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1	When Bad Things Happen to Good People more books like this by Harold S Kushner add to wishlist Written when confronted with the death of his own son, Rabbi Kushner's book looks to solace those people who have been "hurt by life" and who want to achieve and understanding of why they were hurt and how to proceed with living and with loving God. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Boy in the Striped Pajamas more books like this by John Boyne add to wishlist Berlin 1942 When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and ... see all copies from £3.46! new only from £3.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Last Days more books like this by Joel C Rosenberg add to wishlist Baghdad lies in ruins. Now the eyes of the world are on Jerusalem as Jon Bennett--a Wall Street strategist turned senior White House advisor arrives in the Middle East to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. On the table: a dramatic and potentially historic Arab-Israeli peace plan. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £3.35! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	My grandfather's blessings : stories of strength, refuge and belonging more books like this by Rachel Naomi Remen add to wishlist Dr. Rachel Remen, author of KITCHEN TABLE WISDOM, remembers her grandfather, a Kabbalah scholar, and the bits of wisdom that he would impart to her as a child in the guise of blessings. His touching words reaffirm that there is goodness in the world, if only people have the faith and patience to perceive it and to serve it. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, a Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding more books like this by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner add to wishlist A groundbreaking book about Americans searching for faith and mutual respect, "The Faith Club" interweaves the stories of three women, their three religions, and their urgent request to understand one another. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Night more books like this by Elie Wiesel add to wishlist Wiesel's account of his own experiences in the camps during World War II has become a classic of the genre. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Keeping Quilt more books like this by Patricia Polacco (Illustrator) add to wishlist "In a glowing personal book, Polacco traces the history of a quilt made from bits of her ancestors' clothing in 'backhome Russia.' Over the course of a century, the coverlet serves as a Sabbath tablecloth, a wedding canopy, and a blanket for newborn babies. The pictures have vigor and tremendous warmth".--Detroit News. Full color. see all copies from £2.44! new only from £2.44! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History more books like this by Joseph Telushkin, Rabbi add to wishlist With 348 short chapters covering every essential aspect of Jewish history and life--from the Torah to modern American Jewish culture--this invaluable reference is a comprehensive yet thoroughly accessible resource on the fundamentals of Judaism. see all copies from £8.30! new only from £15.27! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	A Tale of Love and Darkness more books like this by Amos Oz, N R M de Lange (Translator) add to wishlist Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed work is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with ... see all copies from £4.37! new only from £4.37! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewishness of Jesus Can Transform Your Faith more books like this by Ann Spangler, Lois Tverberg add to wishlist Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus takes readers on a fascinating journey, helping them discover how learning about the Jewish world of Jesus can enrich their own faith. By exploring the land, culture, customs, prayers, and feasts, Ann Spangler and Lois Tverberg help readers to perceive Jesus through the eyes and ears of first-century Jews. see all copies from £10.59! new only from £10.59!
11 view cover	Exodus more books like this by Leon Uris add to wishlist A sweeping historical novel of the events and characters surrounding the reestablishment of the nation of Israel in Palestine. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels more books like this by Thomas Cahill add to wishlist A narrative history of the Jewish people, written by the best-selling author of "How the Irish Saved Civilization". Cahill understands the real significance of the Jews in world history to be not merely as the originators of monotheism, but as the first people to understand the notion of history itself--the first to view time as a linear narrative ... see all copies from £4.19! new only from £6.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World more books like this by Lucette Lagnado add to wishlist In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the cozy, dark bar of the Nile Hilton, dressed in his ... see all copies from £7.02! new only from £7.02! \| first editions
14 view cover	Ordinary Men more books like this by Christopher R Browning add to wishlist This study is an account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews. Browning tells about such Germans, and helps the reader to understand, not only what they did to make the Holocaust happen, but also how they were transformed psychologically, from the ordinary men of the title into ... see all copies from £6.23! new only from £8.25!
15 view cover	Bread Givers more books like this by Anzia Yezierska, Alice Kessler-Harris (Foreword by) add to wishlist This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood. Photos. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.00! \| first editions
16 view cover	Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths more books like this by Bruce Feiler (Read by) add to wishlist Traveling through caves, shrines, and war zones, Bruce Feiler, the author of WALKING THE BIBLE, sets out in search of one of history's defining religious figures, the man who encompasses three of the world's major religions--Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. In the second half of the book, Feiler takes a look at Abraham from the perspective of ... see all copies from £3.11! new only from £3.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	The Night Trilogy: Night/Dawn/Day more books like this by Elie Wiesel add to wishlist Wiesel's accounts of his own experiences in the camps during World War II have become classics of the genre. see all copies from £10.76! new only from £10.76! \| first editions
18 view cover	Tanakh more books like this by Jewish Publication Society of America (Creator) add to wishlist Regarded throughout the English speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the Tanakh has been acclaimed by scholars, Rabbis, Jews and Christians alike. see all copies from £6.86! new only from £14.33!
19 view cover	Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust more books like this by Allan Zullo, Mara Bovsun add to wishlist These are the true-life accounts of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives spiraled into danger and fear as the Holocaust overtook Europe. see all copies from £1.77! new only from £1.77!
20 view cover	Who Wrote the Bible? more books like this by Richard Elliott Friedman add to wishlist This is an attempt to discover the authorship of the Bible by a Bible scholar and linguist who uses his understanding of the ancient world together with archaeological evidence and literary analysis to discover clues to the identity of the writers. The author claims that he has discovered who those writers were, that some of them knew each other ... see all copies from £2.98! new only from £6.93! \| first editions
21 view cover	A Thread of Grace more books like this by Mary Doria Russell add to wishlist During World War II, many Jews managed to find refuge in Italy, particularly in the Piedmont region, where they were sheltered from the occupying Germans by antifascist peasants and others. In this elegiac novel, a woman named Lidia Leoni and her war-veteran son head a group of sympathetic Italians who help hide the refugees--who include a German ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.34! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Suite Francaise more books like this by Irene Nemirovsky add to wishlist An extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation--discovered and published 62 years after the author's tragic death at Auschwitz. Subtle, often fiercely ironic, and deeply compassionate, "Suite Fran aise" is both a piercing record of its time and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.10! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History more books like this by James Carroll add to wishlist Novelist James Carroll has compiled a sweeping history of anti-semitism in the Christian tradition. Carroll, himself once a priest, describes incidents of both active and passive aggression against the Jewish faithful from the Crusades to the Inquisition to the Holocaust. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001 and Beliefnet.com's Best Book of the ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.68! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Chosen more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist In Potok's first novel, Danny Saunders must reconcile his rigidly repressive Hasidic heritage with his thirst for secular knowledge, and with his friendship with Reuven Malter, a liberal Jew. As always, Potok's primary concern is the way Jewish traditions often conflict with the values of contemporary society, and how a sensitive, thinking person ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Maus II: A Survivors Tale: And Here My Troubles Began more books like this by Art Spiegelman add to wishlist This is the second part of Art Spiegelman's story about his family's life in Hitler's Europe and post-war America. The book focuses on the horrors of Auschwitz and his father's survival and their new and somewhat tortured life in America. see all copies from £3.97! new only from £7.21! \| first editions

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