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Is it Summer already? Just a few weeks ago I was at Mel Gibson's Passover seder. Time flies when you are counting Omer. David Sedaris says ![[book]](http://www.sefersafari.com/0316143464.jpg) DRESS YOUR FAMILY IN CORDUROY AND DENIM?Dress your mishpacha in such schmattas? What kind of Jewish book is this? Well.. his name is Sedaris.. as in Passover Seder.. and he does include a hilarious piece about his visit to the cozy comfortable attic of Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam. Click the icon to the right for more information on his latest best seller. HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS? Madonna is changing her name to Esther, just as some ill Jews change their name to Chaim. Guess what she told us she is reading? Visit our newest page: What Jewish librarians, authors, and leaders are reading: Click here to see their selections. It's Summer Beach reading season in North America, the annual meeting of Jewish librarians in Brooklyn is history, as is the annual Book Expo America in Chicago. So, stock up on your books now. Here in New York City we are busy reading books to add to the site, and developing our plans for our new reality show. You've heard of The Apprentice?? Our newest show will be The Assistant Rabbi. A large metropolitan synagogue is the setting for this show. Each week, starting with 6 male and 6 female rabbis, they will vie for the role of Assistant Rabbi. The last one left will be the Assistant Rabbi at a six figure salary, and the board will throw in a house (or one bedroom apartment with tasteful furnishings.) As the 12 candidates are given weekly competitive tasks, like getting the child of the synagogue's biggest contributor into a selective school, the board and Senior rabbi will decide who stays and who get's fired each week. Check your local listings for upcoming times. ![[frum eye for the straight guy]](http://www.sefersafari.com/frumeye2.jpg)
Please check your local television listings for our new show Frum Eyes for the Straight Guy. Yes, coming ![[frum eye for the straight guy2]](http://www.sefersafari.com/fabfive.jpg) in 2004, we are producing a show in which Five Fab Frum (THE FRUM FIVE) men visit a non-Frum Jewish man. One Frumkin will check the mezuzah. Another will re-do the kitchen and make sure he has two sets of dishes, as well as a set for Pesach. Another will add a chandelier to his ceiling, while another will check the wardrobe for Shatnez. By the end of the show, their host will sign up on FRUMSTER.com You get the idea. No? [all rights reserved by MyJewishBooks.com for the Frumkins and Frum Eyes for the Str8 guy and Queer Eye for the Rabbi] You've heard of OPrah's Book Club, But Have You Checked Out Our OFrah's Jewish Book Club? Drop by OFrah's Jewish Book Club's monthly selections. For more information on any book, to purchase one, or to add a review, click on any book cover below. Remember... all out proceeds go to charity Click here if you want to see our SUMMER 2004 or SPRING 2004 recommendations or to see some book events that are occurring this season. Please note that our goal is to promote Jewish books and literature. All our proceeds from book sales go to charity. We pay no salaries. Welcome to MyJewishBooks.com Click here to see the JEWISH BOOK OF THE WEEK ![[movers]](http://www.sefersafari.com/movers-and-shakers.gif) MYJEWISHBOOKS.COM CURRENT MOVERS AND SHAKERS The Hottest Newest Books: ![[modigliani beyond the myth]](http://www.sefersafari.com/030010264X.jpg)
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We recall with Naomi Shemer, the greatest modern songwriter of Israel, who passed away in June 2004, and the comedian Alan King, who succumbed on May 9, 2004 to cancer. Shemer wrote Yerushalayim Shel Zahav, and King authored Anyone Who Owns His Own Home Deserves One" (1962) and "Help! I'm a Prisoner in a Chinese Bakery." She gave us hope in 1967, and he marched with MLK Jr. The CD's are at Sifrutake.com (tell them we sent you) ![[naomi shemer 1307]](http://www.sefersafari.com/cd1307shemer.jpg)
