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Anne Frank: The Collected Works by Anne Frank
RRP: £50.00£37.99Anne 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... -
Jewish Heritage in Britain and Ireland: An Architectural Guide by Sharman Kadish
RRP: £22.00£21.22Britain's tiny Jewish community (about 263,000 people) is the oldest non-Christian minority in the country. In 1656 Jews returned to England after an absence of nearly 400 years and the Jewish community has enjoyed a history of continuous settlement in... -
How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism by Benjamin Ginsberg 9781442222380
RRP: £56.00£53.01One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book, Benjamin Ginsberg convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted... -
Hasidism: A New History by David Biale 9780691202440
RRP: £35.00£28.81A must-read book for understanding this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movementHasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mystical circles centered on the figure of Israel Ba'al Shem Tov, but it was only after his death in 1760 that a movement... -
Objects of Love and Regret: A Brooklyn Story by Richard Rabinowitz
RRP: £24.95£19.48An award-winning historian and museum curator tells the story of his Jewish immigrant family by lovingly reconstructing its dramatic encounters with the memory-filled objects of ordinary life.At a pushcart stall in East New York, Brooklyn, in the spring... -
Kabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul by Harry Freedman
RRP: £18.99£14.01This book tells the story of the mystical Jewish system known as Kabbalah, from its earliest origins until the present day. We trace Kabbalah's development, from the second century visionaries who visited the divine realms and brought back tales of... -
The History of the Jews in the Netherlands by J.C.H. Blom 9781904113553
RRP: £29.65£28.10This history of the Jews of the Netherlands and the role they have played in Dutch society was originally published in Dutch and widely acclaimed for the breadth of its coverage. It covers both the internal evolution of the Jewish community and its... -
51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis by Lenni Brenner 9781569804339
RRP: £19.99£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569804339Author Lenni BrennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books IncWeight(grams) 579g -
Our People: Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust by Ruta Vanagaite 9781538133033
RRP: £18.99£17.91This remarkable book traces the quest for the truth about the Holocaust in Lithuania by two ostensible enemies: Ruta a descendant of the perpetrators, Efraim a descendant of the victims. Ruta Vanagaite, a best-selling Lithuanian writer, was motivated by... -
Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe by Alan Verskin
RRP: £23.99£20.41In 1524, a man named David Reubeni appeared in Venice, claiming to be the ambassador of a powerful Jewish kingdom deep in the heart of Arabia. In this era of fierce rivalry between great powers, voyages of fantastic discovery, and brutal conquest of new... -
A Bookshop in Berlin: One Woman's Flight from the Nazis by Françoise Frenkel 9781805330318
RRP: £10.99£7.32Initially published as No Place to Lay One's Head - the unforgettable story of one woman's struggle to survive persecution in wartime France In 1921, Francoise Frenkel-a Jewish woman from Poland-opens Berlin's very first French bookshop. It is a dream... -
Notes From the Warsaw Ghetto: The Unflinching, Classic First-Hand Account by Emmanuel Ringelblum 9781596873315
£16.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596873315Author Emmanual RingelblumFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Milk and Cookies PressPublisher ibooks IncWeight(grams) 396g -
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family's Forgotten History by Massoud Hayoun
RRP: £27.99£18.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620974162Format HardbackPage Count 304Imprint The New PressPublisher The New Press -
The Washington Haggadah by Joel ben Simeon
£37.07After the Bible, the Passover haggadah is the most widely read classic text in the Jewish tradition. More than four thousand editions have been published since the late fifteenth century, but few are as exquisite as the Washington Haggadah, which resides... -
The lady in Gold by Anne-Marie O'Connor
RRP: £15.99£10.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101873120Author Anne-Marie O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)... -
Mala's Cat: The moving and unforgettable true story of one girl's survival during the Holocaust by Mala Kacenberg
RRP: £10.99£7.77The remarkable true story of friendship, resilience and survival against the odds'A remarkable tale of survival' Jeremy Dronfield, bestselling author of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz'It's an account of astounding courage and... -
A Brief History of Secret Societies by David V. Barrett
RRP: £10.99£7.05A Brief History of Secret Societies examines the significant hidden power wielded by clandestine organisations from ancient times right up to the present day. Throughout history, humankind's search for knowledge has revealed strange truths. Barrett... -
Jewish Statesmanship: Ten Studies in Leadership by Meir Y. Soloveichik 9781641773287
