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  • Haven of Liberty

    New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865

    by Howard B Rock ...
    Series Book 1 - City of Promises
    Haven of Liberty chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York in 1654 and highlights the role of republicanism in shaping their identity and institutions. Rock follows the Jews of NewYork through the Dutch and British colonial eras, the American Revolution and early republic, and the antebellum years, ending with a path-breaking account of their outlook and behavior during the Civil War. ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • City of Promises

    A History of the Jews of New York, 3-volume box set

    by Howard B. Rock, Deborah Dash Moore, Annie Polland, Daniel Soyer, Diana L. Linden, Jeffrey S. Gurock ...
    Series Book 3 - City of Promises
    Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award, presented by the National Jewish Book CouncilNew York Jews, so visible and integral to the culture, economy and politics of America’s greatest city, has eluded the grasp of historians for decades. Surprisingly, no comprehensive history of New York Jews has ever been written. City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, a three volume set of ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

  • New York Jews and the Civil War

    The Beginnings of a New Era

    by Howard B. Rock ...
    The Civil War, a watershed event in American history, marked a climactic moment in the history of New York’s Jewish community. Jews served and died on the battlefield, attended to wounded soldiers, sewed uniforms for soldiers and mourned the death of their President with as much depth as the Christian population. Never had American citizenship felt more compatible with  Jewish identity, and never ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • Universal You–And the Big Bang

    How God Designed the Universe and Fine-Tuned It for Us and Evolution

    by J. Howard Rock ...
    To show from the Big Bang to the end of this universe observers and their souls are the reason for it all. How? By using published scientific facts, figures, and extrapolations from the bio-geo-chemo-physics fields of discoveries. Most of these discoveries are by the worlds top scientists and are generally accepted as facts.This book discusses how the four primary physical forces and the many ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Jewish New York

    The Remarkable Story of a City and a People

    by Deborah Dash Moore, Jeffrey S. Gurock, Annie Polland, Howard B. Rock, Daniel Soyer ...
    The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the cityJewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups.Jewish immigrants changed New York. They built its clothing industry and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the center of the nation’s publishing industry and ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Jewish New York

    The Remarkable Story of a City and a People

    by Deborah Dash Moore, Jeffrey S. Gurock, Annie Polland, Howard B. Rock, Daniel Soyer ...
    Narrated by Suzanne Toren ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 11 min

    The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city Based on the acclaimed multi-volume series, "City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York," Jewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city's most important ethnic and religious groups. Spanning three centuries, Jewish New York traces the earliest arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam to the recent ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Emerging Metropolis

    New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920

    by Annie Polland, Daniel Soyer ...
    Series Book 4 - City of Promises
    Describes New York’s transformation into a Jewish cityEmerging Metropolis tells the story of New York’s emergence as the greatest Jewish city of all time. It explores the Central European and East European Jews’ encounter with New York City, tracing immigrants’ economic, social, religious, political, and cultural adaptation between 1840 and 1920. This meticulously researched volume shows how Jews ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Jewish Community Around North Broad Street

    by Allen Meyers ...
    Series series Images of America
    The cradle of Jewish life in Philadelphia began with the establishment of the first synagogue, Mikveh Israel, in 1740. With the influx of many German Jews in the 1840s, the community expanded above Spring Garden Street into the Northern Liberties neighborhood. Urban settlement of Philadelphia's Jewish population during the last quarter of the nineteenth century shifted to North Broad Street when ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank

    by Willy Lindwer ...
    The "unwritten" final chapter of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl tells the story of the time between Anne Frank's arrest and her death through the testimony of six Jewish women who survived the hell from which Anne Frank never retumed. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • AsapSCIENCE

    Answers to the World's Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena

    by Mitchell Moffit, Greg Brown ...
    The instant New York Times bestselling book of entertaining, irreverent, and totally accessible illustrated answers to the scientific “questions you had no idea were bugging you all your life” (Fast Company), from the creators of the wildly popular YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE.Why do we get hung over? What would happen if you stopped sleeping? Is binge-watching TV actually bad for you? Why should I ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • One of These Things First

    by Steven Gaines ...
    One of These Things First is a wry and poignant reminiscence of a 15 year old gay Jewish boy in Brooklyn in the early sixties, and his unexpected trajectory from a life behind a rack of dresses in his grandmother’s bra and girdle store, to Manhattan’s fabled Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, a fashionable Charenton for wealthy neurotics and Ivy League alcoholics, whose famous alumni include ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anne Frank

    The Book, the Life, the Afterlife

    by Francine Prose ...
    “Prose’s book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who will live not only in history but also in the literature she aspired to create.” — Minneapolis Star TribuneIn June, 1942, Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years, she described ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD