Jewish category: 3083 books
by Jürgen Matthäus, Frank Bajohr
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
In December 2013, after years of exhaustive search, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum received more than four hundred pages of diary notes written by one of the most prominent Nazis, the Party’s chief ideologue and Reich minister for the occupied Soviet territories Alfred Rosenberg. By combining...
by Katja Garloff
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Examines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust.
by Howard M. Sachar
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Spanning 350 years of Jewish experience in this country, A History of the Jews in America is an essential chronicle by the author of The Course of Modern Jewish History.
With impressive scholarship and a riveting sense of detail, Howard M. Sachar tells the stories of Spanish marranos and Russian...
by Gur Alroey
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Collects and analyzes letters from Jewish men and women in the early stages of migrating from Eastern Europe.
Prophet in a Time of Priests
Rabbi “Alphabet” Browne 1845-1929
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Who was “Alphabet” Browne... and why is this the first time anyone has written about him? Between his arrival in the United States during post-Civil War Reconstruction and his death at the onset of the Great Depression, he grabbed headlines as a rabbi, journalist, attorney, and political activist,...
Ben-Gurion
A Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
Israel’s current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israel’s founding father and first prime minister.
Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through...
A Lethal Obsession
Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
In this unprecedented work two decades in the making, leading historian Robert S. Wistrich examines the long and ugly history of anti-Semitism, from the first recorded pogrom in 38 BCE to its shocking and widespread resurgence in the present day. As no other book has done before it, A Lethal Obsession...
German Idealism and the Jew
The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In German Idealism and the Jew, Michael Mack uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition. While many have read German anti-Semitism as a reaction against Enlightenment philosophy, Mack instead contends that the redefinition of the Jews as irrational, oriental Others...
The Messiah Texts
Jewish Legends of Three Thousand Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Following a detailed introduction to the world of messianic ideology and its significance in Jewish history, The Messiah Texts traces the progress of the messianic legend from its biblical beginnings to contemporary expressions. Renowned scholar Raphael Patai has skillfully selected passages from a voluminous...
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume II
Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This volume offers a comprehensive account of how the Nazis conducted the Holocaust throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the Soviet Union. It covers more than 1,150 sites, including both open and closed ghettos. Regional essays outline the patterns of ghettoization in 19 German...
The Jewish People
Their History and Their Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 1992
The first part of this illustrated volume offers a survey of Jewish history and literature. The second part presents what the preface describes as "a thematic analysis of the teachings and practice of Judaism".
Three Minutes in Poland
Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
When Glenn Kurtz stumbles upon an old family film in his parents' closet in Florida, he has no inkling of its historical significance or of the impact it will have on his life. The film, shot long ago by his grandfather on a sightseeing trip to Europe, includes shaky footage of Paris and the Swiss...
Miriam's Kitchen
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Like many Jewish Americans, Elizabeth Ehrlich was ambivalent about her background. She identified with Jewish cultural attitudes, but not with the institutions; she had fond memories of her Jewish grandmothers, but she found their religious practices irrelevant to her life. It wasn't until she entered...
Hitler, My Neighbor
Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor.
Edgar Feuchtwanger came from a prominent German-Jewish family--the only son of a respected editor and the nephew of a best-selling author,...