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Listed below are the books that Dan Asa Rose has generously donated to the Friday School library.

  • “Flight and Rescue,” by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • “A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life”, edited by Theodore and Dale Rosengarten 
  • “Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books,” by Aaron Lansky
  • “Someone To Run With,” by David Grossman
  • “Primo Levi: A Life,” by Ian Thomson
  • “Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain,” by Christopher Merrill
  • “The Guide to Jewish Interfaith Family Life,” edited by Ronnie Friedland and Edmund Case
  • “Jewish Spirituality : A Brief Introduction for Christians,” by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
  • “After the Apple: Women in the Bible,” by Naomi Harris Rosenblatt
  • “The Promise of Politics,” by Hannah Arendt
  • “Responsibility and Judgment,” by Hannah Arendt
  • “Essays in Understanding: 1930-1954,” by Hannah Arendt
  • “A Blessing on the Moon,” by Joseph Skibell
  • “Schlepping Through the Alps” My Search for Austria's Jewish Past,” by Sam Apple
  • “Wise Men and Their Tales,” by Elie Wiesel
  • “Somewhere a Master: Hasidic Portraits and Legends,” by Elie Wiesel
  • “The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life,” by Tom Reiss 
  • “The Life of David,” by David Pinsky
  • “Thirteen and a Day: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah Across America,” by Mark Oppenheimer
  • “The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank,” by Ellen Feldman
  • “What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa,” by David E. Murphy
  • “Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web,” by Lynn H. Nicholas
  • “Call It Sleep,” by Henry Roth
  • “What Do You Mean, You Can't Eat in my Home?” A Guide to How Newly Observant Jews and Their Less-Observant Relatives Can Still Get Along,” by Azriella Jaffe
  • “Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) A Jewish American Writer,” edited by Derek Rubin
  • Dresden : Tuesday, February 13, 1945 , by Frederick Taylor
  • Shabbat: The Family Guide to Preparing for and Celebrating the Sabbath, by Dr. Ron Wolfson
  • The Complete Shabbat Table Companion, by Zalman Goldstein
  • Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich, by Joachim Fest
  • The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War, by Louise Steinman
  • Reading the Women of the Bible: A New Interpretation of their Stories, by Tikva Frymer-Kemsky (Koret, Natl J Bok Award)
  • Conversations with Elie Wiesel, by Elie Wiesel and Richard D. Heffner
  • Esther Stories, by Peter Orner
  • Legends of Our Time, by Elie Wiesel
  • The Judges, by Elie Weisel
  • Yiddish Literature in America , 1870-2000, volume 1, an anthology edited by Emanuel S. Goldsmith
  • The Story of a Life, by Aharon Appelfeld
  • Sloan-Kettering: Poems, by Abba Kovner
  • After the Apple: Women in the Bible, Timeless Stories of Love, Lust and Longing, by Naomi Harris Rosenblatt
  • The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror, by Ole V. Khlevniuk
  • Holocaust Memorial Digest: Survivors' Published Memoirs with Study Guides and Maps, edited by Esther Goldberg
  • The Choice: Poland , 1939-1945, by Irene Eber
  • Sarah: A novel, by Marek Halter
  • A Palestinian Affair: A novel by Jonathan Wilson (sent review)
  • The Jews of the United States , 1654 to 2000, by Hasia R. Diner
  • Eve's Apple, a novel, by Jonathan Rosen
  • Heir to the Glimmering World, a novel, by Cynthia Ozick
  • How Israel Lost: The Four Questions, by Richard Ben Cramer
  • The Tree of Life: A novel about Life in the Lodz Ghetto, by Chava Rosenfarb
  • Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
  • Ancient Secrets: Using the Stories of The Bible to Improve our Everyday Lives, by Rabbi Levi Meier
  • A Legacy of Hater: Anti-Semitism in America , by Ernest Volkman
  • A Jewish Mother in Shangri-La, by Rosie Rosenzweig
  • Responsibility and Judgment, by Hannah Arendt
  • One People, Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi and an Orthodox Rabbi Explore the Issues That Divide Them, by Ammiel Hirsch and Yosef Reinman
  • The Jewish Catalog: A do-it-yourself kit edited by Richard Siegel, Michael Strassfeld, and Sharon Strassfeld
  • The Miracle of the Seventh Day: A Guide to the Spiritual Mean, Significance, and Weekly Practice of the Jewish Sabbath, by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
  • Jewish Living, by Reuben Turner
  • The Girl in the Red Coat: A memoir, by Roma Ligocka
  • The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945, by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
  • The Nazi Hunters: The Shocking True Story of the Continuing Search for Nazi War Criminals, by Charles Ashman and Robert J. Wagman
  • Semites and Anti-Semites, by Bernard Lewis
  • The Paperclip Conspiracy: The Hunt for the Nazi Scientists, by Tom Bower
  • Wanted, by Yaacov Eliav
  • Shoah, an Oral History of the Holocaust, by Claude Lanzmann
  • Atlas of the Holocaust, by Martin Gilbert
  • A History of the Holocaust, from the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel , by Walter Laquer
  • Your Mouth is Lovely, a novel, by Nancy Richler
  • The Song of Names, by Norman Lebrecht
  • The New Rabbi, by Stephen Fried
  • The Ten Commandments of Character: Essential Advice for Living an Honorable, Ethical, Honest Life, by Joseph Telushkin
  • There are Jews in my House, stories by Lara Vapnyar  (sent review) 
  • The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter that Transformed the Middle East , by Abraham Rabinovich

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