29 Best Judaism Books
Judaism is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Judaism audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Judaism audiobooks below.
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The Kabbalah of Light
- By: Catherine Shainberg
- Narrator: Jayne Entwistle
- Length: 13 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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5(4 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD* Shares 159 short exercises and practices to tap instantly into your subconscious mind and receive answers to your most important questions * Explains how to dialogue with and understand the imagery and metaphors that arise during these practices ** Shares 159 short exercises and practices to tap instantly into your subconscious mind and receive answers to your most important questions
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* Explains how to dialogue with and understand the imagery and metaphors that arise during these practices
* Offers powerful practices to discover your areas of “stuckness” and quickly clear them, thus releasing past traumas and ancestral patterns and freeing the flow of the imagination for enhanced creativity and joy in life
In this step-by-step guide to kabbalistic practices to connect with your natural inner genius and liberate the light within you, Catherine Shainberg reveals how to tap instantly into the subconscious and receive answers to urgent questions. This method, called the Kabbalah of Light, originated with Rabbi Isaac the Blind of Posquieres (1160-1235) and has been passed down by an ancient kabbalistic family, the Sheshet of Gerona, in an unbroken transmission spanning more than 800 years.
The modern lineage holder of the Kabbalah of Light, Shainberg shares 159 short experiential exercises and practices to help you begin dialoguing with your subconscious through images. The images that pop up during these practices are unexpected and revelatory, and she discusses how to open them to greater understanding. At first, they may show you aspects of yourself you don’t like. But seeing them serves as both a diagnosis and a direct path to transformation. Fast and simple, the practices can help you discover your areas of “stuckness,” release past traumas and ancestral patterns, free the imagination, and open the way to the bliss promised us in the Garden of Eden.
Beginning this fertile dialogue with your inner world leads you to uncover your soul’s purpose and manifest your dreams in this world. Once your inner dream world and outer reality have merged, you will be able to see your superconscious–your soul’s blueprint–and experience the ecstatic illumination of a heart-centered life. -
Never Alone
- By: Natan Sharansky
- Narrator: Natan Sharansky
- Length: 22 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 08, 2020
- Language: English
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4.66(71 ratings)
4.66(71 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.98 USDA classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belongingIn 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration, was arrested by the KGB. He spentA classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belongingIn 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration, was arrested by the KGB. He spent nine years as a political prisoner, convicted of treason against the state. Every day, Sharansky fought for individual freedom in the face of overt tyranny, a struggle that would come to define the rest of his life.Never Alone reveals how Sharansky’s years in prison, many spent in harsh solitary confinement, prepared him for a very public life after his release. As an Israeli politician and the head of the Jewish Agency, Sharansky brought extraordinary moral clarity and uncompromising, often uncomfortable, honesty. His story is suffused with reflections from his time as a political prisoner, from his seat at the table as history unfolded in Israel and the Middle East, and from his passionate efforts to unite the Jewish people.Written with frankness, affection, and humor, the book offers us profound insights from a man who embraced the essential human struggle: to find his own voice, his own faith, and the people to whom he could belong.... Read more -
Witness
- By: Ariel Burger
- Narrator: Jason Culp
- Length: 8 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.5(708 ratings)
4.5(708 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIn the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protege and friend of one of the world’s great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as anIn the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protege and friend of one of the world’s great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as an extraordinary human being, but as a master teacher.
The world remembers Elie Wiesel–Nobel laureate, activist, and author of more than forty books, including Oprah’s Book Club selection Night–as a great humanist. He passed away in July 2016.
Ariel Burger first met Elie Wiesel at age fifteen. They studied together and taught together. Witness chronicles the intimate conversations between these two men over decades, as Burger sought counsel on matters of intellect, spirituality, and faith, while navigating his own personal journey from boyhood to manhood, from student and assistant to rabbi and, in time, teacher.
In this profoundly hopeful, thought-provoking, and inspiring book, Burger takes us into Elie Wiesel’s classroom, where the art of listening and storytelling conspire to keep memory alive. As Wiesel’s teaching assistant, Burger gives us a front-row seat witnessing these remarkable exchanges in and out of the classroom. The act of listening, of sharing these stories, makes of us, the listeners, witnesses.
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Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus
- By: Ann Spangler
- Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: January 05, 2010
- Language: English
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4.42(1666 ratings)
4.42(1666 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDHave you ever wondered what it would be like to journey back to the first century and sit at the feet of Rabbi Jesus as one of his Jewish disciples? Join Ann Spangler and Lois Tverberg as they share a rare opportunity to know Jesus as his firstHave you ever wondered what it would be like to journey back to the first century and sit at the feet of Rabbi Jesus as one of his Jewish disciples? Join Ann Spangler and Lois Tverberg as they share a rare opportunity to know Jesus as his first disciples did.
Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus¬†takes you on a fascinating tour of the Jewish world of Jesus, offering inspirational insights that can transform your faith. Spangler and Tverberg paint powerful scenes from Jesus’ ministry, immersing you in the prayers, feasts, history, culture, and customs that shaped Jesus and those who followed him.
Within the pages of Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus, you’ll:
- Hear the parables as they must have sounded to first-century Jews
- See the events of Jesus’ life in a brand new light
- Experience new excitement about the roots of your Christian faith
- Learn how the customs, beliefs, and traditions of the Jewish culture can shift the way you view the gospel
 
This expanded edition also includes a discussion guide for both individuals and groups, and instructions for a simple home Passover Seder celebration.
Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus will change the way you read Scripture and deepen your understanding of the life of Jesus, helping you to adapt the rich prayers and customs and integrate them into your daily life.
Praise for Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus:
“Drawing upon personal experiences as well as the latest Jewish and Christian scholarship in Israel, the authors skillfully guide you on a wonderful journey into Jesus’ first-century Jewish world–exploring his culture, his lifestyle as an itinerant sage, and his well-honed rabbinic teaching methods and subtle but startling messianic claims. This book makes you really eager to sit at the feet of Rabbi Jesus and learn from the One we joyously serve as both Messiah and Lord. I commend it to every follower of Jesus of Nazareth.”
–Dwight A. Pryor, Center for Judaic-Christian Studies
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The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford
- By: Lon Milo DuQuette
- Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
- Publish date: December 15, 2020
- Language: English
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4.39(1152 ratings)
4.39(1152 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDTraditional Qabalistic sources (or Cabalistic, or, indeed, Kabbalistic–listen to this book to find out what the difference is…we know you’ve always wondered!) tend to be a bit, er, dry. Lon Milo DuQuette spices up the Qabalah andTraditional Qabalistic sources (or Cabalistic, or, indeed, Kabbalistic–listen to this book to find out what the difference is…we know you’ve always wondered!) tend to be a bit, er, dry. Lon Milo DuQuette spices up the Qabalah and makes it come alive, restoring the joy of learning the fundamentals of this admittedly arcane system by using simple, amusing anecdotes and metaphors. This account, written psuedepigraphically (fictitiously attributed to a supposed authority), allows DuQuette as Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford to soar to outrageous heights and, when necessary, stand apart from the silliness to highlight the golden eggs of Qabalistic wisdom nested therein. Sure to be a revelation to those who think that learning about the Qabalah needs to be tedious and serious, The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford shows that great truths can be transmitted through the medium of laughter.
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The Boy on the Wooden Box
- By: Leon Leyson
- Narrator: Danny Burstein
- Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4.38(15913 ratings)
4.38(15913 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.95 USD“Much like The Boy In the Striped Pajamas or The Book Thief,” this remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler’s list, “brings to readers a story of bravery and“Much like The Boy In the Striped Pajamas or The Book Thief,” this remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler’s list, “brings to readers a story of bravery and the fight for a chance to live” (VOYA).
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This, the only memoir published by a former Schindler’s list child, perfectly captures the innocence of a small boy who goes through the unthinkable. Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance, and grit, Leyson was able to survive the sadism of the Nazis, including that of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow.
Ultimately, it was the generosity and cunning of one man, Oskar Schindler, who saved Leon Leyson’s life, and the lives of his mother, his father, and two of his four siblings, by adding their names to his list of workers in his factory–a list that became world renowned: Schindler’s list.
Told with an abundance of dignity and a remarkable lack of rancor and venom, The Boy on the Wooden Box is a legacy of hope, a memoir unlike anything you’ve ever read. -
Rebbe
- By: Joseph Telushkin
- Narrator: Rich Topol
- Length: 18 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Harper Wave
- Publish date: June 19, 2015
- Language: English
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4.35(682 ratings)
4.35(682 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.005.99 USD“One of the greatest religious biographies ever written.” – Dennis Prager In this enlightening biography, Joseph Telushkin offers a captivating portrait of the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a towering figure who saw beyond“One of the greatest religious biographies ever written.” – Dennis Prager
In this enlightening biography, Joseph Telushkin offers a captivating portrait of the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a towering figure who saw beyond conventional boundaries to turn his movement, Chabad-Lubavitch, into one of the most dynamic and widespread organizations ever seen in the Jewish world. At once an incisive work of history and a compendium of Rabbi Schneerson’s teachings, Rebbe is the definitive guide to understanding one of the most vital, intriguing figures of the last centuries.
