Jewish category: 3083 books
A Child of Christian Blood
Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A Jewish factory worker is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in Russia in 1911, and his trial becomes an international cause célèbre.
On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months later, Russian...
The Revolt
The Story of the Irgun
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Menachem Begin was run out of Poland by the Nazis, imprisoned by the Soviets, hunted by the British and nearly murdered by the Jews. To have survived would have been impressive enough. To have flourished- Begin led the first Jewish nationalist revolution in nearly 2,000 years and signed the first...
The Jew is Not My Enemy
Unveiling the Myths that Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
A liberal Muslim and critically acclaimed author explores the historical, political, and theological basis for centuries of Muslim animosity towards Jews, debunking long-held myths and tracing a history of hate and its impact today.
More than nine years after 9/11 and 60 years after the creation...
The Invention of the Land of Israel
From Holy Land to Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for them throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land?Following the acclaimed and controversial Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious...
Never Look Back
The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain, 1938-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Between December 1938 and September 1939, nearly ten thousand refugee children from Central Europe, mostly Jewish, found refuge from Nazism in Great Britain. This was known as the Kindertransport movement, in which the children entered as "transmigrants," planning to return to Europe once...
The Stars Bear Witness
An organizer of Jewish resistance in Warsaw, and one of its few survivors, tells of five years of epic heroism, pursuit, and miraculous escape
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Bernard Goldstein was a prominent Polish socialist, union organizer and Bund leader in the pivotal years of 1920 and 1921. He became active as a leader of the Jewish resistance movement in German-occupied Poland, eventually playing a critical role on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. Bernard was born...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2006
Volume XXI of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry marks sixty years since the end of the Second World War and forty years since the Second Vatican Council's efforts to revamp Church relations with the Jewish people and the Jewish faith. Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History...
by Peter Novick
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2000
Prize-winning historian Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long -- how dwelling on German crimes interfered with Cold War mobilization; how American Jews, not wanting to be thought of as victims, avoided the subject. He explores in absorbing detail the decisions...
Jews, Germans, and Allies
Close Encounters in Occupied Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, more than a quarter million Jewish survivors of the Holocaust lived among their defeated persecutors in the chaotic society of Allied-occupied Germany. Jews, Germans, and Allies draws upon the wealth of diary and memoir literature by the people who lived...
by Albert Memmi
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Portrait of a Jew by Albert Memmi (translated from the French by Elisabeth Abbott; 99,000 words)
In this memoir and extended meditation on Jewish identity and anti-Semitic stereotypes written in France in the early 1960s, Albert Memmi paints a portrait of himself as a secular Jew. The book...
Leaving Russia
A Jewish Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy's confessional trilogy and Nabokov's autobiography, Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story is a searing account of growing up a Jewish refusenik, of a young poet's rebellion against totalitarian culture, and of Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War. Shrayer's...
by Glenn Dynner
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Brings together highly regarded scholars of Jewish and Christian mysticism in Eastern Europe to analyze the overlap of mysticism in the two religions.
Ethics, Art, and Representations of the Holocaust
Essays in Honor of Berel Lang
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
The American-Jewish philosopher Berel Lang has left an indelible impression on an unusually broad range of fields that few scholars can rival. From his earliest innovations in philosophy and meta-philosophy, to his ground-breaking work on representation, historical writing, and art after Auschwitz,...
When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone
The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
The “remarkable” story of the grass-roots movement that freed millions of Jews from the Soviet Union (The Plain Dealer).
At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the USSR. They lived a paradox—unwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to...