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  • "Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times

    The Letters of Elias, Veza, and Georges Canetti, 1933-1948

    Translated by David Dollenmayer ...
    by Vesa & Elias Canetti ...
    In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describes the arrangement to his brother Georges as a “functional” marriage. Meanwhile, an intense intellectual love affair develops between Veza and Georges, a young doctor suffering fromtuberculosis. Four years later, Veza and Elias flee Nazi-ruled Vienna to London, where they lead an impoverished and extremely complicated ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

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  • The War Against the Jews, 1933–1945

    by Lucy S. Dawidowicz ...
    A history of how anti-Semitism evolved into the Holocaust in Germany: "If any book can tell what Hitlerism was like, this is it" (Alfred Kazin).Lucy Dawidowicz's groundbreaking The War Against the Jews inspired waves of both acclaim and controversy upon its release in 1975. Dawidowicz argues that genocide was, to the Nazis, as central a war goal as conquering Europe, and was made possible by a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Survival in the Shadows

    Seven Jews Hidden in Hitler's Berlin

    by Barbara Lovenheim ...
    National bestseller: This "harrowing" true story of two Jewish families who survived hiding in the heart of the Nazi capital "honors the human spirit" (Andrea Dworkin).In January 1943, unable to flee Germany, the four members of the Arndt family went underground to avoid deportation to Auschwitz. Ellen Lewinsky and her mother, Charlotte, joined them; a year later, Bruno Gumpel arrived. Hiding in a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Resistance

    The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    by Israel Gutman ...
    The "exhilarating" definitive account of the 1943 uprising in Poland's capital, named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and the Jewish Observer ( Los Angeles Times).No act of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust fired the imagination quite as much as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 1943. It was an event of epic proportions in which a group of relatively unarmed, untrained Jews ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Moral Reckoning

    The Role of the Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair

    by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen ...
    With his first book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen dramatically revised our understanding of the role ordinary Germans played in the Holocaust. Now he brings his formidable powers of research and argument to bear on the Catholic Church and its complicity in the destruction of European Jewry. What emerges is a work that goes far beyond the familiar inquiries—most of which ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Jews in America

    by Max I. Dimont ...
    "A wondrous tale of American Judaism" from the Colonial Era to the twentieth century, by the acclaimed author of Jews, God, and History ( Kirkus Reviews ).Beginning with the Sephardim who first reached the shores of America in the 1600s, this fascinating book by historian Max Dimont traces the journey of the Jews in the United States. It follows the various wav... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Jewish State

    by Theodor Herzl ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    'We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes'Theodor Herzl's passionate advocacy of the founding of a Jewish state grew out of his conviction that Jews would never be assimilated into the populations in which they lived. Herzl concluded that the only solution for the majority of Jews would be organised emigration to a state of their own.Herzl's political ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion

    by Herman Bernstein ...
    This is the history of a Lie—of a cruel and terrible Lie invented for the purpose of defaming the entire Jewish people. Given out as fiction, by a German anti-Semitic writer, involved in the Waldeck forgery case, who concealed his identity under the pen-name of an Englishman, it was gradually changed and elaborated, and finally groomed as fact. Agents of the Russian secret police department and of ... Read more

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  • The Israelis: Founders and Sons

    by Amos Elon ...
    “Superb… The first critical analysis of Israel written from within... It's a deliberate act of self-awareness, exploring how a people got where they are.” — Time“The most illuminating, even-handed, candid appraisal of the contemporary Jewish condition yet to appear” — Newsweek“[A] penetrating, profound, explosive essay-analysis of the Israelis and the Jews... Elon is that very rare writer of ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD

  • Imagining the Kibbutz

    Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film

    by Ranen Omer-Sherman ...
    Series series Dimyonot
    In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds to a significant gap in scholarship. Numerous sociological and economic studies have appeared, but no ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • You Never Call! You Never Write!

    A History of the Jewish Mother

    by Joyce Antler ...
    In You Never Call, You Never Write, Joyce Antler provides an illuminating and often amusing history of one of the best-known figures in popular culture--the Jewish Mother. Whether drawn as self-sacrificing or manipulative, in countless films, novels, radio and television programs, stand-up comedy, and psychological and historical studies, she appears as a colossal figure, intensely involved in the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars

    Comparing Genocide and Conquest

    by Edward B. Westermann ...
    Series series Campaigns and Commanders Series
    As he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler repeatedly drew parallels between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum, or living space, in Eastern Europe and the United States’s westward expansion under the banner of Manifest Destiny. The peoples of Eastern Europe were, he said, his “redskins,” and for his colonial fantasy of a “German East” he claimed a historical ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD