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This 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...

A classic account of courage, integrity and most of all, belonging.In 1977, after serving as a leading activist for the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration from there, Natan Sharansky was arrested...

In 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...

The 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...

Apologies 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)...

Apologies 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

In 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...

Apologies 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

From 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...

The seminal medieval history of the Second Commonwealth period of ancient Jewish history.Sepher Yosippon was written in Hebrew by a medieval historian and noted by modern scholars for its eloquent style. This is the first known chronicle of Jewish...

Greco-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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250074775Author Anne SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 127mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825432606Author Flavius JosephusFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Greco-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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578652900Author Felix HalpernFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Metro Jewish ResourcesPublisher Metro Jewish ResourcesWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

Sussen Is Now Free of Jews offers a close look at the legacy of a few Jewish families from Sussen-a village in the District of Goeppingen, which is located in the state of Baden Wurttemberg in southern Germany. The author, Gilya Gerda Schmidt, looks at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062368744Author Daniel GordisFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint ECCO PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211597Author Rebecca GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's The Jews in The Medieval World has remained an indispensable resource for its comprehensive view of Jewish historical experience from late antiquity through the early modern period, viewed through primary...

The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of 'Jewish culture'. This book is the first synoptic view of these developments that organises and relates them from this vantage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982189129Author Elizabeth B WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted primarily of Jewish prisoners forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination. Though never involved in the killing itself, they were compelled to be "members of staff" of the Nazi...

A definitive account of the great revolt of Jews against Rome and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple This deeply researched and insightful book examines the causes, course, and historical significance of the Jews' failed revolt against Rome from...

Scattered Ghosts is the poignant, powerful story of an all but disappeared world, told through the extraordinary experiences of a single family ruptured by great forces and occasionally brought together by cherry strudel. When two Hungarian Jewish...

An unputdownable tale of one man's quest to recover his family's property, plundered by the Nazis. Menachem Kaiser's brilliantly told story is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's former battle to reclaim the...

'[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its incarnations defined the Soviet Union, and left a poisonous legacy still with us today'Professor Mark Galeotti, author of The Vory and A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711329Author Howard M. SacharFormat PaperbackPage Count 1296Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1116gDimensions(mm)...

In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Boston Book Review (Nonfiction) 1997.Book InformationISBN 9780679772682Author Daniel Jonah GoldhagenFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Vintage...

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...

The powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel. Israel's Black Panthers tells the story of the young and impoverished Moroccan Israeli Jews who challenged their country's political status quo and rebelled...

Syndrome K is the story of how 80 per cent of Italy's Jews escaped the Holocaust, with the help of their fellow countrymen, the Allies and even some Germans. From claiming sanctuary in the Vatican to pitched battles by partisans, and even inventing a...

Offers an engaging account of the experiences of Jewish soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War What was it like to be a Jew in Lincoln's armies? The Union army was as diverse as the embattled nation it sought to preserve, a unique mixture of...

Thanks to this generous donor for making the publication of this book possible: Jack B. Dweck.The history and dramatic rescue of the oldest Hebrew Bible in book formIn Crown of Aleppo, Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider tell the incredible story of the...

There has never been a more important time for a study of the social, economic and political origins of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, three important world religions which share a common root. This book takes as its starting point the idea that gods,...

The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526839Author Tony NourmandFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press

This book explores the history of the Israeli Socialist Organization Matzpen (compass) that splintered off from the Communist Party of Israel in 1962. After the Six Day War of June 1967, Matzpen shook Israeli society, calling for a withdrawal from...

A moving, deeply researched account of survivors' experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed When tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated in 1944 and 1945, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853036302Author Gerta VrbovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...