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  • Archivist on a Bicycle: Jiří Fiedler

    Archivist on a Bicycle is a tribute to Jiří Fiedler, a Czech Protestant, who for most of his life documented extinct Bohemian and Moravian Jewish communities at great danger to himself. His day job was as a children’s book editor; his passion was mapping and archiving the sites of Jewish life in the Czech lands. From the 1970s through 2014, he was an invaluable source for scholars, genealogists, ... Read more

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  • The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures

    Concepts, Problems, and the Aesthetics of Postcatastrophic Narration

    Edited by Anna Artwinska, Anja Tippner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region.Introducing the conceptual frame of postcatastrophe, the collected essays ... Read more

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  • Beyond Stereotypes

    American Jews and Sports

    Edited by Ari F. Sclar ...
    Series series The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review
    In the decades after the Civil War, sports slowly gained a prominent position within American culture. This development provided Jews with opportunities to participate in one of the few American cultures not closed off to them. Jewish athleticism challenged anti-Semitic depictions of Jews supposed physical inferiority while helping to construct a modern American Jewish identity. An Americanization ... Read more

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  • Submerged on the Surface

    The Not-So-Hidden Jews of Nazi Berlin, 1941–1945

    Between 1941 and 1945, thousands of German Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged in the shadows of the Nazi capital. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence and interviews with survivors, this book reconstructs the daily lives of Jews who stayed in Berlin during the war years. Contrary to the received wisdom that “hidden” Jews ... Read more

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  • World War 2 Women: Incredible Stories And Accounts Of World War 2 Women Spies, Heroes And Informers

    World War 2 Women, #1

    Series Book 1 - World War 2 Women
    Clichéd though it may be, a human being’s true strength of character is reflected in the most difficult of times. The world had to sit up and take note of just how strong a woman could be when the two world wars hit.Even taking the side of the traditionalists, one could deny that women were as important to the war as men were. This so called weaker sex had to fight their own battles within their ... Read more

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  • Battle of the Gods; Comparing the Literature of the Judeo-Christian Deity With Polytheistic Works of the Ancient Near East

    Debates of the Reliability of the Christian Bible, #2

    Series Book 2 - Debates of the Reliability of the Christian Bible
    The second of the series "Debates of the Reliability of the Christian Bible" produced by author Erik Angus MacRae in September of 2020, this work features more in-depth comparison of the second argument dealt with in the first book, and servers to further refute the ficticious claim that the Biblical text copied directly from the Ancient Near Eastern Polytheistic works. To this effect it features ... Read more

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  • Howdy My Name Is: -

    A Short collection of Bible Heroes from Adam to Moses.Each character tells his story in his own words. ... Read more

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  • Jews and Urban Life

    Edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon ...
    Series series Studies in Jewish Civilization
    Jews and Urban Life recognizes that throughout their long history, Jews have often inhabited cities. The reality of this urban experience ranged from ghetto restrictions to robust participation in a range of civic and social activities. Essays in this collection present relevant examples from within the Jewish community itself, moving historically from the biblical period to the modern-day State ... Read more

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  • Holocaust Survivor Accounts: Incredible True Holocaust Survivor Stories From World War 2: Accounts Of Holocaust History

    Holocaust Survivor Accounts, #1

    Series Book 1 - Holocaust Survivor Accounts
    If there is one thing that can be said about humanity, it is that we are true survivors. From wars to natural disasters, man has managed to bring himself back from the brink of destruction.We have thrived over the millennia we have inhabited this earth; from the caveman to the modern civilization we live in today, we have seen and braved storms of all kinds – both natural and man made.Of these ... Read more

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  • The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome

    by Patrick Gallo ...
    On October 16, 1943, the Jews of Rome were targeted for arrest and deportation. The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome examines why—and more importantly how—it could have been avoided, featuring new evidence and insight into the Vatican’s involvement. At the time, Rome was within reach of the Allies, but the overwhelming force of the Wehrmacht, Gestapo, and SS in Rome precluded direct ... Read more

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  • Eva and Otto

    Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler

    Eva and Otto is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910–1991) and Otto Pfister (1900–1985). It is an intimate and epic account of two Germans—Eva born Jewish, Otto born Catholic—who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile ... Read more

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  • Holy Night

    After Dinner Conversation, #59

    Series Book 59 - After Dinner Conversation
    Synopsis: Three Auschwitz prisoners find a contraband bible and have to decide if they are willing to risk their lives to keep it.After Dinner Conversation believes humanity is improved by ethics and morals grounded in philosophical truth. Philosophical truth is discovered through intentional reflection and respectful debate. In order to facilitate that process, we have created a growing series of ... Read more

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  • Terrortimes, Terrorscapes

