Jewish category: 3083 books
Matters of Testimony
Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando—the “special squads,” composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process—buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness...
by Alfredo F. Vorshirm
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
From Hitler to Trujillo is a memoir by a Holocaust survivor Alfredo Vorshirm. His gripping story embodies the Jewish European experience during and after World War II and dramatizes the events that impelled Vorshirm to the Dominican Republic at the height of the Trujillo dictatorship. Living in Belgium...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
How is the Holocaust remembered in Romania since the fall of communism? Alexandru Florian and an international group of contributors unveil how and why Romania, a place where large segments of the Jewish and Roma populations perished, still fails to address its recent past. These essays focus on the...
The Perfect Passover Cookbook
Family-Tested Recipes for Matzoh Ball Soup, Kugel, Haroset, and More, Plus 25 Desserts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Celebrate the delicious abundance of Passover with 52 favorite recipes from Judy Bart Kancigor’s Cooking Jewish. A complete holiday in e-book form, it collects from five generations of Judy’s food-obsessed family.
Included are four variations of haroset, including Goat Cheese and Pine Nut...
Joy of Kosher
Fast, Fresh Family Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Jamie Geller, “The Jewish Rachael Ray” (New York Times) and founder of the Kosher Media Network, including Joy of Kosher with Jamie Geller magazine and JoyofKosher.com, shares more than 200 ideas for fast, fresh family-friendly recipes, each with tips on how to dress them up for entertaining or...
Food of Israel
Authentic Recipes from the Land of Milk and Honey
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Nowhere is the Israeli passion for life more pronounced than around their food tables at home and in their restaurants
The storied land of Israel is best known as the cradle of three great world religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Since ancient times, the rich interplay of cultures...
Auschwitz and the Allies
A Devastating Account of How the Allies Responded to the News of Hitler's Mass Murder
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
A thorough analysis of Allied actions after learning about the horrors of Nazi concentration camps—includes survivors’ firsthand accounts.
Why did they wait so long? Among the myriad questions of what the Allies could have done differently in World War II, understanding why it took them...
Final Journey
The Fate of the Jews of Nazi Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
A thoughtful and rigorous examination of the Jewish experience under Hitler’s “Final Solution”—based on eyewitness accounts and contemporary evidence.
Focusing on firsthand narratives from survivors and supported by contextual scholarship, Gilbert presents a masterful cross-section of the...
by Bernard Wasserstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Working with the Nazi-appointed Jewish Council in Amsterdam, Gertrude van Tijn helped many Jews escape. But she faced difficult moral choices. Some called her a heroine; others, a collaborator. Bernard Wasserstein's haunting narrative draws readers into this twilight world, to expose the terrible dilemmas confronting Jews under Nazi occupation.
A Social History of Hebrew
Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
More than simply a method of communication shared by a common people, the Hebrew language was always an integral part of the Jewish cultural system and, as such, tightly interwoven into the lives of the prophets, poets, scribes, and priests who used it. In this unique social history, William Schniedewind...
by Flavius Josephus
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
I suppose that by my books of the Antiquity of the Jews, most excellent Epaphroditus, have made it evident to those who peruse them, that our Jewish nation is of very great antiquity, and had a distinct subsistence of its own originally; as also, I have therein declared how we came to inhabit this...
Against All Odds
Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Against All Odds is the first comprehensive look at the 140,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to America and the lives they have made here. William Helmreich writes of their experiences beginning with their first arrival in the United States: the mixed reactions they encountered from American...
by Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
There is no true division of Jerusalem into East and West. The division imposed by the Jordanian occupation for a brief period of 19 years is no longer possible in a city which has dramatically grown and changed over the last 44 years.270,000 Arabs and 200,000 Jews live in the mosaic of neighborhoods...
Surviving Remnant
Memories of the Jewish Greenhorns in 1950s America
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
How does a young girl search for a benevolent father figure and suitable husband for her single mother among a group of Holocaust survivors? Set in the deteriorating north end of Springfield, Massachusetts in the 1950s, Surviving Remnant is Hanna Perlstein Marcus' sequel to her award-winning memoir,...