIN, ZVI		THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS FROM THE SECOND TEMPLE TO THE PRESENT, TOLD IN SIMPLE HEBREW. NOTES AND EXERCISES FOLLOW EACH SECTION.
LTE	52	ANNE FRANK	THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL	FRANK, ANNE		A SCHOOL EDITION BY M. H. LEWITTES OF THE WARTIME DIARY OF THE YOUNG DUTCH GIRL.
LTE	53	NEW JEWISH HISTORY, THE. BK III		GAMORAN, MAMIE G.		A HISTORY TEXTBOOK DEALING WITH THE PERIOD FROM THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA TO MODERN TIMES.
LTE	55	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.
LTE	61	ART OF LOVING		FROMM, ERICH		A DISCUSSION OF LOVE IN ALL ITS ASPECTS, WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY AND THE BARRIERS IT RAISES BETWEEN ITS MEMBERS AND THE ACHIEVEMENT OF LOVE.
LTE	62	SUNDAY THE RABBI STAYED HOME		KEMELMAN, HARRY		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.
LTE	65	PRINCE OF THE GHETTO		SAMUEL, MAURICE		STORIES ABOUT THE STRUGGLES OF POLISH JEWS AS MIRRORED IN THE WRITINGS OF ISAAC LEIB PERETZ. © 1948
LTE	66	AS A DRIVEN LEAF		STEINBERG, MILTON		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.
LTE	67	ABRAHAM WHO SOUGHT GOD		ROTHBERG, ABRAHAM		THE STORY OF ABRAHAM, FATHER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, TOLD IN A SIMPLE STYLE FOR YOUNG READERS.
LTE	68	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.
LTE	70	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.
LTE	71	SOURCE		MICHENER, JAMES A.		THIS HISTORICAL NOVEL EXPLORES THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL AND, MORE BROADLY, WESTERN CIVILIZATION. © 1965
LTE	76	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.
LTE	77	LIFE IS WITH PEOPLE	THE CULTURE OF THE SHTETL	ZBOROWSKE, MARK & ELIZABETH HERZOG		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.
LTE	78	CHUMASH M'FORASH L'YELADIM HASEEDROT KI TISSAVAYAHHEIL-PEKUDEY		PANITSCH, AVIGDOR		HEBREW TEXTBOOK - A PORTION OF THE CHUMASH FOR HEBREW STUDY.
LTE	79	WISE MEN OF HELM AND THEIR MERRY TALES		SIMON, SOLOMON		A COLLECTION OF FOLK TALES ABOUT A MYTHICAL VILLAGE OF WELL-INTENTIONED SIMPLETONS WHO INVARIABLY MEET WITH MISHAP AND CALAMITY.
LTE	80	HILLEL THE ELDER	THE EMERGENCE OF CLASSICAL JUDAISM	GLATZER, NAHUM N.		A STUDY OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TALMUDIC SAGE. BASED ON TRADITIONAL SOURCES AND CLASSICAL JEWISH TEXTS. © 1970
LTE	82	STORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, BK. 3	FROM THE GOLDEN AGE THROUGH THE EUROPEAN EMANCIPATION	KLAPERMAN, GILBERT; KLAPERMAN, LIBBY		THIS HISTORY TEXT BOOK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE SPANS THE GOLDEN AGE IN SPAIN TO THE EUROPEAN EMANCIPATION, AND WAS WRITTEN BY A MODERN ORTHODOX RABBI AND HIS WIFE.
LTE	83	WHEN A JEW CELEBRATES		GERSH, HARRY		A TEXTBOOK FOR CHILDREN ABOUT THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS.
LTE	85	SEVENTH CANDLE AND OTHER FOLK TALES OF EASTERN EUROPE, THE		EINHORN, DAVID		TWENTY-SEVEN SHORT STORIES VIVIDLY ILLUMINATING THE LIVES AND VALUES OF EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWRY.
LTE	86	IVRIT LA'AM	( HEBREW FOR ALL)	RUBINSTEIN, SIMHA		A HEBREW LANGUAGE PRIMER FOR PUPILS FROM THE AGES OF 12 UP. IT INTRODUCES NEW APPROACHES, CONTENT AND METHODS.
LTE	88	NINE AND ONE HALF MYSTICS	THE KABBALA TODAY	WEINER, HERBERT		A RABBI'S PERSONAL SEARCH INTO THE MYSTERIES OF THE KABBALA.
LTE	89	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. © 1958
LTE	90	HEROES OF JEWISH HISTORY--BOOK I		LEWITTES, MORDECAI H.		A RELIGIOUS SCHOOL TEXTBOOK OFFERING SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF JEWISH HEROES FROM ABRAHAM TO MOSES. © 1952
LTE	91	MOSES		WHEELER, OPAL		THE STORY OF MOSES' LIFE FOR CHILDREN. AGES 8 TO 12.
LTE	92	TALES OF THE HASIDIM	THE LATER MASTERS	BUBER, MARTIN		OVER A THOUSAND TALES AND LEGENDS ABOUT THE HASIDIC SAGES--THEIR VIEWS AND WAY OF LIFE.
LTE	93	FEAST OF LEVIATHAN		SCHWARZ, LEO, ED.		AN ANTHOLOGY OF 50 STORIES OF ADVENTURE, FAITH, AND LOVE, TAKEN FROM JEWISH LITERATURE OVER THE AGES.
LTE	94	NEW JEWISH HISTORY, BOOK II		GAMORAN, MAMIE G.		THIS BOOK COVERS THE PERIOD FROM THE MACCABEES TO THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.
LTE	95	MAIMONIDES	HIS WISDOM FOR OUR TIME	ROSENTHAL, GILBERT S.		EXCERPTS FROM THE CLASSIC WORKS OF THE IMMORTAL 12TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHER AND TEACHER ON MORALITY, GOVERNMENT, SEX, RELIGION AND CONSCRIPTION, SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSED TO COLLEGE STUDENTS.
LTE	96	CHUMASH LATALMID SHMOT-VAYIKRAH, CHELEK SHENI (THE STUDENT BIBLE - PART TWO)		LEWITTES, MORDECAI, ED.		A CONTINUATION OF PART ONE.
LTE	98	HISTORIA IVRIT (JEWISH HISTORY)		KORCHMAR, JOSEPH		A TEXTBOOK ON JEWISH HISTORY FOR STUDENTS.
LTE	100	MIRIAM COMES HOME		LEVIN, YEHUDA HARRY		A STORY OF A GIRL WHO SURVIVES PERSECUTION IN EUROPE AND COMES TO HER NEW HOMELAND IN ISRAEL.
LTE	101	PATHWAYS THROUGH THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS		ISH-KISHOR, SHULAMITH		A COMPLETE, DEFINITIVE TEXTBOOK ON THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS, THEIR OBSERVANCES, RITUALS AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND.
LTE	103	GUIDE TO THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS	HISTORY AND OBSERVANCE	SCHAUSS, HAYYIM		THE HISTORY, THE CEREMONIES, AND THE OBSERVANCES OF THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS. THIS IS A REVISED EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S 'CLASSIC JEWISH FESTIVALS.'
LTE	104	SHORT FRIDAY AND OTHER STORIES		SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS		AN ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES BY THE NOBEL LAUREATE POPULATED BY PRANKSTERS, DEMONS, AND COMBATIVE HUSBANDS AND WIVES, WHO CONSTANTLY TREAD THE FINE LINE BETWEEN THE REAL AND THE IMAGINED.
LTE	106	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.
LTE	107	JEWISH PEOPLE, THE. BOOK III		PESSIN, DEBORAH		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.
LTE	108	HEROES OF JEWISH HISTORY-BK 2		LEWITTES, MORDECAL H.		A RELIGIOUS SCHOOL TEXTBOOK OF JEWISH HISTORICAL FIGURES, FROM JOSHUA TO JEREMIAH, IN ANECDOTAL FORM TO STRENGTHEN THE STUDENTS CONCEPTS OF BIBLICAL HISTORY AND PERSONALITIES.
LTE	109	LEADERS OF OUR PEOPLE. BK. I		GUMBINER, JOSEPH H.		BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SOME WELL-KNOWN LEADERS IN JEWISH HISTORY, BEGINNING WITH MATTATHIAS AND HIS SONS.
LTE	110	BEN PRESERVE US		BERMANT, CHAIM		A NOVEL WITH A JEWISH THEME REPLETE WITH WIT AND WISDOM.
LTE	111	UNCLE JULIUS AND THE ANGEL WITH HEARTBURN		ROSENBERG, ETHEL		A NOVEL ABOUT THE CHARACTER, UNCLE JULIUS, WRITTEN WITH HUMOR AND JEWISH FLAVOR.
LTE	112	LITTLE DID I KNOW	RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS	SAMUEL, MAURICE		A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON BEING A JEW. THE AUTHOR ALSO RECREATES WORLDS THAT NO LONGER EXIST.
LTE	113	GO FIGHT CITY HALL		ROSENBERG, ETHEL		A NOVEL OF JEWISH LIFE IN A BIG CITY TENEMENT, PORTRAYING ALL ITS JOYS AND MINOR SORROWS. WRITTEN IN A HUMOROUS AND WITTY VEIN.
LTE	114	SHAMIR OF DACHAU		DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER		A SUSPENSE THRILLER SET IN WEST GERMANY ABOUT TWO SURVIVORS WHO HUNT DOWN THEIR NAZI PERSECUTORS.
LTE	115	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.
LTE	117	MAN IS NOT ALONE	A PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION	HESCHEL, ABRAHAM JOSHUA		AN ANALYSIS OF THE PRINCIPLES OF FAITH BY THE TWENTIETH CENTURY PHILOSOPHER AND WRITER. INCLUDES A DISCUSSION ON THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER, AND MAN'S PLACE IN THE WORLD.
LTE	119	PECULIAR PEOPLE, A		LITVINOFF, BARNET		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.
LTE	120	JUDAISM IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD		GORDIS, ROBERT		AN EXPLANATION OF JEWISH LIFE AND THOUGHT IN MODERN TIMES.
LTE	121	AS ONCE WE WERE	SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF I. L. PERETZ	PERETZ, I.L.		A YIDDISH CLASSIC BY GIANT OF YIDDISH LITERATURE, EVOKES THE LIFE OF THE JEWISH COMMON PEOPLE WITH TENDERNESS, SIMPLICITY AND FORCE. TRANSLATED BY ELLY MARGOLIS. © 1951
LTE	125	BETWEEN GOD AND MAN	AN INTERPRETATION OF JUDAISM	HESCHEL, ABRAHAM JOSHUA		A SELECTION OF WRITINGS ON CONTEMPORARY JUDAISM BY THE JEWISH THEOLOGIAN.
LTE	127	HASIDISM AND MODERN MAN		BUBER, MARTIN		BUBER EXPRESSES HIS OWN PILGRIMAGE TO HASIDISM AND HIS VIEWPOINT TOWARD ITS MESSAGE.
LTE	130	MR. BENJAMIN'S SWORD		ABRAHAMS, ROBERT D.		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.
LTE	131	YOSHE KALB		SINGER, ISRAEL JOSHUA		A CLASSIC NOVEL WHICH TELLS THE STORY OF A SAINT WHOSE ILL-STARRED LOVE ALMOST CAUSED A RELIGIOUS WAR AMONG THE JEWS.
LTE	132	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.
LTE	133	ONE FOOT IN AMERICA		SUHL, YURI		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.
LTE	134	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
LTE	136	JEWS AND ARABS		GOITEIN, S. D.		A COMPREHENSIVE, SCHOLARLY STUDY OF THE SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND INTELLECTUAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JEWS AND ARABS.
LTE	137	ISRAELIS, THE	FOUNDERS AND SONS	ELON, AMOS		AN OBJECTIVE STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ISRAELI MIND AND A PENETRATING ANALYSIS OF ISRAEL'S SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND POLITICAL LIFE.
LTE	138	BEGGAR IN JERUSALEM		WIESEL, ELIE		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.
LTE	139	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.
LTE	140	PASSAGE IN THE NIGHT, A		ASCH, SHOLEM		THE STORY OF A MAN'S SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING.
LTE	141	RABBI'S BIBLE, THE	VOL. I--TORAH	SIMON, S. & BIAL, D.		TEXTBOOK COMMENTARY OF THE BIBLE.
LTE	142	TO DO JUSTLY	A JUNIOR CASEBOOK FOR SOCIAL ACTIO	VORSPAN, ALBERT		BOOK POSING PROBLEMS INTENDED TO PUT THE STUDENT ON THE ROAD TO AWARENESS, SENSITIVITY, AND RESPONSIBILITY.
LTE	143	HIGHLIGHTS OF JEWISH HISTORY. BK 4	FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO MODERN	LEWITTES, MORDECAI H.		THE FOURTH VOLUME OF A STUDENT'S HISTORY TEXTBOOK SPANNING THE PERIOD FROM THE MIDDLE AGES UNTIL MODERN TIMES.
LTE	144	FOURTH STREET EAST		WEIDMAN, JEROME		THIS NOVEL TELLS THE STORY OF BENNY KRAMER GROWING UP ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE OF MANHATTAN IN THE 1920S.
LTE	146	STORY OF THE JEWISH WAY OF LIFE		LEVIN, MEYER & KURZBAND, TOBY		A DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS AND CEREMONIES WHICH ARE PART OF THE JEWISH LIVING.
LTE	147	MOTHER NIGHT		VONNEGUT, KURT		THE STORY OF HOW A WELL-INTENTIONED MAN RECRUITED AS AN AMERICAN SPY BECOMES REGARDED AS ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS NAZI PROPAGANDA MACHINES.
LTE	148	SIGMUND FREUD AND THE JEWISH MYSTICAL TRADITION		BAKAN, DAVID		THE AUTHOR MAINTAINS THAT THE JEWISH MYSTICAL DOCTRINE WAS A GREAT INFLUENCE IN THE FORMATION OF FREUD'S GENIUS.
LTE	150	IVRIT CHAYEH, PART II (MODERN HEBREW)		BLUMBERG & LEWITTES		HEBREW GRAMMAR TEXT FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
LTE	151	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.
LTE	153	FOR THE SAKE OF HEAVEN		BUBER, MARTIN		THIS BOOK INTERPRETS THE SPIRIT OF HASIDISM THROUGH THE SACRED LEGENDS OF THE RABBI KNOWN AS THE SEER OF LUBLIN.
LTE	157	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.
LTE	159	MAJOR TRENDS IN JEWISH MYSTICISM		SCHOLEM, GERSHOM		A WORK WHICH HELPED TO OVERTURN THE 19TH CENTURY GERMAN-LITHUANIAN INTERPRETATION OF THE JEWISH MYSTICAL TRADITION.
LTE	160	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.
LTE	161	HER CHILDREN CALL HER BLESSED		KOBLER, FRANZ		AN ANTHOLOGY IN PRAISE OF THE JEWISH MOTHER, BASED ON SCRIPTURAL AND POST-BIBLICAL LITERATURE, HISTORY, POETRY AND FICTION.
LTE	162	DAYS OF AWE		AGNON, S.Y.		AN ANTHOLOGY OF JEWISH WISDOM AND CUSTOMS ON THE HIGH HOLY DAY SEASON. DRAWN FROM MIDRASH AND RABBINIC SOURCES.
LTE	163	LAST REVOLT		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.
LTE	164	HEBREW READER AND WORKBOOK, A		EHRLICH, ABRAHAM J.		A SIMPLE SELECTION OF STORIES WITH EXCERCISE BOOK.
LTE	165	TREASURY OF YIDDISH STORIES		HOWE, IRVING; GREENBERG, ELIEZER, ED		ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF OVER FIFTY STORIES BY YIDDISH WRITERS REPRESENTING LITERATURE FROM THE 19TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT; THEY DEMONSTRATE THE RHYTHM OF JEWISH LIFE IN EASTERN EUROPE AND AMERICA.
LTE	166	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.
LTE	168	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
LTE	170	MAH TOV - ASOT MISHPAT TARGILON (WORKBOOK)		SHUMSKY, ABRAHAM & ADAIA		CONTAINS EXERCISES, WORDS TO LEARN, DRILLS FOR STUDY.
LTE	171	DAWN		WIESEL, ELIE		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.
LTE	172	NATION OF IMMIGRANTS		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.
LTE	173	WANDERING STAR		ALEICHEM, SHOLOM		A BOOK ABOUT THE MINSTRELS WHO WANDERED FROM TOWN TO TOWN SINGING OF DAYS LONG GONE.
LTE	175	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.
LTE	176	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.
LTE	177	PAWNBROKER		WALLANT, EDWARD LEWIS		AN EMBITTERED HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, SOL NAZERMAN, RUNS A HARLEM PAWNBROKER'S SHOP AS A FRONT FOR A GANGSTER. AN ACT OF VIOLENCE ULTIMATELY CLARIFIES FOR HIM WHY HE CONTINUES TO HANG ONTO LIFE.
LTE	178	CASTLE		KAFKA, FRANZ		A PSYCHOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS ALLEGORY, THIS IS THE STORY OF K., WHO SEEKS TO FIND GOD SO THAT HE CAN FULFILL HIS LIFE.
LTE	180	LEGENDS OF OUR TIME		WIESEL, ELIE		15 STORIES DERIVED FROM THE AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCES AND EMBELLISHED BY HIS IMAGINATION, TRANSPORT THE READER THROUGH WIESEL'S CHILDHOOD, THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND LIBERATION. 1968
LTE	182	WHAT THE LIBERTY BELL PROCLAIMED		SPITZ, LEON		STORIES FOR CHILDREN ABOUT JEWS IN AMERICA FROM ITS DISCOVERY BY COLUMBUS. TALES OF JEWISH SETTLERS IN THE COLONIES, JEWISH PATRIOTS IN THE REVOLUTION AND JEWS WHO FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR. 1951
LTE	184	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.
LTE	185	ISRAELI TALES AND LEGENDS		POSY, ARNOLD		ISRAELI TALES AND LEGENDS OF JEWISH LIFE ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG ADULTS.
LTE	186	IN MY FATHER'S COURT		SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS		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.
LTE	187	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.
LTE	188	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.
LTE	190	FIRST BOOK OF BIBLE HEROES - BOOK ONE		MEILACH, DONA Z.		THIS IS A NOVEL APPROACH TO TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT THE VARIOUS PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE.
LTE	195	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.
LTE	196	BAG OF MARBLES		JOFFO, JOSEPH		A NON-FICTION DIARY OF A JEWISH FAMILY IN FRANCE THAT IS STILL LIVING THERE TODAY.
LTE	200	WINEGLASS	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.
LTE	201	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.
LTE	205	WAY OF RESPONSE		BUBER, MARTIN		SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE JEWISH PHILOSOPHER.
LTE	206	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.
LTE	207	RASHI		LIBER, MAURICE		A STUDY OF RASHI, THE WELL-KNOWN 12TH-CENTURY BIBLE COMMENTATOR, EXAMINING HIS VITAL CONTRIBUTION TO RABBINIC AND BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP.
LTE	208	TALES OF THE YIDDISH RIALTO		LIPSKY, LOUIS		AN INTERESTING STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE YIDDISH THEATER IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE EARLY PART OF THE CENTURY.
LTE	209	MY FATHER, SHOLOM ALEICHEM		WAIFE-GOLDBERG, MARIE		A PORTRAIT OF WRITER SHOLOM ALEICHEM, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF JEWISH FAMILY LIFE PRIOR TO WORLD WAR I.
LTE	210	MY FATHER'S HOUSE		ALLON, YIGAL		MEMOIR OF AN ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER AND FORMER GENERAL IS A TRIBUTE TO HIS FATHER AND INCLUDES REMINISCENCES OF GROWING UP IN A SMALL VILLAGE IN 1920'S PALESTINE.
LTE	212	ENJOY, ENJOY!		GOLDEN, HARRY		HUMOROUS ANECDOTES ON CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LIFE. WRITTEN BY THE EDITOR OF 'THE CAROLINA ISRAELITE.'
LTE	214	ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH		BELLOW, SAUL		THE AWARD-WINNING NOVELIST'S PORTRAYAL OF JEWISH CHICAGO.
LTE	215	BALM IN GILEAD		LEVIN, MARLIN		A HISTORY OF THE HADASSAH ORGANIZATION WHICH HAS MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO HEALTH CARE IN ISRAEL AND ALSO HELPED IN THE RESCUE OF CHILDREN AFTER THE HOLOCAUST THROUGH YOUTH ALIYAH. ALSO INCLUDES THE STORIES OF THE FOUNDERS AND LEADERS OF THE ORGANIZATION.
LTE	217	MAMA MADE MINKS		SANDBERG, SARA		A HUMOROUS MEMOIR OF LIFE IN THE FAMILY FUR BUSINESS.
LTE	218	JEWS		PEYREFITTE, ROGER		A CLEVER SATIRE ON THE FOLLIES OF ANTI-SEMITISM SHOWING ALL GREAT FAMILIES IN FRANCE HAVE JEWISH ORIGINS.
LTE	219	FOLK TALES OF ISRAEL		NOY, DOV, ED. TRANSLATED BY GENE BA		A SELECTION OF JEWISH FOLK TALES ON BOTH RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR THEMES.
LTE	220	ISRAELIS		ELON, AMOS		A REISSUE OF THIS PERSONAL AND POETIC ACCOUNT OF THE MANY HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL FORCES THAT LED TO THE FOUNDING OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, AND AN EXPLORATION OF THE PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY THAT THE "SONS" OF MODERN ISRAEL FACE-- RACIAL, RELIGIOUS, AND POLITICAL.
LTE	221	MOSHE DAYAN		DAYAN, MOSHE		FILLED WITH PERSONAL ANECDOTES REVEALING THE MAN HIMSELF, HIS CANDID OPINIONS OF OTHER STATESMEN AND HIS ROLE AS ISRAEL'S LEADER.
LTE	223	ESSENCE OF JUDAISM		BAECK, LEO		AN ANALYSIS OF JEWISH THOUGHT AND RELIGIOUS INSIGHT BY THE GERMAN-JEWISH SCHOLAR AND RABBI.
LTE	225	HEROD'S CHILDREN		AICHINGER, ELSE		THE DIFFICULT LIFE OF A JEWISH CHILD IN WAR-TIME VIENNA.
LTE	228	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. © 1977
LTE	231	UNFINISHED JOURNEY		MENUHIN, YEHUDI		THIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, WRITTEN BY THE WORLD-FAMOUS VIOLINIST BEGINS WITH HIS EXPERIENCES AS A SEVEN YEAR-OLD PRODIGY.
LTE	232	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.
LTE	233	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.
LTE	234	MYTH OF THE JEWISH RACE		PATAI, RAPHAEL & WING, J.P.		THE AUTHORS TAKE AIM AT THE COMMONLY HELD BELIEF THAT THERE IS A JEWISH 'RACE'.
LTE	237	TREASURY OF JEWISH HUMOR		AUSUBEL, NATHAN, ED.		AN ANTHOLOGY OF HUMOROUS STORIES, POEMS, EPIGRAMS, AND SAYINGS CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES WITHIN JEWISH LITERATURE.
LTE	238	LAST OF THE JUST		SCHWARTZ-BART, ANDRE		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.
LTE	240	TWO WORLDS	AN EDINBURGH JEWISH CHILDHOOD	DAICHES, DAVID		THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ENGLISH PROFESSOR AT CAMBRIDGE WHO TELLS OF HIS ORTHODOX JEWISH CHILDHOOD IN SCOTLAND, AND HOW HE RELATED IT TO THE SECULAR WORLD.
LTE	241	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.
LTE	243	SHAPING OF JEWISH HISTORY	A RADICAL NEW INTERPRETATION	RIVKIN, ELLIS		A SUMMARY OF JEWISH HISTORY FROM BIBLICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT.
LTE	244	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.
LTE	245	TREASURE TROVE OF AMERICAN JEWISH HUMOR, A		SPALDING, HENRY		A COMPILATION OF THE JOKES, STORIES, AND ONE-LINERS THAT JEWISH REFUGEES BROUGHT TO THIS COUNTRY.
LTE	248	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.
LTE	249	RAQUELA		GRUBER, RUTH		THE FASCINATING BIOGRAPHY OF A 9TH GENERATION JERUSALEMITE WHOSE LIFE SERVES AS A VIVID EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN ISRAELI WOMAN.
LTE	250	BRIGHT STAR OF EXILE		ROSENFELD, LULLA		THIS BOOK COMBINES THE HISTORY OF THE YIDDISH THEATER WITH THE STORMY LIFE OF ONE OF ITS GREATEST ACTORS, JACOB ADLER.
LTE	251	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.
LTE	252	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.
LTE	253	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.
LTE	255	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.
LTE	256	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.
LTE	260	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.
LTE	261	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.
LTE	266	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.
LTE	267	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.
LTE	268	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'.
LTE	269	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.
LTE	270	NAZI-SKOKIE CONFLICT, THE	A CIVIL LIBERTIES BATTLE	HAMLIN, DAVID		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.
LTE	271	GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT		HOBSON, LAURA Z.		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.
LTE	272	KABBALAH	THE WAY OF THE JEWISH MYSTIC	EPSTEIN, PERLE		A HISTORY OF KABBALAH AND AN EXPLANATION OF KABBALISTIC CUSTOMS. WRITTEN FOR THE LAYMAN.
LTE	273	FOUR HASIDIC MASTERS AND THEIR STRUGGLE AGAINST MELANCHOLY		WIESEL, ELIE		IN A SEQUEL TO SOULS ON FIRE, THE NOTED WRITER PRESENTS THE TEXT OF A LECTURE HE GAVE AT NOTRE DAME.
LTE	274	BADENHEIM 1939		APPELFELD, AHARON		IN THIS NOVEL, A SERIES OF TRIVIAL BUT OMINOUS EVENTS IN A JEWISH RESORT TOWN NEAR VIENNA PRESAGE THE HOLOCAUST.
LTE	276	AMERICAN JEWISH WOMAN	1654-1980	MARCUS, JACOB RADER		A CONCISE HISTORY OF AMERICAN JEWISH WOMEN IN AMERICA.
LTE	277	IN THE BEGINNING	SCIENCE FACES GOD IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS	ASIMOV, ISAAC		A PROFOUND, YET READABLE COMPARISON OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS AND SCIENTIFIC THEORIES ABOUT HOW THE WORLD CAME INTO BEING.
LTE	279	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.
LTE	280	STORY OF ISRAEL, THE		LEVIN, MEYER		THE CREATION OF THE JEWISH STATE AS TOLD BY LEADERS OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT.
LTE	282	PASSIONS AND PREJUDICES		ROSTEN, LEO		A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON MODERN LIFE BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 'JOYS OF YIDDISH'. HIS HUMOR SOFTENS HIS BITING COMMENTARY ON SOCIETY.
LTE	283	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.
LTE	285	SOPHIE'S CHOICE		STYRON, WILLIAM		THE STORY OF A LONELY BROOKLYNITE WHO BEFRIENDS A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR AND HER PSYCHOPATHIC LOVER.
LTE	286	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.
LTE	287	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.
LTE	289	JEWISH WAY OF LOVE AND MARRIAGE, THE		LAMM, RABBI MAURICE		A COMPENDIUM OF INFORMATION AND ADVICE RELEVANT TO LOVE AND MARRIAGE WITHIN THE JEWISH TRADITION.
LTE	290	NEW WRITING IN ISRAEL		SPICEHANDLER, EGRA & CURTIS ARONSON		A SELECTION OF NEW ISRAELI PROSE AND POETRY, ALL APPEARING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH.
LTE	291	WOMAN OF VALOR		TOPOL, ALLAN		THE PROTAGONIST, A WOMAN NAMED LEORA FROM A PROMINENT JEWISH/EGYPTIAN FAMILY, IS A COOL KILLER IN THIS SUSPENSEFUL THRILLER.
LTE	292	ABBA EBAN	AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY	EBAN, ABBA		THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE FORMER ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER, STATESMAN, POLITICIAN, AND AMBASSADOR. KNOWN FOR HIS ELOQUENCE AND EXCELLENT COMMAND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, EBAN SERVED FOR MANY YEARS AS ISRAEL'S REPRESENTATIVE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
LTE	293	TURN TO THE SOUTH	ESSAYS ON SOUTHERN JEWRY	KAGANOFF, NATHAN & MELVIN UROFSKY		FOURTEEN ESSAYS WHICH EMPHASIZE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN JEWS IN TERMS OF THE FORMER'S POLITICS, LITERATURE AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
LTE	294	ROSH HASHANAH AND YOM KIPPUR		GREENFIELD, HOWARD		A DETAILED HISTORY OF WHY ROSH HASHANAH AND YOM KIPPUR ARE TWO OF THE MOST DEEPLY RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS IN JEWISH LIFE.
LTE	295	LAST ESCAPE	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.
LTE	296	MEMBERS OF THE TRIBE		KLUGER, RICHARD		THE SAGA OF THE JEW IN THE SOUTH, TOLD THROUGH THE FICTIONALIZATION OF THE 1915 LEO FRANK MURDER TRIAL.
LTE	297	LOST AND FOUND		SHELDON GREEN		EPISODES OF SMALL-TOWN LIFE IN AMERICA. NARRATED BY A MODEST HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR.
LTE	298	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.
LTE	299	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.
LTE	300	PRISONER WITHOUT A NAME, CELL WITHOUT A NUMBER		TIMERMAN, JACOBO		THE AUTHOR'S PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF 30 MONTHS OF TORTURE AND ISOLATION IN ARGENTINA, AS WELL AS SPECULATIONS THAT THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY CLIMATE IN THAT COUNTRY MADE A SECOND HOLOCAUST A REAL POSSIBILITY.
LTE	301	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.
LTE	303	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.
LTE	305	JEWISH PARADOX, THE		GOLDMANN, NAHUM		THE AUTHOR, WHO FOR MANY YEARS WAS PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS, DESCRIBES THE PERIOD OF THE HOLOCAUST, THE FORMATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND THE STRUGGLE TO KEEP THE FLEDGLING STATE ALIVE.
