Hasia R Diner: 3 books
We Remember with Reverence and Love
American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Winner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies
Recipient of the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Humanities-Intellectual & Cultural History
It has become an accepted truth: after World War II, American Jews chose to be silent about the mass murder of millions of their European...
Roads Taken
The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Between the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one-third of the world’s Jews emigrated to new lands. Crossing borders and often oceans, they followed paths paved by intrepid peddlers who preceded them. This book is the first to tell the remarkable story of the Jewish men who put packs on their backs...
Julius Rosenwald
Repairing the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The portrait of a humble retail magnate whose visionary ideas about charitable giving transformed the practice of philanthropy in America and beyond Julius Rosenwald (1862–1932) rose from modest means as the son of a peddler to meteoric wealth at the helm of Sears, Roebuck. Yet his most important legacy...