Jewish category: 3083 books
The Balfour Declaration
The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a National Home for the Jewish people,” and its reverberations continue...
In Broad Daylight
The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
**How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out—In Broad Daylight
Based on a decade of work by Father Patrick Desbois and his team at Yahad–In Unum that has culminated to date in interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to the murdered Jews and visits to more than 2,700...
A History of Israel
From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
First published in 1976, Howard M. Sachar’s A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time was regarded one of the most valuable works available detailing the history of this still relatively young country. More than 30 years later, readers can again be immersed in this monumental work....
My German Question
Growing Up in Nazi Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1998
“Not only a memoir, it’s also a fierce reply to those who criticized German-Jewish assimilation and the tardiness of many families in leaving Germany” (Publishers Weekly).
In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany...
Israel and Europe
An Appraisal in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
"A remarkable feat--clear, compelling and accessible--. Critical background for any appreciation of the Jewish state."--The New York Times Book Review
With his characteristic grace and lucidity, Howard M. Sachar, renowned author of thirteen earlier books on Middle Eastern and Jewish...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003
A groundbreaking collection of Holocaust literature by the heirs to the greatest evil of our time.
History is preserved in the memories of the survivors of the Holocaust and the imaginations of their children, the so-called Second Generation. Nothing Makes You Free considers the heritage of...
by Ruth Wisse
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1986
The five short novellas which comprise this anthology were written between 1890 and World War I. All share a common setting—the Eastern European Jewish town or shtetl, and all deal in different ways with a single topic—the Jewish confrontation with modernity. The authors of these novellas are among...
Projecting the Holocaust into the Present
The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Most Holocaust scholars and survivors contend that the event was so catastrophic and unprecedented that it defies authentic representation in feature films. Yet it is precisely the extremity of 'the Final Solution' and the issues it raised that have fueled the cinematic imagination since the end of...
East West Street
On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
A profound and profoundly important book—a moving personal detective story, an uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the creation and development of world-changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler’s Third Reich.
East West...
Underground in Berlin
A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A thrilling piece of undiscovered history, this is the true account of a young Jewish woman who survived World War II in Berlin.
In 1942, Marie Jalowicz, a twenty-year-old Jewish Berliner, made the extraordinary decision to do everything in her power to avoid the concentration camps. She removed...
The Nazi Séance
The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler's Circle
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
World War I left Berlin, and all of Germany, devastated. Charlatans and demagogues eagerly exploited the desperate crowds. Fascination with the occult was everywhere – in private séances, personalized psychic readings, communions with the dead – as people struggled to escape the grim reality...
Future Tense
Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
One of the most admired religious thinkers of our time issues a call for world Jewry to reject the self-fulfilling image of “a people alone in the world, surrounded by enemies” and to reclaim Judaism’s original sense of purpose: as a partner with God and with those of other faiths in the never-ending...
The Wicked Son
Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
As might be expected from this fiercely provocative writer, David Mamet’s interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have themselves internalized that hatred. Using...
Elie Wiesel
Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
“Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel’s interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more.” —Publishers Weekly
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the...