Zvi: 73 books

Bernie Moskowitz is an advertising executive. His is a hard job; the government requires ads to be truthful and not misleading. Bernie's company moves closer to bankruptcy every month because completely truthful ads are not exciting. But Bernie has a possible solution.

Now back in print in a new edition! A Century of Ambivalence The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present Second, Expanded Edition Zvi Gitelman A richly illustrated survey of the Jewish historical experience in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet era. Anyone...

This exploration of the Jewish political tradition elucidates a long, rich, and diverse experience of both sovereignty and dispersed statelessness. It holds insights, as Zvi Gitelman points out in his introductory chapter, for anyone interested comparative and ethnic politics, Jewish history, and...

George Bullington lives in a world where brainwave detectors register all pleasurable sensations, and bureaucrats then levy taxes. Georges copes with the intrusions as well as he can, but how long can he hold out?

A dying Jew's last words to God -- a text that is regarded as the greatest piece of writing to have emerged from the Holocaust -- the story of how it came to be written, and the afterlife of both the author and his creation. As the German tanks destroy the Warsaw Ghetto, one of the few remaining fighters,...

Histories of rights have too often marginalized Native Americans and African Americans. Addressing this lacuna, Native Land Talk expands our understanding of freedom by examining rights theories that Indigenous and African-descended peoples articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As...

Storming out of the house after a fight with my wife, I met a grimy old man wearing a shabby overcoat and playing the saxophone. His white hair stood straight out like a halo around his head, and a thick, white mustache covered the instrument's mouthpiece as he played. I startled; that face belonged...

For many families, the question of which winter holiday to celebrate is known as the December dilemma. Harry Marsh is confused to find for the first time in his life that this problem now confronts him. The holiday everyone else is this winter is Hanuka, not Christmas.

In 1909 the Scottish archaeologist Duncan Mackenzie, Sir Arthur Evans’s right-hand man on the excavations of the legendary ‘Palace of Minos’ at Knossos since 1900, was appointed ‘Explorer’ of the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF). From the spring of 1910 until December 1912 he was engaged...

Most people see a clash between the story of CREATION told by Moses in the Book of Genesis, and our scientific narrative of the Universe' history. They regard Moses' words as a bronze-age myth, no different than other ancient myths of his time. The author dispute these claims and shows that...

Dahm Origin lives on Epsathree, a giant space station with tens of thousands of people. The inside of the station is as Earthlike as technology can make it, but it isn't Earth,and when the inhabitants have to go outside and see the real Earth, the view drives some of them mad.

Yitzi had growth factors injected into his brain when he was just born. The result was a misshapen head and the ability to understand and speak English, though to a limited degree. However, even with the ability to talk, he still thinks and acts like a dog.

Benjamin Cohen's life was a mess. Divorced, despised and ridiculed by everyone, especially his alcoholic sister, he lived alone with his dog and couldn't stop worrying about everything. The continual anxiety was a torment. Medication, psychotherapy and even cults brought no relief. Then he met a strange Hasidic mystic...

Jon Worthyman has betrayed his wife. His bishop, Linsey Archibald, decrees he must crawl on his knees to her and ask forgiveness. That's easy enough, but to win forgiveness from the church, he must find two people to pledge their love to the church's Messiah--David Koresh. That isn't so easy. And what sin has the bishop himself committed.