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Vendor: Aharon Appelfeld
To the Edge of Sorrow
From "fiction's foremost chronicler of the Holocaust" (Philip Roth), here is a haunting novel about an unforgettable group of Jewish partisans fighting the Nazis during World War II. Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance...- $26.95
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Vendor: Pam Jenoff
The Orphan's Tale
Look for Pam Jenoff's new novel, The Woman with the Blue Star, an unforgettable story of courage and friendship during wartime.A New York Times bestseller!"Readers who enjoyed Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale and Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants will embrace this novel. " --Library Journal"Secrets,...- $26.99
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Vendor: Philip Roth
Zuckerman Unbound
A "masterful" novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral tells the story of a bestselling writer whose life is falling apart--all because of his great good fortune. Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse...- $16.00
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The Extra
"Engaging . . . Yehoshua is a master in his visual sketches of scenes." --New York Times Book Review "[A] finely etched new novel . . . A marvel of a book." -- Haaretz? "Four and a half decades after his first book's publication,...- $14.99
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Vendor: Jessica Soffer
Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
"Sassy, brash, acrobatic and colorful . . . I want to read it again and again." --Time "Impressive . . . Soffer's style is natural and assured." --Meg Wolitzer, All Things Considered, NPR Lorca spends her life poring over cookbooks to earn the love...- $14.95
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Vendor: Roberta Rich
Harem Midwife
An opulent, riveting, and suspenseful continuation of the thrilling historical novel The Midwife of Venice set in medieval Constantinople. AN OPULENT, CAPTIVATING, AND SUSPENSEFUL HISTORICAL NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE THRILLING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE MIDWIFE OF VENICE The Imperial Harem, Constantinople, 1578. Hannah...- $21.99
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Vendor: Reed Farrel Coleman
The James Deans
Still reeling from his wife's recent miscarriage, Moe Prager is bullied into taking the case of an up-and-coming politico whose career has stalled over the suspicious disappearance of a young woman. It's been almost two years since Moira Heaton, State Senator Steven Brightman's intern,...- $16.95
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Vendor: Lara Vapnyar
There Are Jews in My House
There Are Jews in My House is one of the most striking debuts of recent years. Tracing the lives and aspirations of Russians living in Moscow and Brooklyn, these poignant, sad and funny stories create a luminous new literary world. In the title story,...- $13.95
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Vendor: Stephen Maitland-Lewis
Emeralds Never Fade
Before World War II, two German boys enjoy playing piano, and one visits twice each week to teach the other. When the Nazis seize power, the lessons must end -- one of the boys is Jewish.Leo Bergner, the Jewish pupil, escapes Germany while his...- $25.95
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Vendor: Ani Tuzman
The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov
A novel inspired by the legendary spiritual master, Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezar, known as the Baal Shem Tov, the Good Master of the Name, who beckoned forth love from the hearts of rag pickers, ruby merchants, midwives, and murderers. Poor orphan. Simpleton. Harder to...- $27.99
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Vendor: Hubert Mingarelli
A Meal in Winter: A Novel of World War II
"The book's deceptive directness and simplicity, and its muted undercurrents of horror, will make many think of . . . Ernest Hemingway. [P]ainful, unconsoling reading . . . a reminder of the power a short, perfect work of fiction can wield." --Sam Sacks, The...- $14.99
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Vendor: Mihail Sebastian
For Two Thousand Years: The Classic Novel
Available in English for the first time, Mihail Sebastian's classic 1934 novel delves into the mind of a Jewish student in Romania during the fraught years preceding World War II. This literary masterpiece revives the ideological debates of the interwar period through the journal...- $16.95
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Vendor: Margalit Kafni
Korman's Prayer: Survivors Of Auschwitz & Holocaust Survivor True Stories from World War 2
To live through the atrocities of World War II and the worst work camp in history, will no doubt change a person. It shows how despite the worst circumstances, people can still show love and compassion toward one another. It strives to show that...- $12.24
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Vendor: Jonathan Blum
The Usual Uncertainties: Stories
Fiction. California Interest. Jewish Studies. THE USUAL UNCERTAINTIES: STORIES Jonathan Blum's highly anticipated first collection is storytelling at its finest. In precise, elegant prose, these stories follow characters and communities often consigned to the edge of the frame: a community college dropout, a geriatric...- $18.00
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Vendor: Jami Attenberg
Saint Mazie
Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her...- $38.00
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Vendor: Lena Rotmensz
Parallel Lives: The Remarkable Story of a Young Jewish Family Separated by World War II
Based on a true story. Liliana is a beautiful and educated young Jewish woman. She marries Henry and becomes a mother to Rebecca. She has a full life ahead of her in Poland, or so it seems.The time period is the beginning of World...- $15.10