From his modest headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the Rebbe advised some of the world’s greatest leaders and shaped matters of state and society. Statesmen and artists as diverse as Ronald Reagan, Robert F. Kennedy, Yitzchak Rabin, Menachem Begin, Elie Wiesel, and Bob Dylan span the spectrum of those who sought his counsel. Rebbe explores Schneerson’s overarching philosophies against the backdrop of treacherous history, revealing his clandestine operations to rescue and sustain Jews in the Soviet Union, and his critical role in the expansion of the food stamp program throughout the United States. More broadly, it examines how he became in effect an ambassador for Jews globally, and how he came to be viewed by many as not only a spiritual archetype but a savior. Telushkin also delves deep into the more controversial aspects of the Rebbe’s leadership, analyzing his views on modern science and territorial compromise in Israel, and how in the last years of his life, many of his followers believed that he would soon be revealed as the Messiah, a source of contention until this day.
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Morality
- By: Jonathan Sacks
- Narrator: Jonathan Sacks
- Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.35(706 ratings)
4.35(706 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDA distinguished religious leader’s stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values. With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on theA distinguished religious leader’s stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values.
With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on the rise, many fear what the future holds.
In Morality, respected faith leader and public intellectual Jonathan Sacks traces today’s crisis to our loss of a strong, shared moral code and our elevation of self-interest over the common good. We have outsourced morality to the market and the state, but neither is capable of showing us how to live. Sacks leads readers from ancient Greece to the Enlightenment to the present day to show that there is no liberty without morality and no freedom without responsibility, arguing that we all must play our part in rebuilding a common moral foundation.
A major work of moral philosophy, Morality is an inspiring vision of a world in which we can all find our place and face the future without fear.
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Reclaiming Our Forgotten Heritage
- By: Curt Landry
- Narrator: Curt Landry
- Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: January 15, 2019
- Language: English
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4.34(46 ratings)
4.34(46 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USD“A timely and groundbreaking take on the roots of the Christian church and its place in the entirety of God’s kingdom. . . . There is no better time than now to learn about and become firmly grounded within your spiritual“A timely and groundbreaking take on the roots of the Christian church and its place in the entirety of God’s kingdom. . . . There is no better time than now to learn about and become firmly grounded within your spiritual heritage.” –from the foreword by Perry Stone
The early church was made up of Jewish and Gentile followers of Jesus, and the church’s culture was rooted in Judaism and a Jewish understanding of God’s relationship to His people. Over time, however, Christianity became increasingly more Roman than Jewish, and the church lost its identity.
Rabbi Curt Landry’s personal story is remarkably similar. Born to a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, Landry was put up for adoption, and for more than thirty years he had no understanding of his heritage, his roots, or who his parents were. But when he discovered the truth of his story, his life changed completely.
The key to a life of power and purpose is understanding who you are. In this revelatory book, Curt Landry helps Christians discover their roots in Judaism, empowering them to walk in the revelation of who they really are and who they are born to be. Reclaiming Our Forgotten Heritage reveals the mysteries of the church, letting Christians grasp the power that comes from connecting with their true identity.
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God Is Here
- By: Toba Spitzer
- Narrator: Angie Kane
- Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 08, 2022
- Language: English
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4.23(97 ratings)
4.23(97 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDMost of us are hungry for a system of meaning to make sense of our lives, yet traditional religion too often leaves those seeking spiritual sustenance unsatisfied. Rabbi Toba Spitzer understands this problem firsthand and knows that too often it isMost of us are hungry for a system of meaning to make sense of our lives, yet traditional religion too often leaves those seeking spiritual sustenance unsatisfied. Rabbi Toba Spitzer understands this problem firsthand and knows that too often it is traditional ideas of the deity?he’s too big, too impersonal, and too unbelievable?that get in the way. In God Is Here, Spitzer argues that whether we believe in God or fervently disbelieve, what we are actually disagreeing about is not God at all but a metaphor of a Big Powerful Person that limits our understanding and our spiritual lives. Going back to the earliest sources for Judaism as well as Christianity, Spitzer discovers in the Hebrew Bible a rich and varied palette of metaphors for the divine?including Water, Voice, Fire, Rock, Cloud, and even the process of Becoming. She addresses how we can access these ancient metaphors, as well as those drawn from rabbinic tradition and modern science, to experience holiness in our daily lives and to guide us in challenging times. Each chapter contains insights from the Bible and teachings from Judaism and other spiritual traditions, accompanied by suggestions for practice to bring alive each of the God metaphors. Rabbi Toba Spitzer has helped many people satisfy their spiritual hunger. With God Is Here, she will inspire you to find new and perhaps surprising ways of encountering the divine, right where you are.
