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• Jews of Oakland and Berkeley

  Isaac, Frederick

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  From the time the Jewish people of Oakland first settled in that city, they have developed their own institutions and style. Starting with the purchase of land for a cemetery in the 1860s, they created a robust and unique lifestyle.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stanzas in Meditation

  Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

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• The New York Times Passover Cookbook

  More Than 200 Holiday Recipes From Top Chefs and Writers

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  A perennial favorite with more than 200 holiday recipes from top chefs and writers, The New York Times Passover Cookbook includes beloved family recipes and innovative kosher cuisine that will make your holiday particularly savory and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Replay

  Memoir of An Uprooted Family

  Mechner, Jordan,

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• Free to Choose

  the Making of a Jewish Community in the American West; the Jews of Oakland, California From the Gold Rush to the Present Day

  Rosenbaum, Fred

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• Portico

  Cooking and Feasting in Rome's Jewish Kitchen

  Koenig, Leah

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  A leading authority on Jewish food, Leah Koenig celebrates la cucina Ebraica Romana within the pages of her new cookbook. Portico: Cooking and Feasting in Rome’s Jewish Kitchen features over 100 deeply flavorful recipes and beautiful…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Koshersoul

  the Faith and Food Journey of An African American Jew

  Twitty, Michael W., 1977-

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  In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora

• Dropped From Heaven

  Judah, Sophie, 1949-

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  A collection of richly told, deeply moving stories about everyday life within a community of Indian Jews as its ancient culture confronts the modern world

• Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas

  Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community

  Moreno, Aviad

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  Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas explores how the 30,000 Jews in northern Morocco developed a sense of kinship with modern Spain, medieval Sepharad, and the broader Hispanophone world that was unlike anything experienced elsewhere

• Torah Queeries

  Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible

  Drinkwater, Gregg • Lesser, Joshua • Plaskow, Judith • Shneer, David

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  This incredibly rich collection unites the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and straight-allied writers, including some of the most central figures in contemporary American Judaism.

• Sabor Judío

  The Jewish Mexican Cookbook

  Stavans, Ilan • Boyle, Margaret E.

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  Sabor Judío celebrates the delicious fusion of two culinary traditions, Jewish and Mexican.

• Anti-semitism in the United States Its History and Causes

  Levinger, Lee J.

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  is a timely work of nonfiction that illuminates his generation’s Jewish experience. From Brooklyn in the 1960s to Harvard in the 1970s to the inside of a secure bunker on January 6, 2021, Schumer takes readers on a personal journey of how…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Anatomy of Exile

  A Novel

  Bukai, Zeeva

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  The Abadi Family saga begins when a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story between a Palestinian and a Jew ends in predictable tragedy. The family flees to America to mend, but encounters only more turmoil that threatens to tear the family…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Semitism

  Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump

  Weisman, Jonathan

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  In the wake of Donald Trump's election and the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, (((Semitism))) is a powerful book that examines how we can fight anti-Semitism in America

• The Hebrew Teacher

  Arad, Maya

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  Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life around her career. When a young Hebrew literature…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tablets Shattered

  the End of An American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life

  Leifer, Joshua,

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  Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer’s lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish present. Formed in the middle decades of the twentieth century, the settled-upon pillars of American Jewish self-definition (Americanism,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Black Unicorn

  Haddish, Tiffany, 1979-

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  A book by Tiffany Haddish who is Jewish and Black comedian.

• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

  Acho, Emmanuel • Tishby, Noa

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  For Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby no question about Jews is off-limits. They go there. They cover Jews and money. Jews and power. Jews and privilege. Jews and white privilege. The Black and Jewish struggle. Emmanuel asks, Did Jews kill…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Safekeep

  a Novel

  Wouden, Yael van der,

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• The Last Dekrepitzer

  Langer, Howard

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