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"A woman with a devastating secret. A man bent on proving his worth. A chance encounter that catapults them into the heart of history. When the daughter of a prominent Roman general meets a disinherited Jewish immigrant, neither one can dream of God's plan to transform them into the most influential couple of the early church. Nor can they anticipate the mountains that will threaten to bury them. Their courtship unwittingly shadowed by murder and...
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A novel spanning four decades, from pre-World War II Transylvania to contemporary New York, looks at the cause and effect of both belief and non-belief within the Jewish religion, in a tale that focuses on the relationship of two sisters within a Hasidic sect.
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In Brooklyn in the late 1940s, adolescent Michael Devlin is a dutiful son to his widowed mother and a conscientious altar boy at the parish church. One day, he meets Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a chance encounter that inaugurates a friendship with vast consequences, good and bad, for both of them. Michael lost his father in the war, and the rabbi, a recent immigrant to this country, lost his wife. The threads of their connection widen and strengthen as the...
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[2020]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
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"Hanukkah is a very busy time! Join the rabbi as she makes festive preparations-spinning the dreidel, cooking a tasty meal, lighting the menorah and more-in this cumulative, rhyming story to remember the miracle from a long time ago!"--
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Golem and the jinni volume 1
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2013.
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"An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker's storytelling skills dazzle."" —Entertainment Weekly
A marvelous and absorbing debut novel about a chance meeting between two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York.
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay by a disgraced rabbi knowledgeable in the ways of dark Kabbalistic magic. She serves
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In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi, but it's his daughter, Ettie, who offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their...
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2017.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"When Faigel can't find her latke recipe, her husband asks the rabbi, whose advice leads them to make way too many latkes, in this Hanukkah story about the foolish people of Chelm."--Provided by publisher.
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[2021]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Osnat Barzani, also known as Asnat or Asenath Barzani, the world's first female rabbi, was born almost five hundred years ago, during a time when few girls were allowed to read. Her father was a great scholar whose house was filled with books, and she convinced him to teach her. She grew up to teach others, becoming a wise and famous scholar in her own right.-- Adapted from inside front jacket flap, Amazon.com, and a Jerusalem Post article about...
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2014.
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296 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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"Jews began settling in Wausau, Wisconsin in 1873. In 1914, they founded Mt. Sinai, the first synagogue in Wausau. In essays, memoirs, and photographs, this volume tells the story of a small Midwestern congregation"--p.4 of cover.
11) I shall not want
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Psalm 23 mysteries volume 2
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[2010]
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279 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Story of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of American Reform Judaism.
"Isaac Mayer Wise always dreamed of becoming a rabbi, but sometimes people didn't like it when he questioned old customs. He inspired a new kind of Judaism, dream by dream"--
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2021.
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"Naomi and Ethan will test the boundaries of love in this provocative romance from the author of the groundbreaking debut, The Roommate. Naomi Grant has built a life around going against the grain. When the sex-positive start-up she cofounded becomes an international sensation, her responsibilities shift from the bedroom to the boardroom. Ready to conquer new worlds, Naomi wants to extend her educational platform to live lecturing, but despite her...
14) The Frisco Kid
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2006.
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A Polish rabbi sets out to lead a synagogue in California and must make it through the Wild West to get there.
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Rabbi David Small mysteries volume 6
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English
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Rabbi David Small has become one of the most endearing sleuths in modern fiction. Irascible and compassionate, innocent and worldly wise, Rabbi Small can see the third side of any question, an exceptional talent he employs, along with Talmudic reasoning and insight, to solve the high crime of murder. This time the rabbi becomes involved in the mysterious death of an old man with many enemies, a death that intrigues and eventually fascinates both him...
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[2000]
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300 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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The second mystery in this quirky, Agatha Award-nominated series picks up where "Fax Me a Bagel" left off--right in the middle of little Eternal, Texas, where the inimitable Ruby Rothman is trying to set things straight.
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