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Jewish Engagement Calendar Calendars and Books for 5769/2009
We've selected the best calendars for 5769 / 2009 and they're all on sale at 20% off list prices. Our list includes wall, desk, and engagement calendars - all beautifully designed.
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Gershon's Monster Rosh Hashona begins on Monday evening September 29, 2008. We have a great selection of books for kids and adults ranging from folktales to philosophical inquiries on the Jewish new year.
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Ministry of Special Cases 15% off Selected Paperback Fiction
Our summer paperback recommendations include The Ministry of Special Cases , by Nathan Englander, The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon, novels by Michael Wex, Anya Ulinich, Elisa Albert, Dalia Sofer, and Tova Reich, stories by Primo Levi and David Bezmozgis, and much more.
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I Am Marc Chagall For der kinder
What do New York's Lower Eastside, bagels, klezmer, kvetching, painting, humor, and Yiddish all have in common? These are some of the topics and themes of our children’s picture book recommendations. We have chosen books by the best writers and illustrators for your children, grandchildren or young friends.
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The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World Especially for young adults
A diverse and stellar group of authors, writing on a wide variety of subjects, are featured in our young adult reading list. Among the highlights are: a book about Pirates arriving in Brooklyn, the acclaimed novel: The Book Thief, and new novels from Sid Fleischman, E.L. Koningsburg, & Eric Kimmel.
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You Never Call  You Never Write Books Make Great Gifts
From Joyce Antler's illuminating and often humorous paperback You Never Call! You Never Write!: A History of the Jewish Mother to Ruth Behar's poignant and personal An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, we've got the perfect gift for your mother, father, graduating students, children and friends. Other bookstore favorites this month include: The Art of William Steig, I Am Marc Chagall, They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust, and The Man in the White Sharkskin Suite: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World .
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Yiddish
Yankees Cap Batter Up!
Do you want to celebrate Yiddish at your next baseball game? We have a great gift for you or your favorite baseball fan. Check out our Yiddish baseball hats with the Red Sox, Yankees and Mets in Yiddish letters on the crown of the cap.
Yiddish Mets Cap
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Jewish Holiday Cooking What a mekhaye (a delight)...
All our Kokhbikher (Cookbooks) are on sale at 15% off list prices. These titles have just arrived: Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking, Jewish Holiday Cooking by Jayne Cohen, and Healthy Cooking for the Jewish Home by Faye Levy. To help you plan your seder menu, don't forget the Peysekh classic: New York Times Passover Cookbook, edited by Linda Amster, with hundreds of recipes from top chefs and food writers. We also are featuring Classic Italian Jewish Cooking by Edda Servi Machlin at 40% off list price. To order this title, just click on the button below the title along the right sidebar of this page.     To browse our cookbook section...


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Entertaining America
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""Entertaining America" brings together in a single volume, as does no other existing work, not only a wide range of questions about the role of Jews in the American entertainment media but valuable new insights and perspectives on both familiar and little-known aspects of its central theme. It is itself entertaining as well as informative. Accessible, well written, always sound and often original in scholarship, it will reach a wide readership beyond those who attend the exhibition, and will certainly be useful in courses that explore the role of Jews in popular culture and entertainment."--Robert Sklar, author of "A World History of Film"
ISBN: 9780691113029


Enemy At His Pleasure
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Finally available in English, the great Yiddish writer's account of a neglected time and place. In daily accounts, Ansky details his struggles: to raise funds; to lobby and bribe at the tsar's court; to procure and transport food, medicine, and money to the ravaged Jewish towns. This story is at once powerful and poignant, a rare and invaluable addition to the historical record.
ISBN: 9780805059441


Classic Italian Jewish Cooking
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ISBN: 0060758023


Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt
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The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt,
by Ellenson, Ruth Andrew

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A hip, hilarious, and provocative collection of original essays by young Jewish women writers, including: Aimee Bender, Daphne Merkin, Dara Horn, Tova Mirvis, Rebecca Goldstein, and Molly Jong-Fast, exploring all the things that their rabbis warned them never to discuss in public.
ISBN: 9780525948841


Radiant Days, Haunted Nights
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ISBN: 1585677310


Outwitting History
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Massachusetts Book Award - 2005 Nonfiction Award
Winner - 2005 ALA Notable Non-Fiction Selection
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The man who spearheaded what has been called "the greatest cultural rescue effort in Jewish history" recounts his poignant, intrepid, and often riotous quest to safeguard a vanishing civilization.
ISBN: 1565124294


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