Jewish category: 3083 books
After Eichmann
Collective Memory and Holocaust Since 1961
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In 1961 Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Jerusalem for his part in the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Europe’s Jews. For the first time a judicial process focussed on the genocide against the Jews and heard Jewish witnesses to the catastrophe. The trial and the controversies it caused had a...
Israeli Holocaust Research
Birth and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
An exploration of the development of Holocaust research in Israel, this book ranges from the consolidation of Holocaust research as an academic subject in the late 1940s to the establishment of Yad Vashem and beyond.
Research on the story of historiography is often a work on books, on the "final...
by Haim Ben-Asher
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
What is the use of Zionism?
To restore our pride as Jews, comes the ready answer. Now just when did we lose this precious pride? Could it be that, without the State of Israel, Zionists might be ashamed of being Jews? And how can one be proud of a country that drops white phosphorous bombs on defenseless...
Perpetrators
The World of the Holocaust Killers
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
"Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions." Primo Levi's words disclose a chilling truth: assigning blame to hideous political leaders, such as Hitler, Himmler,...
The Many Deaths of Jew Süss
The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
A groundbreaking historical reexamination of one of the most infamous episodes in the history of anti-Semitism
Joseph Süss Oppenheimer—"Jew Süss"—is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the "court Jew" of Carl...
by Alfred Kazin
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 1969
A literary icon’s “singular and beautiful” memoir of growing up as a first-generation Jewish American in Brownsville, Brooklyn (The New Yorker).
A classic portrait of immigrant life in the early decades of the twentieth century, A Walker in the City is a tour of tenements, subways, and...
by Peter A. Lillback
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Dr. Lillback's insightful work researches the question, "Is it inherently American to be pro-Israel?" Yet, could the evidence from Washington's life and writings show that he knew far more about Israel than most thought possible? Many Americans are unaware that George Washington wrote to the Jewish people...
Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia
The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
On Sunday, March 20, 1911, children playing in a cave near Kiev made a gruesome discovery: the blood-soaked body of a partially clad boy. After right-wing groups asserted that the killing was a ritual murder, the police, with no direct evidence, arrested Menachem Mendel Beilis, a 39-year-old Jewish...
A History of the Holocaust
From Ideology to Annihilation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Told with scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy, this text provides important background information on Jewish life in Europe, the functions of the hierarchy within the Nazi government, and the psychological foundations of prejudice. Unlike other texts on the subject, A History of the Holocaust...
By Blood and Fire
July 22, 1946: The Attack On Jerusalem's King David Hotel
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
On July 22, 1946 six members of the Irgun, a Jewish underground group headed by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, entered the basement of Jerusalem’s King David Hotel and planted seven milk churns filled with explosives underneath the wing housing the headquarters of the British Mandatory...
Studies in Contemporary Jewry
Volume XVII: Who Owns Judaism? Public Religion and Private Faith in America and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
Bringing together contributions from established scholars as well as promising younger academics, the seventeenth volume of this established series offers a broad-ranging view of why Judaism, a religion whose observance is more honored in the breach in most western Jewish communities, has garnered...
Beyond the Balfour Declaration
The 100-Year Quest for Israeli–Palestinian Peace
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Preface By The 5th Earl Of Balfour
2017 marks one hundred years since the Balfour Declaration, the landmark letter that expressed the British government's support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. A century later, the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians rages on, without prospect...
by Lilo Cohn-Sharon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Lilo was a child during the Holocaust. Now that the older generation of Holocaust survivors, such as her parents, are just about gone, she and others like her are the last survivors of the Holocaust the final witnesses to the horrors that Hitler perpetrated on the Jewish people. After Lilo attended...
by Andor Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
They have no graves, no markers of ever having existed. The millions of people murdered by the Nazis live on only in the memories of the survivors. In his seventy-ninth year, Andor Schwartz was driven to record the lives of his family and friends who perished. Writing with the instincts of a born storyteller,...