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Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History 33 reviews
Ted Sorensen
Harper, 2008
Ted Sorensen's 2008 Convention Speech
+ Time well spent
+ Sorensen, before, during and after JFK
Ted Sorensen's 2008 Convention Speech
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 03:20 PM
"In my more than 50 years of national conventions, this is one of the most important. Our 8 year national nightmare of mendacity, mediocrity and economic misery--with millions of Americans losing their jobs, their ...
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A Tale of Love and Darkness 33 reviews
Amos Oz
Harvest Books, 2005
A beautiful and moving memoir
+ Memoirs are made of this
+ The Eternal Jewish Mother
+ history and biography
+ Superior Autobiography
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At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst12 reviews
Carol L. Flinders
HarperOne, 1999
Highly Recommended
+ Like Finding a Kindred Spirit in a Slightly Unexpected Place
+ Transformational
+ Essential
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Beginning Anew 1 review
Gail Twersky Reimer, Judith A. Kates
Touchstone, 1997
Fascinating for both women and men
This contemporary anthology features 33 essays by women from a variety of Jewish backgrounds, exploring the biblical passages and liturgical themes for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The approach is modernist-feminist but with a deep, sincere respect for the tradition and what it can teach us ...
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The Plot Against America 395 reviews
Philip Roth
Vintage, 2005
AS THE WORLD TURNS...
+ Interesting
+ Dodging the Bullet
I loved this book, as it was a wonderful melding of two genres, that of alternate history to that of family drama. Understandably, this book was touted as a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. It is as gripping as it is moving, and the best book that I have read by this author, no ...
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The Truth About Camp David: The Untold Story About the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process (Nation ...18 reviews
Clayton E. Swisher
Nation Books, 2004
Highly recommended for any American who wants to know what happened.
+ Great, well researched and well thought out
+ An Outsider Intrudes on the Insiders' Story Lines
This book presents detailed, eye-witness accounts from all sides of the US/Israeli peace negotiations with the Syrians and Palestinians during the latter part of the Clinton administration. This is not a particularly well written book, it is clear that Mr. Swisher is still developing his craft, ...
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Open Closed Open: Poems7 reviews
Yehuda Amichai
Harvest Books, 2006
The Perfect Ending
+ Amichai Forever
+ The violent or anonymous love of God for Israel? A translation mistake
+ The day-to-day Israeli poetry
+ Genius
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The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai, Newly Revised and Expanded edition (Literature of the Middle East)7 reviews
Yehuda Amichai
University of California Press, 1996
Amichai's beautiful map
+ The most popular poet of Israel
+ A great collection of a great poet's work
+ Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant
+ Lovely and shimmering poems
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The Chosen
Chaim Potok
Fawcett Crest Printing, 1968
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God: A Biography73 reviews
Jack Miles
Vintage, 1996
An eyeopening novel view of God
+ Literary view of the Jewish Bible
+ Read this book!
+ Read This Book
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness5 reviews
Paul Gilroy
Harvard University Press, 1993
An insightful look at black transglobal culture
+ In Conversation About the Origin and Intellect of "Black" Expression
+ a textual odyssey of rethinking black political culture.
Paul Gilroy brings a fresh eye and mind to the challenging task of examining black cultural and political manifestations as they affect the transglobal community. Gilroy, unlike some cultural theorists, sees the interconnectedness between those discourses around race, class, gender, and sexuality ...
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The Manor and the Estate (Library Of World Fiction)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
University of Wisconsin Press, 2004
The Manor and The Estate —combined in this one-volume edition—bold tales of Polish Jews in the latter half of the nineteenth century, a time of rapid industrial growth and radical social change that enabled the Jewish community to move from the ghetto to prominent positions within Polish society.
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics)5 reviews
Hannah Arendt
Penguin Classics, 2006
A Classic that Elaborates on the Genocide of Jews and Others
+ Incredible investigation of Adolf Eichmann
+ excellent!
+ Emphasis on Banality
+ Rethinking the Nature of Evil
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When Bad Things Happen to Good People126 reviews
Harold S. Kushner
Anchor, 2004
a healing message
+ Great insight into a problem
+ Inspiring
+ Fantastic read!
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The Family Moskat: A Novel (FSG Classics)7 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
One of his best
+ One of a great author's masterworks
+ Rich depiction of real life
+ 100 Years of Anti-Semitism
+ Singer's Finest Novel
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The Book of Jewish Food1 review
Claudia Roden
Penguin Books Ltd, 1999
A work of genius; breath-taking in its scope
Claudia Roden's opus, THE BOOK OF JEWISH FOOD, must be considered the definitive work on the history of the cuisine of the Jewish people.
Anyone wishing to own a single Jewish cookbook need look no further than THE BOOK OF JEWISH FOOD.
This is a work of amazing scholarship, tantamount to a ...
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Man's Search for Meaning77 reviews
Viktor E. Frankl
Beacon Press, 2006
Astounding
+ A Phenomenal Book
+ A man that has contributed greatly to my knowledge of the world.
+ This is the one.
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Shadows on the Hudson: A Novel (FSG Classics)25 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Nowhere plans for nobody
+ Excellent writing at the service of an impoverished philosophy of life
+ a brilliant novel but no fun to read
+ A modern epic novel..eternal ..humorous and testimonial
+ Dark and Epic: Singer rewriting himself
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War28 reviews
Michael Dobbs
Knopf, 2008
"Some Sonfabitch Doesn't Get The Word
+ Well-researched history in page-turner packaging
+ One Minute to Midnight
+ GREAT BOOK
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Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah: Legends from the Talmud and Midrash13 reviews
Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Y.H. Rawnitzky
Schocken, 1992
The story- thought of the Gemara
+ Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-aggada: Legends from the Talmud and Midrash
+ Awesome
+ Ancient writings give modern insight
+ Truly Great
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