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Hardcover:

9781250076922 | St Martins Pr, March 8, 2016, cover price $25.99

Paperback:

9781250118165 | Reprint edition (Griffin, March 21, 2017), cover price $15.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9781427278883 | Unabridged edition (Macmillan Audio, March 8, 2016), cover price $39.99

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.

Paperback:

9781517621759 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 9, 2015, cover price $8.99
9780766163768 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 1, 2003, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9780814325933 | Wayne State Univ Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In its first appearance in 1892, Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto created a sensation in both England and America, becoming the first Anglo-Jewish bestseller and establishing Zangwill as the literary voice of Anglo-Jewry.

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Product Description: "[...] “Living is so high,” went on Mrs. Melker, “that single men don’t want to marry themselves even to young girls, except if they can get themselves into a family with money to start them up in business. It is Shenah Pessah’s luck yet that Motkeh likes good eating and he can’t stand it any more the meals in a restaurant...read more

Hardcover:

9780548542910 | Kessinger Pub Co, September 30, 2007, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9780405067549 | Facsimile edition (Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1975), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

Paperback:

9781502439864 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 20, 2014, cover price $6.99
9781486490363 | Lightning Source Inc, March 1, 2013, cover price $14.94 | About this edition: Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Hungry Hearts.
9781409923978 | Dodo Pr, October 15, 2008, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Anzia Yezierska (1880-1970) was a novelist born in the Russian Empire and immigrated to New York City.
9780548482544 | Kessinger Pub Co, September 12, 2007, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9780141180052 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, July 1, 1997), cover price $15.00
2 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Paperback:

9781505352337, titled "Gas and Oil Engines, Simply Explained" | Createspace Independent Pub, February 21, 2015, cover price $9.99
9781503306905 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 20, 2014, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
9780451526410, titled "Hungry Hearts" | Signet, December 1, 1996, cover price $4.95 | also contains Hungry Hearts | About this edition: First published in 1920 to great acclaim, a collection of ten original stories by a Jewish-American writer captures the experience of a young immigrant woman's experience in the slums of New York in the twenties.

A chronicle of the transformation from farmers to soldiers of the five Maccabee brothers and of their struggle for freedom against the Syrian-Greek conquerers of Judea

Hardcover:

9780891905790 | Amereon Ltd, September 1, 1988, cover price $27.95
9780884827580 | Hebrew Pub Co, June 1, 1977, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A chronicle of the transformation from farmers to soldiers of the five Maccabee brothers and of their struggle for freedom against the Syrian-Greek conquerers of Judea

Paperback:

9781402237959 | Reprint edition (Sourcebooks Landmark, November 1, 2011), cover price $14.99
9780743480031 | Reprint edition (Ibooks, November 1, 2003), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Simon, the oldest of five brothers, chronicles the transformation from farmers to soldiers of the five Maccabee brothers and of their struggle for freedom against the Syrian-Greek conquerers of Judea, in a historical novel that recreates the events celebrated by Jews during the holiday of Hanukkah.

Miscellaneous:

9781402271939 | Sourcebooks Landmark, November 1, 2011, cover price $14.99
9781402238000 | Sourcebooks Landmark, November 1, 2011, cover price $14.99

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By Shirley Kumove (trans)

Paperback:

9781438435503 | Excelsior Editions, July 29, 2011, cover price $29.95

Paperback:

9781931968720 | 1 edition (Univ of Akron Pr, March 1, 2010), cover price $18.95

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Fourteen short stories include the tales of a young Jewish man's transformation that tempts his father to beat him with a copy of the Talmud, a pious man's near-death discovery that God is actually a chicken, and a man's quest for ark supplies in a home improvement store. A first collection. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780743264563 | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Fourteen short stories include the tales of a young Jewish man's transformation that tempts his father to beat him with a copy of the Talmud and a man's quest for ark supplies in a home improvement store.

Paperback:

9780743264570 | Simon & Schuster, March 28, 2006, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Fourteen short stories include the tales of a young Jewish man's transformation that tempts his father to beat him with a copy of the Talmud, a pious man's near-death discovery that God is actually a chicken, and a man's quest for ark supplies in a home improvement store.

