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Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht
RRP: £11.99£8.68Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women changed the way we see the world. But many have vanished from our collective memory despite their enduring... -
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku
RRP: £10.99£7.37Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and believed he was the 'happiest man on earth'. In his inspirational memoir, he paid tribute to those who were lost by telling his story and sharing his wisdom.'Eddie looked evil in the eye and... -
Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel
RRP: £7.99£5.66How identity politics failed one particular identity. 'a must read and if you think YOU don't need to read it, that's just the clue to know you do.' SARAH SILVERMAN 'a masterpiece.'STEPHEN FRY ... -
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--And Revenge by Edward Kritzler
RRP: £19.00£11.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767919524Author Edward KritzlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire by Daniel Gross
RRP: £24.99£17.12Who was Edmond J. Safra? "The greatest banker of his generation," in the estimation of a former World Bank President. The founder of four massive financial institutions on three continents, and a proud child of Beirut's Jewish quarter. An... -
Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day by James Holland
RRP: £9.99£7.36'War as it should be described - ordinary men facing extraordinary horror' The Times'Epic and moving...Holland brings this cramped universe vividly to life' Daily Telegraph'Does not disappoint... Holland takes us down to the individual's experience'... -
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen
RRP: £22.99£15.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316221030Author Annie JacobsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 520gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
Escape to Gwrych Castle: A Jewish refugee story by Andrew Hesketh
RRP: £18.99£14.52In 2020 and 2021, at the height of the Covid pandemic, Gwrych Castle was familiar to the British public as the setting of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! Lesser known is that, at the beginning of the Second World War, this once-grand country house... -
The Twins of Auschwitz: The inspiring true story of a young girl surviving Mengele's hell by Eva Mozes Kor
RRP: £4.99£3.76THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins.In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and her family arrived at Auschwitz.Within thirty minutes, they were separated. Her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas... -
The Stable Boy of Auschwitz: A heartbreaking true story of courage and survival by Henry Oster and Dexter Ford
RRP: £4.99£3.76"Hunger gnawed at my insides. I couldn't last much longer. But just as I was beginning to give up, I found myself in the Auschwitz stables, with rows of stalls filled with horses. Barbarossa was a towering, beautiful stallion. He only responded to... -
Mobilising Hate: The Story of Hitler's Final Solution by Martin Davidson
RRP: £22.00£14.23'Finally, eight decades on, there comes a convincing reason as to how an entire nation was able to swallow and then endorse the warped ideology of Hitler and the Nazis. Not only a brilliantly argued book, Mobilising Hate is also a grimly compelling and... -
Imperialism and Jewish Society: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. by Seth Schwartz 9780691117812
RRP: £42.00£39.58This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz... -
To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 by Victor Klemperer
RRP: £14.99£9.57The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany.'Deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description of the sufferings of the victims of Hitler's evil regime' EVENING STANDARD'Few English readers will fail to... -
I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41 by Victor Klemperer
RRP: £14.99£9.57A publishing sensation, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period.'A classic ... Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank's' SUNDAY TIMES'I can't... -
The Lost: A search for six of six million by Daniel Mendelsohn 9780007550128
RRP: £16.99£11.47A writer's search for his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original and riveting epic, brilliantly exploring the nature of time and memory. 'The Lost' begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the... -
Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 by Geoffrey Levin 9780300267853
RRP: £38.00£31.85A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights American Jews began debating Palestinian rights issues even before Israel’s founding in 1948. Geoffrey... -
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
£14.94Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began, America's ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens-and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and... -
The Holocaust: A New History by Laurence Rees
RRP: £14.99£10.95THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER AND THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS.'By far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development'... -
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
RRP: £9.99£6.89THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World... -
The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James McAuley
RRP: £11.99£10.87A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction "The depths of French anti-Semitism is the stunning subject that Mr. McAuley lays bare. . . . [He] tells this haunting saga... -
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert
RRP: £18.99£14.01The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerWith a foreword by King Charles III.'A stunningly moving book about the power of hope and love to overcome the very worst of mankind' - Piers MorganWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a... -
Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism by Sylvie Klingberg
RRP: £10.99£9.19Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishland, a vast expanse of Eastern Europe that, before the... -
History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier by Deborah E. Lipstadt 9780060593773
RRP: £16.99£11.24This is the only book from the perspective of the defendant who emerged victorious. It features reviews on book pages of national newspapers, and in history magazines. Deborah Lipstadt chronicles her five-year legal battle with David Irving that... -
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal
RRP: £9.99£7.36From the author of the bestselling phenomenon The Hare with Amber EyesAs you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street rather well. The Camondos lived just a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears. Like de... -
Safe Passage by Ida Cook
RRP: £10.99£6.60'A breathtaking story' Daily Mail 'Extraordinary' The Telegraph on the Cook sisters Desperate circumstances can cause ordinary women to achieve extraordinary things. No one would have predicted... -
The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe by Marek Kohn
RRP: £20.00£17.77A journey through Europe's old towns, exploring why we treasure them-but also what they hide about a continent's fraught history "[A] fascinating chronicle."-Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle... -
A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman
RRP: £16.99£12.28'An absolute godsend ... Goodman has done both Jews and non-Jews a great service with this book, encapsulating most of Jewish thought over four millennia into one extraordinarily readable volume' Julia Neuberger, Literary ReviewA panoramic history of... -
Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany by Walter Laqueur 9781860648854
£26.02This text is a generational history of the young people whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the rise of the Nazis. Half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these... -
Works: v. 3: The Jewish War, Bks.III-IV by Flavius Josephus
£22.92Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
The Slaughterman's Daughter: The Avenging of Mende Speismann by the Hand of her Sister Fanny by Yaniv Iczkovits
RRP: £5.99£4.62WINNER OF THE WINGATE PRIZE 2021SUNDAY TIMES "MUST READS" PICKECONOMIST "BEST BOOKS OF 2020" PICKKIRKUS REVIEWS "10 BOOKS TO LOOK FOR IN 2021" PICK"Boundless imagination and a vibrant style . . . a heroine of unforgettable grit" DAVID GROSSMAN"A story of... -
Nazi Germany And the Jews: The Years Of Extermination: 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander
RRP: £18.99£12.52The second and concluding volume of the definitive two-volume account of the HolocaustWith THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION, Friedlander completes his work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describes and interprets the history of the persecution and... -
Essays on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Left by Jean Amery 9780253058768
£18.79In April 1945, Jean Amery was liberated from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. A Jewish and political prisoner, he had been brutally tortured by the Nazis, and had also survived both Auschwitz and other infamous camps. His experiences during the... -
The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman: The Life and Times of Redcliffe Nathan Salaman by Todd M. Endelman 9780253061751
£34.32Redcliffe Salaman (1874-1955) was an English Jew of many facets: a country gentleman, a physician, a biologist who pioneered the breeding of blight-free strains of potatoes, a Jewish nationalist, and a race scientist. A well-known figure in his own time,... -
The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren 9781804440698
£11.48Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her immigrant family's origins. Her great-great-grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th... -
Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction by David N. Myers
RRP: £8.99£6.70How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this singular success as a result of divine intervention. In... -
The Good Assassin: Mossad's Hunt for the Butcher of Latvia by Stephan Talty
RRP: £10.99£7.50Before the Second World War, Herbert Cukurs was a world-famous aviator and a hero in his hometown of Riga, Latvia. During the war he joined the SS, led a militia and was responsible for the genocide of 30,000 Latvian Jews. By the 1960s the man who became... -
The Golden Path: Maimonides Through Eight Centuries by David Sclar 9781802077889
RRP: £24.99£23.48Among the intellectual luminaries dotting the millennia of Jewish history, none shines brighter than Maimonides (1138-1204). He was a rabbi, jurist, Talmudist, philosopher, physician, astronomer, and communal leader, and produced a myriad of writings on... -
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish by Ilan Stavans
RRP: £15.99£11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632062260Author Ilan StavansFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books -
The Hidden and Manifest God: Some Major Themes in Early Jewish Mysticism by Peter Schaefer
RRP: £24.78£24.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791410448Author Peter SchaeferFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
When Scotland Was Jewish: DNA Evidence, Archeology, Analysis of Migrations, and Public and Family Records Show Twelfth Century Semitic Roots by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman 9780786477098
£44.93The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognised elements of Celtic culture. But could it be that a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored or unknown for centuries? This book argues just such a...