Jewish category: 3083 books
The Sobibor Death Camp
History, Biographies, Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination camp built by the Nazis as part of the secretive Operation Reinhardt—with intent to carry out the mass murder of Polish Jewry. Following the construction of the extermination camp at Belzec in south-eastern Poland from November 1941 to March 1942,...
A State at Any Cost
The Life of David Ben-Gurion
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
As the founder of Israel, David Ben-Gurion long ago secured his reputation as a leading figure of the twentieth century. Determined from an early age to create a Jewish state, he thereupon took control of the Zionist movement, declared Israel’s independence, and navigated his country through wars,...
Nazis after Hitler
How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
This deeply researched and informative book traces the biographies of thirty "typical" perpetrators of the Holocaust—some well known, some obscure—who survived World War II. Donald M. McKale reveals the shocking reality that the perpetrators were only rarely, if ever, tried or punished...
As If It Were Life
A WWII Diary from the Theresienstadt Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
In 1942 German merchant Philipp Manes and his wife were ordered by the Nazis to leave their middle class neighborhood and go live in Theresienstadt, the only so-called "showpiece" ghetto of the Third Reich. This model ghetto was set up by the Nazis as a front to show the world that the Jews...
The Woman from Hamburg
and Other True Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding...
by Edith Velmans
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
The classic story of 'the Anne Frank who lived,' Edith's Story is based on the diaries of a Dutch young girl who survived World War II hiding in plain sight. When Hitler invaded Holland in 1939, Edith van Hessen was a popular Dutch high school student. She also happened to be Jewish....
by Patrick Modiano
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Modiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation. We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphaël Schlemilovitch, a young Jewish man, torn between self-aggrandisement and self-loathing, who may be the heir to a Venezuelan fortune,...
by Rachmil Bryks
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
“One should read it in order not to forget.”—Eleanor Roosevelt
First published in English in 1959 and long unavailable, Rachmil Bryks’s vivid stories portray Jewish life in the Lodz ghetto and at Auschwitz. In a spare and tragicomic style, they illuminate the small and large absurdities...
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942
A Documentary History of the Holocaust in Romania's Contested Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942 offers a wealth of primary sources and insightful commentary about the little-known slaughter of Jewish residents of Kishinev (Chisinau) under the military occupation by Romania under Marshal Ion Antonescu, a Hitler ally.?
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942 sheds...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Belsen and Auschwitz concentration camps were notorious places of torture for both Jewish and Allied prisoners. My e-book considers the testimony of survivors. They graphically depict the atrocious scenes they witnessed and describe the daily lives they endured.After being transferred from Auschwitz...
by Zach Levey
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this study, Zach Levey provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of Israel's foreign policy during the critical years of the 1950s, focusing particularly on relations between the Jewish state and the three Western powers involved in the Middle East arms race--the United States, Great...
Understanding the Arab-Israeli Conflict
What the Headlines Haven't Told You
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Michael Rydelnik, professor of Jewish studies at Moody Bible Institute, goes beyond the media images for an in depth, biblically grounded look at the "crisis that never ends"--the conflict between the Israelis and the Arabs. Dr. Rydelnik explores such questions as:
Will the violence ever stop?
Who...
Aaronsohn's Maps
The Man Who Might Have Created Peace in the Modern Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jewish people. Brought to Palestine at age five, as a young man Aaronsohn was a rugged adventurer who became convinced during years of solo explorations that water should govern the region's...
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by Leon Niescior
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The Holocaust
On the 8th of May 1940 Leon Niescior was arrested by the Gestapo at his home in occupied Poland. He had been guilty of small-time political agitation as a part of the Polish Underground movement; but the full weight of the Nazi...