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• Bielski Brothers, The (Full Frame) - Timed to release day-and-date with the DVD release of "Defiance", "History"(TM) reveals the extraordinary, true story of three brothers who risked their lives to save over 1,200 Jews in the Holocaust. The Bielski brothers managed to do the unthinkable: durin...
• Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer, ISBN 0064461181 - By the time World War II was over, the dead included six million Jews--killed specifically because they were Jewish. This collection of first-person accounts of the Holocaust serves as a timeless reminder of how Europe's Jews reacted to the threat of extermination, exphasizing ...
• The Chosen by Chaim Potok, ISBN 0764585096 - Chaim Potok's novel "The Chosen," an admittedly autobiographical portrait of growing up Jewish in America, focuses on the challenge of living a religious life in a secular society. Through the budding friendship of an ultrareligious Hasidic Jew (Danny Saunders) and a ...
• I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-19451 by Victor Klemperer, ISBN 0375753788 - The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. "In its cool, lucid style and power of observation," said The New York Times, "it is the best written, most evocative, most observant ...
• Defiance - A holocaust survivor tells of the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during World War II. Tec describes an extraordinary hidden forest community of 1,200 Jews who were led by peasant-turned-partisan Tuvia Bielski.
• In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke, ISBN 0385720327 - In My Hands began as one non-Jew's challenge to any who would deny the Holocaust. Much like The Diary of Anne Frank," it has become a profound document of an individual's heroism in the face of the greatest evil mankind has known. In the fall of 1939 the Nazis invaded Ir...
• The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 - The enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon many factors, including the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, and the passivity of the populations, primarily of their political and ...
• What Do Jews Believe?: The Spiritual Foundations of Judaism by David S. Ariel, ISBN 0805210598 - Once understood as an inherited tradition, religion is increasingly viewed today as a matter of personal choice, an experience to be examined and explored. Yet while many American Jews feel an emotional attachment to Judaism, they cannot always articulate the beliefs that defin...
• The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land (Updated in 2008) - Israel is smaller than New Jersey yet captures a lion's share of headlines. It looks like one country on CNN, a very different one on al-Jazeera. The BBC has its version, "The New York Times" theirs. But how does Israel look to Israelis? The answers are varied, and th...
• Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss, ISBN 0064470431 - A Life in Hiding When the German army occupied Holland, Annie de Leeuw was eight years old. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger-she knew that to stay alive she would have to hide. Fortunately, a Gentile family, the Oostervelds, offered to help. For tw...
• Rhythm & Jews - Rhythm & Jews
• Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity - Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
• That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: On Being a Faithful Jew and a Passionate Buddhist by Sylvia Boorstein, ISBN 0060609583 - From her Jewish childhood in New York to meetings with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, beloved teacher and bestselling author Sylvia Boorstein guides readers through an entertaining and practical examination of a life lived richly both as a Jew and a Buddhist.
• Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious F - At the end of the 15th century, the Spanish Inquisition had forced many Jews to flee the country. The most adventurous among them had taken to the high seas as freewheeling outlaws. This work tells of the cruelty, terror, and greed that had flourished during the Age of Discovery.
• South Park: The Passion Of The Jew (Full Frame) - Parental Advisory: Explicit content. Warning: This program is recommended for mature audiences only. It contains adult language and situations. All the years of Cartman taunting Kyle for being a Jew finally come to a head in this episode. As a result of seeing "The Passion...
• South Park: The Complete Eighth Season (Full Frame) - Parental Advisory: Explicit Content. Warning: This Program Is Recommended For Mature Audiences Only. It Contains Adult Language And Situations. All fourteen episodes from "South Park's" out-of-control eighth season are now available for the first time in this exclusiv...
• Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus by Thomas Cahill, ISBN 0385483724 - From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews, his most compelling historical narrative yet. How did an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire come to be the central figure in Western Civilization? Did his influence in f...
• Safe Passage: The Remarkable True Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis - "Safe Passage" brings back into print the life story of Ida Cook, one of Britain's best-loved romance novelists of the 20th century. In this gripping memoir, Cook tells the story of how she and her sister, Louise, transported Jews out of Germany in the years leading u...
• We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands - Shabi returned to Israel for a year to investigate the tense relations that still exist between Mizrahi and Ashkenazi Jews in Israel. The author combines historical research with intimate oral interviews to shed light on ethnic injustice within Israel, past and present.
• Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths by Karen Armstrong, ISBN 0345391683 - "SPLENDID . . . Eminently sane and patient . . . Essential reading for Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike." --The Washington Post Venerated for millennia by three faiths, torn by irreconcilable conflict, conquered, rebuilt, and mourned for again and again, Jerusal...
• The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss, ISBN 0690851278 - A Life in Hiding When the German army occupied Holland, Annie de Leeuw was eight years old. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger-she knew that to stay alive she would have to hide. Fortunately, a Gentile family, the Oostervelds, offered to help. For tw...
• Tough Jews by Rich Cohen, ISBN 0375705473 - In an L.A. delicatessen, a group of Brooklyn natives gets together to discuss basketball, boxing, the weather back east, and the Jewish gangsters of yesteryear. Meyer Lansky. Bugsy Siegel. Louis Lepke, the self-effacing mastermind of Murder, Inc. Red Levine, the Orthodox hit ma...
• Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History - Coming at a time when Christians and Jews are in some ways moving closer than ever before, this thoughtful and provocative book represents a genuine effort to heal the ancient rift between these two great faith traditions.
• Jewish Americans, The (Widescreen) - Acclaimed filmmaker David Grubin traces 350 years of Jewish American history, from the arrival of the first Jews in 1654 up to the present day. "The Jewish Americans" tells the story of the struggle of a tiny minority to make their way into the American mainstream whi...
• Edith's Story: The True Story of a Young Girl's Courage and Survival During World War II by Edith Velman, ISBN 0553381105 - In 1940, while the Germans occupied Holland, fourteen-year-old Edith van Hessen was filling her diary with the intimate, carefree details of a typical teenager's life -- thoughts about boys, school, her family, her friends, her future. By 1942, as Edith was contemplating her fi...
• Kingdom Of David: The Saga Of The Israelites (Widescreen) - "Kingdom Of David: The Saga Of The Israelites" tells the epic story of the Jews and the creation of the world's first and most profoundly influential monotheistic religion. The stories of the patriarch Abraham, the liberator Moses, the poet-king David and his son Solo...
• Why Are Jews Liberals? - From the bestselling author of "World War IV" comes a brilliant and provocative examination of a central question in American politics and culture that is sure to generate tremendous controversy.
• Biography Presents: Legends Of The Silver Screen - They have dazzled audiences for generations - now meet the real men and women behind the stardust. "Biography Presents: Legends Of The Silver Screen" reveals the true glamour, ambition, and sex appeal of the cinematic icons who have defined stardom through the ages. T...
• The Israel Test - Israel is the crucial battlefield for Capitalism and Freedom in our time. George Gilder's global best-seller "Wealth and Poverty" made the moral case for capitalism. Now Gilder makes the case for Israel, portraying a conflict of barbarism and envy against civilization...
• Film Noir Classics Collection, Vol. 2, The - "Film Noir Collection, Volume 2" contains "Born To Kill," "Clash By Night," "Crossfire," "Dillinger" and "Narrow Margin." "Born To Kill" - Helen Brent knows Sam Wild is more than a social climber who married...
• Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reader from the Biblical Archaeology Review by Hershel Shanks, ISBN 0679744452 - A groundbreaking anthology that demolishes the myths -- and reveals the true significance -- of the greatest archaeological discovery of our time. Ever since their initial discovery in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused excitement, jealousy, and not a little dread among ...
• Jewish Study Bible by Adele Berlin, ISBN 0195297512 - This innovative volume will, for the first time, offer readers of the Hebrew Bible a resource that is specifically tailored to meet their needs. The JSB presents the center of gravity of the Scriptures where Jews experience it--in Torah.
• The Messianic Legacy by Michael Baigent, ISBN 0440203198 - "Holy Blood, Holy Grail rocked the very foundations of Christianity. Now four more years of research have uncovered shocking material -- and its earthshaking consequences. - What extraordinary meaning lies behind Jesus' title -- "King of the Jews"? - Was there...
• The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After by Edward W. Said, ISBN 0375725741 - Edward Said demonstrates why he is considered the preeminent observer and critic of the Middle East peace process in this collection of fifty essays, written mostly for Arab and European newspapers in the last five years and previously not readily available to American readers....
• Death and Honor - Cletus Frade, a Marine pilot recruited by the OSS, investigates two interwoven German operations--the first to buy passage for Jews to Argentina and Uruguay from concentration camps, and the second to find out where the money is going.
