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| 1. |  | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl from Bantam Price: $5.99 Customer Review:  I've read this book ten times and it never gets old. Every young adult should read this! |
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| 2. |  | Certain Girls: A Novel from Atria Price: $17.79 Customer Review:  I expect better from such an accomplished author. It's as though her publishers wanted a new book and she wrote this in her sleep. We go back and forth from the mother's story to the daughter's story. A hackneyed device. Neither story is very interesting, so it's almost a relief... |
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| 3. |  | The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home from Penguin Press HC, The Price: $17.13 Customer Review: Mesmerizing memoir, quirky nuanced story telling. Engagingly discombobulated at times, yet microscopically real, as Shepard explores the nooks and crannies of India and Pakistan using her curiosity, camera and notebook to illuminate micro-cultural threads that weave the tapestry of her... |
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| 4. |  | All But My Life from Hill and Wang Price: $11.20 Customer Review: This is one of the first Holocaust survival stories that I read. It is by far one that has stayed with me in the most detail. What a strong girl Gerda is. she was told to never give up her boots and in the end it is one thing that saved her life after marching in a blizzard half frozen to... |
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| 5. |  | The Red Tent from Picador Price: $10.17 Customer Review:  For me, this book just didn't live up to the hype. It wasn't a bad book, it just wasn't awesome either. It was repetitive and tedious in parts. There were parts I enjoyed too though. I'm not sure what the problem was for me. Yes, it deviated from the Biblical account of events, but that didn't... |
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| 6. |  | The Garden of Ruth from Plume Price: $3.99 Customer Review: The Garden of Ruth enhances the biblical story of Ruth and her descendants. Eva Etzioni-Halevy's style is to embellish the biblical story by weaving a story arround the "missing links" and unanswered questions. Her success in blurring the lines is so effective that at times I found it hard to... |
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| 7. |  | The Kommandant's Girl from Mira Price: $11.16 Customer Review: I loved this book and could not put it down. I felt like I was there and loved the characters. You could feel the personal conflict of the Kommandant and still loved him! Best read in a long time. |
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| 8. |  | Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series) from The Feminist Press at CUNY Price: $10.85 Customer Review:  I found this book extremely tedious, poorly edited, full of boring speculations and philosophical self centerdness. Am shocked at myself being able to say this about any survivor, but there you have it. I kept thinking, "OK, now when are you going to get on with the actual story", before realizing... |
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| 9. |  | The Saturday Wife from St. Martin's Press Price: $16.47 Customer Review: This is very different from Naomi Regan's other books. It's truly a novel but I loved it!! It was a very interesting picture of a girl that married someone she wasn't sure of and of her quest for a "rich" life, in every sense of the word. Naomi....you go girl!! Can't wait for your next book. Thank... |
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| 10. |  | Women's Minyan from Toby Press Price: $10.36 Customer Review: Excellent portrait of a true story that touches on the cloistered environment that is the Haredi community. Naomi Ragen is such a champion of those who have no voice. |
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| 11. |  | Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self from Riverhead Trade Price: $10.20 Customer Review: I really enjoyed reading this book. Though I didn't have a lot of the same experiences growing up as Ms. Walker, except maybe that we were born the same year, I still found her story interesting. I'm white, with two Jewish parent's who are still married, but I found myself somehow relating to her... |
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| 12. |  | Memoirs of Glueckel of Hameln from Schocken Price: $10.20 Customer Review: THIS WAS ONE OF THE MOST BORING BOOKS I'VE EVER READ. IT WAS REPETATIVE. THE ONLY INTERESTING PARTS WAS THE DEPICTION OF LIFE OF JEWS OF THAT TIME. ALSO THAT A 14 YEAR OLD FEMALE COULD ACCOMPLISH SO MUCH AS WIFE, MOTHER, BUSINESS WOMAN. IT NEEDED TO BE RE-WRITTEN BY A POLISHED AUTHOR. |
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| 13. |  | Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Joheved (Rashi's Daughters) from Plume Price: $10.20 Customer Review:  An excellent historical fiction novel. The author gives the reader a real feel for the time period in which Rashi and his daughters and family lived. |
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| 14. |  | The Jewish Woman's Weekly Planner (September 2008 - December 2009) Engagement Calendar from Pomegranate Price: $12.23 | |
| 15. |  | A RETURN TO MODESTY: Discovering the Lost Virtue from Free Press Price: $10.20 Customer Review: Wendy Shalit has done the world a favor by looking critically at Modern Feminism and its consequences. However she exhibits many of a blindspots of women at large. For instance to quote F Roger Devlin from his critique "The feminine sexual counter revolution and its limitations" which is a... |
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| 16. |  | Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion from Beacon Press Price: $16.47 | |
