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1.  Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day UkraineOmer Bartov |
Reviewed in The Forward, Dec. 14 List Price: $26.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 256 pages (September 17, 2007) added 12/23 |
2.  Yeltsin: A LifeTimothy J. Colton |
List Price: $35.00 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 600 pages (April 7, 2008) added 4/18 |
| 3.The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia Orlando Figes |
Reviewed in the Sunday Times (of London), Sept. 23 plus article in the Sept. 30 issue; S.F. Chronicle, Nov. 25; NY Times, Nov. 25; NY Times, Dec. 2 List Price: $35.00 Availability: Due to ship In stock. Hardcover - 784 pages (November 13, 2007) |
4.  Vitebsk: The Life of ArtAleksandra Shatskikh |
Reviewed in the Forward, March 21 Availability: In stock. |
5.  The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's RussiaTim Tzouliadis |
List Price: $29.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover 448 pages (July 17, 2008) |
6.  The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to SolzhenitsynSolomon Volkov (Author), Antonina Bouis (Translator) |
Reviewed in The NY Times, May 4 Availability: In stock. |
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1.  Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and FoundMarie Brenner |
Reviewed in The NY Times, June 29 List Price: $24.00 Availability: In stock. |
2.  GoldaElinor Burkett |
Reviewed in The J., June 27 List Price: $27.95 Availability: In stock. |
3.  Alfred Kazin: A Biography Richard M. Cook |
Reviewed in NY Times, Jan. 27 & The Forward, Feb. 22 List Price: $35.00 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 464 pages (January 27, 2008) |
4.  Elie Wiesel: A Religious BiographyFrederick L. Downing |
List Price: $29.00 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 224 pages (March 2008) added 4/18 |
5.  Sit, Ubu, Sit: How I went from Brooklyn to Hollywood with the same woman, the same dog, and a lot less hair Gary David Goldberg |
List Price: $23.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 288 pages (February 5, 2008) |
6. Growing Up at Grossinger'sTania Grossinger |
List Price: $14.95 Availability: In stock. Paperback - 224 pages (June 1, 2008) |
7.  Moose: A Memoir of Fat CampStephanie Klein |
Reviewed in The J., July 11 List Price: $24.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 320 pages (May 27, 2008) added 7/13/08 |
8.  The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New WorldLucette Lagnado |
Winner of the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize List Price: $25.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 352 pages (June 26, 2007) added 2/23/08 |
9.  Shut Up, I'm Talking: And Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government--A Memoir Gregory Levey |
Reviewed in The J., May 9 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 288 pages (April 22, 2008) |
10.  David Mamet: A Life in the TheatreIra B. Nadel |
Reviewed in The NY Times, Feb. 24 List Price: $26.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 304 pages (February 5, 2008) |
11.  Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ReligionDanya Ruttenberg |
List Price: $24.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 256 pages (August 15, 2008) |
12.  Lamentations of Youth: The Diaries of Gershom Scholem, 1913-1919 Gershom Scholem (Author), Anthony David Skinner (Author) |
Reviewed in The Forward, March 21 List Price: $39.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 330 pages (January 15, 2008) |
13.  The Sky Isn't Visible from Here: Scenes from a LifeFelicia Sullivan |
List Price: $23.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 272 pages (February 5, 2008) |
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15.  Undiscovered Debra Winger |
Reviewed in The J., June 13 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 208 pages (June 10, 2008) |
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1.  Abraham's Curse: The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Bruce Chilton |
List Price: $24.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 272 pages (February 19, 2008) |
2.  The Last Jews of Kerala: The Two Thousand Year History of India's Forgotten Jewish Communitydna Fernandes |
List Price: $24.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 256 pages (June 1, 2008) |
3.  Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of HistoryNorman Finkelstein |
List Price: $15.95 Availability: In stock. Paperback - 343 pages (April 15, 2008) |
4.  Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam John F. Rothmann (Author), David G. Dalin (Author), |
Reviewed in The J., June 20; S.F. Chronicle, July 20 List Price: $26.00 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 240 pages June 24, 2008) |
5.  Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy Natan Sharansky |
List Price: $26.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 304 pages (March 24, 2008) added 5/23 |