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Have a Little Faith
- By: Mitch Albom
- Narrator: Mitch Albom
- Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 29, 2009
- Language: English
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4.18(76225 ratings)
4.18(76225 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.99 USDWhat if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together? In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds — two men, two faiths, two communitiesWhat if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together?
In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds — two men, two faiths, two communities — that will inspire readers everywhere. Albom’s first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom’s old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.
Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he’d left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor — a reformed drug dealer and convict — who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof.
Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner-city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.
As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; intermarriage; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. Although the texts, prayers, and histories are different, Albom begins to recognize a striking unity between the two worlds — and indeed, between beliefs everywhere. In the end, as the rabbi nears death and a harsh winter threatens the pastor’s wobbly church, Albom sadly fulfills the rabbi’s last request and writes the eulogy. And he finally understands what both men had been teaching all along: the profound comfort of believing in something bigger than yourself.
Have a Little Faith is a book about a life’s purpose; about losing belief and finding it again; about the divine spark inside us all. It is one man’s journey, but it is everyone’s story.
Ten percent of the profits from this book will go to charity, including The Hole In The Roof Foundation, which helps refurbish places of worship that aid the homeless.
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The Blessing of a Skinned Knee
- By: Wendy Mogel
- Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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4.16(3534 ratings)
4.16(3534 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDIn the trenches of a typical day, every parent encounters a child afflicted with ingratitude and entitlement. In a world where material abundance abounds, parents want so badly to raise self-disciplined, appreciative, and resourceful children whoIn the trenches of a typical day, every parent encounters a child afflicted with ingratitude and entitlement. In a world where material abundance abounds, parents want so badly to raise self-disciplined, appreciative, and resourceful children who are not spoiled by the plentitude around them. But how to accomplish this feat? The answer has eluded the best-intentioned mothers and fathers who overprotect, overindulge, and overschedule their children’s lives.
Dr. Mogel helps parents learn how to turn their children’s worst traits into their greatest attributes. Starting with stories of everyday parenting problems and examining them through the lens of the Torah, the Talmud, and important Jewish teachings, The Blessing of a Skinned Knee shows parents how to teach children to honor their parents and to respect others, escape the danger of overvaluing children’s need for self-expression so that their kids don’t become “little attorneys,” accept that their children are both ordinary and unique, and treasure the power and holiness of the present moment.
It is Mogel’s singular achievement that she makes these teachings relevant for any era and any household of any faith. A unique parenting book, designed for use both in the home and in parenting classes, The Blessing of a Skinned Knee is both inspiring and effective in the day-to-day challenge of raising self-reliant children.
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First the Jews
- By: Evan Moffic
- Narrator: Donald Corren
- Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.14(32 ratings)
4.14(32 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USD“All Jews must die.” Robert Bowers screamed these words as he walked into a Temple and murdered eleven people. Where does this hate come from? Why is it rising again in America? What do we need to do to stop it? Prepare to be stunned,“All Jews must die.”
Robert Bowers screamed these words as he walked into a Temple and murdered eleven people.
Where does this hate come from? Why is it rising again in America? What do we need to do to stop it?
Prepare to be stunned, shocked, and illuminated as Rabbi Evan Moffic answers these questions. He reveals why the world’s oldest hatred–once thought to be over after the Holocaust–keeps coming back to life. This book gives the clearest and most concise explanation of where antisemitism comes from, why it continues, and how to stop its resurgence today.
Interwoven is Moffic’s personal story as a rabbi who led his community in responding to antisemitic attacks and working with Christian leaders to stand up to them. He answers the age-old charge that Jews killed Jesus and that Jews still dominate the media and Hollywood. In the end, you will discover the path to moving beyond old ways of thinking. You will enter into the redemptive story of overcoming the extremism and hatred spreading across our world today.
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Jews, God, and History
- By: Max I. Dimont
- Narrator: Anna Fields
- Length: 17 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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4.11(884 ratings)
4.11(884 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.95 USDVitality floods its pages. Philosophers and kings, warriors and merchants, poets and financiers come alive as the story ranges across time and the globe. From ancient Palestine through Europe and the Orient, to America and modern Israel, Max DimontVitality floods its pages. Philosophers and kings, warriors and merchants, poets and financiers come alive as the story ranges across time and the globe. From ancient Palestine through Europe and the Orient, to America and modern Israel, Max Dimont shows how the saga of the Jews is interwoven with the history of virtually every nation on earth.
Brilliantly narrated in a thousand and one episodes, this newly revised and updated edition tells the story of a people escaping annihilation and cultural death, fighting, falling back, advancing. Infused with an almost miraculous life force, they have survived the death of civilizations and have triumphantly contributed to man’s spiritual and intellectual heritage for some four thousand years.
