Jewish category: 3083 books
Hell's Traces
One Murder, Two Families, Thirty-Five Holocaust Memorials
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In July 1942, the French police in Paris, acting for the German military government, arrested Victor Ripp’s three-year-old cousin, Alexandre. Two months later, the boy was killed in Auschwitz. In Hell’s Traces, Ripp examines this act through the prism of family history. In addition to Alexandre,...
by James Vendeland
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
The plight of Soviet Jews from the 1930s to late the 20th century is a story not well known in the West. We feel privileged to write the English translation of excerpts from Felix Kandel's The Gates of Our Exodus. As Clevelanders we are proud of the role played by Cleveland Jews in the 1970s to obtain...
by Henry A. Zeiger
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Eichmann...
THE MAN,
THE CRIMES.
This book is a documentary presentation of the case prosecuting attorneys could present against the greatly captured Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann.
Using affidavits, testimony from the Nuremberg trials, captured German documents, statements...
by Meyer Levin
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
In 1951, Meyer Levin’s wife gave him a copy of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, which had just been published in France. Levin was already a successful writer in his mid-forties, searching for a way to bear witness to his experiences as a war correspondent in Europe. In Anne Frank’s diary,...
A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish
Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
This book explores the unique phenomenon of Christian engagement with Yiddish language and literature from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the late eighteenth century. By exploring the motivations for Christian interest in Yiddish, and the differing ways in which Yiddish was discussed and...
Asylum
A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France.
As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city's foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist. With the advent...
The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
A Century-Old Myth
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has attracted the interest of politicians and academicians, and generated extensive research, since the tract first appeared in the early twentieth century. Despite having repeatedly been discredited as a historical document, and in spite of the fact that it served...
Germany's War and the Holocaust
Disputed Histories
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
"While attempts to come to terms with past catastrophe... can help prevent its recurrence, they may also provide arguments for... actions against the real or imagined perpetrators of previous disasters. The confrontation with... catastrophe can help us understand the roots and nature of this century's...
The Children of La Hille
Eluding Nazi Capture during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, frightened parents were forced to find refuge for their children, far from the escalating anti-Jewish violence. To that end, a courageous group of Belgian women organized a desperate and highly dangerous rescue mission to usher nearly 1,000...
A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet
My Grandfather's SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
In prose as beautiful as it is powerful, Rita Gabis follows the trail of her grandfather's collaboration with the Nazis; a trail riddled with secrets, slaughter, mystery, and discovery.
Rita Gabis comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics. She was close to her Catholic...
From Prejudice to Persecution
A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
According to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the population of Hitler's Greater German Reich. Bruce Pauley's book explains this phenomenon by providing a history of Austrian anti-Semitism and Jewish...
Pioneers and Partisans
An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
The Nazi regime and local collaborators killed 800,000 Belorussian Jews, many of them parents or relatives of young Jews who survived the war. Thousands of young girls and boys were thus orphaned and struggled for survival on their own. This book is the first systematic account of young Soviet Jews'...
by Joseph W. Bendersky
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This balanced history offers a concise, readable introduction to Nazi Germany. Combining compelling narrative storytelling with analysis, Joseph W. Bendersky offers an authoritative survey of the major political, economic, and social factors that powered the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Now in...
by Maurice Rajsfus
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Two books by Maurice Rajsfus, a French activist and former investigative journalist for Le Monde, who shares his research and personal recollections in order to shed new light on France's role in the Holocaust. In the first volume, "Operation Yellow Star," Rajsfus meticulously analyzes archival...