LTE	309	GENERATION WITHOUT MEMORY	JEWISH JOURNEY IN CHRISTIAN AMERIC	ROIPHE, ANNE		THE AUTHOR CLAIMS THAT SECULAR AMERICAN JEWS ARE BESET BY FEELINGS OF GUILT, ANXIETY AND ANGER AT THEIR CHOICE NOT TO BE MEMBERS OF A RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY. CERTAINLY THEY ARE 'TRADITION-HUNGRY' AND 'RITUAL-DEPRIVED'. IN PARTICULAR, SHE WORRIES ABOUT HER OWN CHILDREN AND LOOKS FOR A JUDAISM THAT SPEAKS TO INTELLIGENT CONTEMPORARY JEWS.
LTE	310	SHALOM, MY LOVE		HILLS, IDA		A LOVE TRIANGLE THREATENS TO COME BETWEEN TWO FEMALE BEST FRIENDS IN THE ANCIENT CITY OF JERUSALEM.
LTE	312	SILVER ROSE, THE		KAUFELT, DAVID A.		A LOVE STORY BETWEEN THE DAUGHTER OF A JEWISH NEWSPAPER OWNER, FORCED TO BECOME A CABARET SINGER, AND AN SS OFFICER IN HITLER'S GERMANY.
LTE	317	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.
LTE	318	SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE		KAMM, JOSEPHINE		ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ANGLO-JEWS OF THE 19TH CENTURY WAS A SUCCESSFUL FINANCIER WHO WAS KNIGHTED BY QUEEN VICTORIA.
LTE	319	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.
LTE	320	BOOK OF LIGHTS		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.
LTE	321	CHAINS, THE		GREEN, GERALD		A SAGA OF THREE GENERATIONS OF A BRAWLING, SEMI-CRIMINAL BROOKLYN JEWISH FAMILY.
LTE	322	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.
LTE	323	LADY AND THE LAW	THE REMARKABLE STORY OF FANNY HOLT	BERKMAN, TED		THE 'GRETA GARBO OF THE BAR' WAS A SHY, AWKWARD GIRL FROM BROOKLYN WHO BECAME A FAVORITE OF KINGS, MOVIE STARS AND THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT.
LTE	327	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. © 1981
LTE	328	EARTH IS THE LORD'S, THE	THE INNER WORLD OF THE JEW IN EAST	HESCHEL, ABRAHAM JOSHUA		A WORK ON THE LIVES OF EAST EUROPEAN JEWS, WRITTEN AS AN ACT OF DEVOTION RATHER THAN AS A HISTORICAL OR CRITICAL ACCOUNT.
LTE	329	LAST JEWS IN BERLIN		GROSS, LEONARD		SURVIVORS FROM GERMANY'S CAPITAL CITY TELL STORIES OF THEIR FLIGHT UNDERGROUND IN AN ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE GOEBBELS AND HIS PLAN TO FREE BERLIN OF ALL JEWS. © 1982
LTE	330	K'TONTON IN THE CIRCUS		WEILERSTEIN, SADIE ROSE		THE TINY BOY HERO KNOWN AS "THE JEWISH TOM THUMB" IS TRANSPORTED TO THE CIRCUS IN THIS LATEST OF HIS ADVENTURES.
LTE	331	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.
LTE	333	KABBALAH	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.
LTE	336	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.
LTE	337	HARVEST		LEVIN, MEYER		THROUGH THE SAGA OF ONE FAMILY THE BOOK COVERS THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA AND THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF THE PIONEERS WHO HAD RETURNED TO THE JEWISH HOMELAND IN PALESTINE.
LTE	338	YOUR FIRST TRIP ABROAD, I ENVY YOU		BRAUN, SARAH ELKIN		THE ADVENTURES OF A JEWISH COUPLE FROM THE MIDWEST AS THEY TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD.
LTE	339	WHITE HOTEL, THE		THOMAS, D.M.		TOLD IS THE STORY OF 'ANNA G.', A FICTIONALIZED PATIENT OF FREUD'S. THE WHITE HOTEL IS THE SETTING FOR HER VIVID SEXUAL FANTASIES.
LTE	340	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.
LTE	341	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.
LTE	342	JOURNEYS OF DAVID TOBACK, THE		MALKIN, CAROLE		TOBACK'S RECOLLECTIONS OF HIS YOUTH IN RUSSIA ARE FOUND AND RECONSTRUCTED BY THE AUTHOR. THE ORIGINAL TEXT WAS WRITTEN FOR TOBACK'S DAUGHTER WHO KILLED HERSELF.
LTE	345	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.
LTE	346	PENITENT		SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS		A WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN ABANDONS WIFE, MISTRESS AND CAREER TO ASSUME THE ROLE OF A PENITENT (BAAL-TSUVAH) IN ISRAEL.
LTE	347	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.
LTE	348	BEST OF K'TONTON, THE		SEILERSTEIN, SADIE ROSE		A COLLECTION OF THE BEST OF THE ADVENTURES OF THE 'JEWISH TOM THUMB,' ALONG WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL DRAWINGS.
LTE	349	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.
LTE	350	WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE		KUSHNER, RABBI HAROLD		BASED ON HIS OWN SPIRITUAL CRISIS UPON THE DEATH OF HIS YOUNG SON, RABBI KUSHNER OFFERS COMFORT AND UNDERSTANDING TO THOSE EXPERIENCING LIFE'S TRAGEDIES. © 1981
LTE	352	ORIGINS OF ANTI-SEMITISM		GAGER, JOHN G.		ATTITUDES TOWARD JUDAISM IN PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN ANTIQUITY. THE AUTHOR CONCLUDES ANTI-SEMITISM WAS RARE BECAUSE JUDAISM WAS SUCH A FORMIDABLE COMPETITOR.
LTE	353	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.
LTE	355	KING OF THE SEVENTH GRADE		COHEN, BARBARA		A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY LEARNS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A JEW AND A MENTSCH WHEN HE GETS IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW AND HIS HEBREW SCHOOL.
LTE	357	ALL ABOUT RIVKAH		BELSKY, JUDITH BENOLIEL		TWO STORIES ABOUT A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL AND HER GROWING PAINS, EACH WITH A MORAL.
LTE	358	CREATORS AND DISTURBERS	REMINISCENCES BY JEWISH INTELLECTU	ROSENBERG, BERNARD AND GOLDSTEIN, HE		TWO DOZEN WRITERS, THINKERS AND ACTIVISTS TALK ABOUT THEIR LIVES IN THAT CITY.
LTE	359	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.
LTE	360	FIVE DECADES	SHORT STORIES	SHAW, IRWIN		CONTAINS 63 STORIES--'A RECORD OF THE EVENTS OF ALMOST 60 YEARS ALL COMING TOGETHER IN THE LIFETIME OF ONE AMERICAN AUTHOR.'
LTE	361	UNDER THE CANOPY		STRAUS, DOROTHEA		THE AUTHOR WRITES OF THE CONTRASTING PRIVATE LIVES OF HERSELF AND FELLOW YIDDISH AUTHOR, ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER.
LTE	362	GOLEM OF PRAGUE, THE		WINKLER, GERSHON		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.
LTE	364	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.
LTE	365	ELLIE'S INHERITANCE		COLMAN, HILA		A YOUNG DEPRESSION-ERA JEWISH GIRL TRIES TO DEFINE HERSELF IN THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE OF 1930S NEW YORK.
LTE	368	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.
LTE	370	HAJ		URIS, LEON		AN HISTORICAL NOVEL SET IN PRE-JEWISH STATEHOOD PALESTINE, FOCUSING ON FAMILIES STRUGGLING WITH THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN JEWS AND PALESTINIANS. © 1984
LTE	371	BREAKING TRADITION		BOBER, NATALIE S.		THE STORY OF LOUISE NEVELSON, ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST ARTISTS, THE MILIEU FROM WHICH SHE EMERGED AND THE FORCES THAT HELPED SHAPE HER LIFE AND WORK.
LTE	372	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.
LTE	373	OUR GANG		JOSELIT, JENNA WEISSMAN		A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF JEWISH CRIMINALS IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE EARLY PART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
LTE	374	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.
LTE	375	SILVER MATZOTH AND OTHER STORIES		KRANZLER, GERSHON		TEN PIECES ABOUT JEWS WHO KEPT THEIR FAITH DESPITE THE HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THEY LIVED.
LTE	376	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.
LTE	378	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.
LTE	379	WHERE HAVE I BEEN?		CAESAR, SID		WITH THE DEMISE OF HIS TV SHOW, THE COMEDIAN WAS DOOMED TO A MIDDLE AGE WASTED ON MEDIOCRE ROLES. CAESAR EXPLAINS JUST WHAT HAPPENED.
LTE	380	CHILDHOOD		OBERSKI, JONA		THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A CONCENTRATION CAMP VICTIM WHO SUFFERED THROUGH THE HORROR WHEN HE WAS A CHILD.
LTE	381	SUMMER IN WILLIAMSBURG		FUCHS, DANIEL		THE HUMOROUS STORY OF A BROOKLYN APARTMENT BUILDING AND ITS INHABITANTS DURING THE 1930S. © 1934
LTE	383	OUTSIDER		FAST, HOWARD		THIS NOVEL FOLLOWS THE LIFE OF RABBI DAVID HARTMAN, FROM HIS PRESENCE AT THE LIBERATION OF DACHAU, THROUGH 30 YEARS OF CONGREGATIONAL WORK IN THE UNITED STATES.
LTE	385	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.
LTE	386	GHOST WRITER, THE		ROTH, PHILIP		A YOUNG WRITER'S SEARCH FOR A SPIRITUAL FATHER WHOSE SUPPORT WILL JUSTIFY HIS FLIGHT FROM A JEWISH MIDDLE-CLASS HOME.
LTE	387	SHOFAR THAT LOST ITS VOICE		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.
LTE	388	FOREVER STREET		MORTON, FREDERIC		THIS IS THE SAGA OF THE SPIEGELGLASS FAMILY, A PROSPEROUS CLAN IN VIENNA, BETWEEN 1873 AND THE NAZI ANSCHLUSS IN 1938. © 1984
LTE	389	ZUCKERMAN UNBOUND		ROTH, PHILIP		A WOULD-BE RECLUSE IS THRUST INTO THE LIMELIGHT DURING THE SIXTIES WITH THE SUCCESS OF HIS EROTICALLY COMIC NOVEL.
LTE	390	LEGACY, THE		FAST, HOWARD		THIS IS THE FOURTH INSTALLMENT IN FAST'S SAGA OF THE LAVETTE FAMILY OF SAN FRANCISCO, CHRONICLING THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE TURMOIL OF THE 1960S. THE FIRST THREE BOOKS ARE 'THE IMMIGRANTS', 'SECOND GENERATION' AND 'THE ESTABLISHMENT'.
LTE	391	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.
LTE	392	CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM	A CONTEMPORARY HISTORY	ROSENBLUM, HERBERT. DR.		ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1983 ON THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT. ROSENBLUM GIVES AN OVERVIEW OF THE IDEAS, IDEALS AND PERSONALITIES OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM.
LTE	393	WILL THE REAL ISRAEL PLEASE STAND UP?		FINE, LEON		AN AMERICAN LAWYER NOW LIVING IN ISRAEL HAS WRITTEN A PERSONAL GUIDE TO ITS MANY FACES. THIS IS A GOOD ANTIDOTE TO THE NEGATIVE IMAGE RECEIVED FROM MEDIA ABROAD.
LTE	394	KITTY	AN UNCOMMON MEMOIR OF A NON-CELEBRITY	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
LTE	395	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
LTE	396	JEWISH CAT BOOK		ROSENBERG, MEIR		COMPILATION OF WRITINGS ABOUT CATS FROM JEWISH SOURCES. REFERENCES TO CATS IN JEWISH WRITINGS WILL AMAZE THE READER AND DELIGHT THE CAT LOVER.
LTE	397	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. © 1985
LTE	398	ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER		MALIN, IRVING		AN APPRECIATION OF THE STORIES OF THE RENOWNED YIDDISH AMERICAN WRITER.
LTE	399	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
LTE	401	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.
LTE	402	COLD RAIN ON THE WATER		BLUE, ROSE		16-YEAR-OLD RUSSIAN JEW AND HIS FAMILY FACE CHALLENGES AND PROBLEMS IN AMERICA.
LTE	403	MEETING ROZZY HALFWAY		LEAVITT, CAROLINE		A GRACEFUL, INSIGHTFUL TALE OF FAMILY AND LOVE AND THE PRIMAL BOND BETWEEN SIBLINGS, ONE A SPECIAL CHILD, WITH SCENES THAT SNAG THE READER'S MEMORY.
LTE	404	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.
LTE	405	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.
LTE	407	WHY CAN'T WE LIVE TOGETHER LIKE CIVILIZED HUMAN BEINGS?		KUMIN, MAXINE		A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT STAGES OF BEING A WOMAN.
LTE	408	IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY		SADAT, ANWAR		SADAT RECALLS HIS LIFE UP TO AND INCLUDING THE 1952 REVOLUTION. HE ALSO WRITES OF THE NASSER YEARS AND OF HIS OWN RULE AND PEACE EFFORTS.
LTE	409	ADMIRABLE WOMAN		COHEN, ARTHUR A.		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.
LTE	410	TO THE TENTH GENERATION		KASHNER, RITA		AN OUTCAST ACCORDING TO ANCIENT JEWISH LAW, DANI ON REACHING MANHOOD MUST FACE THE CHALLENGE OF PERILOUS MILITARY SERVICE AND LOVE FOR A WOMAN WHO IS FORBIDDEN TO HIM.
LTE	411	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.
LTE	412	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.'
LTE	413	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.
LTE	414	JERUSALEM ROCK		MITOSKY, DINA		A BELIEVABLE HEROINE IN THE REALISTIC SETTING OF MODERN JERUSALEM, COMBINED WITH THE RELENTLESS BEAT OF TODAY'S ROCK MUSIC.
LTE	415	MAX		FAST, HOWARD		THE EXUBERANT AND AUTHENTIC SAGA OF MAX BRITSKY, THE PENNILESS GHETTO KID WHO STARTED THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY NEW YORK.
LTE	416	ESTABLISHMENT		FAST, HOWARD		SUCCESSFUL WRITER BARBARA LAVETTE HAS BARELY COPED WITH THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND WHEN SHE IS CAUGHT UP IN A WITCH HUNT OF THE MCCARTHY ERA AND JAILED.
LTE	417	DAVITA'S HARP		POTOK, CHAIM		AS THE DEPRIVATIONS OF WAR AND DEPRESSION TAKE A TOLL, DAVITA TURNS TO THE JEWISH FAITH THAT HER MOTHER HAD LONG AGO ABANDONED, FINDING THERE A SOLACE FOR HER QUESTIONING INNER PAIN.
LTE	419	IMAGE AND OTHER STORIES		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.
LTE	420	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.
LTE	422	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.
LTE	423	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.
LTE	424	SEVEN GOOD YEARS AND OTHER STORIES, THE		PERETZ, I. L., ADAPTED BY ESTHER HAU		FOR AGES EIGHT TO TWELVE, THIS BOOK CONTAINS TEN SHORT STORIES SET IN EASTERN EUROPE. ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY I. L. PERETZ, THE STORIES ARE HERE RETOLD BY ESTHER HAUTZIG.
LTE	425	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.
LTE	426	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.
LTE	427	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.
LTE	428	IMMIGRANT'S DAUGHTER, THE		FAST, HOWARD		THIS FIFTH AND FINAL VOLUME OF THE LAVETTE FAMILY SAGA IS SET AGAINST THE TURBULENT BACKDROP OF THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND CENTERS ON THE POLITICAL AND PERSONAL LIFE OF BARBARA LAVETTE.
LTE	430	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.
LTE	431	ADVENTURES OF GLUCKEL OF HAMLIN		STADTLER, BEA		THIS BOOK DESCRIBES THE ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG JEWISH GIRL WHO LIVED IN GERMANY DURING THE 17TH CENTURY.
LTE	433	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.
LTE	434	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.
LTE	435	EPPIE	THE STORY OF ANN LANDERS	HOWARD, MARGO		HOW THE DAUGHTER OF RUSSIAN-JEWISH IMMIGRANTS MADE IT AS A WORLD-FAMOUS ADVICE GIVER.
LTE	436	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.
LTE	437	DAUGHTER OF THE WAVES		JORDAN, RUTH		THE AUTHOR TELLS OF HER GROWING UP IN ISRAEL DURING THE BRITISH MANDATE.
LTE	438	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.
LTE	439	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
LTE	440	PATH OF THE ORANGE PEELS		GUTMAN, NAHUM		ADVENTURES IN THE EARLY DAYS OF TEL AVIV. IT IS A TRUE STORY, WRITTEN NOT FOR THE SAKE OF AMUSEMENT, BUT FOR TELLING THINGS THE WAY THEY WERE, SO THE READER WILL FEEL HE WAS THERE ALSO.
LTE	442	AFTERGLOW		CARESS, IRVING		A COLLECTION OF LOVE POEMS.
LTE	443	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.
LTE	446	SIGN ABOVE THE DOOR		CANFIELD, WILLIAM W.		THIS IS A FASCINATING NOVEL ABOUT THE JEWS IN EGYPT DURING THE TIME OF MOSES AND THE TEN PLAGUES.
LTE	447	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.
LTE	448	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.
LTE	450	CHILD'S INTRODUCTION TO TORAH, A		NEWMAN, SHIRLEY		THE FIRST JEWS -- FROM ABRAHAM TO MOSES -- ARE PRESENTED HERE AS PEOPLE CHILDREN CAN IDENTIFY WITH AND LEARN FROM. THE STORIES ARE GRIPPING BUT ALSO SCRUPULOUSLY TRUE TO THE SCRIPTURAL TEXT.
LTE	451	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.
LTE	453	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.
LTE	454	TREASURY OF JEWISH QUOTATIONS		ROSTEN, LEO		PROVERBS, FOLK SAYINGS, INSIGHTS, AND MAXIMS CULLED FROM JEWISH SOURCES.
LTE	455	MY JEWISH HOLIDAYS		EISENBERG, A & ROBINSON, J. B.		THIS IS A BOOK THAT WILL INSPIRE SCHOOL CHILDREN TO LEARN AND RETAIN THE ESSENTIALS OF JEWISH OBSERVANCES THROUGH PURPOSEFUL ACTIVITY-PROJECTS THAT WILL INVOLVE THE WHOLE OF THE CHILD.
LTE	459	INTRODUCTION TO JEWISH HISTORY	ABRAHAM TO THE SAGES	ROSSEL, SEYMOUR		A PRESENTATION IN SIMPLE STORY FORM OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF JEWISH HISTORY FROM ABRAHAM TO THE SAGES, INCLUDING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE AND THE REBELLION OF BAR KOCHBA.
LTE	460	CHILD'S INTRODUCTION TO THE EARLY PROPHETS		NEWMAN, SHIRLEY		A SELECTION OF BIBLE STORIES DESIGNED TO FAMILIARIZE CHILDREN WITH THE EARLY PROPHETS AND THEIR TEACHINGS.
LTE	462	INTRO. TO KINGS, LATER PROPHETS & WRITINGS, AN		NEWMAN, SHIRLEY		IN SIMPLE LANGUAGE THAT A YOUNG CHILD CAN EASILY COMPREHEND, THIS BOOK INTRODUCES THE CHILD TO BIBLICAL PERSONS SUCH AS SAMUEL, DANIEL, EZRA, ETC.
LTE	464	GETTING EVEN		CHAKIN, MIRIAM		WANTING TO GET EVEN WITH TSIPPI, MOLLY DIVULGES A SECRET ABOUT THE GIRL'S PARENTS TO THE BIGGEST TATTLETALE IN HER CLASS.
LTE	465	RICHARD TUCKER		DRAKE, JAMES A.		A RECREATION OF TUCKER'S BOYHOOD IN BROOKLYN TO HIS SUCCESSES AT NEW YORK'S METROPOLITAN OPERA AND OTHER OPERA HOUSES TO HIS UNTIMELY DEATH. DESCRIPTIONS OF TUCKER'S BACKGROUND, CAREER, FAMILY LIFE, AND JEWISH FAITH PRODUCE A MULTIDIMENSIONAL PORTRAIT.
LTE	466	CLASS REUNION		JAFFE, RONA		FOUR RADCLIFFE FRIENDS ARE REUNITED TWENTY YEARS AFTER GRADUATION, AT A TIME IN THEIR LIVES WHEN THE PAST IS BATHED IN NOSTALGIA AND THE PRESENT IS FULFILLING ITS PROMISE.
LTE	468	AFTER THE REUNION		JAFFE, RONA		THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO 'CLASS REUNION' PICKS UP THE STORIES OF FOUR RADCLIFFE WOMEN AND THEIR HARVARD MEN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER GRADUATION.
LTE	471	JOURNEY THROUGH JEWISH HISTORY	THE AGE OF FAITH AND THE AGE OF FREEDOM	ROSSEL, SEYMOUR		THE JOURNEY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE DIASPORA TO THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY, PRESENTED IN SIMPLE STORY FORM. © 1983
LTE	475	RABBIS' BIBLE, THE	THE TORAH PART 1	SUGARMAN, MORRIS J.		INCLUDES LESSON-BY-LESSON EXERCISES THAT REINFORCE STUDENT UNDERSTANDING OF BOTH TEXT AND COMMENTARY.
LTE	476	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.
LTE	477	ROOMS OF THE SOUL		SCHWARTZ, HOWARD		SCHWARTZ HAS COLLECTED TALES OF THE HASIDIM OF BUCZACZ, SET IN 19TH CENTURY POLAND.
LTE	478	LAW OF RETURN		BLOCH, ALICE		NOVEL.
LTE	479	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.
LTE	480	FINDERS WEEPERS		CHAIKIN, MIRIAM		MOLLY IS FACED WITH BOTH A MORAL AND PHYSICAL DILEMMA. SHE HAS DISCOVERED THAT A RING FOUND ON A PLAYGROUND AND NOW STUCK ON HER FINGER BELONGS TO A CLASSMATE JUST ARRIVED FROM NAZI GERMANY.
LTE	481	WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT		KERR, JUDITH		ANNA, AGED NINE, CHOOSES A NEW STUFFED DOG INSTEAD OF HER BELOVED PINK RABBIT WHEN HER FAMILY SUDDENLY HAS TO FLEE NAZI GERMANY. SHE SOON REALIZES THE RABBIT IS LOST FOREVER.
LTE	482	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.
LTE	483	TAKE MY JOKES, PLEASE		YOUNGMAN, HENNY		GROWING UP JEWISH IN NEW YORK IS THE ESSENCE OF YOUNGMAN'S HUMOR. IN THIS BOOK ABOUT HIS WORK, HE SHOWCASES HIS HUMOR OF THE CARNEGIE DELI AND OF DELANCEY STREET, OF THE URBAN EXPERIENCE GONE SUBURBAN.
LTE	484	I SHOULD WORRY, I SHOULD CARE		CHAIKIN, MIRIAM		DESPITE DEATH, POVERTY, ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE INCREASINGLY DISTURBING NEWS FROM EUROPE, YOUNG MOLLY IS MAINLY PREOCCUPIED WITH HER CHILD'S WORLD.
LTE	485	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.
LTE	487	CARDINAL'S SNUFFBOX, THE		ROSEMAN, KENNETH		AN ADVENTURE STORY SET DURING THE SPANISH INQUISITION, THIS BOOK IS ALSO AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL THAT INTRODUCES JEWISH CONCEPTS, PLACES, AND FIGURES THROUGH DIFFERENT EPISODES IN WHICH THE PRE-TEEN READER MAKES DECISIONS THAT DETERMINES HIS OR HER OWN FATE.
LTE	489	SIMPLE STORY	LIBRARY OF MODERN JEWISH LITERATURE	AGNON, S.Y.		BLUME NACHT, NEWLY ORPHANED, GOES TO LIVE WITH HER AUNT AND UNCLE, AND THEIR SON HIRSHL. BLUME AND HIRSHL FALL IN LOVE, BUT TSIRL HAS OTHER PLANS FOR HIRSHL. SOON HIRSHL MARRIES THE DAUGHTER OF A WEALTHY FARMER, THOUGH HE STILLS PINES AWAY FOR SWEET BLUME.
LTE	490	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.
LTE	492	WHERE HEAVEN AND EARTH TOUCH	AN ANTHOLOGY OF MIDRASH AND HALACH	SIEGEL, DANNY		THIS ANTHOLOGY OF MIDRASH AND HALACHIC STORIES EMPHASIZES THE HUMANISM FOUND IN JUDAISM. CAN BE USED AS TEACHING MATERIAL FOR ALL AGES.
LTE	494	FLIGHT AND RESCUE	BRICHAH	BAUER, YEHUDA		THE DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF THE MASS MOVEMENT OF ALMOST 300,000 JEWS FROM EASTERN EUROPE TO ISRAEL DURING THE YEARS 1944-48.
LTE	495	MEDICAL HALACHA FOR EVERYONE		ABRAHAM, DR. ABRAHAM S.
LTE	496	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.
LTE	497	IN GRANDPA'S HOUSE		SENDAK, PHILIP		A DREAMLIKE COLLECTION OF LEGENDS SET IN A POLISH-JEWISH SHTETL.
LTE	498	REDEMPTION SONG	THE STORY OF OPERATION MOSES	RAPOPORT, LOUIS		AN ACCOUNT OF THE CLANDESTINE AIRLIFT OF ETHIOPIAN JEWS TO ISRAEL.
LTE	499	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.
LTE	502	DARKER SIDE OF GENIUS		KATZ, JACOB		THIS STUDY EXAMINES ATTITUDES TOWARD JEWS IN EARLY 19TH CENTURY GERMANY, PARTICULARLY THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF THE COMPOSER RICHARD WAGNER.
LTE	504	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.
LTE	505	MIRACLE OF INTERVALE AVENUE	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.
LTE	506	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.
LTE	507	BROKEN WINGS	ONE VOICE FOR PEACE	TAU, MAX		FICTIONALIZED MEMOIRS OF A JEWISH EDITOR, WHO, DRIVEN FROM GERMANY BY THE NAZIS, BECOMES AN ARDENT PACIFIST AND TRAVELS THE WORLD OVER.
LTE	509	WHEN ALL YOU'VE EVER WANTED ISN'T ENOUGH	THE SEARCH FOR A LIFE THAT MATTERS	KUSHNER, HAROLD S.		IN HIS DEEPLY INSPIRING BESTSELLER, RABBI KUSHNER SHOWS US HOW TO LIVE AS HUMAN BEINGS ARE MEANT TO. HE GUIDES US TO A HEIGHTENED SENSE OF JOY, PURPOSE, AND MEANING, AND HELPS US TO REDIRECT OUR ENERGIES TOWARD GOALS THAT WILL BRING US LASTING HAPPINESS AND TRUE FULFILLMENT.
LTE	510	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.
LTE	511	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.
LTE	512	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.
LTE	513	WORLD'S FAIR		DOCTOROW, E. L.		IN THIS SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL, THE AUTHOR CAPTURES THE UNIVERSALS OF CHILDHOOD, AND THE SPECIFIC CONDITION OF BEING A JEWISH CHILD.
LTE	515	HER FIRST AMERICAN		SEGAL, LORE		THE TENUOUS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A YOUNG JEWISH IMMIGRANT AND 'HER FIRST AMERICAN', A MIDDLE-AGED AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITER ON THE DECLINE.
LTE	517	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.'
LTE	518	SOLOMON MOON		DARRID, WILLIAM		THE INNER STRUGGLES AND CONFLICTS OF A MIDDLE-AGED, ASSIMILATED, SEPHARDIC JEW AND HIS REDISCOVERY OF HIS JEWISH HERITAGE.
LTE	519	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.
LTE	520	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.
LTE	521	SEVENTH DAY		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.
LTE	522	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.
LTE	527	LEVANTINE		DELACORTE, PETER		A THRILLER SET IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
LTE	528	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.
LTE	529	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.
LTE	530	WHY ME? WHY ANYONE?		JAFFE, HIRSHEL, MARCIA RUDIN & JAMES		IN HIS LATE 40S, RABBI JAFFE FOUND HIMSELF STRICKEN WITH A RARE FORM OF LEUKEMIA. IN THE NARRATIVE, WHICH ALTERNATES WITH DIARY EXCERPTS, HE TELLS HOW HE SOUGHT ANSWERS IN RELIGIOUS FAITH. INFORMATION IS ALSO PROVIDED ON JUDAISM'S VIEWS ON SUFFERING, MEDICINE, EUTHANASIA, AND THE AFTERLIFE.
LTE	531	HINKL AND OTHER SHLEMIEL STORIES		CHAIKIN, MIRIAM		SIX HUMOROUS STORIES ABOUT 'SCHLEMIELS', WHO, DESPITE BEING THEIR FOOLISHNESS MANAGE TO WIN WHAT THEY SEEK.
LTE	532	LATER THE SAME DAY		PALEY, GRACE		A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY GRACE PALEY. HER CHARACTERS TEND TO THE OUTSPOKEN AND ENTHUSIASTIC.
LTE	533	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.
LTE	534	NINE QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK ABOUT JUDAISM		PRAGER, DENNIS & JOSEPH TELUSHKIN		THIS BOOK DEALS WITH THE BASIC QUESTIONS THAT PERPLEX JEWS ALL OVER THE WORLD AND ALSO EXPLAINS THE FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE JEWISH HERITAGE. JUDAISM EMERGES AS A RATIONAL MORAL ALTERNATIVE FOR CONTEMPORARY MAN.
LTE	535	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'.
LTE	536	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.
LTE	537	NARROWEST BAR MITZVAH, THE		SCHNUR, STEVEN		FACED WITH A DISASTER ON THE EVE OF ALEX'S BAR MITZVAH, A FAMILY DISPLAYS TRUE RESOURCEFULNESS.
LTE	538	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.
LTE	539	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.
LTE	540	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.
LTE	541	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.
LTE	543	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.
LTE	544	FINE THINGS		STEEL, DANIELLE		THE STORY OF BERNIE FINE WHOSE WIFE DIES, LEAVING HIM ALONE WITH TWO CHILDREN. A KIDNAPPING AND A BITTER CUSTODY BATTLE FORCE HIM TO LEARN WHAT PERSONAL COMMITMENT IS ALL ABOUT.
