Jewish category: 3083 books
Contemporary Israel
New Insights and Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
For a country smaller than Vermont, with roughly the same population as Honduras, modern Israel receives a remarkable amount of attention. For supporters, it is a unique bastion of democracy in the Middle East, while detractors view it as a racist outpost of Western colonialism. The romanticization...
by Michael Shterenshis
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This book provides a general introduction to the history of Jewish life in 14th century Asia at the time of the conqueror Tamerlane (Timur). The author defines who are the Central Asian Jews, and describes the attitudes towards the Jews, and the historical consequences of this relationship with Tamerlane....
Model Citizens of the State
The Jews of Turkey during the Multi-Party Period
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Model Citizens of the State: The Jews of Turkey during the Multi-Party Period is about the history of the Turkish Jews from 1950 to present. By using unpublished primary sources as well as secondary sources, the book describes the struggle of Turkish Jews for the application of their constitutional...
Tales of Bialystok
A Jewish Journey from Czarist Russia to America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Charles Zachariah Goldberg left Bialystok in 1906 at the age of 20 in the aftermath of a deadly pogrom in Bialystok, then a part of Czarist Russia. Published later in life, living in Connecticut, these are his remembrances and stories about growing up in Bialystok, tales of the dreadful, and of...
by Johna Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Over 99% of the Danish Jews were rescued in WWII by the Danish people. The Red Umbrella is a young girl’s memoir of life during WWII Nazi occupation of Copenhagen, Denmark during 1943-1945. Little Johna Christensen lived with a Jewish Mother’s family, a Danish Father’s family, a birth defect...
Extraterritorial Dreams
European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied by a state. Modern history teaches otherwise. Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can travel, Extraterritorial Dreams explores the history of Ottoman Jews who sought, acquired, were denied...
Resistance of the Heart
Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
In February 1943 the Gestapo arrested approximately 10,000 Jews remaining in Berlin. Most died at Auschwitz. Two thousand of those Jews, however, had non-Jewish partners and were locked into a collection center on a street called Rosenstrasse. As news of the surprise arrest pulsed through the city,...
by Götz Aly
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2020
From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, the first book to move beyond Germany’s singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole.
The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Germans, but it would not have been possible without the assistance of thousands of helpers in other countries:...
Holocaust
The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
A comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, paying detailed attention to an unrivalled range sources. Focusing clearly on the perpetrators and exploring closely the process of decision making, Longerich argues that anti-Semitism was not a mere by-product of the Nazis'...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
This collection studies Jewish involvement in seafaring from Biblical, through Greco-Roman, Medieval and Early Modern periods to the present. This broad historical perspective allows a closer look at various attitudes of Jews to maritime activities, especially as shipowners and traders in the Mediterranean regions.
The Unmaking of Man
Disability and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The Unmaking of Man is a series of four essays by Dr Simon Duffy exploring the lessons of the Holocaust for people with disabilities. Few people know that people with disabilities not only made up a large number of the victims of the Holocaust but they were the first victims, marked out for destruction...
by Joseph Tenenbaum, Sheila Tenenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
The heart-breaking story of Joseph Tenenbaum who visited Poland in 1945 after the end of the Second World War in search of his Jewish relatives.
“I can only report fragments of what I saw and heard or read during my two and a half months abroad. But these fragments seem to me to be not only...
Eve's Journey
Feminine Images in Hebraic Literary Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
In Eve's Journey, Nehama Aschkenasy traces the migration of several female images and feminine situations from their early appearances in Biblical writings to their incarnations in modern Hebraic literature. Focusing on the evolution of early female archetypes and prototypes, Aschkenasy uncovers the...
Made of Shores
Judeo-Argentinean Fiction Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Made of Shores places Jewish Argentinean fiction within the context of Latin American literature and Judaic Studies. It offers the reader to participate actively in the scholarly debates on issues of memory and identity, and the different representations of Jewishness in Latin America. By reviewing...