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, ISBN 0440227534 - When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated" during World War II, 10-year-old Ellen Rosen moves in with her best friend Annemarie Johansen and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen's life. An ALA Notable Book....
• The Coffee Trader - Amsterdam, 1659: On the world's first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city's close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city's most envied merchants, Miguel has sud...
• Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan - RIVERS OF GOLD is the best kind of history: absorbing and authoritative, vast in its erudition and enlightenment, equally serious and riveting. You think you know the story of the "discovery" of the new world, but as the New York Times said about Hugh Thomas's CONQUES...
• Ushpizin (Widescreen) - Winner of the 2004 Best Actor award at the 2004 Israeli Film Academy for writer-star Shuli Rand, "Ushpizin" is a heart warming and light hearted look at the daily lives of ultra-Orthodox Jews learning, living and loving in modern-day Israel. Following the story of a f...
• Christmas Time In South Park (Full Frame) - There's no better time of year than Christmas, especially in South Park. So, stop fighting with the family, gather 'round the fire and watch these classic South Park episodes. Join in as the citizens of South Park sing many of everyone's favorite holiday classics like, "Mr...
• Crossfire (Full Frame) - Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime, there's motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating the beating death of a man. The man was killed because he was a Jew. "Hate," Finlay says, "is like a gun." Robert Youn...
• Secret Lives: Hidden Children And Their Rescuers During (Full Frame) - This emotionally stirring documentary tells the stories of Jewish children who were hidden from the Nazis in extraordinary acts of bravery and kindness by non-Jews. Director Commentary, Weblinks.
• Ulysses (Widescreen) - Adapted from the brilliant novel by James Joyce, "Ulysses" portrays a stream-of-consciousness day in the life of Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus (the hero of Joyce's earlier autobiographical novel, "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man"). ...
• Secrets Of Jerusalem's Holiest Sites (Widescreen) - Its name means "city of peace." But as a focal point of three major world religions, and home to some of those faiths' holiest sites, Jerusalem has witnessed 3,000 years of bloody conflict, intrigue and passion. National Geographic, with exclusive access, intimately e...
• Chariots of Fire: Special Edition (Widescreen, Special Edition) - Winner of four Academy Awards(R) including Best Picture! The inspiring true story of British athletes competing in the 1924 Olympics. Ben Cross and Ian Charleson head a sterling cast of newcomers and veterans. The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competi...
• Schindler's List (With Movie Money) (Widescreen) - "Schindler's List," a Steven Spielberg film, is a cinematic masterpiece that has become one of the most honored films of all time. Winner of seven Academy Awards(R), including Best Picture and Best Director, it also won every major Best Picture award and an exception...
• Sister Rose's Passion - Nominated for an Academy Award, "Sister Rose's Passion" is the inspirational story of a most unlikely activist who has made the battle against anti-Semitism her life's work. Born in 1920, Sister Rose Thering has blazed a gusty path challenging authority in the Catholi...
• Ten Commandments (Widescreen) - "The Ten Commandments" showcases Moses, the reluctant prophet, who was the only man to see the face of God and call him "friend". Condemned to die by the Pharaoh while just a baby, Hebrew Moses is set adrift on the River Nile by his mother and his sister. Re...
• Hollywood Vs. The Mob: Fact Vs. Fiction - With the assassination of JFK in Dallas in November of 1963 and the fall of Cuba to Communism, America entered a new chapter in its history. It was also a time when the American Mob entered a new chapter. It was a Mob no longer defined by the once unyielding code of 'omerta' - ...
• Broken Silence (Full Frame) - From Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation comes "Broken Silence", a series of five films about human courage, heroism, and triumph over intense adversities during World War II. This critically acclaimed series was produced by Academy A...
• Milles (Widescreen) - May 1940. In a village called Les Milles located in South France, the French army commandeers an old brick factory to maintain German, French, Austrian, Czech and stateless civilians most of which are either Jews, communists or opponents to Nazism. Many fled Germany thinking th...
• Berga: Soldiers Of Another War (Full Frame) - "Berga: Soldiers Of Another War" is a story of American G.I.'s who worked as slave laborers in Berga am Elster, a satellite concentration camp of the notorious Nazi death camp Buchenwald. Captured by German forces during the 1944 Battle of the Bulge, these soldiers ha...