LTE	545	50		CORMAN, AVERY		A WITTY, SENSITIVE AND WORLDLY-WISE MAN WHO MUST COPE WITH VARIOUS PROBLEMS IN HIS LIFE INCLUDING THE FACT THAT HE IS TURNING FIFTY AND IS COMPELLED TO COME TO TERMS WITH HIS PAST, HIS FUTURE, AND HIMSELF.
LTE	546	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.
LTE	547	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.
LTE	548	FROM A RUINED GARDEN		KUGELMASS, JACK;BOYARIN, JONATHAN		THE SELECTIONS FROM THE YIZKER BIKHER, THE MEMORIAL VOLUMES WRITTEN BY SURVIVORS AND IMMIGRANTS RECAPTURE THE LOST WORLD OF POLISH JEWRY.
LTE	550	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.
LTE	551	MICKEY AND THE GOLEM	A CHILD'S HANUKKAH	STERN, STEVE		MICKEY TAKES A LIVING CLAY GIANT OUT OF THE ATTIC OF AN ABANDONED SYNAGOGUE IN AN OLD JEWISH SECTION OF MEMPHIS AND BRINGS HIM TO CHEER HIS DYING GRANDFATHER.
LTE	552	ENCHANTMENTS OF JUDAISM	THE RITES OF TRANSFORMATION FROM BIRTH THROUGH DEATH	NEUSNER, JACOB		AN EXPLANATION OF THE BASIC RITES OF JUDAISM INCLUDING AN ANALYSIS AS TO WHY SOME OF THESE RITES CONTINUE TO EXERT A POWERFUL INFLUENCE ON CONTEMPORARY BELIEVING JEWS WHILE OTHERS DO NOT. © 1987
LTE	553	UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI WAHL		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.
LTE	554	AMEN	POEMS BY YEHUDA AMICHAI	AMICHAI, YEHUDA		A COLLECTION OF AMICHAI'S POEMS FILLED WITH REMINDERS OF A HOMELAND HAUNTED BY WAR. © 1977
LTE	555	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.
LTE	556	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.
LTE	557	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.
LTE	559	IN THE MOUTH OF THE WOLF		ZAR, ROSE		THE AUTHOR SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST BY ESCAPING FROM HER POLISH GHETTO AND USING FALSE PAPERS TO WORK AS EVERYTHING FROM A LAUNDRESS TO A HOUSEKEEPER FOR A NAZI OFFICER. THE THREAT OF EXPOSURE AS A JEW WAS CONSTANT BUT ZAR DESCRIBES HOW SHE MANAGED TO ELUDE CAPTURE AGAIN AND AGAIN AND LIVE TO TELL HER STORY.
LTE	560	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.
LTE	561	GREAT JEWISH SHORT STORIES		BELLOW, SAUL, ED.		THIS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES REPRESENTS A DIVERSITY OF JEWISH WRITERS.
LTE	562	LAZAR MALKIN ENTERS HEAVEN		STERN, STEVE		NINE STORIES ABOUT JEWISH LIFE ON MYTHICAL NORTH MAIN STREET IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.
LTE	563	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.
LTE	564	SCHINDLER'S LIST		KENEALLY, THOMAS		STORY OF THE GERMAN INDUSTRIALIST WHO BUILT A CONCENTRATION CAMP DURING WORLD WAR II IN ORDER TO SHELTER 1,300 JEWS.
LTE	565	FLIGHT TO SEVEN SWAN BAY, THE		LEAVITT, JUNE		A SEAPLANE CARRYING A GROUP OF JEWS ON A MISSION TO DELIVER A TORAH SCROLL IS FORCED TO LAND ON A DESERTED ISLAND DURING A STORM.
LTE	566	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.
LTE	567	GIMPEL THE FOOL		SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS		A COLLECTION OF FABLES, ALLEGORIES, AND FOLK TALES SET IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY POLISH GHETTO, © 1985
LTE	568	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.
LTE	569	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.
LTE	570	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.
LTE	571	GATE BEHIND THE WALL, THE	A PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM	HEILMAN, SAMUEL		HEILMAN'S ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE-CHANGING PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM.
LTE	572	EMET VE-EMUNAH		JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, ETAL		THIS TEXT OFFERS A SET OF FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES FOR PUBLIC DISCOURSE THROUGHOUT THE CONSERVATIVE JEWISH MOVEMENT.
LTE	573	BUBBY, ME AND MEMORIES		POMERANTZ, BARBARA		THIS BOOK TELLS OF A YOUNG GIRL'S RELATIONSHIP WITH HER GRANDMOTHER AND HOW SHE LEARNS TO DEAL WITH THE OLDER WOMAN'S DEATH.
LTE	574	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.
LTE	575	ALL IN A LIFETIME		WESTHEIMER, RUTH DR.		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.
LTE	576	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.
LTE	577	SATURDAY THE RABBI WENT HUNGRY		KEMELMAN, HARRY		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.
LTE	578	PENITENT, THE		SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS		A WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN ABANDONS WIFE, MISTRESS AND CAREER TO ASSUME THE ROLE OF A PENITENT (BAAL-TSUVAH) IN ISRAEL.
LTE	580	TAPESTRY		PLAIN, BELVA		THE CHARACTERS OF 'THE GOLDEN CUP' ENTER ADULTHOOD IN THIS NOVEL.
LTE	581	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.
LTE	582	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.
LTE	583	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.
LTE	584	SILVER		WOLITZER, HILMA		A SEQUEL TO 'IN THE FLESH,' THIS BOOK CATCHES UP WITH HOWIE AND PAULIE RIGHT BEFORE THEIR TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY. THEIR CHILDREN ARE GROWN, HOWIE HAS SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK, AND, IN ENSUING CHAPTERS THE COUPLE STRUGGLES TO DETERMINE THE COURSE OF THEIR MARRIAGE.
LTE	585	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.
LTE	586	SHINING THROUGH		ISAACS, SUSAN		SET IN NEW YORK, WASHINGTON AND BERLIN DURING WORLD WAR II, THIS IS THE STORY OF HOW A SERIES OF EVENTS TRANSFORM AN ORDINARY SECRETARY INTO A HEROIC SPY WHO UNDERTAKES A DANGEROUS MISSION TO HELP SAVE HER COUNTRY.
LTE	588	LEAVING BARNEY		MOSKOWITZ, BETTE ANN		WHEN BARNEY GOODMAN ACCIDENTALLY DIES, HE LEAVES HIS WIDOW WITH A BOOKSTORE IN A DECLINING NEIGHBORHOOD AND A NUMBER OF MYSTERIES TO BE UNRAVELED.
LTE	589	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.
LTE	590	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.
LTE	591	OUR SAGES, GOD, AND ISRAEL	AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE TALMUD OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL	NEUSNER, JACOB		AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE LESSER-KNOWN JERUSALEM TALMUD, WHICH WAS WRITTEN IN ISRAEL RATHER THAN BABYLONIA.
LTE	592	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.
LTE	594	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.
LTE	595	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.
LTE	596	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.
LTE	597	ANATOMY LESSON		ROTH, PHILIP		ROTH'S MAIN CHARACTER, ZUCKERMAN, STRUGGLES WITH PHYSICAL DETERIORATION, MIDDLE AGE AND WRITER'S BLOCK.
LTE	598	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.
LTE	599	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.
LTE	600	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.
LTE	601	JEWS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, VOL.1 AND 2	NAUM SOLOMON AND OTHERS	SCHWARTS, LAURENS R.
LTE	602	WALKER IN JERUSALEM		HEILMAN, SAMUEL		THE AUTHOR EXPERIENCES JERUSALEM THROUGH THE VANTAGES OF JEWISH, MUSLIM, AND CHRISTIAN OBSERVERS. WOVEN THROUGH THE TEXT IS BIBLICAL IMAGERY AS WELL AS INFORMATION ON ARCHAEOLOGY, RELIGION, AND HISTORY.
LTE	603	PAGAN RABBI AND OTHER STORIES, THE		OZICK, CYNTHIA		A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY THE WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR WHO WRITES WITH WIT, HUMOR, AND COMPASSION ABOUT THE AMERICAN-JEWISH SCENE.
LTE	604	FLAME BEARERS, THE		CHERNIN, KIM		DRAWING ON THE KABBALA 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.
LTE	605	FOUNDER OF THE HOUSE, THE		JACOB, NAOMI		THE FIRST VOLUME OF A SPELLBINDING FAMILY SAGA WHICH INTRODUCES EMMANUEL GOLLANTZ AND HIS HUGE FAMILY WHO ARE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT EUROPE. WE ALSO SEE HIM LEAVE VIENNA TO START A NEW LIFE.
LTE	606	THAT WILD LIE		JACOB, NAOMI		IN THIS SECOND VOLUME OF THE GOLANTZ FAMILY SAGA, EMMANUEL GOLANTZ HAS BECOME A SUCCESSFUL LONDON BUSINESSMAN, BUT DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME SUCCESS IN HIS PERSONAL LIFE WHEN HIS SON BREAKS ALL FAMILY TIES.
LTE	607	YOUNG EMMANUEL		JACOB, NAOMI		THE THIRD VOLUME IN THE GOLLANTZ FAMILY SAGA CENTERS ON TWO OF EMMANUEL GOLLANTZ'S GRANDSONS AND THEIR IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES THAT BRING GREAT TRAGEDY TO THE FAMILY.
LTE	608	FOUR GENERATIONS		JACOB, NAOMI		THE FOURTH IN THE GOLLANTZ SAGA. EMMANUEL, WHO BEARS HIS GRANDFATHER'S NAME TRIES TO FIND HAPPINESS IN HIS MARRIAGE AND CONTENTMENT IN A CAREER OF HIS OWN CHOOSING.
LTE	609	PRIVATE GOLANTZ		JACOB, NAOMI		THE FIFTH BOOK IN THE GOLLANTZ SAGA FOLLOWS THE FURTHER EXPLOITS OF YOUNG EMMANUEL WHO HAS SETTLED IN ITALY. HIS GALLERIES ARE FAMOUS, BUT HE WATCHES THE CHANGES UNDER MUSSOLINI WITH APPREHENSION.
LTE	610	GOLLANTZ	LONDON, PARIS, MILAN	JACOB, NAOMI		SIXTH IN A SERIES ABOUT AN ANGLO-JEWISH FAMILY OF ART DEALERS TO WHOM FAMILY TRADITION AND HONOR IS PARAMOUNT.
LTE	611	GOLANTZ SAGA #7	GOLANTZ AND PARTNERS	JACOB, NAOMI		IN THIS LAST VOLUME OF THE SAGA OF AN ANGLO-JEWISH FAMILY OF ART DEALERS, A FAMILY MEMBER IS ATTRACTED TO THE DAUGHTER OF A PROUD ARISTOCRAT FIERCELY CONTEMPTUOUS OF JEWS.
LTE	612	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.
LTE	613	STILL DANCING	MY STORY	GRADE, LEW		HE BECAME AN EXPERT CHARLESTON DANCER AND WENT ON TO WIN THE 1926 WORLD CHARLESTON COMPETITION. FROM THIS BEGINNING IN SHOW BUSINESS, LOUIS WINOGRADSKY (LEW GRADE) WENT ON TO CREATE A SHOW-BUSINESS DYNASTY
LTE	614	LEAGUE OF NIGHT AND FOG, THE		MORRELL, DAVID		THE PATHS OF SAUL GRISMAN INVESTIGATING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF HIS FATHER-IN-LAW AND DREW MACLANE, ASSASSIN CONVERGE AND THEY MUST CONFRONT THE LEAGUE OF NIGHT AND FOG AND DISCOVER ITS SECRET.
LTE	616	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.
LTE	617	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.
LTE	618	GOLEM		WIESEL, ELIE		RETELLING OF STORY OF GREAT RABBI LOEW OF PRAGUE AND HIS MASTER CREATION, THE GOLEM, WHO PROTECTED JEWS OF THE COMMUNITY, WENT OUT OF CONTROL, AND WAS "PUT TO SLEEP."
LTE	619	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.
LTE	620	COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO CHILDRENS' LITERATURE WITH A JEWISH THEME, A		DAVIS, ENID		A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOK REVIEWS, EACH PRECEDED BY PUBLISHER, PRICE AND APPROPRIATE AGE RANGE.
LTE	621	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.
LTE	622	FACTS, THE	A NOVELIST'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY	ROTH, PHILIP		IN THIS MEMOIR, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SEQUEL TO 'THE COUNTER LIFE,' 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.
LTE	624	SCRAP OF TIME		FINK, IDA		THESE 22 SHORT STORIES AND A BRIEF ONE-ACT PLAY PORTRAY THOSE LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF THE HOLOCAUST.
LTE	625	PASSOVER GOURMET		ROUSSO, NIRA		OVER 200 PASSOVER RECIPES FOR THE GOURMET COOK.
LTE	626	CITY CALLED JULY		ENGEL, HOWARD		CANADIAN PRIVATE EYE BENNY COOPERMAN CANNOT SAY NO WHEN THE RABBI AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE GRANTHAM SYNAGOGUE APPROACH HIM WITH A SMALL FAVOR. BUT COOPERMAN SOON FINDS HIMSELF INVOLVED IN A COMPLICATED CASE OF FRAUD.
LTE	627	I LIGHT ANOTHER CANDLE		TURGEL, GENA		MOST OF HER FAMILY MET DEATH UNDER THE GERMANS. SHE SPENT THREE YEARS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, BUT GENA TURGEL WAS ONE OF THE FORTUNATE FEW WHO SURVIVED AND SINCE HAS LIVED A FULL LIFE IN ENGLAND.
LTE	629	BOY FROM OVER THERE		BERGMAN, TAMAR		SET ON A KIBBUTZ IN THE JORDAN VALLEY IN 1948, THIS BOOK IS ABOUT CHILDREN LIVING THROUGH ISRAEL'S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
LTE	630	BOOK OF ADAM TO MOSES, THE		SEGAL, LORE		THE AUTHOR RETELLS BIBLE STORIES FOR CHILDREN.
LTE	631	ROAD FROM BABYLON	THE STORY OF THE SEPHARDIC AND ORI	RAPHAEL, CHAIM		THE STORY OF THE SEPHARDIC AND ORIENTAL JEWS, THEIR LIFE UNDER ISLAM, THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS AND HOW SEPHARDIC TRAITS OF TODAY REFLECT LIFESTYLES DEVELOPED IN OTHER SETTINGS.
LTE	632	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.
LTE	633	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).
LTE	634	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.
LTE	635	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.
LTE	636	NIGHT JOURNEY, THE		LASKY, KATHRYN		CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN RACHEL AND HER NANA SASHIE ARE BORING UNTIL THE LATTER BEGINS REMINISCING ABOUT HER CHILDHOOD IN RUSSIA.
LTE	637	SHADES OF FORTUNE		BIRMINGHAM, STEPHEN		NEW YORK'S GERMAN-JEWISH COMMUNITY IS DEPICTED IN THIS NOVEL WHICH TELLS THE STORY OF MIREILLE MYERSON, DIRECTOR OF THE MIRAY COSMETIC EMPIRE, AND HER FAMILY. SUSPENSE IS ADDED TO THE NARRATIVE WITH THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SOME OLD DIARIES WHICH HOLD THE KEY TO SORDID EVENTS IN THE COMPANY'S PAST.
LTE	638	SABBATH, THE	ITS MEANING FOR MODERN MAN	HESCHEL, ABRAHAM JOSHUA		AN EXPOSITION OF THE SABBATH AND ITS EMBODIMENT OF THE SPIRITUAL REALITIES OF JUDAISM.
LTE	639	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.
LTE	640	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.
LTE	641	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.
LTE	642	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.
LTE	643	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.
LTE	644	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.
LTE	645	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.
LTE	646	CALL ME RUTH		SACHS, MARILYN		SET IN 1903, A STORY WHICH EMPHASIZES THE STRAIN OF ACCULTURATION ON FAMILY BONDS.
LTE	647	PARNAS, THE		BAR AM, MEIR		THIS NOVEL FOR TEENAGERS EXAMINES THE CHRISTIAN CRUSADERS OF 1096, MARAUDERS OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES ALONG THE RHINE.
LTE	648	HOLOCAUST, THE	A HISTORY OF COURAGE AND RESISTANCE	STATDLER, BEA		WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN AGES 10 TO 13, THIS BOOK DEALS PARTICULARLY WITH THE RISE OF HITLER AND THE NAZI PARTY. EACH CHAPTER IS COMPLEMENTED BY PRIMARY DOCUMENTS.
LTE	649	I, GLORIA GOLD		SUMMERS, JUDITH		GLORIA GOLD, A HOUSEWIFE FROM LONDON DECIDES TO SPEND LESS TIME FIGHTING DOMESTIC GERMS AND MORE TIME WRITING HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY SO THAT HER SELFISH FAMILY WILL HOPEFULLY REALIZE HOW MUCH THEY HAVE TAKEN HER FOR GRANTED.
LTE	651	YOUNG PERSON'S HISTORY OF ISRAEL, A		BAMBERGER, DAVID		A COMPREHENSIVE CHILDREN'S HISTORY OF ISRAEL FROM THE EARTHQUAKE THAT CREATED THE JORDAN RIVER VALLEY UP UNTIL THE PRESENT.
LTE	652	LOVE OF ELSPETH BAKER, THE		KAUFMAN, MYRON S.		THE STORY OF A STRONG WILLED YOUNG HEROINE WITH A PASSIONATE BELIEF IN A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO BE THE MISTRESS OF HER FATE.
LTE	653	FINAL OPUS OF LEON SOLOMON		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.
LTE	654	GYM SHOES AND IRISES		SIEGEL, DANNY		SIEGEL USES EXAMPLES TO ILLUSTRATE THE CONCEPT OF CHARITY.
LTE	655	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.
LTE	656	MY RABBI DOESN'T MAKE HOUSE CALLS		VORSPAN, ALBERT		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').
LTE	657	BIRTHMARK		STRAUS, DOROTHEA		THIS STORY, ABOUT THE ESTRANGEMENT OF A BROTHER AND SISTER, PARALLELS THE BROTHER'S REJECTION OF HIS LARGER FAMILY, THE JEWISH PEOPLE. DESPITE ATTEMPTS AT ASSIMILATION HE IS IRREVOCABLY TIED TO HIS SISTER AND TO HIS RELIGION.
LTE	659	ROAD TO EIN HAROD		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.
LTE	660	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.
LTE	661	JUDAH THE PIOUS		PROSE, FRANCINE		A NOVEL SET IN 19TH CENTURY POLAND ABOUT AN ELDERLY RABBI WHO ATTEMPTS TO STAVE OFF A POGROM.
LTE	662	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.
LTE	663	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.
LTE	665	BASIC JUDAISM		STEINBERG, MILTON		THE CLASSIC TEXT EXPLAINING THE BELIEFS, IDEALS, AND PRACTICES OF THE JEWISH RELIGION. THE AUTHOR TAKES INTO CONSIDERATION ALL THREE BRANCHES OF JUDAISM.
LTE	667	PROOFS OF AFFECTION		FRIEDMAN, ROSEMARY		THE MIDDLE-CLASS WORLD OF A JEWISH WOMAN DISINTEGRATES WHEN HER HUSBAND DIES, HER SON MARRIES A GENTILE AND HER DAUGHTER RENOUNCES HER FAITH.
LTE	668	FESTIVAL OF ESTHER	THE STORY OF PURIM	SILVERMAN, MAIDA		A SIMPLE RETELLING OF THE PURIM STORY INCLUDING A RECIPE FOR HAMENTASCHEN. © 1989
LTE	669	SURVIVORS SPEAK OUT		VARIOUS CONTRIBUTORS		IN POETRY AND PROSE, SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST WRITE WHAT IS ON THEIR MINDS AND IN THEIR HEARTS.
LTE	670	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.
LTE	671	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.
LTE	672	ART OF BIBLICAL POETRY		ALTER, ROBERT		THIS FRESH INTERPRETATION OF BIBLICAL POETRY ALSO EXAMINES "HOW IT WORKS." © 1985
LTE	673	FOR EVERY SIN		APPELFELD, AHARON		THIS NOVEL PORTRAYS A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, WHO SPENT FOUR YEARS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, TENTATIVELY JOINING THE COMPANY OF SURVIVORS.
LTE	674	TORAH TODAY	A RENEWED ENCOUNTER WITH SCRIPTURE	PELI, PINCHAS H.		A COLLECTION OF FIFTY-FOUR ESSAYS THAT COMMENT ON EACH OF THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTIONS.
LTE	675	MESSENGERS OF GOD		WIESEL, ELIE		BASED ON HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE, THE TALMUD, AND THE COMMENTARIES, THE AUTHOR BRINGS THE STORIES OF BIBLICAL PERSONALITIES TO LIFE.
LTE	676	EARLY BOOKS OF YEHUDA AMICHAI		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.
LTE	677	NICE MURDER FOR MOM		YAFFE, JAMES		AFTER DAVE RELOCATES TO MESA GRANDE, COLORADO, ONE OF THE LOCAL COLLEGE PROFESSORS IS KILLED. HE SOLVES THE MURDER WITH THE HELP OF HIS LOGICAL JEWISH MOTHER, WHO HAPPENS TO BE VISITING AT THE TIME.
LTE	678	COLLECTED POEMS		LEVI, PRIMO		LEVI'S OUTRAGE AT HIS EXPERIENCES DURING THE HOLOCAUST ARE REFLECTED IN THIS COLLECTION OF POEMS ASSEMBLED SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH IN 1987.
LTE	679	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.
LTE	680	COURT JESTERS		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.
LTE	681	MIRACLE HATER		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.
LTE	682	MARIENBAD		ALEICHEM, SHOLOM		A COMIC TALE OF THE ENTANGLEMENT BETWEEN TWO POLISH CITIES, TOLD THROUGH LETTERS, LOVE NOTES AND TELEGRAMS.
LTE	683	DEVIL'S ARITHMETIC		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.
LTE	684	FIRST BOOK OF BIBLE HEROES, PART 2		MEILACH, DONA Z.		A STORY BOOK IN WHICH THE YOUNG READER IS MADE TO FEEL LIKE A PARTICIPANT IN THE TALES OF BIBLICAL HEROES AND HEROINES. THE AUTHOR ALSO PROVIDES A HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR EACH PERSONALITY.
LTE	685	NIGHTMARE IN HISTORY	THE HOLOCAUST, 1933-1945	HAIKIN, MIRIAM		A HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
LTE	686	ALICE'S NECK		NOVAK, BARBARA		ANNA, A STUDENT AT HARVARD, IS IN LOVE WITH KURT, BUT SHE CANNOT RECONCILE HIS NAZI GERMAN HERITAGE WITH HER JEWISH POLISH ONE. SHE BECOMES OBSESSED WITH HER DILEMMA AND DIVORCED FROM REALITY. © 1987
LTE	688	WHICH REMINDS ME		RANDALL, TONY; MINDLIN, MICHAEL		RANDALL'S WIT, INTELLIGENCE, PRODIGIOUS MEMORY AND UNREASONABLE LOVE OF STORYTELLING IS AMPLY DEMONSTRATED IN THIS VASTLY ENTERTAINING COLLECTION OF SHOW BUSINESS STORIES.
LTE	689	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.
LTE	690	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.
LTE	691	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.
LTE	692	DISCOVERY OF BEING	WRITINGS IN EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOLOGY	MAY, ROLLO		WRITINGS IN EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOLOGY EXAMINING THE CONCEPT OF INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM.
LTE	693	BAMBOO CRADLE	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.
LTE	694	ORAL TORAH	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 TALMUDS. THE AUTHOR PROVIDES CRITICAL INSIGHTS AND SHOWS HOW THE ORAL PORTION COMPLEMENTS THE WRITTEN TORAH.
LTE	697	HARVEST		PLAIN, BELVA		THE CONTINUING SAGA OF THE WERNERS AND THEIR EXTENDED CLAN AS THE FAMILY REAFFIRMS ITS JEWISH HERITAGE DURING THE STORMY 1960S.
LTE	699	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.
LTE	700	DADDY		DURAND, LOUP		ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD THOMAS IS THE ONLY PERSON WHO KNOWS THE COMPLEX CODES TO THE FORTUNES HIDDEN BY HIS GREAT GRANDFATHER. AFTER THE OLD MAN COMMITS SUICIDE UNDER NAZI TORTURE, THOMAS MUST MATCH WITS WITH HIS NAZI PURSUERS TO EVADE CAPTURE AND PROTECT THE FUNDS FROM CONFISCATION.
LTE	701	EICHMANN IN MY HANDS		MALKIN, PETER Z.;STEIN, HARRY		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.
LTE	702	JEWISH-AMERICAN KITCHEN, THE		SOKOLOV, RAYMOND		THESE 135 RECIPES WITH ACCOMPANYING ESSAYS CONSIDER THE TRADITIONAL FARE OF AMERICAN JEWS OF ASHKENAZI ANCESTRY. CHAPTERS RANGE FROM APPETIZERS TO MEATS, NOODLES, VEGETABLES AND PASTRIES.
LTE	703	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.
LTE	704	CHANGELINGS, THE		SINCLAIR, JO		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.
LTE	705	DAVID AND MAX		PROVOST, GARY & LEVINE-PROVOST, GAIL		THROUGH THE CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS GRANDFATHER MAX, DAVID AT THE AGE OF 12 LEARNS THAT WHILE TRUTH IS IMPORTANT, A PERSON'S WAY OF HANDLING DIFFICULTIES MUST BE RESPECTED.
LTE	706	RETURN		SONIA LEVITIN
LTE	707	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.
LTE	708	WORLD GUIDE FOR THE JEWISH TRAVELER		FREEDMAN, WARREN		A GUIDE TO PLACES OF JEWISH INTEREST IN OVER 100 COUNTRIES ACROSS THE GLOBE.
LTE	709	OLD-NEW LAND		HERZL, THEODOR		THE NOVEL IN WHICH HERZL ENVISIONED THE ESTABLISHMENT AND GROWTH OF A JEWISH COMMONWEALTH IN WHAT WAS THEN PALESTINE.
LTE	710	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.
LTE	711	ARLOSOROFF		AVINERI, SHLOMO		AS PART OF THE JEWISH THINKERS SERIES, THIS IS THE STORY OF CHAIM ARLOSOROFF, WHO EMIGRATED TO PALESTINE IN 1924, BECAME A LEADER OF THE MAPAI PARTY, AND WAS ASSASSINATED FOR HIS POLITICAL BELIEFS.
LTE	712	ANTI-SEMITISM	A DISEASE OF THE MIND	RUBIN, THEODORE ISAAC, M.D.		RUBIN, A PSYCHIATRIST, EXPLORES THE MIND OF THE ANTI-SEMITE, PINPOINTING THE DYNAMICS OF THE BIGOTRY FROM ITS MILDER TO ITS MORE VIRULENT FORMS. ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR, ANTI-SEMITISM IS A 'SYMBOL SICKNESS' IN WHICH THE JEW IS TURNED INTO AN OBJECT OF THE BIGOT'S PROJECTED GUILT AND SELF-HATE.
LTE	713	PAGES FROM A SCRAPBOOK OF IMMIGRANTS	A JOURNEY IN POEMS	MARCUS, MORTON		THESE POEMS FOLLOW SEVERAL GENERATIONS OF A JEWISH FAMILY FROM CZARIST RUSSIA TO NEW YORK CITY. THE AUTHOR ATTEMPTS TO CREATE A LITERAL SCRAPBOOK BY EVOKING A SERIES OF MOMENTS AND CHARACTERS.
LTE	715	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.
LTE	716	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.
LTE	717	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.
LTE	718	ARABESQUES		SHAMMAS, ANTON		THE AUTHOR, A PALESTINIAN CHRISTIAN, WRITES A HISTORY OF HIS YOUTH IN AN ARAB VILLAGE IN THE GALILEE. FANATICISM AND SUPERSTITION ARE COUPLED WITH THE PLEASURES AND PAINS OF PEASANT LIFE. A FRACTURED NARRATIVE AND SHIFTING CHRONOLOGY GIVE THE BOOK ITS DESCRIPTION AS A WORK OF FICTION.
LTE	719	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.
LTE	720	GREAT LETTER E, THE		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.
LTE	721	KIBBUTZ IN ISRAEL		TAYLOR, ALLEGRA		THIS IS THE STORY ABOUT 10-YEAR-OLD TAL NIV, HIS FAMILY AND THEIR LIFE ON A KIBBUTZ IN ISRAEL. ALSO INCLUDED IS A BRIEF HISTORY OF ISRAEL.
LTE	722	ALL MY BEST FRIENDS		BURNS, GEORGE & DAVID FISHER		THE COMEDIAN DESCRIBES HIS LIFE IN SHOW BUSINESS WHICH STARTED IN THE 1900S. HIS STORY IS FULL OF ANECDOTES ABOUT OTHER SHOW BUSINESS PERSONALITIES SUCH AS EDDIE CANTOR, SOPHIE TUCKER, AL JOLSON, JACK BENNY, AND THE MARX BROTHERS.
LTE	723	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.
LTE	724	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.
LTE	725	GARDEN OF EDEN COOKBOOK, THE		WIGODER,.DEVORAH EMMET		RECIPES IN THE BIBLICAL TRADITION: THE AUTHOR'S HORTICULTURE IS BASED ON BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES. THE RECIPES HAVE UNIVERSAL APPEAL; THEY ARE EASY TO FOLLOW, HEALTHY AND THE INGREDIENTS ARE WIDELY AVAILABLE.
LTE	726	SPIRIT OF THE GHETTO, THE		HAPGOOD, HUTCHINS		A PORTRAIT OF THE 'GOLDEN AGE' OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE, AN ERA IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN IMMIGRATION THAT BECAME A NOSTALGIC PART OF THE AMERICAN-JEWISH EXPERIENCE.
LTE	727	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.