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The Bible With and Without Jesus
- By: Amy-Jill Levine
- Narrator: Marni Penning
- Length: 14 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 27, 2020
- Language: English
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4.09(270 ratings)
4.09(270 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDThe editors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament show how and why Jews and Christians read many of the same Biblical texts – including passages from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Psalms – differently. Exploring and explainingThe editors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament show how and why Jews and Christians read many of the same Biblical texts – including passages from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Psalms – differently. Exploring and explaining these diverse perspectives, they reveal more clearly Scripture’s beauty and power.
Esteemed Bible scholars and teachers Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler take readers on a guided tour of the most popular Hebrew Bible passages quoted in the New Testament to show what the texts meant in their original contexts and then how Jews and Christians, over time, understood those same texts. Passages include the creation of the world, the role of Adam and Eve, the Suffering Servant of Isiah, the book of Jonah, and Psalm 22, whose words, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me,” Jesus quotes as he dies on the cross.Comparing various interpretations – historical, literary, and theological – of each ancient text, Levine and Brettler offer deeper understandings of the original narratives and their many afterlives. They show how the text speaks to different generations under changed circumstances, and so illuminate the Bible’s ongoing significance. By understanding the depth and variety by which these passages have been, and can be, understood, The Bible With and Without Jesus does more than enhance our religious understandings, it helps us to see the Bible as a source of inspiration for any and all readers.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Becoming Eve
- By: Abby Stein
- Narrator: Abby Stein
- Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 14, 2020
- Language: English
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4.09(1707 ratings)
4.09(1707 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDThe powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a womanAbby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the lawsThe powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a woman... Read more
Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a dynastic rabbinical family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews.But Abby felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. She suppressed her desire for a new body while looking for answers wherever she could find them, from forbidden religious texts to smuggled secular examinations of faith. Finally, she orchestrated a personal exodus from ultra-Orthodox manhood to mainstream femininity-a radical choice that forced her to leave her home, her family, her way of life.
Powerful in the truths it reveals about biology, culture, faith, and identity, Becoming Eve poses the enduring question: How far will you go to become the person you were meant to be?
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Why the Jews?
- By: Dennis Prager
- Narrator: Traber Burns
- Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.07(491 ratings)
4.07(491 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIn this seminal work that has spent more than thirty years in print, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin explain the reasons behind anti-Semitism, the world’s preoccupation with the Jews and Israel, and why now more than ever the world needs toIn this seminal work that has spent more than thirty years in print, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin explain the reasons behind anti-Semitism, the world’s preoccupation with the Jews and Israel, and why now more than ever the world needs to confront anti-Jewish sentiment.
Why have Jews been the object of the most enduring and universal hatred in history? Why is the Jewish state the most hated country in the world today? Drawing on extensive historical research, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin reveal how Judaism’s distinctive conceptions of God, law, and peoplehood have rendered the Jews and the Jewish state outsiders and labeled them as threatening. But as Prager and Telushkin are quick to point out, anti-Semitism is not just another ethnic or racial prejudice and is not caused, as so many people falsely believe, by Jewish economic success or the need for scapegoats. Rather, anti-Semitism today, as in the past, is a reaction to Judaism and its distinctive values.
Prager and Telushkin examine in detail how anti-Semitism is a unique hatred–no other prejudice has been as universal, deep, or permanent–and how the concept of the “chosen people” spawned that hatred. They also explore the role of non-Jewish Jews, such as Karl Marx and Noam Chomsky, in provoking anti-Jewish animosity.
In Why the Jews?, Prager and Telushkin identify the seven major forms of anti-Semitism–pagan, Christian, Muslim, enlightenment, leftist, Nazi, and anti-Zionist–and explain why it is impossible in today’s world to be an anti-Zionist without being an antisemite.
With an eye on the larger picture, Prager and Telushkin express why anti-Semitism threatens more than just Jews and what kind of changes are necessary to achieve a world without hatred.
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The Exodus
- By: Richard Elliott Friedman
- Narrator: Richard Elliott Friedman
- Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.03(174 ratings)
4.03(174 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDBiblical scholars, Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, literary scholars, anthropologists, and filmmakers are drawn to the mystery of the exodus. Unable to find physical evidence until now, many archaeologists and scholars claim this massBiblical scholars, Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, literary scholars, anthropologists, and filmmakers are drawn to the mystery of the exodus. Unable to find physical evidence until now, many archaeologists and scholars claim this mass migration is just a story, not history. Others oppose this conclusion, defending the biblical account.
