Jewish category: 3083 books
by Iakovos Alhadeff
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
There are many conspiracy theories about the creation of Israel. Many people believe that it was the Rothschilds and other Jewish bankers that caused the two world wars. They even believe that it was the Jews who supported Hitler, because they wanted the Jews of Europe to immigrate to Palestine and...
by Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi, Sandra Shurin
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
“Manya Shochat was a truly unusual woman, a figure of extreme complexity who might have come out of a nineteenth-century Russian novel. In her life’s story we find a full enactment — rare in one person — of the main qualities, some of them contradictory, which played such a prominent role...
Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp
A Young Girl’s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
**A New York Times Bestseller
"A sacred reminder of what so many millions suffered, and only a few survived." —Adam Kirsch, New Republic**
In 1939, Helga Weiss was a young Jewish schoolgirl in Prague. As she endured the first waves of the Nazi invasion, she began to document...
Dreyfus
Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
The definitive history of the infamous scandal that shook a nation and stunned the world
In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongfully convicted of being a spy for Germany and imprisoned on Devil's Island. Over the following years, attempts to correct this injustice...
Hunt for the Jews
Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
A revealing account of Polish cooperation with Nazis in WWII—a “grim, compelling [and] significant scholarly study” (Kirkus Reviews).
Between 1942 and 1943, thousands of Jews escaped the fate of German death camps in Poland. As they sought refuge in the Polish countryside, the Nazi death...
by Hermann Langbein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Hermann Langbein was allowed to know and see extraordinary things forbidden to other Auschwitz inmates. Interned at Auschwitz in 1942 and classified as a non-Jewish political prisoner, he was assigned as clerk to the chief SS physician of the extermination camp complex, which gave him access to documents,...
The Reckoning
Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land-A True Detective Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
One of Britain's most renowned military historians revisits a controversial murder: that of Zionist leader Avraham Stern, head of Israel's notorious Stern Gang, in Tel Aviv during WWII.
Militant Zionist Avraham Stern believed he was destined to be the Jewish liberator of British Palestine....
by Willy Lindwer
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
The "unwritten" final chapter of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl tells the story of the time between Anne Frank's arrest and her death through the testimony of six Jewish women who survived the hell from which Anne Frank never retumed.
The Chosen Peoples
America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Americans and Israelis have often thought that their nations were chosen, in perpetuity, to do God’s work. This belief in divine election is a potent, living force, one that has guided and shaped both peoples and nations throughout their history and continues to do so to this day. Through great...
by Gisella Perl, Eva Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Gisella Perl’s memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women’s extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story individualizes and therefore humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. Perl accomplished this by representing...
Edith Bruck in the Mirror
Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Author of more than thirteen books and several volumes of poetry, screenwriter, and director, Edith Bruck is one of the leading literary voices in Italy, attracting increasing attention in the English-speaking world not least for her powerful Holocaust testimony, which is often compared with the work...
by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
A history of how anti-Semitism evolved into the Holocaust in Germany: “If any book can tell what Hitlerism was like, this is it” (Alfred Kazin).
Lucy Dawidowicz’s groundbreaking The War Against the Jews inspired waves of both acclaim and controversy upon its release in 1975. Dawidowicz...
What We Knew
Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
The horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of Germans, and how entrenched was anti-Semitism among the population? How could anyone claim, after the war, that the genocide of Europe's...
Who Will Write Our History?
Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle...