Jewish category: 3083 books
by Julian Novitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
**Holocaust Tours is funny, fierce and unafraid: a first novel that questions what history means to us now.**Taking time out in the UK, Daniel meets Anita. Getting involved with her means getting involved with her study of Holocaust memorials - and brings him face to face with his own Jewish heritage....
Not Even a Number
Surviving Larger C - Auschwitz II - Birkenau
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Surviving Auschwitz II-Birkeneu was going to take more than prayer, more than luck...it was going to take a will to live, a desire to fight and a need keep a promise. Rifcha and her family were living normal, happy lives. There was school, work, family dinners, outings and vacations. That was until...
by Sacks, Jonathan
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth in the United Kingdom offers a refreshing and insightful commentary to the Koren Haggada, together with illuminating essays on the themes and motifs of the Festival of Freedom. Sensitively translated, the traditional...
Four Girls From Berlin
A True Story of a Friendship That Defied the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
A pair of silver Regency candlesticks.
Pieces of well-worn family jewelry.
More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs
Lotte Meyerhoff's best friends risked their lives in Nazi Germany to safeguard these and other treasured heirlooms and mementos from her family and...
by Dagobert D. Runes
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In an introduction to The War Against the Jew, Dagobert D. Runes describes the war on the Jews, the history of Jewish hatred and prejudice. After that he gives a glossary of names, places, beings, writings, and words that describe this hatred.
by Meyer Kayserling
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Meyer Kayserling (1829 - 1905) was a leading Jewish scholar in the 19th Century. His studies of Jewry in the Iberian Peninsula were largely based on original manuscripts found in archives, libraries and private collections in Europe. His scholarship caught the eye of the Spanish government, wwhich...
Creating Conversos
The Carvajal–Santa María Family in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In Creating Conversos, Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila skillfully unravels the complex story of Jews who converted to Catholicism in Spain between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, migrated to colonial Mexico and Bolivia during the conquest of the Americas, and assumed prominent church and government...
The Rebbe's Army
Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
“Excuse me, are you Jewish?” With these words, the relentlessly cheerful, ideologically driven emissaries of Chabad-Lubavitch approach perfect strangers on street corners throughout the world in their ongoing efforts to persuade their fellow Jews to live religiously observant lives. In The Rebbe’s...
Like a Bundle of Reeds
Why Unity and Mutual Guarantee Are Today’s Call of the Hour
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Like a Bundle of Reeds explains why unity and mutual responsibility can heal our society and mitigate anti-Semitism. Using numerous quotes and references from Jewish sages and historians, the author sheds light on some of the Jews’ most daunting and mystifying questions: What is our role on this...
by Dan Stone
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
The Holocaust is one of the most intensively studied phenomena in modern history. The volume of writing that fuels the numerous debates about it is overwhelming in quantity and diversity. Even those who have dedicated their professional lives to understanding the Holocaust cannot assimilate it all....
In the Narrow Places
Daily Inspiration for the Three Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Dr. Erica Brown is one of the foremost Jewish educators of our time. In In the Narrow Places, she brings her extraordinary teaching skills to the subject of the Three Weeks, the period of mourning commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples. For each day of the Three Weeks, she presents...
Iterations of Loss
Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries....
"The Space of Words"
Exile and Diaspora in the Works of Nelly Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) has long been regarded as one of the most significant Holocaust poets. Her conception of language and words as a landscape has been understood by scholars and critics as an exilic ersatz Heimat for the lost German homeland of a displaced poet. This reading, however, is based...
by Elizabeth R. Baer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Traces the history of the golem legend and its appropriations in German texts and film as well as in post-Holocaust Jewish-American fiction, comics, graphic novels, and television.