LTE	728	MYSTERY OF THE COINS, THE		BURSTEIN, CHAYA		JAMIE, SARAH, AND THEIR GRANDMOTHER UNCOVER THE MYSTERY BEHIND A COLLECTION OF CENTURIES-OLD COINS.
LTE	729	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.
LTE	730	CONCISE JEWISH BIBLE, THE		BIRNBAUM, PHILIP, ED., TRANS.		AN ABRIDGED, EASY TO FOLLOW, VERSION OF THE HEBREW BIBLE.
LTE	731	PUBLIC AFFAIRS, PRIVATE RELATIONS		BALDRIGE, LETITIA		IN THIS NOVEL THAT CENTERS ON WASHINGTON SOCIETY LIFE, MARIKA WENTWORTH, A BLUE-BLOODED BOSTONIAN, AND JONATHAN SCHER, A TRADITIONAL JEW, ARE ATTRACTED TO EACH OTHER. THEY ATTEMPT TO CONTINUE TO PURSUE THEIR PUBLIC AMBITIONS WHILE PRESERVING THE PRIVACY OF THEIR LOVE AFFAIR.
LTE	732	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.
LTE	735	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.
LTE	736	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.
LTE	737	THEODOR HERZL		FINKELSTEIN, NORMAN H.		THE STORY OF THE DRIVEN AND CHARISMATIC VISIONARY HOW DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO THE MOVEMENT HE REVITALIZED--ZIONISM--AND HIS DREAM OF A JEWISH STATE.
LTE	738	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.
LTE	739	I'LL TAKE IT		RUDNICK, PAUL		THE THREE ELDERLY ESKER SISTERS, IDA, POLA AND HEDY, AND HEDY'S SON JOE, GO ON A SHOPPING SPREE THROUGH A SERIES OF NEW ENGLAND OUTLETS. THEY INTEND TO SHOP UNTIL THEY DROP AND, TO JOE'S SURPRISE, TO STEAL MUCH OF WHAT THEY PICK OUT.
LTE	740	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.
LTE	741	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.
LTE	742	ADVENTURES OF MENACHEM MENDL		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.
LTE	743	CONVERSATIONS WITH PRIMO LEVI		CAMON, FERDINANDO		THE TWO ITALIAN WRITERS DISCUSS FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES, SUCH AS THE VALUE OF LITERATURE AND REFLECTIONS ON HUMAN SUFFERING.
LTE	744	UNDUE INFLUENCE		YASTROW, SHELBY		AFTER THE DEATH OF BENJAMIN STILLMAN, A CATHOLIC BOOKKEEPER, IT IS REVEALED THAT HE LEFT $8 MILLION TO A SYNAGOGUE HE HAD NEVER ATTENDED. WHEN ATTORNEY PHILIP OGDEN BECOMES EXECUTOR OF THE WILL, HE MUST FIGURE OUT WHERE STILLMAN GOT THIS MONEY AND WHY HE WOULD LEAVE IT TO A JEWISH INSTITUTION.
LTE	745	OTHER SIDE OF LOVE, THE		BRISKIN, JACQUELINE		SET IN THE UNITED STATES, ENGLAND, AND GERMANY'S THIRD REICH, THIS IS THE STORY OF FOUR COUSINS UNITED BY FAMILY ALLEGIANCE AND THEIR OWN DESIRES, BUT TORN APART BY WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH.
LTE	746	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.
LTE	747	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.
LTE	748	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.
LTE	749	NIGHT OF THE FOX		HIGGINS, JACK		THE PROTAGONIST, HARRY MARTINEAU, IS A BRILLIANT AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER TURNED KILLER FOR HIS COUNTRY DURING WORLD WAR II.
LTE	751	PRODIGAL SONGS	THE NEW YORK INTELLECTUALS AND THEIR WORLD	BLOOM, ALEXANDER		THE AUTHOR TRACES THE COMMON PAST OF A SMALL GROUP OF JEWISH SONS OF THE GHETTO WHO INFLUENCED THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE IN NEW YORK, THEIR COMMON PAST, EDUCATION AT COLUMBIA AND CITY COLLEGE DURING THE DEPRESSION, THEIR EARLY RADICAL YEARS AND MOVE TOWARD THE LIBERAL CENTER, THEIR RENEWED INTEREST IN JEWISHNESS, AND THEIR FRAGMENTATION IN THE 1960S, WHEN SOME BECAME KEY FIGURES IN THE NEOCONSERVATIVISM OF THE NEXT TWO DECADES.
LTE	752	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.
LTE	753	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.
LTE	754	BOOK OF TZIRIL, THE	A FAMILY CHRONICLE	WALDMAN, BESS		A SAGA OF JEWISH LIFE IN RUSSIA AND THE STORY OF TZIRIL AND HER DAUGHTER, HINDA, WHO MOVE FROM LITHUANIA TO THE CAUCASUS AND TO AMERICA.
LTE	756	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.
LTE	757	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.
LTE	758	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.
LTE	759	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.
LTE	760	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.
LTE	761	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.
LTE	762	MISSING		HERMAN, MICHELLE		IN THE CLAUSTROPHOBIC LONELY WORLD INHABITED BY MEMORIES AND PHONE CALLS FROM HER GRANDCHILDREN, THERE LIVES RIVKE VASILEVSKY, AN ELDERLY FRAIL JEWISH WIDOW. MISSING IS A PACKET OF BEADS FROM A BELOVED OLD DRESS WHICH UNACCOUNTABLY DISAPPEARS. THE TURMOIL THIS CAUSES THE OLD LADY IS ONLY ONE OF THE MANY INCIDENTS THAT REVEAL THE COMPLEXITY OF OLD AGE.
LTE	763	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.
LTE	764	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.
LTE	765	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.
LTE	767	FEET OF THE MESSENGER		YEHOASH (BLOOMGARDEN, SOLOMON)		THIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF A TRIP BY THE AUTHOR TO PRE-STATEHOOD ISRAEL THAT DIRECTED ATTENTION TO THE ANCIENT JEWISH HOMELAND. © 1923
LTE	769	VISION	BIOGRAPHY OF HARRY FRIEDENWALD	LEVIN, ALEXANDRA LEE		THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN, A FAMILY, AND OF THE EMERGING TYPE OF AMERICAN JEW DURING THE PAST CENTURY. FOUR GENERATIONS OF FAMILY PROGRESSIONS OF EXEMPLIFYING PERSONAL AND CULTURAL ADJUSTMENT, PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICE.
LTE	771	AND RACHEL WAS HIS WIFE		ANONYMOUS		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, WHO LEFT HER WEALTHY CHILDHOOD BEHIND TO MARRY THE PENNILESS SCHOLAR AND ENCOURAGED HIM IN HIS STUDIES. © 1990
LTE	772	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.
LTE	773	DESTINY EXPRESS		RODMAN, HOWARD A.		IT IS WINTER, 1933 AND GERMAN DIRECTOR FRITZ LANG IS TROUBLED BY A DISINTEGRATING MARRIAGE, NEW AND OMINOUS NAZI POLICIES, AND A REQUEST BY NAZI BIG GEOBBELS TO HEAD A NEW CINEMA PROGRAM.
LTE	774	DO THEY KEEP KOSHER ON MARS? AND OTHER PRESSING QUESTIONS OF JEWISH LIFE		BESSER, JAMES DAVID		A COLLECTION FROM THE AUTHOR'S SYNDICATED NEWSPAPER COLUMN WHICH STRIVES TO PROVIDE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF GENERAL, TRIVIAL, AND OFFBEAT JEWISH INTEREST.
LTE	775	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.
LTE	776	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.
LTE	777	SUSTAINING UTTERANCE, THE	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.
LTE	778	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. © 1988
LTE	779	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.© 1991
LTE	780	CRIERS AND KIBITZERS, KIBITZERS AND CRIERS		ELKIN, STANLEY		A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES ABOUT JEWISH LIFE, FILLED WITH HUMOR, TRAGEDY, AND FANTASY. © 1990
LTE	781	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.
LTE	782	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.
LTE	783	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.
LTE	784	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.
LTE	785	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.
LTE	786	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.
LTE	787	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.
LTE	788	VOICE OF SARAH	FEMININE SPIRITUALITY AND TRADITION	FRANKIEL, TAMAR		THE AUTHOR DEMONSTRATES HOW A TRADITIONAL JEWISH WOMAN CAN FULFILL FEMINISM'S HIGHEST ASPIRATIONS.
LTE	789	THIRTEEN PETALLED ROSE		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.
LTE	790	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.
LTE	791	PROMISED LANDS		SACKS, PETER		IN HIS POETRY, SACKS, A SOUTH AFRICAN JEW WHO TEACHES IN THE U.S. RELATES TALES OF HIS HOMELAND, HIS ADOPTED COUNTRY AND THE HOLY LAND, OFTEN CONNECTING BIBLICAL STORIES WITH HIS OWN LIFE.
LTE	792	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.
LTE	793	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.
LTE	794	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.
LTE	795	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.
LTE	796	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.'
LTE	797	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.
LTE	798	BEST OF OLOMEINU, THE. BOOK 1	STORIES FOR ALL YEAR 'ROUND	FRUCHTER, RABBI YAAKOV		TWENTY-FOUR STORIES TAKEN FROM 'OLOMEINU', (OUR WORLD) THE CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE, OVER A 36-YEAR PERIOD.
LTE	799	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.
LTE	800	WHERE DOES GOD LIVE?	QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR PARENTS	GELLMAN, RABBI MARC & MONSIGNOR THOM		TWO CLERGYMEN RESPOND TO THEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS IN AN ECUMENICAL WAY.
LTE	801	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.
LTE	802	LEONARD BERNSTEIN	NOTES FROM A FRIEND	CHAPIN, SCHUYLER		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. RE-EDITED AND CONVERTED TO 1 VOLUME BY JBI IN 2012.
LTE	803	I.L. PERETZ AND THE MAKING OF MODERN JEWISH CULTURE		WISSE, RUTH R.		THE AUTHOR SUMMARIZES AND ANALYZES PERETZ'S IDEAS AND STORIES IN AN ATTEMPT TO SHOW HIS ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN JEWISH CULTURE.
LTE	804	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.
LTE	805	FALLING PIECES OF THE BROKEN SKY		LESTER, JULIUS		IN THESE ESSAYS THE AUTHOR WRITES OF HIS PERCEPTIONS AS A BLACK MAN, A JEW, AND A WRITER. HE ALSO DISCUSSES MYSTICISM, INDIVIDUALITY, AND THE EXALTATION OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE.
LTE	806	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.
LTE	807	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
LTE	808	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.
LTE	809	UNORTHODOX PRACTICES	A NINA FISCHMAN MYSTERY	PIESMAN, MARISSA		WHEN AN ELDERLY, BUT HEALTHY NEIGHBOR DIES IN HER APARTMENT, ATTORNEY NINA FISCHMAN AND HER MOTHER BRING THEIR SUSPICIONS OF FOUL PLAY TO DISTRICT ATTORNEY JUDAH LEV, AN ORTHODOX JEW WITH WHOM NINA DEVELOPS AN UNCONVENTIONAL RELATIONSHIP.
LTE	810	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.
LTE	811	SIDRAH STORIES	A TORAH COMPANION	ROSMAN, STEVEN M.		THESE ARE ADAPTED TALES FROM TRADITIONAL SOURCES SUCH AS THE MIDRASH, AS WELL AS TALES TOLD BY CHASIDIC MASTERS AND STORIES BY CONTEMPORARY JEWISH WRITERS.
LTE	812	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.
LTE	813	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.
LTE	814	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.
LTE	815	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.
LTE	816	MOM AMONG THE LIARS		YAFFE, JAMES		DAVE, AN INVESTIGATOR IN THE PUBLIC DEFENDERS OFFICE IN MESA GRANDE, COLORADO AND HIS 75-YEAR-OLD MOTHER COME UP AGAINST SMALL TOWN POLITICS WHEN THEY TRACK THE STRANGLER OF EDNA PULASKI, A MADAM.
LTE	818	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.
LTE	819	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.
LTE	820	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.
LTE	821	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.
LTE	822	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. © 1990
LTE	823	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. © 1992
LTE	824	START WORRYING, DETAILS TO FOLLOW	AN INSIDER'S IRREVERENT (BUT LOVING) VIEW OF AMERICAN JEWISH LIF	VORSPAN, ALBERT		A COLLECTION OF HUMOROUS ESSAYS THAT LOOK AT VARIOUS ASPECTS OF AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE FROM A LEADER OF THE REFORM MOVEMENT. © 1991
LTE	825	RED LOVE		EVANIER, DAVID		A FICTIONALIZED ACCOUNT OF THE ROSENBERGS (HERE RENAMED RUBELL), WHO WERE EXECUTED FOR SELLING ATOMIC SECRETS TO THE RUSSIANS. INTERSPERSED WITHIN THEIR STORY ARE THE HISTORIES OF VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNIST CIRCLE, TRACKED DOWN BY THE AUTHOR SOME 30 YEARS LATER. © 1991
LTE	826	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. © 1991
LTE	827	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 ("THE TEXAS JEWBOYS") AND LOTS OF LIQUOR, ESPRESSO, AND CIGARS. © 1991
LTE	828	JEWS OF GERMANY	A HISTORICAL PORTRAIT	GAY, RUTH		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 ANTI-SEMITISM, IT IS MORE A CELEBRATION THAN A LAMENTATION. © 1992
LTE	829	MAN WHO THOUGHT HE WAS MESSIAH		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. © 1991
LTE	830	KATERINA		APPELFELD, AHARON		AT AGE 79 AND LIVING ALONE ON HER PARENTS' DESERTED FARM, KATERINA, A POLISH HOUSEKEEPER, RELATES HER LIFE STORY: SHE WORKED FOR JEWISH FAMILIES BEFORE THE WAR, ONLY TO SEE THEM BE KILLED. SHE EVEN RAISED HER SON AS A JEW, AND SPENT 40 YEARS IN PRISON FOR KILLING HIS MURDERER. © 1992
LTE	831	GOOD, PROTECTED LIFE		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. © 1992
LTE	832	COVENANT OF THE HEART	POEMS AND MEDITATIONS FROM THE WOMEN OF REFORM JUDAISM	WOMEN OF REFORM JUDAISM		THIS BOOK IS A TOOL AND A RESOURCE FOR SISTERHOOD WOMEN WRITTEN BY SISTERHOOD WOMEN. IT IS MEANT TO GUIDE AND INSPIRE BOTH LEADERS OF AND PARTICIPANTS IN THE PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS OF THE WOMEN OF REFORM JUDAISM. © 1993
LTE	833	WITNESSES TO THE HOLOCAUST	AN ORAL HISTORY	LEWIN, RHODA G., ED.		A COLLECTION OF 60 ACCOUNTS OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AND CONCENTRATION CAMP LIBERATORS NOW LIVING IN MINNESOTA. STORIES INCLUDE THAT OF AN AMERICAN SOLDIER WHO MARCHED INTO DACHAU, A NINE-YEAR-OLD WHO BEGGED AND STOLE TO KEEP HIMSELF AND HIS LITTLE SISTER ALIVE, AND AN AUSCHWITZ INMATE WHO HELPLESSLY WATCHED HIS BUNKMATE DIE. © 1990
LTE	835	SILENCER		LOUVISH, SIMON		WHILE IN NEW YORK, ISRAELI JOURNALIST JOE DEKEL MEETS HIS "SILENCER," AN AMERICAN JEW WHO CANNOT TOLERATE ANY CRITICISM OF ISRAEL, SUCH AS DEKEL HAD EXPRESSED IN A RECENT NOVEL. DEKEL IS SOON DRAWN INTO A WEB OF DECEIT AND VIOLENCE THAT TAKES HIM FROM THE U.S. TO ISRAEL AND BACK AGAIN. © 1993
LTE	836	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 CLEAR HIM BY FINDING THE REAL KILLER. © 1994
LTE	837	BRIGHT STREETS OF SURFSIDE	THE MEMOIR OF A FRIENDSHIP WITH ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER	GORAN, LESTER		THE AUTHOR WORKED WITH THE NOBEL-PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI AND SERVED AS THE TRANSLATOR OF SOME OF SINGER'S STORIES. GORAN DESCRIBES HOW THE TWO BEGAN AS FRIENDS, BUT SINGER'S LACK OF TEACHING ABILITY AND BIZARRE CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR EVENTUALLY ALIENATED GORAN. © 1994
LTE	838	RACHEL THE CLEVER AND OTHER JEWISH FOLKTALES		SHERMAN, JOSEPHA		A COLLECTION OF 46 FOLKTALES FROM POLAND, CENTRAL ASIA, AND MOROCCO. ALTHOUGH INTENDED FOR CHILDREN, THESE JEWISH STORIES ARE POPULAR WITH ADULT AUDIENCES AS WELL. © 1993
LTE	839	TRUTH ABOUT MARVIN KALISH		COHEN, MARTIN SAMUEL		THIS NOVEL COMBINES JEWISH MYSTICISM WITH ELEMENTS OF A MURDERER TO LINK ITS TWO SETTINGS: EUROPE IN THE 1940S, WHEN YOUNG ZELIG KROPF IS GIVEN A RAILROAD TICKET THAT WILL ENABLE HIM TO SURVIVE THE WAR, AND NEW YORK IN THE 1980S, WHEN SOMEONE WANTS TO MURDER COMIC MARVIN KALISH. © 1992
LTE	840	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, JUST AS HE WILL ALWAYS BE ADAM. EVENTUALLY, HE IS ABLE TO SHOW IT TO HIS OWN GRANDSON. © 1994
LTE	841	CELEBRATION: ROSH HASHANAH AND YOM KIPPUR		WOMEN'S LEAGUE FOR CONS'TIVE JUDAISM		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. © 1992
LTE	842	CELEBRATION: PURIM		WOMEN'S LEAGUE FOR CONS'TIVE JUDAISM		THIS MANUAL, IN THE CELEBRATION SERIES, INCLUDES A DISCUSSION OF THE HISTORY OF PURIM AS WELL AS INFORMATION ON CEREMONIAL ART, PRAYERS IN THE SYNAGOGUE, CELEBRATIONS IN THE COMMUNITY, AND PERSONAL OBSERVANCE. ALSO FEATURED IS MUSIC, FAVORITE HOLIDAY RECIPES, A GLOSSARY, AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. © 1992
LTE	843	CELEBRATION: PESACH		WOMEN'S LEAGUE FOR CONS'TIVE JUDAISM		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. © 1992
LTE	844	DEATH IN JERUSALEM		BOLAND, JOHN C.		STOCKBROKER DONALD MCCARRY ARRIVES IN ISRAEL TO INSPECT THE COMPANY HE HAS BEEN ASKED TO INVEST IN. HIS HOST, HARRY BRICKMAN, IS IMMEDIATELY KIDNAPPED, 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. © 1994
LTE	845	HER FACE IN THE MIRROR	JEWISH WOMEN ON MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS	MOSKOWITZ, FAYE, ED.		A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, POEMS, ESSAYS, AND NOVEL EXCERPTS BY A VARIETY OF JEWISH MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS. AMONG THE CONTRIBUTORS ARE GRACE PALEY, TILLIE OLSEN, JUDITH VIORST AND LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN. © 1994
LTE	846	DICTIONARY OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY		COHN-SHERBOK, DAN		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. © 1991
LTE	847	HEART-STIRRING SERMON	AND OTHER STORIES	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. © 1992
LTE	848	IMA, I'M BORED	A SUPER COLLECTN OF ACTIVITIES GAMES & CRAFT PROJECTS FOR...KIDS	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. © 1994
LTE	849	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. © 1968
LTE	850	FAMILY TREE		GLANTZ, MARGO		USING ANCESTRAL RECOLLECTIONS, FLASHBACKS THROUGH HISTORY, AND PERSONAL MEMORY, THE AUTHOR TRACES HER FAMILY ROOTS FROM PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA TO LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY MEXICO. © 1991
LTE	851	FRUITS OF THE EARTH	A HARVEST OF RECIPES FROM THE LAND	FRIESEM, RICKY & NAOMI MOUSHINE		A COLLECTION OF ASSORTED ISRAELI RECIPES. © 1995
LTE	852	HOW THE NIGHT IS DIVIDED		MATLIN, DAVID		SET IN 1950, THIS IS THE STORY OF TOM GREEN, A NATIVE AMERICAN WHO WORKS ON A BREEDING FARM IN CALIFORNIA AND BEFRIENDS THE JEWISH IMMIGRANTS WHO WORK ALONGSIDE HIM. AS GREEN BECOMES ABSORBED IN THE HISTORY AND SPIRIT OF HIS TRIBE, HE BEGINS TO UNDERSTAND AND IDENTIFY WITH THE JEWISH FARMERS WHOSE RELATIVES DIED IN NAZI DEATH CAMPS. © 1993
LTE	853	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. © 1994
LTE	854	MELTING POT	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. © 1984
LTE	857	AFTER TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH	MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE	BERENBAUM, MICHAEL		ESSAYS WHICH EXAMINE THE ROLE OF THE HOLOCAUST IN LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN CULTURE AND ITS EFFECTS ON JEWISH THINKING. THE AUTHOR ALSO DISCUSSES ORTHODOX JUDAISM, ITS RELATIONSHIP TO AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE, AND ITS PLACE IN ISRAEL. © 1990
LTE	859	THAT DAY THE RABBI LEFT TOWN		KEMELMAN, HARRY		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. © 1996
LTE	860	BEAUTIFUL DEATH		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. © 1993
LTE	861	DUTCHMAN'S DILEMMA		MEYERS, MAAN		IN THIS FOURTH VOLUME IN THE LATE-17TH CENTURY TONNEMAN FAMILY SAGA, SHERIFF PIETER TONNEMAN IS ORDERED BY HIS OLD ENEMY, FIRST COUNCILOR 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. © 1995
LTE	862	JEWISH WAR		REICH, TOVA		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. © 1995
LTE	863	SPIELBERG	THE MAN, THE MOVIES, THE MYTHOLOGY	SANELLO, FRANK		SANELLO GIVES BEHIND-THE-SCENES STORIES ABOUT THE MAKING OF EACH OF STEVEN SPIELBERG'S FILMS, AS WELL DETAILS OF THE FILMMAKER'S HIS PERSONAL LIFE, HIS EMERGING SENSE OF JEWISH IDENTITY AND THE MAKING OF THE HOLOCAUST FILM 'SCHINDLER'S LIST,' FOR WHICH HE WON AN OSCAR AS BEST DIRECTOR. © 1996
LTE	864	SUMMING UP	AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY	SHAMIR, YITZHAK		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. © 1994
LTE	865	OFF STAGE		COMDEN, BETTY		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. © 1995
LTE	866	ALTERNATE SIDES	A NINA FISCHMAN MYSTERY	PIESMAN, MARISSA		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. © 1995
LTE	867	CELEBRATION: CHANUKKAH		WOMEN'S LEAGUE FOR CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM		THIS MANUAL, IN THE CELEBRATION SERIES, INCLUDES THE HISTORY OF CHANUKAH, A DISCUSSION OF OBSERVANCE IN SYNAGOGUE AND HOME, GAMES AND ACTIVITIES, MUSIC, FAVORITE RECIPES, A STUDY GUIDE, AND GLOSSARY. IT ALSO OUTLINES BOOKS AND MEDIA AS WELL AS WOMEN'S LEAGUE SCRIPTS AND ART FORMS FOR THIS HOLIDAY. © 1990
LTE	868	HOPSCOTCH TREE		SISKIND, LEDA		WHEN EDITH GOLD DISCOVERS THAT ZANDRA KOTT, THE BULLY WHO HAD BEEN PICKING ON HER BECAUSE SHE IS JEWISH, IS HALF JEWISH HERSELF, SHE COMES UP WITH A PLAN TO PUT AN END TO ZANDRA'S ATTACKS. © 1992
LTE	869	DISGRACEFUL AFFAIR	SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, AND BIANCA LAMBLIN	LAMBLIN, BIANCA		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. © 1996
LTE	870	UNDER THIS BLAZING LIGHT		OZ, AMOS		A COLLECTION OF POLITICAL, PERSONAL AND LITERARY PIECES BY THE ISRAELI NOVELIST. AMONG THE TOPICS HE DISCUSSES ARE THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT, THE CHARACTER OF ZIONISM, AND THE NATURE OF THE KIBBUTZ. ©1995
LTE	871	FICTION	TWENTY CONTEMPORARY JEWISH STORIES	ZAKON, MIRIAM; & LIBBY LAZEWNIK, EDS		TWENTY OUTSTANDING SHORT STORIES WRITTEN BY MANY OF THE BEST-KNOWN WRITERS IN THE WORLD OF JEWISH LITERATURE. © 1993
LTE	872	REQUIEM FOR MOSES		KIENZLE, WILLIAM X.		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.
LTE	874	SHADOW IN A WEARY LAND		JONES, HARRY		TWO AMERICAN SECURITY OFFICERS ARE ASSIGNED TO PROTECT A MODERATE PALESTINIAN SPOKESMAN AS HE TRAVELS TO ISRAEL. KIDNAPPING, HOSTAGE TAKING, ATROCITIES IN THE INTIFADA, AND A PALESTINIAN TERRORIST CONSPIRACY TO MASSACRE AMERICAN OFFICIALS IN ISRAEL ADD TWISTS TO THE PLOT.
LTE	875	ALEX IN THE PROMISED LAND		SAYEGH, ALIA		A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG AMERICAN WIDOW RETURNS TO ISRAEL TO LOCATE THE LOVER OF HER YOUTH AND THE FATHER OF HER CHILD. THIS GRIPPING ROMANCE EXPLORES KIBBUTZ LIFE AND JEWISH IDENTITY AS THE LOVERS BRIDGE TWO CONTINENTS AND THE STRUGGLES OF A HOSTILE SON TO FIND THEIR WAY.
LTE	876	MOTHER COUNTRY		TAYLOR, ELISABETH RUSSELL		THE STORY OF A GIRL, ANTONIA, WHO MOVES TO ISRAEL AND FINDS A LINK TO HER JEWISH HERITAGE THROUGH HER MOTHER'S DEATH AND THE PAINFUL MEMORIES HER MOTHER BRINGS TO MIND.
LTE	877	IN MY FATHER'S GARDEN	A DAUGHTER'S SEARCH FOR A SPIRITUAL LIFE	CHERNIN, KIM		FOR MOST OF HER LIFE, CHERNIN HAS CONSIDERED HERSELF HER 'MOTHER'S DAUGHTER-STORMY REVOLUTIONARY.' BUT, AS SHE GROWS OLDER SHE FINDS THAT SHE IS 'PERHAPS MY FATHER'S GENTLE, DREAMY CHILD EVEN MORE.' SHE HAS ALSO FOUND HERSELF REJECTING HER PARENTS' MARXISM IN FAVOR OF BELIEF IN 'AN UNSEEN ORDER.'
LTE	879	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, AND AN ASSIMILATED JEW.
LTE	880	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.
LTE	882	LIFE AND MANY DEATHS OF HARRY HOUDINI		BRANDON, RUTH		BRANDON EXPLAINS IN DETAIL THE SECRETS OF HOUDINI'S MOST CELEBRATED ESCAPES, HIS OBSESSION WITH DEATH AND HIS CAMPAIGN TO ESPOUSE FAKE MEDIUMS. SHE ALSO INCLUDES THE FIRST FULL DESCRIPTION OF HOUDINI'S DEATH.
LTE	883	DIANNE FEINSTEIN	NEVER LET THEM SEE YOU CRY	ROBERTS, JERRY		ROBERTS, POLITICAL EDITOR FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, HAS COVERED DIANNE FEINSTEIN FOR 20 YEARS. HIS PENETRATING BIOGRAPHY GIVES US AN ACCOUNT OF THE THRICE-MARRIED JEWISH WOMAN WHO CAME CLOSE TO BEING PICKED AS WALTER MONDALE'S RUNNING MATE IN THE 1984 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
LTE	884	BRIDGE BUILDER'S STORY		FAST, HOWARD		THE STORY OF SCOTT WARING, A NEWLY MARRIED MAN ARRESTED BY THE GESTAPO ONLY 11 DAYS AFTER GETTING MARRIED. HIS WIFE IS KILLED AND SCOTT COMES TO AMERICA AND FINDS LOVE AFTER BELIEVING HE COULD NEVER FIND LOVE AGAIN.
LTE	885	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.
LTE	886	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.
LTE	887	CERTIFICATE		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. (DUPLICATE OF LTE-817?)
LTE	888	IN THE TRADITION OF MOSES AND MOHAMMED	JEWISH AND ARAB FOLKTALES	SERWER-BERNSTEIN, BLANCHE L.		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.
LTE	889	WHY THE BAAL SHEM TOV LAUGHED	FIFTY-TWO STORIES ABOUT OUR GREAT CHASSIDIC RABBIS	CITRON, STERNA		AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHASIDIC TALES THAT BRINGS TO LIFE THE REBBES WHO PASSED ON THEIR LEGACIES AND MEMORIES TO THE MODERN GENERATION OF JEWS.
LTE	890	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.
LTE	891	FUNDAMENTALS OF MURDER		LOVE, WILLIAM F.		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 THAT UNLIKELY DUO, PARAPLEGIC BISHOP REGAN AND HIS JEWISH EX-COP ASSISTANT, DANNY GOLDMAN.
LTE	892	CINNAMON AND MYRRH		GANZ, YAFFA		THE AUTHOR WAS INSPIRED TO RECORD HER PERSONAL STRATEGIES FOR DEALING WITH LIFE AFTER SEEING THE SHELVES OF BOOKSTORES FILLED WITH TITLES ABOUT HOW TO ACHIEVE PERSONAL HAPPINESS, SELF-HELP AND RESOLVE LIFE CRISES. GANZ SHOWS HOW JEWISH WISDOM PLAYS A PART IN HER PERSONAL OUTLOOK AND CONFLICT RESOLUTIONS.
LTE	893	JACK AND ROCHELLE	A STORY OF LOVE AND RESISTANCE	SUTIN, LARRY, ED.		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.
LTE	894	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 A MOVE TO ANOTHER CITY. A LARGE PART OF HIS FAMILY WAS KILLED IN AUSCHWITZ DURING WORLD WAR II.
