Book Description:
Because of demand from people with limited vision,
The Jewish Publication Society is releasing a
large-print edition of its Torah. The typeface has
been dramatically increased to ensure that every
word of The Five Books of Moses is clear and
readable. The 7"x10" format makes this book
perfect for the home library or lectern. Read more... or
2. How Good Do
We Have to
Be? - A New
Understanding
of Guilt and
Forgiveness
(Large Print
Edition)
by Harold S.
Kushner
(Paperback -
April 1999)
Synopsis
Drawing on his experiences as a congregational rabbi,
the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good
People explores the destructive effects of
perfectionism and self-righteousness, showing how
acceptance and forgiveness can improve our
relationships. Read more... or
3. This is My God: A Guidebook to Judaism
[LARGE
PRINT]
by Herman
Wouk
(Paperback -
April 1991) Read more... or
4. IBM and the
Holocaust: The
Strategic Alliance
between Nazi
Germany and
America's Most
Powerful
Corporation
[Large Print]
by Edwin Black
Crown; Hardcover
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon.com Editorial Review:
Was IBM, "The Solutions Company," partly
responsible for the Final Solution? That's the
question raised by Edwin Black's IBM and the
Holocaust, the most controversial book on the
subject since Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's
Willing Executioners. Black, a son of Holocaust
survivors, is less tendentiously simplistic than
Goldhagen, but his thesis is no less provocative: he
argues that IBM founder Thomas Watson deserved
the Merit Cross (Germany's second-highest honor)
awarded him by Hitler, his second-biggest customer
on earth. "IBM, primarily through its German
subsidiary, made Hitler's program of Jewish
destruction a technologic mission the company
pursued with chilling success," writes Black. "IBM
had almost single-handedly brought modern warfare
into the information age [and] virtually put the 'blitz'
in the krieg."Read more... or
5. Final
Judgement
(Wheeler
Large Print
Book Series)
by Daniel
Easterman (Paperback -
April 1997)
Average
Customer
Review: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon.com Editorial Review:
The kidnapping of a young Israeli boy in Sardinia
begins this truly horrifying thriller about how the
past--in this case the Nazis' Final Solution--is always
with us. Steeped in historical research and current
events, Easterman's grim story about neo-Nazis
keeping old hates alive while working to take over
the German and Italian governments is well written
and involving. And his lead character, an
unreconstructed Israeli terrorist named Yosef, rings
with the sad strength of truth. Read more... or
6. Postscripts
(Eagle
Large
Print)
by Claire
Rayner
(Hardcover -
August
1992) Read more... or
7. To Jerusalem
and Back: A
Personal
Account
(Transaction
Large Print
Books)
by Saul Bellow
(Hardcover -
March 2000) Read more... or
8. Edith's Story (Thorndike
Large Print
Basic Series)
by Edith
Velmans
(Hardcover -
May 1999)
Average
Customer
Review: 5 out of 5 stars
Book Description
In 1940, while the Germans occupied Holland,
fourteen-year-old Edith van Hessen was filling her
diary with the intimate, carefree details of a typical
teenager's life -- thoughts about boys, school, her
family, her friends, her future. By 1942, as Edith was
contemplating her first kiss, the Germans had begun
to escalate their war against the Jews. Soon this
bright, fun-loving girl was grappling with one of the
most unfathomable events in human history. Edith's
family -- assimilated Dutch Jews -- were caught in the
cross fire of the Holocaust, and Edith began a bitter
struggle to survive. Read more... or
9. When I Lived in Modern Times
Thorndike Large Print edition (July 2002)
by Linda Grant
(Hardcover -
July 2002)
Average
Customer
Review: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon.com Editorial Review:
In April 1946, a 20-year-old East End London hairdresser named Evelyn Sert sets out for Palestine. "This is my story," she writes in When I Lived in Modern Times, which won Linda Grant the 2000 Orange Prize. "Scratch a Jew and you've got a story." Her account is no less complicated than that of any other displaced European Jew in the postwar years. Separated from her family, she searches for some kind of reliable identity in an inhospitable new land--and in shining, Bauhaus-influenced Tel Aviv, she finds that she is more English than Israeli. Lo and behold, she becomes Priscilla Jones, a peroxided Londoner with an absent policeman husband. She is at her most "real," it seems, when pretending, and revels in her ability to be entirely accepted among the English women whose hair she cuts and curls. Outside of their petty and casually anti-Semitic circle, meanwhile, she struggles with Hebrew, the heat, the unfamiliar food, and an alien way of life.
In Palestine, of course, the English are the enemy. Evelyn is soon drawn into a world of shifting identities, lies, and secrets by her passionate Zionist boyfriend, Johnny. Even then, she is never quite sure which side she is on, or where she belongs. All of this makes her a prototypical inhabitant of Linda Grant's Tel Aviv, a city of contradictions and of hope...Read more... or
10. Bee Season
(Thorndike
Large Print
Americana
Series)
by Myla
Goldberg
(Hardcover -
September
2000)
Average
Customer
Review: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon.com Editorial Review:
In Myla Goldberg's outstanding first novel, a family is
shaken apart by a small but unexpected shift in the
prospects of one of its members. When 9-year-old
Eliza Naumann, an otherwise indifferent student,
takes first prize in her school spelling bee, it is as if
rays of light have begun to emanate from her head.
Teachers regard her with a new fondness; the
studious girls begin to save a place for her at lunch.