6.  The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America Beth Wenger |
Companion book to the PBS Series "Jewish Americans" Reviewed in The J., Jan. 4; Forward, Jan. 25 List Price: $40.00 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 400 pages (October 23, 2007) added 1/4/08 |
7.  Jews and Power Ruth R. Wisse |
Reviewed in The NY Times, Sept. 2; Moment Mag., Oct./Nov.; The J., Jan. 18; The Forward, May 16 List Price: $19.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 256 pages (August 28, 2007) |
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1.  Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943 Gotz Aly |
Reviewed in The NY Times, Jan. 20 List Price: $20.00 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 144 pages (January 8, 2008) |
2. Until Our Last Breath: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan ResistanceMichael Bart (Author), Laurel Corona (Author) |
Reviewed in The Forward, May 30 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 336 pages (May 15, 2008) |
3. Joshua and Isadora: A True Tale of Loss and Love in the HolocaustMichael Benanav |
Reviewed in The Forward, May 30 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 264 pages (April 15, 2008) |
4.  Tell Me Another Morning: An Autobiographical NovelZdena Berger |
Reviewed in The J., July 11 List Price: $15.95 Availability: In stock. Paperback - 256 pages (April 1, 2007) |
5.  The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945Saul Friedlander |
Reviewed in The Forward, June 1; NY Times, June 24; Hadassah Mag., Aug./Sept.; NY Times, Dec. 2 List Price: $19.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover 896 pages (April 1, 2008) |
6. Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi CityGordon J. Horwitz |
List Price: $29.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 360 pages (May 15, 2008) |
7.  Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the HolocaustAnna Porter |
Reviewed in The Forward, Feb. 15 List Price: $27.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 464 pages (March 18, 2008) |
8. Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village Mimi Schwartz |
Reviewed in The Forward, May 30 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 280 pages (March 1, 2008) |
9. Sondra's SearchE. Katz Silvers |
List Price: $21.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 248 pages (November 2007) added 12/13 |
10. Hidden Letters Deborah Slier & Ian Shine (Adapter), Marion Pritchard (Translator) |
List Price: $35.00 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 192 pages (February 28, 2008) added 5/30/08 |
11. Flory: A Miraculous Story of SurvivalFlory Van Beek |
Reviewed in The Forward, May 30 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 256 pages (April 8, 2008) |
12. Rutka's Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust Editors of Time Magazine (Author), Yad Vashem (Author), Kelly Knauer (Editor) |
Reviewed in The Forward, May 30 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 96 pages (April 28, 2008) |
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1.  The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace At Last Bernard Avishai |
Reviewed in The NY Times, June 29 List Price: $26.00 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 304 pages (April 21, 2008) |
2.  Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948Hillel Cohen |
Reviewed in The Jewish Chronicle (London), Jan. 11List Price: $29.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 352 pages (January 3, 2008) |
3.  Ambivalence: Adventures in Israel and PalestineJonathan Garfinkel |
List Price: $25.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 288 Pages (August 5, 2008) |
4. Jerusalem: City of LongingSimon Goldhill |
List Price: $27.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 368 pages (May 15, 2008) |
5.  The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli PeaceAaron David Miller |
List Price: $26.00 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 416 pages (March 25, 2008) added 4/18 |
6.  1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli WarBenny Morris |
Reviewed in The NY Times, May 4List Price: $32.50 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 544 pages (April 21, 2008) |
7.  A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle EastKenneth Pollack |
List Price: $30.00 Availability: In stock. Hardcover 592 pages (July 15, 2008) |
8. Israel Through My LensDavid Rubinger (Photographer), Ruth Corman (Contributor) |
List Price: $35.00 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 280 pages (January 28, 2008) |
9.  Jerusalem's Temple Mount: From Solomon to the Golden Dome Hershel Shanks |
Reviewed in Hadassah Mag., Feb. 08 List Price: $39.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 216 pages (October 14, 2007) |
10. Army Fatigues: Joining Israel's Army of International VolunteersMark Werner |
List Price: $21.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 279 pages (January 8, 2008) added 7/6/08 |
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