• Modigliani (Widescreen) - Andy Garcia brings to life artistic genius Amedeo Modigliani's story of tragic love, rivalry and excess in the midst of art history's golden age when greats like Picasso, Rivera, Cocteau and Modigliani held court in the salons of post-WWI Paris. Modigliani's passionate life is ...
• Here Come The Brides: The Complete First Season (Full Frame) - Robert Brown, pop music superstar Bobby Sherman and David Soul (TV's "Starsky And Hutch") star in the classic television series "Here Come The Brides," a delightful comedy that combines romance and adventure in the rugged landscape of the mid-nineteenth cent...
• Barabbas (Widescreen) - Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was spared crucifixion when the Jews chose Christ in his place. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiator arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons. ...
• Grandes Muralistas (Full Frame) - "Diego Rivera" - (December 8, 1886 - November 24, 1957) was a Mexican painter and muralist born in Guanajuato, Mexico. Diego is perhaps best known by the public world for his 1933 mural, "Man at the Crossroads," in the lobby of the RCA Building at Rockefelle...
• Grey Zone, The (Widescreen) - Based on actual events, "THE GREY ZONE" is the staggeringly powerful story of the Auschwitz?s twelfth Sonderkommando ? one of the thirteen consecutive ?Special Squads? of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of helping to exterminate ...
• Herod's Lost Tomb (Widescreen) - Herod the Great, king of the holy land in the time of Christ, is best known for the "Massacre Of The Innocents": the Gospel of Matthew's apocryphal slaughter of Bethlehem's male infants. But Herod's bloody reputation has always hidden another side of one of the Bible'...
• One Night With The King (Widescreen) - "One Night With The King" is a sweeping epic about Hadassah, the young Jewish girl who becomes the Biblical Esther, Queen of Persia. Despite her position, Hadassah's life is in danger, as the state has decreed that all Jews will be put to death. Defying warnings to re...
• Via Dolorosa (Full Frame) - The writer/director team of the award-winning film "The Hours" collaborate on this powerful, personal drama that poignantly finds the poetry and beauty within an explosive culture very different than their own. Directed for the Broadway stage by Stephen Daldry (Billy ...
• Shanghai Ghetto - One of the most amazing and captivating survival tales of WWII, the overwhelmingly acclaimed "Shanghai Ghetto" has been declared "a don't miss documentary...powerful...eye-opening" (New York Observer). Stirringly narrated by Academy Award(R) winner Martin La...
• Barabbas (With CD Sampler) - Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was spared crucifixion when the Jews chose Christ in his place. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiator arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons. ...
• Big Question, The - Set against the stunning historical backdrop of "The Passion Of The Christ," cast and crew of the acclaimed film were interviewed about their concepts of spirituality. Most of them were Christian, at least by culture, and others were Muslims, Jews, Buddhist or with no...
• Image Before My Eyes (Special Edition) - A stunning commemoration of Jews in Poland before the two World Wars, "Image Before My Eyes" pays homage to the dynamic and vibrant society of 3.5 million people that was destroyed during the Holocaust. Unearthing the stories of Jewish villagers, aristocrats, socialis...
• Christmas Time In South Park (Full Frame) - There's no better time of year than Christmas, especially in South Park. So, stop fighting with the family, gather 'round the fire and watch these classic "South Park" episodes. Join in as the citizens of South Park sing many of everyone's favorite holiday classics li...
• American Experience: Fight, The - On June 22, 1938, 70,000 fans crammed into Yankee stadium to watch what some observers have since called "the most important sporting event in history." Millions more tuned in to hear a blow-by-blow description on the radio. The rematch between the African American ...
• Schindler's List (Widescreen) - "Schindler's List," a Steven Spielberg film, is a cinematic masterpiece that has become one of the most honored films of all time. Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director it also won every major Best Picture award and an exceptional n...
• Schindler's List (With Movie Money) (Full Frame) - "Schindler's List," a Steven Spielberg film, is a cinematic masterpiece that has become one of the most honored films of all time. Winner of seven Academy Awards(R), including Best Picture and Best Director, it also won every major Best Picture award and an exception...
• Europa, Europa (Widescreen) - This "incredible, true story" (Los Angeles Times) is at once "eye-opening, harrowing and humorous" (Leonard Maltin) as it recounts the severe actions a young boy must take in order to survive the Holocaust. Based on the autobiography of Solomon Perel, a youn...
• Schindler's List (Full Frame) - "Schindler's List," a Steven Spielberg film, is a cinematic masterpiece that has become one of the most honored films of all time. Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director it also won every major Best Picture award and an exceptional n...