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Product Description: Mr. Mentch is looking for his special talent so he can enter the Yiddelseas Chanukah Contest.

Paperback:

9789659104802 | Simcha Media Group, August 31, 2007, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Mr.

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Product Description: How often do you read a story that makes you laugh out loud or wipe tears from your eyes? It’s rare to find honest writing that is powerful, moving, and inspirational, but words that come from the heart enter the heart. From master storyteller Zalman Velvel comes The King of Shabbos and Other Stories of Return, a collection of eighteen powerful, inspirational stories, each with a common theme―the return to simple Jewish values and spiritual meaning...read more

Hardcover:

9780757002465 | Square One Pub, March 15, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: How often do you read a story that makes you laugh out loud or wipe tears from your eyes?

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A darkly humorous collection of short works about the faith struggles of disaffected Jewish youths includes 'The Living,' a hormonally charged teen-tour of Auschwitz, and 'Everything But,' a sexually frustrated housewife's regression to Bat Mitzvah-age antics. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780743291279 | Free Pr, June 27, 2006, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A darkly humorous collection of short works about the faith struggles of disaffected Jewish youths includes 'The Living,' a hormonally charged teen-tour of Auschwitz, and 'Everything But,' a sexually frustrated housewife's regression to Bat Mitzvah-age antics.

Paperback:

9780743291286 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, February 12, 2008), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A darkly humorous collection of short works about the faith struggles of disaffected Jewish youths includes 'The Living,' a hormonally charged teen-tour of Auschwitz, and 'Everything But,' a sexually frustrated housewife's regression to Bat Mitzvah-age antics.

A collection of mystical and imaginative writings spawned from Jewish folklore and tradition range in style from bizarre to lyrical, covering four centuries of literature. Read by Theodore Bikel, John Rubenstein, and others.
By Theodore Bikel (narrator), Joachim Neugroschel (editor) and John Rubinstein (narrator)

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781574535181 | Unabridged edition (Audio Literature, August 1, 2004), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: A collection of mystical and imaginative writings spawned from Jewish folklore and tradition ranges in style from bizarre to lyrical, covering four centuries of literature.

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Product Description: Distant Cousins: and other stories of courage and inspiration. by Eva Vogiel. A new collection of riveting short stories from bestselling author Eva Vogiel!. A sheltered girl struggles to maintain her identity when she is unexpectedly swept up into the bewildering and seemingly glamorous world of British royalty...read more

Hardcover:

9781932443172 | Judaica Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Distant Cousins: and other stories of courage and inspiration.

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Product Description: This volume brings together for the first time all of the ancient Jewish novels and fragments of novels. Written at about the same time as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, but before the period of Rabbinic Judaism, these texts reveal the ambiguities and conflicts encountered by Jews in this period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Lawrence M. Wills (editor)

Hardcover:

9780195151411 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 3, 2002, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This volume brings together for the first time all of the ancient Jewish novels and fragments of novels.

Paperback:

9780195151428 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 3, 2002, cover price $83.00

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When two young time-travelers are caught up in the adventure and heroism of the Hanukkah story, they quickly discover that the Maccabees have to fight not only Antiochus and the Greek empire, but the many Jews who have accepted the ways of the Greeks and their gods. Simultaneous. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9781930143432 | Simcha Media Group, September 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When two young time-travelers are caught up in the adventure and heroism of the Hanukkah story, they quickly discover that the Maccabees have to fight not only Antiochus, but also the many Jews who have accepted the ways of the Greek empire.

Paperback:

9781930143449 | Simcha Media Group, September 1, 2002, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: When two young time-travelers are caught up in the adventure and heroism of the Hanukkah story, they quickly discover that the Maccabees have to fight not only Antiochus, but also the many Jews who have accepted the ways of the Greek empire.

