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"Exodus and Revolution"

By Walzer, Michael
Basic Books, 1986, Paperback, 192 pp., ISBN: 0465021638, $16.00

Noted political philosopher Michael Walzer offers a moving meditation on the political meanings of the Biblical story of Exodus.

"Jewish Political Tradition, Vol. 1, Authority, The"

By Walzer, Michael, Noam J. Zohar, Menachem Lorberbaum (Eds.)
Yale University Press, 2003, Paperback, 592 pp., ISBN: 0300102011, $25.00

This book launches a landmark four-volume collaborative work exploring the political thought of the Jewish people from biblical times to the present.

"Jewish Political Tradition: Membership, Vol 2, The"

By Walzer, Michael, Noam J. Zohar, Menachem Lorberbaum, Ari Ackerman (Eds.)
Yale University Press, 2006, Paperback, 592 pp., ISBN: 0300105733, $30.00

This thought-provoking second volume of The Jewish Political Tradition is concerned with the theme of membership.

"Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and New Immigration"

By Warner, S.R. and J.G. Wittner (Eds.)
Temple University Press, 1998, Paperback, 409 pp., ISBN: 156639614X, $24.99

Gatherings in Diaspora brings together the latest chapters in the long-running chronicle of religion and immigration in the American experience.

"Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe since 1945"

By Wasserstein, Bernard
Harvard University Press, 1997, Paperback, 352 pp., ISBN: 0674931998, $15.95

This work is a cultural and geographical examination of the Jewish population since the end of World War II - once a population of four million, their numbers have now halved.

"Between Tradition and Modernity: Haim Zhitlowski, Simon Dubnow, Ahad Ha-Am, and the Shaping of Modern Jewish Identity (New Perspectives: Jewish Life and Thought) "

By Weinberg, David
Holmes and Meir Pub., 1996, Hardcover, 385 pp., ISBN: 0841913552, $40.00

During the late 19th century, Russian Jews faced the opportunity and challenge of participating in society at large.

"Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland, an Illustrated History, 1928-1996"

By Weinberg, Robert and Bradley Berman (Ed.), Zvi Gitelman (Intro.)
University of California Press, 1998, Paperback, 128 pp., ISBN: 0520209907, $24.95

In 1934 the Soviet government established the Jewish Autonomous Region in a sparsely populated area some five thousand miles east of Moscow.

"World of our Mothers: The Lives of Jewish Immigrant Women"

By Weinberg, Sydney Stahl
University of North Carolina Press, 1988, Hardcover, 325 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0807817627

Through interviews, this book examines the lives of immigrant Jewish women and the transition they made from a traditional to a modern culture during the early twentieth century.

"History of the Yiddish Language"

By Weinreich, Max with Shlomo Noble and Joshua A. Fishman (Trans.)
University of Chicago Press, 1980, Hardcover, 833 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0914512390

Incredible history of Yiddish. Complete with diagrams, concepts, facts, methods, and origins. Includes history of the people.

"Daughters of Absence: Transforming a Legacy of Loss"

By Weisel, Mindy (Ed.)
Capital Books, Inc., 2002, Paperback, 216 pp., ISBN: 1931868018, $17.95

This successful anthology presents the voices of thirteen women.

"Rememberings: The World of a Russian-Jewish Woman in the Nineteenth Century"

By Wengeroff, Pauline, Bernard D. Cooperman (Ed.), Henny Wenkart (Trans.)
University Press of Maryland, 2000, Paperback, 306 pp., ISBN: 1883053617, $18.00

Pauline Wengeroff’s memoir tells what it was like to be a Jewish girl and a Jewish woman in 19th-century Russia, as foundations of faith and tradition eroded around her with the onset of the Jewish Enlightenment in Russia.

"Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life"

By Wexler, Alice
Pantheon, 1984, Hardcover, 339 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0394529758

"'If there is anything the world hates, said Emma Goldman, 'it is to be conscious of itself.'

"In Search of American Jewish Culture"

By Whitfield, Stephen J.
Brandeis University Press, 2001, Paperback, 333 pp., ISBN: 1584651717, $20.95

American Jewish culture is both omnipresent and in danger of extinction.

"Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization"

By Wilson, Ian
St. Martin's Press, 2004, Paperback, 352 pp., ISBN: 0312319711, $16.95

The noted historian and author of Turin Shroud and The Blood and the Shroud turns his trained, professional eye to a specific event from the Bible: the narrative of the Flood (cf. Genesis 6:5-9:17).