Even Eliza can sense herself changing. She had
"often felt that her outsides were too dull for her
insides, that deep within her there was something
better than what everyone else could see."
Eliza's father, Saul, a scholar and cantor, had long
since given up expecting sparks of brilliance on her
part. While her brother, Aaron, had taken pride in
reciting his Bar Mitzvah prayers from memory, she
had typically preferred television reruns to
homework or reading. This belated evidence of a
miraculous talent encourages Saul to reassess his
daughter. Read more... or
11.
Kaaterskill
Falls
(Thorndike
Large Print
Americana
Series)
by Allegra
Goodman
(Hardcover -
May 1999)
Average
Customer
Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon.com Editorial Review:
Allegra Goodman's remarkable first novel intertwines
the stories of three Orthodox Jewish families, each
of whom is tugged between religious tradition and
the secular world. The story takes place in the
upstate New York town of Kaaterskill, summer
Mecca for the tightly knit Kirshner sect. Model wife
and mother Elizabeth Shulman pictures her
community as a sort of Mont-Saint-Michel, an island
both joined and separated from the outside world as
if by rising and falling tides. Fascinated with what lies
on the spiritual mainland, she hides behind the
reassuring rhythms of religious observance, though
she's inspired with a "desire, as intense as prayer,"
to create something all her own.
Read more... or
12. To See You
Again: A
True Story
of Love in
a Time of
War
(Thorndike
Large Print
Basic
Series)
by Betty
Schimmel, et
al
(Hardcover -
January
2000)
Average
Customer
Review: 5 out of 5 stars
Book Description:
Betty Markowitz and Richie Kovacs fell in love as
teenagers in Budapest amid the terror and uncertainty
of a world at war. They planned their future together,
secure in the belief that their love could survive
anything, even Hitler. Then, in March 1944, the
Germans invaded Hungary.
Here is the moving and dramatic account of one
woman's courage in the face of war, and of a love that
spanned three decades. From the agony of separation
to the horrors of a concentration camp, from her
marriage to Otto Schimmel, an Auschwitz survivor
who promised her a new life in America, through the
joy and struggle of raising a family, Betty never forgot
her first love. Then, in 1975, she returned to Budapest
and saw someone across a crowded room . . .
Read more... or
13. Marjorie
Morningstar
(G K Hall
Large Print
Book Series
)
by Herman
Wouk
(Hardcover -
December
1996)
Average
Customer
Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars Read more... or
14. Snow in
August
(Thorndike
Large Print
Basic Series)
by Pete Hamill
(Hardcover -
November
1997)
Average
Customer
Review: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon.com Editorial Review:
In 1940s Brooklyn, friendship between an
11-year-old Irish Catholic boy and an elderly Jewish
rabbi might seem as unlikely as, well, snow in
August. But the relationship between young Michael
Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch is only one of the
many miracles large and small contained in Pete
Hamill's novel. Michael finds himself in trouble when
he witnesses the 17-year-old leader of the dreaded
Falcons gang beating an elderly shopkeeper. For
Michael, 1940s Brooklyn is a world still shaped by life
in the Old Country, a world where informing on a
fellow Irishman is the worst crime imaginable--worse
even than the violent crimes committed by some of
those fellows. So Michael keeps silent, finding solace
in the company of Rabbi Hirsch, a Czech refuge
whom he meets by chance. From this serendipitous
beginning blossoms a unique friendship--one that
proves perilous to both when the Falcons catch up
with them. Read more... or
15. The Promise
(G K Hall Large Print Perennial Bestseller Collection) [LARGE PRINT]
by Chaim Potok (Hardcover - September 1998)
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
Book Description:
Young Reuven Malter is unsure of himself and his place in life. An unconventional scholar, he struggles for recognition from his teachers. With his old friend Danny Saunders--who himself had abandoned the legacy as the chosen heir to his father's rabbinical dynasty for the uncertain life of a healer--Reuvan battles to save a sensitive boy imprisoned by his genius and rage. Painfully, triumphantly, Reuven's understanding of himself, though the boy change, as he starts to aproach the peace he has long sought.... Read more... or
16. After Long
Silence
(Compass
Press
Large Print
Book
Series)
by Helen
Fremont
(Hardcover
- June
1999)
Average
Customer
Review: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon.com
Editorial Review:
In her mid-30s Helen Fremont discovered that,
although she had been raised in the Midwest as a
Catholic, she was in fact the daughter of Polish Jews
whose families had been exterminated in the
Holocaust. Fremont's tender but unsparing memoir
chronicles the voyage of discovery she took with her
older sister, ferreting out information from Jewish
organizations and individuals and worrying about its
impact on their angry, overpowering father and
reticent, nightmare-plagued mother. Fremont has
the courage to paint a nearly unsympathetic portrait
of her parents' secretiveness and initial reluctance to
have their children dredge up the past; as the
narrative unfolds, readers comprehend the
tormented roots of their behavior without forgetting
the psychological problems it created for their
daughters. Fremont's re-creation of her parents'
ghastly ordeals--her mother narrowly escaping the
murder of nearly every Jew in her hometown; her
father surviving six years in the Soviet gulag--is a
triumph of dogged research and sympathetic
imagination. Read more... or
17. The Hiding
Place
(Walker
Large Print)
by Corrie Ten
Boom, et al
(Paperback -
August 1997)
Average
Customer
Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars Read more... or
