Jewish category: 3083 books
The Girl from Foreign
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
A search for shipwrecked ancestors, forgotten histories, and a sense of home
Fascinating and intimate , The Girl from Foreign is one woman's search for ancient family secrets that leads to an adventure in far-off lands. Sadia Shepard, the daughter of a white Protestant from Colorado and a Muslim...
Alex's Wake
The Tragic Voyage of the St. Louis to Flee Nazi Germany-and a Grandsons Journey of Love and Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Alex's Wake is a tale of two parallel journeys undertaken seven decades apart. In the spring of 1939, Alex and Helmut Goldschmidt were two of more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany aboard the St. Louis, the saddest ship afloat” (New York Times). Turned away from Cuba, the United States,...
by Beatrice Muchman
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
From Booklist Muchman was born in Berlin in 1933. In March 1939, she, her parents, and four relatives fled to Brussels to escape the Nazi regime. In 1942, Germany occupied Belgium, and Muchman's parents brought her and her cousin to the home of two Catholic women for safekeeping. Her parents were...
Scattered Ghosts
One Family's Survival through War, Holocaust and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
When two Hungarian Jewish refugees landed by accident in Britain in the winter of 1956, they had little idea what the future would hold. But they carried with them the traces of their turbulent past, just enough to provide the clues to their past. Scattered Ghosts combines memoir, investigation and...
Nazi Gold
The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
A “compelling [and] carefully researched” account of greed, duplicity, and an unholy partnership between Switzerland and the Third Reich (The Washington Times).
In the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century, the European continent fell, nation by nation, to Nazi Germany’s invincible...
The Politics of Genocide
The Holocaust in Hungary, Condensed Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, Condensed Edition is an abbreviated version of the classic work first published in 1981 and revised and expanded in 1994. It includes a new historical overview, and retains and sharpens its focus on the persecution of the Jews. Through a meticulous...
The Ghetto Swinger
A Berlin Jazz-Legend Remembers
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Jazz in Nazi-era and postwar Germany, as lived by a Jewish prodigy who survived the horrors of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz.
"Coco, it's not important what you play. It's important how you play it," said Louis Armstrong to jazz and swing guitarist Coco Schumann during a break between...
The Memory Factory
The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The Memory Factory introduces an English-speaking public to the significant women artists of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, each chosen for her aesthetic innovations and participation in public exhibitions. These women played important public roles as exhibiting artists, both individually...
Klaus Barbie
The Butcher of Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The true story of one of Hitler’s most feared and brutal killers: his life and crimes, postwar atrocities, and forty-year evasion of justice.
During World War II, SS Hauptsturmführer Nikolaus “Klaus” Barbie earned a reputation for sadistic cruelty unmatched by all but a handful of his...
The Splendid Blond Beast
Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
From a National Jewish Book Award–winning author: The “revelatory and shocking” investigation into the CIA’s liberation of Nazi war criminals (Kirkus Reviews).
How did Gen, Karl Wolff, one of the highest-ranking members of the Nazi Party’s Waffen-SS, who personally oversaw the deportation...
by Max I. Dimont
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
From the author of Jews, God, and History, this comprehensive history of the Jewish people is “an epic drama, searching and nobly conceived” (Publishers Weekly).
A compelling and readable account of the four thousand year history of a people that spans the globe and transcends the ages....
Yiddish Civilisation
The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Paul Kriwaczek begins this illuminating and immensely pleasurable chronicle of Yiddish civilization during the Roman empire, when Jewish culture first spread to Europe. We see the burgeoning exile population disperse, as its notable diplomats, artists and thinkers make their mark in far-flung cities...
Sephardi Lives
A Documentary History, 1700–1950
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi Jews—descendants of Jews who fled medieval Spain and Portugal settling in the western portions of the Ottoman Empire, including the Balkans, Anatolia, and Palestine....
In the Garden of Beasts
Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a...