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The fortune teller's kiss
Brenda Serotte
From Publishers Weekly
Poet Serotte relives a childhood cataclysm in this culture-rich, affecting memoir, part of the Ame...
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Only Yesterday
Barbara Harshav, Benjamin Harshav, S. Y. Agnon
From Publishers Weekly
Israeli Nobel Prize-winner Agnon (1887-1970) is a founding father, like Theodor Herzl. While Herzl...
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Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller
Ira Nadel
From Publishers Weekly
Never especially popular with the critics, Leon Uris was one of the biggest-selling writers of the...
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Responsibility and Judgment
Hannah Arendt
From Publishers Weekly
Arendt (1906-1975), among the last century's most eminent political philosophers, never lived to c...
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William and Rosalie
Craig Hanley, Rosalie Schiff, William Schiff
From
William Schiff is now 88, and his wife, Rosalie, is 84. Coauthor Craig Hanley spent months interviewing these Holoc...
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Milton and the Rabbis
Jeffrey Shoulson
Review
"[Shoulson]... is as sophisticated a reader of Milton's works as he is of the rabbinical writings that shaped the mi...
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Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought
Franz Rosenzweig, Nahum N. Glatzer
Review
Rosenzweig's life combined a fabulous spiritual search, a profound engagement with philosophy as well as with Jud...
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