An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba
By: Ruth Behar
3.95
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
Yiddish-speaking Jews thought Cuba was supposed to be a mere layover on the journey to the United S…
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1. I Remember Beirut
By: Edward Gauvin , Zeina Abirached
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Zeina Abirached, author of the award-winning graphic novel A Game for Swallows, returns with a powe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
2. The Temple Bombing
By: Melissa Fay Greene
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, October 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- jewish
3. A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return
By: Edward Gauvin , Zeina Abirached
3.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a norma… read more
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4. Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
By: Muhammad Yunus , Alan Jolis
3.84
Format: 523 pages, Paperback
Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of pov… read more
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5. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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- nonfiction
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6. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- jewish
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
7. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
8. These Precious Days: Essays
By: Ann Patchett
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in … read more
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"It is possible to love someone with all your heart and still know your union would never have survived having children together."-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
"The future is not one thing. So many possibilities can arise as a result of intelligence, education, curiosity, and hard work. No one ever told me that, and I'm sorry it took this long for me to figu…"-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
"People want you to want what they want. If you want the same things they want, then their want is validated. If you don’t want the same things, your lack of wanting can, to certain people, come acros…"-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
"Without ever meaning to, my father taught me at a very early age to give up on the idea of approval. I wish I could bottle that freedom now and give it to every young writer I meet, with an extra bot…"-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
9. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By: Tricia Hersey
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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- nonfiction
10. True Biz
By: Sara Nović
4.08
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
TRUE BIZ (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk Tr… read more
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"No one is comforted by salad."-Sara Nović, True Biz
"maybe standing for something wasn't always a choice"-Sara Nović, True Biz
"Reason is for people who still have something to fear."-Sara Nović, True Biz
"fewer things were more motivating than a fear of one's own extinction."-Sara Nović, True Biz
11. How to Fight Anti-Semitism
By: Bari Weiss
4.19
Format: 224 pages, ebook
The prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the a… read more
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- history
- jewish
"It's hard to imagine "Fuck Jews" as being anything other than a statement of anti-Semitism."-Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism
"Europe is very good at building memorials for dead Jews. It is still learning how to protect the living ones. Vigils honor the dead, but they don't do much for the living. Solidarity does."-Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism
"No country is immune to criticism, nor should it be. But when that criticism takes the form of singling out just one country, unfairly, bitterly and relentlessly, over and over and over, that’s just …"-Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism
"When anti-Zionism becomes a normative political position, active anti-Semitism becomes the norm. Because if you believe that Zionism is racism, it follows that Zionists are racists. And everyone know…"-Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism
12. Antisemitism: Here and Now
By: Deborah E. Lipstadt
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetratin… read more
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- history
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13. Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
By: Shai Held
4.57
Format: 546 pages, Hardcover
A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish … read more
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- jewish
14. An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba
By: Ruth Behar
3.95
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
Yiddish-speaking Jews thought Cuba was supposed to be a mere layover on the journey to the United S… read more
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15. The Secret of Love: A Glimpse into the Mystical Wisdom of Rav Kook
By: Aryeh Ben David
4.50
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
This is a book about love. To be more exact, it is a book about how to become a more loving human b… read more
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