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A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 19391945
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Witness to many war atrocities and one of the few survivors of both the Lodz and Warsaw ghettos, Edward Reicher’s testimony has been cited in many scholarly works, but this is the first time English-speaking readers will have access to his complete and uniquely chilling account. Forced to join the...
In the Shadow of the Shtetl
Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some 400 returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Jeffrey...
A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz
History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Eliezer Gruenbaum (1908–1948) was a Polish Jew denounced for serving as a Kapo while interned at Auschwitz. He was the communist son of Itzhak Gruenbaum, the most prominent secular leader of interwar Polish Jewry who later became the chairman of the Jewish Agency’s Rescue Committee during the...
Jewish Responses to Persecution
1942–1943
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
With its unique combination of primary sources and historical narrative, this volume provides an important new perspective on Holocaust history. Covering the peak years of the Nazi “Final Solution,” it traces the Jewish struggle for survival, which became increasingly urgent in this period, including...
Final Solution
The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
David Cesarani’s Final Solution is a magisterial work of history that chronicles the fate of Europe’s Jews. Based on decades of scholarship, documentation newly available from the opening of Soviet archives, declassification of Western intelligence service records, as well as diaries and reports...
Fear
Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
An astonishing and heartbreaking study of the Polish Holocaust survivors who returned home only to face continued violence and anti-Semitism at the hands of their neighbors
“[Fear] culminates in so keen a shock that even a student of the Jewish tragedy during World War II cannot fail to feel...
by Shlomo Sand
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend...
Emissary of the Doomed
Bargaining for Lives in the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
The official little known WWII story of a desperate attempt to save Hungary's Jewish population
When Nazi troops invaded in March 1944, Hungary contained the largest intact Jewish population in Europe. Until then, stories of Auschwitz and other "resettlement camps" were still treated...
Rhodes and the Holocaust
The Story of the Jewish Community from the Mediterranean Island of Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Rhodes and the Holocaust is the story of La Juderia, the Jewish community that once lived and flourished on Rhodes Island, the largest of the twelve Dodecanese islands in the Mediterranean Sea near the coast of Turkey. While the focus of the accounts of the Holocaust has for the most part been on...
This is Home Now
Kentucky's Holocaust Survivors Speak
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The term "Holocaust survivors" is often associated with Jewish communities in New York City or along Florida's Gold Coast. Traditionally, tales of America's Holocaust survivors, in both individual and cultural histories, have focused on places where people fleeing from Nazi atrocities congregated...
by Michael Stanislawski
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Zionism is the nationalist movement affirming Jewish people's right to self-determination through the establishment of a Jewish national state in its ancient homeland. It is one of the most controversial ideologies in the world. Its supporters laud its success at liberating the Jewish people after...
A Jew in the Public Arena
The Career of Israel Zangwill
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
After winning an international audience with his novel Children of the Ghetto, Israel Zangwill went on to write numerous short stories, four additional novels, and several plays, including The Melting Pot. Author Meri-Jane Rochelson, a noted expert on Zangwill’s work, examines his career from its beginnings...
Unclean Lips
Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award presented by the Association for Jewish Studies
Jews have played an integral role in the history of obscenity in America. For most of the 20th century, Jewish entrepreneurs and editors led the charge against obscenity laws. Jewish lawyers battled...
The Golden Age Shtetl
A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging...