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The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory by Roxane Van Iperen 9780063097629
RRP: $35.08$20.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063097629Author Roxane Van IperenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)... -
Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos by Peter E. Gordon
RRP: $46.70$36.54In 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... -
Jerusalem: City of the Book by Merav Mack
RRP: $43.88$37.73A 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 Greening of American Orthodox Judaism: Yavneh in the 1960s by Benny Kraut
RRP: $60.45$57.82Benny Kraut's primary aim was to reconstruct the history of a relatively unknown and short-lived Jewish collegiate organization, Yavneh: The National Jewish Religious Students Association, particularly during its heyday in the 1960s. But he found a story... -
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg 9781610396271
RRP: $58.48$38.61As 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... -
The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830: Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society by Todd M. Endelman 9780472086092
RRP: $52.55$43.31The movement from tradition to modernity engulfed all of the Jewish communities in the West, but hitherto historians have concentrated on the intellectual revolution in Germany by Moses Mendelssohn in the second half of the eighteenth century as the... -
Among the Righteous by Robert Satloff 9781586485108
RRP: $31.18$30.91Thousands of people have been honored for saving Jews during the Holocaust,but not a single Arab. Looking for a hopeful response to the plague of Holocaust denial sweeping across the Arab and Muslim worlds, Robert Satloff sets off on a quest to find the... -
Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano by Alan Scott Haft 9780815611196
RRP: $25.25$18.49Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-old Polish Jew when he entered a concentration camp in... -
Hitler's Foreign Executioners: Europe's Dirty Secret by Christopher Hale 9781803990606
RRP: $37.03$27.30In Hitler's Foreign Executioners, Heinrich Himmler's secret master plan for Europe is revealed: an SS empire that would have no place for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly ambitious plan depended on the recruitment of tens of... -
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross 9780691234304
RRP: $29.23$22.41A landmark book that changed the story of Poland's role in the HolocaustOn July 10, 1941, in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and children-all but seven of the town's Jews. In this... -
Sisters of the Resistance: The Nuns Who Defied the Nazis by Dennis J. Turner
RRP: $17.53$12.09Throughout the occupied territories, Catholic sisters were active in resistance to the Nazis Based on letters and documents - not seen for seventy years - written by the Catholic Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur during the Nazi occupation of Belgium,... -
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Struggle For Palestinian Civil Rights by Omar Barghouti
RRP: $38.98$25.45From 'Operation Cast Lead' to the recent assault on the Gaza flotilla, both the severity and the notoriety of Israel's many human rights abuses have begun to seep into the public consciousness and convince a growing international audience of the... -
Tel-Aviv, the First Century: Visions, Designs, Actualities by Maoz Azaryahu
RRP: $42.88$37.42Tel-Aviv, the First Century brings together a broad range of disciplinary approaches and cutting-edge research to trace the development and paradoxes of Tel-Aviv as an urban center and a national symbol. Through the lenses of history, literature, urban... -
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal 9781250811271
RRP: $35.10$23.24Apologies 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 *... -
Grace Aguilar:Selected Writings Pb by Grace Aguilar 9781551113777
RRP: $62.30$51.48For the first time in over a century, this edition makes available the work of the most important Jewish writer in early and mid-Victorian Britain. Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) broke new literary ground by writing from the unique perspective of an... -
The Meeting: An Auschwitz Survivor Confronts an SS Physician by David G. Roskies 9780815606048
RRP: $33.05$27.53Fifty years after the war Dagmar Ostermann, a former prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Hans Wilhelm Muinch, former Nazi and SS physician, talk face to face.In this rare interview Muinch-the only SS member acquitted during the 1947 Cracow war crimes... -
A Week in the Fall of Jerusalem by Ben Witherington III 9780830851737
RRP: $27.28$20.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830851737Author Ben Witherington IiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams)... -
Breaking the Silence by Walter Laqueur
RRP: $64.35$62.93Through unparalleled historical detective work, noted scholars Walter Laqueur and Richard Breitman reveal the inspiring tale of Eduard Schulte, the Breslau business leader who risked his life to gather information about such Nazi activities as the... -
Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The "Final Solution" in History by Arno J. Mayer
RRP: $62.38$53.84Was the extermination of the Jews part of the Nazi plan from the very start? Arno Mayer offers astartling and compelling answer to this question, which is much debated among historians today.In doing so, he provides one of the most thorough and... -
Sephardi Voices: The Forgotten Exodus of the Arab Jews by Dr. Henry Green
RRP: $56.53$39.47In the years following the founding of the State of Israel, close to a million Jews became refugees fleeing their ancestral homelands in the Middle East, North Africa, and Iran. State-sanctioned discrimination, violence, and political unrest brought an... -
The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America by Sandra Fox
RRP: $46.78$39.80In 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... -
Jew(ish): A primer, A memoir, A manual, A plea by Matt Greene
$20.14What does it mean to be Jew(ish) in 2020? Caught between tradition and modernity, between a Jewish family and a non-Jewish son, Matt Greene ponders the big questions concerning identity, religion, family and Seinfeld. When his son was born to a... -
The Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jurgen Matthaus 9781442251670
RRP: $126.75$120.78In December 2013, after years of exhaustive search, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum received more than four hundred pages of diary notes written by one of the most prominent Nazis, the Party's chief ideologue and Reich minister for the occupied Soviet... -
War Against The Jews by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
RRP: $39.00$31.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553345322Author Lucy S. DawidowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Anna and Dr Helmy: How an Egyptian Doctor Saved a Jewish Girl in Hitler's Berlin by Ronen Steinke 9780192893369
RRP: $48.75$34.36The remarkable story of Mohammed Helmy, the Egyptian doctor who risked his life to save Jewish Berliners from the Nazis. One of the people he saved was a Jewish girl called Anna. This book tells their story. The Israeli holocaust memorial at Yad... -
Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany by John Weiss 9781566631747
RRP: $25.33$19.03Despite all the thousands of studies of the Holocaust and the rise of Nazi Germany, we still have no satisfactory explanation of why this tragedy occurred in one of the most "civilized" of Western nations. John Weiss's Ideology of Death is the first book... -
Antisemitism: An Ancient Hatred in the Age of Identity Politics by Philip Slayton
RRP: $29.23$19.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823107Author Philip SlaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
The Other Schindlers: Why Some People Chose to Save Jews in the Holocaust by Agnes Grunwald-Spier
RRP: $25.33$24.47Thanks 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... -
Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944 by Franz Neumann 9781566638197
RRP: $37.03$28.08Franz Neumann's classic account of the governmental workings of Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, is reprinted in a new paperback edition with an introduction by the distinguished historian Peter Hayes. Neumann was one of the only early Frankfurt... -
Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah by Yuval Harari 9780814348819
RRP: $83.75$80.01Magic culture is certainly fascinating. But what is it? What, in fact, are magic writings, magic artifacts? Originally published in Hebrew in 2010, Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah is a comprehensive study of early Jewish magic focusing on three... -
Palestine in Turmoil: The Struggle for Sovereignty, 1933-1939 (Vol. II) by Monty Noam Penkower 9781618113177
RRP: $152.08$143.77This comprehensive account examines the growing conflict between Arab and Jew in Palestine that first surfaced clearly in the pivotal years 1933-1939, and which proved to be an irreconcilable rift once the leadership of both peoples refused to accept... -
Designing Transformation: Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism by Elana Shapira 9781350439351
$59.75Jewish designers and architects played a key role in shaping the interwar architecture of Central Europe, and in the respective countries where they settled following the Nazi's rise to power. This book explores how Jewish architects and patrons... -
Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth by Jodi Magness 9780691167107
RRP: $48.75$38.18A new account of the famous site and story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman EmpireTwo thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children-the last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the fall of... -
Expulsion, England's Jewish Solution by Richard Huscroft
RRP: $35.08$25.99There were never more than a few thousand Jews in medieval England, but they were envied, hated and misunderstood because of their wealth and beliefs. In an age when expressions of religious conviction could be intense, fanatical and violent, the Jews... -
I Named My Dog Pushkin (And Other Immigrant Tales): Notes from a Soviet girl on becoming an American woman by Margarita Gokun Silver
RRP: $17.53$12.09Buy a pair of Levi's, lose the Russian accent, become an American... how hard could it be?Moscow, 1988. After years of antisemitic harassment, countless hours waiting in line for toilet paper, and having zero access to cool jeans, Margarita decides it's... -
After This: Survivors of the Holocaust Speak by Alice Nelson
RRP: $33.13$21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925162356Author Alice NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 199mm * 129mm... -
The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World by Ran Abramitzky 9780691202242
RRP: $42.90$33.13How the kibbutz movement thrived despite its inherent economic contradictions and why it eventually declinedThe kibbutz is a social experiment in collective living that challenges traditional economic theory. By sharing all income and resources equally... -
Yiddish Folktales by Beatrice S. Weinreich
RRP: $39.00$31.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210903Author Beatrice WeinreichFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm)... -
Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind by Julie Metz
RRP: $25.33$17.73In this unforgettable and "essential feminist memoir of women's lives" (Sarah Wildman, author of Paper Love) the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection unearths her mother's hidden past in in Nazi-occupied Austria.To Julie Metz, her... -
Building Jewish Identity 4: Jewish History and Heritage by Behrman House 9780874418675
RRP: $15.58$14.76Students will explore the themes of exile and return and learn how the values and traditions that have defined our people for countless generations help us to understand our world today.Jewish History and Heritage is the fourth volume in the Building...