LTE	895	ON STAGE, OFF STAGE	MEMORIES OF A LIFETIME IN THE YIDDISH THEATRE	KADISON, LUBA; BULOFF, JOSEPH		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 ACCOUNT INCLUDES THEATER MEMORABILIA THAT HAS BEEN DONATED TO THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
LTE	896	NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH		PARRISH, RICHARD		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.
LTE	897	GATES OF NOVEMBER	CHRONICLES OF THE SLEPAK FAMILY	POTOK, CHAIM		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.
LTE	898	WHILE THE MESSIAH TARRIES		BUKIET, MELVIN JULES		IN THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, BUKIET EXPLORES THE FOIBLES AND PREDICAMENTS OF JEWS IN AMERICA.
LTE	899	HOUSE OF GUILT		ROSENBERG, ROBERT		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 GRANDSON OF ISRAELI BANKER RAPHAEL LEVI-TSUR, OR WAS IT ACTUALLY JEWISH EXTREMISTS, AS COHEN IS MORE INCLINED TO BELIEVE?
LTE	900	MAZEL		GOLDSTEIN, REBECCA		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 AND IN WARSAW BEFORE THE WAR AND THE COMPLEXITIES OF NEW YORK JEWISH COMMUNITY LIFE.
LTE	901	ACTUAL	A NOVELLA	BELLOW, SAUL		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.
LTE	902	BOOK THAT WAS LOST	AND OTHER STORIES	AGNON, S.Y.		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. EDITED BY A. MINTZ AND A. G. HOFFMAN.
LTE	903	REFORMER'S APPRENTICE	A NOVEL OF OLD SAN FRANCISCO	ROCHLIN, HARRIET		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.
LTE	904	ARROGANT BEGGAR		YEZIERSKA, ANZIA		FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1927, THIS IS A NOVEL OF SOCIAL COMMENTARY ABOUT JEWISH CLASS AND ETHNIC TENSIONS. THE BOOK BRINGS TO LIFE THE TEEMING ACTIVITY OF NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE.
LTE	906	EMOTIONAL ARITHMETIC		COHEN, MATT		MELANIE WINTERS, AN AMERICAN CHILD CAUGHT IN WARTIME FRANCE, WAS INCARCERATED IN THE DRANCY INTERNMENT CAMP. BACK IN AMERICA AFTER THE WAR, SHE FINDS THAT COLLEGE, MARRIAGE, AND CHILDREN FAIL TO QUELL HER DEMONS. A REUNION BETWEEN MELANIE AND TWO FELLOW INMATES SERVES TO BRING TOGETHER THREADS OF HER SCARRED PAST. © 1990
LTE	907	JOURNEY TO MY FATHER, ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER		ZAMIR, ISRAEL		SINGER IMMIGRATED FROM POLAND IN 1935, LEAVING BEHIND A WIFE AND FIVE-YEAR-OLD SON. ZAMIR DESCRIBES HOW HE AND HIS MOTHER MOVED TO THE SOVIET UNION, WERE EXILED TO TURKEY AND EVENTUALLY SETTLED ON A KIBBUTZ IN ISRAEL. TWENTY YEARS LATER, A REUNION OF SORTS OCCURRED IN NEW YORK BETWEEN ZAMIR AND HIS FATHER.
LTE	908	ALWAYS STRAIGHT AHEAD	A MEMOIR	NEUMAN, ALMA		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. © 1993
LTE	909	PASSOVER MURDER		HARRIS, LEE		THE ONLY MYSTERY ABOUT IRIS GRODNIK WAS WHY SHE HAD NEVER BEEN MARRIED. BUT FOR SIXTEEN YEARS, HER DISAPPEARANCE AND MURDER DURING A PASSOVER SEDER HAVE REMAINED A TROUBLING PIECE OF FAMILY HISTORY. WHEN EX-NUN AND NOW COP'S WIFE CHRIS BENNETT IS ASKED TO INVESTIGATE, SHE DISCOVERS THAT PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE BEEN LESS THAN TRUTHFUL.
LTE	912	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 INDOMITABLE SPIRIT CAN HEAL THE RIFT - UNTIL A TRAGEDY OCCURS.
LTE	914	PANTHER IN THE BASEMENT		OZ, AMOS		HIS NAME IS PROFFY (SHORT FOR PROFESSOR) AND HE IS 12 YEARS OLD. TOGETHER WITH HIS FRIENDS HE SPENDS THE SUMMER OF 1947 AS A MEMBER OF A MAKE-BELIEVE UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT FIGHTING IN PALESTINE. BUT WHEN HIS COMRADES ACCUSE HIM OF TREASON, PROFFY MUST VINDICATE HIMSELF IN THE EYES OF HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
LTE	915	TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE	AN OLD MAN, A YOUNG MAN, AND LIFE'S GREATEST LESSONS	ALBOM, MITCH		MORRIE SCHWARTZ, HIS COLLEGE PROFESSOR, WAS MITCH ALBOM'S MENTOR DURING HIS YOUNG AND SEARCHING YEARS. OVER TIME MITCH LOST CONTACT WITH MORRIE AS HE MADE HIS WAY IN THE WORLD. BUT HE REDISCOVERED MORRIE IN THE LAST MONTHS OF THE OLDER MAN'S LIFE AND THEIR TUESDAY VISITS TURNED INTO A FINAL 'CLASS' LESSON IN HOW TO LIVE.
LTE	916	TOPOL'S TREASURY OF JEWISH HUMOR, WIT AND WISDOM		TOPOL, CHAIM		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.
LTE	917	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.
LTE	919	LOVE INVENTS US		BLOOM, AMY		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.
LTE	921	FATHERLAND FILES		CLIFFORD, ALAN K.		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.
LTE	922	MIRACULOUS MILK COW	MORE TALES MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER MIGHT TELL...	KANTOR, HERMAN I.; LARSON, ERIC		ABOUT LIFE IN A GHETTO OF RUSSIA IN THE TIME OF THE CZARS: STORIES ABOUT THE LIVES OF THE INHABITANTS OF A RUSSIAN GHETTO IN THE EARLY 1900S. THE PROTAGONISTS 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.
LTE	926	FOUNDER	A PORTRAIT OF THE FIRST ROTHSCHILD AND HIS TIME	ELON, AMOS		BIOGRAPHY OF MAYER AMSCHEL ROTHSCHILD (1744-1812), FATHER OF THE FIVE ILLUSTRIOUS SONS WHO MADE THE ROTHSCHILD FAMILY NAME SYNONYMOUS WITH BANKING, WEALTH, AND JEWISH PHILANTHROPY.
LTE	930	TALES OUT OF SHUL	THE UNORTHODOX JOURNAL OF AN ORTHODOX RABBI	FELDMAN, RABBI EMANUEL		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.
LTE	931	SECRET SOLDIER	THE TRUE LIFE STORY OF ISRAEL'S GREATEST COMMANDO	BETSER, COL. MOSHE		THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE IS KNOWN FOR ITS SURGICALLY PRECISE ANTITERRORIST MISSIONS, CONDUCTED WITH A MINIMAL LOSS OF HUMAN LIFE. BETSER, FORMERLY A COMMANDO WITH THE ELITE SAYERET MATKAL UNIT PRESENTS HIS LIFE STORY, AND, IN THE PROCESS, PULLS BACK THE VEIL THAT HAS LONG CONCEALED THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE UNIT.
LTE	934	RIVER MIDNIGHT		NATTEL, LILIAN		MYTH MEETS HISTORY IN BLASZKA, A FICTIONAL VILLAGE NORTHWEST OF WARSAW, WHERE ANGELS AND DEMONS WALK IN THE SHADOWS, ENTICING THE PEOPLE OF BLASZKA TO FACE THEIR DEEPEST WISHES AND FEARS. THIS IS AN ENGROSSING STORY OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE TOWN MIDWIFE BECOMES PREGNANT. MISHA, THE KEEPER OF VILLAGE SECRETS, WILL REVEAL TO NO ONE THE IDENTITY OF THE FATHER OF HER UNBORN CHILD. DO THE PEOPLE OF BLASZKA ABANDON MISHA, OR DO THEY COME TOGETHER AND KEEP GOD WAITING FOR THEIR PRAYERS?
LTE	935	IRON TRACKS		APPELFELD, AHARON		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.
LTE	936	PUTTERMESSER PAPERS		OZICK, CYNTHIA		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.
LTE	938	REBELLION		ROTH, JOSEPH		ANDREAS PUM RETURNS FROM WORLD WAR I MINUS A LEG, BUT WITH A MEDAL. A JOB AND MARRIAGE OFFER HIM A CHANCE FOR A WINTER OF BLISS. DISASTER STRIKES WHEN HE IS JAILED AFTER AN ALTERCATION WITH A STRANGER AND IN A MAGICAL TOUCH AGES TERRIBLY IN A MATTER OF WEEKS. UPON HIS RELEASE ANDREAS, OLDER, FEEBLE MINDED, AND OBSESSED WITH THE INJUSTICE HE'S SUFFERED, GOES TO WORK FOR A FORMER ROOMMATE AND FINALLY DIES AN EMBITTERED OLD MAN.
LTE	939	REDEMPTION		FAST, HOWARD		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.
LTE	940	FAITH OR FEAR	HOW JEWS CAN SURVIVE IN A CHRISTIAN AMERICA	ABRAMS, ELLIOTT		NOW THE DIRECTOR OF A WASHINGTON, D.C. THINK TANK, ABRAMS IS CONCERNED WITH THE LOSS OF JEWISH IDENTITY IN AN ATTRACTIVE, AMORPHOUS AMERICAN CULTURE. ABRAMS ALSO ARGUES FOR THE BENEFITS OF A SCHOOL VOUCHER PLAN AND HEEDING THE INFLUENCE OF EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN GROUPS.
LTE	941	CHRIST OF FISH		HOFFMAN, YOEL		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 BY EDDI LEVENSTON
LTE	943	LEAVING A DOLL'S HOUSE	A MEMOIR	BLOOM, CLAIRE		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.
LTE	946	IN THE DAYS OF THE SECOND TEMPLE		GOLUB, DR. JACOB S.		THE STORY OF ISRAEL'S FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH NATIONHOOD AFTER THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT AND THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN. COPYRIGHT 1955
LTE	947	BLESSING AND THE CURSE		BAYER, LINDA		IN A NOVEL THAT EXPLORES THE DIFFICULTIES OF PARENTING WITHOUT MARRIAGE, A SINGLE MOTHER, WHO WORKS AS A PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, FINDS FULFILLMENT IN ISRAEL.
LTE	949	ELEVENTH PLAGUE		BALDWIN, JOHN; MARR, JOHN S.		WHAT IF THE TEN PLAGUES PREDICTED BY MOSES IN THE BOOK OF EXODUS WERE COMING TRUE IN AMERICA TODAY? WHAT IF THEY WERE NOT ACTS OF GOD BUT THE BRILLIANTLY FIENDISH CREATIONS OF AN EVIL GENIUS? IN THIS NOVEL OF MEDICAL TERROR, DEATH STALKS THE LAND, AND THE ONLY HOPE OF PREVENTING A CATACLYSM BEYOND BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS LIES WITH ONE MAVERICK VIROLOGIST WHO IS HIMSELF IN DANGER OF BECOMING EITHER A SUSPECT OR A VICTIM.
LTE	950	BOOK OF CANDY		DWORKIN, SUSAN		DWORKIN LETS LOOSE A COLORFUL CAST OF CHARACTERS INCLUDING THE PROTAGONIST CANDY SHAPIRO, WHO DISCOVERS THAT HER HUSBAND HAS BEEN CONSTANTLY UNFAITHFUL, AND ABE HEIMLICH, AN EX-RABBI TURNED COMEDIAN. THE EXPLOSION OF A TERRORIST BOMB IN JERUSALEM BRINGS THE ACTION TO A HEAD.
LTE	952	ASSISTANT		LAW, J. PATRICK		WHEN BEN POLTAREK, A YOUNG WASHINGTON LAWYER AND BRILLIANT AMATEUR MAGICIAN OPENS HIS DOOR TO TARNOFSKY, A DYING SECRET AGENT WHISPERING INCOMPREHENSIBLE SECRETS, HIS LIFE IS CHANGED FOREVER. BEN IS UNEXPECTEDLY PROPELLED INTO THE SECRET UNDERGROUND OF THE "ASSISTANTS," AMERICAN JEWS WHO PLACED THEIR SKILLS-AND THEIR LIVES-IN THE SERVICE OF ISRAEL. THE TERRITORY IS UNFAMILIAR AND THE STAKES, LIFE OR DEATH. PURSUED BY ARAB TERRORISTS WHO MUST SILENCE HIM, MANIPULATED BY AGENTS OF THE MOSSAD, AND TARGETED BY HIS OWN GOVERNMENT, ONLY BEN AND HIS MAGIC CAN SAVE THE MIDDLE EAST FROM SPIRALING INTO FLAMES AND BRINGING THE UNITED STATES DOWN WITH IT.
LTE	956	FLASHPOINT		BARNES, LINDA		CARLOTTA CARLYLE THINKS SHE'S SIMPLY DOING A FRIEND A FAVOR WHEN SHE AGREES TO BURGLARPROOF AN ELDERLY RECLUSE'S APARTMENT. BUT 24 HOURS LATER, WHEN THE WOMAN TURNS UP DEAD IN HER RANSACKED HOME, CARLOTTA FINDS HERSELF WITH ENTERTAINMENT MOGULS AND REAL ESTATE MAGNATES BREATHING DOWN HER NECK, AS WELL AS A LOT OF QUESTIONS: WHY IS A SUDDENLY VACANT APARTMENT WORTH SO MUCH TO A GREEDY DEVELOPER? WHAT "ARTICLE OF VALUE" WAS THE WOMAN SO EAGER TO PROTECT? WHY IS THERE SUCH AN INTEREST IN HER WILL? IS THERE A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE LADY'S DEATH AND A LONG-FORGOTTEN ROBBERY? CARLOTTA NEEDS TO FIND THE ANSWERS IN A HURRY, BEFORE AN INNOCENT WOMAN IS CONVICTED, BEFORE THE ARSONIST WHO SET FIRE TO HER HOUSE STRIKES AGAIN. © 1999
LTE	957	FUNERAL AT NOON		KOREN, YESHAYAHU		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. © 1996
LTE	958	BIG LEAGUE DREAMS		HOFFMAN, ALLEN		IN THIS SECOND NOVEL IN THE SMALL WORLDS SERIES, HOFFMAN CHRONICLES THE LOVES AND UNBOUNDED DREAMS OF THE VILLAGERS FROM KRIMSK, NOW THRIVING IN AMERICA. © 1997
LTE	959	CITY OF STONE	THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF JERUSALEM	BENVENISTI, MERON		BENVENISTI, A FORMER DEPUTY MAYOR OF JERUSALEM DESCRIBES THE IMPORTANCE OF JERUSALEM TO JEWS, MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS AND THE ANCIENT ACRIMONY THAT HAS ARISEN FROM THEIR COMPETING INTERESTS. © 1996
LTE	960	ADVENTURES OF MONA PINSKY		ZISKIN, HARRIET		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. © 1995
LTE	961	JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM		YEHOSHUA, A. B.		WHEN BEN ATTAR, THE JEWISH MERCHANT, TAKES A SECOND WIFE, HE COMMITS AN ACT WHOSE UNFORSEEN CONSEQUENCES WILL FOREVER CHANGE THE COURSE OF HIS LIFE. YEHOSHUA SEEKS TO EXPLORE THE PLACE WHERE DESIRE AND MORALITY MEET. BY SETTING HIS STORY IN THE MIDDLE AGES, IN THE YEAR 999, YEHOSHUA HAS FOUND THE PERFECT BACKDROP AGAINST WHICH TO EXPLORE THE MOST BASIC QUESTIONS OF HUMAN CONDUCT. © 1998
LTE	962	STREETS	A MEMOIR OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE	SPEWAK, BELLA		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. © 1995
LTE	963	HERSCHEL	THE BOY WHO STARTED WORLD WAR II	MARINO, ANDY		KRISTALLNACHT WAS SET IN MOTION BECAUSE OF THE MURDER OF BARON ERNST VON RATH, A HIGH RANKING NAZI BY 17-YEAR-OLD HERSCHEL GRYNSZPAN, A YOUNG GERMAN JEW HIDING IN PARIS. THIS IS THE LITTLE KNOWN AND ASTONISHING STORY OF GRYNSZPAN. © 1995
LTE	964	TOTAL RECALL	A V.I. WARSHAWSKI NOVEL	PARETSKY, SARA		DECADES-OLD ISSUES RESURFACE AS THE CHICAGO PRIVATE EYE INVESTIGATES HOLOCAUST REPARATIONS, ASSET RECOVERY, AND QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY WHEN HER DEAR FRIEND LOTTY, A SURVIVOR, IS CONFRONTED BY SOMEONE FROM HER PAST. © 2001
LTE	965	HANDSOME IS	ADVENTURES WITH SAUL BELLOW	WASSERMAN, HARRIET		WASSERMAN WAS NOVELIST SAUL BELLOW'S AGENT FOR 25 YEARS. AS WELL AS HANDLING HIS LITERARY OUTPUT AND HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCES, SHE SUPPORTED FAITHFULLY THROUGH ONE NOBEL PRIZE, FOUR MARRIAGES AND INNUMERABLE AIRPORTS. THOSE YEARS FORM THE BACKBONE OF THIS MEMOIR WHICH IS ALWAYS INTERESTING AND OFTEN INSIGHTFUL. © 1997
LTE	966	BURNING ROAD		BENSON, ANN		IN FOURTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE, A NATION STILL REELING FROM ITS LOSS TO THE ENGLISH AND THE PLAGUE, A PHYSICIAN, ALEJANDRO CANCHES, AND HIS FOSTER CHILD CHILD, KATE, STRUGGLE TO MAKE THEIR WAY TO SAFETY. NEARLY SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS LATER, IN THE YEAR 2007, SURGEON AND SCIENTIST JANIE CROWE IS DRAWN INTO THE INTRIGUE OF AN UNEXPLAINED GENETIC DISEASE.SHE USES THE WISDOM OF AN ANCIENT TEXT FOR GUIDANCE AGAINST THIS TERRIBLE SCOURGE, RISKING HER FUTURE AND HER LIFE. ©1999
LTE	967	MARRYING MOM		GOLDSMITH, OLIVIA		WANTED! A GENTLEMAN OF MEANS, NEITHER YOUNG NOR DECREPIT, LOOKS IRRELEVANT. GENEROUS TO A FAULT, WITTY, MATURE, DECISIVE WIDOW HAS RECENTLY RELOCATED TO NEW YORK TO BE VERY CLOSE TO HER GROWN CHILDREN. THEIR LIFELONG GRATITUDE AND RELIEF (PLUS THEIR LOVELY MOTHER) WILL BE YOUR REWARD. NO OFFER OF ANY KIND WILL BE REFUSED.
LTE	969	NOW AND THEN	FROM CONEY ISLAND TO NOW	HELLER, JOSEPH		MORE THAN THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER THE EXPLOSION OF CATCH-22 INTO THE WORLD'S CONSCIOUSNESS, JOSEPH HELLER GIVES US HIS LIFE. THE STRENGTHS OF NOW AND THEN LIE IN THE ENERGY, HUMOR, AND MISCHIEF THAT HAVE CHARACTERIZED ALL OF HELLER'S WORK, ALONG WITH THE DARK UNDERTONES THAT LIE BENEATH THEM. © 1998
LTE	970	JOURNEY		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. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY JOANNA WECHSLER AND FRANCINE PROSE. © 1992
LTE	971	BIG NAP		WALDMAN, AYELET		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 HASIDIC TEENAGER. BUT FRAYDLE, THE BABYSITTER, HAS GONE MISSING! WHAT IS FRAYDLE FLEEING FROM AND WHY WON'T HER PARENTS GET THE POLICE INVOLVED? © 2001
LTE	972	MAKING OF A JEW		BRONFMAN, EDGAR M.		BRONFMAN, THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS SINCE 1981 AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SEAGRAM CORPORATION, REFLECTS ON HIS REJECTION OF JUDAISM AS A YOUNG MAN AND HIS COMPLETE TURNAROUND IN RECENT YEARS. © 1996
LTE	973	PIGSKIN RABBI		MANUS, WILLARD		IN THIS MADCAP COMIC NOVEL, A YOUNG ORTHODOX RABBI BECOMES A PRO FOOTBALL SUPERSTAR. EZEKIEL "ZIGGY" CANTOR BECOMES (BY A STRANGE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS) THE QUARTERBACK OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, DRILLING PASSES WITH GODLIKE ACCURACY, KICKING MIRACULOUS FIELD GOALS, PLAYING OUT OF PURE LOVE OF THE GAME, AND CATAPULTING THE TEAM TOWARD INVINCIBILITY. © 1999
LTE	974	WHAT REMAINS		DELBANCO, NICHOLAS		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. © 2000
LTE	975	SELBY PRINTOUT	A TORAH TECHNO-THRILLER	BENJAMIN, RUTH		A FEW NUMBERS KEYED INTO A COMPUTER BY TREMBLING HANDS-AND A MAN'S CAREER, HIS REPUTATION, AND HIS VERY LIFE ARE IN DANGER, IN A HIGH-STAKES GAME OF COMPUTER FRAUD. THE PRIME SUSPECT? MICHAEL BERMAN, A BA'AL TESHUVAH STILL GRAPPLING WITH HIS OWN QUESTIONS OF WHERE HE BELONGS IN THE JEWISH WORLD. TO FIND THE ANSWERS, MICHAEL AND HIS AGING GRANDFATHER, AN UNLIKELY ALLY IN THIS HIGH-TECH CHASE, PURSUE A DANGEROUS COURSE THAT WILL LEAD THEM AWAY FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH TO SOUTH AFRICA'S HIGHEST MOUNTAINS-AND ONTO A JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY THAT WILL HELP THEM REVEAL THEIR OWN SELVES, EVEN AS THEY UNCOVER THE HIDDEN ENEMY. TRANSLATED BY JOANNA WECHSLER & FRANCINE PROSE. © 1998
LTE	976	SWORD OF GOLIATH		COHEN, MARTIN S.		© 1998
LTE	977	DON'T CRY FOR ME, HOT PASTRAMI	A RUBY THE RABBI'S WIFE MYSTERY	KAHN, SHARON		ESSI SUE ARRANGES A FUNDRAISER THAT TAKES THE CONGREGANTS OF TEMPLE RITA FROM ETERNAL, TEXAS ON A CARIBBEAN CRUISE SHIP COMMANDED BY A JEWISH SEA CAPTAIN. THE TRIP ENDS UP BEING THE CRUISE FROM HELL. © 2001
LTE	978	I HAVE LIVED A THOUSAND YEARS	GROWING UP IN THE HOLOCAUST	BITTON-JACKSON, LIVIA		BITTON-JACKSON WAS 13 WHEN THE NAZIS FORCED HER AND HER FAMILY INTO A JEWISH GHETTO AND THEN SENT THEM TO AUSCHWITZ WHERE THEY WERE LIBERATED AFTER A YEAR. THE AUTHOR BRINGS AN ARTIST'S RECALL TO CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES WHICH ARE ALL THE MORE BRUTAL, FRANK AND TERRIFYING BECAUSE HER OBSERVATIONS ARE PERSONAL AND IMMEDIATE. © 1998
LTE	979	BIG LITTLE BOOK OF JEWISH WIT& WISDOM		BERK, SALLY ANN, ED.		A BLEND OF CLASSIC MORAL PROVERBS, WITTY JOKES, AND CURSES, THE BIG LITTLE BOOK OF JEWISH WIT AND WISDOM OFFERS THE SPIRIT OF ANCIENT TRADITIONS AND MODERN DAY HUMOR TO HELP YOU REFLECT ON LIFE'S EVERYDAY ENCOUNTERS AND CONFLICTS. © 2000
LTE	980	CONSENT		SCHRANK, BEN		THIS EDGY STORY IS ABOUT A DOCTORAL STUDENT OBSESSED WITH THE TROUBLED WOMAN HE MEETS THROUGH HIS DOCTORAL ADVISER, WHOSE SWAY OVER OUR UNFORTUNATE HERO IS POSITIVELY SPOOKY. © 2002
LTE	982	ONE FACING US		MATALON, RONIT		ESTHER, SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD, WILD AND REBELLIOUS, IS SENT FROM ISRAEL TO CAMEROON TO STAY WITH HER HARDHEADED UNCLE WHO IS CHARGED WITH STRAIGHTENING HER OUT. BUT ESTHER RESISTS HER UNCLE'S PLANS FOR HER FUTURE-WHICH INCLUDE MARRIAGE TO A COUSIN-AND IN THE PRIVILEGED INDOLENCE OF POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA LOOKS TO THE PAST INSTEAD. © 1995
LTE	983	TESSIE AND PEARLIE	A GRANDDAUGHTER'S STORY	HOROWITZ, JOY		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. © 1996
LTE	986	GORDIAN KNOT		WEINSTOCK, YAIR		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. TRANSLATED FROM HEBREW BY SHEINDEL WEINBACH. © 1997
LTE	989	GROUND RULES	WHAT I LEARNED MY DAUGHTER'S FIFTEENTH YEAR	JAFFE, SHERRIL		REBBETZIN JAFFE GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF ONE YEAR AS A MOTHER OF TEENAGERS. HER FOCUS IS ON REBEKAH, 14, WHO CONFOUNDS HER PARENTS BY LYING, RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, AND CONVINCING HER YOUNGER SISTER TO STEAL. THE JAFFES COPE BY TALKING TO OTHER PARENTS AND CONSULTING EXPERTS. EVENTUALLY THEY WORK OUT A WAY TO DEAL WITH THEIR DAUGHTER. © 1997
LTE	990	FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES		ENGLANDER, NATHAN		THE STORIES IN THIS VOLUME BY THE TWENTY-EIGHT YEAR OLD AUTHOR WHOSE WORKS HAVE APPEARED IN STORY MAGAZINE AND THE NEW YORKER ARE INVENTIVE AND OFTEN HAUNTING, STEEPED IN THE WEIGHT OF JEWISH HISTORY AND IN THE CUSTOMS OF ORTHODOX JEWISH LIFE. © 1999
LTE	991	HOUSE OF SPORTS		RUSSO, MARISABINA		JIM IS FACED WITH A DILEMMA WHEN VISITS TO HIS GRANDMOTHER CONFLICT WITH BASKETBALL TEAM PRACTICE. MISSING PRACTICE MAY MEAN GETTING KICKED OFF THE TEAM, AND IF NOT THAT, PERHAPS LOSING THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME A STARTER. ON THE OTHER HAND, PERHAPS HE CAN LEARN A LOT FROM HIS GRANDMOTHER, WHO SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST. © 2002
LTE	992	COUSINS		JAFFE, RONA		THE STORY OF A WEALTHY DEPARTMENT-STORE CLAN ONCE HELD TOGETHER BY THEIR SUMMER MANSE BUT NOW SCATTERED ACROSS THE COUNTRY.© 1995
LTE	993	AFTERLIFE DIET		PINKWATER, DANIEL		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. © 1995
LTE	994	INN AT LAKE DEVINE		LIPMAN, ELINOR		IT'S THE EARLY 1960S AND NATALIE MARX IS STUNNED WHEN HER MOTHER INQUIRES ABOUT VACATION ACCOMMODATIONS IN VERMONT AND RECEIVES A RESPONSE THAT IN EFFECT SAYS THAT JEWS ARE NOT WELCOME. SO BEGINS NATALIE'S FIXATION WITH THE INN AND THE FAMILY THAT OWNS IT. AND WHEN NATALIE FINAGLES AN INVITATION TO JOIN A FRIEND ON VACATION THERE, SHE SETS HERSELF UPON A PATH THAT WILL INEXTRICABLY LINK HER ADULT LIFE TO THIS PECULIAR FAMILY AND ITS ONCE-RESTRICTED HOTEL. © 1998
LTE	995	REFUGEE		SUSSMAN, DAVID		JOSEPH TAPPERSTEIN HAD IT ALL: LOVING WIFE, CLOSE FRIENDS, TALENTED CHILDREN, AND A THRIVING JUDAICA BUSINESS. THE ONLY THING MISSING WAS HIS PAST, FOR WHEN YOUNG YOSEF BURGENTHAL WAS ADOPTED BY THE KINDLY TAPPERSTEIN FAMILY AFTER WORLD WAR II, ONLY FRAGMENTS OF MEMORIES OF HIS FAMILY AND FORMER LIFE REMAINED. BUT NOW, MORE THAN FOUR DECADES LATER, JOSEPH MUST RECLAIM THOSE LOST YEARS. FOR THE NAZI EVIL HE'D FLED FORTY YEARS BEFORE HAS FOLLOWED HIM TO THE QUIET STREETS OF A SUBURBAN TOWN. HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS ARE BEING MURDERED, THEIR IDENTITIES AND THEIR LIVES STOLEN FROM THEM. AND THE ONLY WAY TO END THE HORROR IS FOR JOSEPH TAPPERSTEIN TO CONFRONT HIS OWN WORST FEARS. © 1998
LTE	996	ZIGZAG KID		GROSSMAN, DAVID		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 DECEASED MOTHER THAN THE BOY HIMSELF KNOWS. TRANSLATED FROM HEBREW BY BETSY ROSENBERG. © 1997
LTE	997	AISHEL	STORIES OF CONTEMPORARY JEWISH HOSPITALITY	WIKLER, MEIR, DSW		THE JEWISH CONCEPT OF HACHNASAS ORCHIM - HOSPITALITY - DATE BACK TO THE BIBLICAL PATRIARCH ABRAHAM, WHO "PLANTED AN AISHEL" TO WELCOME GUESTS. BUT WHEN YOUNG MEIR WIKLER EXPERIENCED IT FIRST HAND, HIS HOSTS IMPRESSED UPON HIM THE IMPORTANCE OF FULFILLING THIS MITZVAH IN MODERN TIMES. HOPING TO INSPIRE OTHERS, DR. WIKLER HAS COLLECTED 14 TRUE STORIES THAT DEMONSTRATE HOW THIS CAN BE DONE. © 1994, 2002
LTE	998	DEADWOOD BEETLE		DRESSLER, MYLENE		TRISTAN MARTENS, A RETIRED ENTOMOLOGIST, DISCOVERS HIS MOTHER'S SEWING TABLE IN A NEW YORK ANTIQUE SHOP ON WHICH, AS A CHILD, HE HAD WRITTEN "WHEN THE JEWS ARE GONE, WE WILL BE THE NEXT ONES." HE NOW MUST FACE HIS PAST AS HE BEGINS A ROMANCE WITH THE ANTIQUE STORE OWNER WHO IS JEWISH, IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT HIS FATHER WAS A NAZI COLLABORATOR. MEANWHILE, A GRADUATE STUDENT OF HIS CONTINUES TO CONDUCT RESEARCH ON NEW BEETLE BEHAVIORS THAT RELATE METAPHORICALLY TO THE STORY ITSELF. © 2001
LTE	999	NIGHT	A NEW TRANSLATION BY MARION WIESEL	WIESEL, ELIE		AN UPDATED TRANSLATION OF WIESEL'S CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF HIS DARK YEARS AS A TEENAGER DURING THE HOLOCAUST. WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR. © 1972, 1985 BY ELIE WIESEL, TRANSLATION © 2006 BY MARION WIESEL
LTE	1001	TOO YOUNG FOR YIDDISH		MICHELSON, RICHARD		ZAYDE (GRANDFATHER) COMES TO LIVE WITH FICTIONAL AARON'S FAMILY AND BRINGS ALONG HIS BELOVED BOOKS. WHEN THE BOY ASKS HIS GRANDFATHER TO TEACH HIM YIDDISH, THE MAN INEXPLICABLY TELLS THE CHILD THAT HE IS "TOO YOUNG FOR YIDDISH" AND THAT IN AMERICA "JEWS SHOULD SPEAK ENGLISH JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE."
