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"Bialik"

By Aberbach, David
P. Halban, 1988, Paperback, ISBN: 1870015053, $12.95

Aberbach writes with warmth and intelligence in this short introductory work. Bialik was the first great poet in Modern Hebrew, and one of the greatest Jewish cultural figures of modernity.

"Realism, Caricature, and Bias: The Fiction of Mendele Mocher Sefarim"

By Aberbach, David, Jonathan I. Israel, Albert H. Friedlander and Louis Jacobs (Eds.)
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1993, Paperback, 142 pp., ISBN: 1874774080, $14.95

Mendele Mocher Sefarim’s seven novels constitute the most important and influential body of work in modern Jewish prose fiction written prior to the First World War.

"Early Modern European Roots of Secular Humanistic Judaism, The"

By Abramovitz, David, Zev Katz, Susan Lerner, Karen Levy, Roz Usiskin, and Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine
Society for Humanistic Judaism, spiral bound, $24.00

This publication provides background information for studying the early modern European roots of Secular Humanistic Judaism.

"Jewish Life in the Middle Ages "

By Abrams, Israel
Jewish Publication Society, 1993, Paperback, 480 pp., ISBN: 827605420, $26.95

Abrahams describes in vivid detail customs, manners, and mores of medieval Jewish life, much of which was hidden from the inquisitive and not infrequently hostile gaze of Christian Europe.

"Oxford Book of Hebrew Short Stories, The "

By Abramson, Glenda (Ed.)
Oxford University Press, 1995, Paperback, 424 pp., ISBN: 019288039X, $18.95

War inevitably features often in these 33 stories that reflect, more than the literature of any other country, the social and political dilemmas of a multifarious culture.

"Experienced Soul: Studies in Amichai, The"

By Abramson, Glenda and David Patterson (Eds.)
Westview Press, 1997, Hardcover, 171 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 081332730X

The world's leading authorities on Israel's foremost poet, Yehuda Amichai, explore all the major genres and themes of his work.

"Tales of Mendele the Book Peddler: Fishke the Lame and Benjamin the Third"

By Abromovitch, S.Y, (Mendele)
Schocken, 1996, Paperback, 400 pp, Out of print, ISBN: 080521013X

Dubbed "the grandfather of Yiddish literature" by Sholem Aleichem, Abramovitsh (1835-1917) was renowned in the latter half of the 19th century for putting the Eastern European shtetl and its impoverished inhabitants under the magnifying glass of literary realism.

"Uncertain Travelers: Conversations with Jewish Women Immigrants to America"

By Agosin, Marjorie
Brandeis University Press, 1999, Hardcover, 221 pp., ISBN: 0874519454, $22.58

Over a three-year period, award-winning Chilean poet and human rights activist Marjorie Agosin interviewed nine Jewish women immigrants who arrived in the United States from Europe and Latin America between 1939 and the 1970s.

"Sabra; The Creation of the New Jew, The"

By Almog, Oz
University of California Press, 2000, Hardcover, 313 pp., ISBN: 0520216423, $35.00

As a portrait of the elite cohort which dominated Israeli society in its formative years, this original and sympathetic book carries almost total conviction.

"Jews in Their Land in the Talmudic Age, The "

By Alon, Gedaliah
Harvard University Press, 1989, Paperback, Out of print, ISBN: 0674414953, $28.95

This is a masterly narrative of the land of Israel from 70 to 640 C.E. by an eminent Israeli historian.

"Art of Biblical Narrative, The"

By Alter, Robert
Basic Books, 1983, Paperback, 208 pp., ISBN: 046500427X, $16.50

In what is both a radical approach to the Bible, and a fundamental return to its narrative prose, Robert Alter reads the Old Testament with new eyes - the eyes of a literary critic. Alter takes the bold yet simple step of reading the Bible as a literary creation.

"Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary, The"

By Alter, Robert
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 2004, Hardcover, 800pp., ISBN: 0393019551, $39.95

The Five Books is an enduring source of literary and spiritual renewal.

"Modern Hebrew Literature "

By Alter, Robert
Behrman House, 1995, paperback, ISBN: 874412358, $14.95

A panorama of Hebrew prose presented in an English translation that makes these masterly works available to a wide audience.

"World of Bible as Literature, The"

By Alter, Robert
Harvard University Press, 1990, paperback; Out of print

Alter, a noted scholar of the Bible as literature, complements his previous studies (such as The Art of Biblical Narrative) by continuing to explore the assumptions that make a literary reading of the Bible possible.

"Literary Guide to the Bible, The"

By Alter, Robert and Frank Kermode (Eds.)
Harvard University Press, 1986, paperback, ISBN: 674875311, $17.95

This literary guide provides an analysis of the Bible's structures, themes, narrative techniques and poetic forms.

"Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai"

By Amichai, Yehuda
University of California Press, 1996, Paperback, ISBN: 0520205383, $14.35

Yehuda Amichai is Israel's most popular poet as well as a literary figure of international reputation.

"Open Closed Open: Poems"

By Amichai, Yehuda and Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld (Trans.)
Harcourt, 2000, Hardcover, 208 pp., ISBN: 0151003785, $25.00

When this collection was published in 1998 in Israel, it was the first volume of Amichai's verse in nearly a decade and was greeted as a magnum opus.

"Reading Biblical Narratives: Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible"

By Amit, Yairah
Augsburg Fortress, 2001, Paperback, 176 pp., ISBN: 080063280X, $20.00

Based on a series of lectures given in Israel, Amit introduces the reader to the subtle ways of the biblical narrators. Covering issues of character, plot development, catchword association, narration, and dialogue, she brings the biblical text to life, helping the reader enter the stories from new vantage points.

"Promised Land, The"

By Antin, Mary, Jules Chametzky (Intro)
Penguin Classics, 1997, Paperback, 368 pp., ISBN: 0140189858, $12.00

First published in 1912, The Promised Land is a classic account of the Jewish American immigrant experience.

"America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers"

By Antler, Joyce (Ed.)
Beacon Press, 1991, Paperback, ISBN: 0807036072, $23.00

This anthology of American Jewish women's experiences from 1900 to the present features for the first time the short stories of four generations of American Jewish women.

"Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in Popular American Culture"

By Antler, Joyce (Ed.)
Brandeis University Press, 1998, Paperback, 315 pp., ISBN: 0874518423, $24.95

Fourteen provocative essays challenge traditional notions of Jewish female identity presented in mass media images, films, narrative, and stories by portraying the American Jewish woman not only as subject but as shaper of American popular culture.

"Origins of Totalitarianism, The"

By Arendt, Hannah
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973, Paperback, ISBN: 0156701537, $19.00

In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt sought to provide a historical account of the forces that crystallized into totalitarianism.

"Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess"

By Arendt, Hannah and Liliane Weissberg (Eds.)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, Paperback, 400 pp, ISBN: 080186335X, $20.95

She was, Hannah Arendt wrote, "my closest friend, though she has been dead for some hundred years."

"Essays in Understanding"

By Arendt, Hannah, Jerome Kohn (Ed.)
Knopf, 2005, Paperback, 496 pp., ISBN: 0805211861, $16.95

Few thinkers have tackled the political horrors and complexities of this century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt.

"Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age, The"

By Arendt, Hannah, Ron Feldman (Ed.)
Grove Press, 1978, Hardcover, Out of print, ISBN: 0394501608

This is a collection of essays from Arendt, a feminist and Zionist from the middle of the century.

"Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment"

By Arkush, Allan
State University of New York Press, 1994, Paperback, 304 pp., ISBN: 0791420728, $25.00

Mendelssohn, the author of numerous works on natural theology and ethics, was the first modern philosopher of Judaism.

"Judaism: Myth, Legend, History and Custom from the Religious to the Secular"

By Arnold, Abraham
Robert Davies Press, 1995, Paperback, ISBN: 1895854261, $16.99

In this book, the author explores the history and religion of the Jewish people from a secular, humanistic vantage point.

"Formations of the Secular"

By Asad, Talal
Stanford University Press, 2003, Paperback, 269 pp., ISBN: 0804747687

Asad (anthropology, City U. of New York) offers a preliminary anthropological study of the connection between the secular as an epistemic category, and secularism as a political doctrine.

"Jewish Book Cabinet, The "

By Asaf, David

"Mimesis "

By Auerbuch, Erich
Princeton University Press, 1986, paperback, ISBN: 691012695, $19.95

A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism.

"Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State, The"

By Avineri, Shlomo
Basic Books, 1981, Hardcover, 244 pp, ISBN: 0465043283

Eighteen sharply etched intellectual profiles of Zionism's major thinkers from Moses Hess to Theodore Herzl and from Vladimir Jabotinsky to David Ben Gurion.

"Moses Hess"

By Avineri, Shlomo
Cambridge University Press, 2004, Paperback, 192 pp., ISBN: 0521387566, $23.99

Moses Hess is a major figure in the development of both early communist and Zionist thought.

"Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx, The"

By Avineri, Shlomo
Cambridge University Press, 1990, Paperback, 269 pp., ISBN: 0521096197, $37.99

One of the most comprehensive and coherent restatements of Marx's theoretical position ever written. Saturday Review

"New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora"

By Aviv, Caryn and David Shneer
New York University Press, 2005, Paperback, 256 pp., ISBN: 0814740189, $20.00

For many contemporary Jews, Israel no longer serves as the Promised Land, the center of the Jewish universe and the place of final destination.

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