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Modigliani Beyond the Myth by Mason Klein, Maurice Berger, Emily Braun, Tamar Garb, and Griselda Pollock June 1, 2004, Yale University Press This book is the catalogue for a major exhibition at The Jewish Museum, New York (May 21 to September 19, 2004); the Art Gallery of Ontario (October 23, 2004 to January 23, 2005); and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (February 19 to May 29, 2005). Amedeo Modigliani (1884--1920) is one of the greatest-and most misunderstood-artists of the twentieth century. His incisive portraits, erotically charged nudes, beautiful drawings, and primitivistic sculpture have been admired for decades. Modigliani's work, however, has typically been examined in the limited context of his so-called "bohemian," anti-intellectual lifestyle. This groundbreaking book revises this approach toward Modigliani's art, presenting a convincing revisionist examination of the unique historical, social, religious, and cultural significance of his oeuvre. Modigliani: Beyond the Myth looks at the artist and his art from a variety of important perspectives: his proud heritage as a Sephardic Jew, whose spirituality embraced non-Western, classical, and Christian iconography while retaining his own ethnic identity; his critical engagement with the dialogues of the most radical of his avant-garde contemporaries (Picasso, Chaim Soutine, Henri Matisse, and Brancusi); the influence of tribal art and Judaism on his portraiture; the representation of the female nude in his works from a feminist cultural perspective; and the remarkable reception of his work in Italy during his lifetime. Lavishly illustrated and including a detailed chronology of his life, this fascinating book situates Modigliani anew in the history of twentieth-century art. Click the book cover above to read more. ![[book]](http://www.sefersafari.com/0767914007.jpg)
RAID ON THE SUNINSIDE ISRAEL'S SECRET CAMPAIGN THAT DENIED SADDAM THE BOMB by RODGER W. CLAIRE April 2004, Broadway From the earliest days of his dictatorship, Saddam Hussein had vowed to destroy Israel. So, when France sold Iraq a top-of-the-line nuclear reactor in 1975, the Israelis were justifiably concerned-especially when they discovered that Iraqi scientists had already formulated a secret program to extract weapon-grade plutonium from the reactor, a first critical step in creating an atomic bomb. The reactor formed the heart of a huge nuclear plant situated twelve miles from Baghdad, 1,100 kilometers from Tel Aviv. By 1981, the reactor was on the verge of becoming "hot," and Israeli Prime Minister Begin knew he would have to confront its deadly potential. He turned to Israeli Air Force commander General David Ivry to secretly plan a daring surgical air strike on the reactor-a never-before contemplated mission that would prove to be one of the most remarkable military operations of all time. Written with the full and exclusive cooperation of the Israeli Air Force high command, General Ivry (ret.), and all of the eight mission pilots (including Ilan Ramon, who became Israel's first astronaut and tragically perished in the shuttle Columbia disaster), Raid On the Sun tells the extraordinary story of how Israel plotted the unthinkable: defying its U.S. and European allies to eliminate Iraq's nuclear threat. In the tradition of Black Hawk Down, journalist Rodger Claire re-creates a gripping tale of personal sacrifice and survival, of young pilots who trained in America on the then-new, radically sophisticated F-16 fighter-bombers, then faced a nearly insurmountable challenge: how to fly the 1,000-plus-kilometer mission to Baghdad and back on one tank of fuel; he recounts Israeli intelligence's incredible "black ops" to sabotage construction on the French reactor and eliminate Iraqi nuclear scientists; and he gives reader a pilot's-eye view of the action on June 7, 1981, when the planes roared off a runway on the Sinai Peninsula for the first successful destruction of a nuclear reactor in history. Click the book cover above to read more.