Like a detective on an intricate case no one has yet solved, pioneering Bible scholar and bestselling author of Who Wrote the Bible? Richard Elliott Friedman cuts through the noise–the serious studies and the wild theories–merging new findings with new insight. From a spectrum of disciplines, state-of-the-art archaeological breakthroughs, and fresh discoveries within scripture, he brings real evidence of a historical basis for the exodus–the history behind the story. The biblical account of millions fleeing Egypt may be an exaggeration, but the exodus itself is not a myth.
Friedman does not stop there. Known for his ability to make Bible scholarship accessible to readers, Friedman proceeds to reveal how much is at stake when we explore the historicity of the exodus. The implications, he writes, are monumental. We learn that it became the starting point of the formation of monotheism, the defining concept of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Moreover, we learn that it precipitated the foundational ethic of loving one’s neighbors–including strangers–as oneself. He concludes, the actual exodus was the cradle of global values of compassion and equal rights today.
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Genius & Anxiety
- By: Norman Lebrecht
- Narrator: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 18 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.03(221 ratings)
4.03(221 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDThis lively chronicle of the years 1847-1947–the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world–is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a peopleThis lively chronicle of the years 1847-1947–the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world–is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past” (The Wall Street Journal).
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In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the world. Many of them are well known–Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus, no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin, genetic science would look very different. Without Fritz Haber, there would not be enough food to sustain life on earth.
What do these visionaries have in common? They all had Jewish origins. They all had a gift for thinking in wholly original, even earth-shattering ways. In 1847, the Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the world’s population, and yet they saw what others could not. How? Why?
Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to pondering and researching the mindset of the Jewish intellectuals, writers, scientists, and thinkers who turned the tides of history and shaped the world today as we know it. In Genius & Anxiety, Lebrecht begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded. This robust, magnificent, beautifully designed volume is “an urgent and moving history” (The Spectator, UK) and a celebration of Jewish genius and contribution. -
If Not Now, When?
- By: Jack Jacobs
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4.02(121 ratings)
4.02(121 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDArmy First Lieutenant Jack Jacobs was serving as an advisor to the South Vietnamese when he and his men came under devastating attack. Severely wounded, Jacobs took command and withdrew the unit, returning again and again to the site of the attackArmy First Lieutenant Jack Jacobs was serving as an advisor to the South Vietnamese when he and his men came under devastating attack. Severely wounded, Jacobs took command and withdrew the unit, returning again and again to the site of the attack to rescue more men, saving the lives of a US advisor and thirteen Allied soldiers. Colonel Jacobs received the nation’s highest military award, the Medal of Honor.
Here, with candor, humor, and quiet modesty, Jack Jacobs tells his stirring story of heroism, honor, and the personal code by which he has lived his life. He expounds with blunt honesty and insight his views on our contemporary world and the nature and necessity of sacrifice.
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The Torah
- By: Rabbi Rodney Mariner
- Narrator: Marie Hoffman
- Length: 16 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 08, 2019
- Language: English
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4(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDThis early twentieth-century translation of the Hebrew Bible by the Jewish Publication Society brings to life the history of the Jewish people in a classical way. It includes the Hebrew texts as they actually appear in the Torah scroll and bears allThis early twentieth-century translation of the Hebrew Bible by the Jewish Publication Society brings to life the history of the Jewish people in a classical way. It includes the Hebrew texts as they actually appear in the Torah scroll and bears all the hallmarks of a classic work.
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Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- By: Frank Peters
- Narrator: Frank Peters
- Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 12, 2008
- Language: English
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4(8 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDIn everything that follows, “Bible” always means the Hebrew or Jewish Bible. The Christian Scriptures will always be called “New Testament” or “Gospels.” Judaism, Christianity and Islam should be thought of asIn everything that follows, “Bible” always means the Hebrew or Jewish Bible. The Christian Scriptures will always be called “New Testament” or “Gospels.” Judaism, Christianity and Islam should be thought of as three faith communities rather than as three “religions.” They are communities of believers, each with its own ideology, history (its ideology is often embedded in its history), its traditions, and, of course, its members, the great number of Jews, Christians and Muslims past and present. We cannot take much account of the members here, but they are the ones who are responsible for a good part of the ideology, history, and traditions. A distinction is sometimes made between history and sacred history. For all three groups, God is always somehow in charge of what happens to humans, but when God is thought to be more or less directly in charge, that is sacred history. The Bible, for example, is sacred history; what happened to the Jews afterwards is just plain history, where God appears to be (closely) observing events rather than directing them. But not in everyone’s eyes: there are still any number of Jews, Christians and Muslims who regard whatever happens, or will happen, as God’s doing, not man’s. If the Arabic term is a little unfamiliar, “Islam” means “submission” (to God, of course), and a “Muslim” is “one who has submitted.” The words are Arabic but not all Muslims are Arabs by a long shot, and great many Turks and Iranians and millions and millions of Indians and Indonesians will be upset if you insist that they are. Nor are all Arabs Muslims. Many Palestinian Arabs are Christians, for example. Christians too can be anything ethnic under the sun, and what the Jews are will emerge throughout this course. Finally, it’s easier to study these communities if the student attempts to maintain objectivity about each of the “others.”
