Jewish category: 3083 books
by Marta Fuchs
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter’s Tribute is an illustrated intergenerational memoir of the author’s father, Morton (Miksa) Fuchs, and Zoltán Kubinyi, the Commanding Officer who saved him and over 100 other Hungarian Jewish men in forced labor under his command during the Holocaust.
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by Susan Zuccotti
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
The Holocaust, the French and the Jews by Susan Zuccotti (143,000 words, 16 illustrations)
Drawing on the extensive memoir literature of Jews who survived the Nazi period in France, Zuccotti paints a collective portrait of the victims, of those who tried to help them, of those who persecuted...
The First Lady of Fleet Street
The Life of Rachel Beer: Crusading Heiress and Newspaper Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
A panoramic portrait of a remarkable woman and the tumultuous Victorian era on which she made her mark, The First Lady of Fleet Street chronicles the meteoric rise and tragic fall of Rachel Beer—indomitable heiress, social crusader, and newspaper pioneer.
Rich with period detail and drawing...
by Steven J. Zipperstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Born in Chicago in 1918, the prodigiously gifted and erudite Isaac Rosenfeld was anointed a “genius” upon the publication of his “luminescent” novel, Passage from Home and was expected to surpass even his closest friend and rival, Saul Bellow. Yet when felled by a heart attack at the age of thirty-eight,...
Death on the Black Sea
The Untold Story of the 'Struma' and World War II's Holocaust at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
On the morning of February 24, 1942, on the Black Sea near Istanbul, an explosion ripped through a decrepit former cattle barge filled with Jewish refugees. One man clung fiercely to a piece of deck, fighting to survive. Nearly eight hundred others -- among them, more than one hundred children --...
The Salome Ensemble
Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonya Levien, and Jetta Goudal
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The Salome Ensemble probes the entangled lives, works, and passions of a political activist, a novelist, a screenwriter, and a movie actress who collaborated in 1920s New York City. Together they created the shape-shifting, genre-crossing Salome of the Tenements, first a popular novel and then a Hollywood...
Hitler's Millennial Reich
Apocalyptic Belief and the Search for Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
After World War I, German citizens sought not merely relief from the political, economic, social, and cultural upheaval which wracked Weimar Germany, but also mental salvation. With promises of order, prosperity, and community, Adolph Hitler fulfilled a profoundly spiritual need on behalf of those...
Czernowitz at 100
The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the Holocaust,...
Exiled In Paradise
German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from the 1930s to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Exiled In Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from the 1930s to the Present by Anthony Heilbut (Second, 1997 revised edition; 173,000 words)
The fascinating story of émigré intellectuals, writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholars — including Bertolt...
Dreamland
Europeans and Jews in the Aftermath of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
By the end of World War I, in November 1918, Europe’s old authoritarian empires had fallen, and new and seemingly democratic governments were rising from the debris. As successor states found their place on the map, many hoped that a more liberal Europe would emerge. But this post-war idealism all...
Haven of Liberty
New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Haven of Liberty chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York in 1654 and highlights the role of republicanism in shaping their identity and institutions. Rock follows the Jews of NewYork through the Dutch and British colonial eras, the American Revolution and early republic, and the antebellum...
by Hannah Weiner
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
A Historical Memoir of the 1919 Pogroms in Ukraine, Russia as seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old Jewish girl. The pogroms perpetrated by the Cossacks, the White Guard, and the Red Guard during the Ukrainian and Russian Revolution foreshadowed the atrocities of the holocaust.
Schlepping Through the Alps
My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Hans Breuer, Austria’s only wandering shepherd, is also a Yiddish folksinger. He walks the Alps, shepherd’s stick in hand, singing lullabies to his 625 sheep. Sometimes he even gives concerts in historically anti-Semitic towns, showing slides of the flock as he belts out Yiddish ditties.
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by Raymond-Raoul Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Raymond-Raoul Lambert's Diary has been among the most important untranslated records of the experience of French Jews in the Holocaust. Lambert, a leader of the Union of French Jews (UGIF), was, in the words of the historian Michael Marrus, "arguably the most important Jewish official in contact...