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Vendor: Kirsty Manning
The Song of the Jade Lily
"Kirsty Manning weaves together little-known threads of World War II history, family secrets, the past and the present into a page-turning, beautiful novel.-- Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzA gripping historical novel that tells the little-known story...- $39.99
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Vendor: David Vogel
Married Life
David Vogel has long been regarded as a leading figure of Hebrew literature, and his work has been compared to that of Joseph Roth, Thomas Mann, and Franz Kafka. Married Life, which was first published in 1929, is Vogel's magnum opus--a sweeping portrait of...- $29.95
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Vendor: Yaron Reshef
Underneath a changing sky
Poland 1935. When Syma - a young doctor, an independent woman with a mind of her own, decides to leave home and embark on an adventure in a strange land, she cannot imagine the powerful emotional whirlpool she'll find herself in.Daily life in Palestine...- $19.95
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Vendor: Jay Parini
Benjamin's Crossing
The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days--adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini. It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin--the German-Jewish critic and philosopher--has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi...- $16.95
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Vendor: Andy Weinberger
An Old Man's Game: An Amos Parisman Mystery
When a controversial rabbi drops dead over his matzoh ball soup at Canter's Deli in Los Angeles, retired private eye Amos Parisman is hired by the temple's board to make sure everything is kosher. As he looks into what seems to be a simple,...- $26.99
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Vendor: Judith Berlowitz
Home So Far Away
A fictional diary set in interwar Germany and Spain allows us to peek into the life of Klara Philipsborn, the only Communist in her merchant-class, German-Jewish family. Klara's first visit to Seville in 1925 opens her eyes and her spirit to an era in...- $16.95
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Vendor: Amos Oz
Between Friends
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: A "gorgeous, rueful collection of eight linked stories" capturing the collective dreams of Israel in the 1950s (Chicago Tribune).These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterful profiles of idealistic men and women enduring...- $14.95
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Vendor: Jonathan Dunsky
A Debt of Death
Would you risk your life to avenge a murdered friend?Israel, 1951 - When private detective Adam Lapid finds Nathan Frankel dead in the street, he makes a quick decision: He'll discover who murdered Nathan and punish the killer himself. Because Adam owes Nathan a...- $21.99
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Vendor: Jonathan Dunsky
The Auschwitz Violinist
What if your friend was murdered and the police wouldn't investigate?Israel, 1950 - When private detective Adam Lapid runs into Yosef Kaplon on a crowded Tel Aviv street, he can hardly believe his eyes.The last time they met was in Auschwitz. They were prisoners...- $20.99
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Vendor: Jenny Erpenbeck
The End of Days
The End of Days, by acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five "books," each leading to a different death of an unnamed woman protagonist. How could it all have gone differently? the narrator asks in the intermezzos between. The first chapter begins...- $22.95
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Vendor: Howard Jacobson
Shylock Is My Name: William Shakespeare's the Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel
Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare's most unforgettable characters: Shylock Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in...- $17.00
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Vendor: Nathan Shaham
Rosendorf Quartet
The Rosendorf Quartet is both a deft portrait of the complexities and contradictions that have gone to make up the state of Israel and a stunning tribute to the curative powers of music, in whose realm dissonance, politics, and personal anguish dissolve into art,...- $15.00
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Day After Night
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Salt Lake Tribune Just as she gave voice to the silent women of the Hebrew Bible in The Red Tent, Anita Diamant creates a cast of breathtakingly vivid characters--young women who...- $18.00
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Vendor: Elisa Albert
How This Night Is Different: Stories
In her critically acclaimed debut story collection, Elisa Albert boldly illuminates an original cross section of disaffected young Jews. With wit, compassion, and a decidedly iconoclastic twenty-first-century attitude, in prose that is by turns hilarious and harrowing, Albert has created characters searching for acceptance,...- $15.99
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Vendor: Diane Armstrong
Nocturne
Few know the story of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Polish Resistance ... Even fewer know the stories of the children caught in it ... She closed her eyes and listened to the forbidden Chopin nocturne ... its magic hung in the air. It...- $15.99
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Only Yesterday
When Israeli Nobel Laureate S. Y. Agnon published the novel Only Yesterday in 1945, it quickly became recognized as a major work of world literature, not only for its vivid historical reconstruction of Israel's founding society. The book tells a seemingly simple tale about...- $35.00
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Vendor: Amos Oz
Scenes from Village Life
"Scenes from Village Life is like a symphony, its movements more impressive together than in isolation. There is, in each story, a particular chord or strain; but taken together, these chords rise and reverberate, evoking an unease so strong it's almost a taste in...- $12.95