RRP: £21.99£14.83Ever since Plato's Republic, the study of statecraft has been a staple of Western discourse, and so has the study of particular leaders. Although Jewish scholars, thinkers, and popularizers have contributed notably to this genre, strikingly few have... -
Beginner's Ladino with Online Audio by Alla Markova 9780781813723
RRP: £14.99£11.66Beginner's Ladino with Online Audio is the ideal guide for anyone who wants to learn the language of the Separdic (Iberian) Jews. Ladino, also known as Judeo-Spanish, dates back to the the Middle Ages, when the Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula... -
A History of the Jews in Christian Spain, Volume 2 by Yitzhak Baer 9780827604261
RRP: £20.99£17.73In the second volume of his classic exploration of the Spanish-Jewish community, Baer covers such major historical events as the Spanish Inquisition and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. This work examines the effect of church policy on the Jewish... -
Antisemitism: here and now by Deborah E. Lipstadt 9781925228670
RRP: £16.99£11.58A timely analysis of the new antisemitism, by the historian who defeated Holocaust denier David Irving in court. What is antisemitism? Does it come from the right or the left? Is anti-Zionism the same as antisemitism? Are there different kinds of... -
Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust by Hedi Fried 9781911617778
RRP: £12.99£8.56`There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.' Hedi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents... -
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes 9780393355468
RRP: £14.99£12.92Peter 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... -
The 23rd Psalm, A Holocaust Memoir by George Salton
RRP: £14.99£12.55Twenty years since its first publication, this new anniversary edition of the Holocaust memoir of George Salton (then Lucjan Salzman), gives readers a personal and powerful account of his survival through one of the darkest periods in human history. With... -
But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens
RRP: £9.99£6.70In 1944, at the age of fifteen, Marceline Loridan-Ivens was arrested in occupied France, along with her father. They were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and forcibly separated. Though he managed to smuggle one last note to her, Marceline never spoke to her... -
The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt by Anna Hájková
RRP: £29.49£25.92Terezin, 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... -
The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader by Arthur Hertzberg
£35.70A 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... -
War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust by Doris L. Bergen 9781442242289
RRP: £42.00£36.35In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this revised, third edition... -
Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader by Derek Penslar 9780300180404
RRP: £18.99£16.94From 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... -
The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duffy 9780060935535
£11.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060935535Author Peter DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins (USA)Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
A Short History of Christian Zionism: From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century by Donald M. Lewis
RRP: £29.99£21.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830846979Author Donald M. LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm *... -
Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams? by Daniel Gordis
RRP: £32.99£18.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063239449Author Gordis DFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond by Janina Bauman
£10.48Janina Beauman was thirteen-years-old when Hitler's decree forced her family into the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. The young, bright and lively girl suddenly found herself in a cramped flat hiding with other Jewish families. At first even curfews and the... -
The Good Assassin: Mossad's Hunt for the Butcher of Latvia by Stephan Talty
RRP: £10.99£7.25Before 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 Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand 9781781680834
£23.71What is a homeland? When does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land?Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention... -
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg
RRP: £14.99£8.54In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far, but espionage can stop them-if Washington wakes up to the danger. As World War II raged... -
Europa, Europa by Solomon Perel 9780471172185
RRP: £23.99£21.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471172185Author Solomon PerelFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto by Daniel Boyarin
RRP: £20.00£17.77A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehood "A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous."-Kirkus Reviews Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what "the Jews" are:... -
Short History of the Jewish People by Scheindlin 9780195139419
£26.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195139419Author ScheindlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press Inc -
Maimonides: Life and Thought by Moshe Halbertal 9780691165660
RRP: £22.00£17.39Maimonides 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...