HOW ISRAEL LOSTTHE FOUR QUESTIONS by Richard Ben Cramer May 12, 2004. Simon and Schuster Cramer's book is divided into four questions about the conflict ("Why do we care about Israel?", "Why don't the Palestinians have a state?", "What is a Jewish state?", and "Why is there no peace?") modeled after the questions asked at a Passover seder. But you may say, "DAYENU" ENOUGH ALREADY.. but you would be wrong. Cramer is fresh and a great read, and funny as well. PW writes, "Cramer, who won a Pulitzer in 1979 for Middle East reporting, divides his book into four parts, dealing with four questions on the model of the four questions asked by children at the Passover seder. He blends up-to-the-minute events of the Palestinian uprising with memories of his time as a Middle East correspondent in the late 1970s and early 1980s for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Cramer is great at telling an anecdote, whether about his visit as a correspondent to an Arab village where he learns about both hospitality and honor, or about a recent visit to an Israeli family that he finds instructive regarding Palestinians' inability to reconcile themselves to a Jewish presence. When it comes to prognosis, Cramer shoots straight from the hip in giving advice to both sides. He's of the "plague on both of their houses" school ("I should have told [the mother of a dead Palestinian militant] the same thing I would have told Sharon: ...you can't make a nation... based on whom you hate, or how many of them you kill"), and he's equally dismissive of Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon, although he seems to come down harder on the Israelis for failing to recognize the Arab world's need for honor." Click the book cover above to read more. SOME INTERESTING DVD'S ![[larry david dvd cover]](http://www.sefersafari.com/B00024ERG2.jpg)
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SEX IN THE CITY DVDSEASON SIX - PART ONE May 2004. The sixth season of SEX IN THE CITY. In Season Six, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) dates again, an old high school flame (David Duchovny) shows up, as does a reknowned painter (Mikhail Baryshnikov). Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) has an affair with Mr. Perfect (Blair Underwood). Charlotte's (Kristin Davis) finds love with Mister Jewish (Evan Handler), but they still have a few things to iron out. Great Jewish issues abound. Samantha's (Kim Cattrall) is in a hot relationship with waiter-actor-stud Smith Jerrod (Jason Lewis). Episodes (written by Cindy Chupack, Julie Rottenberg, Elisa Zuritsky, Michael Patrick King, Amy B. Harris, and others) are: Episode 75: "To Market, To Market"; Episode 76: "Great Sexpectations" or the great conversion decision; episode 77: "The Perfect Present" or the accelerated conversion; episode 78: "Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little", or Charlotte's first Shabbat dinner in which she says, "Hi, Mrs. Collier. I'm a Jew now. How are you?" (Directed by: David Frankel Written by: Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky); episode 79: "Lights, Camera, Relationship"; episode 80: "Hop, Skip And A Week"; when Charlotte goes to a blase synagogue singles event; episode 81: "The Post-it Always Sticks Twice"; episode 82: "The Catch", which should be titled, you can take the beemer and I will take the Bimah (filmed at Congregation Bnai Jeshurun on W 88th St); episode 83: "A Woman's Right to Shoes"; episode 84: "Boy, Interrupted"; episode 85: "The Domino Effect"; and episode 86: "One." Click the book cover above to read more. ![[book]](http://www.sefersafari.com/0786809043.jpg)
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BRUNDIBAR by Tony Kushner, Maurice Sendak, Michael di Capua October 2003 Hyperion MDC Books Over six decades ago, the opera Brundibar (Czech slang for bumblebee) was written. When the writer (Adolf Hoffmeister) was imprisoned by the Nazis in Terezin, the opera he and Hans Krasa wrote was smuggled into the camp. The children performed the opera; it kept their minds off the impending doom. The Nazis even filmed one of the 55 performances for a propaganda film, showing Terezin to be a model city for the Jews. Kushner and Sendak collaborated for over three years on this book, which recreates the opera in book form. At one point, Sendak even tore up all his drawings and started over. This is a masterpiece for children as well as adults. The prose is lyrical in tempo and style; the drawings are exquisite. The use of colored and Italian pencils evoke the crayons that the children of Terezin used (under the teaching direction of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, who was deported to Terezin in 1942, and then murdered at Auschwitz in 1944.) In the story, a brother and sister (Aninku and Pepicek) are sent by a doctor to the village's market square to fetch milk for their ill mother. Here they meet the milkman, the baker, and the ice cream maker. But without money, they can buy no milk. They spy Brundibar, a child-hating, loud, brash, mean, street musician, dressed in a Napoleon hat and old medal filled uniform. With him around, they can make no money singing to pay for the milk. But with the help of some talking animals and other children, they perform a