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  • Behind the Red Curtain

    by Maya Rakitova ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Swept up in the Bolshevik revolution, Joseph Stalin’s Communist Party purges and World War II, the Rakitova family faces innumerable obstacles to survival. But young Maya knows only that her father is gone and that she must hide her Jewish identity. With what Maya calls “uncommon courage,” her mother fights to protect her, relying on the tenuous hope that Maya can keep her identity a secret. ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

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  • The March of Folly

    From Troy to Vietnam

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government.Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma’s senseless surrender of his empire in 1520 to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Barbara W. Tuchman ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Essential Guide to Jewish Prayer and Practices

    by Andrea Lieber Ph.D. ...
    Series series Essential Guide
    An insightful and illuminating guide to Judaism's basic tenets and practices.The Essential Guide to Jewish Prayer and Practices offers a more profound understanding of Judaism-for practicing Jews and non-Jews alike-by explaining the key concepts of Jewish thought, including the sanctity of human life, Judaism's concept of God, and the role of the Torah in guiding Jewish spiritual life. Judaic ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Vale of Tears

    by Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung ...
    Translated by Vivian Felsen ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    An epic journey across borders, The Vale of Tears chronicles close to two years in the life of Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung as he seeks an escape route from Nazi-occupied Europe. In this rare, near day-by-day account, Rabbi Hirschprung illuminates what life was like for an Orthodox rabbi fleeing persecution, finding inspiration and hope in Jewish scripture and psalms as he navigates the darkness of ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Memories from the Abyss/But I Had a Happy Childhood

    by William Tannenzapf, Renate Krakauer ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    William Tannenzapf never wavered in his determination to survive and save his wife and baby girl from the evil that gripped his home town of Stanislawów. Blond, cherubic, Renate Krakauer was a “miracle baby” born as the world descended into war and soon surrounded by misery and death. Starved and enslaved, Tannenzapf entrusted his daughter to a Polish family so that little Renate could live in ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The UnCivil University

    Intolerance on College Campuses

    by Gary A. Tobin, Aryeh Kaufmann Weinberg, Jenna Ferer ...
    In the name of academic freedom, the core values of higher education-honest scholarship, unbiased research, and diversity of thought and person-have been corrupted by an academy more interested in preserving its privileges than in protecting its own integrity. The American university has lost its civility. Nowhere is this loss more apparent than in the rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism on ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • European Muslim Antisemitism

    Why Young Urban Males Say They Don't Like Jews

    by Günther Jikeli ...
    Series series Studies in Antisemitism
    Antisemitism from Muslims has become a serious issue in Western Europe, although not often acknowledged as such. Looking for insights into the views and rationales of young Muslims toward Jews, Günther Jikeli and his colleagues interviewed 117 ordinary Muslim men in London (chiefly of South Asian background), Paris (chiefly North African), and Berlin (chiefly Turkish). The researchers sought ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • S.B.C

    by richard johnson ...
    More poems for the strange times we're living in. Cultural conflicts seem to be navigating our view points today. I hope my words will add to the conversation. ... Read more

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  • The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education

    by Jonathan B. Krasner ...
    Series series Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life
    Samson Benderly inaugurated the first Bureau of Jewish Education in 1910 amid a hodgepodge of congregational schools, khayders, community Talmud Torahs, and private tutors. Drawing on the theories of Johann Pestalozzi, Herbert Spencer, and John Dewey, and deriving inspiration from cultural Zionism, Benderly sought to modernize Jewish education by professionalizing the field, creating an immigrant ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Honorary Protestants

    The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997

    by David Fraser, The Osgoode Society ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    When the Constitution Act of 1867 was enacted, section 93 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to any others. Over the course of the next century, the Jewish community in Montreal carved out an often tenuous arrangement for public schooling as “honorary Protestants,” based on complex negotiations with the Protestant and Catholic school boards, the ... Read more

    $76.39 USD

  • King John, The Magna Carta and Democracy - History for Kids Books | Chidren's European History

    by Baby Professor ...
    History is not boring. This book will prove that learning about the past is not just about names, dates and events. It’s also about continuity and effects in the present time. By filling this book with pictures and presenting complex historical data in child-friendly texts, history will easily become your child’s favorite subject. Go ahead and grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910-1965

    Edited by Carol K. Ingall ...
    The conventional history of Jewish education in the United States focuses on the contributions of Samson Benderly and his male disciples. This volume tells a different story—the story of the women who either influenced or were influenced by Benderly or his closest friend, Mordecai Kaplan. Through ten portraits, the contributors illuminate the impact of these unheralded women who introduced ... Read more

    $17.99 USD