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| 1. |  | National Geographic Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe from National Geographic Price: $10.30 Customer Review:  I wish I had found this book earlier. In the last few years we have been to several Eastern European countries doing our own Jewish Heritage tours. The amount of information in this book condenses what took me hours to find for previous trips plus more. As we read the sections devoted to those... |
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| 2. |  | The Oppermanns: A Novel from Carroll & Graf Price: $8.75 Customer Review: "The Oppermanns" is an extraordinary, (unfortunately) little-known novel that presents the rise of the Nazis and their first months in power through the experience of a single German Jewish family. The Oppermanns are old, established German Jews: upper-class, politically liberal, respected in... |
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| 3. |  | Exodus 1947: The Ship That Launched a Nation from Union Square Press Price: $5.50 Customer Review: Ruth Gruber, aged 97 at the time of this writing, is an American journalist who in 1947 was assigned for four months to cover the immigration of Jewish refugees to Israel following the Nazi Holocaust. One result was this amazing 199-page volume, replete with photographs of the recently released... |
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| 4. |  | Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe from University of California Press Price: $33.67 Customer Review: A colleague of mine (also a professor) recommended this book to me, and I am glad that he did. This book is a first-rate portrayal of the complicated world of European philosemitism and strange attempts to re-create a lost Europan Jewish world. As a graduate student working on German-Jewish history,... |
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| 5. |  | Raquela; A Woman of Israel from Three Rivers Press Price: $17.25 Customer Review: I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I learned a lot about early Israel and was reminded about much I had forgotten. |
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| 6. |  | Live at the Fillmore East: A Photographic Memoir from Da Capo Press Price: $174.38 Customer Review: My original review appeared on Amazon when this book was first published and my appreciation for the work has grown over the years. These photos were taken by Amalie Rothschild during a time when I was 15-17 years old, and they are so important to me as someone who deeply appreciates this genre of... |
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| 7. |  | Ahead of Time: My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent from Basic Books Price: $5.98 Customer Review: I would like to have known her to get inspiration from her an amazing self sacrificing dedicated woman |
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| 8. |  | Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America from Three Rivers Press Price: $19.45 Customer Review:  Ruth Gruber describes her journey accompanying 1,000 Jewish and Christian refugees who are brought from Italy to American and saved from the Nazis during the Holocaust. She recounts many of their amazing and moving stories of survival as well as the difficulties during their journey. I thought... |
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| 9. | [no image] | The Passover Seder (Symbol and Culture.) from Plume Customer Review: The end of this book has some interesting observations about the Seder, such as her discussion of the Seder plate. She suggests that the Seder plate emphasizes the transformation of nature (e.g. wheat) into culture (e.g. matzoh), just as relevation turned Jews from ordinary homo sapiens into a holy... |
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| 10. |  | Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story (Schocken paperbacks on Judaica) from Schocken Price: $4.15 Customer Review: I never heard of Ruth Gruber before, after reading her adventures Hollywood should make a movie of her life, not for theatres, but HBO, or Showtime. Theatrically it would be a financial flop. But for cable a success..... |
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| 11. | [no image] | I Went to the Soviet Arctic (American Biography Series) from Reprint Services Corp Customer Review:  This book describes the adventures of Ruth Gruber, a feminist social scientist who went poking about the far corners of Siberia to see the conditions for Soviet women in the Artic during the run-up to World War II. In 1936, Gruber won a Yardley Foundation Fellowship to conduct a project studying the... |
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| 12. |  | Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman from Basic Books Price: $1.49 | |
| 13. |  | Inside of Time: My Journey from Alaska to Israel from Basic Books Price: $4.99 Customer Review: this book takes one to alaska -to the people who work hard and take pride of their state. we meet the people who are proud of their state. ruth gruber went to israel as a correspondent during a difficult time in their history.we learn a lot of the country and the places that she lived in and... |
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| 14. |  | Jewish Identity in Contemporary Architecture / Judische Identitat in Der Zeitgenossischen Architektur from Prestel Publishing Price: $29.75 | |
| 15. | [no image] | Rescue: The Exodus of the Ethiopian Jews from Atheneum Books Price: $39.95 Customer Review: Interesting reading that has given me a better of the Ethiopian Jews and the role they played in the Bible and in the effects they had on people of color in the Bible. |
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| 16. |  | Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to East-Central Europe from Jason Aronson Price: $21.99 Customer Review: If one is on the verge of taking a trip to Poland and other countries in easter Europe to see what is left of the Jewish communities, there is no better preparation than this book. Not only does it provide an overview of what remains in all these eastern European countries, it also gives detailed... |
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| 17. |  | Upon The Doorposts of Thy House: Jewish Life in East-Central Europe, Yesterday and Today from Wiley Price: $39.99 Customer Review: Ruth Gruber has written an extraordinary and unusual book. She has a unique way of writing, revealing a country and the people present and vanished in clear, powerful, beautiful ways. For example,she describes how you notice the empty spaces on doorposts where the mezuzahs used to be. This small,... |
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| 18. |  | Destination Palestine: The story of the Haganah ship Exodus 1947 from Current Books | |
| 19. | [no image] | Ahead Of Time - from Wynwood Press - | |
| 20. |  | HAVEN The Unknown Story of 1,000 World War 2 Refugees from Safe Haven Publication Price: $35.00 | |
| 21. |  | Ahead of Time : My Early Years As a Foreign Correspondent from Wynwood Press | |
| 22. | [no image] | Destination Palestine from Current Books A.A. Wyn | |
| 23. | [no image] | Exodus 1947: The Ship That Launched the Nation from Times Books, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A. Price: $20.00 Customer Review: Ruth Gruber, currently aged 98, is an American journalist who in 1947 was assigned for four months to cover the immigration of Jewish refugees to Israel following the Nazi Holocaust. One result was this amazing 199-page volume, replete with photographs of the recently released mothers, fathers,... |
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| 24. | [no image] | Felisa Rincón de Gautier; the mayor of San Juan, illustrated withphotographs. from Unknown | |
| 25. | [no image] | Felisa Rincon De Gautier from Felisa Rincon de Gautier Foundation | |
| 26. | [no image] | Felisa Rincon de Gautier from See notes | |
| 27. | [no image] | Felisa Rincon De Gautier: The Mayor of San Juan (Women of America) from Ty Crowell Co Customer Review: Ruth Gruber's book about Felisa Rincón De Gautier adroitly tells the story of the first lady Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico who also made history as the first female Mayor of any capital city in the Americas. Ruth Gruber's writing style is easy going without sacrificng details. For example,... |
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| 28. | [no image] | Felisa Rincon de Gautier: The Mayor of San Juan Inscribed from THOMAS Y CROWELL COMPANY | |
| 29. | [no image] | Haven from A Safe Haven Price: $45.00 | |
| 30. | [no image] | Haven ...the Unknown Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees from Safe Haven | |
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