| 17. |  | Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism from University of California Press Price: $24.25 Customer Review: people who haven't been exposed to Orthodoxy very much. Just to sum up briefly: the modern Orthodox Manhattanites profiled tend to have busy but slightly empty lives, and are trying to fit their new religious commitment into those lives. Their rabbis tend to focus less on beliefs about Divine... |
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| 18. |  | Alicia from Bantam Price: $7.50 Customer Review: I just finished another very painful but interesting and shocking memoirs in "Thanks to my Mother" by Shoshana Rabinovici and started this book. It's absolutely shocking and heroic struggle to do everything possible to survive day-by-day and minute-by-minute the Systematic Nazi Plan to annihilate... |
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| 19. |  | Beginning Anew from Touchstone Price: $16.15 Customer Review: 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 today.... |
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| 20. |  | Marjorie Morningstar from Back Bay Books Price: $10.87 Customer Review: Having so admired Wouk's "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance", I sought out another combination page-turner and worthy literary endeavor. This isn't it. I often read "old" novels, going back to the 19th century, so I'm familiar with the conventions of expected behavior from young... |
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| 21. |  | The Romantics from St. Martin's Press Price: $16.29 Customer Review: This book reads like a poorly written Nancy Drew - sentences filled with archaic cringe-worthy adjectives. The characters are stereotypical except for some unintentional jarring notes that betray the author's outsider status. Wish I had heeded the Publishers Weekly review and saved my money. |
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| 22. |  | Rashi's Daughters, Book II: Miriam from Plume Price: $10.20 Customer Review: This book is very good if you enjoy some in depth reading. You must follow along to keep the characters straight. Also I only found the glossary when I was finishing the book, so I spent some time looking up Jewish words. It is really interesting to read about the different time periods and how... |
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| 23. |  | Gucci Gucci Coo from Delta Price: $9.60 Customer Review: Overall, this was a cute book. I really liked the story line and the character development wasn't bad (I really enjoyed Chanel). The writing was really horrific though. She feels the need to repeat minute details over and over. It really kills the suspense of some of the scenes, like when she... |
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| 24. |  | Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey among Hasidic Girls from NYU Press Price: $18.00 Customer Review: This was such a wonderful eye-opening book about the variety of girls in the Lubavitch community in Crown Heights. This book breaks the stereotype that says that girls from very religious families become "drone-like" or don't have their individuality. Within their very prescribed world, because of... |
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| 25. | [no image] | Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains from Indiana University Press Price: $11.58 Customer Review: I was required to read this memoir for a U.S. History class and enjoyed it immensely. It was a short easy read, but you really can feel for Rachel Calof in her detailed descriptions of the harsh life on the Northern Plains. I was a bit dissapointed in the shortness of this memoir, but given the... |
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| 26. |  | The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust from Harper Perennial Price: $11.20 Customer Review: This book was recommended by a friend, and while it came highly-rated, I hesitated to read it because I find stories about the Holocaust too upsetting. When I did pick it up, I couldn't put it down! Admittedly, I turned the pages through the first third slowly, fearing I would read something... |
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| 27. |  | Miriam's Kitchen: A Memoir from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.88 Customer Review: This book and the reciepies are a must have for any Jewish household. Fantastic story of family history and wonderful receipies from Russian Jewish past. The egg salad is absolutely fantastic!!! |
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| 28. |  | Rashi's Daughter, Secret Scholar from Jewish Publication Society of America Price: $11.20 Customer Review: Having read the first two volumes of Rashi's Daughter's I ordered this immediately upon Amazon making it available, March 28, 2008.I didn't know it was for readers "ten and up." I assumed (always a bad idea) that it would be about the third daughter, Rachel. Silly me. It is a re-telling of the story... |
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| 29. |  | Things We Couldn't Say from Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Price: $16.32 Customer Review: I bought this book at the American Book Center in The Hague, Netherlands, a few years ago. As I knew many of the places mentioned in the book, it took on an even deeper meaning for me. I love this book, and I list Diet Eman and Hein Sietsma as heroes. Definitely 5+ stars! |
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| 30. |  | Kaaterskill Falls from Delta Price: $10.40 Customer Review: I picked this up at a used book store, knowing nothing about it except what the cover told me. Having grown up on the edge of the Catskills, having had some experience in my home town with "summer people from the city", and being an avid reader of Chaim Potok, Faye Kellerman and Harry Kemelman, I... |
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