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  • Aspects pathologiques du camp de concentration d'Auschwitz-Birkenau

    Thèse pour le Doctorat de l'Université de Paris, mention médecine, présentée et soutenue publiquement le 14 juin 1946

    « Pour nous, la monstruosité d'Auschwitz réside dans le fait que ce massacre ait été conçu et réalisé par des hommes. Pour nous, la surprise atroce d'Auschwitz a été de constater que la culture n'a pas amélioré l'homme. Bien au contraire, c'est grâce à la culture et au stade actuel du développement technique, que ce cataclysme humain a été possible. C'est pourquoi nous considérons d'une extrême ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The First to Cry Down Injustice?

    Western Jews and Japanese Removal During WWII

    by Eisenberg ...
    The First to Cry Down Injustice explores the range of responses from Jews in the Pacific West to the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. While it is often assumed that American Jews_because of a commitment to fighting prejudice_would have taken a position against this discriminatory policy, the treatment of Japanese Americans was largely ignored by national Jewish groups ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Jews in Manitoba

    Series series Heritage
    Rabbi Chiel's history of the Jewish community in Manitoba grew out of a curiosity about the colour and vitality of Jewish life in this Canadian prairie province which was impressed upon him during a ten-year residence in Winnipeg. He was impelled as a result to record the events of that history and to try and fit the local Jewish experience into a larger historical panorama. His story has been ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Chiens maudits

    Souvenirs d'un rescapé des bagnes hitlériens

    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Walker in the City

    by Alfred Kazin ...
    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 synagogues—but also a universal story of the desires and fears we experience as we try to leave our small, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Earth Is the Lord's

    The Inner World of the Jew in East Europe

    Earth Is The Lords is a riveting portrayal of a bygone culture of Jews in Eastern Europe by one of the foremost Jewish thinkers of the century. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Jewish Emergence from Powerlessness

    by Yehuda Bauer ...
    Series series Heritage
    The theme of this book is the gradual emergence of the Jewish people from total political powerlessness – a development stretching over nearly 100 years and culminating in the consolidation in the State of Israel. Ironically, Professor Bauer demonstrates, events during this period stemmed in part from a belief in the power of the international Jewish community that never existed - but that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Jewish War

    Translated by G. Williamson ...
    Josephus’ account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70. Originally a rebel leader, Josephus changed sides after he was captured to become a Rome-appointed negotiator, and so was uniquely placed to observe these turbulent events, from the siege of Jerusalem to the final heroic resistance and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Elie Wiesel

    Messenger to All Humanity, Revised Edition

    Upon presenting the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace to Elie Wiesel, Egil Aarvick, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, hailed him as "a messenger to mankind--not with a message of hate and revenge but with one of brotherhood and atonement." Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity, first published in 1983, echoes this theme and still affirms that message, a call to both Christians and Jews to ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Chosen People in America

    A Study in Jewish Religious Ideology

    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    An exploration of how American Jewish thinkers grapple with the notion of being the isolated “Chosen People” in a nation that is a melting pot.What does it mean to be a Jew in America? What opportunities and what threats does the great melting pot represent for a group that has traditionally defined itself as “a people that must dwell alone?” Although for centuries the notion of “The Chosen People ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Origins of Anti-Semitism

    Attitudes toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian Antiquity

    by John G. Gager ...
    This revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism offers a richer and more varied picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Canada and the Birth of Israel

    A Study in Canadian Foreign Policy

    Series series Heritage
    Canadian Zionists of the 1930s were anxious to involve their government in the Palestine question. The pressure they brought to bear was fuelled by a new urgency when British policy in Palestine denied entry to Jewish refugees from the Nazi terror. Today there is a widely held impression that the Canadian government responded quickly and sympathetically to that pressure. Jews and Arabs alike, each ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Courage to Care

