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For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian's magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For Two Thousand Years' - Philippe Sands, Guardian Books of the YearA prescient interwar masterpiece, available in English for the first time'Absolutely,... -
The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome by Patrick J. Gallo 9781612497860
RRP: $110.94$90.40On October 16, 1943, the Jews of Rome were targeted for arrest and deportation. The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome examines why-and more importantly how-it could have been avoided, featuring new evidence and insight into the Vatican's... -
The Spinoza Problem: A Novel by Irvin D. Yalom
RRP: $19.34$12.02A haunting portrait of Arthur Rosenberg, one of Nazism's chief architects, and his obsession with one of history's most influential Jewish thinkersIn The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical drama... -
The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon
RRP: $19.35$15.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604881165Author Abram LeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Pathfinder PressPublisher Pathfinder PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm... -
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan 9780008353834
RRP: $25.80$18.95THE 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... -
Works: v. 3: The Jewish War, Bks.III-IV by Flavius Josephus
RRP: $32.19$29.57Greco-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 Nazi's Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal by Silvia Foti
RRP: $28.38$18.64Hero-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... -
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger
RRP: $16.76$11.33A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a... -
The Spingarn Brothers: White Privilege, Jewish Heritage, and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Katherine Reynolds Chaddock
RRP: $37.41$33.00An absorbing account of how two Jewish brothers devoted themselves to the struggle for racial equality in the United States.In the late nineteenth century, Joel and Arthur Spingarn grew up in New York City as brothers with very different personalities,... -
The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader by Arthur Hertzberg
RRP: $38.69$34.04A classic since its initial publication in 1959, The Zionist Idea is an anthology of writings by the leading thinkers of the Zionist movement, including Theodor Herzl, Ahad Ha-Am, Martin Buber, Louis Brandeis, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Judah Magnes, Max... -
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes 9780393355468
RRP: $19.34$16.59Peter Hayes has been teaching Holocaust studies for decades and Why? grows out of the questions he's encountered from his students. Despite the outpouring of books, films, memorials, museums and courses devoted to the subject, a coherent explanation of... -
Nazi Germany And the Jews: The Years Of Extermination: 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander
RRP: $24.50$16.15The 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... -
Wannsee: The Road to the Final Solution by Peter Longerich
RRP: $32.25$22.73The complete story of the Wannsee Conference, the meeting that paved the way for the Holocaust. On 20 January 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came... -
The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land by Patrick Bishop 9780007506194
RRP: $16.76$11.73From the bestselling author of 'Fighter Boys', the true story of two ruthless adversaries and a wartime killing that shook the modern world. On a cold, bright morning in February 1942, fugitive Avraham Stern was cornered in a flat in Tel-Aviv... -
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation by Roger Moorhouse 9781847926760
RRP: $32.25$22.73**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two.'Powerful ... gripping ... inspiring' JONATHAN... -
Essays on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Left by Jean Amery 9780253058768
RRP: $28.37$24.24In 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... -
Sephardi: Cooking the History. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Diaspora, from the 13th Century Onwards by Helene Jawhara Piner
RRP: $32.24$28.75In this extraordinary cookbook, chef and scholar Helene Jawhara-Piner combines rich culinary history and Jewish heritage to serve up over fifty culturally significant recipes. Steeped in the history of the Sephardic Jews (Jews of Spain) and their... -
In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands by Martin Gilbert
RRP: $25.79$23.43A powerful account of Jews living in Muslim lands and the surprising truths about their shared history The relationship between Jews and Muslims has been a flashpoint that affects stability in the Middle East and has consequences around the globe. In... -
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault On Truth And Memory by Deborah E. Lipstadt
RRP: $14.18$10.02The powerful and deeply disturbing book that was at the heart of the David Irving libel case, now dramatized in the film Denial.The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the Earth is flat. Yet there are those who... -
Come to This Court and Cry: Secrets and Survival at the Last Nazi Trials by Linda Kinstler
