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1	And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969- more books like this by Elie Wiesel add to wishlist The second volume of Nobel laureate Wiesel's memoirs recalls his most public years as an activist for Holocaust remembrance and human rights, when he transformed himself from a successful novelist into a moral bulldog, challenging world leaders, including Francois Mitterand and Ronald Reagan, to be more ethically responsible. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margaret and H.A. Rey more books like this by Louise Borden, Allan Drummond (Illustrator) add to wishlist Follow Hans and Margret Rey's amazing story of fleeing their Paris home in 1940 as the German army advanced in this book that resembles a travel journal and includes original photos, reproduced ticket stubs, and more. Full color. see all copies from $5.88! new only from $8.00! \| SVS
3	A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ more books like this by Emil Schurer add to wishlist This classic work includes extensive essays on the Roman political system and its leaders, the political and religious parties of Judaism, messianic movements, and pertinent Greek and Jewish literature?including the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha?from the centuries before and after Christ. This five-volume set is the original edition of Schurer?s ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $49.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex more books like this by Melvin Jules Bukiet (Editor) add to wishlist This book collects a number of short stories and novel excerpts, written between 1962 and 1999, by a variety of Jewish authors, all addressing the universal topic of sex. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read the Jewish Bible more books like this by Rosenberg add to wishlist In elegant, readable language, and with a vibrant sense of shared experience, many of America's leading novelists, poets, and literary critics guide us through the Old Testament, opening a window on how writers today view the Book of Books and throwing light on both American and Jewish culture. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
6	In Search of American Jewish Culture more books like this by Professor Stephen J Whitfield add to wishlist A cultural historian explores the interactions of Jewish and American cultures. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions
7	Bech at Bay more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist Bech is back in the third of Updike's novels about the peripatetic Jewish-American author forever embattled by his literary peers, critics and women. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Fiedler on the Roof more books like this by Leslie Fiedler add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Which Lilith?: Feminist Writers Re-Create the World's First Woman more books like this by Lilly Rivlin (Editor), Henny Wenkart (Editor), Enid Dame (Editor) add to wishlist 49.95 see all copies from $12.50! new only from $40.43! \| first editions
10	Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology more books like this by Jules Chametzky (Editor), Mr. John Felstiner (Editor), Professor Hilene Flanzbaum (Editor) add to wishlist Examining Jewish American literature from its 17th-century origins to its flourishing present, this anthology gathers the work of 145 writers in all genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, essays, journals, autobiographies, and song lyrics. Other editors are John Felstiner, Hilene Flanzbaum, and Kathryn Hellerstein. see all copies from $13.50! new only from $19.50! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to "The Goldbergs" more books like this by Donald Weber add to wishlist '"Haunted in the New World" is a superb, insightful, and acutely intelligent piece of work. It makes a real contribution to the understanding of ethnicity in general and Jewish American culture in particular' - Morris Dickstein. In 1916 Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish daily "The Forward", warned his Yiddish-speaking readers of the potential ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $25.76! \| first editions
12 view cover	In the Footsteps of Orpheus: The Life and Times of Mikla3s Radna3ti more books like this by Zsuzsanna Ozsvath add to wishlist Miklos Radnoti, a young Hungarian Jewish poet, was shot by German guards while on a forced march from Yugoslavia back to Hungary during the final days of World War II. When his body was discovered and exhumed nearly two years later, a small book of poems was found in his coat pocket. These poems, together with the rest of Radnoti's work, ... see all copies from $29.90! new only from $90.69! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Mohr more books like this by Frederick Reuss add to wishlist With the sort of enthralling narrative step that always marks his work, Reuss reveals the story of the troubled relationship between a husband and wife--the husband being an exiled Jewish playwright who always meant to go back for Kthe, the beautiful wife he left behind, and Eva, their daughter. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America more books like this by Jonathan Freedman add to wishlist From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.25! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature more books like this by Michael Kramer (Editor), Hana Wirth-Nesher (Editor) add to wishlist Essays by many critics and writers on Jewish literature in America, including the work of Philip Roth, Henry Roth, Bernard Malamud, Grace Paley, Saul Bellow, and Cynthia Ozick. see all copies from $2.91! new only from $2.91! \| SVS
16 view cover	American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories more books like this by Gerald Shapiro (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology presents an ambitious cross-section of Jewish American short fiction. It covers a full century of extraordinary writings, from turn-of-the-century immigrant fiction to stories by some of the finest young contemporary American writers. To read through its pages is to encounter a remarkable - and remarkably diverse - literary ... see all copies from $2.37! new only from $59.99!
17 view cover	The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe more books like this by Paul Reitter add to wishlist In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that provoked both admiration and outrage. Kraus' spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which led to a reputation as the quintessential self-hating Jew. "The Anti-Journalist" overturns this view ... see all copies from $27.21! new only from $27.21! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture more books like this by Ruth R Wisse add to wishlist In the spirit of Harold Bloom, Wisse has compiled the diverse but displaced works of Jewish literature that have largely been unacknowledged alongside other Western--Christian--canonical pieces. It brings together works in Yiddish, English, French, German, and Polish that strive to express the Jewish identity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.85! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Goldberg Variations more books like this by Gabriel Josipovici add to wishlist Taking his cue from an anecdote connected with Bach's late masterpiece, the "Goldbery Variations", this indefinable book is a collection of 30 individual stories which, when read together, turns into an intriguing and mysterious novel. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| SVS
20	A History of Russian Jewish Literature: Including B. Gorev's Essay "Russian Literature and the Jews" more books like this by V L'Vov-Rogachevskii add to wishlist see all copies from $3.85! SVS
21 view cover	Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation more books like this by Professor Emily Miller Budick, Emily M Brudick add to wishlist Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation explores the works of a range of black and Jewish writers, critics, and academics from the 1950s to the 1980s. By recording conversations both direct, such as essays and letters, and indirect, such as the fiction of Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Alice Walker, Cynthia Ozick, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00!
22 view cover	Mosaic Man more books like this by Ronald Sukenick add to wishlist Sukenick's fragmented, journal-like, autobiographical novel is about his Jewish background, his writing and that of others, and the spiritual impact of a visit to Jerusalem. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions
23 view cover	Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer more books like this by Derek Rubin (Editor) add to wishlist Spanning three generations of Jewish writing in America, these essays--by turns nostalgic, comic, poignant, and provocative--give fascinating insights into the thinking and the work of some of America's most important contemporary writers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Inside the Hornet's Head: An Anthology of Jewish American Writing more books like this by Jerome Charyn (Editor) add to wishlist When compiler Jerome Charyn first read Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March, a world of letters opened up to him. It was his first exposure to the full potential of language, rendered breathlessly. In those pages he felt the terror and delight and buzz and ceaseless clatter of the inside of a hornet's head. Here, he shares with us ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Shaking Eve's Tree more books like this by Sharon Niederman (Editor) add to wishlist Shaking Eve's Tree is an anthology of short stories by contemporary Jewish women writers, many on mother-daughter relationships. The seventeen stories echo a major concern in the larger sphere of Jewish women's fiction: they deal with healing and new ways to form relationships within the family. Niederman's introduction addresses the development ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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