American
Synagogues : A Century of Architecture and Jewish Community
by Samuel Gruber
Hardcover from Rizzoli
Book Published: October, 2003
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and
the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
by Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman
Listed under Israel
Becoming American, Remaining Jewish : The Story of Wilmington, Delaware's
First Jewish Community, 1879-1924
by Toni Young
Listed under Delaware
But
He Was Good to His Mother : The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters
by Robert A. Rockaway
Paperback from Gefen Books
Book Published: February, 2000
By Way of Deception
by Victor Ostrovsky
Listed under Mossad
Change Within Tradition Among Jewish Women in Libya
by Rachel Simon
Listed under Libya
Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain
by Vivian B. Mann, Thomas F. Glick, Jerrilynn Denise Dodds
Listed under Medieval Spain
Cultures
of the Jews: A New History
by David Biale (Editor)
Hardcover: 1200 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 2.33
x 9.42 x 7.18
Publisher: Schocken Books; (October 15, 2002)
ISBN: 0805241310
The Damascus Affair : 'Ritual Murder', Politics, and the Jews in
1840
by Jonathan Frankel
Listed under Syrian History
Diaspora:
Homelands in Exile (2 Volume Set)
by Frederic Brenner
Book Description: Since 1978, French photographer Frédéric Brenner
has been chronicling the Jewish Diaspora by producing visual social histories
of Jewish communities. Diaspora is a photographic record of his 25-year
search for the Jewish population in 40 countries over five continents.
Volume I, 344 pages, is a collection of 262 of Brenner's more than 80,000
photographs, the most extensive and diverse visual record of Jewish life
ever created. A four page color insert includes two full-color photographs.
Volume II is 164 pages of evocative essays by leading intellectuals on
the meaning and significance to each of them of 60 of Brenner's photographs,
reproduced here in smaller format. Diaspora is a landmark project that
captures the scope and dynamism of one of the world's oldest, most diverse
communities, and challenges stereotypes held by Jews and non-Jews alike.
Hardcover from HarperCollins
Book Published: 30 September, 2003
A
Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods
by Michael Sokoloff
Hardcover from Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Book Published: January, 2003
Eichmann
in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
by Hannah Arendt
While living in Argentina in 1960, Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped
and smuggled to Israel where he was put on trial for crimes against humanity.
The New Yorker magazine sent Hannah Arendt to cover the trial. While covering
the technical aspects of the trial, Arendt also explored the wider themes
inherent in the trial, such as the nature of justice, the behavior of the
Jewish leadership during the Nazi Régime, and, most controversially, the
nature of Evil itself.
Far from being evil incarnate, as the prosecution painted Eichmann,
Arendt maintains that he was an average man, a petty bureaucrat interested
only in furthering his career, and the evil he did came from the seductive
power of the totalitarian state and an unthinking adherence to the Nazi
cause. Indeed, Eichmann's only defense during the trial was "I was just
following orders."
Arendt's analysis of the seductive nature of evil is a disturbing one.
We would like to think that anyone who would perpetrate such horror on
the world is different from us, and that such atrocities are rarities in
our world. But the history of groups such as the Jews, Kurds, Bosnians,
and Native Americans, to name but a few, seems to suggest that such evil
is all too commonplace. In revealing Eichmann as the pedestrian little
man that he was, Arendt shows us that the veneer of civilization is a thin
one indeed. Amazon.com
(Paperback - January 1994)
Embracing
Judaism
by Simcha Kling, et al
(Paperback)
50
Jewish Messiahs
by Jerry Rabow
(Hardcover)
From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over
Palestine
by Joan Peters
Listed under Arab-Israeli
War
The
Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone
Thinks and Feels (Hinges of History, Vol 2)
by Thomas Cahill
(Paperback - September 1999)
Great
Jewish Women
by Elinor Slater, Robert Slater
Hardcover from Jonathan David Pub
Book Published: 01 January, 1998
Henry Ford and the Jews
Neil Baldwin
Listed under Henry Ford
Historical
Atlas Jewish People
by Eli Barnavi
A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People, edited by Eli Barnavi, is
one of those rare books that can literally make a reader gasp with delight
and horror. It may even be the best one-volume history of Judaism in print.
Beginning with "The Migrations of the Patriarchs," and continuing to the
present day, the book's chapters include historical maps, timelines, illustrations
and photographs, and narrative essays by leading historians (such as Moshe
Idel) that help readers not only understand but visualize the movements
of the Jewish people. The editors have chosen not to structure the story
as leading inexorably to the Holocaust and the rise of Israel, although
both events are covered in some detail. Instead, they have depicted the
rich variety of lives established by the Diaspora in such far-flung places
as China and England, and have been equally attentive to the joys and triumphs
of Jews, both in everyday life and in national cultures, as to the considerable
tragedies Jews have endured. The text of this book is smart and readable,
but the real joy of the atlas is its illustrations, many of which are rarely
seen, such as 20th-century artist Abel Pann's depiction of the creation
of Adam, "He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life." It's the kind
of image that reminds you that life really is a gift, and makes you savor
it. --Michael Joseph Gross - Amazon.com
Hardcover from Schocken Books
Book Published: 07 October, 2003
History
of Edom and Khazaria
by Melchizedek Y. Lewis, Makeda Levi
Book Description The History of Edom and Khazaria dicusses the lost
Tribes of Israel, inculding the dispersion of the Children of Israel into
Ethiopia and other parts of Africa, and the history of the Edomite Jewish
nation and the Khazarian Jewish nation-past and present-and their role
in the politics and prophecy of today.