lullaby and earn the needed funds to help their mother. Brundibar is defeated (When performed as an opera, the children and audience understood that Brundibar represented their jailers.) Adults will note the added last page, in which Brundibar writes a final note. Bullies and Brundibar vow to return one day. The note is written on the replica of a crumbled invitation, the actual party invitation that the Nazis used to invite dignitaries and Red Cross officials in 1944 to the actual performances. It is replete with a dancing man who wears a Jewish star on his costume (who is recreated in the role of the doctor). Click the book cover above to read more. Pictured above are: The book cover; A drawing of the milkman; Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak sign a copy of Brundibar for MyJewishBooks.com, which we will use for a contest prize; Ela Stein Weissberger shows her Jewish star which she war at Terezin, where she was imprisoned, and where she performed the role of the "cat" in Brundibar. Ela was saved by a farmer, who hired her from Terezin' kommandant to work in the fields. Only 4 of the 64 members of her family survived the war. ![[book]](http://www.sefersafari.com/1580231837.jpg)
I AM JEWISHREFLECTIONS INSPIRED BY THE WORDS OF DANIEL PEARL Edited By Ruth and Judea Pearl January 2004. Jewish Lights. Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's last words were, "I am Jewish." Famous Jews reflect on these words in these very personal essays. With contributions from Bronfman, Dershowitz, Kitty Dukakis, Thomas Friedman, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senator Lieberman, Peres, Rabbis Sasso and Schulweis, Wiesel, and dozens more. Click the book cover above to read more. ![[book]](http://www.sefersafari.com/0312326998.jpg)
THE TROUBLE WITH ISLAM A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji January 2004. St. Martin's Press. In blunt, provocative, and deeply personal terms, Irshad Manji unearths the troubling cornerstones of mainstream Islam today: tribal insularity, deep-seated anti-Semitism, and an uncritical acceptance of the Koran as the final, and therefore superior, manifesto of God. In this open letter to Muslims and non-Muslims alike, Manji asks arresting questions. "Who is the real colonizer of Muslims - America or Arabia? Why are we all being held hostage by what's happening between the Palestinians and the Israelis? Why are we squandering the talents of women, fully half of God's creation? What's our excuse for reading the Koran literally when it's so contradictory and ambiguous? Is that a heart attack you're having? Make it fast. Because if more of us don't speak out against the imperialists within Islam, these guys will walk away with the show. Click the book cover above to read more. ![[book]](http://www.sefersafari.com/0312318383.jpg)
The Two Americas Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It by Stanley B. Greenberg January 2004, Thomas Dunne Books Co You Want to Be Viewed as a Genius at your synagogue men's club, minyan, or sisterhood event? Do you want to know why certain candidates lost the primaries and others won. THEN READ THIS BOOK THIS IS THE PLAYBOOK of the DNC. PW writes: " Pollster Greenberg (ed: Democracy Corps, with partner James Carville), who was part of Bill Clinton's victorious "war room" team during the 1992 presidential campaign, is dissatisfied with the country's political split down the middle and has ideas for how to break the Democratic/Republican impasse. He considers the last, embattled presidential election "just the current moment in an era of political deadlock" stretching back to the Eisenhower administration, a half-century in which the two parties have traded power back and forth unable to form a lasting dynasty. The 2004 election, he says, promises to be just as competitive. Analyzing each party's potential, Greenberg breaks down their loyalists into identifiable factions, like "F-You Boys" (Deep Southern white male blue-collar workers who "think President George W. Bush is their guy") and "Super-Educated Women" (Democratic loyalists though their husbands, "Privileged Men," are Republicans), Then Greenberg closely examines three regional blocs that may be up for grabs: he calls them Tampa Blue, Seattle's Eastside Tech and Heartland Iowa. In the second half of the book, he imagines how party leaders might plan to keep or retake the White House. His analysis of the GOP's strategy to present Bush as the carefully scrubbed "Reagan's Son" seems dead-on. Several possible strategies are described for Democrats, but his clear preference is for putting a 21st-century spin on the values and agenda of the Kennedy-Johnson era, with such talking points as universal health care and education, tax reform, even a new "Apollo project" to tackle energy security and global warming. Intricate strategic analysis and close attention to a wavering electorate make this political handbook stand out from the pack." Click the book cover above to read more. ![[book cover]](http://www.sefersafari.com/israeleminem.jpg)
Although this is not a book, it is an important read for anyone in institutional Judaism. It is a creative brief on how to communicate to younger American Jews. Click the report cover to read the report for free.
