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Melvin S. Marsh
About My Library

All right! I finally have most of my books entered. All the ones that were up on bookcases anyway. I'm sure that when I unpack some of these other boxes I will find even more books. I know I have several more boxes I need to get through. But first... more bookshelves!


About Me

Hi, my name is Melvin. I have a diverse interest in books because, well I have a diverse interest in pretty much everything.

I collect degrees, certifications, certificates, and life experiences like some people collect stamps.

I've been a professional actor, stage manager, film producer, several forms of researcher (including genealogist, human factors engineer, anthropologist, etc), instructor, entrepreneur, and hypnotherapist. I also had several years where I was an disaster response EMT until a bad lift. I love my job(s) so I do all of them with joy.

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Augusta, GA
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Let's Learn Hebrew Picture Dictionary: Hebrew Picture Dictionary
Hebrew Picture Word Book by Hayward Cirker
Instant Yiddish by Fred Kogos
Kabbalah Inspirations: Mystic Themes, Texts, and Symbols (Inspirations Series) by Jeremy Rosen
The junior Jewish encyclopedia by Naomi Ben-Asher
Kabbalah: The Mystic Quest in Judaism by David S. Ariel
The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner by Eli N. Evans
Turbulent Souls:: A Catholic Son's Return To His Jewish Family by Stephen J. Dubner
Learn Hebrew Today: Alef-Bet for Adults by Paul Michael Yedwab
Learn Biblical Hebrew by John H. Dobson
The Blessing Of A Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children by Wendy Mogel
The New Jew: An Unexpected Conversion by Sally Srok Friedes
Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism by Dennis Prager
New Jewish Wedding by Anita Diamant
A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People: From the Time of the Patriarchs to the Present by Tel Aviv Books
Seasons of our joy: A handbook of Jewish festivals by Arthur Ocean Waskow
Choosing a Jewish Life: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends by Anita Diamant
A History of the Jewish Experience: Eternal Faith, Eternal People by Leo Trepp
Jewish Living: A Guide to Contemporary Reform Practice, Revised Edition by Mark Washofsky
How to Be a Jewish Parent: A Practical Handbook for Family Life by Anita Diamant
The Jewish Book of Why by Alfred J. Kolatch
The Second Jewish Book of Why by Alfred J. Kolatch
First Aid for the Jewish Soul (Mini Book, Hanukkah, Holiday) (Petites) by Evelyn Beilenson
Yiddish tales by Yiddish stories, . Short
A History Of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Issac Husik
The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; The Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, ... Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc. by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum
The Jewish Americans (Immigrant Experience) by Howard Muggamin
The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City 1880-1915 by Thomas Kessner
Being Jewish: The Spiritual and Cultural Practice of Judaism Today by Ari L. Goldman
Jewish Renewal by Michael Lerner
On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition by Blu Greenberg
A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations by Benjamin Netanyahu
Endless Light: The Ancient Path of Kabbalah by David Aaron
Choosing To Be Chosen: Essays By Converts To Judaism by Dena Nechama
New Age Judaism: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World by Melinda Ribner
Magickal Judaism: Connecting Pagan & Jewish Practice by Jennifer Hunter
The Choosing: A Rabbi's Journey from Silent Nights to High Holy Days by Andrea Myers
The Making of an Ethnic Middle Class (Modern Jewish History) by William Toll
Seder Tu Bishevat: The Festival of Trees by Adam Fisher
The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood by Mark Kurzem
Brother Against Brother: Violence and Extremism in Israeli Politics from Altalena to the Rabin Assassination by Ehud Sprinzak
Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Master by Rodger Kamenetz
Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog) by Joy Ladin
Exploring the Prayerbook
A Gateway to Prayer 2: The Torah Service and Concluding Prayers (Gateway to Prayer) (Gateway to Prayer) by Chaim Stern
Prayer Reading Skills (Hebrew Edition) by Roberta Osser Baum
Re-envisioning the Synagogue by Zachary I. Heller
Great Jewish Thinkers: Their Lives and Work by Naomi E. Pasachoff
I Am a Reform Jew: A Workbook Diary by Kerry M. Olitzky
Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian, Gay, and Jewish by Christie Balka
Divrei B'nei Mitzvah by Aaron Rosenberg
Beyond the Ashes: Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust by Yonassan Gershom
The Torah: Portion-by-Portion by Seymour Rossel
The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties (Hellenistic Culture and Society) by J. D. Cohen Shaye
The Way Into Jewish Mystical Tradition by Lawrence Kushner
Embracing the Stranger: Intermarriage and the Future of the American Jewish Community by Ellen Jaffe-Gill
Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters by Elie Wiesel
Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South by Eli N. Evans
The Elephant and My Jewish Problem: Selected Stories and Journals, 1957-1987 by Hugh Nissenson
Breaking the Silence: The German Who Exposed the Final Solution. (Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry) by Walter Laqueur
What Shall I Do with This People?: Jews and the Fractious Politics of Judaism by Milton Viorst
The Prophets by Abraham J. Heschel
The Jewish Body (Jewish Encounters) by Melvin Konner
The American Jews: Portrait of a split personality by James Yaffe
Jerusalem: The Tragedy and the Triumph by Charles Gulston
What You Should Know about Jewish Religion, History, Ethics and Culture by Sidney L. Markowitz
Pilgrimage of a Proselyte: From Auschwitz to Jerusalem by David Patterson
The Coming Cataclysm: The Orthodox-Reform Rift and the Future of the Jewish People by Reuven P. Bulka
How Good Do We Have to Be?: A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness by Harold S. Kushner
Soul Judaism: Dancing With God into a New Era by Wayne D. Dosick
The Way of Kabbalah by Z'Ev Ben Shimon Halevi
Unsettled: An Anthropology of the Jews by Melvin Konner
Health Care Systems in Transition - Israel by Bruce Rosen
Jews, God and History: Revised and Updated Edition by Max I. Dimont
The Monthly Halachah Discussion (Revised and Updated Edtion) by Rabbi Doniel Yehuda Neustadt
Where heaven touches earth : Jewish life in Jerusalem from medieval times to the present by Dovid Rossoff
Shnayim mikra v'echad targum : featuring an easy-to-use format for full review of the weekly Torah portion with punctuated Rashi's commentary : includes the Margolin English translation based on Rashi and other traditional sources
The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Hinges of History, Vol. 2) by Thomas Cahill
Stories my grandfather told me: Memorable tales arranged according to the weekly sidrah (ArtScroll youth series) by Zeev Grinvald
Bread, Fire, and Water: The Laws od NIddah within the Jewish Marriage, Lighting for Shabbat and Yom Tov, and The Laws of Seperating Challah from Dough120 by Auriel Silbiger
Oedipus Judaicus Allegory In the Old Testament by Willaim Drummond
Make Me Dont Break Me (ArtScroll (Mesorah)) by Moshe Ganz
Meditation and Kabbalah by Aryeh Kaplan
A Place To Hide: True Stories Of Holocaust Rescues (Scholastic Biography) by Jayne Pettit
Wheels of a Soul: Reincarnation and Kabbalah by Rav P.S. Berg
Gates of Shabbat: Shaarei Shabbat: A Guide for Observing Shabbat by Mark Dov Shapiro
To Be A Jew by Hayim Halevy Donin
In the Shadow of the Ladder: Introductions to Kabbalah by Rabbi Yehudah Lev Ashlag
Why Be Jewish?: Intermarriage, Assimilation and Alienation by Meir Kahane
The Kabbalah Experience: The Practical Guide to Kabbalistic Wisdom by Naomi Ozaniec
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Basics: A Practical Family Guide to Coming of Age Together by Jeffrey K. Salkin
Interactive Bible Flashcards by Debby Graudenz
Moreh Derekh: The Rabbi's Manual of the Rabbinical Assembly by Perry Raphael Rank
