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Dreams of being eaten alive : the literary core of the kabbalah /

Rosenberg, David, 1943-



Date Published:2000

1000 mitzvahs : how small acts of kindness can heal, inspire, and change your life /

Cohen, Linda, 1968-



Date Published:2011

From Krakow to Krypton : Jews and comic books /

Kaplan, Arie.


pt. 1. The Golden Age (1933-1955) : the birth of the comics -- ch. 1. Famous funnies -- ch. 2. Leger and Reuths -- ch. 3. Supergolem -- ch. 4. Attack of the clones -- ch. 5. People of the (comic) book -- ch. 6. The spirit of the times -- ch. 7. The Leaden Age -- ch. 8. Why we fight -- ch. 9. New trends and innocent seducers -- pt. 2. The Silver Age (1956-1978): the growth and development of Jewish comics. ch. 10. Super family values -- ch. 11. Broome makes a clean sweep -- ch. 12. Stan and Jack -- ch. 13. The superhero from Queens -- ch. 14. Courting the college crowd -- ch. 15. Outsider heroes -- ch. 16. Openly Jewish, openly heroic -- ch. 17. Kirby's fourth world -- ch. 18. Notes from the underground -- ch. 19. From novel graphics to graphic novels -- pt. 3. The Bronze Age (1979-the present): comics in the modern world. ch. 20. From comix to graphix -- ch. 21. The Maus that art built -- ch. 22. A graphic approach to Jewish history -- ch. 23. The Martian Jew -- ch. 24. Children of the atom-- and Eve -- ch. 25. Vertigo visions -- ch. 26. Up, up, and away-- but where to?.
Date Published:2008

pt. 1. The Golden Age (1933-1955) : the birth of the comics -- ch. 1. Famous funnies -- ch. 2. Leger and Reuths -- ch. 3. Supergolem -- ch. 4. Attack of the clones -- ch. 5. People of the (comic) book -- ch. 6. The spirit of the times -- ch. 7. The Leaden Age -- ch. 8. Why we fight -- ch. 9. New trends and innocent seducers -- pt. 2. The Silver Age (1956-1978): the growth and development of Jewish comics. ch. 10. Super family values -- ch. 11. Broome makes a clean sweep -- ch. 12. Stan and Jack -- ch. 13. The superhero from Queens -- ch. 14. Courting the college crowd -- ch. 15. Outsider heroes -- ch. 16. Openly Jewish, openly heroic -- ch. 17. Kirby's fourth world -- ch. 18. Notes from the underground -- ch. 19. From novel graphics to graphic novels -- pt. 3. The Bronze Age (1979-the present): comics in the modern world. ch. 20. From comix to graphix -- ch. 21. The Maus that art built -- ch. 22. A graphic approach to Jewish history -- ch. 23. The Martian Jew -- ch. 24. Children of the atom-- and Eve -- ch. 25. Vertigo visions -- ch. 26. Up, up, and away-- but where to?.

Date Published:2008

10 things I can do to help my world /

Walsh, Melanie.


Cover title. On lift-the-flap pages. Parents' Choice, January 2008. Wilson's Children, October 2010. School Library Journal, January 2009. Horn Book, January 2009. Parents' Choice. Wilson's Children. School Library Journal. Simple text and lift-the-flap pages illustrations describe ten ways children can help the environment, such as turning the wateroff when they brush their teeth and using both sides of a piece of paper.
Date Published:2008

Cover title. On lift-the-flap pages. Parents' Choice, January 2008. Wilson's Children, October 2010. School Library Journal, January 2009. Horn Book, January 2009. Parents' Choice. Wilson's Children. School Library Journal. Simple text and lift-the-flap pages illustrations describe ten ways children can help the environment, such as turning the wateroff when they brush their teeth and using both sides of a piece of paper.

Date Published:2008

Children of the book : a memoir of reading together /

Kurshan, Ilana,


Ilana Kurshan explores the closeness forged when family life unfolds against a backdrop of reading together. Kurshan, a mother of five living in Jerusalem, at first struggles to balance her passion for literature with her responsibilities as a parent. Gradually she learns how to relate to reading not as a solitary pursuit and an escape from the messiness of life, but rather as a way of teaching independence and forging connection. Introducing her children to sacred and secular literature-including the beloved classics of her childhood-helps her become both a better mother and a better reader. Chief among the books Kurshan reads with her children is the Five Books of Moses, known as the Torah, which Jews the world over read in synchrony as part of the liturgical cycle. In the five parts of this memoir, Kurshan explores the surprising resonances between the biblical text and her experiences as a mother and a reader - from the first picture books that create the world through language for little babies, to the moment our children begin reading on their own leaving us behind, atop the mountain, as they enter new lands without us. A testament to the enduring power of shared texts, Children of the Book celebrates the deep pleasures of books.
Date Published:2025

Ilana Kurshan explores the closeness forged when family life unfolds against a backdrop of reading together. Kurshan, a mother of five living in Jerusalem, at first struggles to balance her passion for literature with her responsibilities as a parent. Gradually she learns how to relate to reading not as a solitary pursuit and an escape from the messiness of life, but rather as a way of teaching independence and forging connection. Introducing her children to sacred and secular literature-including the beloved classics of her childhood-helps her become both a better mother and a better reader. Chief among the books Kurshan reads with her children is the Five Books of Moses, known as the Torah, which Jews the world over read in synchrony as part of the liturgical cycle. In the five parts of this memoir, Kurshan explores the surprising resonances between the biblical text and her experiences as a mother and a reader - from the first picture books that create the world through language for little babies, to the moment our children begin reading on their own leaving us behind, atop the mountain, as they enter new lands without us. A testament to the enduring power of shared texts, Children of the Book celebrates the deep pleasures of books.

Date Published:2025

This is not about us : fiction /

Goodman, Allegra,


"Was this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty-year feud? In the Rubenstein family, it could go either way. When their beloved older sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into decades of stubborn silence. Busy with their own lives-divorces, dating, career setbacks, college applications, bat mitzvahs and ballet recitals-their children do not want to get involved. As for their grandchildren? Impossible. With This is Not About Us, master storyteller Allegra Goodman--whose prior collection was heralded as "one of the most astute and engaging books about American family life" (The Boston Globe)--returns to the form and subject that endeared her to legions of readers. Sharply observed and laced with humor, This is Not About Us is a story of growing up and growing old, the weight of parental expectations, and the complex connection between sisters. A big-hearted book about the love that binds a family across generations"-- Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2026

"Was this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty-year feud? In the Rubenstein family, it could go either way. When their beloved older sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into decades of stubborn silence. Busy with their own lives-divorces, dating, career setbacks, college applications, bat mitzvahs and ballet recitals-their children do not want to get involved. As for their grandchildren? Impossible. With This is Not About Us, master storyteller Allegra Goodman--whose prior collection was heralded as "one of the most astute and engaging books about American family life" (The Boston Globe)--returns to the form and subject that endeared her to legions of readers. Sharply observed and laced with humor, This is Not About Us is a story of growing up and growing old, the weight of parental expectations, and the complex connection between sisters. A big-hearted book about the love that binds a family across generations"-- Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2026

The Rwanda series


Originally produced in 1995 and 1996. Disc 1. Hand of God, hand of the devil (50 min., 1995) / directors, Yvan Patry, Sam Grana, Danièle Lacourse ; Sitting on a volcano (55 min., 1995) / directed by Danièle Lacourse -- Disc 2. Chronicle of a genocide foretold (1996) : pt. 1. Blood flowed like a river (63 min.) ; pt. 2. We were cowards (44 min.) ; pt. 3. We feel betrayed (56 min.) / written and directed by Danièle Lacourse, Yvan Patry. Hand of God, hand of the devil: Explores Canada's role in the development of the genocidal ideology that took root in Rwanda, which was considered the "jewel" of Canadian aid in Africa. Focuses on the murder of two Canadian missionaries, killed for having protested against corruption and human rights violations. Sitting on a volcano: Follows the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Hutus who fled Rwanda to take refuge in neighboring countries. One year after the slaughter, they find themselves trapped between gangs of Rwandan war criminals in control of the refugee camps and their country's new masters, who show little interest in reconciliation. Chronicle of a genocide foretold: Recounts in three parts a horrifying crime that could have been prevented by the international community and international law. Shot over three years, Chronicle of a genocide foretold follows several Rwandans before, during and after the genocide. Part 1 explores the genesis of the genocide in two key regions of Rwanda, Kibuye and the Bugesera. Part 2 examines how and why the international community abandoned Rwandans to their killers. Focusing on the largest massacre in Kigali and featuring unique footage shot by a UN peacekeeper, this part looks at the experiences of UN soldiers who pulled out of Kigali and of the victims who were left behind. Part 3 examines the aftermath of genocide when the Hutu majority is subjected to crimes against humanity perpetrated this time by the new Rwandan government led by Tutsi extremists.
Date Published:2007

