| By: Eli Barnavi
Price: $45.00 $41.99 ISBN: 9780805242263
The history of the Jews spans more than two millenia and encompasses
most parts of the globe--an extraordinary saga which is set forth
pictorially in this comprehensive, and richly illustrated and designed
volume. With hundreds of brilliantly detailed maps, photographs, and
drawings, and... Read More
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| By: Paul Johnson
Price: $17.95 $16.99 ISBN: 9780060915339
The author delivers a brilliant and
comprehensive one-volume survey covering 4,000 years of Jewish history.
His book is a forceful and sustained analysis of Jewish emergence and
an interpretation of how Jewish history, philosophy, ethics, and social
and political notions interplay with world... Read More
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| By: Neil Folberg
Price: $44.99 ISBN: 9780893819385
For nearly two millennia, from the year 70 until the founding of Israel in
1948, the Jewish people were without a homeland. But wherever they wandered
in the great Diaspora they continued the tradition of building synagogues as
refuge for their beliefs and testament to their strength and... Read More
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| By: Compilation of Authors
Price: $60.00 $42.00 ISBN: 9657108152
The Idea:
to retell the ancient, hallowed story of the Bible as if it were
happening today - or, differently expressed, as if the ancients had
been in possession of all the facilities and know-how connected with
the production of a modern newspaper!
The Result: a serious,... Read More
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| By: Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman
Starting at: $10.47
Did the Twelve Tribes of Israel really exist? Are the scattered
groups of modern Jews really the direct descendants of the ancient
Hebrews of the Bible? This extraordinary book chronicles the latest
discoveries in the cutting-edge field of Molecular Population
Genetics that add empirical... Read More
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| By: Rabbi Berel Wein
Price: $59.99 $41.99 ISBN: 0899063403
Perceptively, wittily, wisely and
accurately, Berel Wein presents an ancient story as if it were happening before
our eyes. He relates old dilemmas to today’s problems and shows how
Jewish history is an endless and inspiring continuum.
In
this, his third masterwork, Rabbi Wein takes us from... Read More
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| By: Rabbi Berel Wein
Price: $59.99 $41.99 ISBN: 1578195934
Few authors are able to fuse facts with inner meaning like Berel Wein.
For many thousands of people, he is the voice of Jewish history -
better said, he is a wise and profound teacher who sees history not
merely as a collection of events, but as a continuum from Creation
leading to the final... Read More
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| By: Elinor and Robert Slater
Price: $25.95 ISBN: 9780824604080
The Slaters bring to life events that have,
over the past 4,000 years, shaped the Jewish people and determined the
course of their history. Photos throughout.
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| By: Rabbi Berel Wein
Price: $59.99 $41.99 ISBN: 0899062377
Through his hundreds of lectures, Rabbi Wein has brought the Torah
perspective on history to thousands of listeners. In this original
work, he paints a magnificent, panoramic picture of our people in the
centuries that shaped us and our world. This major work has the touches
of luxury you... Read More
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| By: Rabbi Hersh Goldwurm
Starting at: $13.99
For the first time, Jewish history is presented according to authentic
Jewish sources; well researched and clearly illustrated with photos,
charts, and maps. Vol. I: The Second Temple Era: The era of the Second
Commonwealth from the Destruction of the First Temple to the
Destruction of the... Read More
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| By: Meir Holder
Starting at: $13.29
This is the second volume of a history series
that tells the story of the Jewish nation from the vantage point of the
Jews themselves. This book begins with the destruction of the Second
Temple in 70 C.E. In the eyes of the Roman conqueror and persecutor,
that should have spelled the end of... Read More
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| By: Sarah Teleshevsky
Price: $35.00 $29.99 ISBN: 9780688085063
How did the Ten Lost Tribes become lost ?
Are circumcisions performed on the Sabbath ?
Which country first granted Jews equal rights ?
When was polygamy outlawed for Jews ?
Why does Jewish law compare gossiping to murder ?
You'll
find the answers to these... Read More
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| By: Abraham H. Foxman
Price: $14.95 $13.99 ISBN: 9780060730697
Anti-Semitism remains a pernicious form of ethnic and religious
intolerance and an assault on the fundamentals of human dignity and
human rights. Exploring the history of anti-Semitism and providing the
first comprehensive examination of the new rampant anti-Jewish
sentiment worldwide,... Read More
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| By: Yaffa Ganz, Rabbi Berel Wein
Price: $39.99 $27.99 ISBN: 0899060366
There is no more exciting story anywhere than the Jewish People's march
through the menaces of history. It's a gripping, absorbing story,
peopled by great names and arch-villains, full of courage and
cowardice, and leavened with the conviction that the Chosen People must
survive come what... Read More
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| By: Yaffa Ganz, Rabbi Berel Wein
Price: $39.99 $27.99 ISBN: 0899060374
There is no more exciting story anywhere than the Jewish People's march
through the menaces of history. It's a gripping, absorbing story,
peopled by great names and arch-villains, full of courage and
cowardice, and leavened with the conviction that the Chosen People must
survive come what... Read More
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| By: Yaakov Astor
Price: $22.95 $16.07 ISBN: 9781932443790
Did you know...... that on D-Day -- the decisive day of battle in World War II -- Hitler overslept?... that a few stray bombs led to Germany's defeat in the Battle of Britain?... that the Watergate scandal saved Israel during the Yom Kippur War?... that a misstatement by a government official... Read More
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| By: Rabbi Nachman Zakon
Price: $44.99 $31.49 ISBN: 1578194962
Did you know that:
Rav Yosef Karo was a young child when Columbus discovered America?
Rembrandt
painted a portrait of the famous Dutch rabbi, Menasseh Ben Israel,
whose family had escaped the Portuguese Inquisition?
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch was 53 years old when the... Read More
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| By: Rabbi Hersh Goldwurm
Price: $21.99 $15.39 ISBN: 0899064523
Biographical sketches of 300 prominent 10th-15th-century Rabbinic sages
and leaders such as Rashi, Rambam, R' Gershom Meor HaGolah. Traces the
beginnings of Jewish communities in each part of the continents. Read More
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| By: Herman Wouk
Price: $15.00 $13.99 ISBN: 9780060955625
Herman Wouk has ranged in his novels from the mighty narrative of
"The Caine Mutiny" and the warm, intimate humor of "Marjorie
Morningstar" to the global panorama of "The Winds of War and War and
Remembrance." All these powers merge in this major new work of
nonfiction, "The Will to Live... Read More
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