Jewish category: 3083 books
by Albert Memmi
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
The Liberation of the Jew by Albert Memmi (translated from the French by Judy Hyun; 86,000 words)
In this book, written after The Colonizer and the Colonized and Portrait of a Jew, Albert Memmi writes, “It is true that all oppression has a strong tendency to become a total oppression, but...
by Jacqueline Rose
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2007
Zionism was inspired as a movement--one driven by the search for a homeland for the stateless and persecuted Jewish people. Yet it trampled the rights of the Arabs in Palestine. Today it has become so controversial that it defies understanding and trumps reasoned public debate. So argues prominent...
by Norman Podhoretz
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
From the bestselling author of World War IV, a brilliant investigation of a central question in American politics and culture.
During his career as a neoconservative thinker, Norman Podhoretz has been asked no question more often than “Why are so many Jews liberals?” In this provocative...
Israel in History
The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2006
Covering topical issues concerning the nature of the Israeli state, this engaging work presents essays that combine a variety of comparative schemes, both internal to Jewish civilization and extending throughout the world, such as:
modern Jewish society, politics and culture
historical...
From Kabbalah to Class Struggle
Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
From Kabbalah to Class Struggle is an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (1893–1941), an Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer. His dramatic life story offers a fascinating...
Four Thousand Lives
The Rescue of German Jewish Men to Britain, 1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
In November 1938, about 30,000 German Jewish men were taken to concentration camps where they were subject to torture, starvation, and arbitrary death. This book tells the remarkable story of how the grandees of Anglo Jewry persuaded the British Government to allow them to establish a transit camp...
City of Rogues and Schnorrers
Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
“Outstanding . . . A delightfully written work of serious scholarship.” —Jewish Book World
Old Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who flocked...
The Jews of Silence
A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
In the fall of 1965 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent a young journalist named Elie Wiesel to the Soviet Union to report on the lives of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. “I would approach Jews who had never been placed in the Soviet show window by Soviet authorities,” wrote Wiesel. “They...
Haskalah and Beyond
The Reception of the Hebrew Enlightenment and the Emergence of Haskalah Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Haskalah and Beyond deals with the Hebrew Haskalah (Enlightenment) — the literary, cultural, and social movement in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe. It represents the emergence of modernism and perhaps the budding of some aspects of secularism in Jewish society, following the efforts of the...
Jews and the Civil War
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
At least 8,000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. A few served together in Jewish companies while most fought alongside Christian comrades. Yet even as they stood “shoulder-to-shoulder” on the front lines, they encountered unique challenges.In...
Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews
Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many perceived American Jewry to be in a state of crisis as traditions of faith faced modern sensibilities. Published beginning in 1909, Rabbi and Professor Louis Ginzberg’s seven-volume The Legends of the Jews appeared at this crucial time and offered a landmark...
Bagnowka
A Modern Jewish Cemetery on the Russian Pale
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
In the last decade of the nineteenth century, a traditional Jewish cemetery was established in the small town of Bagnowka, located near the urban center of Bialystok in current northeastern Poland. Though governed then by Tsarist Russia, Bialystok was still inspired by the teachings of the Torah,...
The Book Smugglers
Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts—first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets—by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance,...
by Seth Lipsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Part of the Jewish Encounters series
The first general-interest biography of the legendary editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, the newspaper of Yiddish-speaking immigrants that inspired, educated, and entertained millions of readers; helped redefine journalism during its golden age; and transformed...