Originally produced in 1995 and 1996. Disc 1. Hand of God, hand of the devil (50 min., 1995) / directors, Yvan Patry, Sam Grana, Danièle Lacourse ; Sitting on a volcano (55 min., 1995) / directed by Danièle Lacourse -- Disc 2. Chronicle of a genocide foretold (1996) : pt. 1. Blood flowed like a river (63 min.) ; pt. 2. We were cowards (44 min.) ; pt. 3. We feel betrayed (56 min.) / written and directed by Danièle Lacourse, Yvan Patry. Hand of God, hand of the devil: Explores Canada's role in the development of the genocidal ideology that took root in Rwanda, which was considered the "jewel" of Canadian aid in Africa. Focuses on the murder of two Canadian missionaries, killed for having protested against corruption and human rights violations. Sitting on a volcano: Follows the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Hutus who fled Rwanda to take refuge in neighboring countries. One year after the slaughter, they find themselves trapped between gangs of Rwandan war criminals in control of the refugee camps and their country's new masters, who show little interest in reconciliation. Chronicle of a genocide foretold: Recounts in three parts a horrifying crime that could have been prevented by the international community and international law. Shot over three years, Chronicle of a genocide foretold follows several Rwandans before, during and after the genocide. Part 1 explores the genesis of the genocide in two key regions of Rwanda, Kibuye and the Bugesera. Part 2 examines how and why the international community abandoned Rwandans to their killers. Focusing on the largest massacre in Kigali and featuring unique footage shot by a UN peacekeeper, this part looks at the experiences of UN soldiers who pulled out of Kigali and of the victims who were left behind. Part 3 examines the aftermath of genocide when the Hutu majority is subjected to crimes against humanity perpetrated this time by the new Rwandan government led by Tutsi extremists.

Date Published:2007

Rain of ash : Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust /

Joskowicz, Ari,


Introduction: Jews and Roma in the Shadow of Genocide -- Roma and Jews in Nazi Europe -- Surviving Postwar Reconstruction -- Blank Pages: Early Documentation Efforts -- Asymmetrical Justice: Roma and Jews in the Courtroom -- Jewish Institutions and the Rise of Romani Holocaust Scholarship -- The Path to Shared Romani-Jewish Remembrance after 1978 -- Conclusion: Stages of a Relationship. "A major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justiceJews and Roma died side by side in the Holocaust, yet the world did not recognize their destruction equally. In the years and decades following the war, the Jewish experience of genocide increasingly occupied the attention of legal experts, scholars, educators, curators, and politicians, while the genocide of Europe's Roma went largely ignored. Rain of Ash is the untold story of how Roma turned to Jewish institutions, funding sources, and professional networks as they sought to gain recognition and compensation for their wartime suffering.Ari Joskowicz vividly describes the experiences of Hitler's forgotten victims and charts the evolving postwar relationship between Roma and Jews over the course of nearly a century. During the Nazi era, Jews and Roma shared little in common besides their simultaneous persecution. Yet the decades of entwined struggles for recognition have deepened Romani-Jewish relations, which now center not only on commemorations of past genocides but also contemporary debates about antiracism and Zionism.Unforgettably moving and sweeping in scope, Rain of Ash is a revelatory account of the unequal yet necessary entanglement of Jewish and Romani quests for historical justice and self-representation that challenges us to radically rethink the way we remember the Holocaust"--
Date Published:2023

Introduction: Jews and Roma in the Shadow of Genocide -- Roma and Jews in Nazi Europe -- Surviving Postwar Reconstruction -- Blank Pages: Early Documentation Efforts -- Asymmetrical Justice: Roma and Jews in the Courtroom -- Jewish Institutions and the Rise of Romani Holocaust Scholarship -- The Path to Shared Romani-Jewish Remembrance after 1978 -- Conclusion: Stages of a Relationship. "A major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justiceJews and Roma died side by side in the Holocaust, yet the world did not recognize their destruction equally. In the years and decades following the war, the Jewish experience of genocide increasingly occupied the attention of legal experts, scholars, educators, curators, and politicians, while the genocide of Europe's Roma went largely ignored. Rain of Ash is the untold story of how Roma turned to Jewish institutions, funding sources, and professional networks as they sought to gain recognition and compensation for their wartime suffering.Ari Joskowicz vividly describes the experiences of Hitler's forgotten victims and charts the evolving postwar relationship between Roma and Jews over the course of nearly a century. During the Nazi era, Jews and Roma shared little in common besides their simultaneous persecution. Yet the decades of entwined struggles for recognition have deepened Romani-Jewish relations, which now center not only on commemorations of past genocides but also contemporary debates about antiracism and Zionism.Unforgettably moving and sweeping in scope, Rain of Ash is a revelatory account of the unequal yet necessary entanglement of Jewish and Romani quests for historical justice and self-representation that challenges us to radically rethink the way we remember the Holocaust"--

Date Published:2023

Beautiful losers /

Cohen, Leonard, 1934-



Date Published:1991

Business ethics : a Jewish perspective.

