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The New Jewish Baby Book: Names Ceremonies Customs a Guide for Today's Families
This book manages to pretty much cover all the bases about rituals & such when you are expecting. I realied heavily on it for my first child & with the twins, I was somewhat disappointed to see it didn't mention a thing about multiple births (especially since they are so common nowadays 1-in 100). But other than that - I was highly impressed with the content!
Written by
Anita Diamant
Published by Jewish Lights Pub
(February, 1994)
ISBN 1879045281
Price $18.95
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The Book of Jewish Values: A Day-By-Day Guide to Ethical Living
The Book of Jewish Values requires great commitment from its reader, & it promises great reward. "[F]or ethical teachings to carve a way into our hearts, we must study & practice them ... day after day after day," explains Rabbi Joseph Telushkin in the book's introduction. The book is structured as a daily guide to living, with scriptural lessons, meditations, & exercises covering topics ranging from "the first trait to look for in a spouse (Day 17)" to "how to change negative patterns of beh...
Written by
Joseph Telushkin
Published by Bell Tower
(22 February, 2000)
ISBN 0609603302
Price $29.95
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Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah : Legends from the Talmud & Midrash
In our overly scientific day & age, which has greatly influenced how we approach the Sacred, specifically Sacred texts, this book fills in the lacunae of the void.In this book can be found the rabbinical answers to the nagging questions found in the Torah, questions that still linger today but which tend to be filled in with more historical/'scientific' answers than stories that lift the spirit. Are these stories to be found in this book 'true'? To ask the question misses the point. They elev...
Written by
Hayyim Nahman Bialik
Published by Schocken Books
(10 November, 1992)
ISBN 0805241132
Price $75.0
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The Trees of the Dancing Goats
Polacco has a warm, colorful illustrative style that has enriched her numerous other works such as Babushka Baba Yaga & I Can Hear the Sun. Here she applies it to what at first seems the simple story of a Jewish girl, Trisha, & her Christian neighbors, whose bout with scarlet fever at Christmas threatens to ruin Trisha's Hanukkah. Trisha & her family respond with a loving gesture that is rewarded in kind.
Written by
Patricia Polacco
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Patricia Polaco
Published by Aladdin Library
(01 October, 2000)
ISBN 0689838573
Price $6.99
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Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes & the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more & more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a historical perspective as well as an artistic one. Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s & '70s, interviewed his father,...
Written by
Art Spiegelman
Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks
(September, 1986)
ISBN 0394747232
Price $14.0
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The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York
Claudia Roden, author of The Book of Jewish Food, has done more than simply compile a cookbook of Jewish recipes--she has produced a history of the Jewish diaspora, told through its cuisine. The book's 800 recipes reflect many cultures & regions of the world, from the Jewish quarter of Cairo where Roden spent her childhood to the kitchens of Europe, Asia, & the Americas. Both Ashkenazi & Sepharidic cooking are well represented here: hallah bread, bagels, blintzes, & kugels give way to tabbou...
Written by
Claudia Roden
Published by Knopf
(December, 1996)
ISBN 0394532589
Price $35.0
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History & Here My Troubles Began
This is a graphic novel based on the story of the author's father, & the story is a fascinating one - he survived Auschwitz, along with his wife (Spiegelman's mother). If this had been a 'normal' novel, rather than a comic (or probably better termed a Bande Desinee as it would be called in France or Belgium) it could have descended into self-importance, but rather it is a story of one of the 20th Century's darkest moments told in an all too human tone (even if the characters are portrayed as ...
Written by
Art Spiegelman
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Fred Jordon
Published by Pantheon Books
(January, 1997)
ISBN 0679406417
Price $35.0
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The Leo Frank Case
I got interested in this case after reading a large write up in the local paper, the Atlanta Journal constitution, which is quoted many times in the book. I like historical books & was really amazed at the semitic overtones in the south during the civil war. As stated by reveiwer C. Ellen, it was written well & put into context with other goings on in that period. Being from Atlanta myself, I could very easily relate to the narative & it held my facination throughout. It told what I beleive t...
Written by
Leonard Dinnerstein
Published by University of Georgia Press
(01 May, 1998)
ISBN 0820321451
Price $16.95
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Jewish Book of Why-Boxed Set
These wonderful books deal with tradtional judaism & more controversial issues like conversion & marriage. The first volume is essentially detailed with accounts of 'who is a Jew' 'What is a Jew' 'What are Jewish holidays' 'What is the Jewish service & its structure' 'What are essential Jewish rituals' 'How do Jews interpret the Torah'. These chapters detail almost any question one might have about what it means to be a Jew, how to live a Jewish life & how to interpret the essential Torah. Th...
Written by
Alfred J. Kolatch
Published by Jonathan David Pub
(01 January, 1995)
ISBN 0824603141
Price $44.95
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The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary
This is a phenomenal dictionary. Some things that make it so great:1) Huge numbers of usage examples, at a wide range of levels offormality. The examples give information that's lacking in most dictionaries, such as which preposition(s) to use with a given verb. They also contain a wealth of idiomatic constructions. I'm amazed at how much time I've spent just browsing through the examples in this book.2) Excellent differentiation between multiple meanings of a word. If there are multiple Hebr...
Written by
N. S. Doniach
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a Kahane
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Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Published by Oxford Press
(March, 1998)
ISBN 0198601727
Price $29.95
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