Strong's Hebrew Dictionary of the Bible (Strong's Dictionary) by James Strong
Abraham Joshua Heschel: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters) by Susannah Heschel
The Power of Kabbalah: Technology for the Soul by Yehuda Berg
I and Thou (Scribner Classics) by Martin Buber
Shabbat Morning Siddur plus by 21st century Judaism
Beyond the sermon : stories of pastoral guidance by Samuel Chiel
The complete how to handbook for Jewish living by Kerry M. Olitzky
Worship of the heart : essays on Jewish prayer by Joseph Dov Soloveitchik
Basic Judaism (Harvest Book.) by Milton Steinberg
Lonely Planet Hebrew Phrasebook by Justin Ben-Adam Rudelson
Maimonides by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Hebrew: A Language Course Level One by Ora Band
Hebrew: Lonely Planet Phrasebook by Klara Ilane Wistinetzki
Webster's New World Hebrew Dictionary : Hebrew/English-English/Hebrew (Transliterated) by Hayim Baltsan
Hebrew: A Language Course, Level 3 by Ora Band
Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd by Sam Apple
Perpetrators Victims Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933-1945 by Raul Hilberg
The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning by Maurice Lamm
Shabbat, 2nd Edition: The Family Guide to Preparing for and Welcoming the Sabbath (The Art of Jewish Living Series) by Ron Wolfson
Hebrew: A Language Course Level 2 by Ora Band
Treblinka by Jean-Francois Steiner
Children in the Holocaust and World War II by Laurel Holliday
The Last Days: Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation by Steven Spielberg
Light One Candle: A Survivor's Tale from Lithuania to Jerusalem by Solly Ganor
Ruth's Journey: A Survivor's Memoir by Ruth Glasberg Gold
Hidden Children: The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust by Jane Marks
The Complete Book of Jewish Observance: A One-Volume Guide to the Ceremonies and Practices of Judaism by Leo Trepp
Shabbat Haggadah for Celebration and Study by Michael Strassfeld
illness and crisis; coping the jewish way by rabbi tsvi g. schur
The Kaddish Minyan: The Impact on Ten Lives by Herbert Yoskowitz
Jewish Cooking: 130 Classic Dishes Shown in 220 Evocative Photographs by Marlena Spieler
The Book of Jewish Belief by Louis Jacobs
Feed Me Bubbe: Recipes and Wisdom from America's Favorite Online Grandmother by Bubbe
The Easy-shmeezy Guide to Yiddish - Over 1500 of the Most Common Yiddish Words and Expressions by R' Moshe Sherizen
The Soul of the Matter: A Jewish-Kabbalistic Perspective on the Human Soul Before, During, and After Life by Gershon Winkler
The Babylonian Talmud: A Translation and Commentary by Jacob Neusner
To Pray As A Jew: A Guide To The Prayer Book And The Synagogue Service by Hayim H. Donin
Israel Travel Pack, 6th (Globetrotter Travel Packs) by Sue Bryant
Israel: A Spiritual Travel Guide: A Companion For The Modern Jewish Pilgrim by Lawrence A. Hoffman
Artscroll Transliterated Linear Siddur: Sabbath and Festival (English and Hebrew Edition) by Nosson Scherman
Lionhearts: Heroes of Israel by Michael Bar-Zohar
Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community by Noach Dzmura
Sacred Therapy: Jewish Spiritual Teachings on Emotional Healing and Inner Wholeness by Estelle Frankel
The Art of Torah Cantillation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Chanting Torah [Book CD] by Marshall Portnoy
The New Rabbi by Stephen Fried
The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism by Danya Ruttenberg
Shalom Ivrit 1: Welcome to Modern Hebrew by Nili Ziv
Zubi!: The Real Hebrew You Were Never Taught in School by Danny Ben Israel
Tales out of shul : the unorthodox journal of an Orthodox rabbi by Emanuel Feldman
Understanding the prophets by Sheldon H. Blank
Standing again at Sinai : Judaism from a feminist perspective by Judith Plaskow
The Talmud and the Internet : a journey between worlds by Jonathan Rosen
Finding God : ten Jewish responses by Rifat Sonsino
Chosen By God: A Brother's Journey by Joshua Hammer
Guide to Blessings: The Brochos for Various Foods by Naftali Hoffner
Nazi hunter by Alan Levy
Sudden rain : Yiddish poems by Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
THE JEWS: SOCIAL PATTERNS OF AN AMERICAN GROUP. by Marshall (Editor). Sklare