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LOST TRIBE JEWISH FICTION FROM THE EDGE Edited by PAUL ZAKRZEWSKI (pronounced Zak-shef-ski) August 2003. Harperperennial. A collection of writings from 25 great new funny, dark, raw writers, including Nathan Englander ("The Last One Way"), Ellen Miller ("In Memory of Chanveasna Chan, Who Is Still Alive", a dark satire on the persecution image), Myla Goldberg, Jonathan Safran Foer, Steve Almond, Dara Horn, Jon Papernick, Aimee Bender, Rachel Kadish, Nelly Reifler (Julian, a sexual coming of age story), Gabriel Brownstein, Gloria Kirchheimer, Ben Schrank, Judy Budnitz, Binnie Kirshenbaum ("Who Knows Kaddish") Suzan Sherman, Joan Leegant, Gary Shteyngart ("Several Anecdotes About My Wife"), Michael Lowenthal, Aryeh Lev Stollman, Ellen Umansky, Ehud Havazelet, Tova Mirvis, Simone Zelitch, and Peter Orner. Issues are flirted with (sex, intolerance, the Holocaust's legacy). Call them the "post Roth" generation. Just as Philip Roth unleashed his irreverent wit in "Portnoy's Complaint" to depict the shortcomings of his 1950s urban Jewish upbringing, these writers flirt with controversial topics-such as sex, materialism, religious intolerance, and the contentious legacy of the Holocaust-to create a stirring mirror of Jewish life today. With their evocative storytelling abilities, exquisite attention to language, and profound compassion for the complex lives of their characters, these 25 authors are creating an exciting new direction for contemporary Jewish fiction. Click to read more. Our bestsellers in the past month: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. by Al Franken (sold over 1,030,000 copies in 2003) Down and Dirty Pictures : Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film by Peter Biskind A Death in Vienna by Daniel Silva The Coffee Trader by David Liss The Red Tent by Anita Diamant The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz The Oxford Jewish Study Bible. Edited by Adele Berlin, Marc Zvi Brettler and Michael Fishbane In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington by Robert Rubin The Human Stain by Philip Roth Brundibar by Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak Madam Secretary by Madeleine Albright Clinton & Me: A Real Life Political Comedy by Mark Katz The Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle Absolutely American. Four Years at West Point by David Lipsky The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (sold 454,000 copies in 2003) The Lord Is My Shepherd: The Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-Third Psalm by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume 1. Translated by Daniel C. Matt Abraham : A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren Fallingwater Rising : Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House by Franklin Toker Diaspora: Homelands in Exile (2 Volume Set) by Frederic Brenner The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children by Wendy Mogel And the Dead Shall Rise : The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank by Steve Oney The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII. by John Cornwell Who Killed Daniel Pearl? by Bernard Henri Levy The Eve of Destruction : The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War by Howard Blum The Jericho Sanction: A Novel by Oliver North, Joe Musser (sold 112,000 copies in 2003) Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars by Yaacov Lozowick Hatred's Kingdom. How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism by Dore Gold Arafat's War: The Man and His Battle for Israeli Conquest by Efraim Karsh The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume 2. Translated by Daniel C. Matt Killing the Buddha : A Heretic's Bible by Jeff Sharlet, Peter Manseau Unsettled: An Anthropology of the Jews by Melvin Konner The Last Jihad by Joel Rosenberg The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart Kosher by Design: Picture Perfect Food for the Holidays & Every Day by Susie Fishbein Rambam's Ladder: A Meditation on Generosity and Why It Is Necessary to Give by Julie Salamon There are Jews in My House. Stories by Lara Vapnyar Never