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  • The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881

    by Israel Bartal ...
    Translated by Chaya Naor ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881

    by Israel Bartal ...
    Translated by Chaya Naor ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The Golden Age Shtetl

    A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe

    by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern ...
    A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of the shtetl as an isolated, ... Read more

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  • Far to Go

    by Alison Pick ...
    Series series Anansi Book Club Editions
    Winner of the Helen and Stan Vine Jewish Book Award and finalist for the Man Booker Prize In Far to Go, one of our most accomplished young writers takes us inside the world of an affluent Jewish family in Prague during the lead-up to Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia.In 1939, Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are secular Jews whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of Hitler. They are unable ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why the Jews?

    The Reason for Antisemitism

    by Dennis Prager, Joseph Telushkin ...
    Series series An Examination of Antisemitism
    From the bestselling authors of The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism, a compelling discussion of the dangerous rise in antisemitism during the twenty-first century.The very word Jew continues to arouse passions as does no other religious, national, or political name. Why have Jews been the object of the most enduring and universal hatred in history? Why did Hitler consider murdering Jews ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Why?

    Explaining the Holocaust

    by Peter Hayes ...
    **Featured in the PBS documentary, "The US and the Holocaust" by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein"Superbly written and researched, synthesizing the classics while digging deep into a vast repository of primary sources." —Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal**Why? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Holocaust

    History & Memory

    by Jeremy Black ...
    "A compact and cogent academic account of the Holocaust." — Kirkus ReviewsBrilliant and wrenching, The Holocaust: History and Memory tells the story of the brutal mass slaughter of Jews during World War II and how that genocide has been remembered and misremembered ever since. Taking issue with generations of scholars who separate the Holocaust from Germany's military ambitions, historian Jeremy M ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

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  • Hitler and the Holocaust

    by Robert S. Wistrich ...
    Series Book 8 - Modern Library Chronicles
    Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewry. Robert S. Wistrich begins by reckoning with Europe’s long history of violence against the Jews, and how that tradition manifested itself in Germany and Austria in the early twentieth century. He looks at the forces that shaped Hitler’s belief in ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History

    by David Biale ...
    To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided political decisions," like Israel's Lebanese WarBiale analyzes Jewish history from the point of view of politics and power.The author of Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History here challenges the conventions of what he terms the Jewish "mythical ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Antisemitism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Steven Beller ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism in the 21st century. Steven Beller reveals how Antisemitism grew as a political and ideological movement in the 19th ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Karl Marx

    Philosophy and Revolution

    by Shlomo Avineri ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
    This new exploration of Marx as a Jewish thinker presents "a perceptive and fair-minded corrective to superficial treatments" of his life and work (Jonathan Rose, Wall Street Journal).A philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor, Karl Marx was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history. But he is rarely thought of as a ... Read more

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