1003 Great Things About Being Jewish

Author : Lisa Birnbach
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0740755293
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1,003 Great Things About Being Jewish written by Lisa Birnbach and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their trademark quirky perspective, authors Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, and Patricia Marx have created yet another surefire hit! More Info About 1,003 Great Things About Being Jewish From the trio responsible for the successful 1,003 series-comes 1,003 Great Things About Being Jewish, the perfect humorous gift book to celebrate being Jewish. Just a sampling of the gems within: * They say Aunt Rose's matzo balls could sink a ship . . . in case you're interested in doing that. * Everyone knows that kosher hot dogs rule. * A Hanukkah bush is a lot easier to bring home than a Christmas tree. * Cool-looking blue and silver wrapping paper instead of red and green. * Where else does a 13-year-old get to say, "Today, I am a man"? * "The remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years, she served nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. -Calvin Trillin 1,003 Great Things About Being Jewish is sure to have everyone smiling, laughing, and appreciating all things Jewish.

Author : Lisa Birnbach
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0740785311
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 40% Off Is the New Black written by Lisa Birnbach and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This funny, inspiring, and uplifting collection reminds us that most of the best things in life are still free."--Back.

Author : Joseph L. Baron
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1568219482
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treasury of Jewish Quotations written by Joseph L. Baron and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 18,000 quotations consisting of aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, and comments of Jewish authorship or on Jewish themes.

Author : Lisa Birnbach
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780894801402
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Official Preppy Handbook written by Lisa Birnbach and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Correspondences, Representatives, and Significatives written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Dowley
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506416888
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlas of Christian History written by Tim Dowley and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new atlas of Christian history has been needed for many years. Now, Fortress Press is pleased to offer the Atlas of Christian History from acclaimed author and editor Tim Dowley. The Atlas of Christian History is built new from the ground up. Featuring more than fifty new maps, graphics, and timelines, the atlas is a necessary companion to any study of Christian history. Concise, helpful text, written by acknowledged authorities, guide the experience and interpret the visuals. Consciously written for students at any level, the volume is perfect for independent students, as well as those in structured courses. The atlas is broken into five primary parts that correspond well to most major introductions to the topic. The final section on the modern era pays significant attention to the growth of Christianity as a global religion. Extensive maps are provided that illuminate Christianity in Asian, African, and Latin American contexts.

Author : Lisa Birnbach
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375712011
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Prep written by Lisa Birnbach and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "The Official Preppy Handbook" evaluates the world of preppies thirty years later, tracing how this generation has adapted to such modern challenges as the Internet, cell phones, and political correctness.

Author : Jordan D. Finkin
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271071974
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Inch or Two of Time written by Jordan D. Finkin and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In literary modernism, time and space are sometimes transformed from organizational categories into aesthetic objects, a transformation that can open dramatic metaphorical and creative possibilities. In An Inch or Two of Time, Jordan Finkin shows how Jewish modernists of the early twentieth century had a distinct perspective on this innovative metaphorical vocabulary. As members of a national-ethnic-religious community long denied the rights and privileges of self-determination, with a dramatically internalized sense of exile and landlessness, the Jewish writers at the core of this investigation reimagined their spatial and temporal orientation and embeddedness. They set as the fulcrum of their imagery the metaphorical power of time and space. Where non-Jewish writers might tend to view space as a given—an element of their own sense of belonging to a nation at home in a given territory—the Jewish writers discussed here spatialized time: they created an as-if space out of time, out of history. They understood their writing to function as a kind of organ of perception on its own. Jewish literature thus presents a particularly dynamic system for working out the implications of that understanding, and as such, this book argues, it is an indispensable part of the modern library.

Author : Jonathan K. Crane
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271086696
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judaism, Race, and Ethics written by Jonathan K. Crane and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent political and social developments in the United States reveal a deep misunderstanding of race and religion. From the highest echelons of power to the most obscure corners of society, color and conviction are continually twisted, often deliberately for nefarious reasons, or misconstrued to stymie meaningful conversation. This timely book wrestles with the contentious, dynamic, and ethically complicated relationship between race and religion through the lens of Judaism. Featuring essays by lifelong participants in discussions about race, religion, and society— including Susannah Heschel, Sander L. Gilman, and George Yancy—this vibrant book aims to generate a compelling conversation vitally relevant to both the academy and the community. Starting from the premise that understanding prejudice and oppression requires multifaceted critical reflection and a willingness to acknowledge one’s own bias, the contributors to this volume present surprising arguments that disentangle fictions, factions, and facts. The topics they explore include the role of Jews and Jewish ethics in the civil rights movement, race and the construction of American Jewish identity, rituals of commemoration celebrating Jewish and black American resilience, the “Yiddish gaze” on lynchings of black bodies, and the portrayal of racism as a mental illness from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century Charlottesville. Each essay is linked to a classic Jewish source and accompanied by guiding questions that help the reader identify salient themes connecting ancient and contemporary concerns. In addition to the editor, the contributors include Sander L. Gilman, Annalise E. Glauz-Todrank, Aaron S. Gross, Susannah Heschel, Sarah Imhoff, Willa M. Johnson, Judith W. Kay, Jessica Kirzane, Nichole Renée Phillips, and George Yancy.

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271085398
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return of Carvajal written by Ilan Stavans and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2017, the New York Times announced that the long-lost memoir of Luis de Carvajal the Younger had been rediscovered. Considered the first autobiography by a Jew in the Americas, the book had been stolen decades earlier from Mexico’s National Archives. Here, Ilan Stavans recounts the extraordinary and entertaining story of the reappearance of this precious object and how its discovery opened up new vistas onto the world of secret Jews escaping the Spanish Inquisition. Called el Mozo (the Younger) to distinguish him from an uncle of the same name who was governor of Nuevo León, Luis de Carvajal learned of his Jewishness after being raised a Catholic. He came to recognize himself as a messiah for fellow crypto-Jews, and he was burned at the stake on December 8, 1596, in the biggest auto-da-fé in all of Latin America. His memoir—a 180-page manuscript written by a crypto-Jew targeted by the Holy Office of the Inquisition for unlawful proselytizing activities—was not only distinct but of enormous value. With characters such as conniving academics embroiled in a scholarly feud, a magnanimous philanthropist, naïve booksellers, and a secondary cast that could be taken from a David Lynch film, The Return of Carvajal recounts the global intrigue that placed crypto-Jewish culture at the heart of contemporary debates on religion and identity.