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ISBN: 9780224096577 - The Fish That Ate the Whale The Fish That Ate the Whale
Rich Cohen

ISBN10: 0224096575  ISBN13: 9780224096577
Publisher: Vintage Jonathan Cape Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 19 Jul 2012
A tough, uneducated Russian Jew, Sam Zemurray built a fruit-selling empire hustling rotting fruit to market to eke out the slimmest profit, to eventually become a backchannel kingmaker. In this book, his story spans the birth of modern foreign... More

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ISBN: 9780099540298 - Israel is Real Israel is Real
Rich Cohen

ISBN10: 0099540290  ISBN13: 9780099540298
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Sep 2010
Features the tale of people and ideas, of the background of Israel. Ranging from the medieval false prophets, to the nineteenth-century Zionists, and on to the figures like Ariel Sharon, this title tells the stories of the people obsessed with the... More

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ISBN: 9780224089265 - Israel is Real Israel is Real
Rich Cohen

ISBN10: 0224089269  ISBN13: 9780224089265
Publisher: Vintage Jonathan Cape Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Sep 2009
Presents a tale of people and ideas, and of the background of Israel. This title relates Israel's story as that of a place long ago destroyed and transformed into an idea and which, years ago, was retransformed into a place, and therefore into... More

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ISBN: 9780099289494 - The Avengers The Avengers
Rich Cohen

ISBN10: 0099289490  ISBN13: 9780099289494
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Oct 2001
When they were not yet twenty years old, three young Jews left their families in Western Poland and came to the Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna. Abba, leader of the young people in the ghetto and Rushka and Vitka were his deputies. Together they... More

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ISBN: 9780099757917 - Tough Jews Tough Jews
Rich Cohen

ISBN10: 0099757915  ISBN13: 9780099757917
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Apr 1999
Tells the stories of Jewish gangsters. This title evokes their world: a world of street corners and bars and nightclubs; a world where murder was better than cowardice; where killings were planned and executed with precision and finesse; and... More

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ISBN: 9780224072724 - Sweet and Low Sweet and Low
Rich Cohen

ISBN10: 0224072722  ISBN13: 9780224072724
Publisher: Vintage Jonathan Cape Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Apr 2006
Ben Eisenstadt was one of those Jews that went on to reshape the world. He did so by inventing Sweet 'n Low, a granulated sweetener. This simple invention spawned one of the great American fortunes. This is the story of that fortune... More

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ISBN: 9781861977663 - The Record Men The Record Men
Rich Cohen

ISBN10: 1861977662  ISBN13: 9781861977663
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd Profile Business
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 May 2005
A history of Chess Records and the business of Rock & Roll. On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s two immigrants - one a Jew born in Eastern Europe, the other a black blues singer from Mississippi - met and changed the course of musical... More

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ISBN: 9780099466857 - Sweet and Low Sweet and Low
Rich Cohen

ISBN10: 0099466856  ISBN13: 9780099466857
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Jan 2007
Takes the reader on a journey into the author's own and his family's past. This is a story of family feuds, eccentricity verging on madness, gangsters, lawyers, corruption, accountants, ex-wives - a quest for a secret history, and a black comedy... More

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ISBN: 9780224043786 - Tough Jews Tough Jews
Rich Cohen

ISBN10: 0224043781  ISBN13: 9780224043786
Publisher: Vintage Jonathan Cape Ltd
Edition: Reissue
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 Jul 1998
An non-fictional evocation of the world of the Jewish gangsters in Brooklyn in the 1920s and 30s; a world in which Jews such as Dutch Schultz and Bugsy Siegel were among the most important criminals in America. The author's family owned the diner... More

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ISBN: 9780375405464 - Avengers Avengers
Rich Cohen

ISBN10: 0375405461  ISBN13: 9780375405464
Publisher: Random House USA Inc Random House Inc
Edition: New edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Sep 2000
In 1944, a band of Jewish guerrillas emerged from the Baltic forest to join the Russian army in its attack on Vilna, the capital of Lithuania. The band, called the Avengers, was led by Abba Kovner, a charismatic young poet. After the liquidation... More