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  • The Last Consolation Vanished

    The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz

    by Zalmen Gradowski ...
    Translated by Rubye Monet ...
    A first-person Holocaust account by a prisoner killed in Auschwitz: "An act of witness that rises now and then to Biblical heights of eloquence." —J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize–winning authorFilling a gap in history, The Last Consolation Vanished is the first complete English translation and critical edition of one prisoner's powerful account of life and death in Auschwitz, written in Yiddish and ... Read more

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  • Night

    by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel ...
    Translated by Marion Wiesel ...
    A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Spinoza Problem

    A Novel

    by Irvin D. Yalom ...
    A haunting portrait of Arthur Rosenberg, one of Nazism's chief architects, and his obsession with one of history's most influential Jewish thinkers.“Irvin Yalom is the most significant writer of psychological fiction in the world today ... The Spinoza Problem** is a masterpiece.” ―Martin E. P. Seligman, author of** Learned OptimismIn The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and... ... Read more

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  • The Sunflower

    On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

    by Simon Wiesenthal ...
    A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more.You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do?While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Milena

    by Margarete Buber-Neumann ...
    Margarete Buber, the journalist daughter of Martin Buber, and Milena Jesenska, the beautiful lover of Kafka, met in Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1940. For four terrible years, the two women formed an extraordinary bond and made a pact that if only one survived, the other would bear witness. Only Margarete lived to remember. This is her story of Milena-of fearless love, sacrifice, and nobility ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Still Alive

    A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

    by Ruth Kluger ...
    Series series The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series
    A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times).**Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she ... Read more

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  • Letters to Milena

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Series series The Schocken Kafka Library
    In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenska, was a gifted and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was uniquely able to recognize Kafka's complex genius and his even more complex character. For the thirty-six-year ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Night: Memorial Edition

    by Elisha Wiesel, Elie Wiesel, Barack Obama ...
    A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel’s seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha PowerWhen Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him “the conscience of the world.” The whole of the president’s eloquent tribute serves as a foreword to this memorial edition of Night. “Like ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • At the Mind's Limits

    Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities

    by Jean Améry ...
    Translated by Sidney Rosenfeld, Stella P. Rosenfeld ...
    This searing memoir of the author's concentration camp experience "is the autobiography of an extraordinarily acute conscience" ( Newsweek)."Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world."At the Mind's Limits is the story of one man's incredible struggle to understand the reality of horror. In five autobiographical essays, Amery describes his survival—mental, moral, and ... Read more

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  • Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust

    by Yaffa Eliach ...
    Derived by the author from interviews and oral histories, these eighty-nine original Hasidic tales about the Holocaust provide unprecedented witness, in a traditional idiom, to the victims' inner experience of "unspeakable" suffering. This volume constitutes the first collection of original Hasidic tales to be published in a century."An important work of scholarship and a sudden clear window onto ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • White Nights

    The Story of a Prisoner in Russia

    by Menachem Begin ...
    WHITE NIGHTS, Menachem Begin’s memoir of his arrest, interrogation and imprisonment by the Soviet authorities after the outbreak of World War II, ranks with House of the Dead and Gulag Archipelago as a masterpiece of prison literature.As the head of Betar, the Zionist youth movement founded by Vladimir Jabotinsky, Begin knew he was under constant surveillance. He watched as his associates either ... Read more

    $5.20 CAD

  • Yiddish

    The Biography of a Language

    by Miriam Weinstein ...
    This first-ever biography on Yiddish is “a charming and highly readable history of the language” that “recreates the sound of a world . . . gone forever” (The Washington Post)For a thousand years Yiddish, was the glue that held a people together. Through the intimacies of daily use, it linked European Jews with their heroic past, their spiritual universe, their increasingly far-flung relations. In ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD