Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods
If you like book Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonSimilar books (20)
-
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Were World Wars I and II—which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction—inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffe…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Songs for the Brokenhearted
1950. Thousands of Yemeni Jews have immigrated to the newly founded Israel in search of a better life. In an overcrowded immigrant camp in Rosh Ha’ayin, Yaqub, a shy young man, happens upon Saida, a b…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
Babbitt
Babbitt is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influ…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Autocracy, Inc.
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, auto…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
A bold, urgent appeal from the acclaimed columnist and political commentator, addressing one of the most important issues of our time
Buy this book on Amazon
In Peter Beinart’s view, one story has long dominated Jewish commun… -
Jerusalem: The Biography
The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and inhabited it.
Buy this book on Amazon
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it … -
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
AUDIO INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!
Buy this book on Amazon
A “fascinating and very moving” (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network ) chronological … -
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition
This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational an…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great
A riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating, harrowing journey that would define his legacy.
Buy this book on Amazon
By 33… -
Kantika
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home.
Buy this book on Amazon
A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s … -
Min kamp 2 (Min kamp, #2)
Having left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectu…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau, produce the next Aryan generation and be a loyal cheerleader for the Führer. Then they became the Trümmerfrauen, o…
Buy this book on Amazon -
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the present, Nancy Isenberg takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy o…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it. To the millions it has sustained, it…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Gulag: A History
The Gulag—the vast array of Soviet concentration camps—was a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized inhumanity were rivaled only by the Holocaust.
Buy this book on Amazon
The Gulag … -
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is a dazzling novel of mothers and daughters, stories told and untold, and the binds that tie four generations of women.
Buy this book on Amazon
Gabriela's mother Luna is the most beautiful woman… -
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jes…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Grizzly Confidential: An Astounding Journey into the Secret Life of North America’s Most Fearsome Predator
In Grizzly Confidential, author Kevin Grange—former paramedic and park ranger at Yellowstone and Grand Teton—comes face-to-face with North America’s most fearsome predator, Ursus Arctos.
Buy this book on Amazon
His quest take…