LTE	1002	AUNT CLAIRE'S YELLOW BEEHIVE HAIR		BLUMENTHAL, DEBORAH		ANNIE LOVES HEARING ABOUT HER FAMILY'S PAST. ANNIE AND HER GRANDMOTHER CREATE AN ALBUM AND STORY USING PHOTOS AND MEMORABILIA.
LTE	1004	EMPTY THE OCEAN WITH A SPOON	GROWING UP WTH CUSTMS TRADITNS & SUPERSTITNS OF A JEWISH HOME	SOGOLOW, ROSALIE		THE AUTHOR PRESENTS A CORNUCOPIA OF JEWISH CULTURE-YIDDISH CULTURE AND PROVERBS, TRADITIONS, AND BUBBE MEISES. SHE ALSO INCLUDES COLORFUL ACCOUNTS BY OTHERS FROM ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES AND AROUND THE WORLD AND FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE, ALL OF THEM RECALLING THEIR OWN FAMILY TRADITIONS. © 1999
LTE	1005	JERUSALEM VIGIL	THE ZION LEGACY SERIES, BOOK 1	THOENE, BODIE; THOENE, BROCK		SIX MONTHS HAVE PASSES SINCE THE UNITED NATIONS VOTED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JEWISH HOMELAND IN PALESTINE. FINALLY, THE DAY HAS COME WHEN THE NEW STATE OF ISRAELIS TO BE PROCLAIMED. TENSIONS BETWEEN ARAB AND JEW, ALREADY HIGH, WILL ESCALATE WITH THE DEPARTURE OF THE BRITISH TROOPS. CAUGHTS UP IN THIS HISTORIC MOMENT ARE A CAST OF CHARACTERS WHOSE STORIES UNFOLD IN THE DAYS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE BRITISH EMBARKATION. © 2000
LTE	1006	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
LTE	1007	IMPOSSIBLE LIFE	A BOBEH MYSEH	BLACK, DAVID		BOBEH MYSEH IS A YIDDISH TERM FOR AN OLD WIVES' TALE, ONE THAT OFTEN CONTAINS A SEED OF TRUTH. IN AN IMPOSSIBLE LIFE, NOVELIST AND SCREENWRITER DAVID BLACK CREATES HIS OWN BOBEH MYSEH, BLENDING FAMILY MEMORIES, FOLKTALES, AND MYSTICISM.
LTE	1008	I LOVE GOOTIE	(MY GRANDMOTHER'S STORY)	APPLE, MAX		IN THIS MOVING AND OFTEN HILARIOUS MEMOIR, MAX APPLE CHRONICLES THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ROCKY'S (FROM HIS EARLIER MEMOIR, "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. © 1998
LTE	1010	IN MY BROTHER'S IMAGE	TWIN BROTHER'S SEPARATED BY FAITH AFTER THE HOLOCAUST	POGANY, EUGENE L.		THIS IS THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF IDENTICAL TWIN BROTHERS, MIKLOS AND GYORGY POGANY, WHO WERE BORN IN HUNGARY OF JEWISH PARENTS BUT RAISED AS DEVOUT CATHOLIC CONVERTS UNTIL THE SECOND WORLD WAR UNRAVELED THEIR FAMILY.© 2000
LTE	1011	GOOD HARBOR	A NOVEL	DIAMANT, ANITA		TWO WOMEN ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER IN GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS THROUGH THEIR TURMOIL. ONE IS A FIFTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD WOMEN, A CONVERT, RECENTLY DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER AND THE OTHER IS WOMEN WHO FEELS FRICTION WITH HER TWELVE-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER AND A LACK OF CONNECTION TO HER HUSBAND.
LTE	1012	SHIKSA GODDESS	(OR HOW I SPENT MY FORTIES) ESSAYS	WASSERSTEIN, WENDY		WENDY WASSERSTEIN WAS AN AWARD-WINNING AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT WHO RECEIVED THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA AND A TONY AWARD FOR THE 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."
LTE	1014	COUNTY OF BIRCHES	STORIES	KALMAN, JUDITH		A COLLECTION OF LINKED STORIES TOLD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A CHILD OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS. OUR NARRATOR IS A YOUNG GIRL WITHOUT A COUNTRY. FLEEING THE VINEYARDS OUTSIDE OF BUDAPEST WITH HER FAMILY IN 1956, DANA WEISZ FINDS HERSELF FIRST IN LONDON AND THEN IN A SUBURB OF MONTREAL. WHILE MANY OF THE STORIES ARE TOLD FROM DANA'S POINT OF VIEW, MANY OTHERS BELONG TO DANA'S MOTHER AND FATHER AND ARE ABOUT A GOLDEN AGE BEFORE THE WAR.
LTE	1018	TIM BOXER'S JEWISH CELEBRITY ANECDOTES		BOXER, TIM		HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN BOOK FORM, TIM BOXER PRESENTS THE BEST THAT HE HAS UNCOVERED AT CELEBRITY FUNCTIONS. FROM THE COUNTLESS SPEECHES TO WHICH BOXER, A JOURNALIST, HAS LISTENED, HE HAS WINNOWED OUT THE MOST MEMORABLE ANECDOTES TO SHARE WITH HIS READERSHIP. AS YOU LAUGH WITH THE STARS, YOU WILL GET TO KNOW YOUR FAVORITE JEWISH CELEBRITIES AS YOU NEVER DID BEFORE.
LTE	1019	TROPHY WIDOW	A RACHEL GOLD NOVEL	KAHN, MICHAEL A.		RACHEL GOLD, THE REFORM JEWISH LAWYER WITH THE ORTHODOX JEWISH BOYFRIEND, HAS ACQUIRED ANGELA GREEN, A CELEBRITY 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
LTE	1020	SEDUCTION OF WATER		GOODMAN, CAROL		IRIS GREENFEDER RETURNS TO THE CATSKILLS RESORT WHERE SHE GREW UP, HOPING TO FIND THE MISSING MANUSCRIPT FOR HER MOTHER'S THIRD NOVEL - AND ANSWERS TO THE MYSTERY OF HER MOTHER'S DEATH.© 2003
LTE	1021	IN THE IMAGE		HORN, DARA		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
LTE	1024	DAWN OF THE PROMISED LAND	THE CREATION OF ISRAEL	WICKS, BEN		IN 1917, THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT DECLARED ITSELF IN FAVOR OF A JEWISH HOMELAND. THE AUTHOR CHRONICLES THE ENSUING YEARS, WHEN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JEWS STREAMED INTO THE PROMISED LAND. REPRESENTING EVERY CLASS AND NATIONALITY, THEY WERE UNITED BY THEIR IDEALISM, AND, AS WORLD WAR II LOOMED CLOSER, BY THE BELIEF THAT THEIR EFFORTS COULD LIBERATE JEWS FROM THE HORROR OF NAZI PERSECUTION. © 1997
LTE	1025	COMMANDER OF THE EXODUS		KANIUK, YORAM		ISRAELI WRITER YORAM KANIUK TURNS HIS HAND TO A BIOGRAPHY IN THIS ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF YOSSI HAREL, WHO DEFIED THE BLOCKADE OF THE BRITISH MANDATE TO DELIVER MORE THAN 24,000 DISPLACED HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS TO PALESTINE WHEN THE REST OF THE WORLD CLOSED ITS DOORS.© 1999
LTE	1026	BEN-GURION'S SPY		TEVETH, SHABTAI		THIS IS A JOURNALIST'S EXAMINATION OF THE "LAVON AFFAIR", WHICH ENDED BEN-GURION'S POLITICAL CAREER IN ISRAEL, AND ITS CONNECTION TO THE EXECUTION OF MEIR TUBIANSKY WHO WAS FALSELY ACCUSED OF TREASON.
LTE	1027	LIVING WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE (INCLUDING YOURSELF)		ADAHAN, MIRIAM		THE AUTHOR'S APPROACH TO IMPROVING INTER-PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE FAMILY. © 1991
LTE	1029	LOVE OF STONES		HILL, TOBIAS		THE THREE BRETHREN, AN ANCIENT BROOCH OF PRECIOUS STONES, IS AT THE CENTER OF THIS INTRICATE NOVEL. EACH OF THE STONES THAT COMPRISE THE BROOCH HAS ITS OWN CAST OF CHARACTERS. THE MOST INTERESTING OF THESE ARE THE LEVY BROTHERS, TWO IRAQI JEWS WHO MAKE THEIR WAY TO LONDON TO CREATE A CROWN FOR THE CORONATION OF QUEEN VICTORIA AND ARE ULTIMATELY SWINDLED OUT OF THE MOST PRECIOUS OF THE BRETHREN'S JEWELS.
LTE	1033	JOURNEY FROM THE LAND OF NO	A GIRLHOOD IN REVOLUTIONARY IRAN	HAKAKIAN, ROYA		ROYA WAS TWELVE WHEN THE REVOLUTION SWEPT THROUGH HER NATIVE TEHRAN IN 1979. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF AN ESTEEMED POET IN AN INTELLECTUAL JEWISH HOUSEHOLD. WITH THE INNOCENT CONFUSION OF YOUTH, SHE WITNESSED HOW LIFE CHANGED FOR WOMEN - AND JEWS - AFTER IRAN FELL INTO THE HANDS OF ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS.
LTE	1034	DIAMONDS OF THE REBBE	THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE FAMOUS PERSONALITIES AND YOU	STAIMAN, MORDECHAI		THE AUTHOR LOVINGLY DELINEATES TWENTY-EIGHT STORIES OF MENTSCHEN - DECENT, UNDERSTANDING PERSONS, WHO HAVE BEEN AND REMAIN INSPIRED BY THE JEWISH LEADER OF THIS GENERATION.
LTE	1036	CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, APT 3W		BROWNSTEIN, GABRIEL		A VOYEURISTIC GLIMPSE INTO THE LIVES OF THE FIVE TENANTS OF A WEST 89TH STREET APARTMENT BUILDING IN NEW YORK CITY.
LTE	1038	HOLY THIEF	A CON MAN'S JOURNEY FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT	RABBI MARK BOROVITZ AND ALAN EISENSTOCK		AT THE AGE OF 14, BOROVITZ BEGAN SELLING STOLEN GOODS FOR THE CLEVELAND MOB TO HELP SUPPORT HIS FAMILY AFTER HIS FATHER'S DEATH. AT 20, HE STARTED CARRYING A GUN, GOT INTO INSURANCE FRAUDS, ARMED ROBBERY, AND KITING CHECKS. FROM 1982 TO 1988, BOROVITZ, A JEW, WAS IN AND OUT OF PRISON. IN 1987, IN THE STATE PRISON IN CHINO, CALIFORNIA, HE BEGAN STUDYING THE TORAH, WAS MARRIED IN 1990, AND, IN THE MID-1990S, ORDAINED AS A RABBI. HE'S NOW THE SPIRITUAL LEADER OF AN IN-PATIENT REHAB CENTER IN LOS ANGELES, DESIGNED TO SERVE JEWISH DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTS. READING LIKE FICTION, IT'S NEVERTHELESS A TRUE STORY.
LTE	1039	WOMAN OF THE CLOTH		HERST, ROGER		IN A WASHINGTON, D.C. CONGREGATION TORN BY SEVERAL SCANDALS, YOUNG AMBITIOUS ASSOCIATE RABBI GABBY LEWYN, SEEKS TO RESTORE THE CONGREGATION'S SHATTERED CONFIDENCE IN ITS RELIGIOUS LEADERS. AS ONE OF THE GROWING NUMBERS OF FEMALE RABBIS IN THE COUNTRY, GABBY FINDS HERSELF DEFENDING HER CREDENTIALS AND HER GENDER TO A SHAKEN CONGREGATION AND COMMUNITY, RISKING HER CAREER AND HER PERSONAL HAPPINESS FOR THE IDEALS OF HER PROFESSION.
LTE	1040	HERZOG		BELLOW, SAUL		THE TALE OF MOSES E. HERZOG, A TRAGICALLY CONFUSED INTELLECTUAL WHO SUFFERS FROM THE BREAKUP OF HIS SECOND MARRIAGE, THE GENERAL FAILURE OF HIS LIFE AND THE SPECTER OF GROWING UP JEWISH IN THE MIDDLE PART OF THE 20TH CENTURY. HE RESPONDS TO HIS PERSONAL CRISIS BY SENDING OUT A SERIES OF LETTERS TO ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE. THE LETTERS IN TOTAL CONSTITUTE A THOUGHTFUL EXAMINATION OF HIS OWN LIFE AND THAT WHICH HAS OCCURRED AROUND HIM.
LTE	1041	TO JERUSALEM AND BACK	A PERSONAL ACCOUNT	BELLOW, SAUL		YOU SIT AT DINNER WITH CHARMING PEOPLE IN A DINING ROOM LIKE ANY OTHER. YET YOU KNOW THAT YOUR HOSTESS HAS LOST A SON AND THAT HER SISTER LOST CHILDREN IN THE 1973 WAR. A FACT OF JEWISH LIFE LEFT UNCHANGED BY THE CREATION OF A JEWISH STATE IS THAT, "YOU CANNOT TAKE YOUR RIGHT TO LOVE FOR GRANTED".
LTE	1042	SAN REMO DRIVE		EPSTEIN, LESLIE		THE AUTHOR PORTRAYS ONE TALENTED BUT TROUBLED HOLLYWOOD FAMILY THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ELDER SON, RICHARD, WHO BECOMES A FAMOUS ARTIST. HE AND HIS BROTHER ARE LOOKED AFTER BY THE FAMILY'S AFRICAN AMERICAN EMPLOYEES, AND MANY OF THIS NOVEL'S MOST GALVANIZING SCENES INVOLVE RICHARD'S AWAKENING TO THE MORE INSIDIOUS ASPECTS OF RACISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY.
LTE	1044	LOVE IN BLOOM'S		ARNOLD, JUDITH		BAGELS, LOX AND LOVE. THE PERFECT COMBO. WELCOME TO THE DELI, BLOOM'S, WHERE LOVE, FAMILY RIVALRIES, TREACHERY, AND GOOD FOOD ABOUND!© 2002
LTE	1045	WOMEN IN HIS LIFE		BRADFORD, BARBARA TAYLOR		SET IN NEW YORK, LONDON, AND GERMANY AND SPANNING THE 1930S TO THE 1980S, THIS IS THE STORY OF MAXMILIAM WEST, A WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN, AND THE WOMEN WITH WHOM HE BECOMES INVOLVED. THE NOVEL ALSO LOOKS AT THE ENDURING IMPACT OF THE HOLOCAUST.
LTE	1046	JANE AUSTEN IN BOCA		COHEN, PAULA MARANTZ		JANE AUSTEN'S CLASSIC NOVEL "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" IS UPDATED AND RELOCATED TO BOCA RATON, FLORIDA, WITH THE BENNETT DAUGHTERS RECAST AS ELDERLY JEWISH WIDOWS.© 2002
LTE	1047	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.
LTE	1048	LAST PRINCESS		FREEMAN, CYNTHIA		SET IN NEW YORK CITY'S UPPER EAST SIDE, HOLLYWOOD, AND THE ISRAELI DESERT THIS NOVEL FOLLOWS THE LIVES OF LILY GOODHUE AND HARRY KOHLE, AN INTERMARRIED COUPLE.
LTE	1049	BLOOD OF VICTORY		FURST, ALAN		IN THIS SUSPENSEFUL NOVEL, RUSSIAN WRITER I.A. SEREBIN COMES TO ISTANBUL FLEEING FROM NAZI-OCCUPIED FRANCE AND IS RECRUITED BY A HUNGARIAN SPY TO CUT OFF GERMANY'S OIL SUPPLY.© 2002
LTE	1050	DUMPING BILLY		GOLDSMITH, OLIVIA		A ROMANTIC COMEDY PITTING THE SENSIBILITIES OF KATE'S HEIMISCHE BROOKLYN CHILDHOOD GIRLFRIENDS AGAINST HER HIP NEW MANHATTAN GAY FRIENDS, WHO NOTICE THAT EVERY GIRL BILLY DUMPS ENDS UP MARRYING THE NEXT GUY SHE DATES. © 2004
LTE	1052	FORGOTTEN	A PETER DECKER/RINA LAZARUS NOVEL	KELLERMAN, FAYE		THE DESECRATION OF A SMALL STOREFRONT SYNAGOGUE HAS RINA LAZARUS AND HER DETECTIVE HUSBAND PETER DECKER, SEARCHING FOR CLUES. A SEVENTEEN-YEAR -OLD SUSPECT CUTS A DEAL ONLY TO BE BRUTALLY MURDERED, LEAVING MORE TO BE UNRAVELED IN THIS KELLERMAN MYSTERY.
LTE	1054	STALKER		KELLERMAN, FAYE		FIRST-YEAR ROOKIE COP CYNTHIA DECKER IS DETERMINED TO MAKE IT ON HER OWN, WITHOUT HELP FROM HER POLICE DETECTIVE FATHER. HER INSTINCTS TELL HER SOMETHING IS WRONG, AND HER FEAR IS TRUE: SOMEONE IS STALKING HER.
LTE	1055	STREET DREAMS		KELLERMAN, FAYE		PETER DECKER AND RINA LAZARUS RETURN WHEN DECKER'S DAUGHTER CINDY, NOW AN LAPD OFFICER HERSELF, FINDS AN ABANDONED BABY IN A DUMPSTER. THE DECKERS' INVESTIGATION IS COMPLICATED BY LEFTOVER EMOTIONAL TRAUMA FROM THEIR MOST RECENT CASES, AS WELL AS BY RINA'S QUEST TO SOLVE THE DECADES-OLD MURDER OF HER GRANDMOTHER IN GERMANY. BUT CINDY IS ASSISTED BY A HANDSOME ETHIOPIAN-JEWISH MALE NURSE. © 2003
LTE	1057	CONSPIRACY CLUB		KELLERMAN, JONATHAN		PSYCHOLOGIST JEREMY CARTER DATED A NURSE AT HIS HOSPITAL WHO WAS THEN MURDERED BY A SERIAL KILLER, AND THE POLICE SEEMED TO SUSPECT HIM. TO PROVE HIS INNOCENCE AND FOR HIS OWN PEACE OF MIND, JEREMY MUST SOLVE THE MYSTERY. HE IS ENCOURAGED BY AN OLDER DOCTOR WHO INVOLVES HIM IN A CRYPTIC SECRET SOCIETY. © 2003
LTE	1059	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.
LTE	1060	FIXER		MALAMUD, BERNARD		MALAMUD BASED THIS NOVEL ON THE BEILIS BLOOD LIBEL COURT CASE IN KIEV IN 1913.
LTE	1061	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.
LTE	1062	DAYBREAK		PLAIN, BELVA		AFTER MARGARET AND ARTHUR CRAWFIELD BURY THEIR SON PETER, IT IS REVEALED THAT HE WAS NOT THEIR BIOLOGICAL SON. THE PARENTS OF THE DEAD BOY, BUD AND LAURA RICE, ARE TRACED AND TESTING INDICATES THAT THEIR SON, TOM, IS THE CRAWFIELD'S. BUT COMPLICATIONS ENSUE WHEN THE CRAWFIELDS, WHO ARE JEWISH, DISCOVER THAT TOM AND BUD ARE RACISTS.
LTE	1064	CHAINS AROUND THE GRASS				RUTH, THE MOTHER OF THREE SMALL CHILDREN IS LEFT TO RAISE THEM ON HER OWN WHEN HER HUSBAND VANISHES FROM THEIR LIFE. HER SIX-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER SARA WILL NOT ACCEPT THE FACT THAT HER FATHER IS NOT COMING HOME.
LTE	1065	COVENANT		RAGEN, NAOMI		THE MARGULIES FAMILY IS HAPPY LIVING IN A SETTLEMENT NEAR JERUSALEM. BUT WHEN HER HUSBAND AND DAUGHTER ARE KIDNAPPED BY HAMAS, ELISE, PREGNANT WITH A SECOND CHILD, CALLS HER GRANDMOTHER LEAH IN AMERICA. LEAH SPRINGS INTO ACTION, GATHERING THREE OLD FRIENDS WHO NOW LEAD DIVERSE LIVES AROUND THE WORLD. THESE FOUR WOMEN, WHO SURVIVED AUSCHWITZ TOGETHER, HAD MADE A COVENANT TO HELP EACH OTHER WHENEVER THE NEED MIGHT ARISE. NOW THAT OATH IS PUT TO THE TEST. © 2004
LTE	1066	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. © 1994
LTE	1067	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.
LTE	1068	PLOT AGAINST AMERICA		ROTH, PHILIP		WHAT IF THE RENOWNED AVIATION HERO AND RABID ISOLATIONIST CHARLES A. LINDBERGH DEFEATED ROOSEVELT IN THE 1940 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION? ROTH IMAGINES THE IMPACT OF THE RESULTING PRO-HITLER ADMINISTRATION ON AMERICAN JEWS, AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF HIMSELF AS A CHILD IN NEW JERSEY. © 2004
LTE	1072	HAJ		URIS, LEON		AN HISTORICAL NOVEL SET IN PRE-JEWISH STATEHOOD PALESTINE, FOCUSING ON FAMILIES STRUGGLING WITH THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN JEWS AND PALESTINIANS. © 1984
LTE	1074	CRADLE ROBBERS		WALDMAN, AYELET		JULIET APPLEBAUM, LAWYER TURNED STAY-AT-HOME MOTHER AND PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR, IS TRYING TO COPE WITH NURSING HER THIRD CHILD AND KEEPING HER MARRIAGE ALIVE. MEANWHILE, SHE AND HER BUSINESS PARTNER, AL, GET A NEW CASE THAT WILL TAKE THEM INTO THE GRIM WORLD OF INCARCERATED MOTHERS.
LTE	1075	DAUGHTER'S KEEPER		WALDMAN, AYELET		WHEN OLIVIA FACES PROSECUTION FOR A NAIVE CONNECTION TO A DRUG DEAL, SHE MUST TURN TO HER MOTHER, ELAINE, WHO WAS NEVER THE BEST OF PARENTS. NOW ELAINE HAS A SECOND CHANCE WITH OLIVIA, AND SHE MUST DECIDE HOW FAR SHE IS WILLING TO GO.© 2003
LTE	1076	WOMEN IN HIS LIFE		BRADFORD, BARBARA TAYLOR		SET IN NEW YORK, LONDON, AND GERMANY AND SPANNING THE 1930S TO THE 1980S, THIS IS THE STORY OF MAXMILIAM WEST, A WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN, AND THE WOMEN WITH WHOM HE BECOMES INVOLVED. THE NOVEL ALSO LOOKS AT THE ENDURING IMPACT OF THE HOLOCAUST.
LTE	1077	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
LTE	1078	MURDER ON GOOD FRIDAY		CONWAY, SARA		A SHOCKING MURDER COMPLICATED BY RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE FUELS ONE MAN'S SEARCH FOR TRUTH AS WELL AS HIS OWN SOUL.
LTE	1079	LIVING A LIFE THAT MATTERS	RESOLVING THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIENCE AND SUCCESS	KUSHNER, HAROLD S.		MOST OF US NEED TO FEEL THAT WE MATTER, BUT WE ALSO NEED TO FEEL THAT WE'RE GOOD PEOPLE. RABBI KUSHNER BRIDGES THE GAP BETWEEN THESE SEEMINGLY IRRECONCILABLE NEEDS, SHOWING US HOW EVEN OUR SMALLEST DAILY ACTIONS CAN BECOME STEPPING STONES TOWARD INTEGRITY. DRAWING ON THE STORIES OF HIS OWN CONGREGANTS, ON LITERATURE, CURRENT EVENTS, AND THE BIBLICAL STORY OF JACOB, KUSHNER ADDRESSES THESE DILEMMAS: WHY DO DECENT PEOPLE SO OFTEN VIOLATE THEIR MORAL STANDARDS? HOW CAN WE PURSUE JUSTICE WITHOUT GIVING IN TO THE LURE OF REVENGE? HOW CAN WE TURN RELATIONSHIPS WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS INTO GENUINE SOURCES OF MEANING?© 2001
LTE	1080	OUTWITTING HISTORY	THE AMAZNG ADVENTURES OF A MAN WHO RESCUED A MILLION YIDDISH BKS	LANSKY, AARON		AS A GRADUATE STUDENT, LANSKY STARTED TO SALVAGE YIDDISH BOOKS THAT WERE BEING DISCARDED. TO LANSKY, YIDDISH LITERATURE REPRESENTED AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF JEWISH CULTURAL HISTORY AND A LINK TO PAST GENERATIONS. IN THIS BOOK THAT IS BOTH HILARIOUS AND MOVING, LANSKY DESCRIBES HOW HE TRAVELED TO WHEREVER YIDDISH BOOKS COULD BE FOUND SUCH AS PRIVATE COLLECTIONS, DUMPSTERS, AND LIBRARIES. THE BOOKS HE AMASSED BECAME A COLLECTION OF 1.5 MILLION BOOKS AND IS NOW THE NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER, WHICH LANSKY IS THE FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF. THE BOOK IS A TESTIMONY TO HIS LOVE OF JUDAISM AND LITERATURE AND HIS DESIRE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD.
LTE	1081	DO YOU REMEMBER ME?	A FATHER, A DAUGHTER, AND A SEARCH FOR THE SELF	LEVINE, JUDITH		LEVINE, WHO HAS WRITTEN ABOUT HOW CULTURE, POLITICS, AND HISTORY ARE ENACTED IN PEOPLE'S LIVES, NOW TURNS TO HER OWN FAMILY'S CRISIS AS HER FATHER, ONCE A POLITICALLY ACTIVE PSYCHOLOGIST, FALLS VICTIM TO ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. WHILE CHRONICLING THE COURSE OF HER FATHER'S ILLNESS AND ITS EFFECT ON THOSE AROUND HIM, SHE ALSO STUDIES HIS LIFE, LEARNING TO APPRECIATE AND RECONCILE WITH HIM. AT THE SAME TIME, SHE EXPLORES UNIVERSAL THEMES OF LOVE, DUTY, AND COMMUNITY; DISABILITY AND AGING; AND THE SELF AND IDENTITY. © 2004
LTE	1084	PRODIGAL PROJECT	BOOK 3 NUMBERS	KEN, ABRAHAM; HART, DANIEL		NUMBERS IS THE THIRD BOOK OF THE PRODIGAL PROJECT SERIES. SPECIAL AGENT JOHN JAMESON HAS BEEN ASSIGNED A DAUNTING TASK-TO TAKE OUT THE VICIOUS LEADER OF THE MILITANT ISLAMIC MUJAHIDEEN THAT HAS BEEN MENACING THE WORLD IN THE WAKE OF THE RAPTURE. CAUGHT BETWEEN HIS DUTY TO COUNTRY AND HIS NEWFOUND FAITH, JAMESON HAS LEARNED A TERRIBLE SECRET.
LTE	1085	ORACLE NIGHT	A NOVEL	AUSTER, PAUL		RECOVERING FROM A SEVERE ILLNESS THAT HAS LEFT HIM WEAK, STRUGGLING NOVELIST SIDNEY ORR TAKES THE SUGGESTION OF HIS MENTOR, THE ACCLAIMED NOVELIST JOHN TRAUSE, AND BEGINS A STORY ABOUT A MAN WHO, UPON CONSIDERING A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE AS AN OMEN (OR EXCUSE), WALKS OUT ON HIS WIFE AND BEGINS A NEW LIFE.
LTE	1086	DARK VOYAGE		FURST, ALAN		A HISTORICAL ESPIONAGE THRILLER. A MAIN CHARACTER IS A DUTCH SEA CAPTAIN, E.M. DEHAAN, WHOSE STURDY BUT AGING MERCHANT VESSEL IS PRESSED INTO SERVICE ON BEHALF OF THE BRITISH NAVY BY THE EXILED DUTCH NAVAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP IN LONDON. DISGUISING HIS BOAT AS A NEUTRAL SPANISH FREIGHTER, DEHAAN TAKES IT SEVERAL TIMES INTO HARM'S WAY, FERRYING BRITISH COMMANDOS ON A NORTH AFRICAN RAID, TAKING MUNITIONS TO THE BRITISH GARRISON ON CRETE AND THEN, MOST DANGEROUS OF ALL, ON A SECRET MISSION TO SWEDEN'S BALTIC COAST.