Torah from Our Sages: Pirke Avot by Jacob Neusner
The story of the Jewish Defense League by Meir Kahane
The taste of Yiddish: A warm and humorous guide to a fascinating language by Lillian Mermin Feinsilver
The kids who went to Israel;: Autobiographical sketches of young immigrants by Harold Flender
Unorthodox : the scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots by Deborah Feldman
And the dead shall rise : the murder of Mary Phagan and the lynching of Leo Frank by Steve Oney
American space, Jewish time by Stephen J. Whitfield
Treasures of the heart : holiday stories that reveal the soul of Judaism by Diane Wolkstein
Judaism : the religion of reason : the philosophy of Hermann Cohen and how it shaped modern Jewish thought by Jehuda Melber
Israel: a reader; portrait of a nation and its people by Bill Adler
For Those Who Can't Believe : Overcoming the Obstacles to Faith by Harold Schulweis
Hebrew Crash Course by LANGUAGE/30 (2 CDs) by LANGUAGE/30
How Do I Decide?: A Contemporary Jewish Approach to What's Right and What's Wrong by Roland. B. Gittelsohn
Modern Yiddish Culture: The Story of the Yiddish Language Movement by Emanuel Goldsmith
Conversations with Rabbi Small by Harry Kemelman
What the Torah Teaches us About Survival by Laura Weakley
Hooray for Yiddish: A Book About English by Leo Calvin Rosten
Hebrew For Dummies by Jill Suzanne Jacobs
Death to the Infidels: Radical Islam's War Against the Jews by Mitchell G. Bard
Today I Am A Boy by David Hays
Sephardic Siddur with Linear Translation for Weekly, Shabbat and Festivals by Binyamin Kohansion
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism by Geoffrey W. Dennis
The Secret of Jewish Coaching: (Motivational, Inspirational & Personal Growth) (Kabbalah & Jewish Wisdom) (Guides for Coaching and Life Improvment Book 1) by Benny Gal
The Legends of the Jews - Volume 2 by Louis Ginzberg
The Legends of the Jews - Volume 4 by Louis Ginzberg
Love In A World Of Sorrow: A Teenage Girl's Holocaust Memoirs by Fanya Gottesfeld Heller
The Talmud vol. 13: The Steinsaltz Edition: Tractate Ta'Anit, Part I by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
The Talmud vol. 14: The Steinsaltz Edition : Tractate Ta'Anit, Part II by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
Jewish Ethics & Social Justice by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Survival Kit by Shimon Apisdorf
Sadie's Lag Ba'omer Mystery (Lag Ba'omer & Shavuot) by Jamie Korngold
Why be Jewish? by David J. Wolpe
Easy Guide to Shofar Sounding by Arthur L. Finkle
Explaining Reform Judaism by Eugene Borowitz
Introduction to Jewish History: From Abraham to the Sages, Teachers Edition by Seymour Rossel
The Book of Ruth Megillas Ruth a New Translation by Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz, and Scherman, Rabbi Nosson
An Introduction to Kings, Later Prophets, and Writings (Introduction to Kings, Later Prophets & Writings) by Shirley Newman
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Bible Commentaries 3: HUMASH MEFORASH 3: A MAKOR TEXT by Elias Persky
A Time to Every Purpose: Letters to a Young Jew by Jonathan D Sarna
The Jewish American Family Album (American Family Albums) by Dorothy Hoobler
The art of public prayer : not for clergy only by Lawrence A. Hoffman
The Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten
Legacy and Redemption by Joseph E. Tenenbaum
Yiddish: A Nation of Words by Miriam Weinstein
Legends of the Bible by Louis Ginzberg
Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis by Robert Graves
Times Square Rabbi: Finding the Hope in Lost Kids' Lives by Yehudah Fine
The Kosher Sutra: Eight Sacred Secrets for Reigniting Desire and Restoring Passion for Life by Shmuley Boteach
Jewish Women Living the Challenge: A Hadassah Compendium by Carol Diament
The Jews in America / David Cohen, editor & project director, Mark Rykoff, managing editor, Jennifer Erwitt, general manager, J. Curtis Sanburn, chief writer, introduction by Chaim Potok
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The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War by Martin Gilbert
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