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9780802726452, titled "The Best of Sholom Aleichem" | Large print edition (Christian Large Print, February 1, 1991), cover price $14.95
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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9780405024641, titled "Modern Cities and Their Religious Problems" | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1987, cover price $23.50 | also contains Modern Cities and Their Religious Problems | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
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9780295994796 | Reprint edition (Univ of Washington Pr, May 12, 2015), cover price $30.00
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9780300092455 | Yale Univ Pr, July 11, 2002, cover price $26.00
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9780029354346, titled "If I Am Not for Myself...: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews" | Free Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Stresses that anti-Semitism must be continually opposed, and argues that liberalism joins in the discrediting of Jews in order to avoid having to come to their defense
Presents selections of the author's best work in every genre, including short stories, nonfiction, and selections from his autobiography
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9780805240672 | Schocken Books, November 1, 1990, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Presents selections of the author's best work in every genre, including short stories, nonfiction, and selections from his autobiography
Spanning the history of Judaism, from the kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, an eminent scholar argues that the Jewish people have been corrupted by powerlessness and their role as perpetual victims and addresses concerns that the strategies of the Diaspora continue to shape the Jewish state. 25,000 first printing.
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9780805242249 | 1 edition (Schocken Books, August 28, 2007), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Argues that the Jewish people have been corrupted by powerlessness and their role as perpetual victims and addresses concerns that the strategies of the Diaspora continue to shape the Jewish state, in a volume that spans the history of Judaism.
Hardcover:
9780674536593 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $38.50
Product Description: What makes a great Jewish book? In fact, what makes a book "Jewish" in the first place? Ruth R. Wisse eloquently fields these questions in The Modern Jewish Canon, her compassionate, insightful guide to the finest Jewish literature of the twentieth century...read more
Hardcover:
9780684830759 | Free Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the major literary works by Jewish authors to chronicle the history of twentieth century Judiaism.
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9780226903187 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: What makes a great Jewish book?
Hardcover:
9780691149462 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 2, 2013, cover price $24.95
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9780691165813 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 1, 2015, cover price $19.95
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9780295970899 | Univ of Washington Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $80.00
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9780226903118, titled "The Schlemiel As Modern Hero" | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 1971, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the development and changing forms of the prototypal innocent through Jewish literature and contemporary works by Jewish authors
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9780226903125 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 1980, cover price $3.95 | also contains Maternal and Child Health: Programs, Problems, and Policy in Public Health
Product Description: The five short novellas which comprise this anthology were written between 1890 and World War I. All share a common setting-the Eastern European Jewish town or shtetl, and all deal in different ways with a single topic-the Jewish confrontation with modernity...read more
Hardcover:
9780814318485 | Reprint edition (Wayne State Univ Pr, October 1, 1986), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The five short novellas which comprise this anthology were written between 1890 and World War I.
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