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Blood
Brothers
by Elias Chacour, David
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[email protected]
from USA , June 28, 1999
bad, biased, anti-Israel
Elias Chacour has always been Anti-Israel Anti-Semetic, a better
book which will show much more detail and extensive evidence
can be found in Joan Peter's book "From Time Immomorial",
read it and compare the two and see for yourself.
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How
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[email protected] from near Los Angeles, CA ,
November 9, 1999
Fascinating even for non-observant people
I was raised in a completely non-observant household; we were
"Christmas Tree" Jews. I never set foot inside a synagogue
until my late 40s. I stumbled onto this book at the beginning
of my search for information and my place in the greater Jewish
community, and found it fascinating.
I have...
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The
Mythic Past : Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel
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Arguing that the Bible should be read as literature rather than
history in the modern sense, biblical archaeologist Thompson
(Biblical Studies/Univ. of Copenhagen) sweepingly reassesses
the historical evidence for the existence of ancient Israel.
Bitter scholarly controversies, fueled by religious...
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The
Invisible Wall : The Mystery of the Germans and the Jews
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W. Michael Blumenthal, a German Jew who arrived in the U.S.
with $65 in his pocket, went on to become President Jimmy Carter's
Secretary of the Treasury. He comes by his over-achievement
honestly: his ancestors include jewelers, composers, businessmen,
and literati, whose stories he collects in The...
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The
Provincials : A Personal History of Jews in the South
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The author, Eli N. Evans , August 30, 1997
Quotes from Pat Conroy, Alfred Uhry, and Willie Morris
"Eli Evans's The Provincials remains the seminal,indispensable
work about
the Jewish experience in the South. I returned to the book again
and again
as I wrote Beach Music, not only for its extraordinary insights
and the
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Out
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Aciman (French Literature/Princeton) delivers a clear- eyed
eulogy of a lost past and a family in decline. Aciman's Jewish-Turkish-Italian
family came to Alexandria, Egypt, in 1905, long before young
Andr was born. There they lived in highly leveraged splendor
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The
Boys : The Untold Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors
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Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other Nazi death camps were places
of death--not only of the body, but also of the spirit, for
the German captors sought to rob their prisoners of their very
humanity through routine torture and terrorism. Only a fraction
of those who entered the camps survived to bear...
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The
Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
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Out of seemingly small events are sometimes born great historical
moments. The case of young Edgardo Mortara is one. In 1858 the
6-year-old Jewish boy was taken from his parents' home in Bologna,
Italy, by agents of the Papal inquisition. The year before,
seriously ill, Edgardo had been secretly...
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Jewish
Roots in Poland : Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories
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Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival
Inventories, by Miriam Weiner, is a big and beautiful book,
in more ways than one. It is illustrated with hundreds of antique
and contemporary photographs of Polish cities and towns; and
the depth and scope of its genealogical resource lists...
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The
Jews of Spain : A History of the Sephardic Experience
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A narrative history of the Sephardic Jews discusses the first
Jewish settlements of Roman times, Sephardic relations with
Christian and Muslim societies, Spain's Golden Age, and the
expulsion of the Jews. --This text refers to an out of print
or unavailable edition of this title.
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The
First Jewish Catalog; A Do-It-Yourself Kit
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For anyone who has ever wondered how to make wine, crochet a
kippah, locate a Jewish film, start a Jewish library, or bring
the Messiah, this exciting collection of far-ranging topics
can help any Jew--those steeped in tradition or those just discovering
Judaism--to become personally involved in the...
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Actual
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Berman's is a funny, smart, on-again, off-again poetry of great
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Josephus
: The Complete Works
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[email protected] from Los Angeles, California
, May 7, 1999
A fine comprehensive history of Biblical times
The value of this volume is threefold, and all are noteworthy.
First, Josephus' account of the historical events and people
in Judea during the 1st century A.D. has no peer. Josephus'
facts are the most reliable from any secular historian during
that period.
Second, Josephus' histories corroborate...
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Shtetl
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Relations between Jews and Poles were troubled even before World
War II began, writes Eva Hoffman in this powerful memoir of
life under Nazi occupation. Dealings between the groups were
no easier with the arrival of a common enemy, who exploited
longstanding anti-Semitism to destroy the inhabitants...
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Memoirs
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Begun in 1690, this diary of a forty-four-year-old German Jewish
widow, mother of fourteen children, tells how she guided the
financial and personal destinies of her children, how she engaged
in trade, ran her own factory, and promoted the welfare of her
large family. Her memoir, a rare account of...
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Anne
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Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office
building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank
became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and
thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book
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Best
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A handy trade paperback that presents thousands of appealing
names from which parents can make a suitable selection for their
newborns. Each entry gives the origin and meaning of the name
and suggests one Hebrew equivalent. Includes Anglicized forms
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Messages
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"The man was stubborn," writes Calvin Trillin -- the second
most stubborn member of the Trillin family -- to begin this
memoir of his father. Although he had a strong vision of the
sort of person he wanted his son to be, Abe Trillin's explicit
advice about how to behave didn't go beyond "You might...
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The
Atlas of Jewish History
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Hardcover - 128 pages
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A newly revised edition gives a visual documentation and perspective
on every step in the saga of Jewish history through detailed
maps that trace the patterns of migration and the growth of
Jewish communities throughout the old and new worlds. 15,000
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Man
Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag
by Janusz Bardach, Kathleen
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In 1941, accidentally rolling a Soviet tank while fording a
river was considered a death offense by the Red Army. Unfortunately
for young Janusz Bardach, he committed just such an error; lucky
for him that an old acquaintance from his hometown in Poland
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