Jewish category: 3083 books
by Prof. Bernard Avishai
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The publication of Portnoy's Complaint in 1969 provoked instant, powerful reactions. It blasted Philip Roth into international fame, subjected him to unrelenting personal scrutiny and conjecture, and shocked legions of readers—some delighted, others appalled. Portnoy and other main characters became...
Hunting the Truth
Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD BOOK OF THE YEAR
In this dual autobiography, the Klarsfelds tell the dramatic story of fifty years devoted to bringing Nazis to justice
For more than a century, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have hunted, confronted, and exposed Nazi war criminals, tracking...
A Return to Chelm
My Journey to Uncover the Destruction of Two Jewish Families in the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
At the outbreak of World War II, almost half of Chelms 36,000 residents were Jewish, but only a few hundred survived the warvirtually wiping out a community that had lived for 700 years in southeastern Poland.
Eight of Arlene Blaier Burrows relatives somehow survived. Seventy-two members of...
The Boy Who Lost His Birthday
A Memoir of Loss, Survival, and Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
The Boy Who Lost His Birthday is the uplifting story of one man's journey from boyhood in rural Hungary to triumph over oppression during the Holocaust and finally to a role as a spiritual leader in America. Rabbi Laszlo Berkowits' compelling memoir recounts his happy childhood memories in Derecske,...
Resistance and Survival
The Jewish Community in Kaunas 1941-1944
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The image of author Sara Ginaite-Rubinson at the start of her memoir is iconic in terms of the Jewish Resistance movement during WWII, and is featured prominently in the Holocaust Museum. First published in Lithuania in 1999, this book received very wide critical acclaim and is now considered one...
by Edward Zerin
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
In San Francisco, the "instant city" of the gold rush days, Jews were pioneers among pioneers. Some came as immigrants directly from Europe, others as resettled adventurers from the East Coast, and still others as scions of southern Sephardic families. Out of this mixed multitude emerged a community...
Jack and Rochelle
A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The memoir of a man and woman who escaped into the forest, joined the Jewish partisans—and fell in love—as Hitler laid waste to their Polish hometowns.
Jack and Rochelle first met at a youth dance in Poland before the war. They shared one dance, and Jack stepped on Rochelle’s shoes. She...
A Guest in my Own Country
A Hungarian Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography & Memoir
A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals.
When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed...
Jews in Gotham
New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Jews in Gotham follows the Jewish saga in ever-changing New York City from the end of the First World War into the first decade of the new millennium. This lively portrait details the complex dynamics that caused Jews to persist, abandon, or be left behind in their neighborhoods during critical moments...
Howard Fast
Life and Literature in the Left Lane
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Howard Fast's life, from a rough-and-tumble Jewish New York street kid to the rich and famous author of close to 100 books, rivals the Horatio Alger myth. Author of bestsellers such as Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road, My Glorious Brothers, and Spartacus, Fast joined the American Communist Party in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Jews and humor is for most people a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of or perhaps because of a history of crises and living on the edge Jews have often created or resorted to humor. But what is "humor"? and what makes certain types instances or performances of humor "Jewish"?...
Saving Children
Diary of a Buchenwald Survivor and Rescuer
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In Saving Children, Jack Werber describes in detail what life in Buchenwald was like, painting a haunting picture of his daily struggle for survival. But Werber did more than survive; he made saving children his special mission. In what is one of the most amazing stories of the Holocaust, Jack Werber...
Flares of Memory
Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
In a series of writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, survivors who were children or teens during World War II assembled to remember the pivotal moments in which their lives were irreparably changed by the Nazis. These "flares of memory" preserve the voices of over forty...
48 Hours of Kristallnacht
Night of Destruction/Dawn of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
On the nights of November 9 and 10, 1938, rampaging mobs throughout Germany and the newly acquired territories of Austria and Sudetenland freely attacked Jews in the street, in their homes and at their places of work and worship. At least 96 Jews were killed and hundreds more injured, as many as 2,000...