Jewish category: 3083 books
My Train to Freedom
A Jewish Boy?s Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The breathtaking memoir by a member of Nicky’s family,” a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning humanitarian and former Episcopal priest,...
Our Crime Was Being Jewish
Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
In the shouted words of a woman bound for Auschwitz to a man about to escape from a cattle car, If you get out, maybe you can tell the story! Who else will tell it?”
Our Crime Was Being Jewish contains 576 vivid memories of 358 Holocaust survivors. These are the true, insider stories of...
Fromms
How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child....
The Hands of War
A Tale of Endurance and Hope, from a Survivor of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was German. She was Jewish. She was a survivor. This is her story.
As a young girl, Marione was aware that people of the Jewish faith were regarded as outsiders, the supposed root of Germany’s many problems. She grew...
A Bintel Brief
Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward's legendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Created in 1906 to help bewildered Eastern European immigrants learn about their new country,...
Lincoln and the Jews
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
One hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln's death, the full story of his extraordinary relationship with Jews is told here for the first time. Lincoln and the Jews: A History provides readers both with a captivating narrative of his interactions with Jews, and with the opportunity to immerse...
by Sasha Abramsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Named one of Kirkus's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015
The House of Twenty Thousand Books is the story of Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast collection of socialist literature and Jewish history. For more than fifty years Chimen and his wife, Miriam,...
by Isaac Husik
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A noted scholar elucidates the distinguishing characteristics of the works of several Jewish thinkers of the Middle Ages. In addition to summaries of the main arguments and teachings of Moses Maimonides, Isaac Israeli, Judah Halevi, Abraham Ibn Daud, Hillel ben Samuel, Levi ben Gerson, and others, the author offers insightful analyses.
Rescue Board
The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
For more than a decade, a harsh Congressional immigration policy kept most Jewish refugees out of America, even as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. In 1944, the United States finally acted. That year, Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board,...
by Ilan Stavans
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns...
Wrestling with God
Jewish Theological Responses during and after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2007
This volume presents a wide-ranging selection of Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust. It will be the most complete anthology of its sort, bringing together for the first time: (1) a large sample of ultra-orthodox writings, translated from the Hebrew and Yiddish; (2) a substantial selection...
Bernard Malamud
A Centennial Tribute
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Master storyteller and literary stylist Bernard Malamud is considered one of the top three most influential postwar American Jewish writers, having established a voice and a presence for other authors in the literary canon. Along with Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, Malamud brought to life a decidedly American...
Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death
A Holocaust Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2004
"This is a beautifully written, insightful chronicle of a young girl's Holocaust survival. Though very private and personal, it nevertheless captures the common torments of children living through this disastrous civilizational breakdown.
What makes this book unique is that the author...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2010
I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the garment industry in Canada. Basing...