    The extraordinary story of a few non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue and protect Jews from Nazi persecution in Europe during World War II is told in The Courage to Care. It features the first person accounts of rescuers and of survivors whose stories address the basic issue of individual responsibility: the notion that one person can act-and that those actions can make a difference. These ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas

    by Ruth Wisse ...
    The five short novellas which comprise this anthology were written between 1890 and World War I. All share a common setting—the Eastern European Jewish town or shtetl, and all deal in different ways with a single topic—the Jewish confrontation with modernity. The authors of these novellas are among the greatest masters of Yiddish prose. In their work, today's reader will discover a literary ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka

    The Operation Reinhard Death Camps

    by Yitzhak Arad ...
    " . . . Mr. Arad reports as a controlled and effective witness for the prosecution. . . . Mr. Arad's book, with its abundance of horrifying detail, reminds us of how far we have to go."—New York Times Book Review" . . . some of the most gripping chapters I have ever read. . . . the authentic, exhaustive, definitive account of the least known death camps of the Nazi era." —Raul HilbergArad, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Children of the Holocaust

    Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors

    by Helen Epstein ...
    "I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived."The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found:• Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America;• Albert Singerman, who ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • Jewels and Ashes

    by Arnold Zable ...
    ‘Do you ever think about those you left behind?’, I ask father.‘Not often’, he says. ‘Such memories are a luxury I can’t afford.’First his parents made a journey to the New World. It was the 1930s, and Europe was seething. As he grew up, Arnold Zable heard tales, songs, fragments of the world they had left behind. He had inherited a fractured, vibrant past which both fascinated and disturbed him. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Surviving the Holocaust

    The Kovno Ghetto Diary

    Translated by Jerzy Michalowicz ...
    This remarkable chronicle of life and death in the Jewish Ghetto of Kovno, Lithuania, from June 1941 to January 1944, was written under conditions of extreme danger by a Ghetto inmate and secretary of the Jewish Council. After the war, in order to escape from Lithuania, the author was forced to entrust the diary to leaders of the Escape movement; eventually it made its way to his new home in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Spirit of Renewal

    Finding Faith after the Holocaust

    by Edward Feld ...
    Helps the modern reader understand events that span almost 4,000 years of the history of Judaism and the Jewish people. This profound and engaging meditation opens the way to a powerful new understanding of the nature of God and the spiritual life. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Jewish People

    Their History and Their Religion

    The first part of this illustrated volume offers a survey of Jewish history and literature. The second part presents what the preface describes as "a thematic analysis of the teachings and practice of Judaism". ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Being Present

    Growing Up in Hitler's Germany

    “Professor Schumann, of Smith College, was six years old when Hitler came to power in Germany. He grew up in a smallish, very ship-minded town on the approach to the Kiel Canal. The place was far from the centers of power and corruption, and devoid of concentration camps. Young Willy became a devoted Nazi believer. Professor Schumann’s intention in writing this understated and not self-defensive ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ellis Island to Ebbets Field

    Sport and the American Jewish Experience

    by Peter Levine ...
    In Ellis Island to Ebbets Field, Peter Levine vividly recounts the stories of Red Auerbach, Hank Greenberg, Moe Berg, Sid Luckman, Nat Holman, Benny Leonard, Barney Ross, Marty Glickman, and a host of others who became Jewish heroes and symbols of the difficult struggle for American success. From settlement houses and street corners, to Madison Square and Fenway Park, their experiences recall a ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Jewish Time Line Encyclopedia

    A Year-by-Year History From Creation to the Present

    by Mattis Kantor ...
    Kantor writes from the perspective of a traditional Jew, covering events such as the Flood, giving of the Torah, and the fall of the Tower of Babel, placing these within the chronology of history along with the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel. ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Holocaust and Catholic Conscience

    Cardinal Aloisius Muench and the Guilt Question in Germany

    American-born Cardinal Aloisius Muench (1889-1962) was a key figure in German and German-American Catholic responses to the Holocaust, Jews, and Judaism between 1946 and 1959. He was arguably the most powerful American Catholic figure and an influential Vatican representative in occupied Germany and in West Germany after the war. In this carefully researched book, which draws on Muench’s collected ... Read more

    $21.99 USD