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| 1. |  | Night (Oprah's Book Club) from Hill and Wang Price: $9.00 Customer Review:  I was happy to see that this book was added to Oprah's book club, this ment that millions who never knew of this book would read it or at least hear it's story. I read this in college as part of the debates on wither the US should have entered WW2 before 1941. When I was done I felt that I had been... |
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| 2. |  | People of the Book: A Novel from Viking Adult Price: $17.13 Customer Review: I first heard about the book on a radio program. I found the book at the library, recognized the title and decided to give it a shot. What good fortune it was! The best book I read this summer...well written, interesting, enlighten and couldn't put it down. The fiction is believable, facts accurate... |
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| 3. |  | The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) from Harper Perennial Price: $10.85 Customer Review:  I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Imaginative premise, compelling characters, innovative prose. The only reason I didn't give it five stars (I'd have given it 4.5 if that were possible) is that I would have expected, especially from a Jewish author, a better understanding of his people's millennial... |
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| 4. |  | Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History from Pantheon Price: $10.17 Customer Review: i was one of the few among my peers who had never read one of the Maus books. When i finally got around to it, i was blown away by its excellence. This is a masterpiece (and i do not use the term lightly). Do yourself a favor and don't miss it. |
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| 5. |  | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl from Bantam Price: $5.99 Customer Review: I have finally, at the age of 33, gotten around to reading Anne Frank's diary. There is little point in adding another glowing review. Everything has been said. But after reading some of the negative reviews, I feel compelled to respond. It seems there are two primary criticisms (Three if you count... |
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| 6. |  | Those Who Save Us from Harvest Books Price: $11.20 Customer Review:  I found the first half of this book to be very interesting and certainly the "page turner" that many others have described. The parts written from Anna's point of view were great and engaging... but I couldn't have cared less about Trudy. There was nothing about that character that made me like her... |
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| 7. |  | Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland from Harper Perennial Price: $10.17 Customer Review: Christopher Browning is a distinguished historian of the horror of the Nazi holacaust against the Jews during World War II, His book on Reserve Police Battalion 101 is a microcosmic examination of how ordinary men responded to the Hitler's regime's insane plan to kill all of the Jews in |
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| 8. |  | Certain Girls: A Novel from Atria Price: $17.79 Customer Review: This long-awaited and much anticipated sequel to Good In Bed is everything I could have hoped for. Picking up thirteen years later, Cannie Schapiro is just as funny and crazy - but she's also more mature, more settled, and mother to a teenage girl. Certain Girls is a story told by both Cannie and... |
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| 9. |  | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay from Picador Price: $10.20 Customer Review: Kavalier and Clay are Jewish cousins, Clay (morphed from Klayman) a short New Yorker crippled by polio, Kavalier a tall brooding escapee from Europe just before Hitler locked the gates and opened the extermination lines. The day after Kavalier's surprising arrival in New York, after his amazing... |
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| 10. |  | The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale from Pantheon Price: $23.10 Customer Review: The Holocaust hangs over western society in the second half of the twentieth century. One man said that poetry was impossible after Auschwitz, but great artists in numerous mediums have dedicated themselves ot proving this wrong. The great crime has provided a great canvas for stories of humanity in... |
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| 11. |  | Survival In Auschwitz from Touchstone Price: $11.20 Customer Review: Primo Levi was an Italian Jew arrested for anti-Fascist resistance in 1944 and sent to the camps of Auschwitz. His short, vivid portrayal of the horrors of the Nazi camps there, the depravity of human nature and the extremes that the human psyche can endure, makes for a lasting literary... |
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| 12. |  | Away: A Novel from Random House Trade Paperbacks Price: $11.20 Customer Review: What a fabulous, fascinating, complex and magical read. Not a happy book; not a cheerful book but a hook you in, make you want to stay up late and read all night kind of a book. One of the best books I've read in a very long time. |
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| 13. |  | The Chosen from Fawcett Price: $7.99 Customer Review:  Amazon displays links, editorial descriptions and user reviews for the actual mass market paperback on the web page for the Bloom's Guide. Basically, the Amazon web page for the Bloom's Guide is selling Harold Bloom's in-depth, college level analysis of the book, not the book itself. Yet, the... |
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| 14. |  | Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus) from Pantheon Price: $10.17 Customer Review: I must say that I find this work hard to properly describe in terms of how I feel about it. I think that it was a fascinating look at one man's experience in the Holocaust, but an equally important aspect is Art's interaction with his father during their conversations. This seems like an honest... |
