Jewish category: 3083 books
50 Children
One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939—the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States—for readers of In the Garden of...
Dancing with the Enemy
My Family's Holocaust Secret
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The gripping story of the author’s aunt, a Jewish dance instructor who was betrayed to the Nazis by the two men she loved, yet managed to survive WWII by teaching dance lessons to the SS at Auschwitz. Her epic life becomes a window into the author’s own past and the key to discovering his Jewish...
by Flavius Josephus,William Whiston (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic...
by Shimon Redlich
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Life in Transit is the long-awaited sequel to Shimon Redlichs widely acclaimed Together and Apart in Brzezany, in which he discussed his childhood during the War and the Holocaust. Life in Transit tells the story of his adolescence in the city of Lodz in postwar Poland. Redlichs personal memories...
Until Our Last Breath
A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
"This is a powerful tale of the triumph of love under extremely difficult conditions. " - Publishers Weekly
At Leizer Bart's funeral, one of the mourners told his son Michael that the gravestone should include a reference to the Freedom Fighters of Nekamah, to honor his late father's...
by Inge Deutschkron, Jean Steinberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
In 1933, when she is ten, Berliner Inge Deutschkron learns that she is a Jew. At first her family is at greater risk for their leftist politics than because they are Jews. Her father flees to England; Inge and her mother hide in plain sight as non-Jews, dependent on the underground network for their...
The Cut Out Girl
A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
**COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER
“The hidden gem of the year . . . Sensational and gripping, and shedding light on some of the most urgent issues of our time, this was our unanimous winner.” —Judges of the 2018 Costa Award
The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl...
When Memory Comes
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A classic of Holocaust literature, the eloquent, acclaimed memoir of childhood by a Pulitzer-winning historian, now reissued with a new introduction by Claire Messud
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Four months before Hitler came to power, Saul Friedländer was born in Prague to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939, seven-year-old...
The Lost
A Search for Six of Six Million
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A New York Times Notable Book • Winner of the National Jewish Book Award • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
“A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship,...
Israel
A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award
The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, "one of the most respected Israel analysts" (The Forward) living and writing in Jerusalem.
Israel is a tiny state,...
by Bo Lidegaard
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Amid the dark, ghastly history of World War II, the literally extraordinary story, never before fully researched by a historian, of how the Danish people banded together to save their fellow Jews from the Nazis—told through the remarkable unpublished diaries and documents of families forced to run...
by Patricia Heberer
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Children during the Holocaust, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes, and fates, of its youngest victims.
The ten chapters follow the arc of the persecutory policies of the Nazis and their...
by Yoel Palgi, David Engel, Phyllis Palgi
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
In the spring of 1944, thirty-two young Palestinian Jews parachuted into Nazi-held Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Their goal was to encourage Jewish resistance where possible and to organize rescue schemes thwarting deportations to the death camps. Linking up in Yugoslavia and impelled by the hope...
Collected Memoirs
Ahead of Time, Haven, and Inside of Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Three poignant and powerful memoirs from the award-winning journalist, human rights advocate, and “fearless chronicler of the Jewish struggle” (The New York Times).
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for her biography of the pioneering Israeli nurse, Raquela Prywes, Ruth Gruber lived...