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Presents a collection of ten original contemporary stories of the supernatural which reflect a Jewish tradition that can be traced to the biblical story of Saul and the spirit of Samuel.
By Theodor Black (illustrator) and Malka Penn (editor)

Hardcover:

9780827607330 | Jewish Pubn Society, July 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of ten original contemporary stories of the supernatural which reflect a Jewish tradition that can be traced to the biblical story of Saul and the spirit of Samuel.

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Product Description: Meet an interplanetary rabbi whom must destroy a leavened monster by Passover...A dybbuk who wishes he was dead....A fetus who fights his Guardian Angel...Fantasy and science fiction stories that bend the limits of the imagination.
By Rivka Lisa Perel (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780943706733 | Simcha Media Group, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Meet an interplanetary rabbi whom must destroy a leavened monster by Passover.

Paperback:

9780943706740 | Simcha Media Group, October 1, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Meet an interplanetary rabbi whom must destroy a leavened monster by Passover.

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Product Description: New in paperback, Bad Jews and Other Stories is a comic vision of life, love and spiritual adventurism among the determinedly secular class of contemporary American Jews. "Shapiro is an original voice on the contemporary Jewish American literary scene - a voice that registers in richly comic, profoundly moving ways...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9781581950120 | Zoland Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: New in paperback, Bad Jews and Other Stories is a comic vision of life, love and spiritual adventurism among the determinedly secular class of contemporary American Jews.

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Product Description: This anthology presents an ambitious cross-section of Jewish American short fiction. It covers a full century of extraordinary writings, from turn-of-the-century immigrant fiction to stories by some of the finest young contemporary American writers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Gerald Shapiro (editor)

Hardcover:

9780803242647 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This anthology presents an ambitious cross-section of Jewish American short fiction.

Paperback:

9780803292529 | Bison Books, October 1, 1998, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A varied anthology of Jewish-American short fiction includes works by turn-of-the-century immigrant authors; famous authors such as Singer, Bellow, and Roth; and the more recent contemporary writers, all demonstrating the rich emotional breadth of the genre.

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Product Description: Combining history, fable, theology, and myth, these nine stories, by turns magical and mundane, comic and tragic, are remarkable for the breadth of their concerns and the depth of their vision. Melvin Bukiet chronicles the lives of Jews in America, past and present, in stories that are at once contemporary and timeless...read more

Hardcover:

9780151000838 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, July 1, 1995), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Chronicling the lives of Jews in America, nine stories combining history, fable, theology, and myth include searching for an impossible gem in Manhattan's diamond district, a university library that catalogues human evil, and a rabbi matching wits with the devil.

Paperback:

9780815604976 | Syracuse Univ Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Combining history, fable, theology, and myth, these nine stories, by turns magical and mundane, comic and tragic, are remarkable for the breadth of their concerns and the depth of their vision.

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A collection of Jewish folktales and Yiddish fantasy literature tells of werewolves, a passenger train that fills with water, a forest demon, golems, ghosts, dybbuks, fools, and wise men. Reissue.
By Joachim Neugroschel (compiler)

Paperback:

9780879517823 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, August 1, 1997), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A collection of Jewish folktales and Yiddish fantasy literature tells of werewolves, a passenger train that fills with water, a forest demon, golems, ghosts, dybbuks, fools, and wise men.

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Product Description: Individually, each of these 27 stories is authentic and immediate, as memorable as family history passed from one generation to the next; taken together, they comprise a vivid, enduring portrait of the struggles of immigrant Jews—particularly women—on New York's Lower East Side...read more

Hardcover:

9780892551606 | 1 edition (Persea Books, August 1, 1991), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Twenty-seven stories depict the struggles of Jewish immigrants in New York City

Paperback:

9780892552115 | Persea Books, May 1, 1996, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Individually, each of these 27 stories is authentic and immediate, as memorable as family history passed from one generation to the next; taken together, they comprise a vivid, enduring portrait of the struggles of immigrant Jews—particularly women—on New York's Lower East Side.

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Product Description: A story that compares the life of an old woman to that of an ailing bird.

Paperback:

9780892550364 | Reissue edition (Persea Books, February 1, 1994), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A story that compares the life of an old woman to that of an ailing bird.

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