Again? : The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism by Abraham Foxman Saul and Patsy : A Novel by Charles Baxter Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Saved 1,200 Jews and Built a Village in the Forest by Peter Duffy Everything is Illuminated. a Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer People ask me... "I am writing a Jewish children's book. Do they sell well?" It is impossible to answer that. But for the tape measure, note that in 2003, the latest Harry Potter book sold 12 million copies; Madonna's The English Roses sold 718,000 copies; Madonna's book on Mr Peabody's Apples (based on a Hassidic tale) sold 442,000 copies; and Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak's BRUNDIBAR sold 133,000 copies. ![[book]](http://www.sefersafari.com/kushnersendak.jpg)
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To the right, hundreds of nude people lied down and protested in New York City's Grand Central Station when if was announced that MyJewishBooks.com might be closed for a few hours. ![[Man is praying]](http://www.sefersafari.com/patrobertsonprays.jpg) This man reportedly is praying that you will buy and read an entertaining Jewish book. Please, don't let him down.Actually this is a pic of Pat Robertson, praying that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and others will resign from the court. But let's turn a negative into a positive, okay? He also recently (January 2004) reported that God spoke with him and told him that Bush will win with a landslide in 2004. But Gold spoke to me and told me that Robertson misunderstood him. God also told me that you should buy a Jewish book. ![[Segway Human Transporter]](http://www.sefersafari.com/segwayrabbi.jpg)
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TriangleThe Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle September 2003. Atlantic Monthly Press On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Firemen who arrived at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped inside: their ladders simply weren't tall enough. Desperate workers jumped to their death. The final toll was 146 people -- 123 of them women. The book follows the waves of Jewish and Italian immigration that inundated New York in the early years of the century, filling its slums and supplying its garment factories with cheap, mostly female labor. It portrays the Dickensian work conditions that led to a massive waist-worker's strike in which an unlikely coalition of socialists, socialites, and suffragettes took on bosses, police, and magistrates. Von Drehle shows how popular revulsion at the Triangle catastrophe led to an unprecedented alliance between idealistic labor reformers and the supremely pragmatic politicians of the corrupt Tammany Hall political machine. Click the book cover above to read more. ![[campbell soup 1]](http://www.sefersafari.com/campbellsoup1.jpg) ![[campbell soup 2]](http://www.sefersafari.com/campbellsoup2.jpg)
Campbell's Vegetarian Vegetable soup is now certified O-U kosher. Here is a test of your skills. In this picture, guess which of these men are employees of Campbell's and which are employed by the Orthodox Union. Hmmmm... Hmmmm... good, Hmmmm... good. Guess who is Jewish, hmmmm... good. Hint: Jeremy J. Fingerman is the President of Campbell's U.S. Soup Division. We wonder if he is the same Fingerman who was USY President in 1979, after David Marcu. We at MyJewishBooks.com also wonder if there is a minyan in Maxon, NC Congratulations to Aryeh Lev Stollman and Jonathan Safran Foer on receiving the 2003 Harold U. Ribalow Prize (Hadassah Magazine), for their novels, The Illuminated Soul, and Everything is Illuminated, respectively. Bruce Feiler scored hits with Walking the Bible, and Abraham. Both now in paperback. In April 2004, he wrote a cover story for PARADE Magazine on his trip to Ur /Iraq ? Babylon, In March 2004, Feiler signed for two more bible travel books. So watch our site in 2005 for his next publication. Hey, Bruce.. you know.. we at MyJewishBooks are available to ride shotgun. We travel well, we know the bible, we can juggle, speak Japanese, and we don't eat much. ![[paperback]](http://www.sefersafari.com/0380977761.jpg)
