Jewish category: 3083 books
Between Foreigners and Shi‘is
Nineteenth-Century Iran and its Jewish Minority
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2007
Based on archival and primary sources in Persian, Hebrew, Judeo-Persian, Arabic, and European languages, Between Foreigners and Shi'is examines the Jews' religious, social, and political status in nineteenth-century Iran. This book, which focuses on Nasir al-Din Shah's reign (1848-1896), is the first...
The Boxer's Story
Fighting for My Life in the Nazi Death Camps
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Before 1940, Nathan Shapow, a young Latvian, had nothing more on his mind than enjoying his teenage years and becoming a champion boxer. But the Nazis’ systematic extermination of the Jews quickly put paid to his dreams. Soon he was to face a different sort of fight, where the prize for victory...
Child Survivors of the Holocaust
The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
The majority of European Jewish children alive in 1939 were murdered during the Holocaust. Of 1.5 million children, only an estimated 150,000 survived. In the aftermath of the Shoah, efforts by American Jews brought several thousand of these child survivors to the United States. In Child Survivors...
Holocaust Survivor Accounts: True Stories of Prisoners Surviving the Holocaust: Holocaust Survivor Stories and Heroes of Auschwitz
Holocaust Survivor Accounts, #2
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
The Holocaust, (called Ha-Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the state sponsored murder and persecution of about six million Jews by the German Nazi regime and its collaborators, leading into and during the Second World War. The word itself means, "Sacrifice by fire".
The Holocaust has no...
by Shlomit Kriger, Editor
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Imagine sitting across from a member of the German Secret State Police and negotiating with him to allow for the release of Jewish youngsters and for the establishment of a Jewish school. What can a teenager do when forced to march past the gallows and see how two of his campmates were hung? These are...
by Jerold S. Auerbach
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
A renowned historian examines the special contributions of rabbis and lawyers to American Jewish acculturation. Based on extensive research in U.S. and Israeli archives, his analysis of how lawyers displaced rabbis as community leaders in the 20th century illuminates a decisive moment in U.S Jewish...
The Wonder of Their Voices
The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Over the last several decades, video testimony with aging Holocaust survivors has brought these witnesses into the limelight. Yet the success of these projects has made it seem that little survivor testimony took place in earlier years. In truth, thousands of survivors began to recount their experience...
A Provocative People
A Secular History of the Jews
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
The Jews are a fascinating people, both to themselves and to everyone else. The Jews are a paradigm of what will happen to most nations and ethnic groups with a long-run exposure to urban global culture. They are an irresistibly global people, a vanguard for the global world. This book dramatizes the...
Streets
A Memoir of the Lower East Side
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
“A startling, clear-eyed” memoir of an immigrant girl’s childhood in early 20th century NYC from the journalist and Tony-winning co-author of Kiss Me Kate (Booklist).
Born in Transylvania in 1899, Bella Spewack arrived on the streets of New York’s Lower East Side when she was three....
I Wish It Were Fiction
Holocaust Memories - 1938–1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2006
The writer of this memoir, Aaron Starkman, was barely 20 years old, when he was driven in into the Nazi Hitler hell. He decided to keep a diary, where he made notes of everything that was happening. He did not know whether he would survive. When he was liberated, he gathered all the notes and deposited...
by Gordon Clouser
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Who was Jesus? An apocalyptic prophet? An aphoristic sage? The messiah of Jewish expectations? In Jesus, Joshua, Yeshua of Nazareth, Gordon Clouser analyzes the question of the historical Jesus and argues that the realities of Jesus ministry place him squarely in the forefront of Jewish messianic...
The Discovery of God
Abraham and the Birth of Monotheism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Fifty-three percent of the world’s population practices Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, religions that all trace their lineage to the towering, quasi-mythological figure of Abraham. In this reverent biography of the man who invented–or discovered–God, David Klinghoffer disentangles history...
by Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow, Rabbi Phyllis O. Berman
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
How does the story of the Exodus echo in our own generation and in our own lives?For us to hear the Oneness of God, we must grow into a place where the cosmic and the political are deeply the same truth.from Part VThe story Jews retell on Passover is about rising up against tyranny, about the triumph...
Anna and Tranquillo
Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A historical interpretation of the diary of an eighteenth-century Jewish woman who resisted the efforts of the papal authorities to force her religious conversion After being seized by the papal police in Rome in May 1749, Anna del Monte, a Jew, kept a diary detailing her captors’ efforts over the...