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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 ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513267869Author Mary AntinFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

"This is a loving, sophisticated, illuminating, outstanding depiction of a brilliant intellectual/spiritual/moral leader who deserves just such a treatment. This book will serve as testimony and inspiration for the new generation... a tour de force...

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.

A second-generation Holocaust survivor weaves together fragments of her family's history and witness testimony in narrative and collage, using her art as transformation and remembrance. "Chocolates from Tangier is a bold and innovative ensemble piece...

Eva and Otto is a truestory 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...

Rabbi Barry Marcus MBE was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has accomplished a great deal and is a dynamic speaker but is perhaps best known for his services to Holocaust education, pioneering one-day educational trips to Auschwitz. This book...

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

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...

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...

Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was one of the great inventors of Jewish modernity. A merchant, banker, and court financier, a scholar versed in both Jewish and Christian writings, a preacher and exegete, a prominent political actor in royal entourages...

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) 91gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853039976Author Michael FreedlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

A moving and powerful inter-generational memoir about story and memory. Mine is a family of readers and writers. Our house is filled with books. There are contemporary design books on the coffee table in the living room, legal books in my husband's home...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635423549Author Goran RosenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

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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 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...

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

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,...

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,...