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"Emma Goldman Papers: A Guide to Her Life and Documentary Sources"

By Falk, Candace, Sally Thomas and Stephen Cole (Eds.)
Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 1991, Hardcover, 734 pp., ISBN: 0898870844, $160.00


"Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths"

By Feiler, Bruce
Harper Perennial Publishers, 2005, Paperback, 272 pp., ISBN: 0060838663, $12.95

The first monotheist (and, Feiler argues, the first martyr), Abraham serves as a patriarch for three very different faiths -- Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

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"Walking the Bible"

By Feiler, Bruce
Harper Perennial Publishers, Paperback, ISBN: 0380807319, $14.95

This book merits a place on any intellectually minded traveler's bookshelf simply on the strength of its premise: a compelling journey of 10,000 miles across the Near and Middle East, in search of the locales at which many of the Old Testament's key events took place.

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"Zion in America: The Jewish Experience from Colonial Times to the Present"

By Feingold, Henry
Dover Publications, Inc., 2002, Paperback, 384 pp., ISBN: 0486422364, $14.95

Scholarly yet highly readable, this volume offers a concise historical synthesis of the American Jewish experience.

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"Jews and Gentiles in the Ancient World "

By Feldman, Louis H.
Princeton University Press, 1993

Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic.

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"Man Made God"

By Ferry, Luc
University of Chicago, 2001, Paperback, ISBN: 0226244857, $14.95

The subject of Ferry's book is ultimately how to go about living a fulfilling life in the absence of a god.

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"Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, The "

By Finkelstein, Israel and Neil Asher Silberman
Free Press, 2002, Paperback, 400 pp., ISBN: 0684869136, $15.00

Finkelstein and Silberman do not aim to undermine the Bible's import, but to demonstrate why it became the basic document for a distinct religious community under particular political circumstances.

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"Jews: Their History, Culture and Religion, The"

By Finkelstein, Louis (Ed.)
Greenwood Publishing Inc., 1979, Hardcover, 1859 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0313212422

Reprint of four-volume 1949 book. Collects the work of many historians and scholars.

"Poetry With a Purpose – Biblical Poetics and Interpretation"

By Fisch, Harold
Indiana University Press, 1990, Paperback, 218 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0253205646

Fisch takes a somewhat different approach to "the Bible as literature," treating it not only as literature but also as anti-literature.

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"Political Discourse in Exile: Karl Marx and the Jewish Question"

By Fischman, Dennis K.
University of Massachusetts Press, Hardcover, 145 pp., Out of print


"Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture, The"

By Fishman, David E.
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005, Hardcover, 192 pp., ISBN: 0822942720, $30.00

This book explores the transformation of Yiddish from a low-status vernacular to the medium of a complex modern culture.

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"Never Say Die! A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters"

By Fishman, Joshua A.
Mouton De Gruyter, 1981, Hardcover, 763 pp., ISBN: 9027979782, $41.95

With nearly 800 pages of articles and illustrations about the role of Yiddish during a thousand years of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, the United States, and Israel, this volume offers more than just ‘something for everyone’; it offers ‘a lot for everyone’.

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"Double or Nothing?: Jewish Families and Mixed Marriages"

By Fishman, Sylvia Barack
University Press of New England, 2001, Paperback, 220 pp., ISBN: 1584654600, $16.95

Recent population surveys have fixed the rate of mixed marriages in the Jewish community at about 50 percent, but they rarely prod the surface of that statistic.

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"Character and Context: Studies in the Fiction of Abramovitsh, Brenner, and Agnon"

By Fleck, Jeffrey
Scholars Press, Out of print, ISBN: 0891306439


"Narrative Art and Poetry in the Books of Samuel Wang "

By Fokkelman, J. P.
Van Gorcum, 1993, Hardcover, Out of print


"Albert Einstein: A Biography"

By Folsing, Albrecht
Penguin, 1998, Paperback, 928 pp., ISBN: 0140237194, $25.00

The name of Albert Einstein has become synonymous with supreme wisdom and benignity.

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"Racism: A Short History"

By Fredrickson, George
Princeton University Press, 2003, Paperback, 224 pp., ISBN: 0691116520, $16.95

Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon?

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"Jew vs. Jew"

By Freedman, Samuel G.
Touchstone, 2001, Paperback, 400 pp, ISBN: 0684859459, $14.00

Every Jew, practicing or not, knows that there is a schism today between purist Orthodoxy on one side and secular integration on the other.

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"Classic Yiddish Fiction: Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and Peretz"

By Freiden, Ken
SUNY Press, 1995, Paperback, 364 pp., ISBN: 0791426025, $20.95

Yiddish literature, despite its remarkable achievements during an era bounded by Russian reforms in the 1860s and the First World War, has never before been surveyed by a scholarly monograph in English.

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"Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Secular Education in North America 1910-1960"

By Freidenreich, Fradle Pomerantz
Holmes and Meier, 2010

Ms.Freidenreich has written a definitive tome on the North American Yiddish secular education movement. Described as "educational anthropology" by scholar Jonathan Sarna in the book's Foreword, discussion topics include the historical and cultural backgrounds of the schools and summer camps founded by various national groups, their leaderships, staffs, curricula, and notable features; and reasons for change and decline. The discussion will also provide a context for these institutions within the American and Canadian Jewish experience during the 50-year heyday of Yiddish secular life in North America.

"Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud, The"

By Freud, Sigmund
Random House , 1995, Hardcover, 973 pp., ISBN: 067960166X, $24.95

This classic edition of The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud includes complete texts of six works that have profoundly influenced our understanding of human behavior.

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"Dora"

By Freud, Sigmund


"Moses and Monotheism"

By Freud, Sigmund
Knopf Publishing Group, 1972, Paperback, 192 pp, ISBN: 0394700147, $9.00

Freud's speculations on various aspects of religion where he explains various characteristics of the Jews in their relations with the Christians.

"Freud and Judaism"

By Freud, Sigmund, David Meghnazi (Ed.)
Karnac Books, 1993, Paperback, 208 pp., ISBN: 1855750023, $40.99

In this collection of essays, which are wide-ranging in terms of approach and style, there can be found studies that are representative of the tendencies in research during the last few years.

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"Civilization and its Discontents"

By Freud, Sigmund, James Strachey (Trans. and Ed.)
W. W. Norton, 1984, Paperback, 112 pp., ISBN: 0393301583, $10.95

Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work.

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"Future of an Illusion, The"

By Freud, Sigmund, James Strachey (Trans. and Ed.)
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., Paperback, 80 pp., ISBN: 0393008312, $10.95

In the manner of the 18th Century philosophy, Freud argued that religion and science were mortal enemies.

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"Children's Haggadah for Passover"

By Friedman, Daniel
Congregation Beth Or, $3.00

Created for a humanistic congregational Sunday school, this haggadah is appropriate for pre-bar or bat mitzvah age children.

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"Haggadah for Passover"

By Friedman, Daniel
Congregation Beth Or, $3.00


"Haggadah for Passover – audio cassette"

By Friedman, Daniel
Congregation Beth Or, Audio Cassette, $10.00


"Jews without Judaism: Conversation with an Unconventional Rabbi"

By Friedman, Daniel
Prometheus Books, Paperback, ISBN: 1573929247, $20.00

Friedman has served since 1965 as the rabbi of Congregation Beth Or, a humanistic temple in Deerfield, Illinois.

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"Jewish Image in American Film, The"

By Friedman, Lester D.
Carol Publishing Corporation, 1991, Paperback, Out of print, Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, ISBN: 0806512199

The driving thesis behind this book is the metamorphosis of the immigrant Jew.

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"Encounter on the Narrow Ridge: A Life of Martin Buber"

By Friedman, Maurice
Paragon House, 1993, Paperback, 512 pp., ISBN: 1557785961, $18.95

Buber, the most noted Jewish philosopher of the 20th century, has had a profound influence on contemporary thought through his theory of an inspired and direct dialog between man and God.

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"Hidden Face of God, The "

By Friedman, Richard Elliot
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1996, 352 pp., ISBN: 0316294349, $16.00

The Hidden Face of God, at once scholarly and popularly accessible, is packed with wonderful insights into scriptural narrative, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and cabala.

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"Who Wrote the Bible?"

By Friedman, Richard Elliott
HarperCollins Publishers, 1997, Paperback, 304 pp., ISBN: 0060630353, $15.95

"It is a strange fact that we have never known with certainty who produced the book that has played such a central role in our civilization," writes Friedman, a foremost Bible scholar.

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"Art of Being, The"

By Fromm, Erich
Continuum International Publishing Group, 1994, Paperback, 131 pp., ISBN: 0826406734, $14.95

Between 1974 and 1976, while working on the book To Have Or to Be? at his home in Locarno, Switzerland, the aged Erich Fromm wrote far more manuscript and chapters than were actually used in the book, which was published in 1976.

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"Erich Fromm Reader, The"

By Fromm, Erich
Prometheus Books, 1998, Hardcover, 151 pp., ISBN: 1573924792, $55.00

Contains twenty selections from Fromm's writings on the methods of social psychology and his theory of character, as well as discussions of politics, religion, and philosophical and social questions.

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"Escape from Freedom"

By Fromm, Erich
Henry Holt & Company, 1994, Paperback, 320 pp., ISBN: 0805031499, $14.00

If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism.

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"On Being Human"

By Fromm, Erich
Continuum International Publishing Group, 1997, Paperback, 180 pp., ISBN: 0826410057, $17.95

Anyone attempting to identify the thread that runs through the writings of the late Erich Fromm (1900-1980) will soon discover an unequivocally humanistic worldview.

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"You Shall Be as Gods: A Radical Interpretation of the Old Testament and Its Tradition"

By Fromm, Erich
Henry Holt, 1996, Paperback, Out of Print, ISBN: 0030611601

In this major work from the author of The Same Society and Man for Himself, Erich Fromm explores the evolution of the basic concept of God, Man, History, and Sin and Repentance in the Old Testament and later Jewish writings. From the publisher

"Erich Fromm: The Courage to be Human"

By Funk, Rainer
Continuum International Publishing Group, 1982, Hardcover, 320 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0826400612



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