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The NGFP Fellows Bookclub provides information about books of Jewish interest If you have comments about any of these books, hit the Add Comment button at the bottom of each article. If you have suggestions about books of Judaica content you have enjoyed, that you would like us to add then send us an email.

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Somewhere A Master: Hasidic Portraits and Legends, by Elie Wiesel

This remarkable sequel to Souls on Fire provides portraits of nine Hasidic masters who revitalize Judaism with their joyous and proud faith in man and God.

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Lonely Soldier: The Memoir of an American in the Israeli Army, by Adam Harmon

Lonely Soldier, completed as Israel was beginning to disengage from Gaza, is a glimpse into a revered yet misunderstood institution that is integral to Middle East peace.

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Overcoming Life's Disappointments, by Harold S. Kushner

From the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, a book that shows us how to be our best selves even when things don't turn out as we had hoped—that is, how we can overcome life's disappointments.

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A Code of Jewish Ethics: You Shall Be Holy, Vol. 1, by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin

The initial volume of the first major code of Jewish ethics to be written in the English language. It is a monumental work on the vital topic of personal character and integrity by one of the premier Jewish scholars and thinkers of our time.

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Jewish Relational Care A-Z: We Are Our Other's keeper, by Rabbi Jack H. Bloom, PhD

A collection of caregiving techniques combining the values of Jewish tradition with self-relations— for practitioners of ANY faith!



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Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish Theater in America, by Stefan Kanfer

A definitive, soulful and entertaining look back at the YIddish Theater, its meteoric rise, its precipitous fall, and its lasting mark on American theater, film, and culture in general. 



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Fear: Anti-Semitism after Auschwitz, by Jan T. Gross

For more than half a century, what happened to Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland has been cloaked in guilt and shame. Writing with passion, brilliance, and fierce clarity, Gross at last brings the truth to light.

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Room for Doubt, by Wendy Lesser

Room for Doubt is about one writer's growing suspicion that there are more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in her previous philosophy. Through Wendy Lesser's account of her stay in a city that she never imagined she would see, a book she thought she wanted to write but never did, and a friendship that constantly broke down and endured, she offers us an unusual journey through the terrain of feeling and beliefs, and in the end shows us how, once examined, things are never quite what she thought they were.

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Inviting God In, by Rabbi David Aaron

This warm, inspiring look at the Jewish holidays—by one of the most dynamic and accessible teachers of Jewish thought today—shows us how each holy day empowers us to recognize God's loving presence in our life everyday.

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Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, by Mark Mazower

Drawing on an astonishing array of primary sources, historian Mark Mazower follows the city’s inhabitants through the terrors of plague, invasion and famine, and takes us into their taverns, palaces, gardens and brothels. His vivid narrative illuminates the multicultural fabric of this great city and describes how its fortunes changed as the empire fell apart and the age of national enmities arrived.

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Children’s War, by Monique Charlesworth

Monique Charlesworth’s "Children’s War" is a “child's-eye view of the vertiginous loss of control inherent in war” (BookBrowse.com), as well as a story of lost innocence and lost childhood.

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To Heal a Fractured World by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

In his signature plainspoken, accessible style, Rabbi Sacks looks at the ethics of responsibility. He shares with us traditional interpretations of the Bible, Jewish law, and theology, as well as the works of philosophers and ethicists from other cultures, to examine what constitutes morality and moral behavior.

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Promise of Politics by Hannah Arendt

A critical examination of the entire tradition of Western political thought, from its origins in Plato and Aristotle to its culmination and conclusion in Marx.

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Responsibility and Judgment by Hannah Arendt

The banality of evil is evil as unthinking routine; the greatest weapons against it are thought and memory. "The greatest evildoers are those who don't remember because they have never given thought to the matter." Arendt explores this idea in conversation with great religious and philosophical figures, especially Socrates, Plato, and Kant, "who all associated evil with thoughtlessness." Also included are Arendt's judgments on the trials of low-ranking Nazis; Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust; Vietnam; and desegregation.

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The Outside World by Tova Mirvis

A new novel about two Orthodox Jewish families brought together by the marriage of their children. Jodi Rakusin of South Africa writes finds the book excellent and writes that it "provides a clear and alarmingly realistic view into the Orthodox world in America." Jodi (rakshack@icon.co.za) would love to hear others opinions about the book.

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