Jewish category: 3083 books
by Deborah E. Lipstadt
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
*****NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST (2012)***
Part of the Jewish Encounter series**
The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate...
by Robert S. Wistrich
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewry. Robert S. Wistrich begins by reckoning with Europe’s long history of violence against the Jews, and how that tradition manifested itself in...
Heroes of the Holocaust
Ordinary Britons who risked their lives to make a difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Collected here for the first time are the remarkable and moving stories of the 27 British recipients of the ‘Hero of the Holocaust’ award. During one of the darkest times in human history they refused to stand by and do nothing; risking their lives to save Jewish friends, or complete strangers....
The Righteous
The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
Drawing from twenty-five years of original research, Sir Martin Gilbert re-creates the remarkable stories of non-Jews who risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust
According to Jewish tradition, "Whoever saves one life, it is as if he...
The Origins of the Final Solution
The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
In 1939, the Nazi regime’s plans for redrawing the demographic map of Eastern Europe entailed the expulsion of millions of Jews. By the fall of 1941, these plans had shifted from expulsion to systematic and...
by Phyllis Appel
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Uriah Phillips Levy had no intention of becoming a shopkeeper like his father. That’s why the ten-year-old secretly signed up as a cabin boy and ran away to sea. During his apprenticeship he faced French pirates, was shipwrecked, and taken aboard a British man-of-war. The captain was so impressed...
The May Beetles
My First Twenty Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Baba Schwartz’s story began before the Holocaust could have been imagined. As a spirited girl in a warm and loving Jewish family, she lived a normal life in a small town in eastern Hungary. In The May Beetles, Baba describes the innocence and excitement of her childhood, remembering her early years...
Hiding in Plain Sight:
My Holocaust Story of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
After decades of concealing the full account of her experiences, Holocaust survivor Beatrice Sonders (Basia Gadzuik) writes her story of survival and courage in the face of the ultimate horrors.
Born in 1924 and growing up in the small town of David-Horodok, a village in eastern Poland, Basia...
The Paranoid Apocalypse
A Hundred-Year Retrospective on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in Russia around 1905, claimed to be the captured secret protocols from the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 describing a plan by the Jewish people to achieve global domination. While the document has been proven to be fake, much of it plagiarized...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally...
The Labyrinth of Exile
A Life of Theodor Herzl
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
"At the age of thirty-five, the fashionable Viennese playwright and journalist Theodor Herzl fantasized about the collective conversion of the Jews in a mass ceremony at the cathedral of St. Stephen. By the time he died, a mere nine years later, he had redefined Jewish identity in terms of a...
by Karl Emil Franzos
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
A fascinating look at life in the Jewish ghetto in the 19th century, written by Jewish writer and publicist Karl Emil Franzos.
Choice of the Jews under Vichy, The
Between Submission and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
In The Choice of the Jews under Vichy, Adam Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. His research in the archives of the military, the Central Consistory of the Jews of France, the police, and Philippe Pétain demonstrates the Vichy government’s...
The Lion's Gate
On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
“A brilliant look into the psyche of combat. Where he once took us into the Spartan line of battle at Thermopylae, Steven Pressfield now takes us into the sands of the Sinai, the alleys of Old Jerusalem, and into the hearts and souls of soldiers winning a spectacularly improbable victory against...