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Vendor: Naomi Ragen
The Sacrifice of Tamar
Tamar Finegold is twenty-one years old, the happy, beautiful bride of a rising young Rabbi in one of Brooklyn's insulated, ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. Having married the man of her dreams and taken her place as a wife--and hopefully soon-to-be mother--in her community, Tamar feels...- $27.99
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Vendor: Ruchama King
Seven Blessings
The closed, secret world of matchmaking in contemporary Israel provides the titillating pivot for a story of uncommon proportions. In Ruchama King's skillful hands, Seven Blessings maps out the complicated lives of five expatriate women and men whose search for a soul mate, in...- $20.99
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Vendor: Daniel Stauben
Scenes of Jewish Life in Alsace: Village Tales from 19th-Century France
JEWISH TALES FROM THE FRENCH COUNTRYSIDEThe author of these charming stories grew up in a Yiddish-speaking area of Alsace in the 1830s. His village tales capture a Jewish rural world that was vanishing quickly. In these stories, you'll meet Salomon, Yedele and their loved...- $12.99
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Vendor: A. B. Yehoshua
The Lover
"Elusive, haunting."--New York Times Book Review A husband's search for his wife's lover, lost amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War, is the heart of this dreamlike novel. Through five different perspectives, Yehoshua explores the realities and consequences of the affair and the...- $19.95
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A Late Divorce
"Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under license of family ties will appreciate the merits of A.B. Yehoshua's A Late Divorce." --London Review of Books A powerful story about a family--and a...- $19.95
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Vendor: Kim Van Alkemade
Orphan Number Eight
New York Times and USA Today BestsellerIn this stunning new historical novel inspired by true events, Kim van Alkemade tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical...- $16.99
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Vendor: Julie Thomas
The Keeper of Secrets
Beautiful and mysterious, The Keeper of Secrets by Julie Thomas follows a priceless violin across generations--from WWII to Stalinist Russia to the gilded international concert halls of today--and reveals the loss, love, and secrets of the families who owned it. In 1939 Berlin, 14-year-old...- $18.99
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Vendor: Elyse Hoffman
The Book of Uriel: A Novel of WWII
"An otherworldly tale with indelible characters in a realistic wartime setting. Hoffman's novel sublimely fuses world history and Jewish folklore."---Kirkus Reviews"A truly unique work of fantastical, historical fiction set in Nazi Germany that will keep readers engaged and invested in the characters and their...- $28.99
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Vendor: Amy Feltman
Willa & Hesper
For fans of What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell and The Futures by Anna Pitoniak, a soul-piercing debut that explores the intertwining of past and present, queerness, and coming of age in uncertain times. Willa's darkness enters Hesper's light late one night in...- $15.99
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Vendor: Chaim Walder
People Speak 4
Collection of true stories, written by real people.People Speak is a collection of true stories written by real people about their own lives, collected by popular writer and editor Rabbi Chaim Walder, bestselling author of the series Kids Speak.Rabbi Walder's storytelling prowess continues to...- $11.53
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Vendor: Norman Lebrecht
The Song of Names
Martin Simmonds' father tells him, "Never trust a musician when he speaks about love." The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds's care before they perished in the Holocaust....- $16.95
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Vendor: Linda Frank
The Lost Torah of Shanghai
Lily Kovner's first reaction to the news that a precious Torah has gone missing from the home of a Chinese government official in Shanghai is disbelief. She scoffs at her nickname, "the Jewish Miss Marple," and rejects the prospect that she could be instrumental...- $14.99
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Vendor: Eileen Pollack
The Bible of Dirty Jokes
When Ketzel Weinrach's beloved brother Potsie goes missing in Las Vegas, she not only must try to find him, she must confront her family's shady history and their ties to the legendary Jewish mob, Murder, Inc., as well as her troubling relationship to her...- $19.95
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Vendor: Ruth Gilligan
Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan
At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from Lithuania in search of a better life in America, only to land on the Emerald Isle instead. In 1958, a mute Jewish boy locked away in a mental institution...- $15.95
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Vendor: Richard Slotkin
Greenhorns: Stories
The people of Greenhorns reflect the different ways Jewish immigrants took to America in the early 20th century, and how America affected them. A kosher butcher with a gambling problem. A Jewish Pygmalion. A woman whose elegant persona conceals the memory of an unspeakable...- $16.95
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Vendor: Colette Fellous
This Tilting World
On the night following the terrorist attack that killed eighty-three tourists on the beach at Sousse, a woman sits facing the sea and writes a complicated love letter to her homeland, Tunisia, which she feels she must leave forever. She also writes of her...- $16.95
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