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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
Lagnado, Lucette

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This poignant and breathtaking memoir from an award-winning "Wall Street Journal" reporter recounts the exile of her family from Egypt and her father's heroic and tragic struggle to survive his riches-to-rags trajectory.

The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land (Updated in 2008)
Rosenthal, Donna

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Israel is smaller than New Jersey yet captures a lion's share of headlines. It looks like one country on CNN, a very different one on al-Jazeera. The BBC has its version, "The New York Times" theirs. But how does Israel look to Israelis? The answers are... [More...]

Out of Egypt: A Memoir
Aciman, Andre

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Aciman has written a touching and affectionate portrait detailing the lives of his flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, Aciman introduces us to the... [More...]

Judaism in Contemporary Context: Enduring Issues and Chronic Crises
Neusner, Jacob

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The essays collected here form a contribution to a half-century of Jewish public life. From the 1950s to the present day, Jacob Neusner has served as one of the public intellectuals of the English-speaking community of Judaism. The essays, beginning a... [More...]

Cartoons and Extremism: Israel and the Jews in Arab and Western Media
Kotek, Joel

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The outrage sparked by the Danish cartoon affair the publication of images of the Prophet Muhammad in the European press was a sharp reminder of the potency of the cartoon in the modern media. It is one of the most popular and effective means of... [More...]

Immigrants on the Threshold
Shuval, Judith T.

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This first large-scale empirical work on the adjustment problems of immigrants in Israel is now updated with a new introduction by the author and a new preface by Alex Weingrod. The extraordinary phenomenon of worldwide immigration to Israel made this... [More...]

The Hasidic Community of Williamsburg: A Study in the Sociology of Religion
Poll, Solomon

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The Hasidim of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn separate themselves not only from non-Jews and "unreligious" Jews but also from "religious" Orthodox Jews whose religious ideology, intensity, and frequency of traditional religious behavior do not meet... [More...]

Jews and the Olympic Games: Sport: A Springboard for Minorities
Mayer, Paul Yogi

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In the last century young Jews, particularly in Central Europe, found that they had the new and exhilarating opportunity to give expression to their physical talents and energy. How they and their successors grasped it is the theme of this engaging book,... [More...]

Jews and Europe in the Twenty-First Century: Thinking Jewish
Lambert, Nick

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Jews and Europe in the Twenty-First Century is a collection of interviews with more than ninety prominent Jewish intellectuals, politicians, writers and scientists from across Western Europe. Nick Lamberts penetrating interviews and analyses reveal their... [More...]

Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship
Kugelmass, Jack, Et

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How sports can provide a path toward citizenship for minority populations

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