Jewish category: 3083 books
The Interior of Our Memories
A History of Melbourne's Jewish Holocaust Centre
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A history of the Melbourne Jewish Holocaust Centre, one of the earliest permanent memorial museums which was set up in 1984 by survivors of the Holocaust. The book provides a history of the Centre's early days and examines its transformation from a collection of artefacts into an organisation that focuses on exhibitions, remembrance and education.
A Question of Tradition
Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
In A Question of Tradition, Kathryn Hellerstein explores the roles that women poets played in forming a modern Yiddish literary tradition. Women who wrote in Yiddish go largely unrecognized outside a rapidly diminishing Yiddish readership. Even in the heyday of Yiddish literature, they were regarded...
by Hans Keilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
[1944 Diary] is a deeply personal account, made even more remarkable that it was written during World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust . . . A moving and fascinating read." —Library Journal
In 2010, FSG published two novels by the German- Jewish writer Hans Keilson: Comedy in...
Holocaust Perpetrators of the German Police Battalions
The Mass Murder of Jewish Civilians, 1940-1942
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Holocaust Perpetrators of the German Police Battalions is the first comprehensive English-language study of the structures and actions of German Police battalions in Poland and Ukraine between 1940 and 1942. Using these case studies, Ian Rich draws attention to the actions and motivations of individual...
by Lucien Lazare
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
The Mission of Abbé Glasberg is the fascinating story of a priest - of Jewish origins - who dedicated himself to the task of helping the refugees who were streaming into France during the years preceding World War II. Together with Father Chaillet, Abbé Glasberg created the ecumenical Amitié Chrétienne...
The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature
The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Reading a wide range of novels from post-war Germany to Israeli, Palestinian and postcolonial writers, The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature is a comprehensive exploration of changing cultural perceptions of Jewishness in contemporary writing.
Examining how representations...
The Female Face of God in Auschwitz
A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The dominant theme of post-Holocaust Jewish theology has been that of the temporary hiddenness of God, interpreted either as a divine mystery or, more commonly, as God's deferral to human freedom. But traditional Judaic obligations of female presence, together with the traditional image of the Shekhinah...
by Linda Glaser
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! After Papa loses his job during the Depression, Hannah’s family moves to rural Minnesota, where she is the only Jewish child in her class. When her teacher tries to arrange carpools...
And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain
The Heartbreaking True Story of a Family Torn Apart by War
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2020
Winner of the August Prize, an intricate weave of documents, substantive narrative, and emotional commentary that centers on a young Jewish refugee's friendship with the future founder of IKEA.
Otto Ullman, a Jewish boy, was sent from Austria to Sweden right before the outbreak of World War...
by Timothy H. Lim
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Transnationalism and the Jews
Culture, History and Prophecy
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
The concept of transnationalism has been widely used for many years to describe mobility and cross-border relations in the modern, globalized world. Most uses of the concept of transnationalism neglect its historical trajectory and largely ignore the networks that constructed its meaning and normativity.
Transnationalism...
Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma
Islamic and Jewish Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Utah Series in Middle East Studies
The issue of religious authority has long fascinated and ignited scholars across a range of disciplines: history, anthropology, the sociology of religion, and political science. Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma juxtaposes religious leadership in...
The Holocaust
Europe, the World, and the Jews, 1918 - 1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews is a readable text for undergraduate students containing sufficient but manageable detail. The author provides a broad set of perspectives, while emphasizing the Holocaust as a catastrophe emerging from an international Jewish question. This text conveys...
by Paul R. Bartrop, Samantha J. Lakin
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
This book tells the largely unknown story behind the rescue activities of several remarkable young Jewish women in Vichy France during World War II and their role in the resistance against Nazi and Vichy France deportation policies.
• Grounds a captivating narrative in extensive field research...