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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657023761Author Vincent BrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Gefen BooksPublisher Gefen Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555668Author Judith KalmanFormat HardbackImprint Sutherland HousePublisher Sutherland HouseWeight(grams) 229g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635422207Author Claudio LomnitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803710242Author Randy GrigsbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 335Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922464866Author Margaret TaftFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 153g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657023228Author Suzanne D RutlandFormat HardbackPage Count 680Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 1266g

Named one of 12 of the Best Jewish Books of the Year by the Jewish Telegraph Agency, New York Jewish Week, & Jerusalem Post2023 International Book Awards Finalist in the Humor/Comedy/Satire CategoryFrom a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

On 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...

This 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...

It'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 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. ...

The 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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.

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915546432Author John BaltisbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Planet BizarroPublisher Planet BizarroWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335050144Author Max EisenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 218g

This 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...

The 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...

A 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...

A 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...

A 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...

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...

Apologies 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

A 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 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...

As 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,...

The 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...

After 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,...

The 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...

A 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...