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No Past Tense: Love and Survival in the Shadow of the Holocaust by D.Z. Stone
RRP: £14.95£11.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912676118Author D.Z. StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Hermann Adler: The King's Chief Rabbi by Derek Taylor
RRP: £40.00£30.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912676453Author Derek TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Boy with a Violin: A Story of Survival by Yochanan Fein
RRP: £15.99£14.24On the June 22, 1941, the day war broke out between Germany and the Soviet Union, childhood ended for 11-year-old violin prodigy Yochanan Fein. The next morning, Yochanan's father made the fateful decision to move his family from the family mill to the... -
Judah Magnes: The Prophetic Politics of a Religious Binationalist by David Barak-Gorodetsky
RRP: £27.99£24.14This comprehensive intellectual biography of Judah Magnes-the Reform rabbi, American Zionist leader, and inaugural Hebrew University chancellor-offers novel analysis of how theology and politics intertwined to drive Magnes's writings and... -
Every Last Jew: A Teenage Boy's Story of Survival by Mark Koperweis
RRP: £8.95£6.18It's 1939 and Hitler just invaded Poland. Henry is 13 years old, and unbeknownst to him or his family, his life is about to change forever. Soon he is torn from his siblings and parents and finds himself packed into a covered truck with dozens of... -
The Promised Land by Mary Antin
RRP: £9.99£6.75The Promised Land is a compelling account of one woman's journey from Polotsk to Boston and her attempts to embrace a new culture and identity. Author Mary Antin highlights the old values and contemporary views that shaped her immigrant experience. ... -
Defender of the Faithful - The Life and Thought of Rabbi Levi Yitshak of Berdychiv by Arthur Green
RRP: £32.00£27.15The first scholarly biography of Levi Yitshak of Berdychiv in English in over thirty-five years. Defender of the Faithful explores the life and thought of Levi Yitshak of Berdychiv (1740-1809), one of the most fascinating and colorful Hasidic leaders of... -
In Pursuit of Godliness and a Living Judaism: The Life and Thought of Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis by Edward M. Feinstein
RRP: £14.99£9.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684424344Author Edward M. FeinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing Company -
Shmuel's Bridge: Following the Tracks to Auschwitz with My Survivor Father by Jason Sommer
RRP: £23.00£15.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623545123Author Jason SommersFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.Publisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. -
L'Dor V'Dor: The Poliachek Family of Lida by Berna Heyman 9780578861449
RRP: £57.00£56.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578861449Author Berna HeymanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Covered Bridge BooksPublisher Covered Bridge BooksWeight(grams) 216g -
Mayer Matalon: Business, Politics and the Jewish-Jamaican Elite by Diana Thorburn 9780761871149
RRP: £35.00£30.95This biography of Mayer Matalon, an influential Jewish Jamaican, traces his path from humble origins to innovator, public servant, political insider, and leader of his family's conglomerate, from the 1940s to the end of the twentieth century. Mayer... -
Abraham: The First Jew Anthony Julius 9780300266801
RRP: £16.99£14.44The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history In this new biography of Abraham, Judaism’s foundational figure, Anthony Julius offers an account of the... -
The Many Lives of Anne Frank Ruth Franklin 9780300248128
RRP: £16.99£14.44A revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diary In this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929–1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light... -
The Sign on the Door: A Story of Open Secrets and Hidden Identities John Lorinc 9781552454923
RRP: £13.99£11.89A stolen sign, ‘No Jews Live Here,’ kept John Lorinc’s Hungarian Jewish family alive during the Holocaust. From pre-war Budapest to post-war Toronto, journalist John Lorinc unspools four generations of his Hungarian Jewish family's journey through the... -
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes Michael Frank 9781800815544
RRP: £10.99£9.34A WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Beautiful, sober and affecting - a testament to remembrance and friendship' - DALIA SOFER 'A momentous historic retrieval and work of literary art' - PHILLIP LOPATE 'Having the last word can be very lonely.' Nearly... -
We Used to Dream of Freedom: A Memoir of Family, the Holocaust, and the Stories We Don't Tell Sam Chaiton 9781459754683
RRP: £17.99£14.05A 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... -
Bad Jew: A Family's Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu's Israel Piotr Smolar 9781635424249
RRP: £16.99£10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635424249Author Piotr SmolarFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania Levi Shalit 9780817361747
RRP: £29.95£25.46A translation from the Yiddish of a powerful eyewitness account of life in the Shavl (Šiauliai, Lithuania) ghetto from 1941 to 1944.Book InformationISBN 9780817361747Author Levi ShalitFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The University of Alabama... -
Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande Morris S. Riskind 9781682832301
RRP: £48.95£41.61Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande is the memoir of Morris Riskind, who was born and lived most of his life in the small Texas border town of Eagle Pass. Riskind's parents, Michael and Rachel, were Russian Jewish... -
Once There Was Warsaw: A Memoir Gerald Marcus 9780815611707
RRP: £38.95£27.65As a young man in interwar Warsaw, newspaperman Ber Kutscher threw himself into the city’s vibrant Jewish arts and culture scene from the headquarters of the Association of Jewish Writers and Journalists at Tlomkatse 13. In Once There Was Warsaw,... -
Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape Arthur J. Magida 9781639367221
RRP: £22.00£17.80The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish art student who not just survived but resisted and saved hundred of lives—all while retaining his infectious zeal for life.Though Cioma Schonhaus was only 11 years old when the Nazis first came to power, his... -
My Dear Boy: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation Joanie Holzer Schirm 9781640126299
RRP: £22.99£16.89After the death of Joanie Holzer Schirm’s parents in 2000, she found hundreds of letters, held together by rusted paperclips and stamped with censor marks, sent from Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, China, and South and North America, along with journals,... -
Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah Ezra Glinter 9780300222623
RRP: £18.99£16.14The life and thought of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, one of the most influential—and controversial—rabbis in modern Judaism The Chabad-Lubavitch movement, one of the world’s best-known Hasidic groups, is driven by the belief that we are on the verge of... -
So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania Levi Shalit 9780817322144
RRP: £94.00£79.90A translation from the Yiddish of a powerful eyewitness account of life in the Shavl (Šiauliai, Lithuania) ghetto from 1941 to 1944.Book InformationISBN 9780817322144Author Levi ShalitFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint The University of Alabama...