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Twelve Tribes
- By: Ethan Michaeli
- Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 16, 2021
- Language: English
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3.96(63 ratings)
3.96(63 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDAn “illuminating” and “richly descriptive” (New York Times Book Review) portrait of contemporary Israel, revealing the diversity of this extraordinary yet volatile nation by weaving together personal histories of ordinaryAn “illuminating” and “richly descriptive” (New York Times Book Review) portrait of contemporary Israel, revealing the diversity of this extraordinary yet volatile nation by weaving together personal histories of ordinary citizens from all walks of life.
“In Twelve Tribes, Ethan Michaeli proves he is a master portraitist – of lives, places, and cultures. His rendering of contemporary Israel crackles with energy, fueled by a historian’s vision and a journalist’s unrelenting curiosity.” — Evan Osnos, New York Times bestselling author of Age of Ambition and Wildland
In 2015, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin warned that the country’s citizens were dividing into tribes: by class and ethnicity, by geography, and along lines of faith. In Twelve Tribes, award-winning author Ethan Michaeli portrays this increasingly fractured nation by intertwining interviews with Israelis of all tribes into a narrative of social and political change. Framed by Michaeli’s travels across the country over four years and his conversations with Israeli family, friends, and everyday citizens, Twelve Tribes illuminates the complex dynamics within the country, a collective drama with global consequences far beyond the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.
Readers will meet the aging revolutionaries who founded Israel’s kibbutz movement and the brilliant young people working for the country’s booming Big Tech companies. They will join thousands of ultra-Orthodox Haredim at a joyous memorial for a long-dead Romanian Rebbe in a suburb of Tel Aviv, and hear the life stories of Ethiopian Jews who were incarcerated and tortured in their homeland as “Prisoners of Zion” before they were able to escape to Israel. And they will be challenged, in turn, by portraits of Israeli Arabs navigating between the opportunities in a prosperous, democratic state and the discrimination they suffer as a vilified minority, as by interviews with both the Palestinians striving to build the institutions of a nascent state and the Israeli settlers seeking to establish a Jewish presence on the same land.
Immersive and enlightening, Twelve Tribes is a vivid depiction of a modern state contending with ancient tensions and dangerous global forces at this crucial historic moment. Through extensive research and access to all sectors of Israeli society, Michaeli reveals Israel to be a land of paradoxical intersections and unlikely cohabitation–a place where all of the world’s struggles meet, and a microcosm for the challenges faced by all nations today.
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Upon the Head of the Goat
- By: Aranka Siegal
- Narrator: Aranka Siegal
- Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 07, 2012
- Language: English
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3.95(1396 ratings)
3.95(1396 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDIn 1939, nine-year-old Piri is happy to spend her spring vacation at her grandmother Babi’s house in the Ukrainian countryside. There, Piri freely enjoys the meadows, rivers and wildflowers. In her busy household, Babi makes sure herIn 1939, nine-year-old Piri is happy to spend her spring vacation at her grandmother Babi’s house in the Ukrainian countryside. There, Piri freely enjoys the meadows, rivers and wildflowers. In her busy household, Babi makes sure her granddaughter continues to speak Yiddish and observe the Sabbath. But there is a darker side to this paradise. The Hungarian soldiers riding through the beautiful landscape are a threat not only to the Ukrainians but also to Jews. And when Piri returns to Hungary, she hears rumors of the ghettos. Gradually, the young girl realizes that the world she loves has changed forever. Aranka Siegal’s powerful story is drawn from her own life. She was a survivor of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. A Newbery Honor Book and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, Upon the Head of the Goat creates a personal view of the Holocaust that was mirrored in countless lives during that ominous time.
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The Exodus Revealed
- By: Nicholas Perrin
- Narrator: Allan Robertson
- Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 07, 2014
- Language: English
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3.88(29 ratings)
3.88(29 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.98 USDWhat really happened during Israel’s journey from slavery to the promised land? Bible scholar Nicholas Perrin explains the true story of the Exodus while adding helpful background information from biblical history, archaeology, and more. YouWhat really happened during Israel’s journey from slavery to the promised land? Bible scholar Nicholas Perrin explains the true story of the Exodus while adding helpful background information from biblical history, archaeology, and more. You will . . .
