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  • End Jew Hatred

    A Manual for Mobilization

    In this seminal book, award-winning filmmaker, civil rights attorney, and television personality, Brooke Goldstein, offers a groundbreaking and pragmatic strategy for ending Jew-hatred globally. What Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals was for progressives, End Jew Hatred is for the Jewish community and its allies.Thousands of books have documented the victimization of Jews over the centuries. This ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die: A Graphic Memoir

    by Peter Lantos ...
    Deeply moving - BooktrustA gripping story of love, courage and triumph over evil - The BooksellerCan, and should, be read by an audience of any age. - Jewish NewsSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKSELLER CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A story of survival, of love between mother and son and of enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship. An importan... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Rest Is Memory: A Novel

    by Lily Tuck ...
    The heartbreaking story of a young Catholic girl transported to Auschwitz becomes a Rashomon-like rondo in the hands of one of our greatest novelists.First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a village in southeastern Poland before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped ... Read more

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  • Der Kern des Holocaust

    Belzec, Sobibór, Treblinka und die Aktion Reinhardt

    Series Book 6271 - Beck Paperback
    Am 15. März 1942 begann die «Aktion Reinhardt». Die deutschen Besatzer deportierten die Juden aus den Ghettos im besetzten Polen und vergasten sie in den Vernichtungslagern Belzec, Sobibór und Treblinka. Bis November 1943 ermordeten sie annähernd zwei Millionen Menschen, verbrannten die Leichen und vergruben die Asche. Weniger als 150 Menschen überlebten. Stephan Lehnstaedt legt die erste ... Read more

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  • Family Romance

    John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers

    by Jean Strouse ...
    Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family.Jean Strouse’s Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate American artist at the height of his career—and at the intersections of all these lives with the sparkle and strife ... Read more

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  • Let's Make Things Better

    Finding Hope in the Darkest Days

    “To me, hard times are like hide-and-seek - where is the solution, where is the hope? We can never give up looking for these things because they are just waiting to be found.”Gidon Lev is 89 years old. He’s been a dance teacher and a farmer. He loves soccer, his kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids, his beloved late wife of 40 years, Susan and his unexpected late-in-life partner, Julie, whom he ... Read more

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  • One Life

    The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the Prague Kindertransport

    Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again. This is his story.*Now a major motion picture starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter*In 1938, 29-year-old "Nicky" cancelled a ski trip and instead spent nine months masterminding a seemingly impossible plan to rescue hundreds of Jewish ... Read more

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  • The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus

    The next generation of scholars charts new paths for continuing the quest for Jesus of Nazareth.After a decade of stagnation in the study of the historical Jesus, James Crossley and Chris Keith have assembled an international team of scholars to renew the quest for the historical Jesus. The contributors offer new perspectives and fresh methods for reengaging the question of the historical Jesus. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Only in America

    Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer

    A probing biography of world-renowned Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson and the history of his performance in and the making of The Jazz SingerAl Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, immigrated from a shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1894 after his father secured a job as a rabbi in Washington, D.C. A poor, Yiddish-speaking newcomer navigating a racially segregated and antisemitic America, young ... Read more

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  • We Used to Dream of Freedom

    A Memoir of Family, the Holocaust, and the Stories We Don't Tell

    by Sam Chaiton ...
    A child of Holocaust survivors grapples with his parents’ untold stories and their profound effect on the course of his extraordinary life.Growing up in Toronto, Sam Chaiton and his brothers knew their parents had been prisoners in Bergen-Belsen. But what their parents wouldn’t share about their history — including the fact they had also been in Auschwitz — ended up shaping their children’s lives ... Read more

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  • Two Wheels to Freedom

    The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape

    The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish art student in wartime Berlin who not just survived but resisted—and retained his infectious zeal for life.Though Cioma Schonhaus was only 11 years old when the Nazis first came to power, his cleverness and resourcefulness eventually made him an unlikely hero and bon vivant. As a young adult staying one step ahead of the S.S., Cioma would dine in ... Read more

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  • No Road Leading Back

    An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust

    by Chris Heath ...
    This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust.No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the site where more than 70,000 Jews were shot in the Lithuanian forest of ... Read more

