Jewish category: 3083 books
Resistance
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
The “exhilarating” definitive account of the 1943 uprising in Poland’s capital, named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and the Jewish Observer (Los Angeles Times).
No act of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust fired the imagination quite as much as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising...
by Alex Garel-Frantzen
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Al Capone. The Untouchables. The Valentine's Day massacre. You may think you know everything about the Roaring Twenties in the Windy City, but in the early twentieth century, the harsh environment of the Maxwell Street ghetto produced a proliferation of Jewish gangsters involved in everything from labor...
by Nelly Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Bernard-Lazare (1865-1903) was a French Jewish writer and a prime mover in the Dreyfus Affair. After being involved in the Symbolist and anarchist movements, he took up the cause of Dreyfus in his brochure “Une erreur judiciaire” which anticipated Zola’s “J’accuse” by three years. He was...
I Choose Life
Two Linked Stories of Holocaust Survival and Rebirth
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
I Choose Life is the true, first person account of two Jewish youths, Sol and Goldie, who survived Nazi concentration camps and transcended despair by choosing life. The book title derives from a harrowing encounter between Sol and the Commandant in Auschwitz. The Nazi cruelly forced Sol to choose...
The Bagel
The Surprising History of a Modest Bread
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
A “scrumptious little book” about the cultural and historical background of this humble and hearty treat (The New York Times).
If smoked salmon and cream cheese bring only one thing to mind, you can count yourself among the world’s millions of bagel mavens. But few people are aware of...
The Last Jews of Kerala
The Two Thousand Year History of India's Forgotten Jewish Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Two thousand years ago, trade routes and the fall of Jerusalem took Jewish settlers seeking sanctuary across Europe and Asia. One little-known group settled in Kerala, in tropical southwestern India. Eventually numbering in the thousands, with eight synagogues, they prospered. Some came to possess...
The House at Ujazdowskie 16
Jewish Families in Warsaw After the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
The compelling history of ten Jewish families rebuilding their lives in Warsaw after the Holocaust—“amply illustrated . . . the book reverberates with hope” (Jewish Book Council).
Warsaw, Poland, once described as the “Paris of the East,” had been transformed into a landscape of ruin...
Churchill and the Jews
A Lifelong Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
An insightful history of Churchill's lifelong commitment—both public and private—to the Jews and Zionism, and of his outspoken opposition to anti-Semitism
Winston Churchill was a young man in 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was convicted of treason...
by Gene H. Rosenblum
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2002
Beginning in 1882, many Russian and Eastern-European Jews who fled to the United States settled in the "West Side Flats" in St. Paul, Minnesota. The area once stretched from the banks of the Mississippi River to the cliffs of the West Side Hills, about 320 acres in all, but has since fallen victim to...
by Samantha Baskind
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto staged a now legendary revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Since that day, the deprivation and despair of life in the ghetto and the dramatic uprising of its inhabitants have captured the American cultural imagination. The Warsaw...
by Dolly Beil
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
A colorful memoir of Jewish life in China during the first half of the twentieth century.
Dolly Beil spent the first part of her life in the Chinese cities of Tsingtao (Qingdao), Mukden (Shenyang), Harbin, and Tientsin (Tianjin). Her father, owner of a jewellery store and a businessman, descended...
by Solomon Perel
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1997
The Inspiration Behind The Golden Globe-Winning Film
"An engrossing and memorable tale."-Jewish Book World
"The sheer emotion of telling the tale is palpable. The whole is moving, and strange beyond belief." -The Times (London)
International acclaim for Solomon Perel's...
Collect and Record!
Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
This book describes the vibrant activity of survivors who founded Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers in Europe immediately after the Second World War. In the first postwar decade, these initiatives collected thousands of Nazi documents along with testimonies, memoirs, diaries,...
Looking Backward
True Stories from Chicago's Jewish Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
The history of Jews in Chicago is a fascinating, complex and largely unknown story. Thanks to the unstinting efforts of Walter Roth, much of this history has been preserved. Now, for the first time, this material has been distilled into a single volume, chronicling events and people from the late...