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At once otherworldy and earthy, pious and playful, these celebrated tales from Morocco and India, Spain and Eastern Europe, Babylon and Egypt, illustrate not only their Jewish character but also their universality of themes. Invoking the biblical tale of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eDavid and Goliath\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e, we read as King David defeats the giant by hovering above its spear in\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eKing David and the Giant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e. In the romantic tale of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eThe Princess in the Tower\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e, a variant of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eRapunzel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e, we watch as the cautious King Solomon recognizes the vanity in trying to prevent Providence from taking place. And we see the religious nature of the quest for Elijah's violin in the title story. The successful completion of the king's quest enables the violin's imprisoned melodies, emblematic of the Jewish spirit, to be set free.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThroughout this richly illustrated collection, one can find the quests and riddles of the traditional fairy tale along with the divine intervention that characterizes the Jewish fairy tale. Skillfully translated, these stories will captivate children and adults alike in which romance and magic become enchantingly entwined with faith, duty, and wisdom.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"OXFD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52268826984744,"sku":"hww1787285596874","price":23.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/1331\/0760\/files\/elijahs-violin-and-other-jewish-fairy-tales-by-howard-schwartz_1.jpg?v=1787285602"},{"product_id":"a-time-to-be-born-customs-and-folklore-of-jewish-birth-by-michele-klein","title":"A Time to Be Born: Customs and Folklore of Jewish Birth by Michele Klein","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA National Jewish Book Award Winner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003ePsychologist and folklorist Michele Klein draws upon many rich sources—prayers, folktales, folk remedies, as well as biblical, rabbinical, and mystical literature—to explore childbirth from a specifically Jewish context.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52268827083048,"sku":"wsn1787285598694","price":17.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/1331\/0760\/files\/a-time-to-be-born-customs-and-folklore-of-jewish-birth-by-michele-klein_1.jpg?v=1787285604"},{"product_id":"classic-yiddish-fiction-abramovitsh-sholem-aleichem-and-peretz-edited-by-ken-frieden","title":"Classic Yiddish Fiction: Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and Peretz edited by Ken Frieden","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYiddish literature, despite its remarkable achievements during an era bounded by Russian reforms in the 1860s and the First World War, has never before been surveyed by a scholarly monograph in English. 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Vogel’s play thrums with music, desire, and fear, and it’s shrewd about the ways in which America isn’t free, and about how art does and doesn’t transcend the perilous winds of history.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Superbly realized…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIndecent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, the powerful play by Paula Vogel, sheds an eye-opening light on a little-known time when theatrical history, Jewish culture, and the frank depiction of homosexuality intersected, with explosive results.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Gorgeous. Illuminating and heartbreaking. Rich in sympathy and humor, Indecent has the scope of an epic but the intimacy of a chamber piece…It celebrates and illustrates the power of theater.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“A moving and fascinating play…A singular achievement… The historical perspective is vast and knowing…Has there ever been anything quite like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIndecent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, a play that touches—I mean deeply touches—so much rich emotion about history and the theater, anti-Semitism, homophobia, censorship, world wars, red-baiting, and oh, yes, joyful human passion?...An extraordinary play.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNewsday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIndecent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is more than a play about forbidden love: It’s about theater as a life force.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen Sholem Asch wrote \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGod of Vengeance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e in 1907, he didn’t imagine the height of controversy the play would eventually reach. Performing at first in Yiddish and German, the play’s subject matter wasn’t deemed contentious until it was produced in English, when the American audiences were scandalized by the onstage depiction of an amorous affair between two women. Paula Vogel’s newest work traces the trajectory of the show’s success through its tour in Europe to its abrupt and explosive demise on Broadway in 1923—including the arrest of the entire production’s cast and crew.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaula Vogel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow I Learned to Drive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. 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Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage: Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business showcases the diversity of modern Yiddish theater by focusing on the relentless and far-ranging capacity of its performers, producers, critics, and audiences for self-invention. Editors Joel Berkowitz and Barbara Henry have assembled essays from leading scholars that trace the roots of modern Yiddish drama and performance in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe and span a century and a half and three continents, beyond the heyday of a Yiddish stage that was nearly eradicated by the Holocaust, to its post-war life in Western Europe and Israel.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEach chapter takes its own distinct approach to its subject and is accompanied by an appendix consisting of primary material, much of it available in English translation for the first time, to enrich readers’ appreciation of the issues explored and also to serve as supplementary classroom texts. Chapters explore Yiddish theater across a broad geographical span—from Poland and Russia to France, the United States, Argentina, and Israel and Palestine. 