Paperback |
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman |
Hardcover |
A Life on the Stage, A Memoir
Jacob P. Adler, Lulla Rosenfeld (Editor)
A
rediscovery. A lost document of theatrical history written more than seven
decades ago is now translated for the first time into English -- the autobiography
of the great Yiddish actor Jacob Adler. It is, as well, a history of the
Yiddish theater -- for which Adler himself was almost single-handedly
responsible -- in Russia, England, and the United States. |
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Jazz Age Jews
Michael Alexander
The stories of Arnold Rothstein,.Felix Frankfurter and Al Jolson in the 1920s, when perceptions of American Jews were evolving, told by an award winning historian. |
Hardcover |
Vibrations: The Adventures and Musical Times of David Amram
David Amram and Douglas Brinkley
Mr. Amran was the speaker at the 9/17/2006 meeting |
Paperback |
Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac
David Amram |
Hardcover |
Rashi's Daughters, Book 1: Joheved
Maggie Anton |
Hardcover |
Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd
Sam Apple |
Paperback |
Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess
Hannah Arendt |
Sholom Asch
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Nehama Aschkenasy
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Paperback |
Cast A Giant Shadow:
The Story of Mickey Marcus Who Died to Save Jerusalem
Ted Berkman |
Hardcover |
The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
Harry Bernstein |
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It Happened in Italy:
Untold Stories of How the People of Italy Defied the Horrors of the Holocaust Elizabeth Bettina |
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The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation, and WWII
Howard Blum |
Hardcover |
Revenge: A Story of Hope
Laura Blumenfeld |
Hardcover | The Librettist of Venice:
The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo da Ponte Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impresario in America
Rodney Bolt
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A Touch of the Sacred:
A Theologian's Informal Guide to Jewish Belief
Dr. Eugene Borowitz and Frances W. Schwartz |
Paperback |
The Woman Who Defied Kings
Andrée Aelion Brooks |
Hardcover |
Russian Dance
Andrée Aelion Brooks |
Hardcover |
Children of Fast-Track Parents
Andrée Aelion Brooks |
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Paperback |
Sunday Jews
Hortense Calisher |
Paperback |
Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains
Rachel Calof, et al |
Hardcover |
Tunney: Boxing's Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey
Jack Cavanaugh |
Hardcover |
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon |
Paperback |
Jane Austen in Boca: A Novel
Paula Marantz Cohen |
Hardcover |
Soldiers and Slaves
Roger Cohen |
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Finding Home: In The Footsteps Of The Jewish Fusgeyers
Jill Culiner
Speaker at Sunday meeting May 20, 2007 |
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Slanderous Tongue
Jill Culiner |
Hardcover |
Bethlehem Road Murder
A Michael Ohayon Mystery
Batya Cur |
Paperback |
He
Died Alone in Tijuana - The Wandering Jew
Raymond Dayan |
Paperback |
The Holocaust by Bullets:
A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth
Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews
by Patrick Desboi |
Hardcover |
The
Case For Israel
Alan Dershowitz |
Paperback |
Miss America, 1945: Bess Myerson and the Year That Changed Our Lives
Susan Dworkin |
Hardcover |
The Bronfmans: The Rise and Fall of the House of Seagram
Nicholas Faith |
Hardcover |
Abraham
Bruce Feiler |
Hardcover |
Walking the Bible: A Journey Land Through the Five Books of Moses
Bruce S. Feiler
The story of Bruce Feiler's 10,000-mile trek from Mount Ararat to Mount Nebo, undertaken for reasons he did not understand at the outset and accompanied by a companion who was very nearly a stranger. |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking Basics
Ronnie Fein
Ronnie Fein was a speaker at the April 2005 meeting of JHSLFC. |
Paperback |
The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Cooking
Ronnie Fein |
Hardcover |
Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology
Michael Fishbane |
Hardcover |
Blood Libel: The Damascus Affair Of 1840
Ronald Florence
Ronald Florence was a speaker at the November 2004 meeting of JHSLFC. |
Paperback |
Everything is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer |
Paperback |
Jew Versus Jew:
The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry
Samuel Freedman |
Hardcover |
Who She Was
Samuel Freedman |
Hardcover |
Quality Living in the Semicircle of Life
William Gefter |
Paperback |
Bee Season
Myla Goldberg |
Hardcover |
Victims, Victors & Survivors - Germans, Allies & Jews on Occupied Postwar Germany
Atina Grossmann |
Paperback |
Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950
Atina Grossmann |
Paperback |
Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century
Atina Grossmann (Editor) |
Paperback |
Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
Roya Hakakian
Ms. Hakakian was a speaker at the February 2006 meeting of JHSLFC. |
Paperback |
Entertaining America: Jews, Movies and Braodcasting
J. Hoberman and Jeffrey Shandler |
Hardcover |
A Summer World
Stefan Kanfer
