Jewish category: 3083 books
by Vladimir Jabotinsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Vladimir Jabotinsky is well remembered as a militant leader and father of the right-wing Revisionist Zionist movement, but he was also a Russian-Jewish intellectual, talented fiction writer, journalist, playwright, and translator of poetry into Russian and Hebrew. His autobiography, Sippur yamai, Story...
Joachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi
An Autobiography--the German and Early American Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Joachim Prinz (1902–1988) was one of the most extraordinary and innovative figures in modern Jewish history. Never one for conformity, Prinz developed and modeled a new rabbinical role that set him apart from his colleagues in Weimar Germany. Provocative, strikingly informal and determinedly anti-establishment,...
Angel of Auschwitz
A Spiritual Memoir of Forgiveness and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Natasza Pelinski is a young Polish Jew taken to Auschwitz. Her childhood stolen from her, she quickly matures and in the process discovers she has psychic gifts. She develops a relationship with the ghost of a professor, who becomes her spirit guide. He in turn enlists her aid on a mission of salvation...
After They Closed the Gates
Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
In 1921 and 1924, the United States passed laws to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country. By allocating only small quotas to the nations of southern and eastern Europe, and banning almost all immigration from Asia, the new laws were supposed to stem the tide of foreigners considered...
Jews in the American Labor Movement
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Jews in the American Labor Movement is a concise but complete summary of how Jews have influenced, and been influenced by, the Labor Movement in America. From the early beginnings on the Lower East Side, to Hollywood, to present day labor and race issues, Jews have been at the center of the power struggles...
by Julius Herscovici
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
The presence of Jews in Vicksburg, Mississippi can be traced back to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Despite this historic fact, as of today, the history of the Jews in Vicksburg, Mississippi has remained largely undocumented. The book, The Jews of Vicksburg, Mississippi, is a concise presentation...
by Christoph Schiessl
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book follows the story of suspected Nazi war criminals in the United States and analyzes their supposed crimes during World War II, their entry into the United States as war refugees in the 1940s and 1950s, and their prosecution in the 1970s and beyond by the U.S. government, specifically by...
Menachem Begin
The Battle for Israel's Soul
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Reviled as a fascist by his great rival Ben-Gurion, venerated by Israel’s underclass, the first Israeli to win the Nobel Peace Prize, a proud Jew but not a conventionally religious one, Menachem Begin was both complex and controversial. Born in Poland in 1913, Begin was a youthful admirer of the...
by Chaim Weizmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann (Book Two) by Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann’s autobiography is a highly personal account of his life in the Zionist movement. Book One, completed in 1941, covers the years 1874-1917 and Book Two covers the years 1918-1948.
Weizmann...
by David Wdowinski
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Succinctly and powerfully recounts the experiences of the author, a founding member of the Jewish Military Union, and important witness during the trial of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann. (EJ 2007) “Because the author was a leader of a major Jewish political party in Poland he is able to give us an...
Israel Is Real
An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE
A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER
In AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a handful of visionaries saved Judaism by reinventing it, taking what had been a national religion and turning it into an idea. Whenever a Jew studied—wherever...
A New Shoah
The Untold Story of Israel's Victims of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Every day in Israel, memorials are being held for the victims of Islamic fundamentalism. Since the Second Intifada” began ten years ago, Palestinian terrorists have claimed 1,700 Israeli civilians. This equates to a staggering 70,000 victims, when adjusted to the United States population for scale.
In...
A Perfect Storm
Antisemitism in South Africa 1930 - 1948
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The interwar years were a tumultuous time in South Africa. The effects of the worldwide economic slump gave rise to a huge number of ‘poor whites’ and fed the growth of a militant and aggressive Afrikaner nationalism that often took its lead from Nazi Germany. For a great number of whites, both...
by Abraham Foxman
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
The ongoing war on terror, instability in the Middle East, and a faltering world economy are capturing headlines everywhere. But through it all runs a disturbing current of which many people are only dimly aware.
Anti-Semitism, which had been on the decline worldwide since the end of World...