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Maimonides: Life and Thought by Moshe Halbertal 9780691165660
RRP: $28.38$22.43Maimonides 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... -
Dora's Story by Dora Reisser 9781785899836
RRP: $18.06$12.59This is an extraordinary account of a young Jewish girl whose childhood was torn apart by the Nazis, who made her way as a dancer, as an actress, as a designer, from Sofia to Vienna to London to Hollywood. Dora Reisser was highly successful in her three... -
The Just: how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by Jan Brokken
RRP: $32.25$23.25The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of the twentieth century. In May 1940, desperate Jewish refugees in Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, faced... -
The Grandees: America's Sephardic Elite by Stephen Birmingham 9781493024681
RRP: $18.05$14.16Tracing their origins to medieval Portugal and Spain, the Sephardic Jews consider themselves 'the nobility of Jewry,' in contrast to their pushier and more aggressive German counterparts. They were also the first Jews to inhabit the new world-first... -
Major Farran's Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain's War Against Jewish Terrorism 1945-1948 by David Cesarani
RRP: $21.92$15.84In May 1947 a Jewish teenager was mysteriously abducted in Jerusalem. He was never seen alive again. A grey felt hat found at the scene was traced to Major Roy Farran, a highly decorated ex-SAS officer leading a covert counter-terrorist squad. Farran was... -
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius
$45.15Trials of the Diaspora presents the long and troubling history of anti-Semitism in England, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century. Anthony Julius identifies four distinct versions of English anti-Semitism, which he then investigates in... -
Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth
RRP: $16.76$11.73A New York Times Notable Book of 2014Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before his capture by the Mossad. Though once widely known by nicknames such as... -
German Railroads, Jewish Souls: The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy, and the Final Solution by Christopher R. Browning 9781789202762
RRP: $25.74$21.16Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Renowned Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg considered the railroads that delivered European Jews into forced labor and systematic slaughter to be not only essential components of the... -
Secret Letters: A Battle of Britain Love Story by John Willis
RRP: $32.25$23.25Apologies 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 -
Exodus and Its Aftermath: Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Interior by Albert Kaganovitch 9780299334543
RRP: $42.51$35.08During World War II, some two million Jewish refugees relocated from the western regions of the USSR to the Soviet interior. Citizens in the Central Asian territories were at best indifferent-and at worst openly hostile-toward these migrants. Unpopular... -
Franci's War by Franci Epstein
RRP: $19.34$14.13What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live?'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope . . . Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a stand-out memoir' Daily Express'A story that... -
The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History by Martin Gilbert 9780415558112
RRP: $30.95$28.35'An unusual and compelling insight into Jewish history... sheer detail and breadth of scale' BBC History MagazineThis newly revised and updated edition of Martin Gilbert's Atlas of Jewish History spans over four thousand years of history in 154 maps,... -
How I Stopped Being a Jew by Shlomo Sand
RRP: $11.60$7.77Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person's camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a "secular Jew." With this meditative and... -
Our Crime Was Being Jewish: Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories by Anthony S. Pitch
RRP: $19.34$12.07The haunting true stories of over 350 Holocaust survivors in their own words. In the shouted words of a woman bound for Auschwitz to a man about to escape from a cattle car, "If you get out, maybe you can tell the story! Who else will tell it?"Our Crime... -
A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors by Anthony Blond
RRP: $14.18$10.02The history of ancient Rome omitting all the boring bits. Following the success of BBC2 hit Rome on BBC2, no one has looked at the private lives of the Roman Emperors again in the same light. Anthony Blond's scandalous expose of the life of the Roman... -
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington 9780063030930
RRP: $23.21$13.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063030930Author Lucy AdlingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 200mm *... -
The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels by Thomas Cahill 9780385482493
$15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385482493Author Thomas CahillFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933-1945 by Joanna Newman 9781789206494
RRP: $30.90$25.14In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge from the horrors of Hitler's Europe. Nearly the New World tells the... -
A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean by Yaron Eliav
RRP: $49.02$37.98A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Mediterranean world, the baths... -
Battle for the East End: Jewish Responses to Fascism in the 1930s by David Rosenberg 9781907869181
RRP: $16.76$13.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907869181Author David RosenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust by William I. Brustein 9780521774789