for more Stefan Kanfer see below |
Hardcover |
Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972
Edward K. Kaplan |
Paperback |
All But My Life
Gerda Weissmann Klein | America in the Holocaust: Deceit & Indifference
Kurt Klein |
Hardcover |
In My Father's Bakery
Marvin Korman |
Paperback |
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 Freedom – and Revenge
by Edward Kritzler |
Hardcover |
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Incredible True Story of a German-Jewish Teenager's Struggle to Survive in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Betty Lauer was a featured speaker at a Sunday meeting. |
Paperback |
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit:
A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
Lucette Lagnad |
Hardcover |
Ladies and Gentlemen; The Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet & Weekend in Mustara
Curt Leviant |
Paperback |
We Lived There Too
Kenneth Libo, Irving Howe |
Hardcover |
How We Lived: A Documentary History of Immigrant Jews in America, 1880-1930
Kenneth Libo, Irving Howe |
Hardcover |
World of Our Fathers
Irving Howe, Kenneth Libo
Dr. Libo was a speaker at the November 2004 meeting of JHSLFC |
Paperback |
In Praise of Public Life
Joseph I. Lieberman |
Paperback |
A Man and a Woman and a Man
Savyon Liebrecht |
Paperback |
The Coffee Trader
David Liss |
Paperback |
President Lincoln's Third Largest City: Brooklyn and the Civil War
(E.A.) Bud Livingston
Mre. Livingston was the speaker at the October 2006 meeting of JHSLFC |
Paperback |
Churchill's Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft
by: Michael Makovsky |
Hardcover |
The Great Escape:
Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
Kati Marton |
Hardcover |
The Polish Woman
Eva Mekler |
Paperback |
Growing Up Poor, Living Rich
Franklin Melzer |
Paperback |
The Kingsbridge Plot
Maan Meyers |
Hardcover |
The Trumpet in the Wadi
Sami Michael |
Paperback |
The Outside World
Tova Mirvis | |
Why On This Night? A Passover Haggadah for Family Celebration
Rahel Musleah
Music CD: Hodu: Jewish Rhythms from Baghdad to India |
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Pomegranates and Apples: A Family Seder for Rosh Hashanah
Rahel Musleah |
Hardcover |
Suite Française
Irene Nemirovsky |
Hardcover |
A Tale oF Love and Darkness
Amos Oz |
Hardcover |
Mother and Me: Escape from Warsaw 1939
Julian Padowicz
Book Talk Presenter:
Julian Padowicz
Mr. Padowicz also spoke at the Stamford Historical Society's Founders Day Lecture, October 22, 2006. |
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Davita's Harp
Chaim Potok |
Hardcover |
The
Pieces From Berlin
Michael Pye |
Paperback |
The Covenant
Naomi Ragen |
Paperback |
Terror in Black September: The First Eyewitness Account of the Infamous 1970 Hijackings
David Raab |
Hardcover |
THE ORIENTALIST: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
Tom Reiss | Pushcarts and dreamers; stories of Jewish life in America
Max Rosenfeld |
Hardcover |
The Golems of Gotham
Thane Rosenbaum |
Paperback |
Second Hand Smokel
Thane Rosenbaum |
Paperback |
American
Pastoral
Philip Roth |
Paperback |
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth |
Paperback |
I Married a Communist
by Philip Roth |
Paperback |
A Thread of Grace
Mary Doria Russell |
Hardcover |
Adjusting
Sights
Haim Sabato |
Library Binding |
The
Righteous Gentiles
Victoria Sherrow |
Hardcover |
A Pigeon And a Boy
Meir Shalev |
Hardcover |
The Messenger
Daniel Silva |
Paperback |
The Septembers of Shiraz: A Novel (P.S.)
Dalia Sofer |
Journey
To The Golden Door
Jay Sommer |
Paperback |
Bondage
to the Dead:
Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust (Modern Jewish History)
Michael C. Steinlauf |
Paperback |
The Wedding Jester
Steve Stern |
Paperback |
The Far Euphrates
Aryeh Lev Stollman |
Paperback |
A Wandering Feast: A Journey Through the Jewish Culture of Eastern Europe
Yale Strom, Elizabeth Schwartz
Yale Strom talked & performed at the JCC on January 16, 2005. |
Paperback |
Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood
Dr. N. Tec
Adventure and Destiny
Dr. Leon Tec
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Ordinary Heroes
Scott Turow |
Hardcover |
From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews
Ellen M. Umansky |
Paperback |
There Are Jews In My House
Lara Vapnyar |
Paperback |
Stalin's
Forgotten Zion:
Birobidzhan
and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland:
An
Illustrated History, 1928-1996
Robert Weinberg |
Paperback |
Kaddish
Leon Wieseltier |
Paperback |
The
Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
(Newly Expanded Paperback Edition)
Simon Wiesenthal "Author
Simon Wiesenthal recalls his demoralizing life in a concentration camp
and his envy of the dead Germans who have sunflowers
marking their graves. At the time he assumed
his grave would be a mass one, unmarkedand
forgotten. Then, one day, a dying Nazi soldier asks Weisenthal for
forgiveness..." from Amazon review.
About
Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal Centerc |
Paperback |
A Journey to the End of the Millennium: A Novel of the Middle Ages
A. B. Yehoshua |
Paperback |
Bread
Givers
Anzia Yezierska |
Paperback |
Brave New Judaism: When Science and Scripture Collide
Miryam Z. Wahrman |
Paperback |
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak |
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