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"Secular Conscience:Why Belief Belongs in Public Life, The"

By Dacey, Austin
Prometheus Books, 2008, Hardcover, 269 pp., ISBN: 9781591026044

In a dazzling display of erudition, this book presents a cogent argument for secular liberalism. Dacey, a philosopher who teaches at Polytechnic University and the State University of New York at Buffalo, claims that values and ethics - defining what is right and wrong, good and bad - are not the sole domain of theologians.

"Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature"

By Dauber, Jeremy Asher
Stanford University Press, 2004, Hardcover, 384 pp., ISBN: 0804749019, $60.00

This book deals both historically and theoretically with the origins of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature.

"Patron: A Life of Salman Schocken, 1877-1959, The"

By David, Anthony
Owl Books, 2004, Paperback, 472 pp., ISBN: 0805076891, $18.00

In a sweeping, colorful saga, historian Anthony David tells the fascinating story of Salman Shocken, Jewish philanthropic titan and founder of a large department-store chain.

"Teaching Jewish Civilization: A Global Approach to Higher Education"

By Davis, Moshe (ed)
New York University Press, 1995, Hardcover, 375pp, ISBN: 0814718663, $60.00

These essays offer a historical perspective on issues confronting university Jewish studies, and look at specific projects and the Israel experience.

"Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives"

By Davis, Natalie Zemon
Harvard University Press, 1997, Paperback, 372 pp., ISBN: 0674955218, $20.50

Natalie Zemon Davis retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world.

"From That Place and Time"

By Dawidowicz, Lucy
Bantam, 1991, Paperback, 348 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0553352482

In this deeply moving personal reminiscence, eminent historian Dawidowicz recounts the year she spent in Vilna, Poland, shortly before barbaric German troops swept in and murdered nearly all of that city's 60,000 Jews.

"Golden Tradition, The"

By Dawidowicz, Lucy, (Ed.)
Syracuse University, 1996, Paperback, ISBN: 815604238, $19.95

From the sixteenth century until 1939, Eastern Europe was "the cradle of almost every important Jewish cultural, religious, and national movement and the area where Jewish faith, thought, and culture flourished unsurpassed.'

"Modern Judaism: An Oxford Guide"

By De Lange, Nicolas and Miri Freud-Kandel
Oxford University Press, 2004, Paperback, 480 pp, ISBN: 019926287X

A comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, multi-authored guide to contemporary Jewish life and thought, focusing on social, cultural and historical aspects of Judaism alongside theological issues.

"Jew, Nomad or Pariah: Studies on Hannah Arendt's Choice"

By Derks, Hans
Aksant Academic Publishers, 2004, Paperback, 328 pp., ISBN: 9052601577

Europe as a whole, and the Netherlands in particular, are now experiencing the aftershocks of the Second World War and, for the most part, tacit assumptions of the ideological premises of Nazism and its virulent forms of antisemitism.

"Circumfessions"

By Derrida, Jacques

"Of Grammatology"

By Derrida, Jacques
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

"America Declares Independence"

By Dershowitz, Alan
John Wiley & Sons, 2003, Hardcover, 196pp, ISBN: 0-471-26482-2, $19.95

These are dire times for the Declaration of Independence, Dershowitz believes.

"Rights from Wrongs: The Origins of Human Rights in the Experiences of Injustice"

By Dershowitz, Alan
Basic Books, 2004, Hardcover, 272 pp., ISBN: 0465017134, $24.00

The double meaning in Dershowitz's title indicates just one of the insightful thoughts that mark the well-known Harvard law professor's latest work.

"Vanishing American Jew, The"

By Dershowitz, Alan
Simon & Schuster, 1998, Paperback, 416 pp, ISBN: 0684848988, $14.00

In a provocative call to action, Dershowitz argues that American Jewry is in danger of extinction by the middle of the next century, because of skyrocketing rates of intermarriage and assimilation, combined with low birth rates.

"American Jewish Filmmakers"

By Desser, David and Lester D. Friedman
University of Illinois Press, 2003, Paperback, 360 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0252071530, $26.95

Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Sidney Lumet, and Paul Mazursky, all sons of East European Jews, remain among the most prominent contemporary American film directors.

"Non-Jewish Jew & Other Essays, The"

By Deutscher, Isaac
Alyson Publications, 1982, Paperback, 170 pp, Out of print, ISBN: 093287018X

Isaac Deutscher was raised to become a great Talmudic scholar.

"Isaac Deutscher: The Man and His Work"

By Deutscher, Isaac and David Horowitz (Ed.)
Macdonald and Co., 1971, Hardcover, Out of print

"Marxism in our Time"

By Deutscher, Isaac and Tamara Deutscher (Ed.)
Ramparts Press, 1971, Hardcover, 312 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0878670068

"On Socialist Man"

By Deutscher, Isaac and Tamara Deutscher (Ed.)
Ramparts Press, 1971, Hardcover, 32 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0878670068

A lecture given at the second annual Socialist Scholars Conference held in New York, Sept. 9-11, 1966.

"What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It? What Archeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel"

By Dever, William G.
Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002, Paperback, 326 pp, ISBN: 080282126X, $22.00

Dever (archaeology and anthropology, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson) rigorously challenges revisionists who deny any historical basis for an "ancient Israel" as portrayed in the Old Testament.

"Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?"

By Dever, William G.
Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005, Paperback, 280 pp., ISBN: 0802844162, $18.00

Dever (Near Eastern archaeology, University of Arizona) explores controversies regarding the true nature of ancient Israel and presents the archaeological evidence for assessing the accuracy of biblical narratives.

"New Promised Land: A History of Jews in America, A"

By Diner, Hasia
Oxford University Press, 2003, Paperback, 184 pp., ISBN: 0195158261, $12.95

An engaging chronicle of Jewish life in the United States.

"The Jews of the United States 1654 - 2000 (Jewish Communities in the Modern World)"

By Diner, Hasia
University of California Press, 2006, Paperback, 476 pp., ISBN: 0520248481, $19.95

In the fourth volume in the Jewish Communities in the Modern World series, Diner (an NYU professor) shows that, from the colonial era to the present, Jews have wanted both to "be good Jews and... full Americans."

"Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration"

By Diner, Hasia R.
Harvard University Press, 2003, Paperback, 320 pp., ISBN: 0674011112, $17.95

In this fascinating survey of the eating habits and influences of Jewish, Italian and Irish immigrants, Diner, a professor of American Jewish history at New York University, charts with wit and graceful prose the similarities and differences between these three distinct groups as they encountered mainstream American culture.

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