Paperback from M.Y.L. Publisher
Book Published: 01 April, 1989
Hitler's
Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish
Descent in the German Military
by Bryan Mark Rigg
Hardcover from Univ Pr of Kansas
Book Published: May, 2002
Imperfect
Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World
War II
by Stuart E. Eizenstat, Elie Wiesel (Foreword)
(Hardcover - January 2003)
Jewish Budapest: Monuments, Rites, History
by Kinga Frojimovics, Geza Komoroczy, Viktoria Pusztai, Andrea Strbik
Listed under Hungarian History
Jewish
Christians and Christian Jews: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
(International Archives of the History of Ideas, No 138)
by Richard H. Popkin, Gordon M. Weiner
Hardcover from Kluwer Academic Publishers
Book Published: January, 1994
Jewish
Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion,
Its People and Its History
by Joseph Telushkin
Hardcover from William Morrow
Book Published: September, 2001
Marc Chagall
by Jean-Michel Foray, Jakov Bruk
Listed under Marc Chagall
Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land
by Vivian B. Mann (Editor)
Listed under Morocco
A
Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation
of the Modern Middle East
by David Fromkin
(Paperback - October 2001)
The
Pity of It All: A History of the Jews in Germany, 1743-1933
by Amos Elon
Hardcover from Metropolitan Books
Book Published: 01 November, 2002
Primo
Levi : A Life
by Ian Thomson
Hardcover from Metropolitan Books
Book Published: November, 2003 |
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Schmelvis: In Search of Elvis Presley's Jewish Roots
by Jonathan Goldstein
Listed under Elvis Presley
A
Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood
by Raymond P. Scheindlin
Paperback from Oxford Press
Book Published: July, 2000
Shtetl
Finder Gazetter : Jewish Communities in the 19th and 20th Centuries in
the Pale of Settlement of Russia and Poland, and in Lithuania, Latvia
by Chester G. Cohen
The
Jerusalem Scrolls
by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene
Prolific authors Bodie and Brock Thoene have earned a loyal readership
for their fictional sagas of Jerusalem's stormy history. In The Jerusalem
Scrolls, the fourth book in the Zion Legacy series, the husband-and-wife
team surprise readers with a new spin, creating a story within a story
and swapping time periods. It's 1948 when the tale opens, and flames are
engulfing the Jewish Quarter. The battle for Old City Jerusalem is lost.
Moshe Sachar and Alfie Halder escape the chaos through a secret passageway
that leads to a cavernous, subterranean library, where the most sacred
Jewish texts lie safely hidden. As Moshe prepares for their long confinement,
he finds a tightly rolled papyrus scroll inscribed with the names Miryam
and Marcus. He reads, and the scene shifts to the first century A.D., where
a love story unfolds. Faithful fans of the series may have to stretch a
bit to make the transition from following characters they've come appreciate
to enjoying this diversion to a biblical epic. But the Thoenes have the
skill to pull it off. Their ability to craft a historical novel and their
careful attention to detail and description have resulted in sales of 6
million copies of their books in print, and eight Gold Medallion awards.
--Cindy
Crosby - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 272 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x
9.59 x 6.42
Viking Press; ISBN: 0670030120; (October 11, 2001) |
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Thunder
from Jerusalem (Thoene, Bodie, Zion Legacy, Bk. 2.)
by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene
(Hardcover - October 2000)
The
Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded
Paperback Edition)
by Simon Wiesenthal, et al
(Paperback)
To
Baghdad and Back: The Miraculous 2,000 Year Homecoming of the Iraqi Jews
by Mordechai Ben Porat, Mordechai Ben-Porat
(Hardcover - December 1998)
The
Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich
and Jewish Palestine
by Edwin Black
Paperback from Carroll & Graf
Book Published: March, 2001
A
Treasury of Jewish Folklore: Stories, Traditions, Legends, Humor, Wisdom
and Folk Songs of the Jewish People
by Nathan Ausubel (Editor)
The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage
by Arthur Koestler
Listed under Medieval Russia
An
Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust
by Bernat Rosner, Frederic C. Tubach, Sally P. Tubach
Hardcover from University of California Press
Book Published: 04 April, 2001
Why
the Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism
by Dennis Prager, Joseph Telushkin
Paperback from Touchstone Books
Book Published: August, 2003
What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?: What
Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel
by William G. Dever
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