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Lewyn Addresses America
Thursday, 1 January 2009
Books and movies I saw/read in 2008

MOVIES (* means I really liked)

 1. I Am Legend
 2. Persepolis*
3. Walk Hard*
4. No Country For Old Men
 5. Michael Clayton
 6. Juno
 7. There Will Be Blood
 8. The Countefeiters
9. Wall-E
10. Brideshead Revisited
11. Boy In The Striped Pajamas
12. The Reader
13.  Doubt*
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1. Best Laid Plans, O’Toole
 2. Torah Through Time, Cherry
3. Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Yehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884-1966, Shapiro*

4. The Documentary Hypothesis and The Composition of the Pentateuch, Cassuto
5. Peace not Apartheid, Carter
6. The Absolutely Worst Places to Live in America, Dave Gilmartin
7. Rybczynski, Last Harvest
8. Road to Ruin, Dom Nozzi
9. The Provincials, Evans
10. Schacht, An Introduction To Islamic Law
11. Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
12. Sacks, The Dignity of Difference
13. Angel, Foundations of Sephardic Spirituality
14. Levi, The Periodic Table
15. Armstrong, The Battle for God
16. Obama, Dreams from My Father*
17. Rosenbaum, The Holocaust and Halakhah
18. Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew
19. Scholem, The Messianic Idea In Judaism
20. Obama, The Audacity of Hope
21. Kushner, Who Needs God?
22. Lynn Austin, Gods and Kings
23. Ginzberg, Louis Ginzberg, Keeper of the Law
24. Merriam, Complete Guide to Zoning*
25. Dahl, Matilda
26. Perl, Revealer of Secrets
27. Cohn-Sherbock, Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers
28. Ellenson, After Emancipation
29. Eisen, Taking Hold of Torah
30. Goldhill, The Temple of Jerusalem
31. Scholem, A Life In Letters, 1914-82
32. Hagee, Jerusalem Countdown
33. Newman, Defensible Space
34. Goodman, Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Civilizations
35. Gross, The Last Jews in Berlin
36. Steinsaltz, Talmudic Images
37. Popper, Bordering on Madness
38. Ferrigno, Sins of the Assassin
39. Halbertal, People of the Book
40. Humphries, Superdove*
41. Kushner, Healthy Cities
42. Potter-Efron, Angry All The Time
43. Shaw, Forty Days to Begin Spiritual Life
44. Pelcovitz, Sforno Torah Commentary
45. Levine, Case Studies In Jewish Ethics
46. Adler, Jewish Travelers in the Middle Ages
47. Martin, Quiet Revolution
48. Dean, Warren G. Harding
49. Graff, Grover Cleveland
50. Joselit, New York’s Jewish Jews*
51. Fernandes, The Last Jews of Kerala
52. Phillips, William McKinley
 52.5. Shapiro, Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox
53. Jackson, Landscapes
54. Dippel, Bound Upon A Wheel of Fire
55. Halivni, Breaking the Tablets
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Posted by lewyn at 10:42 AM EST
Updated: Thursday, 1 January 2009 11:01 AM EST

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