    Continuities of Space, Time, and Memory in Twentieth-Century War and Genocide

    Edited by Volker Benkert, Michael Mayer ...
    Terrortimes, Terrorscapes: Continuities of Space, Time, and Memory in Twentieth-Century War and Genocide investigates interconnections between space and violence throughout the twentieth century, and how such connections informed collective memory. The interdisciplinary volume shows how entangled notions of time and space amplified by memory narratives led to continuities of violence across ... Read more

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  • Next Year in Jerusalem

    Exile and Return in Jewish History

    Edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon ...
    Series series Studies in Jewish Civilization
    Next Year in Jerusalem recognizes that Jews have often experienced or imaged periods of exile and return in their long tradition. The fourteen papers in this collection examine this phenomenon from different approaches, genres, and media. They cover the period from biblical times through today. Among the exiles highlighted are the Babylonian Exile (sixth century BCE), the exile after the ... Read more

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  • The Train Journey

    Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust

    Series Book 13 - War and Genocide
    Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis’ genocidal vision of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” Historians have estimated that between 1941 and 1944 up to three million Jews were transported to their deaths in concentration and extermination camps. In his writings on the “Final Solution,” Raul Hilberg pondered the role of trains: “How can railways be regarded as anything more ... Read more

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  • World War 2 History: True Stories of the Wehrmacht War Crimes and Atrocities

    World War 2 History, #1

    Series Book 1 - World War 2 History
    The Second World War was, no doubt, one of the worst experiences mankind has ever faced. From torture to rape to murder, crimes against innocents were innumerous – Adolf Hitler, a diminutive man with the oratorical skills of a genius took advantage of a sensitive situation in the aftermath of Germany's defeat in the First World War and amassed enough power to bring the entire European continent to ... Read more

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  • Holocaust Rescuers: True Holocaust Survivor Stories Of The Liberators Of Auschwitz: Accounts Of The Holocaust Rescuers

    Holocaust Rescuers, #2

    Series Book 2 - Holocaust Rescuers
    Every so often, an event happens that yanks the reigns of the ever-churning machinery of time and stops the world in its tracks. The repercussions of such an event may send shock waves that can be felt in every nook and corner of our sphere.These events and happenings will vary in the actual magnitude, but their lasting effect can be immeasurable in the manner they influence humanity till ... Read more

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  • The Complexity of Evil

    Perpetration and Genocide

    Series series Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    Why do people participate in genocide? Timothy Williams presents an interdisciplinary model that shows how complex and diverse, but also how ordinary and mundane most motivations for participating in genocide are. The book draws on empirical examples from the Holocaust and Rwanda and introduces new data from interviews with perpetrators of genocide in Cambodia. ... Read more

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  • Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America

    Edited by Saba Soomekh ...
    Series series The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review
    Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America includes academics, artists, writers, and civic and religious leaders who contributed chapters focusing on the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience in America. Topics will address language, literature, art, diaspora identity, and civic and political engagement.When discussing identity in America, one contributor will review and explore the distinct philosophy and ... Read more

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  • The Jewish Unions in America

    Pages of History and Memories

    Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers.The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time ... Read more

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  • Judging 'Privileged' Jews

    Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'

    by Adam Brown ...
    Series Book 18 - War and Genocide
    The Nazis’ persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called “privileged” positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-serving and harmful to fellow inmates. Such controversial figures constitute an intrinsically important, frequently ... Read more

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  • World War 2 History: Eyewitness Accounts: Crimes Of The German FBK & SS

    World War 2 History

    Series series World War 2 History
    When Heinrich Himmler was appointed as its fourth leader in 1929, the SS consisted of less than three hundred volunteers whose job was to protect Nazi Party speakers. The SS was so short of cash that its members had to provide their own uniforms and fund their own meetings and transport.By the end of World War Two, just sixteen years later, more than one million men had served in the combat arm of ... Read more

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  • Defending the Manuscript Traditions of Biblical Literature and a Refutation of the Gnostic Gospels and the Islamic Gospel of Barnabas

    Debates of the Reliability of the Christian Bible, #3

    Series Book 3 - Debates of the Reliability of the Christian Bible
    The third of the series "Debates of the Reliability of the Christian Bible" produced by author Erik Angus MacRae in September of 2020, this work takes on the question of whether or not the Christian Bible is reliable by endeavoring in a thorough explanation and examination of the Judeo-Christian textual preservation traditions. It describes both the preservation methodology of both the Old and New ... Read more

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  • A Summer of Mass Murder

    1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust

    by George Eisen ...
    Most accounts of the Holocaust focus on trainloads of prisoners speeding toward Auschwitz, with its chimneys belching smoke and flames, in the summer of 1944. This book provides a hitherto untold chapter of the Holocaust by exploring a prequel to the gas chambers: the face-to-face mass murder of Jews in Galicia by bullets.The summer of 1941 ushered in a chain of events that had no precedent in the ... Read more

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