• I Served The King Of England (Czech) (Widescreen) - A busboy with an inferiority complex and a driving ambition to become a millionaire quickly rises to become a head waiter, but the respect he craves continues to allude him. When he marries a Nazi gym teacher, the Czechs despise him even more, while the Germans barely tolerate ...
• Miracle At Midnight (Full Frame) - Here's the uplifting, true-life story of how one Danish family risked their lives in the remarkable effort to save thousands of their Jewish countrymen. To protect Denmark's Jews from the horror of Nazi concentration camps, the Christian Koster family attempts to save their nei...
• Holocaust (Full Frame) - An original TV dramatization of one of the most monstrous crimes in world history - the slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis. Dramatically and definitively, the story covers an entire decade, the eventful years from 1935 to 1945. "Holocaust" focuses on the tragedy...
• Best Picture Collection: Gentleman's Agreement / The French Connection / All About Eve / The Sound Of Music / How Green Was My Valley - "Best Picture Collection" includes: "Gentleman's Agreement" - A journalist assigned to write a series of article on anti-semitism. Searching for an angle, he finally decides to pose as a Jew-and soon discovers what is to be a victim of religious intolerance...
• Descending Angel - When Michael meets his beautiful fiancee's father in their close-knit Romanian-American community, he suspects something is up. Was his lover's father a Nazi collaborator involved in the slaughter of 800 Jews? And how far will he have to go to find out?.
• In the Balance by Harry Turtledove, ISBN 0345388526 - From Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling through Paris to the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Midway, war seethed across the planet as the flames of destruction rose higher and hotter. And then, suddenly, the real enemy came. The invaders seemed unstoppable, their technology...
• The Source by James A. Michener, ISBN 0375760385 - In his signature style of grand storytelling, James Michener sweeps us back through time to the Holy Land, thousands of years ago. By exploring the lives and discoveries of modern archaeologists excavating the site of Tell Makor, Michener vividly re-creates life in and around a...
• Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family by Ron Chernow, ISBN 0679743596 - Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and politicians, the Warburgs stood at the pinnacle of German (and, later, of German-American) Jewry. They forged economic dynasties, built mansions and estates, assembled libraries, endowed charities, and advised a Germa...
• A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson, ISBN 0060915331 - The author delivers a brilliant and comprehensive one-volume survey covering 4,000 years of Jewish history. His book is a forceful and sustained analysis of Jewish emergence and an interpretation of how Jewish history, philosophy, ethics, and social and political notions interp...
• King David: The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel by Jonathan Kirsch, ISBN 0345435052 - David, King of the Jews, possessed every flaw and failing of which a mortal is capable, yet men and women adored him, and God showered him with many blessings. A charismatic leader, exalted as "a man after God's own heart," he was also capable of deep cunning and bloo...
• The New Jewish Wedding by Anita Diamant, ISBN 0743202554 - A guide to planning a Jewish wedding includes advice on choosing attire, a rabbi, and vendors, offers examples of readings and invitations, and provides information for converts, non-Jews, and same sex couples.
• Prophetic Ministry by Austin T. Sparks, ISBN 096774024X - Biblical prophets called God's people to clear spiritual vision and holy living. The need for holiness is as urgent for today's Church as it was for the Old Testament Jews. This reprint of a classic book by the late T.
• Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason - "A fascinating, colorful, and very readable account of early modern ideas and personalities. Shorto has a gift for storytelling. He brings the 17th century to life while doing justice to the philosophy."--Professor Steven Nadler, author of "Rembrandt's Jews"...
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" pens an homage to the stylish menace of 1940s noir, in a novel that imagines if Alaska, not Israel, had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II.
• Sophie's Choice by William Styron, ISBN 0679736379 - Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.
• The Great War: American Front by Harry Turtledove, ISBN 0345405609 - When the Great War engulfed Europe in 1914, the United States and the Confederate States of America, bitter enemies for five decades, entered the fray on opposite sides: the United States aligned with the newly strong Germany, while the Confederacy joined forces with their long...
• The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark - From the author of "Jews, Muslims and Mass Media" comes the hidden history and secret location of one of the worlds most sacred objects.
• Number the Stars (Newbery Medal Winner) by Lois Lowry, ISBN 0440403278 - Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think about life before the war. But it's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching in their town. The Nazi won't stop. The Jews of Denmark ...
