| By: Rabbi Chaim Schloss
Price: $32.99 $29.69 ISBN: 158330214x
Hold a large piece of Jewish history in your hand with this
monumental volume. An eminently readable, historically precise account
of Jewish history from the destruction of the Second Temple until the
Twentieth Century, this book is the first of its kind. The author, a
renowned educator and... Read More
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| By: Paul Johnson
Price: $17.95 $16.16 ISBN: 9780060915339
The author delivers a brilliant and
comprehensive one-volume survey covering 4,000 years of Jewish history.
His book is a forceful and sustained analysis of Jewish emergence and
an interpretation of how Jewish history, philosophy, ethics, and social
and political notions interplay with world... Read More
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| By: Compilation of Authors
Price: $60.00 $54.00 ISBN: 9657108152
The Idea:
to retell the ancient, hallowed story of the Bible as if it were
happening today - or, differently expressed, as if the ancients had
been in possession of all the facilities and know-how connected with
the production of a modern newspaper!
The Result: a serious,... Read More
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| By: James Carroll
Price: $17.00 $15.30 ISBN: 9780618219087
In this "rare book that combines searing passion . . . with a subject
that has affected all of our lives" (Chicago Tribune), the novelist and
cultural critic James Carroll maps the two-thousand-year course of the
Church's battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has
sparked in... Read More
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| By: Rabbi Berel Wein
Price: $59.99 $47.99 ISBN: 0899063403
Perceptively, wittily, wisely and
accurately, Berel Wein presents an ancient story as if it were happening before
our eyes. He relates old dilemmas to today’s problems and shows how
Jewish history is an endless and inspiring continuum.
In
this, his third masterwork, Rabbi Wein takes us from... Read More
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| By: Rabbi Berel Wein
Price: $59.99 $47.99 ISBN: 1578195934
Few authors are able to fuse facts with inner meaning like Berel Wein.
For many thousands of people, he is the voice of Jewish history -
better said, he is a wise and profound teacher who sees history not
merely as a collection of events, but as a continuum from Creation
leading to the final... Read More
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| By: Joan Peters
Price: $21.99 $19.79 ISBN: 9780963624208
his monumental and fascinating book, the product of seven years of
original research, will forever change the terms of the debate about
the conflicting claims of the Arabs and the Jews in the Middle East.
The weight of the comprehensive evidence found and brilliantly analyzed
by historian... Read More
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| By: Rabbi Berel Wein
Price: $59.99 $47.99 ISBN: 0899062377
Through his hundreds of lectures, Rabbi Wein has brought the Torah
perspective on history to thousands of listeners. In this original
work, he paints a magnificent, panoramic picture of our people in the
centuries that shaped us and our world. This major work has the touches
of luxury you... Read More
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| By: Rabbi Hersh Goldwurm
Starting at: $15.99
For the first time, Jewish history is presented according to authentic
Jewish sources; well researched and clearly illustrated with photos,
charts, and maps. Vol. I: The Second Temple Era: The era of the Second
Commonwealth from the Destruction of the First Temple to the
Destruction of the... Read More
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| By: Meir Holder
Starting at: $15.19
This is the second volume of a history series
that tells the story of the Jewish nation from the vantage point of the
Jews themselves. This book begins with the destruction of the Second
Temple in 70 C.E. In the eyes of the Roman conqueror and persecutor,
that should have spelled the end of... Read More
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| By: Yishai Chasidah
Price: $59.99 $47.99 ISBN: 0899060250
Since it was first published in 1964, Rabbi Yisrael Yitzchak (Yishai) Chasidah’s Ishei HaTanach has been proclaimed an indispensable classic.
Anyone who has ever used it cannot imagine how he could ever have done without it. By bringing together and organizing biographical snippets from the... Read More
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| By: Ian Black, Benny Morris
Price: $17.99 $16.19 ISBN: 9780802132864
This is the first documented, comprehensive history of all three of
Israel's intelligence services, from their origins in the 1930s,
through Israel's five wars, up to the present, with a new chapter
updating the book through the Gulf War. Highly readable and
exhaustively researched, it... Read More
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| By: Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
Price: $8.99 $7.19 ISBN: 1879016125
What is Jerusalem's significance, and why is it the most important place on Earth? Why is it the only city mentioned in our prayers? What is the source of its holiness? Why can the temple be located only on this one spot? This deep and revealing book contains the answers to these questions and... Read More
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| By: Rabbi Yosef Eisen
Price: $35.99 $32.39 ISBN: 1568713231
A complete history of the Jewish People from Creation to the present.
This carefully researched and meticulously recorded work is both
easy-to-read and comprehensive. Arranged chronologically and
systematically, and featuring a helpful index, it presents the
historical landscape of the Jewish... Read More
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| By: Yosef Israel
Price: $26.99 $21.59 ISBN: 1578190592
With typical modesty, the saintly tzaddik Grand
Rabbi Aharon of Belz said, "Every survivor must have been accompanied
by malachim (angels) on every side." If every survivor was saved by
angels, the Rebbe was surely escorted by entire companies of angels.
Even in an era of holy people, he was... Read More
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| By: Yaffa Ganz, Rabbi Berel Wein
Price: $79.99 $63.99 ISBN: 9780899063928
There is no more exciting story anywhere than the Jewish People's march
through the menaces of history. It's a gripping, absorbing story,
peopled by great names and arch-villains, full of courage and
cowardice, and leavened with the conviction that the Chosen People must
survive come what... Read More
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| By: Michael B. Oren
Price: $17.95 $16.16 ISBN: 9780345461926
Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli
war never really ended. Every crisis that has ripped through this
region in the ensuing decades, from the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to the
ongoing "intifada, is a direct consequence of those six days of
fighting. Michael B.... Read More
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| By: Alan Dershowitz
Price: $12.95 $11.66 ISBN: 9780471679523
The Case for Israel is an ardent defense of Israel's rights, supported
by indisputable evidence. Presents a passionate look at what Israel's
accusers and detractors are saying about this war-torn country.
Dershowitz accuses those who attack Israel of international bigotry and
backs up his... Read More
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| By: Howard Blum
Price: $13.95 $12.56 ISBN: 9780060014001
A page-turning, headline-making narrative on the Yom Kippur War
that is, all at once, a war drama, a political history, as well as an
espionage story.
The Yom Kippur War is a turning point in the history of the Middle East
-- and a conflict that continues to influence and shape Israeli -... Read More
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| By: Rabbi Nachman Zakon
Price: $44.99 $35.99 ISBN: 1578194962
Did you know that:
Rav Yosef Karo was a young child when Columbus discovered America?
Rembrandt
painted a portrait of the famous Dutch rabbi, Menasseh Ben Israel,
whose family had escaped the Portuguese Inquisition?
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch was 53 years old when the... Read More
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