LTE	1087	ALIBI	A NOVEL	KANON, JOSEPH		ADAM MILLER, A WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATOR IN FRANKFURT, ARRIVES IN VIENNA TO VISIT HIS GLOBE-TROTTING MOTHER, WHO IS HOLDING TENUOUSLY TO THE REMAINS OF HER FORTUNE AND EMBARKING ON AN ROMANCE WITH A VENETIAN DOCTOR WHOSE WARTIME ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE NAZIS REMAIN TROUBLING. MILLER BEGINS A ROMANCE WITH A JEWISH WOMAN WHOSE OWN WARTIME EXPERIENCE HAS LEFT HER WITH DEEP PSYCHIC WOUNDS. SOON ENOUGH THE PAST CAN NO LONGER REMAIN HIDDEN AS A STUNNING MURDER LEAVES ADAM TORN BETWEEN RIGHTING WRONGS AND PROTECTING THOSE HE LOVES.
LTE	1088	KISS BEFORE DYING		LEVINE, IRA		A SHOCKING TALE OF A YOUNG MAN WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHING-NOT EVEN MURDER-TO GET WHERE HE WANTS TO GO. FOR HE HAS DREAMS; PLANS. HE ALSO HAS CHARM, GOOD LOOKS, SEX APPEAL, INTELLIGENCE. AND HE HAS A PROBLEM. HER NAME IS DOROTHY; SHE LOVES HIM, AND SHE'S PREGNANT. THE SOLUTION MAY DEMAND DESPERATE MEASURES. BUT, THEN, HE LOOKS LIKE THE KIND OF GUY WHO COULD GET AWAY WITH MURDER.
LTE	1090	NNNNN	A NOVEL	REINER, CARL		AS NOVELIST NAT NOLAND STRUGGLES TO EKE OUT EVERY PAGE OF HIS FICTIONAL RETELLING OF CAIN AND ABEL, HE BEGINS HAVING A SERIES OF LONG CONVERSATIONS WITH HIMSELF. OVERHEARING HER HUSBAND ARGUING WITH HIMSELF IN DIFFERENT VOICES, NAT'S WIFE, GLENNIE, CONVINCES HIM TO SEE A THERAPIST. DURING CONSULTATIONS WITH DR. FRUCHT NAT RECALLS A SERIES OF DREAMS ABOUT HIS CHILDHOOD AND ADOPTION. DETERMINED TO RESOLVE HIS QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS PAST, HE EMBARKS UPON A REMARKABLE ODYSSEY TO DISCOVER THE LONG-LOST BROTHER HE MAY OR MAY NOT ACTUALLY HAVE.
LTE	1093	BROOKLYN FOLLIES		AUSTER, PAUL		NATHAN GLASS, A RETIRED LIFE INSURANCE SALESMAN ESTRANGED FROM HIS FAMILY AND FACING AN IFFY CANCER PROGNOSIS, IS "LOOKING FOR A QUIET PLACE TO DIE. SOMEONE RECOMMENDED BROOKLYN." WHAT HE FINDS, THOUGHIS A VITAL, BIG-HEARTED BOROUGH BRIMMING WITH GREAT CHARACTERS.
LTE	1094	ABSOLUTELY AMERICAN	FOUR YEARS AT WEST POINT	LIPSKY, DAVID		IN 1998, THE COMMANDANTS AT WEST POINT OFFERED THE AUTHOR, A ROLLING STONE REPORTER, UNFETTERED ACCESS TO THEIR STUDENTS. THE RESULT IS A SUNNY PORTRAIT OF A GROUP OF YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHO, AS ONE OF THEM SAYS, "DON'T QUITE FIT IN."
LTE	1095	BEAUTY FADES, DUMB IS FOREVER		SHEINDLIN, JUDGE JUDY		AIMED AT WOMEN TRYING TO MAKE IT IN MALE-DOMINATED WORKPLACES AND TRADITIONAL MARRIAGES, THE BOOK IS BROKEN INTO CHAPTERS THAT EXPOUND ON BASIC PRINCIPLES ILLUSTRATED WITH ONE OR TWO EXAMPLES FROM SHEINDLIN'S LONG CAREER.
LTE	1096	DR.RUTH'S GUIDE TO GOOD SEX		WESTHEIMER, DR.RUTH
LTE	1097	LAST JIHAD		ROSENBERG, JOEL C.		IT'S A POLITICAL THRILLER, SET A COUPLE OF YEARS IN THE FUTURE. THE U.S. PRESIDENT HAS WON A MIDTERM ELECTION, SUCCEEDING GEORGE W. BUSH. SADDAM HUSSEIN HAS SENT ASSASSINS TO GUN DOWN THE NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT. MEANWHILE, IRAQI TERRORISTS ATTACK THE LEADERS OF U.S.-ALLIED COUNTRIES. AMERICA SEES ONE HOPE FOR THE WESTERN WORLD: AN ISRAELI-ARAB ALLIANCE WITH THE SINGLE GOAL OF STOPPING HUSSEIN.
LTE	1098	MATCHMAKER, MATCHMAKER		SCHMIDT, ANNA		SOME GIRLS HOPE FOR JUST ONE DATE ON VALENTINE'S DAY, BUT MATCHMAKER GRACE HARRISON WAS DEALING WITH MORE THAN A DOZEN, AND NOT A ONE FOR HER! THE LAST THING SHE NEEDS IS A REPORTER PRYING INTO HER WASHINGTON, D.C., CHURCH'S SPEED-DATING PROGRAM, OR HER SORRY SINGLE STATUS.
LTE	1099	OUT OF THE WHIRLPOOL		SILLITOE, ALAN		WHEN 18-YEAR-OLD PETER GRANBY FINDS HIMSELF LYING ON A HEAP OF RUBBLE AFTER LOSING HIS MOTHER, HIS HOME, AND A FIGHT, HE TURNS TO WEALTHY WIDOW EILEEN FARNSFIELD, WHOSE MOTHER HE HAD COMFORTED AS SHE LAY DYING ON THE SIDEWALK OUTSIDE THE FACTORY WHERE HE WORKS. EILEEN GIVES HIM A JOB AS CARETAKER OF HER SEASIDE COTTAGES, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TAKES ITS PREDICTABLE COURSE.
LTE	1101	FALL OF THE SHOGUN		SILVERMAN, DOV
LTE	1102	ABSOLUTE RAGE		TANNENBAUM, ROBERT K		NEW YORK COUNTY CHIEF ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY KARP IS DISGRUNTLED WITH HIS JOB AFTER HE IS THWARTED IN HIS EFFORTS TO BRING A FEW CORRUPT POLITICIANS TO JUSTICE. WIFE MARLENE STRIKES UP A FRIENDSHIP WITH NEIGHBOR ROSE HEENEY AND OFFERS A SUMMER JOB TO HER 19-YEAR-OLD SON DANIEL. WHEN HIS PARENTS AND TEN-YEAR-OLD SISTER ARE LATER BRUTALLY MURDERED AT THEIR HOME IN MCCULLENSBURG, WV, HE ASKS MARLENE FOR HELP.
LTE	1103	ENEMY WITHIN		TANENBAUM, ROBERT K		TWO NYPD COPS ON A STAKEOUT SPOT A SNITCH AT THE WHEEL OF A STOLEN SUV. AFTER A HIGH-SPEED CHASE WITH BULLETS FLYING, THE SNITCH IS DEAD, AND THE HERO COP WHO DID THE SHOOTING INSISTS IT WAS SELF-DEFENSE: THE SNITCH TRIED TO RAM THE POLICE CAR. IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR, SO EVERYONE BUT KARP IS INCLINED TO ACCEPT THAT EXPLANATION.
LTE	1104	IT'S NOT EASY BEIN' ME	A LIFETIME OF NO RESPECT BUT PLENTY OF SEX AND DRUGS	DANGERFIELD, RODNEY		A VEGAS HEADLINER FOR 20-PLUS YEARS, DANGERFIELD PRESENTS THIS ANECDOTAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY, EFFECTIVELY BLENDING HONESTY AND HUMOR. HE MADE 70 TONIGHT SHOW APPEARANCES, FOLLOWED BY TV SPECIALS AND COMMERCIALS, ALBUMS AND HIT MOVIES. WRITING WITH HIP, SHOWBIZ SAVVY AND A BACKSTAGE BAWDINESS, HE REGALES WITH TALES OF LENNY BRUCE, ANDY KAUFMAN AND MANY MORE.
LTE	1105	WHEN YOU'RE FROM BROOKLYN EVERYTHING ELSE IS TOKYO		KING, LARRY WITH MARTY APPEL		RADIO/TV TALK-SHOW HOST AND USA TODAY COLUMNIST KING AND TV PRODUCER AND AUTHOR APPEL HAVE PUT TOGETHER A DELIGHTFUL COMPOSITE MEMOIR OF GROWING UP IN BROOKLYN DURING THE 1930S, '40S AND '50S. HEARTWARMING, SOMETIMES UPROARIOUS, OCCASIONALLY SAD, THE BOOK IS A WONDERFUL PICTURE OF "A PERFECT BLEND OF A LITTLE TOWN IN A BIG CITY."
LTE	1106	WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE				HAROLD KUSHNER, A JEWISH RABBI FACING HIS OWN CHILD'S FATAL ILLNESS, DEFTLY GUIDES US THROUGH THE INADEQUACIES OF THE TRADITIONAL ANSWERS TO THE PROBLEM OF EVIL, THEN PROVIDES A UNIQUELY PRACTICAL AND COMPASSIONATE ANSWER THAT HAS APPEALED TO MILLIONS OF READERS ACROSS ALL RELIGIOUS CREEDS.
LTE	1107	MIGHTY AND THE ALMIGHTY	REFLECTIONS ON AMERICA, GOD, AND WORLD AFFAIRS	ALBRIGHT, MADELINE		SECRETARY OF STATE UNDER PRESIDENT CLINTON AND A DEVOUT CATHOLIC (WITH RECENTLY DISCOVERED JEWISH ROOTS), ALBRIGHT IS ESPECIALLY QUALIFIED TO TACKLE THE SUBJECT OF THE ROLE OF FAITH IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. IN A REMARKABLY ACCESSIBLE SHE LOOKS AT THESE ISSUES IN LIGHT OF RECENT HISTORY BOTH ABROAD AND AT HOME.
LTE	1108	NATASHA	AND OTHER STORIES	BEZMORGIS, DAVID		THIS IS A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES THAT READS MORE LIKE A NOVEL. THE STORIES ARE ALL TOLD BY THE SAME FIRST PERSON NARRATOR WHO IS A YOUNG BOY IN "TAPKA" THE FIRST STORY IN THE COLLECTION AND A GROWN MAN IN "MINYAN" THE FINAL STORY IN THE COLLECTION. THE STORIES DESCRIBE THE EXPERIENCES OF A FAMILY OF SOVIET ERA RUSSIAN JEWS AND THEIR EXPERIENCE LIVING AS IMMIGRANTS IN TORONTO.
LTE	1109	STORY OF MY LIFE		KELLER, HELEN		THE EXTRAORDINARY ACCOUNT OF HELEN KELLER'S STRUGGLE TO OVERCOME THE CHALLENGES OF BEING DEAF AND BLIND--A MASTERPIECE OF MODERN BIOGRAPHY.
LTE	1111	FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT	A NOVEL	FURST, ALAN		A HISTORICAL THRILLER WITH ECHOES OF GRAHAM GREENE, WHICH OPENS IN PARIS IN DECEMBER 1938. JOURNALIST CARLO WEISZ IS FIGHTING THE MUSSOLINI REGIME BY WRITING FOR THE PARIS-BASED UNDERGROUND OPPOSITION NEWSPAPER, THE LIBERAZIONE. WHEN AGENTS OF THE OVRA, THE ITALIAN SECRET POLICE, MURDER THE LIBERAZIONE'S EDITOR IN THE ARMS OF HIS MISTRESS, WEISZ ASSUMES GREATER RESPONSIBILITY FOR KEEPING THE PAPER RUNNING.
LTE	1112	SPIES OF WARSAW	A NOVEL	FURST, ALAN		WITH THE SPIES OF WARSAW, FURST CONTINUES TO ASSERT HIMSELF AS THE CONTEMPORARY MASTER OF HISTORICAL ESPIONAGE.
LTE	1114	TEN LITTLE NEW YORKERS	A NOVEL	FRIEDMAN, KINKY		FRIEDMAN-THE-DETECTIVE IS SUFFERING FROM THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A CLOSE, LONGTIME COMPANION-HIS CAT. WHEN HE DECIDES TO LEAVE NEW YORK CITY FOR TEXAS TO ESCAPE THE DOLDRUMS, HE'S TRACKED DOWN BY A REGULAR NEMESIS FROM THE NYPD, DET. SGT. MORT COOPERMAN, AFTER THE WALLET OF A MURDER VICTIM TURNS UP IN KINKY'S APARTMENT.
LTE	1115	GENTLEMAN OF THE ROAD	A TALE OF ADVENTURE	CHABON, MICHAEL		PULITZER PRIZE WINNER-CHABON RECREATES 10TH-CENTURY KHAZARIA, THE FABLED KINGDOM OF WILD RED-HAIRED JEWS ON THE WESTERN SHORE OF THE CASPIAN SEA, IN THIS SPRIGHTLY HISTORICAL ADVENTURE.
LTE	1116	DEVIL'S WALTZ	AN ALEX DELAWARE NOVEL	KELLERMAN, JONATHAN		KELLERMAN'S PSYCHOLOGIST ALEX DELAWARE EXECUTES TRICKY STEPS OF HIS OWN WHEN CALLED IN TO CONSULT ON THE MYSTERIOUS AILMENTS AFFLICTING A BABY BEING SEEN AT HIS TRAINING HOSPITAL IN LOS ANGELES. DELAWARE IS IN TOP FORM, CAREFULLY PURSUING THE POSSIBILITY THAT 21-MONTH-OLD CASSIE JONES MAY BE THE VICTIM OF MUNCHAUSEN'S DISEASE BY PROXY, A COMPLEX SYNDROME IN WHICH A PARENT, USUALLY THE MOTHER, SECRETLY CAUSES THE SYMPTOMS THAT ENDANGER THE CHILD.
LTE	1120	GARDEN OF EDEN AND OTHER CRIMINAL DELIGHTS		KELLERMAN, FAYE		KELLERMAN MAY BE BEST KNOWN FOR HER RINA LAZARUS-PETER DECKER MYSTERIES, BUT SHE'S ALSO WRITTEN NUMEROUS SHORT STORIES, 18 OF WHICH ARE COLLECTED IN THIS VARIED ANTHOLOGY. NOT ALL OF THE STORIES FALL WITHIN KELLERMAN'S USUAL CRIME BEAT. GREED, DASHED HOPES, AND BOREDOM, OCCASIONALLY LEAVENED WITH A TOUCH OF HUMOR, ARE THE STUFF OF MANY OTHERS.
LTE	1122	HARVEST		PLAIN, BELVA		A SKILLFUL STORYTELLER, PLAIN CONTINUES TO WEAVE HER EVENTFUL SAGA OF THE WERNERS AND THEIR EXTENDED CLAN AS THEY REAFFIRM THEIR JEWISH HERITAGE DURING THE STORMY 1960S.
LTE	1123	LOVE NEXT DOOR		SCHMIDT, ANNA		THE LAST THING DETECTIVE PETE FLEMING WANTED WAS TIME WITH CHILDREN. AFTER A DEADLY MISTAKE IN THE LINE OF DUTY, HE CAME TO THE LAKESIDE RENTAL LOOKING FOR SOLITUDE AND EMOTIONAL HEALING. HE HADN'T COUNTED ON DEALING WITH A NEIGHBORING CAMP FOR TROUBLED YOUTH, OR ITS CHEERFUL LEADER, AMANDA HUNTER. BUT AMANDA'S FRIENDLY MANNER BEGAN TO DRAW HIM IN . . .
LTE	1125	FASHIONABLY LATE		KENDRICK, BETH		BECCA DAVIS IS STRUGGLING WITH CONTROLLING EX-FIANCÉ, WHO IS DETERMINED TO WIN HER BACK. LIBERATING HERSELF, BECCA HEADS TO L.A., WHERE HER RICH MARRIED SISTER, CLAIRE, LIVES, TO START A CAREER IN FASHION. BECCA SECURES A JOB AS A HOSTESS IN AN UPSCALE EATERY RUN BY A HANDSOME RESTAURATEUR CONNER AND SPARKS FLY.
LTE	1127	SATURDAY WIFE		RAGEN, NAOMI		DELILAH GOLDGRAB JUST WANTED TO BE PART OF THE IN-CROWD. IN COLLEGE, SHE DREAMED OF MEETING AN EXCITING MAN WHO WOULD PROVIDE THE LIFESTYLE TO WHICH SHE ASPIRED, BUT THAT WAS NOT TO BE. IN DESPERATION, SHE MARRIES CHAIM, A SINCERE RABBINICAL STUDENT WHO IS CONTENT TO TAKE OVER HIS GRANDFATHER'S CONGREGATION IN A CRUMBLING BRONX NEIGHBORHOOD. THE MATERIALISTIC DELILAH PUSHES CHAIM TO TAKE A POSITION IN A WEALTHY CONNECTICUT CONGREGATION, BUT ONCE THEY ARRIVE, SHE FINDS HERSELF IN WAY OVER HER HEAD.
LTE	1128	EZEKIEL OPTION		ROSENBERG, JOEL C.		ROSENBERG SETS HIS EVENTS SEVERAL YEARS AFTER 9/11. A COUP IN RUSSIA MAY HAVE LEFT BEAUTIFUL CIA AGENT ERIN MCCOY DEAD. AS RUSSIA PREPARES FOR WAR, ISRAEL FACES ANNIHILATION AND BABYLON REGAINS ITS ORIGINAL SPLENDOR, DR. ELIEZER MORDECHAI, FORMER HEAD OF THE MOSSAD AND NOW A CHRISTIAN PREPARES A 37-PAGE BIBLE-BASED BRIEF KNOWN AS "THE EZEKIEL OPTION," WHICH POSTULATES THAT SUPERNATURAL POWERS WILL ELIMINATE ISRAEL'S ENEMIES.
LTE	1129	COPPER SCROLL		ROSENBERG, JOEL C.		SADDAM IS GONE, ARAFAT IS DEAD, AND A NEW IRAQ IS RISING. BUT WHEN A SUICIDE BOMBER STRIKES WASHINGTON AND ASSASSINATIONS UNFOLD FROM LONDON TO LOS ANGELES, JON BENNETT AND ERIN MCCOY ARE DRAWN BACK INTO A WORLD OF TERROR THEY THOUGHT WAS OVER. AT THE HEART OF THE MYSTERY LIES A 2,000-YEAR-OLD SCROLL DESCRIBING UNIMAGINABLE TREASURES THAT COULD LEAD TO THE THIRD JEWISH TEMPLE. THE TIME TO FIND THE TRUTH IS RUNNING OUT FAST.
LTE	1130	MITLA PASS		URIS, LEON		IN THIS SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STORY, UNHAPPY NOVELIST GIDEON ZADOK PARACHUTES, ON THE EVE OF THE 1956 SINAI WAR, INTO MITLA PASS WITH A COMPANY OF ISRAELI SOLDIERS TO FACE HIS PAST AND PROVE HIS COURAGE.
LTE	1132	RISE TO REBELLION	A NOVEL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION	SHOARA, JEFF		REBELLION TAKES THE READER FROM THE BOSTON MASSACRE TO THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. SHAARA'S SYMPATHIES ARE EVIDENT ON EVERY PAGE: THE ADAMSES, WASHINGTON, AND FRANKLIN ARE HIS HEROES, AS IS ABIGAIL ADAMS, WHO, THOUGH SHE CHAFES AT THE RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED ON HER GENDER, SUPPORTS HER FAMILY AS HUSBAND JOHN TRAVELS TO AND FROM THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. THEIR ADVERSARIES ARE NOT CARDBOARD FIGURES, HOWEVER, BUT COMPLICATED HUMAN BEINGS MAKING DIFFICULT DECISIONS IN THE MIDST OF A CRISIS FOR WHICH OLD WISDOM HOLDS NO WORKABLE ANSWERS.
LTE	1133	LOVE AND EXILE	AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TRILOGY	SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS		LOVE AND EXILE CONTAINS THE THREE VOLUMES OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER'S SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY, COVERING HIS CHILDHOOD IN A RABBINICAL HOUSEHOLD IN POLAND, HIS YOUNG MANHOOD IN WARSAW AND HIS BEGINNING AS A WRITER, AND HIS EMIGRATION TO NEW YORK BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF WAR, WITH THE CONCOMITANT DISPLACEMENT OF A YIDDISH WRITER IN A STRANGE LAND.
LTE	1134	ORIENTALIST	SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF A STRANGE AND DANGEROUS LIFE	REISS, TOM		LEV NUSSIMBAUM FABRICATED A LIFE THAT ENCOMPASSED THE WHOLE OF THE WESTERN AND NEAR EASTERN CULTURE OF HIS TIME. A JEW FROM THE CAUCASUS, BORN IN THE FIRST THROES OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, HE STYLED HIMSELF A MUSLIM PRINCE. AS KURBAN SAID, HE WROTE A BEST-SELLING NOVEL THAT MADE HIM THE TOAST OF NAZI GERMANY. INVENTING AND REINVENTING HIMSELF, HE LEFT A CONFUSED AND PERPLEXING TRAIL. REISS PURSUES TWO GREAT NARRATIVES, ONE RECOUNTING NUSSIMBAUM'S LIFE ITSELF, THE OTHER FOLLOWING THE AUTHOR'S QUEST TO FERRET FROM AMONG MYTHS AND OUTRIGHT LIES THE TRUTH OF THIS MAN'S LIFE.
LTE	1135	MAN IN THE DARK	A NOVEL	AUSTER, PAUL		A CAR ACCIDENT AND THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE HAVE LEFT THE RETIRED BOOK CRITIC AUGUST BRILL A PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL INVALID. VIRTUALLY CONFINED TO HIS HOUSE WITH HIS RECENTLY DIVORCED DAUGHTER AND A TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD GRANDCHILD STRICKEN WITH GRIEF AFTER THE MURDER OF HER EX-BOYFRIEND, BRILL, AN INSOMNIAC, ATTEMPTS TO STAVE OFF THOUGHTS OF DEATH BY TELLING HIMSELF BEDTIME STORIES.
LTE	1136	WHAT I SAW AT THE FAIR		BIRSTEIN, ANN		A MEMOIR, WHICH EXPANDS ON MUCH OF THE COLORFUL NARRATIVE FOUND IN AUTHOR'S SUPERB BIOGRAPHY OF HER FATHER, THE RABBI ON FORTY-SEVENTH STREET, AND DELVES DEEPER INTO HER HELL'S KITCHEN CHILDHOOD, COLLEGE LIFE AND EXPERIENCES AMONG CLIQUISH NEW YORK CITY INTELLECTUALS.
LTE	1137	SHLEPPING THROUGH THE ALPS	MY SEARCH FOR AUSTRIA'S JEWISH PAST WITH ITS LAST WANDERING SHEPHERD	APPLE, SAM	JOANNE MARX	APPLE IS A JEWISH COMIC WRITER WHO MET HANS IN NEW YORK. HANS, THE SON OF A JEWISH FATHER AND GENTILE MOTHER, WAS BORN IN VIENNA, BECAME A SHEPHERD, AND DEVELOPED A LOVE FOR SINGING YIDDISH SONGS. THE FOLLOWING YEAR APPLE JOINED HANS IN "SCHLEPPING" THROUGH VARIOUS ALPINE LOCATIONS, TAPE RECORDER AND SHEEP IN HAND.
LTE	1138	BOOK BORROWER		MATTISON, ALICE		THE PLEASURES, INTIMACIES, TENSIONS AND FAILURES OF FEMALE FRIENDSHIP FRAME THIS SUBTLE, PSYCHOLOGICALLY RICH NOVEL, WHICH CHRONICLES THE VOLATILE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO WOMEN AND HIGHLIGHTS ISSUES OF LOYALTY, SACRIFICE AND GUILT.
LTE	1139	INTERPRETATION OF MURDER		RUBENFELD, JED	JOANNE MARX	A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WITH A CAST THAT INCLUDES SIGMUND FREUD, CARL JUNG AND SEVERAL IMPORTANT AMERICAN POLITICIANS AND MILLIONAIRES.
LTE	1143	KITCHEN TABLE WISDOM	STORIES THAT HEAL	REMEN, RACHEL NAOMI		A DEEPLY MOVING AND DOWN-TO-EARTH COLLECTION OF TRUE STORIES, THIS PROMINENT PHYSICIAN SHOWS US LIFE IN ALL ITS POWER AND MYSTERY AND REMINDS US THAT THE THINGS WE CANNOT MEASURE MAY BE THE THINGS THAT ULTIMATELY SUSTAIN AND ENRICH OUR LIVES.
LTE	1144	CALL IT SLEEP		ROTH, HENRY		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. © 1964
LTE	1145	LIEBERMAN'S FOLLY		KAMINSKY, STUART		A MEXICAN PROSTITUTE ESTRALDA COMES TO CHICAGO POLICE DETECTIVE ABE LIEBERMANWITH A PROPOSITION : SHE WILL HELP HIM WITH VALUABLE INFORMATION IF HE'LL GET A JOHN OFF HER BACK. BUT LIEBERMAN'S GOOD INTENTIONS PAVE THE WAY FOR A BRUTAL MURDER. A MURDER THAT WILL LEAD LIEBERMAN INTO THE KIND OF TROUBLE THAT COULD GET HIM KILLED . . .
LTE	1146	LEAVING HOME	A MEMOIR	BUCHWALD, ART		THE RENOWNED HUMORIST DESCRIBES HIS DIFFICULT CHILDHOOD IN FOSTER HOMES, THE WANDERLUST THAT TOOK HIM FROM NEW YORK'S HEBREW ORPHAN ASYLUM TO PARIS, AND HIS YEARS IN PARIS.
LTE	1147	KITCHEN BLUES: RECIPES FOR BODY AND SOUL		BLUE, LIONEL		COOKBOOK.
LTE	1148	ALICIA	MY STORY	APPLEMAN-JURMAN, ALICIA		AFTER LOSING HER ENTIRE FAMILY TO THE NAZIS AT AGE 13, ALICIA APPLEMAN-JURMAN WENT ON TO SAVE THE LIVES OF THOUSANDS OF JEWS. NOT SINCE THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK HAS A YOUNG VOICE SO VIVIDLY EXPRESSED THE CAPACITY FOR HUMANITY AND HEROISM IN THE FACE OF NAZI BRUTALITY.
LTE	1149	TREASURES		PLAIN, BELVA		A STORY OF FAMILY UNITED BY FAMILY TIES BUT SPLIT APART BY DIFFERENT DREAMS. A STORY OF CHOICES…A STORY OF MARRIAGES...
LTE	1150	MY FIRST NINETY YEARS		DR.MAURICE BERGER		AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
LTE	1151	SHOEMAKER'S WIFE		TRIGIANI, ADRIANA		A BREATHTAKING MULTIGENERATIONAL LOVE STORY THAT SPANS TWO CONTINENTS, TWO WORLD WARS, AND THE QUEST OF TWO STAR-CROSSED LOVERS TO FIND EACH OTHER AGAIN.
LTE	1152	VISION IN WHITE		ROBERTS, NORA		WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER MACKENSIE "MAC" ELLIOT IS MOST AT HOME BEHIND THE CAMERA, BUT HER FOCUS IS SHATTERED MOMENTS BEFORE AN IMPORTANT WEDDING REHEARSAL WHEN SHE BUMPS INTO THE BRIDE-TO-BE'S BROTHER...AN ENCOUNTER THAT HAS THEM BOTH SEEING STARS.
LTE	1153	HAPPY BIRTHDAY		STEEL, DANIELLE		THE STORY OF THREE VERY DIFFERENT PEOPLE, EACH OF WHOM, ON THE SAME DAY, REACHES A CRUCIAL TURNING POINT IN LIFE—A RITE BOTH BITTERSWEET AND FULL OF HOPE, A TIME TO BLOW OUT THE CANDLES, SAY GOODBYE TO THE PAST, AND MAKE A WISH FOR THE FUTURE.
LTE	1154	LEGACY		STEEL, DANIELLE		THIS CENTURIES-SPANNING NOVEL INTERWEAVES THE LIVES OF TWO WOMEN—A WRITER WORKING IN THE HEART OF MODERN ACADEMIA AND A DARING YOUNG SIOUX INDIAN ON AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. THE RESULT IS AN UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF COURAGE IN THE FACE OF THE UNKNOWN.
LTE	1155	HOUSE ON HOPE STREET		STEEL, DANIELLE		IN EIGHTEEN YEARS OF MARRIAGE, LIZ AND JACK SUTHERLAND HAD BUILT A FAMILY, A SUCCESSFUL LAW PRACTICE, AND A HAPPY HOME NEAR SAN FRANCISCO, ON HOPE STREET. THEN, IN AN INSTANT, IT ALL FELL APART.
LTE	1156	AS A MAN THINKETH		ALLEN, JAMES		A CLASSIC OF THE NEW THOUGHT MOVEMENT. THIS SHORT ACCESSIBLE WORK ELUCIDATES THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING.
LTE	1157	THE MASTERY OF DESTINY		ALLEN, JAMES		EXPLAINS MAN'S INVOLVEMENT IN CAUSES AND EFFECTS WHICH MAKE UP OUR LIVES THUS CREATING OUR DESTINY THROUGH OUR OWN DEEDS (ACTIONS).
LTE	3541	COME POUR THE WINE	A NOVEL	FREEMAN, CYNTHIA		A JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY. A WOMAN FROM KANSAS COMING TO NEW YORK FINALLY FINDS HAPPINESS WITH A MAN WHO RENEWS HER AWARENESS OF HER JEWISH HERITAGE AND OFFERS HER THE CHANCE FOR TOTAL FULFILLMENT AS A WOMAN.
