Jewish category: 3083 books
Despite Everything
The Oscar Bronner Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Born in Haifa in 1943 to a family of Jewish refugees from Austria, after World War II Oscar Bronner grew up among the ruins of war-torn Vienna. While his father embarked on a career that would see him become one of the greatest entertainment icons of Central Europe, his son became one of its most...
The Boy in the Suitcase
Holocaust Family Stories of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
The Boy in the Suitcase: Holocaust Family Stories of Survival is a uniquely different Holocaust book. It reads like an intriguing novel, such as the title chapter which tells the story of an infant smuggled out of Germany in a suitcase and raised in the Dominican Republic. Each chapter tells a different...
Masquerade
The Incredible True Story of How George Soros' Father Outsmarted the Gestapo
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
The Nazis came late to Hungary because, until early 1944, Germany and Hungary were allies. But when they did arrive, their orders were to put the Final Solution” into effect with deliberate speed. Soros, a Jewish lawyer in Budapest, secured fake Christian identities for himself, his wife, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
‘If we had held one minute’s silence for each of the six million Jews who were murdered, we would have remained silent for twelve years.’ Blanche Major. In Time’s Witnesses: Women’s Voices from the Holocaust, Blanche Major and nine other Jewish women testify about their horrific experiences...
God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes
Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
A Powerful, Life-Affirming New Perspective on the Holocaust
Almost ninety children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors—theologians, scholars, spiritual leaders, authors, artists, political and community leaders and media personalities—from sixteen countries on six continents reflect...
Summary and Analysis of Night
Based on the Book by Elie Wiesel
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Night tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Elie Wiesel’s book.
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The Temple of Culture
Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2000
From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary...
Watercolours
A Story from Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
A many-layered work of historical reportage, Watercolours draws on the real life story of Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt (1923-2009), a Czech-American artist of Jewish ancestry, who was a prisoner at Auschwitz, and whose story came to light in the late 1990s. It was at this time that Gottliebova attempted...
HENRY
A Polish Swimmer's True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This incredible true story is both a witness to the Holocaust through Polish eyes and the story of how Henry Zguda, a Polish (Catholic) competitive swimmer, survives Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps by his wits, humor, luck, and friends. At times humorous, always gut-honest,...
by Agata Tuszynska
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941–summer 1942) . . . and her piano...
The Aleppo Codex
In Pursuit of One of the World's Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, and had become known...
Journal 1935–1944
The Fascist Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Hailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism, this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian aroused a furious response in Eastern Europe when it was first published. A profound and powerful literary achievement, it offers a lucid and finely shaded...
Into the Tunnel
The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
A generous feat of biographical sleuthing by an acclaimed historian rescues one child victim of the Holocaust from oblivion
When the German Remembrance Foundation established a prize to commemorate the million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, it was deliberately named after a...
by Michael Collins Piper
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
A lot of people today talk about the New World Order but most of those folks are afraid to confront its real history and origins head on.Although there has been much written about the New World Order — and even about the role that the Rothschild Empire plays in its strange history — this...