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Honorable Mention for the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer book award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History presented by the Association for Jewish Studies On August 3, 1492, the same day that Columbus set sail from Spain, the long and glorious history of...

This book tells the epic thousand-year story of Britain's Jewish community, the country's oldest minority group, replete with the dark episodes of persecution and expulsion, but also with positive periods of acceptance and toleration. Some Jews came as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592645107Author Pini DunnerFormat HardbackPage Count 231Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 142mm *...

This true story of a revolt at a Nazi death camp, newly updated, is "a memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget" (San Francisco Chronicle). On October 14, 1943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi...

Janusz Korczak (1879-1942) is one of the legendary figures to emerge from the Holocaust. A successful pediatrician and well-known author in his native Warsaw, he gave up a brilliant medical career to devote himself to the care of orphans. Like so many...

Terezin, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912914173Author John WillisFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Mensch PublishingPublisher Mensch PublishingWeight(grams) 382g

A 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...

A groundbreaking examination of a little-known but defining episode in early modern Jewish history A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of thousands of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571431301Author Sonia Shainwald OrbuchFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint RDR Books,USPublisher RDR Books,US

The Holocaust is frequently depicted in isolation by its historians. Some of them believe that to place it in any kind of comparative context risks diminishing its uniqueness and even detracts from the enormity of the Nazi crime. In reality, such a...

An intriguing story of how even for the smallest family the effects of war can cause lasting havoc. In the midst of gruelling circumstances, all that survivors can do is try to make their way in life as best they can. Persecution, forced migration and...

A History of Anti-Semitism examines the history, culture and literature of antisemitism from antiquity to the present. With contributions from an international team of scholars, whose essays were specially commissioned for this volume, it covers the long...

The Arab-Israeli conflict has unsettled the Middle East for over half a century. This conflict is primarily political, a clash between states and peoples over territory and history. But it is also a conflict that has affected and been affected by...

"In the evening I had to prepare food and cook supper, which exhausted me totally. In politics there's absolutely nothing new. Again, out of impatience I feel myself beginning to fall into melancholy. There is really no way out of this for us."...

Thanks to Thomas Keneally's book Schindler's Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler's List, we have become more aware of the fact that, in the midst of Hitler's extermination of the Jews, courage and humanity could still overcome evil. While 6 million...

"Like all the best meetings of Jewish minds, this book will make you think, argue and see the world anew." Hadley Freeman, author of House of GlassConspiracy theories about Jews are back in the mainstream. The Pittsburgh gunman who murdered 11 people in...

Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250811271Author Edmund de WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647999919Author Hilaire BellocFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

For Louis Jacobs, the quest-the process of engaging with and thinking about Jewish faith-was a lifelong pursuit. He offered a model in the 1960s, a period characterized by general religious crisis, of an observant, committed, but intellectually curious...

Warsaw was once home to the largest and most diverse Jewish community in the world. It was a center of rich varieties of Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Socialism, Diaspora Nationalism, Zionism, and Polonization. This volume is the first to reflect on the...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a masterful new biography of Theodor Herzl by an eminent historian of Zionism "An excellent, concise biography of Theodor Herzl, architect of modern Zionism. . . . An exceptionally good, highly readable volume...

In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish culture, fearful that growing affluence and suburbanization threatened the future of Jewish life...

Emotion lies at the heart of all national movements, and Zionism is no exception. For those who identify as Zionist, the word connotes liberation and redemption, uniqueness and vulnerability. Yet for many, Zionism is a source of distaste if not disgust,...

Of one-and-a-half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. Images in "Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken...

The overwhelming majority of Jews who laid the foundations of the Israeli state during the first half of the twentieth century came from the Polish lands and the Russian Empire. This is a fact widely known, yet its implications for the history of Israel...

'Moving - at times almost unbearably so - and fascinating' Antonia Fraser A family's story of human tenacity, faith and a race for survival in the face of unspeakable horror and cruelty perpetrated by the Nazi regime against the...

Since its establishment in 1948, the state of Israel has not ceased to be a unique and controversial entity: vehemently opposed by some, and loyally supported by others. In this novel and original study, Colin Shindler tells the history of Israel through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250215772Author Ilana KurshanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 136mm *...

How did it come about that a modern European state in the middle of the twentieth century planned and carried out the industrially organized mass murder of six million Jews, male and female, adults and children? Making extensive use of Russian, German,...

As World War II raged in North Africa, General Irwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led his Axis army swiftly and terrifyingly toward Alexandria, with the goal of overrunning the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853038528Author Anthony GrenvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Hero-or Nazi? Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence and an unblemished patriot. Jonas Noreika, remembered as "General Storm," had resisted his country's German and Soviet occupiers in...

The Jews of Khazaria explores the history and culture of Khazaria-a large empire in eastern Europe (located in present-day Ukraine and Russia) in the early Middle Ages noted for its adoption of the Jewish religion. The third edition of this modern...

Anne Frank's diary is one of the most recognised and widely read books of the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of people visit the Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam each year to see the annexe where Anne and her family hid from...

The sheets of paper are as brittle as fallen leaves; the faltering handwriting changes from page to page; the words, a faded brown, are almost indecipherable. The pages are filled with recipes. Each is a memory, a fantasy, a hope for the future. Written...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383759Author David LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954176010Author Shimon KancFormat HardbackPage Count 620Imprint Jewishgen.IncPublisher Jewishgen.IncWeight(grams) 1705gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 33mm

In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were arguably the most important thinkers in Europe, and their exchange touched upon the most urgent questions in the history of...