LTE	3564	BEST LAID PLANS		PARENT, GAIL		PARENT'S LATEST NOVEL COVERS FAMILIAR TERRITORY: THE SINGLE JEWISH CAREER WOMAN IN NEW YORK. BUT ROBERTA IS DIFFERENT -- SHE'S DETERMINED TO HAVE A BABY. SHE PLANS TO USE HER FAVORITE MEN AS FATHER MATERIAL, DESPITE THEIR PROTEST, AND MUCH OF THE BOOK IS DEVOTED TO HER EFFORTS TO CORNER THE SEVEN MEN ON HER LIST DURING HER MOST FERTILE WEEKEND. FAMILY AND FRIENDS TRY TO INTERFERE WITH HER PLANS, BUT BY THE END OF THE BOOK, ROBERTA HAS A BABY IN HER ARMS AND AN ATTRACTIVE MAN IN HER LIFE.
LTE	3675	OLD NEIGHBORHOOD		CORMAN, AVERY		A KID ESCAPES THE STIGMA OF BEING BORN JEWISH AND POOR IN THE BRONX TO MAKE IT BIG IN THE WORLD OF ADVERTISING. WITH GENTLE HUMOR THE AUTHOR CAPTURES THE FLAVOR OF ROBIN'S HALF-JEWISH, HALF-IRISH CATHOLIC NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE WARTIME 1940S.
LTE	3702	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.
LTE	3847	ADVENTURES OF A YIDDISH LECTURER		SHULMAN, ABRAHAM		AMUSING ANECDOTES ON THE AUTHOR'S TRAVELS THROUGH THE LECTURE CIRCUIT.
LTE	4293	EVERYTHING BUT MONEY		LEVENSON, SAM		AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAIT OF THE SCHOOL TEACHER- TURNED-HUMORIST.
LTE	4408	CRESCENT CITY		PLAIN, BELVA		THIS NOVEL DEPICTS 19TH-CENTURY NEW ORLEANS THROUGH THE EYES OF A YOUNG JEWISH WOMAN UPROOTED FROM HER NATIVE GERMANY.
LTE	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.
LTE	5381	PRIDE OF OUR PEOPLE	A NEW SELECTION OF 36 LIFE STORIES OF OUTSTANDING,CONTEMPORARY MEN AND WOMEN	GROSS, DAVID C., ED.
LTE	5391	BLIND THIEF AND OTHER STORIES		SOCHERTOV, YISROEL PESACH, RABBI	LAURA SPERBER	SOCHERTOV CONTEMPORIZES THE PARABLES OF THE MAGGID OF DUBNO, A NINETEENTH-CENTURY RABBI AND PREACHER, BUT PRESERVES THE TORAH LESSON WITHIN EACH STORY.
LTE	5742	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.
LTE	5851	DAY OF ATONEMENT		KELLERMAN, FAYE		PETER DECKER A DETECTIVE WITH THE LAPD IS NEWLY MARRIED TO ORTHODOX JEWISH RINA LAZARUS AND IS IN BORO PARK, BROOKLYN FOR THE HIGH HOLY DAYS. AS HE STRUGGLES WITH A TROUBLING DISCOVERY ABOUT HIS FAMILY AND THE DEMANDS OF HIS NEW RELIGION, HE MUST SOLVE A CRIME THAT INVOLVES A LOST BOY.
LTE	6003	NEW BEGINNINGS		MOSCO, MAISIE		ABRAHAM PATRICK, GRANDSON OF THE JEWISH FAMILY MATRIARCH, MARIANNE, AND THE SON OF A CATHOLIC WOMAN, HAS BEGUN TO QUESTION HIS PRIVILEGED LIFE AND TO SEARCH FOR HIS OWN HERITAGE. MEANWHILE, HIS THREE COUSINS WRESTLE WITH THEIR DESTINIES AS THEY SEARCH FOR THEIR PARENTS' KILLERS.
LTE	6061	GRIEVOUS SIN	A PETER DECKER/RINA LAZARUS MYSTERY	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.
LTE	6173	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.© 1992
LTE	6297	DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL, THE		FRANK, ANNE		ANNE FRANK'S DIARY
LTE	6360	ROOMMATES	MY GRANDFATHER'S STORY	APPLE, MAX		THE AUTHOR DEPICTS HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS GRANDFATHER - IRASCIBLE, SCRAPPY HERMAN 'ROCKY' GOODSTEIN - WHO LIVES WITH APPLE AS HE IS GROWING UP AND TAKES OVER HIS TROUBLED FAMILY AT THE AGE OF 105, SHOWING THEM ALL HOW TO SURVIVE, HOW TO HEAL, AND HOW TO LOVE.© 1993
LTE	6406	JUSTICE	A PETER DECKER/RINA LAZARUS NOVEL	KELLERMAN, FAYE		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.© 1995
LTE	6611	OUT OF THE ASHES		MOSCO, MAISIE		WHEN HER HUSBAND DIES, MARIANNE DIRECTS HER ENERGIES TO HER CAREER AS A SUCCESSFUL AUTHOR. BUT SOON SHE FINDS HERSELF STEPPING INTO HER GRANDMOTHER'S SHOES AS MATRIARCH OF A PROUD BUT TROUBLED FAMILY. © 1989
LTE	6612	HOW GOOD DO WE HAVE TO BE?	A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF GUILT AND FORGIVENESS	KUSHNER, HAROLD, RABBI		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. © 1996
LTE	6621	PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD		KELLERMAN, FAYE	N/A	WHEN CELEBRATED HEART SURGEON AZOR SPARKS IS MURDERED, LIEUTENANT PETER DECKER AND HIS TEAM OF DETECTIVES WORK OVERTIME TO UNRAVEL THE MYSTERY. THE DEEPER THEY PROBE, THE MORE MURKY THE CASE GROWS. TO FURTHER COMPLICATE THE INVESTIGATION, OLD SECRETS ARE RESURRECTED. © 1998
LTE	7147	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. © 1991
LTE	7264	BOOK BORROWER		MATTISON, ALICE		IN HER THIRD NOVEL, THE AUTHOR DEPICTS THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN TWO WOMEN, SET AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF A 1920S TROLLEY STRIKE LED BY A YOUNG JEWISH WOMAN ANARCHIST. © 1999
LTE	7299	CHILDREN IN THE HOLOCAUST AND WORLD WAR II	THEIR SECRET DIARIES	HOLLIDAY, LAUREL	N/A	PSYCHOTHERAPIST HOLLIDAY SEARCHED GLOBALLY FRO DIARIES OF YOUNG ADULTS, JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH, PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED. SHE USED 22 EXCERPTS OF VARYING LENGTH AND PRECEDED EACH WITH AN EXPLANATORY NOTE AND THE DIARIST'S ULTIMATE FATE. THE BEST-KNOWN DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL, ANN FRANK'S, IS NOT INCLUDED. OF PARTICULAR GRACE IS THE VOICE OF HANNAH SENESH OF HUNGARY, WHO FLED TO PALESTINE IN 1939 AND RETURNED AS A JEWISH SPY. MOST MOVING IS MOSHE FLINKER'S ANGUISH FROM HIS HIDING PLACE IN BELGUIM…AND A SENSE OF HUMOR INFORMS TEN-YEAR-OLD JANINE PHILIP'S REPORT OF WAR-TORN POLAND. THIS BOOK LENDS YET ANOTHER DIMENSION TO HOLOCAUST AND WARTIME LITERATURE. © 1995
LTE	7646	COVENANT OF THE SOUL	NEW PRAYERS, POEMS AND MEDITATIONS	WOMEN OF REFORM JUDAISM	N/A	THIS BOOK IS A TOLD AND RESOURCE FOR SISTERHOOD WOMEN WRITTEN BY SISTERHOOD WOMEN. IT IS MEANT TO GUIDE AND INSPIRE ALL WHO LEAD AND PARTICIPATE IN PRAYERS OF WOMEN OF REFORM JUDAISM.© 2000
LTE	7768	SHADOWS OF SIN	A JESSIE DRAKE MYSTERY	KRICH, ROCHELLE	N/A	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
LTE	7809	AROUND THE MAGGID'S TABLE	MORE CLASSIC STORIES AND PARABLES FROM THE GREAT TEACHERS OF ISRAEL	KROHN, PAYSACH RABBI	N/A	THIS SEQUEL TO THE MAGGID SPEAKS CONTAINS MORE STORIES AND THEIR MORALS, AS TOLD BY SOME OF THE ORTHODOX JEWRY'S MOST ELOQUENT AND POPULAR SPEAKERS. THE BOOK CAPTURES THE DISTINCTIVE ART OF THE MAGGID. 1989
LTE	8166	THIS IS MY GOD	THE JEWISH WAY OF LIFE	WOUK, HERMAN		A BOOK ABOUT JUDAISM FOR JEWS AND NON-JEWS THAT EXPLAINS AND CLARIFIES BELIEFS AND TRADITIONS, LAWS, HISTORY, LITURGY, AND OBSERVANCES.
LTE	8180	HIDDEN CHILD		MILMAN, ISAAC		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.
LTE	8271	PRAGUE SPRING	A SIMON WOLFE MYSTERY	DEL BOURGO, DAVID	MD LAUFER	THE MURDER OF A UNITED STATES CONGRESSMAN'S SON SENDS INSPECTOR SIMON WOLFE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO POLICE DEPARTMENT ON A PURSUIT IN WHICH HE IS BLACKMAILED WITH HIS PAST AS AN ISRAELI ASSASSIN. WHEN INSPECTOR WOLFE FALLS IN LOVE WITH THE DEAD BOY'S PSYCHIATRIST AND MUST PROTECT HER FROM A ROGUE NAZI OPERATIVE, HE IS FORCED TO COME TO TERMS WITH HIS UNCOMPROMISING NOTIONS OF JUSTICE THAT WERE FORMED WHEN HE WAS A PRISONER IN AUSCHWITZ.
LTE	8272	I'M NOT GOING BACK	WARTIME MEMOIR OF A CHILD EVACUEE	WINTROB, KITTY	N/A	AT THE START OF WORLD WAR II, THOUSANDS OF SCHOOL-CHILDREN ARE EVACUATED FROM LONDON TO THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE BEFORE GERMAN BOMBS BEGIN TO FALL. KITTY SIMMONDS, A 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL, ISN'T PLEASED TO BE LEAVING HER MUM BEHIND. ONCE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE, SHE'S STUNNED AT THE HARDSHIPS SHE HAS TO ENDURE FROM HER "FOSTER PARENTS" AS SHE STRUGGLES TO MAINTAIN HER JEWISH IDENTITY IN AN ALIEN WORLD.
LTE	8292	NOW YOU SEE ME	A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE	KRICH, ROCHELLE	N/A	A FAN OF LOS ANGELES CRIME REPORTER MOLLY BLUME DESPERATELY NEEDS MOLLY'S HELP IN FINDING HIS EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, HADASSAH, WHO HAS RUN AWAY FROM HOME TO BE WITH A MAN SHE MET ON THE INTERNET. THE MORE MOLLY LOOKS FOR CLUES TO THE MISSING GIRL'S FATE, THE MORE SHE WONDERS: IS HADASSAH A RANDOM VICTIM OF A PREDATOR, OR IS THE GIRL A PAWN IN A SCHEME OF REVENGE AGAINST HER FAMILY?
LTE	8336	GUILTY PLEA		ROTENBERG, ROBERT	TOM LIVINGSTON	WITH THE GUILTY PLEA, A GRIPPING SEQUEL TO THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER OLD CITY HALL, ROBERT ROTENBERG HAS DELIVERED ANOTHER SHARP, SUSPENSEFUL LEGAL THRILLER WITH AN EXPLOSIVE CONCLUSION.
LTE	8386	DEATH IN VIENNA	A NOVEL	TALLIS, FRANK	TRANSCRIBED BY JOANNE MARX	DETECTIVE OSKAR RHEINHARDT, WHO IS ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF MODERN POLICE WORK, AND DR. MAX LIEBERMANN, A FOLLOWER OF SIGMUND FREUD MUST USE BOTH HARD EVIDENCE AND INTUITIVE ANALYSIS TO SOLVE A MEDIUM'S MYSTERIOUS MURDER-ONE THAT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN COMMITTED BY ANYONE ALIVE.
LTE	8387	SOUTHERN LIGHTS		STEEL, DANIELLE		DANIELLE STEEL SWEEPS US FROM A MANHATTAN COURTROOM TO THE DEEP SOUTH IN HER POWERFUL NEW NOVEL—AT ONCE A BEHIND-CLOSED-DOORS LOOK INTO THE HEART OF A FAMILY AND A TALE OF CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.
LTE	8388	LAST SONG		SPARKS, NICHOLAS		AN UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF LOVE ON MANY LEVELS--FIRST LOVE, LOVE BETWEEN PARENTS AND CHILDREN -- THAT DEMONSTRATES, AS ONLY A NICHOLAS SPARKS NOVEL CAN, THE MANY WAYS THAT LOVE CAN BREAK OUR HEARTS...AND HEAL THEM.
LTE	8389	HAVE A LITTLE FAITH	A TRUE STORY	ALBOM, MITCH		THE AUTHOR BRINGS HIS TWO CLERGYMEN-PROTAGONISTS-AN ELDERLY RABBI FROM ALBOM'S HOME SYNAGOGUE AND AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN PASTOR LEADING A MINISTRY TO DETROIT'S HOMELESS POPULATION-TO VIVID LIFE AND CONVEYS THEIR MESSAGES OF FAITH WITH SENSITIVITY AND RESPECT.
LTE	8390	BREAKING THE RULES	HARTE FAMILY SAGA	BRADFORD, BARBARA TAYLOR		FOLLOWING A TERRIFYING ENCOUNTER, A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN FLEES THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE IN SEARCH OF A NEW LIFE. SOMEONE FROM HER PAST, A PSYCHOPATH WITH DEADLY INTENT, HAS MADE A VOW TO SHATTER HER WORLD FOREVER… SHE ALSO MAKES A VOW: TO DO EVERYTHING IN HER POWER TO KEEP HERSELF SAFE AND PROTECT HER LOVED ONES--EVEN IF THAT MEANS BREAKING THE RULES.
LTE	8391	DA VINCI CODE		BROWN, DAN		A MURDER IN THE SILENT AFTER-HOUR HALLS OF THE LOUVRE MUSEUM REVEALS A SINISTER PLOT TO UNCOVER A SECRET THAT HAS BEEN PROTECTED BY A CLANDESTINE SOCIETY SINCE THE DAYS OF CHRIST.
LTE	8392	RETURN TO SENDER		MICHAELS, FERN		LIN TOWNSEN, HAD A ROUGH CHILDHOOD AND GOT PREGNANT AT 17, THEN KICKED OUT BY HER RELIGIOUS FATHER AND REJECTED BY THE BABY’S FATHER. 20 YEARS LATER SHE RAN INTO THE MAN WHO ABANDONED HER ALL THOSE YEARS AGO. FILLED WITH ANGER AND RESOLVED TO PUNISH NICK FOR HIS PAST ACTIONS, LIN, WITH THE HELP OF A HIRED DETECTIVE, BEGINS TO UNRAVEL THE TRUTH OF HER PAST AND MAKE IMPORTANT DECISIONS ABOUT HER FUTURE.
LTE	8393	TRUE BELIEVER		SPARKS, NICHOLAS		JEREMY MARSH IS A SCIENCE JOURNALIST WHO SPECIALIZES IN DEBUNKING THE SUPERNATURAL. WHEN HE HEARS ABOUT GHOSTLY APPARITIONS IN A CEMETERY IN BOONE CREEK, NORTH CAROLINA, HE LEAVES NEW YORK CITY FOR THIS SMALL TOWN. HE FALLS IN LOVE WITH A LOCAL WOMAN. NOW JEREMY MUST MAKE A DIFFICULT CHOICE: RETURN TO THE LIFE HE KNOWS IN NEW YORK, OR DO SOMETHING HE COULD NEVER DO BEFORE... TAKE A GIANT LEAP OF FAITH.
LTE	8394	MATTERS OF THE HEART		STEEL, DANIEL		A POWERFUL AND UNUSUAL STORY OF ONE WOMAN’S JOURNEY FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT, AS SHE FIGHTS TO ESCAPE A MESMERIZING SOCIOPATH WHO HOLDS HER IN HIS THRALL. . . .
LTE	8395	PEEP SHOW		ENGLANDER, NATHAN		A FUNNY, SURPRISING, SURREAL STORY OF SEXUAL LONGING AND THE DEEPER SHADOWS OF DESIRE.
LTE	8396	BETWEEN FRIENDS		OZ, AMOS		THE EIGHT INTERCONNECTED STORIES, SET IN THE FICTITIOUS KIBBUTZ YEKHAT, DRAW PROFILES OF IDEALISTIC MEN AND WOMEN ENDURING PERSONAL HARDSHIPS IN THE SHADOW OF ONE OF THE GREATEST COLLECTIVE DREAMS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
LTE	8397	NATASHA:AND OTHER STORIES		BEZMOZGIS, DAVID		NATASHA FOLLOWS THE EXPERIENCES OF A FAMILY OF RUSSIAN JEWS WHO SETTLE IN TORONTO AND SET ABOUT REINVENTING THEMSELVES. THE LOOSELY CONNECTED STORIES ARE NARRATED BY THE SON, MARK, WHO ATTEMPTS TO UNDERSTAND NOT ONLY HIS NEW WORLD BUT ALSO HIS PARENTS.
LTE	8439	PRINCE OF FIRE	GABRIEL ALLON NOVELS	SILVA,DANIEL	JOANNE MARX	ART RESTORER/ISRAELI AGENT GABRIEL ALLON (AFTER 2004'S A DEATH IN VIENNA) IS A PASSIONATE, INTELLIGENTLY CRAFTED ENTRY THAT CEMENTS THE SERIES' PLACE AMONG TODAY'S TOP SPY FICTION. THE THE STRUCTURE OF A NOVEL IS CLASSIC - THE SEMIRELUCTANT SPY, GABRIEL, IS PULLED FROM HIS COVER TO HUNT DOWN TERRORISTS WHO HAVE COMMITTED A HORRIFIC CRIME, IN THIS CASE THE BOMBING OF THE ISRAELI EMBASSY IN ROME.
LTE	8470	SPOON FROM MINKOWITZ	A BITTERSWEET ROOTS JOURNEY TO ANCESTRAL LANDS	FEIN, JUDITH		INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL WRITER JUDITH FEIN RESEARCHES AND VISITS HER GRANDMOTHER'S BIRTHPLACE. THE RESULTING BOOK, FIILLED WITH FASCINATING PEOPLE AND BITTERSWEET HISTORY, TELLS US WHERE SHE CAME FROM, WHAT THE OLD WORLD WAS LIKE, AND WHAT REMAINS OF THE PLACES SO MANY OF OUR ANCESTORS LEFT BEHIND WHEN THEY CAME TO AMERICA.
LTE	8498	MONDAY THE RABBI TOOK OFF		KEMELMAN, HARRY	JOANNE MARX	PUBLISHER'S LARGE PRINT EDITION FROM THE "DAYS-OF-THE-WEEK" SERIES STARRING RABBI DAVID SMALL, WHO UTILIZES HIS KNOWLEDGE OF TALMUDIC METHODOLOGY TO SOLVE MYSTERIES. HERE, THE SMALL FAMILY TAKES A VACATION TRIP TO JERUSALEM, BUT THE RABBI FINDS HIMSELF "UP AGAINST THE WALL" IN AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT INVOLVING A YOUNG AMERICAN STUDENT, ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE, AND A GROUP OF ARAB TERRORISTS WITH MURDER ON THEIR MINDS. © 1972
LTE	8503	LOST TORAH OF SHANGHAI		FRANK, LINDA	MARIE HOFFMAN	AS ISRAEL BRAVES SADDAM HUSSEIN’S SCUD MISSILES, A TORAH FROM IRAQ DISAPPEARS IN CHINA. CAN THE “JEWISH MISS MARPLE” FIND THE HISTORIC RELIGIOUS SCROLL IN TIME FOR A MOMENTOUS DIPLOMATIC
LTE	8596	LIONESS	GOLDA MEIR AND THE NATION OF ISRAEL	KLAGSBRUN, FRANCINE		THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF THE IRON-WILLED LEADER, CHAIN-SMOKING POLITICAL OPERATIVE, AND TEA-AND-CAKE-SERVING GRANDMOTHER WHO BECAME THE FOURTH PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL
LTE	8597	HOMEGOING	A NOVEL	GUASI, YAA		BOOK FOLLOWS THE PARALLEL PATHS OF TWO SISTERS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS THROUGH EIGHT GENERATIONS: FROM THE GOLD COAST TO THE PLANTATIONS OF MISSISSIPPI, FROM THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR TO JAZZ AGE HARLEM.
LTE	8598	NIGHTINGALE	A NOVEL	HANNA, KRISTIN		THE STORIES OF TWO SISTERS, SEPARATED BY YEARS AND EXPERIENCE, BY IDEALS, PASSION AND CIRCUMSTANCE, EACH EMBARKING ON HER OWN DANGEROUS PATH TOWARD SURVIVAL, LOVE, AND FREEDOM IN GERMAN-OCCUPIED, WAR-TORN FRANCE.
LTE	8599	LAST YEAR OF THE WAR		MEISSNER, SUSAN		A NOVEL ABOUT A GERMAN AMERICAN TEENAGER WHOSE LIFE CHANGES FOREVER WHEN HER IMMIGRANT FAMILY IS SENT TO AN INTERNMENT CAMP DURING WORLD WAR II.
LTE	8600	DREAM DAUGHTER		CHAMBERLAIN, DIANE		ONE MOTHER'S JOURNEY TO SAVE HER CHILD.
LTE	8601	ME BEFORE YOU		MOYES, JOJO		THEY HAD NOTHING IN COMMON UNTIL LOVE GAVE THEM EVERYTHING TO LOSE . . .LOVE STORY.
LTE	8602	LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE	A NOVEL	NG, CELESTE		THREE CHICAGO WOMEN HAVE BEEN FOUND STRANGLED, EMBALMED, AND POSED AS IF STILL ALIVE. DOUBTING THE FINDINGS OF THE LOCAL PD’S PROFILER, THE FBI CALLS ON FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGIST ZOE BENTLEY TO INVESTIGATE.
LTE	8603	AFFAIR	A Jack Reacher Novel	CHILD, LEE		A LONELY RAILROAD TRACK. A CRIME SCENE. A COVER-UP. A YOUNG WOMAN IS DEAD, AND SOLID EVIDENCE POINTS TO A SOLDIER AT A NEARBY MILITARY BASE. BUT THAT SOLDIER HAS POWERFUL FRIENDS IN WASHINGTON. REACHER IS ORDERED UNDERCOVER TO FIND OUT EVERYTHING HE CAN.
LTE	8604	GIVER OF STARS	A NOVEL	MOYES, JOJO		A BREATHTAKING STORY OF FIVE EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN AND THEIR REMARKABLE JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS OF KENTUCKY AND BEYOND.
LTE	8605	INTO THE WATER		HAWKINS, PAULA		A SINGLE MOTHER TURNS UP DEAD AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER THAT RUNS THROUGH TOWN. EARLIER IN THE SUMMER, A TEENAGE GIRL MET THE SAME FATE. THEY ARE NOT THE FIRST WOMEN LOST TO THESE DARK WATERS, BUT THEIR DEATHS DISTURB THE RIVER AND ITS HISTORY, DREDGING UP SECRETS LONG SUBMERGED.
LTE	8606	LINE OF SIGHT	A JACK RYAN JR. NOVEL	CLANCY, TOM		TWENTY-SIX YEARS AGO, DR. CATHY RYAN RESTORED THE EYESIGHT OF A YOUNG BOSNIAN GIRL WHO HAD BEEN INJURED DURING AN ATTACK IN THE BOSNIAN WAR. TODAY, HER SON JACK RYAN, JR. HAS AGREED TO TRACK DOWN THE YOUNG WOMAN AND DELIVER A LETTER FROM HIS MOTHER. WHAT HE FINDS SHOCKS THEM BOTH.
LTE	8607	WHAT ALICE FORGOT		MORIARTY, LIANE		ALICE IS 29, LOVES HER HUSBAND, AND PREGNANT WITH HER FIRST CHILD. SO IMAGINE ALICE’S SURPRISE WHEN SHE COMES TO ON THE FLOOR OF A GYM AND IS WHISKED OFF TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE SHE DISCOVERS THAT SHE’S GETTING DIVORCED, SHE HAS THREE KIDS, AND SHE’S ACTUALLY 39 YEARS OLD.
LTE	8608	firefly lane		HANNAH, KRISTIN		SPANNING MORE THAN THREE DECADES AND PLAYING OUT ACROSS THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, FIREFLY LANE IS THE POIGNANT, POWERFUL STORY OF TWO WOMEN AND THE FRIENDSHIP THAT BECOMES THE BULKHEAD OF THEIR LIVES.
LTE	8609	run		PATCHETT, ANN		AN ENGROSSING STORY OF ONE FAMILY ON ONE FATEFUL NIGHT IN BOSTON WHERE SECRETS ARE UNLOCKED AND NEW BONDS ARE FORMED.
LTE	8610	CUTTING FOR STONE		VERGHESE, ABRAHAM		A FUNNY HEARTACHE OF A NOVEL ABOUT OVERCOMING THE PAST, CONFRONTING THE FUTURE, AND DEFYING ALL EXPECTATIONS.
LTE	8611	ENEMY	A REACHER NOVEL	CHILD, LEE		NEW YEAR’S DAY, 1990. THE BERLIN WALL IS COMING DOWN. THE WORLD IS CHANGING. AND IN A NORTH CAROLINA “HOT-SHEETS” MOTEL, A TWO-STAR GENERAL IS FOUND DEAD. HIS BRIEFCASE IS MISSING. NOBODY KNOWS WHAT WAS IN IT. WITHIN MINUTES JACK REACHER HAS HIS ORDERS: CONTROL THE SITUATION.
LTE	8612	GIRL FROM BERLIN		BALSON, RICHARD H.		LIAM AND CATHERINE COME TO THE AID OF AN OLD FRIEND AND ARE DRAWN INTO A PROPERTY DISPUTE IN TUSCANY THAT UNEARTHS LONG-BURIED SECRETS.
LTE	8613	FAMILY UPSTAIRS		JEWELL, LISA		THE PAUSE-RESISTING LOOK INSIDE ONE FAMILY’S PAST AS BURIED SECRETS THREATEN TO COME TO LIGHT.
LTE	8614	GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW		TOWLES, AMOR		A BEAUTIFULLY TRANSPORTING NOVEL ABOUT A MAN WHO IS ORDERED TO SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE INSIDE A LUXURY HOTEL.
LTE	8615	CILKAS'S JOURNEY		MORRIS, HEATHER		AN INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF LOVE AND RESILIENCE. 16 Y.O CILKA IS TAKEN TO AUSCHWITZ. THE COMMANDANT NOTICES HOW BEAUTIFUL SHE IS. FORCIBLY SEPARATED FROM THE OTHER WOMEN PRISONERS, CILKA LEARNS THAT POWER EQUALS SURVIVAL. WHEN THE CAMP IS LIBERATED SHE IS CHARGED AS A COLLABORATOR FOR SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY AND SENT TO A SIBERIAN PRISON CAMP. WHERE DO THE LINES OF MORALITY LIE FOR CILKA?
LTE	8616	61 HOURS	A REACHER NOVEL	LEE, CHILD		A TOUR BUS CRASHES IN A SAVAGE SNOWSTORM AND LANDS JACK REACHER IN THE MIDDLE OF A DEADLY CONFRONTATION. THE NEXT 61 HOURS WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. THE SECRETS ARE DEADLIER AND HIS ENEMIES ARE STRONGER THAN HE COULD HAVE GUESSED.
LTE	8617	READER'S DIGEST SELECT EDITIONS VOL.4 2011				THIS EDITION INCLUDES TWO BOOKS: AN IRISH COUNTRY COURTSHIP BY PATRICK TAYLOR AND THIS TIME TOGETHER BY CAROL BURNETT
LTE	8618	READER'S DIGEST SELECT EDITIONS VOL.178 2012		MARTIN, CHARLES; REQICHS, KERRY		THIS EDITION INCLUDES THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US BY CHARLES MARTIN AND LEAVING UNKNOWN BY KERRY REICHS
LTE	8619	READER'S DIGEST SELECT EDITIONS VOL.179, 2012		TRIGIANI, ADRIANA; GATELY, ROBERTA		THIS EDITION INCLUDES VERY VALENTINE BY ADRIANA TRIGIANI AND LIPSTICK IN AFGANISTAN BY ROBERTA GATELY
LTE	8620	READER'S DIGEST SELECT EDITIONS VOL.175, 2011		SPARKS, NICHOLAS; TAPPLY, WILLIAM G		THIS EDITION INCLUDES SAFE HAVEN BY NICHOLAS SPARKS AND OUTWITTING TROLLS BY WILLIAM G.TAPPLY
LTE	8621	READER'S DIGEST SELECT EDITIONS VOL.177, 2012		CAMERON, W. BRUCE; MILNE, KEVIN ALAN		THIS EDITION INCLUDES A DOG'S PURPOSE BY W. BRUCE CAMERON AND SWEET MISFORTUNE BY KEVIN ALAN MILNE
LTE	8622	THIS TIME TOGETHER	LAUGHTER AND REFLECTION	BURNETT, CAROL		CAROL TELLS ONE FUNNY OR TOUCHING OR MEMORABLE STORY AFTER ANOTHER. SHE REMEMBERS HER REMARKABLE FRIENDSHIPS WITH SUCH STARS AS JIMMY STEWART, LUCILLE BALL, CARY GRANT, AND JULIE ANDREWS;AND GIVES THE BACKGROUND BEHIND FAMOUS SCENES.
LTE	8623	LAST TRAIN TO LONDON	A NOVEL	CLAYTON, MEG WAITE		A PRE-WORLD WAR II-ERA STORY, CENTERING ON THE KINDERTRANSPORTS THAT CARRIED THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN OUT OF NAZI-OCCUPIED EUROPE—AND ONE BRAVE WOMAN WHO HELPED THEM ESCAPE TO SAFETY.