RRP: $14.18$10.02A TABLET AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR Shortlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize 'A tremendous feat of storytelling, propelled by numerous twists and revelations, yet anchored by a deep moral seriousness . . . Enthralling' Guardian ... -
The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s battle for its inner soul by Isabel Kershner 9781915590220
RRP: $32.25$20.81One of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books for 2023 A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel presents a rich, wide-ranging portrait of the Israeli people at a critical juncture in their country's history. Despite Israel's determined... -
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews by Mark Mazower
RRP: $21.92$14.80The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Salonica is the point where the wonders and... -
Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews by Deatra Cohen
RRP: $29.67$19.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623175443Author Deatra CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort by Raffi Berg
RRP: $14.18$9.44THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. 'Secret missions, brazen deceptions and thrilling, clandestine operations - Red Sea Spies has it all. But it has something more important, too - a genuine human mission that made a... -
Mobilising Hate: The Story of Hitler's Final Solution by Martin Davidson
RRP: $28.38$17.65'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... -
The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman: The Life and Times of Redcliffe Nathan Salaman by Todd M. Endelman 9780253061751
RRP: $51.60$44.27Redcliffe 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,... -
Jews, God And History: 2nd Edition by Max Isaac Dimont 9780451529404
RRP: $10.31$9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451529404Author Max I. DimontFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 280g -
Franci's War: The incredible true story of one woman's survival of the Holocaust by Franci Rabinek Epstein
RRP: $14.18$10.02Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope. Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a... -
The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren 9781804440698
RRP: $21.92$14.81Growing 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... -
Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity by Hil Aked 9781786637659
RRP: $24.50$16.40Friends of Israel provides a forensically researched account of the activities of Israel's advocates in Britain, showing how they contribute to maintaining Israeli apartheid. The book traces the history and changing fortunes of key actors within the... -
Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction by David N. Myers
RRP: $11.60$8.32How 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 Man With the Iron Heart: The Definitive Biography of Reinhard Heydrich by Nancy Dougherty
RRP: $38.70$23.75A fascinating portrait of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the darkest figures of Hitler's elite, featuring words with those who knew him best, including in-depth and rare interviews with his wife, Lina. He was called the 'Hangman of the Gestapo' and the... -
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger 9781509867448
RRP: $38.70$27.54A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a... -
History of the Jews by Paul Johnson
RRP: $21.92$14.00A classic study of the Jews by a best selling author.In this critically acclaimed book, Paul Johnson delves deep into the 4,000-year history of the Jews: a race of awe-inspiring endurance, steadfast homogeneity and loyalty and, above all, the belief that... -
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort by Raffi Berg 9781785786006
RRP: $21.92$14.94THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. 'Secret missions, brazen deceptions and thrilling, clandestine operations - Red Sea Spies has it all. But it has something more important, too - a genuine human mission that made a... -
Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization by Michael Rothberg
RRP: $33.53$28.95Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the... -
The Lost Cafe Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth by Meriel Schindler 9781529332056
RRP: $25.80$16.89'Rigorously researched, The Lost Cafe Schindler successfully weaves together a compelling and at times deeply moving memoir and family history that also chronicles the wider story of the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian Empire... It distinguishes itself... -
Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland by Joshua D. Zimmerman
RRP: $43.80$35.98The story of the enigmatic Jozef Pilsudski, the founding father of modern Poland: a brilliant military leader and high-minded statesman who betrayed his own democratic vision by seizing power in a military coup.In the story of modern Poland, no one... -
A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman
RRP: $21.92$15.84'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... -
The Pity of it All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933 by Amos Elon
RRP: $16.76$11.73The Pity of It All is a passionate and poignant history of German Jews, tracing the journey of a people and their culture from the mid eighteenth century to the eve of the Third Reich.As it is usually told, the story of the Jews in Germany starts at the...