Jewish category: 3083 books
Berlin Ghetto
Herbert Baum and the Anti-Fascist Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
With a foreword by Elie Wiesel, the first book to tell the complete story of Herbert Baum and the Jewish antifascist resistance in Nazi Berlin This fascinating book tells the story of a group of young Jewish people who had lives filled with intellectual exploration, intense friendships and romances,...
by Simon Dubnow
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
What is Jewish History? In the first place, what does it offer as to quantity and as to quality? What are its range and content, and what distinguishes it in these two respects from the history of other nations? Furthermore, what is the essential meaning, what the spirit, of Jewish History? Or, to...
A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945
Politics, Culture, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
A comprehensive account of Jewish life in a country that carries the legacy of being at the epicenter of the Holocaust.
Originally published in German in 2012, this comprehensive history of Jewish life in postwar Germany provides a systematic account of Jews and Judaism from the Holocaust to the...
by Peter Fraenkel
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
In this memoir, Fraenkel writes as a member of an enclosed minority: German Jew within a predominantly Lithuanian Jewish community which was part of a white settler community, itself a minority in a predominantly black African territory. A young settler reprimanded him for stepping out of the way...
Vienna Is Different
Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-Siècle to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Assessing the impact of fin-de-siècle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the...
Jewish Responses to Persecution
1944–1946
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
With its unique combination of primary sources and historical narrative*, Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1944–1946,* provides an important new perspective on Holocaust history. Covering the final year of Nazi destruction and the immediate postwar years, it traces the increasingly urgent Jewish...
The New Life
Jewish Students of Postwar Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs) survived in concentration and death camps, in hiding, and as exiles in the Soviet interior. After liberation in the land of their persecutors, some also attended university to fulfill dreams of becoming doctors, engineers, and professionals. In The New Life: Jewish Students...
Strangers in Berlin
Modern Jewish Literature between East and West, 1919–1933
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Berlin in the 1920s was a cosmopolitan hub where for a brief, vibrant moment German-Jewish writers crossed paths with Hebrew and Yiddish migrant writers. Working against the prevailing tendency to view German and East European Jewish cultures as separate fields of study, Strangers in Berlin is the...
In Search of Israel
The History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should be
Many Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the...
Troubling the Waters
Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Was there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America? And if there was, what happened to it? In Troubling the Waters, Cheryl Greenberg answers these questions more definitively than they have ever been answered before, drawing the richest portrait yet of what was less an alliance...
by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, Steven Capsuto
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
WITH MORE THAN 50 VINTAGE PHOTOS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
From the 1880s to 1920s, more than 2 million Jews immigrated to the United States. Most were fleeing poverty and persecution in Eastern Europe and the Russian Empire. As the U.S. Jewish population swelled from 250,000 to 4 million, they built...
Zion in America
The Jewish Experience from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Scholarly yet highly readable, this concise history of the American Jewish experience makes compelling reading. Starting even before the 1654 arrival of the first Jewish immigrants, it profiles the wide-ranging Old World origins of the people of the Diaspora, in addition to examining the New World...
by Dagobert D. Runes
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
An eye-opening classic volume on the enduring cultural impact of the Jewish people
This authoritative work considers the creative and cultural influence of the Jews throughout our time. At more than 800 pages, D. D. Runes has complied a mid-twentieth century account of the various contributions...
by Shmuel Katz
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Shmuel Katz’s detailed and comprehensive biography of Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880–1940) is an unabashedly partisan defense of one of the most complex Zionists of the early 20th century. Jabotinsky was a Russian poet, playwright, journalist, and novelist as well as the founder of Revisionist Zionism...