Jewish category: 3083 books
The Business of Identity
Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world. This book seeks to revolutionize the way scholars use that treasure trove. Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman draws on legal documents from the Geniza to reconceive of life in the medieval Islamic...
The Holocaust Industry
Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2003
It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel’s evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today. Leaders of America’s Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a...
Fleeing from the Führer
A Postal History of Refugees from Nazism
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
A rare insight into how refugees from Nazi Germany kept their communities alive throughout the world through postcards and letters The Jewish flight from Nazi Germany was one of the largest diasporas the world has ever seen. Imagine leaving everything you love behind you and being separated from...
The Independent Orders of B'nai B'rith and True Sisters
Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity, 1843-1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Explores the roles of the two oldest American Jewish fraternal organizations in the process of American Jewish identity formation.
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
The years 1926 and 1927 marked the beginning of an anti-obscenity campaign in Philadelphia. According to news accounts many publishers and distributors of illicit literature had relocated to Philly from other major cities. Despite the support of Catholic leaders and others New York City didn't approve...
by I. Izzet Bahar
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This book exposes Turkish policies concerning European Jews during the Hitler era, focusing on three events: 1. The recruitment of German Jewish scholars by the Turkish government after Hitler came to power, 2. The fate of Jews of Turkish origin in German-controlled France during WWII, 3. The Turkish...
Conquest and Redemption
A History of Jewish Assets from the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In Conquest and Redemption, Gregg J. Rickman explains how the Nazis stole the possessions of their Jewish victims and obtained the cooperation of institutions across Europe in these crimes of convenience. He also describes how those institutions are being brought to justice, sixty years later, for...
by Samuel Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 by Samuel Joseph.This brief review of the economic and social conditions in Russia, Roumania and Austria-Hungary has shown that, broadly speaking, these countries present points of similarity in their situation and their recent movement. In...
Hitler's Pawn
The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Herschel’s story is not really about another victim among six million victims. It’s about a naïve but intense kid suddenly trapped in the spotlight of world politics, and moreover world politics on the edge. It is about fame and obscurity. About the fall of France, and the first phase of World...
Zionism
The Birth and Transformation of an Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
From serving as the Middle East correspondent for The New Yorker to penning articles for the New York Times, Milton Viorst has dedicated his career to studying the Middle East. Now, in this new book, Viorst examines the evolution of Zionism, from its roots by serving as a cultural refuge for Europe's...
by Sholom Aleichem
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
One of the most beloved and prolific writers of Yiddish literature, Sholom Aleichem (1859–1916) produced a wealth of wonderful stories that combine traditional Jewish oral humor with Western literary tradition. For years a living legend, he wrote enduring gems of fiction, eleven of which are included...
One Step Ahead
A Jewish Fugitive in Hitler's Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2001
Through compelling personal accounts and family correspondence, One Step Ahead documents Alfred Feldman’s harrowing flight into exile as he and his family fled the pogroms that flooded across Nazi-occupied Europe. It is a memoir of horror and hope recounted by a man who survived the organized terror...
Letters to America
Selected Poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Letters to America presents the life and work of an accomplished Jewish poet who exchanged the American promised land for the Israeli one, yet struggled to exorcise the ghosts of his American past and make his home in the Jewish state. Born Robert Reiss in 1930s New York, in 1959 Reuven Ben-Yosef...
by AA. VV.
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
The years between 1938 and 1943 witnessed the approval of a massive, detailed set of laws discriminating against the Jews. While there were indeed moments of anti-Semitism in Italy after unification – fed primarily by some Catholic groups – the leitmotifs so dear to anti-Jewish propaganda only...