• How Jesus Became Christian - Sure to be controversial, this is an exciting, well-written popular religious history that cuts to the heart of the differences between Christianity and Judaism, to the origins of one of the world's great religions and, ultimately, to the question of who Jesus Christ really was...
• The Source by James A. Michener, ISBN 0449211479 - In the grand storytelling style that is his signature, James Michener sweeps us back through time to the very beginnings of the Jewish faith, thousands of years ago. Through the predecessors of four modern men and women, we experience the entire colorful history of the Jews, in...
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, ISBN 0679740678 - It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany...
• Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins, ISBN 0553377884 - An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations.... It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a desse...
• Hanukkah at Valley Forge - Could the story of the long-ago victory of the Jews against the Greeks have led to George Washington's success at Valley Forge? Krensky's fictionalized version of a poignant historical anecdote is brought vividly to life in Harlin's brilliant watercolor illustrations. Full color.
• Portraits of Jewish-American Heroes - An absorbing, inspiring tour of the 350-year Jewish American adventure. aFrom its beginnings, America, founded on religious freedom, has been a land of opportunity for Jews, socially, economically, and spiritually,a writes Rabbi Malka Drucker in introducing twenty compelling in...
• Aimee & Jaguar by Erica Fischer, ISBN 1555834507 - Out of the vacuum created by history's scant attention to Nazi persecution of homosexuals comes a unique and maddeningly tragic story of love between two women of startling contrast. Aimee & Jaguar is the first book of its kind: it tells, through Rashomon-like firsthand acc...
• In Defense of Israel - Hagee guides readers through the Scriptures that explain why Christians need to stand with Israel and the Jews today. In this biblically supported argument, readers encounter a deeply passionate treatise about loving this historic people of God.
• O Jerusalem by Laurie R. King, ISBN 0553581058 - With her bestselling mystery series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell, Laurie R. King has created "lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company," according to "The New York Times Book Review. Now the author of The Beekeeper's Apprentice and ...
• Alicia: My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman, ISBN 0553282182 - After losing her entire family to the Nazis at age 13, Alicia Appleman-Jurman went on to save the lives of thousands of Jews, offering them her own courage and hope in a time of upheaval and tragedy. Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has a young voice so vividly expressed the c...
• The History of Last Night's Dream: Discovering the Hidden Path to the Soul - The nationally bestselling author "The Jew in the Lotus" conducts an adventure into the history and meaning of dreams, and reveals the gifts they have to offer.
• Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story - For nearly 50 years, Sala Kirschner kept a secret: she survived five years in Nazi work camps. In 1991, Sala showed her daughter Ann more than 350 letters and a diary that revealed the astonishing story of her odyssey as a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Includes letter facsimiles and...
• The Master Sniper by Stephen Hunter, ISBN 0440221870 - It is the spring of 1945, and the Nazis are eliminating all the witnesses to their horrible crimes, including Jews and foreigners remaining in the prison camps. Kommandant Repp, who is known as a master sniper, decides to hone his sniping abilities by taking a little target pra...
• Entering Jewish Prayer: A Guide to Personal Devotion and the Worship Service by Reuven Hammer, ISBN 0805210229 - "Learning about prayer is a way of entering the world of Jewish tradition", Rabbi Hammer writes, and the Siddur - the Jewish prayerbook - is the best possible introduction into that world. In it, one is brought face-to-face with Judaism's central struggle for an under...
• The Invisible Poor: America's Forgotten Workers by David K. Shipler, ISBN 0375408908 - ""Most of the people I write about in this book do not have the luxury of rage. They are caught in exhausting struggles. Their wages do not lift them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn, hold them back. The term by which they are u...
• Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl, ISBN 0380731886 - If she could find four perfect pebbles of almost exactly the same size and shape, it meant that her family would remain whole. Mama and Papa and she and Albert would survive Bergen-Belsen. The four of them might even survive the Nazis' attempt to destroy every last Jew in Europ...
• The Working Poor: Invisible in America - From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Arab and Jew" comes a new book that presents a searing, intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty.
• Mila 18 by Leon Uris, ISBN 0553241605 - It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy--and a time of transcendent courage and determination.    Leon Uris's blazing novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fi...
• My Kness Were Jumping: Remembering The Kindertransports - Nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, "My Knees Were Jumping" is the first feature-length documentary to reveals the heart-wrenching story behind the Kindertransport. A powerful account of this astonishing slice of Holocaust history, it is told with poignant i...