Outrageous! Horror Show
By Michael Crowley From Reader's Digest Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg had three awful things in common. Both were Jewish Americans who were kidnapped by Islamic terrorists. Both were beheaded. And both had their excruciating deaths recorded and then ... [... more]
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Golden Country
 Amazon.com Review: Jennifer Gilmore's work has appeared in several magazines and journals, but Golden Country is her debut novel, and an auspicious one it is. Gilmore's story follows the lives of three immigrants from the 1920s to the '60s in New York: [... more]
$14.00
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Derek Rubin
Derek Rubin teaches in the American Studies program at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He has lectured widely in the United States, and as a Fulbright Scholar taught Jewish American literature at the State University of New York at New ... [... more]
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Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews
Just plain enjoyable - You don't have to be Jewish...: This book is a real pleasure to read. Rabbi Telushkin not only tells some wonderful jokes he analyzes them in an interesting way. In his preface he notes that Jews do not joke about everything but [... more]
$24.00
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Up from Orchard Street
Widmer falls into the Memoirist's trap: In her afterword, the late Eleanor Widmer describes her book as "part memoir, part social history, and part fiction." As I read, it seemed that memoir dominated both style and content -- not a good thing, [... more]
$14.00
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The Wonder Spot
Amazon.com Review: Six years after her amazingly successful debut, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Melissa Bank rewards her fans for their patience with The Wonder Spot, a refreshingly honest interpretation of one young woman's journey into [... more]
$14.00
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Beware of God: Stories
Sharp wit and irreverent perspective.: I read pratically the entire book in one sitting; it's hard to put down. These short, well-crafted stories are filled with memorable moments and lines, as well as a sincere and irreverent take on the whole god ' [... more]
$14.00
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The Shiksa Syndrome: A Novel
The word "Shiksa" is offensive: No matter how well this author writes, you should know that the word "shiksa" is highly offensive. It's a derogatory term in Yiddish for a non-Jewish woman, and it's derived from a Biblical term in [... more]
$22.95
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The Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction
Some classics, but mostly "identity art" at its worst: Formerly entitled "Writing our Way Home" this book is for the most part an orgy in self-indulgent assimilated handwringing. The stories by recognized authors such as Singer, Roth, [... more]
$20.00
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Golden Country: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Jennifer Gilmore's work has appeared in several magazines and journals, but Golden Country is her debut novel, and an auspicious one it is. Gilmore's story follows the lives of three immigrants from the 1920s to the '60s in New York: [... more]
$25.00
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Emma Lazarus (Jewish Encounters)
worthy work of an unjustly neglected figure: A worthwhile biography by a scholar who blends critical insight with sheer enthusiasm in a very appealing manner. By the late 1870s and 1880s, Browning, Whitman, Henry James, Emerson (the latter two among her [... more]
$21.95
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Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
Mostly illuminated: Jonathan Safran Foer takes literary risks and entertaining leaps in his debut novel, "Everything is Illuminated," an amusing chunk of magical realism. It's a tragicomic experience, centering on the devastation of the [... more]
$10.00
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