Pava, Moses L.


Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index.
Date Published:1997

Let my people eat! : Passover seders made simple /

Schulman, Zell J., 1928-



Date Published:1998

50/50


Originally produced as a motion picture in 2011. Release date: Jan. 24, 2012. Special features include audio commentary, deleted scenes, the story of 50/50, life inspires art, seek and destroy. Inspired by personal experiences, an original story about friendship, love, survival, and finding humor in unlikely places. Two best friends' lives change when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
Date Published:2012

Father, son, stone /

Goodman, Allan H.


Father, Son, Stone blends history and mystery to reveal the secret of the most controversial religious site in Jerusalem - known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. In the year 2035, a grandfather and his grandson enter the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount. The grandfather, speaking Arabic, tells his grandson why Jews no longer pray at the Western Wall.
Date Published:2014

Disraeli /

Blake, Robert, 1916-



Date Published:1966

Pete the cat's got class /

Dean, James.


Pete the Cat loves math. When he sees that his friend Tom is having trouble adding and subtracting, Pete has an idea to make learning fun! But will it all add up when their teacher checks their answers?
Date Published:2016

For the sake of heaven /

Buber, Martin, 1878-1965.



Date Published:1958

Glee .


Title from container. Created for television by Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk & Ian Brennan. Special features: [Disc 4]: Full length audition pieces; Rachel - "On my own;" Mercedes - "Respect;" "Welcome to McKinley" featurette; Fox Movie Channel casting session; deconstructing Glee with Ryan Murphy; Dance Boot Camp; Repurposed web VAM. Optimistic high school teacher Will Schuester tries to refuel his own passion while reinventing McKinley High's Glee Club and challenging a group of outcasts to realize their star potential. Going up against McKinley's cruel high school caste system and facing harsh criticism from everyone around him, Will becomes determined to prove them all wrong.
Date Published:2009

Title from container. Created for television by Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk & Ian Brennan. Special features: [Disc 4]: Full length audition pieces; Rachel - "On my own;" Mercedes - "Respect;" "Welcome to McKinley" featurette; Fox Movie Channel casting session; deconstructing Glee with Ryan Murphy; Dance Boot Camp; Repurposed web VAM. Optimistic high school teacher Will Schuester tries to refuel his own passion while reinventing McKinley High's Glee Club and challenging a group of outcasts to realize their star potential. Going up against McKinley's cruel high school caste system and facing harsh criticism from everyone around him, Will becomes determined to prove them all wrong.

Date Published:2009

Terry Gibbs plays Jewish melodies in jazztime

Gibbs, Terry, 1924-


Includes program notes inserted in container.
Date Published:2002

City of gold : a musical portrait of Jerusalem /

Staneslow, Sunita.


With violin, cello, oboe, clarinet and percussion. And they shall be heard (3:28) -- In Jerusalem (3:58) -- Our song (2:51) -- Pilgrimage to Jerusalem (4:21) -- If I forget you o Jerusalem (5:34) -- Jerusalem of gold (3:45) -- On the Rivers of Babylon (3:57) -- In the city of Jerusalem (4:36) -- Your Jerusalem (3:21) -- Jerusalem (4:03) -- Jerusalem of earth and sky (3:13) -- Theme from Shindler's list (4:33).
Date Published:1996

With violin, cello, oboe, clarinet and percussion. And they shall be heard (3:28) -- In Jerusalem (3:58) -- Our song (2:51) -- Pilgrimage to Jerusalem (4:21) -- If I forget you o Jerusalem (5:34) -- Jerusalem of gold (3:45) -- On the Rivers of Babylon (3:57) -- In the city of Jerusalem (4:36) -- Your Jerusalem (3:21) -- Jerusalem (4:03) -- Jerusalem of earth and sky (3:13) -- Theme from Shindler's list (4:33).

Date Published:1996

Llama Llama home with Mama /

Dewdney, Anna.


Llama Llama's mother takes good care of him when he has to stay home from school because he is sick, but when Mama Llama begins to feel sick, too, Llama Llama knows how to take care of her.
Date Published:2011