Jewish category: 3083 books
The Scroll and the Cross
1,000 Years of Jewish-Hispanic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This groundbreaking, eclectic book of readings, edited by Ilan Stavans, whom The Washington Post described as "one of our foremost cultural critics," offers a sideboard of the ups and downs of that partnership. It includes...
by Valerie Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
What can the few remaining survivors of the Holocaust teach us before they are gone? What is it that hasn’t yet been said? A high school teacher is given the opportunity to find out when one such survivor chooses her to preserve her final testament. In The Risk of Sorrow, Valerie Foster, an Irish-Catholic...
Becoming My Mother’s Daughter
A Story of Survival and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2009
Becoming My Mother’s Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal tells the story of three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family whose fate has been inextricably bound up with the turbulent history of Europe, from the First World War through the Holocaust and the communist takeover after World War...
by Libi Astaire
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
"The world is built with kindness," King David wrote in Psalm 83. And he should know. He was the great-grandson of Ruth, the Jewish convert who became known as the embodiment of kindness—and whose story we read on the holiday of Shavuos.
Like Ruth before them, the Chassidic masters,...
Blood Libel
The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The ritual murder accusation is one of a series of myths that fall under the label blood libel, and describes the medieval legend that Jews require Christian blood for obscure religious purposes and are capable of committing murder to obtain it. This malicious myth continues to have an explosive afterlife...
The War of 1948
Representations of Israeli and Palestinian Memories and Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The 1948 War is remembered in this special volume, including aspects of Israeli-Jewish memory and historical narratives of 1948 and representations of Israeli-Palestinian memory of that cataclysmic event and its consequences. The contributors map and analyze a range of perspectives of the 1948 War...
by Zvi Kolitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
A dying Jew's last words to God -- a text that is regarded as the greatest piece of writing to have emerged from the Holocaust -- the story of how it came to be written, and the afterlife of both the author and his creation.
As the German tanks destroy the Warsaw Ghetto, one of the few remaining fighters,...
A Pedigreed Jew
Between There and Here – Kovno and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Part of a new Holocaust remembrance series of important testimonies and memoirs from the unique collections of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre. Nechama Baruchson, a native of Kovno, was a company commander of the underground movement of the ABZ in the Kovno ghetto. After the destruction...
by Karen Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2008
The Massacre of Lithuania's Jews : Lithuanian Collaboration in the Final Solution, 1941 1944 exposes several misconceptions concerning the role of Lithuanians, both the leaders and the ordinary people, in rounding up and murdering their Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust. It is well documented...
Against Apion
With Linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
I suppose that by my books of the Antiquity of the Jews, most excellent Epaphroditus, have made it evident to those who peruse them, that our Jewish nation is of very great antiquity, and had a distinct subsistence of its own originally; as also, I have therein declared how we came to inhabit this...
by Larry Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
On June 1, 1943, the B17E, Texas #6 did not return from its reconnaissance mission over New Guinea. Navigator Charles Lewis was declared missing in action. On December 3, 1944, Rifle Company I, 3rd Battalion, attacked the town of Lucherberg, Germany and twenty two of those American GIs were taken...
Death of a Holy Land
Reflections in Contemporary Israeli Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Death of a Holy Land: Reflections in Contemporary Israeli Fiction, by Rose Levinson, uses the work of four contemporary Israeli authors as a lens into present-day Israel. Discussing the novels of Orly Castel-Bloom, Michal Govrin, Zeruya Shalev, and Yoram Kaniuk, the book argues for a new understanding...
Anne Frank House Amsterdam
Anne's Secret Annex turned into Museum
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Want to visit the Anne Frank House? Must read before you visit Amsterdam
One of the most popular museums in Amsterdam, the Anne Frank House, attracts over 1.2 million visitors a year. A museum you should definitely see when you are in Amsterdam (Holland). It was the hiding place during the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and renowned memoirist, is one of the most widely read writers of post-World War II Italy. His works are characterized by the lean, dispassionate eloquence with which he approaches his experience of incarceration in Auschwitz. His memoirs--as well as his poetry and fiction...