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| 15. |  | The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition) from Schocken Price: $10.17 Customer Review: This wonderful little book will challenge every grain of moral weight you think you have, and without a doubt you will be better for reading it. Every person should read it. |
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| 16. |  | The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story from W. W. Norton Price: $16.29 Customer Review: Diane Ackerman writes a fantastic book about the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo during ww2. Yes, there are many holocaust books out there, but this one is pretty amazing. These are people who didn't have to do anything at all during the war if they didn't want to. They chose to put their lives at stake... |
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| 17. |  | The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (P.S.) from Harper Perennial Price: $10.17 Customer Review: What a wonderful book. In may ways it is a book that anyone who's family has immigrated from another country can identify with and enjoy. She is a wonderful writer, you will find yourself laughing out loud at some passages and terribly sad at others, but it is worth reading. I enjoyed every page and... |
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| 18. |  | When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa from Back Bay Books Price: $10.19 Customer Review: Peter Godwin was born in Rhodesia, and in 1996 he published 'Makiwa', a gripping account of how he grew up in that country. He was conscripted into the Rhodesian army to fight against the independence movement, by which time he felt that he was fighting in an unjust cause. He eventually got to... |
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| 19. |  | The Jewish Study Bible: featuring The Jewish Publication Society TANAKH Translation from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $29.70 Customer Review: Excellent study guide. Great for definitions of words . Explains from Jewish perspective. Each Chapter gives background of the Torah, Nevi'im and other important Jewish and Chritian text. If you want to study the Bible or Tanakh this is great for beginners. |
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| 20. |  | Man's Search For Meaning from Pocket Price: $6.99 Customer Review: I first read this book in college many years ago as I was working on my degree in psychology. An excerpt from it is in John McCain's autobiographical book, Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir. I was glad to be reminded of this book which I had not read in years. I found my old copy on the shelf but... |
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| 21. |  | Indignation from Houghton Mifflin Price: $17.16 | |
| 22. |  | The Queen's Fool: A Novel (Boleyn) from Touchstone Price: $10.88 Customer Review: WONDERFUL BOOK, COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN. CAN'T WAIT TO READ THE NEXT BOOK BY GREGORY. |
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| 23. |  | The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.20 Customer Review: Child rearing is tough work, as tough or tougher now than ever. Mogul, a psychologist, sought to find a different, healthy approach to managing children and parenthood. She came to Judaism's traditional ways. For much of the book, the theme is simple: given three thousand years of parenthood, what... |
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| 24. |  | Man's Search for Meaning from Beacon Press Price: $10.40 Customer Review: From the perspective of a member in a culture consumed in the "existential vacuum", Frankl's experiences and logotheraphy discussion offers a call to action for those prepared to live a meaningful life. This book will change you. |
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| 25. |  | Night from Bantam Customer Review: Wow...every page is like a sock in the gut, and like many memoirs full of twisted events, I find myself hoping it isn't true. But what's most remarkable is Wiesel's legacy, how he survived and lived to tell about it as a respected intellectual (this isn't a part of the story). Historically relevant,... |
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| 26. |  | 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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| 27. |  | War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (Critical Issues in History) from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Price: $20.65 Customer Review: A very detailed chronology of the events leading upto, during and after the Holocaust in Europe. |
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| 28. |  | Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures--The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text from Jewish Publication Society of America Price: $14.96 Customer Review: Let's get one thing out of the way. All Bible translations have a bias. The Bible: Authorized King James Version (Oxford World's Classics) was a protestant document through and through. While many claim to be easier to understand, most of them sacrifice ambiguity and humor in the interest of... |
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| 29. |  | Exile from St. Martin's Paperbacks Price: $9.99 Customer Review: The Exile lures you into its story slowly but surely and then explodes you forward into a sun storm of character and drama. The best novels are those which keep you turning page after page while thinking, "... what would I do?...". You find yourself shutting the book and just thinking for awhile and... |
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| 30. |  | Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) from Penguin Classics Price: $10.88 Customer Review: Arendt's analysis of the "banality of evil" characterized by Adolf Eichmann is a chilling look into how evil can be systematized, how it can be seemingly bureaucratic, and how normal people can be turned into monsters through law. This is a great book for anyone interested in World War 2, the... |
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