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  • Occupied Words

    What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their new reality. These crass, witty, and sometimes beautiful Yiddish words – Khurbn Yiddish, or “Yiddish of the Holocaust” – puzzled ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Tablets Shattered

    The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life

    by Joshua Leifer ...
    From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and community from the tipping point we are living in.Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer’s lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish present. Formed in the middle decades of the twentieth century, the settled-upon pillars of American Jewish self-definition (Americanism ... Read more

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  • Opening The Gates of Hell

    The untold story of Herbert Kenny, the man who discovered Belsen

    Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first Allied solider to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945.He kept his story from the world until an encounter with a trainee journalist brought it to light. Now, forty years on, that reporter is ready to share Herbert's incredible tale with the world.With unprecedented access to Herbert's diaries, letters and interviews, ... Read more

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  • Opening Doors

    The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America

    The extraordinary untold story of how Irish and Jewish immigrants worked together to secure legitimacy in America.Popular belief holds that the various ethnic groups that emigrated to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century regarded one another with open hostility, fiercely competing for limited resources and even coming to blows in the crowded neighborhoods of major cities. One of ... Read more

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  • Irena's Gift

    An Epic WWII Memoir of Sisters, Secrets, and Survival

    by Karen Kirsten ...
    **Weaving mystery, history and memoir, Irena’s Gift is the extraordinary moving, captivating account of one woman’s personal quest to uncover the unspoken and give voice to her family’s secret war-torn history.From the glittering concert halls of interbellum Warsaw and the vermin-infested prison where a Jewish woman negotiates with an SS officer for a child’s life, to the author’s upbringing in a ... Read more

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  • The Incorruptibles

    A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

    by Dan Slater ...
    The harrowing tale of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime.In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed a dense web of crime syndicates. Gangs of horse poisoners and casino owners, pimps and prostitutes, thieves and ... Read more

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  • Sacred Places Tell Tales

    Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo

    by Yoram Meital ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Sacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo’s synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews. Historian Yoram Meital interprets Cairo’s synagogues as exquisite storytellers. The synagogues still stand in Cairo, and they shed new light on the social, cultural, and political processes that ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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  • Auschwitz – A Mother's Story

    How I fought to survive and see my daughter again

    Suddenly there is a blow to my face, I am hurled to one side. 'My child, I have to go with her!' I scream. But Dr Mengel is standing before me, whip raised. 'Maul halten, shut up!' His eyes gleam. Filled with fear I cower down.In 1943, as the Nazi power swept across central Europe, Rosa, her husband Emanuel and their daughter, Judy, were forced into hiding. But after a year and a half of living a ... Read more

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  • Ik omhels je onafgebroken

    In brieven, opgetekend door Ida Does, blikt Judith de Kom nu terug op haar leven, waar de zoektocht naar haar vader Anton de Kom als een rode draad doorheen loopt. Judith de Kom werd in 1931 geboren als het vierde kind van Anton de Kom en Petronella Borsboom. Judith was twee jaar oud toen het gezin naar Suriname verhuisde, waar haar vader het middelpunt werd van historische antikoloniale opstanden ... Read more

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  • A Jew in the Street

    New Perspectives on European Jewish History

    This collection brings together original scholarship by seventeen historians drawing on the pioneering research of their teacher and colleague, Michael Stanislawski. These essays explore a mosaic of topics in the history of modern European Jewry from early modern times to the present, including the role of Jewish participants in the European revolutions of 1848, the dynamics of Zionist and non ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

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  • Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas

    Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community

    by Aviad Moreno ...
    Series series Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
    Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas explores how the 30,000 Jews in northern Morocco developed a sense of kinship with modern Spain, medieval Sepharad, and the broader Hispanophone world that was unlike anything experienced elsewhere. The Hispanic Moroccan Jewish diaspora, as this group is often called by its scholars and its community leaders, also became one of the most mobile and globally ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Homes of the Past

    A Lost Jewish Museum

    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s were a small number of Polish scholars who had devoted their professional lives to the study of Europe's Yiddish-speaking Jews at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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