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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. |
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1.  Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir Shalom Auslander |
Reviewed in The Forward, Sept. 14; The J., Oct. 5; The SF Chronicle, Oct. 14: The NY Times, Oct. 21; Moment Mag., Oct./Nov.;NY Times, Dec. 2; Bookmarks Mag., Jan. 08 List Price: $24.95 Availability: In stock. |
2.  Madame Proust: A BiographyEvelyne Bloch-Dano (Author), Alice Kaplan (Translator) |
Reviewed in Moment Mag., Jan/Feb. 08 List Price: $27.50 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 272 pages (Octoober , 2007) |
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.  Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life Philip Davis |
Reviewed in The Forward, Nov. 2; NY Times, Dec. 9; Moment Mag., Jan/Feb 08 List Price: $34.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 388 pages (September 7, 2007) |
5.  Elie Wiesel: A Religious BiographyFrederick L. Downing |
List Price: $29.00 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 224 pages (March 2008) added 4/18 |
6.  The Bronfmans: The Rise and Fall of the House of Seagram Nicholas Faith |
Reviewed in The NY Times, Dec. 23 Availability: In stock. Paperback - 352 pages (October 30, 2007) |
7.  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) |
8.  A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII Sarah Helm |
Reviewed in The NY Times, Dec. 23 Availability: In stock. Paperback - 544 pages (December 4, 2007) |
9.  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 |
10.  Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice Janet Malcolm |
Reviewed in The NY Times, Sept. 23; The Forward, Oct. 26; Bookmarks Mag., Jan. 08 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 240 pages (September 28, 2007) |
11.  If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist JewMike Marqusee |
List Price: $26.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 256 pages (January 20, 2008) |
12.  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) |
13.  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) |
14.  The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis ZukofskyMark Scroggins |
Reviewed in The NY Times, Jan. 20 List Price: $30.00 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 576 pages (November 1, 2007) added 1/20/08 |
15.  Yigal Allon, Native Son: A Biography (Jewish Culture and Contexts)Anita Shapira (Author), Evelyn Abel (Translator) |
Reviewed in The Forward, Jan. 11 List Price: $49.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 400 pages (November 9, 2007) added 1/26/08 |
16.  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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18. > Rostropovich: The Musical Life of the Great Cellist, Teacher, and LegendElizabeth Wilson |
List Price: $35.00 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 400 pages (January 25, 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 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 |
3.  Jews and Power Ruth R. Wisse |
Reviewed in The NY Times, Sept. 2; Moment Mag., Oct./Nov.; The J., Jan. 18 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.  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: $39.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover 896 pages (April 10, 2007) |
3. Escape from Auschwitz Andrey Pogozhev |
List Price: $32.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - (November 19, 2007) added 12/21 |
4.  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) |
5. Sondra's SearchE. Katz Silvers |
List Price: $21.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 248 pages (November 2007) added 12/13 |
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1.  The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace At Last Bernard Avishai |
List Price: $26.00 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 304 pages (April 21, 2008) |
1.  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) |
2. Jerusalem: City of LongingSimon Goldhill |
List Price: $27.95 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 368 pages (May 15, 2008) |
3.  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 |
4. Israel Through My LensDavid Rubinger (Photographer), Ruth Corman (Contributor) |
List Price: $35.00 Availability: In stock. Hardcover - 280 pages (January 28, 2008) |
5.  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) |
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