- Explore the unvarnished Bible story of the Exodus
- Learn about ancient Egypt and Pharaoh
- Come to know the man and the mission of Moses
- Find out why the Ten Commandments were given
- Discover God’s promise and plan for his people, then and now
- Appreciate why every New Testament writer builds on the Exodus
- See how the Exodus story relates to you, today
You will gain a much richer understanding of what God has done for you and why the Exodus is the pivotal event in the Old Testament.
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A History of Judaism
- By: Martin Goodman
- Narrator: Derek Perkins
- Length: 23 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.86(143 ratings)
3.86(143 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDA sweeping history of Judaism over more than three millennia Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course ofA sweeping history of Judaism over more than three millennia
Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three millennia. A History of Judaism provides the first truly comprehensive look in one volume at how this great religion came to be, how it has evolved from one age to the next, and how its various strains, sects, and traditions have related to each other.
In this magisterial and elegantly written book, Martin Goodman takes readers from Judaism’s origins in the polytheistic world of the second and first millennia BCE to the temple cult at the time of Jesus. He tells the stories of the rabbis, mystics, and messiahs of the medieval and early modern periods and guides us through the many varieties of Judaism today. Goodman’s compelling narrative spans the globe, from the Middle East, Europe, and America to North Africa, China, and India. He explains the institutions and ideas on which all forms of Judaism are based, and masterfully weaves together the different threads of doctrinal and philosophical debate that run throughout its history.
A History of Judaism is a spellbinding chronicle of a vibrant and multifaceted religious tradition that has shaped the spiritual heritage of humankind like no other.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls
- By: Lawrence Schiffman
- Narrator: Lawrence Schiffman
- Length: 8 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 12, 2008
- Language: English
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3.81(35 ratings)
3.81(35 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThe Dead Sea Scrolls are perhaps the most important archaeological discovery of the twentieth century. These lectures set before the public the real Dead Sea Scrolls, the most important collection of Jewish texts from the centuries before the riseThe Dead Sea Scrolls are perhaps the most important archaeological discovery of the twentieth century. These lectures set before the public the real Dead Sea Scrolls, the most important collection of Jewish texts from the centuries before the rise of Christianity. Only through efforts to understand what the scrolls can teach us about the history of Judaism is it possible for us to learn what they have to teach us about the history of Christianity, because Christianity came into being only after these texts were composed and copied. Professor Schiffman leads the listener through the complex details of the Scrolls and their true meaning for the world.
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A Journey To The End Of The Millennium
- By: A.B. Yehoshua
- Narrator: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 15 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: December 03, 2019
- Language: English
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3.8(481 ratings)
3.8(481 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDIn the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter his family, his relationships, his business-his life. In an attempt to forestall conflict andIn the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter his family, his relationships, his business-his life. In an attempt to forestall conflict and advance his business interests at the same time, Ben Attar undertakes his annual journey to Europe with both his first wife and his new wife. The trip is the beginning of a profound human drama whose moral conflicts of fidelity and desire resonate with those of our time. Yehoshua renders the medieval world of Jewish and Christian culture and trade with astonishing depth and sensuous detail. Through the trials of a medieval merchant, the renowned author explores the deepest questions about the nature of morality, character, codes of human conduct, and matters of the heart.
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Just a Girl
- By: Lia Levi
- Narrator: Carlotta Brentan
- Length: 1 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: March 22, 2022
- Language: English
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3.77(174 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDIn this award-winning memoir translated from Italian to English, a Jewish girl grows up during a difficult time of racial discrimination and war, and discovers light in unexpected places. This classic, powerful story from Lia Levi is adapted forIn this award-winning memoir translated from Italian to English, a Jewish girl grows up during a difficult time of racial discrimination and war, and discovers light in unexpected places. This classic, powerful story from Lia Levi is adapted for young readers, with a powerful author’s note to readers.
1938, Italy. Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice–until prime minister Mussolini joins forces with Hitler in World War II, and everything changes.
Now there are laws saying Jewish children can’t go to school, Jews can’t work, or go on vacation. It’s difficult for Lia to understand why this is happening to her family. When her father loses his job, they must give up their home and move from city to city.
As war comes closer, it becomes too dangerous to stay together, and Lia and her sisters are sent to hide at a convent. Will she ever be “just a girl” again?
The memoir is full of poignant moments of friendship and loss, dreaded tests at school, told in Lia’s captivating voice, as she grows into a young teen. Just a Girl is an important addition to the WWII Jewish canon.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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