"Celebration: A Ceremonial and Philosophic Guide for Humanists and Humanistic Jews"

By Wine, Rabbi Sherwin T.
Prometheus Books, 2003, Paperback, 439 pp., ISBN: 1591021669, $32.00

For twenty years, Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine has provided original celebrations of every variety for a secular Jewish community.

"Humanist Haggadah – audio tape, The "

By Wine, Rabbi Sherwin T.
Society for Humanistic Judaism, 2001, Audio Cassette, $10.00

Companion Audio tape for The Humanist Haggadah.

"Humanist Haggadah, The "

By Wine, Rabbi Sherwin T.
Society for Humanistic Judaism, 1979, Pamphlet, $10.95

Written in 1979 by the founder of the Humanistic Movement. Includes many songs with music and words in English and Hebrew.

"Humanistic Judaism"

By Wine, Rabbi Sherwin T.
Prometheus Books, 1978, Hardcover, 123 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0879751029

According to Sherwin T. Wine, the most interesting Jews of the last one hundred years - Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Herzl, and others - never joined a synagogue nor paid attention to the Torah life-style.

"Judaism Beyond God"

By Wine, Rabbi Sherwin T.
KTAV Publishing House, 1995, Hardcover, 289 pp., ISBN: 0881252181, $25.00

Judaism Beyond God presents a new secular and humanistic alternative to any of the forms of conventional Judaism.

"Judaism Beyond God (Russian)"

By Wine, Rabbi Sherwin T.
Society for Humanistic Judaism, 1995, Paperback, 308 pp., $15.00

"Pursuit of Happiness, The"

By Wine, Rabbi Sherwin T.
Center for New Thinking, 1989, Monograph, $5.00

One of a series of monographs published by the Center for New Thinking. Rabbi Wine explores the nature of happiness and how to achieve it.

"Real History of the Jews, The"

By Wine, Rabbi Sherwin T.
Society of Humanistic Judaism, 1989, Pamphlet, $9.00

A history of the Jewish people from early times to the Maccabees that looks behind the myths and legends to the actual events.

"Secular Jewish Alternative, The"

By Wine, Rabbi Sherwin T.
Leadership Conference on Secular Humanistic Jews, 1985, Pamphlet, $9.00

"Staying Sane in a Crazy World"

By Wine, Rabbi Sherwin T.
Center for New Thinking, 1995, Hardcover, ISBN: 0964801604, $22.00

Sherwin Wine’s Staying Sane in a Crazy World may well be the best self-help and personal development book published in a generation.

"Staying Sane in a Crazy World (Spanish)"

By Wine, Rabbi Sherwin T.
Center for New Thinking, 2000, Paper – Spanish, ISBN: 0-9648016-1-2, $12.95

"White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son"

By Wise, Tim
Soft Skull Press, Inc., 2005, Paperback, 155 pp., ISBN: 1932360689, $13.95

Activist, lecturer and director of the new Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE), Wise works from anecdote rather than academic argument.

"Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture, The"

By Wisse, Ruth
University of Chicago Press, 2003, Paperback, 416 pp., ISBN: 0226903184, $18.00

Wisse admits that making selections for a modern Jewish canon was far from easy.

"Schlemiel as Modern Hero, The"

By Wisse, Ruth
University of Chicago Press, 1980, Paperback, Out of print, ISBN: 0226903125

Doctoral dissertation.

"I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture"

By Wisse, Ruth R. and Isaac Leib Peretz (Eds.)
University of Washington Press, 1991, Hardcover, 146 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0295970898

Peretz helped shape a national identity for Jews at the end of the 19th century through his writing of Yiddish literature.

"I. L. Peretz Reader, The"

By Wisse, Ruth R. and Isaac Leib Peretz (Eds.)
Yale University Press Modern Yiddish Library Series, 2002, Paperback, ISBN: 0300092458, $19.00

Isaac Leybush Peretz (1852-1915) is one of the most influential figures of modern Jewish culture.

"Terms of Survival: The Jewish World since 1945"

By Wistrich, Robert S. (Ed.)
Routledge, 1995, Hardcover, 480 pp., ISBN: 0415100569, $150.00

The emergence of the state of Israel has fundamentally changed the conditions of Jewish existence.

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