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Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the 21st Century מאת Simcha Weinstein This isnt your zaydes Jewish comedy. The once revolutionary, understated "Jew-ish" and "Israel-lite" flavor of Seinfeld has been replaced by a brutal matter-of-factness that would make earlier generation cringe. Your primer to the ever-changing face of Jewish comedy at the dawn of the 21st century: ...

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Return to Naples: My Italian Bar Mitzvah and Other Discoveries מאת Robert Zweig As a boy in the 1960s, Robert Zweig had a rare opportunity: Every summer, he would leave his home in America and make extended visits to his mother's birthplace-Naples, Italy. During each visit, he'd uncover new mysteries about the parents he thought he knew. There, he learned how his German father ...

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Up, Up, and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped The Comic Book Superhero מאת Simcha Weinstein Barricade Books re-introduces Up, Up, and Oy Vey to the book publishing world. From the birth of Krypton in Cleveland to the Caped Crusader, the Incredible Hulk, Spider Man, the X-Men and more, Up, Up, and Oy Vey chronicles the story about the origins of the most famous superheroes. Jewish contribut...

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I Escaped From Auschwitz מאת Rudolf Vrba In 1944, twenty-year-old Rudolf Vrba, along with Alfred Wetzler escaped Auschwitz and dictated the Vrba-Wetzler Report, or Auschwitz Protocols, to the Bratislava Jewish Council. The report was then smuggled to Switzerland and eventually reached the U.S. State Department, the Vatican, and the British...

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High Rise Low Down: Who's Who and What's What in New York's Most Coveted Apartment Houses מאת Denise LeFrak Calicchio This is a gossipy account of billionaires, movie stars, and corporate giants and the white-glove penthouse apartment buildings they inhabit. The authors reveal the legends behind the guarded portals of Manhattan's most aristocratic apartment houses. Each chapter describes the culture and history of ...

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Human Sacrifice: A Shocking Expose of Ritual Killings Worldwide מאת Jimmy Lee Shreeve Human sacrifice still goes on uncomfortably close to home-cases have been found in the U.S., Europe, and the United Kingdom. In other parts of the world, such as South America, ritual killing is almost commonplace. HUMAN SACRIFICE investigates the terrifying current spate of human sacrifices and rit...

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Gangsters of Harlem מאת Ron Chepesiuk For the first time ever, author Ron Chepesiuk chronicles the little known history of organized crime in Harlem. African American organized crime has had as significant an impact on its constituent community as Italian, Jewish, and Irish organized crime has had on theirs. Gangsters are every bit as c...

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The End of Food: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Food Supply--And What We Can Do About It מאת Thomas F. Pawlick An incident with a tennis ball-like tomato inspired award-winning Canadian journalist and part-time farmer Thomas Pawlick to write The End of Food. Today, we're facing an impending food crisis. Current food production methods used by corporate-run "factory farms" are sucking the nutrients out of the...

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Gangster City: The History of the New York Underworld 1900-1935 מאת Patrick Downey Gangster City is an illustrated treasure trove of information about crime in New York from 1900 through the 1930s. During these years, some six hundred mob-connected individuals met their deaths by being shot, stabbed, garroted, or hacked into pieces. Told in depth are the exploits of such notorious...

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The Mystery of the Kaddish: Its Profound Influence on Judaism מאת Leon Charney The Kaddish is considered by millions of Jews to be a special prayer one recites for the dead. It isn't. This book contains much new information as it traces the evolution of the Kaddish....

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Gangsters of Miami: True Tales of Mobsters, Gamblers, Hit Men, Con Men and Gang Bangers from the Magic City מאת Ron Chepesiuk This book chronicles gang and gangster history using profiles to tell the rise of the gangster and history of crime in Miami. Known as the Magic City, the book traces gangsters that include the notorious smugglers of the Prohibition era, famous mobsters like Al Capone and Myer Lansky, the Cuban Mafi...

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Palm Springs a la Carte: The Colorful World of the Caviar Crowd at Their Favorite Desert Hideaway מאת Mel Haber In 1975, Mel Haber, a former automotive accessory manufacturer, opened Melvyn's Restaurant and the Ingleside Inn in Palm Springs. With no restaurant experience, Haber made every mistake in the book-and his business thrived. He has spent 25 years catering to the beautiful people who have frequented P...

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Balls: The True Life of Eddie Trascher, Gentleman Gangster מאת Scott M. Deitche Eddie Trascher was a gentleman gangster but he never wanted to be part of the mob. For 50 years, from the pre-Castro Havana casinos to Los Angeles, Trascher stole from mob-owned casinos, scammed gangsters, and was one of the top bookies in the country. He capped his career as a confidential informan...

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Promises to keep Ernest W. Michel

Promises to keep מאת Ernest W. Michel

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The Silent Don: The Criminal Underworld of Santo Trafficante Jr. מאת Scott M. Deitche The Silent Don exposes the life and ruthless times of one of America's most powerful and feared mob bosses. With a criminal empire that stretched from the Gulf Coast throughout the Caribbean, Trafficante was linked to drug trafficking, plots to kill Fidel Castro, and the assassination of JFK. Scott ...

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The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents, Seventh Edition (Complete Book of Us Presidents) מאת William A. DeGregorio This unique reference volume is newly updated to include the results of the highly anticipated 2008 election, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents contains more in-depth information about every U.S. president to hold office than any other single book. A factual look at all our chief executives, from...

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The Mystery of the Kaddish: Its Profound Influence on Judaism מאת Leon H. Charney The Kaddish has long been considered to be a special prayer for the dead. It isn't. Those who recite the prayer faithfully for fifty-two Friday nights after the death of a loved one may wonder why there is no place for the name of the deceased in the prayer. This book contains much new information o...

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Bratproofing Your Children: How to Raise Socially and Financially Responsible Kids מאת Lewis D. Solomon BRATPROOFING provides parents with guidance on how to instill positive character traits and money management skills in their children. The book presents five rules for parents to remember and seven character traits (such as hard work, joy, and optimism) to impart in order to bratproof children, and ...

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Mail for Mikey מאת Orson Bean Orson Bean starred on Broadway for twenty years, regularly hosted The Tonight Show, sat on the panel of the game show To Tell the Truth, and made appearances in movies like Being John Malkovich. He drank and snorted drugs and DID inhale. But he was never quite happy--until he sniffed around, found r...

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Living the martial way - A manual for the way a modern warrior should think מאת Forrest E. Morgan

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Curious Odd Rare and Abnormal Reactions to Medications מאת Jerome Z. Litt It is an inescapable truth that people are taking increasingly more over-the-counter and prescription medications. New drugs for all types of disorders-high blood, pressure, stomach ulcers, diabetes, high cholesterol, etc.-are appearing in the medical marketplace on an almost daily basis. Unfortunat...

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Battle of the Two Talmuds - Judaism's Struggle with Power, Glory, & Guilt מאת Leon Charney The authors reached back into history to understand the reasons and methods brilliant rabbis and Talmudic scholars abandoned the Holy Land, both physically and spiritually, to settle in what came to be known as the lands of the Diaspora. This dramatic exodus was contrary to the biblical injunction that all Jews must live in the land of Israel. The Battle of the Two Talmuds explains in great detail how the Babylonian scholars created their own interpretation of the Torah that grew to take precedence over that of the Jerusalem scholars. This book shows that all human beings are subject in variou...