ABRAHAM A JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF THREE FAITHS by BRUCE FEILER September 2002. Morrow. From the author of WALKING THE BIBLE (which has sold 250,000 copies). Feiler, who has written on his lives in Japan, the circus, England, and the Middle East, returns to Israel from Manhattan and explores the history and lore from the three faiths surrounding the patriarch of ABRAHAM, in order to know his legacy and his appeal. Is it any surprise? Feiler's mother's maiden name means "House of Abraham", and the Bar Mitzvah parshat of both Feiler and his brother was "Lech Lecha", in which Abraham is told by god to "go forth" and be himself. The Akkedah story is read at both Rosh Hashana as well as Eid al-Adha And obviously a father sacrificing his son (Isaac) is manifest in Christian liturgy as well. Feiler explores how the three monotheistic faiths invented stories around Abraham to reinforce their worldviews and to reflect their times, and then started to swap stories among themselves. This is not only informative, but quite fun to read. Feiler was planning to write about the Bible, but after September 11, 2001, he decided to focus on Abraham, the spiritual father of the Western monotheistic religions as a response to those who seek to divide them. He traveled to Israel in the Fall of 2001 and Hebron in December 2001 to complete the book. Will the three faiths one day embrace Abraham's spirit? Click to read more. ![[book]](http://www.sefersafari.com/1580231330.jpg)
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THE WOMEN'S HAFATARAH COMMENTARYNew Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Haftarah Portions, the 5 Megillot and Special Shabbatot. Edited By Rabbi Elyse Goldstein September 2003. Jewish Lights. I fell in love with the Women's TORAH Commentary. An instant classic and must have. And now this, for the first time, women's unique perspectives and experiences are applied to the weekly portions and special readings. Includes feminist interpretations of the stories of Yael and Devorah, David and Goliath, David and Batsheva, Jonah and the fish (and female fish), Jerusalem as female, the motif of the whore, and the Witch of Endor. Contributors include: Judith Z. Abrams Analia Bortz Sharon Brous Sue Levi Elwell Susan P. Fendrick Karen L. Fox Shoshana Boyd Gelfand Laura Geller Rachel Sabath-Beit Halachmi Jill Hammer Karyn D. Kedar Valerie Lieber Sheryl Nosan-Blank Debra Orenstein Barbara Rosman Penzner Hara E. Person Geela Rayzel Raphael Laura M. Rappaport Ilene Schneider Rona Shapiro Shira Stern Pamela Wax Nancy Wechsler-Azen. Click the book cover above to read more. HEY.. NOW YOUR CAN SEARCH OUR SITE, INSTEAD OF JUST SEARCHING AMAZON. TRY IT OUT... Drop us a line or post a comment to our Jewish Books and Films Message Board and let us know what you're reading or seeing. ![[Gershon chaim_yankle_chen of yahoo]](http://www.sefersafari.com/georgechen.jpg) Rebbe Gershon Chaim Yankle Chen says, "Beryl, Peryl, and Schmeryl were planning to move to America and change their names. Beryl said he would change his named from Beryl to Buck. Peryl said he would change his to Puck. And Schmeryl.. well Schmeryl said, "Ich for nit kin America." (I am not moving to America)
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YIDDISH RADIO PROJECT Edited by David Isay and Henry Sapoznik As heard on National Public Radio March 2002. I worship at the feet of KlezKampper Henry Sapoznik and sound archivist David Isay. What Aaron did for Yiddish books at Amherst, they have done for Yiddish sounds. After hearing snippets of this work in progress a couple of years ago at the Eldridge Street synagogue, I am happy that this CD is out. TV, assimilation, and cultural changes killed off Yiddish radio and Yiddish stereotypical characters in the 1950s. This CD resurrects snippets of Yiddish radio shows, swing, klezmer, product commercials, and personalities from restored FCC "acetates." Amazon writes that "For most, Music from the Yiddish Radio Project will be an endearing and enlightening history lesson, but for many others, it will be a bittersweet nostalgic journey through a time that remains so vivid in memories, yet feels like 1,000 years ago." Click the album cover to read the play list and purchase the CD. ![[book]](http://www.sefersafari.com/B00006640B.jpg)
