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  • Buried by the Times

    The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper

    by Laurel Leff ...
    An in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939–45. It examines how the decisions that were made at The Times ultimately resulted in the minimizing and misunderstanding of modern history's worst genocide. Laurel Leff, a veteran journalist and professor of journalism, recounts how personal relationships at the newspaper, the assimilationist ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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    American Universities' Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe

    by Laurel Leff ...
    A harrowing account of the profoundly consequential decisions American universities made about refugee scholars from Nazi-dominated Europe--a finalist for a 2020 National Jewish Book AwardThe United States' role in saving Europe's intellectual elite from the Nazis is often told as a tale of triumph, which in many ways it was. America welcomed Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, Hannah Arendt and ... Read more

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    American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe

    by Laurel Leff ...
    Narrated by Suzanne Toren ...

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    10 hours 45 min

    A harrowing account of the profoundly consequential decisions American universities made about refugee scholars from Nazi-dominated EuropeThe United States' role in saving Europe's intellectual elite from the Nazis is often told as a tale of triumph, which in many ways it was. America welcomed Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse, Rudolf Carnap and Richard Courant, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism

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    A groundbreaking — and terrifying — examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century, by the prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of Hitler's Willing Executioners.Antisemitism never went away, but since the turn of the century it has multiplied beyond what anyone would have predicted. It is openly spread by intellectuals, politicians and religious ... Read more

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  • The Chosen Few

    How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492

    by Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville to Mangalore. What caused this radical change? The Chosen Few presents a new answer to this question ... Read more

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  • The Jewish Jesus

    How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other

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    How the rise of Christianity profoundly influenced the development of Judaism in late antiquityIn late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old. The rise and revolutionary challenge of Christianity also had a profound influence on rabbinic Judaism, which was itself just emerging and, like Christianity, trying to shape ... Read more

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  • The Love of God

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  • Antisemitism

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    Antisemitism: A History offers a readable overview of a daunting topic, describing and analyzing the hatred that Jews have faced from ancient times to the present. The essays contained in this volume provide an ideal introduction to the history and nature of antisemitism, stressing readability, balance, and thematic coherence, while trying to gain some distance from the polemics and apologetics ... Read more

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  • Changing the World from the Inside Out

    A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change

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