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  • The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos during the Holocaust

    by Dan Michman ...
    Translated by Lenn J. Schramm ...
    This book is a linguistic-cultural study of the emergence of the Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust. It traces the origins and uses of the term 'ghetto' in European discourse from the sixteenth century to the Nazi regime. It examines with a magnifying glass both the actual establishment of and the discourse of the Nazis and their allies on ghettos from 1939 to 1944. With conclusions that oppose ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • A Tale Of Love And Darkness

    by Amos Oz, Nicholas de Lange ...
    The International Bestselling memoir from award-winning author Amos Oz, "one of Isreal's most prolific writers and respected intellectuals" (The New York Times), about his turbulent upbringing in the city of Jerusalem in the era of the dissolution of Mandatory Palestine and the beginning of the State of Israel.Winner of the National Jewish Book Award"[An] ingenious work that circles around the ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

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  • A Jew Today

    by Elie Wiesel ...
    A powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, letters, and diary entries that weave together all the periods of the author's life from his childhood in Transylvania to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Paris, and New York. • "One of the great writers of our generation addresses himself to the question of what it means to be a Jew." —The New RepublicElie Wiesel, acclaimed as one of the most gifted and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate

    A Novel

    by Letty Cottin Pogrebin ...
    This novel "unflinchingly confronts the issue of Jewish continuity in a diverse and changing America" (Anne Roiphe, author and journalist).Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin's second novel is the story of Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother on her deathbed that he will marry within the tribe and raise Jewish children. When he falls for Cleo Scott, an ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Israel

    A History of a Revolutionary State

    by Jonathan Adelman ...
    Series Book 10 - Israeli History, Politics and Society
    The state of Israel is one of the most controversial countries in the world. Yet, its unique creation and rise to power in 1948 has not been adequately explained either by its friends (mainstream Zionists) nor by its detractors (Arabists and post-Zionists).Using a variety of comparative methodologies; from contrasting the Jewish state to other minorities in the Ottoman Turkish Empire to the rise ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Tenuous Threads / One of the Lucky Ones

    by Judy Abrams, Eva Felsenberg Marx ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Two Jewish girls born six months apart — Judy Abrams in Hungary and Eva Felsenburg Marx in Czechoslovakia — are only children when they are thrown into the turmoil and terror of World War II. At seven, Judy’s mother leaves her at a convent where she must adopt a new Christian identity. Eva is first sent away at two, then again at six, in disguise and tearful. Separated from their parents, forced ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Scattered Ghosts

    One Family's Survival through War, Holocaust and Revolution

    by Nick Barlay ...
    When two Hungarian Jewish refugees landed by accident in Britain in the winter of 1956, they had little idea what the future would hold. But they carried with them the traces of their turbulent past, just enough to provide the clues to their past. Scattered Ghosts combines memoir, investigation and travel to resurrect 200 years of wars and revolutions, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire via two ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Suddenly the Shadow Fell

    by Leslie Meisels ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    All 17-year-old Leslie Meisels knows in June 1944 is that he must get his family out of the terrible conditions in the ghetto in Debrecen, Hungary. Over his mother’s objections, his decision to push their way on to a transport could have sent them all to a death camp. Instead, they join the roughly 20,000 “Jews on ice” whose lives are saved — temporarily — in Austria. After the war, when Leslie is ... Read more

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  • Fleeing from the Hunter

    by Marian Domanski ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    On the run in Nazi-occupied Poland, thirteen-year-old orphan Marian Finkelman – later Domanski – must fend for himself in a desperate search for safety. Forced to grow up much too early, the daring young boy risks his life over and over again to slip in and out of the ghetto in his hometown of Otwock to find food. When he finally escapes the ghetto, alone and living by his wits, Marian’s perfect ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Not in the Heavens

    The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought

    by David Biale ...
    The story of the origins and development of a Jewish form of secularismNot in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence of Jewish secularism was ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History

    Edited by Alan Forrest, Matthias Middell ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History engages with some of the most recent trends in French revolutionary scholarship by considering the Revolution in its global context. Across seventeen chapters an international team of contributors examine the impact of the Revolution not only on its European neighbours but on Latin America, North America and Africa, assess how far ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Jewish Intermarriage Around the World

    by Sergio DellaPergola ...
    Most research on intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews focuses on the United States. This volume takes a path-breaking approach, examining countries with smaller Jewish populations so as to better understand countries with larger Jewish populations. It focuses on intermarriage in Great Britain, France, Scandinavia, the Soviet Union, Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Argentina ... Read more

    $80.99 USD