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Judaism

Basic Judaism , Milton Steinberg

Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs, and Rituals , George Robinson

How to Get More Out of Being Jewish Even If:: A. You Are Not Sure You Believe in God, B. You Think Going to Synagogue Is a Waste of Time, C. You Think Keeping Kosher Is Stupid, D. You Hated Hebrew School, or E. All of the Above! , Gil Mann

How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household, Blu Greenberg

Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History, Joseph Telushkin

Jewish Wisdom: Ethical, Spiritual, and Historical Lessons from the Great Works and Thinkers , Joseph Telushkin

Judaism for Dummies, David Blatner

Living a Jewish Life: Jewish Traditions, Customs, and Values for Today's Families, Anita Diamant

Living Each Day, Abraham Twerski

Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice, Wayne D. Dosick

Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends, Elie Wiesel

Souls on Fire, Elie Wiesel

The Book of Jewish Values: A Day-By-Day Guide to Ethical Living, Joseph Telushkin

The Book of Our Heritage: The Jewish Year and Its Days of Significance, Eliyahu Ki Tov

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jewish History and Culture, Benjamin Blech

The First Jewish Catalog: A Do-It-Yourself Kit, Michael Strassfeld

The Jewish Dietary Laws, Dayan Dr. I. Grunfeld

The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary, Michael Strassfeld, Arnold M. Eisen

The New Treasury of Judaism, Philip Birnbaum

The Sabbath, Dayan Dr. I. Grunfeld

The Second Jewish Catalog: Sources and Resources, Michael Strassfeld, Sharon Strassfeld

This Is My God: The Jewish Way of Life, Herman Wouk

To Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life, Hayim Halevy Donin

Understanding Judaism: The Basics of Deed and Creed, Benjamin Blech

Jewish Prayer

Daily Prayer Book: Ha-Siddur Ha-Shalem, Philip Birnbaum

Mahzor Hashalem High Holiday Prayer Book Yom Kippur, Philip Birnbaum

Mahzor Hashalem: High Holiday Prayer Book, Rosh Hashahah, Philip Birnbaum

My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 1: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries--The Sh'ma and Its Blessings, Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman

My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 2: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries--The Amidah, Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman

My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 3: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries--P'sukei D'zimrah (Morning Psalms), Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman

My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 4: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries--Seder K'riyat Hatorah (Shabbat Torah Service), Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman

My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 5 : 'Birkhot Hashachar' (Morning Blessings) Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries, Lawrence H. Hoffman

The Complete Artscroll Siddur, Nosson Scherman, Meir Zlotowitz

The Synagogue Survival Kit, Jordan Lee Wagner

The Way into Jewish Prayer, Lawrence A. Hoffman

To Pray As a Jew: A Guide to the Prayer Book and the Synagogue Service, Hayim Halevy Donin

Jewish Texts

Tanakh: A New Transaltion of the Holy Scriptures According to the Traditional Hebrew Text, Jewish Publication Society

The Chumash: The Stone Edition, Nosson Scherman

Tanach: The Stone Edition/Black: The Torah/Prophets/Writings: The Twenty-Four Books of the Bible Newly Translated and Annotated (Artscroll). Nosson Scherman

Tanach: The Stone Edition/Black: The Torah/Prophets/Writings: The Twenty-Four Books of the Bible Newly Translated and Annotated ( Artscroll). Nosson Scherman

The Living Torah: The Five Books of Moses and the Haftarot, Aryeh Kaplan

Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts, Barry W. Holtz

Chanting the Hebrew Bible: The Art of Cantillation, Joshua R. Jacobson

Commentary on the Torah, Richard Elliott Friedman

Mishneh Torah: Maimonides Code of Law and Ethics, Philip Birnbaum

Studies on the Haggadah: From the Teachings of Nechama Leibowitz, Yitzhak Reiner and Shmuel Peerless

The Bedside Torah : Wisdom, Visions, and Dreams, Bradley Shavit Artson, Miriyam Glazer

The Passover Haggadah, Philip Birnbaum

The Way into Torah, Norman J. Cohen

Jewish People and History

A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations, Benjamin Netanyahu

Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses, Bruce S. Feiler

The Night Trilogy: Night Dawn the Accident, Elie Wiesel

Great Jewish Women. Elinor Slater

Great Jewish Men, Elinor Slater, Robert Slater

Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present, Hasia R. Diner, Beryl Lieff Benderly

The Golden Land: The Story of Jewish Immigration to America: An Interactive History With Removable Documents and Artifacts, Joseph Telushkin

Yitzhak Rabin: From Soldier to Peacemaker, Libby Hughes

Letters to Auntie Fori: The 5000-Year History of the Jewish People and Their Faith, Martin Gilbert

The Atlas of Jewish History, Martin Gilbert

The Jews in the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated History, Martin Gilbert

Amazing Adventures of the Jewish People, Max I. Dimont

Jews, God, and History, Max I. Dimont

A History of the Jews, Paul Johnson

The Big Book of Jewish Baseball, Peter S. Horvitz, Joachim Horvitz

Great Jews in Sports (2000 Edition), Robert Slater

Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust, Yaffa Eliach

There Once Was a World: A Nine-Hundred-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok, Yaffa Eliach

Jewish Stories, Humor , Fiction and Art

Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History and Here My Troubles Began, Art Spiegelman

The Chosen, Chaim Potok

The Promise, Chaim Potok

In an Unrelated Story: A Compelling Collection of Newsworthy Tales, Hanoch Teller

It's a Small Word After All, Hanoch Teller

The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories, Ilan Stavans

Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit, Jack Canfield

Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews, Joseph Telushkin

A Treasury of Jewish Folklore: Stories, Traditions, Legends, Humor, Wisdom and Folk Songs of the Jewish People, Nathan Ausubel

101 Classic Jewish Jokes: Jewish Humor from Groucho Marx to Jerry Seinfeld, Robert Menchin

Around Sarah's Table: Ten Hasidic Women Share Their Stories of Life, Faith, and Tradition, Ruth Zakutinsky

Twenty-One Stories, Samuel Joseph Agnon

Only Yesterday, Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Tevyes Daughters: Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem, Sholem Aleichem, Frances Butwin

Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics), Sholem Aleichem, Hillel Halkin

Because God Loves Stories: An Anthology of Jewish Storytelling, Steven J. Zeitlin

The Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction, Ted Solotaroff

Jewish Art Masterpieces: From the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Iris Fishof

Jewish Art, Grace Cohen Grossman, George C. Grossman

Jewish Languages

Aleph Isn't Enough: Hebrew for Adults (Book 2), Linda Motzkin, Hara Person

Aleph Isn't Tough: An Introduction to Hebrew for Adults (Book 1 Teacher's Guide), Linda Motzkin, Hara Person

Ben-Yehuda's Pocket English-Hebrew Hebrew-English Dictionary , Ehud Ben Yehuda

Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish, Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Learn Hebrew Today: Alef-Bet for Adults, Howard I. Bogot

The New Joys of Yiddish, Leo Calvin Rosten

Yiddish: A Nation of Words, Miriam Weinstein