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Now, in\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eGabriel's Palace\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e, scholar Howard Schwartz has collected the greatest of these stories, sacred and secular, in a marvelously readable anthology.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eGabriel's Palace\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoffers a treasury of 150 pithy and powerful tales, involving experiences of union with the divine, out-of-body travel, encounters with angels and demons, possession by spirits holy and pernicious, and more. Schwartz provides an informative introduction placing these remarkable tales firmly in the context of centuries of post-biblical Jewish tradition. The body of the text presents spellbinding tales from the Talmud, Zohar, the Hasidic masters, and an enormous range of other sources. Here are stories of Shimon bar Yohai, reputed to be the author of the Zohar; Isaac Luria, known as the Ari, who was the central figure among the Safed mystics of the 16th century; Israel ben Eliezer, known as Baal Shem Tov, who founded Hasidism; Elimelech of Lizensk, possessor of legendary mystical powers; and Nachman of Bratslav, the great storyteller whose wandering spirit is said to protect his followers to this day. Together, these tales paint a vivid picture of \"a world of signs and symbols, where everything that took place had meaning, a world of mythic proportions....A world in which the spirits of the dead were no longer invisible, nor the angels,\" where the master and his disciples labor to repair the world so that the footsteps of the Messiah might be heard.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eDrawn from rabbinic, kabbalistic, folk, and Hasidic sources, these collected tales form a rich genre all their own. In\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eGabriel's Palace\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e, the powerful tradition of Jewish mysticism comes to life in clear, contemporary English.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52268829442344,"sku":"ksu1787285604891","price":29.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/1331\/0760\/files\/gabriels-palace-by-howard-schwartz_1.jpg?v=1787285610"},{"product_id":"in-the-city-of-slaughter-a-poem-by-chaim-nachman-bialik","title":"In the City of Slaughter: A Poem by Chaim Nachman Bialik","description":"\u003cp\u003eTranslated by \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJeffrey\u003c\/span\u003e Burghauser\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChaim Nachman Bialik’s epic response to the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom roars with with fresh urgency and rage in this dynamic literary translation by Jeffrey Burghauser, one of America’s premier formalist poets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52268829507880,"sku":"tvt1787285605983","price":5.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/1331\/0760\/files\/in-the-city-of-slaughter-a-poem-by-chaim-nachman-bialik_1.jpg?v=1787285611"},{"product_id":"101-jewish-poems-for-the-third-millennium-by-matthew-e-silverman","title":"101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium by Matthew E. 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His connected poems use traditional forms to create a free, contemporary music amidst the omens of the post-September 11 world. 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Many earlier works on the politics of Polish Jewry have suggested that Bundist victories were ephemeral or attributable to outside forces. Jack Jacobs, however, argues convincingly that the electoral success of the Bund was linked to the long-term efforts of the constellation of cultural, educational, and other movements revolving around the party. The Bundist movements for children, youth, and women, and for physical education offered highly innovative programs and promoted countercultural values. Drawing on meticulously researched archival materials, Jacobs shows how the development of these programs—such as a program to provide sex education to working-class Jewish youth—translated into a stronger, more robust party. At the same time, he suggests the Bund’s limitations, highlighting its failed women’s movement. 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Read a piece such as 'I was unable to save \/ a single life' in a bookstore, and I guarantee you will want to take this book with you, to keep it for the rest of your life.\"--Ilya Kaminsky\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Thanks to these brilliant, careful, inspired translations, we can now read Jerzy Ficowski, one of Poland's best kept secrets. This book is a marvel in its weird clarity and extraordinary range of styles and subjects, from the perfectly unassuming paradox of the title, all the way through to its final poems about bumblebees and Satie and mother nature, who scratches herself and 'shudders \/ with a tsunami.' How fortunate we are to have the unassailable evidence that all along, there was yet another genius of 20th century Polish poetry.\"--Matthew Zapruder\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEverything I Don't Know\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a sprawling and generous sampling of a life's work, and Ficowski's deft prose documents more than a review could ever hope to fully catalog … Ficowski was a poet of the quotidian, a post-war poet, a lyric poet, a careful observer of both the mundane and those things which are most grave. His work is worth reading, re-reading, canonizing …\"-- Zoe Contros Kearl, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAction Books Micro Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SMALL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52268832227624,"sku":"cia1787285626846","price":11.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/1331\/0760\/files\/everything-i-dont-know-by-jerzy-ficowski_1.jpg?v=1787285632"},{"product_id":"folktales-of-joha-jewish-trickster-by-matilda-koen-sarano","title":"Folktales of Joha: Jewish Trickster by Matilda Koen-Sarano","description":"\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eJoha has Janus’s double face: On the one hand, he is innocent and stupid; on the other, a trickster. 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He plays many roles: He makes us laugh; liberates us from taboos; makes it possible to tell the whole, sometimes painful, truth in a humorous way; and helps us triumph over our enemies through laughter. These stories have entertained generations of Sephardic children and adults and will delight readers of any age.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52268832260392,"sku":"dse1787285627801","price":26.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/1331\/0760\/files\/folktales-of-joha-jewish-trickster-by-matilda-koen-sarano_1.jpg?v=1787285632"},{"product_id":"jew-by-cynthia-m-baker","title":"Jew by Cynthia M. Baker","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJew\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.  The word possesses an uncanny power to provoke and unsettle. 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