Jewish category: 3083 books
Prelude to Catastrophe
FDR's Jews and the Menace of Nazism
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Franklin Roosevelt was the first great hero of American Jews. FDR's promise of economic and social justice was consonant with the mainstays of Jewish culture and with the ethos of the Old Testament and the prophets. And of course these themes were especially resonant during the desperate days of the...
The Forgotten Kindertransportees
The Scottish Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The Forgotten Kindertransportees offers a compelling new exploration of the Kindertransport episode in Britain. The Kindertransport brought close to 10,000 unaccompanied children and young people to Britain on a trans-migrant basis between 1938 and 1939, with an estimated 70% of these children being...
by Lawrence A. Coben
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
A rare view of a childhood in a European ghetto.
Anna Spector was born in 1905 in Korsun, a Ukrainian town on the Ros River, eighty miles south of Kiev. Held by Poland until 1768 and annexed by the Tsar in 1793 Korsun and its fluid ethnic population were characteristic of the Pale...
by Rochelle Saidel
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
On March 9, 1942, the Jewish community of Mielec, Poland, ceased to exist. The Nazis dismantled the entire town in a single day, executing the elderly, deporting the able-bodied for slave labor, and transporting the rest to the Lublin district, where they were later murdered in Sobibor and Belzec....
The Belzec Death Camp
History, Biographies, Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This book is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland, which was the first death camp to use static gas chambers as part of the Aktion Reinhardt mass murder program. It covers the construction and the development of the mechanisms of mass murder. The story is painstakingly told from...
The Search for Major Plagge
The Nazi Who Saved Jews, Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
When The Search for Major Plagge was published last spring, the world finally learned about a unique hero—and about one American doctor’s extraordinary journey to tell Karl Plagge’s story.
Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good’s book is the story of the German commander...
I Kiss Your Hands Many Times
Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
A magnificent wartime love story about the forces that brought the author’s parents together and those that nearly drove them apart
Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s parents, Hanna and Aladár, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministry—a vocal anti-Fascist...
by Austin Ratner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
A remarkable work . . . [that] documents a triumph of the human spirit over tremendous adversity.”-Harper’s
This elegantly-written tribute makes as beautiful a use of the darkness and light of one man’s life as a Halsman photograph of a...
Sheva's Promise
A Chronicle of Escape From a Nazi Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
A remarkable story of a young Jewish girl’s Holocaust survival outside of the Ghetto in Poland and Germany through sheer determination, resourcefulness, luck and the assistance of a few non-Jewish "helpers."
by Robert A. Packer
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
The disappearing history of Chicago�s Jewish past can be found in the religious architecture of its stately synagogues and communal buildings. Whether modest or majestic, wood or stone, the buildings reflected their members� views on faith and their commitment to the neighborhoods where they lived...
The Holocaust in Romania
The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2008
In 1930, 757,000 Jews lived in Romania; they constituted the third largest Jewish community in Europe. Today not more than 14,000 Jews live in Romania, most of them elderly. The record of the Holocaust in Romania includes many curious chapters of support and betrayal, but they have been largely unavailable...
by David Yellin & Israel Abrahams
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Moses ben-Maimon, commonly referred to as Maimonides, was a Jewish philosopher, physician, and scholar of the Torah during the 12th century. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish philosophers of the Medieval Era. Born in Cordoba Spain in 1135, Maimonides and his family were forced out Cordoba...
Hitler's Gift
The True Story of the Scientists Expelled by the Nazi Regime
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
The accomplishments of the Jewish scientists who were forced to flee Nazi Germany—including the research that turned the tide of World War II.
Between 1901 and 1932, Germany won a third of all the Nobel Prizes for science. But with Hitler’s rise to power, and the introduction of racial...
The House On Prague Street
A Haunting Story of a Girl's Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The House on Prague Street is a story told with translucent simplicity and freshness. It is a story of haunting innocence and terrible devastation, of lost love, of survival. It has an impact we have not felt since The Diary of Anne Frank and John Hersey's The Wall.
In pre-World War II Czechoslovakia,...