FROM AVENUE A To The Great White Way 1914-1950 [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] Yiddish and American Popular Songs from 1914 - 1950. SONY (COLUMBIA) and Legacy Recordings (legacyrecordings.com) Various Artists, including Molly Picon, Al Jolson, Gene Krupa, Sophie Tucker, Irving Berlin, Abe Schwartz, and cantor Yossele Rosenblatt. Summer 2002. Darn that pernicious Jewish influence in American music. (hehe) If there was a Grammy for this category, Henry Sapoznik and his posse would receive it without question. The CD art looks like an old Columbia 78 RPM. The 14 page liner notes are very good; they include photos of the most famous singers, and a picture of "vaudeville" in Yiddish characters and a line outside The Grand Theater's "King Lear." They exclude the lyrics. After listening to the first CD three times, I was ready to move on to the second CD. Is this Himmel? You bet! Let's not forget that the Yiddish Theater of Manhattan's Second Avenue had Shakespeare and musicals while Broadway was in the dark ages of entertainment, awaiting O'Neill. Sapoznik has compiled 50 pieces from newly found vaulted stampers, including: a very sexy English and French piece by Al Jolson (Hooray Baby and Me); Julien Rose's Chicken story; a previously unissued version of "Mischa Yascha Toscha Sascha" (1933) by the Funnyboners (Gershwins and others) with apologies to Jack Benny; "Roumania Roumania" by Aaron Lebedeff (1941); "Bei Mir Bis Du Schon" by Belie Baker (1937); and "What Am I Gonna Do?" (1914) by Irving Berlin (never released before). Yoselle Rosenblatt is the soloist in "V'Hakohanim" (1916); and Molly Picon sings "Ihr Megt Gleybn Oder Neyn" in a previously unissued performance from 1933. "Yes, Sir, Zi Iz May Kale (Yes Sire She's My Bride/Baby)" is sung by Peisachke Burstein (1925). Eddie Cantor sings "Palesteena" (1920), and one wonders if there are some hidden meanings in the words. Abe Schwartz appears with his 1918 "Der Shtiller Bulgar," a current standard of every klezmer group. "Yosel," a Yiddish standard, is performed by Nellie Casman in Yiddish (1923). The same song is reprised in 1938 in "Joseph, Joseph" by Trombonist Russ Morgan and Orchestra, sung in English by Carolyn Clarke. Amazing! "Since Henry Ford Apologized To Me" by the Happiness Boys (1927) is an amazing find; the satirical song reacts to Ford and his Dearborn Press' virulent anti-Semitism. The "Yiddisha Charleston" also includes a jab at Henry Ford. Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra (in pre-Charo 1950) perform "The Wedding Samba" so well with Abbe Lane that you might as well be in Miami Beach while listening to it. Both Benny Goodman and his break-away drummer, Gene Krupa, appear in the final two cuts. But by far, my favorite cut, worth the purchase, hands down is "Whoopee" by Peisachke Burstein. Impossible to get out of one's head after one listen. Click the album cover to read the play list and purchase the CD. ![[Is It Safe. The Marathon Man]](http://www.sefersafari.com/isitsafe.jpg) Is it safe to read a Jewish Book? You bet it is. ![[president bill clinton in israel]](http://www.sefersafari.com/billinisrael.jpg)
Former President Bill Clinton visited Israel in January 2002, and dropped by a Jewish Book fair to discuss literature. Here he is pictured with Orit Moshe (FM-SitRm); Dana Zevulun (FM-Arms), Michal Shirazi (FM), Vered Shimoni (FM) and Irith Schneor (FM). Not pictured is Ofrah Sofaer. ![[book]](http://www.sefersafari.com/1559276452.jpg)
THE RED TENT IS NOW ON AUDIO THE RED TENT [ABRIDGED] by Anita Diamant. Audio Cassette Abridged edition Abridged (November 2000). THE BEST SELLING JEWISH BOOK OF 1999 AND 2000 IS NOW ON AUDIO. CLICK THE ICON TO READ OVER 170 REVIEWS OF IT. It is a top selection of so many Jewish book reading groups (maybe because Mickey Perlman loved it, and the publisher sent a free copy to 500 Reform Rabbis, and 300 female Ministers). Rabbi Laurie Katz Braun has written a study guide for this book (click here to read it). Click here to post or read or reply to a message or comment on our Jewish Books and Films Message Board .
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