RRP: $39.98$32.51How did the levels of anti-Semitism in the 1930s compare to those of earlier decades? Did anti-Semitism vary in content and intensity across societies? In other words, were Germans more anti-Semitic than their European neighbors, and, if so, why? How... -
The Grave Situations of My Lithuanian Ancestory: A post-War, post-Holocaust Rant by Veronica Belling 9780951611753
RRP: $9.02$8.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951611753Author Veronica BellingFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Human Potential PressPublisher Human Potential PressWeight(grams)... -
Children's Exodus: A History of the Kindertransport by Vera K. Fast
$69.53In the months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two, Britain rushed to evacuate nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi occupied territories. Through the unprecedented cooperation of religious and governmental organizations, the Kindertransport... -
How to Be a Refugee: One Family's Story of Exile and Belonging by Simon May
RRP: $12.89$9.17'A lyrical, fascinating, important book. More than just a family story, it is an essay on belonging, denying, pretending, self-deception and, at least for the main characters, survival.' Literary Review'Simon May's remarkable How to Be a Refugee is a... -
Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism by Dennis Prager 9780671622619
RRP: $23.21$15.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671622619Author Dennis PragerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 241gDimensions(mm)... -
Spies of No Country: Israel's Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad by Matti Friedman
RRP: $16.76$10.55"Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." -The New York Times Book Review Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the... -
Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome by Lindsay Powell
RRP: $32.25$23.25_BAR KOKHBA_ is the search for the truth of the epic struggle between two strong-willed leaders over who would rule a nation. One was Hadrian, the cosmopolitan ruler of the vast Roman Empire, then at its zenith, who some regarded as divine; the other... -
The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible by Matti Friedman
RRP: $14.18$9.09"A brilliant non-fiction thriller about an ancient copy of the Torah. Highly recommended." -Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was... -
Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages: With a New Introduction by Daniel J. Lasker
RRP: $28.32$20.83Thorough and meticulously researched, this study is based on a comprehensive reading of philosophical arguments drawn from all the major Jewish sources, published and unpublished, from the Geonic period in the ninth century until the dawn of the... -
On The Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein
RRP: $19.34$14.13This is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught and World War Two. In this revisionist account of... -
The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar's and Everything in Between by Stephanie Butnick
RRP: $45.15$28.72Named one of Library Journal's Best Religion & Spirituality Books of the YearAn Unorthodox Guide to Everything Jewish Deeply knowing, highly entertaining, and just a little bit irreverent, this unputdownable encyclopedia of all things Jewish and Jew-ish... -
Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Anyone) by Devorah Baum
RRP: $25.79$22.91In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish-even when you're not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and... -
Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel's Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny by David Makovsky
RRP: $32.25$20.06At a time when the identity of Israel is more uncertain than at any moment since its modern founding, Be Strong and of Good Courage celebrates the defining generation of leaders who took on the task of safeguarding the country's future. David Ben-Gurion,... -
Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern by Charles Dellheim
RRP: $41.28$37.93The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become a cause celebre. In Belonging and Betrayal, Charles Dellheim turns this story on its head by... -
Jerusalem: City of the Book by Merav Mack
RRP: $29.03$26.11A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries to tell the story of this city as... -
The Last of the Seven: A Novel of World War II by Steven Hartov 9781335050106
RRP: $34.82$21.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335050106Author Steven HartovFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)... -
The Last Jews in Berlin by Leonard Gross 9780786706877
$20.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786706877Author Leonard GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Avalon Publishing GroupPublisher Avalon Publishing Group -
The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816 by Pawel Maciejko
RRP: $38.69$34.04In 1756, Jacob Frank, an Ottoman Jew who had returned to the Poland of his birth, was discovered leading a group of fellow travelers in a suspect religious service. At the request of the local rabbis, Polish authorities arrested the participants. Jewish... -
Jews and Power by Ruth R. Wisse 9780805211740
RRP: $18.05$12.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211740Author Ruth R. WisseFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken Books -
In Hitler's Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism by Michael Brenner
RRP: $38.70$29.95From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for powerIn the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918-19, the conservative government of...