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Tel-Aviv, the First Century: Visions, Designs, Actualities by Maoz Azaryahu
RRP: $28.37$24.76Tel-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: $23.22$15.38Apologies 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: $41.22$34.06For 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: $21.87$18.21Fifty 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: $18.05$13.66Apologies 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: $42.57$41.63Through 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: $41.27$35.62Was 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: $37.40$26.11In 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: $30.95$26.33In 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
$13.33What 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: $83.85$79.90In 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: $25.80$20.79Apologies 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: $32.25$22.73The 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: $16.76$12.59Despite 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: $19.34$12.75Apologies 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: $16.76$16.19Thanks 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: $24.50$18.58Franz 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... -
Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 by Hillel Cohen
$31.11In late summer 1929, a countrywide outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. In contrast with those who point to the wars of 1948 and 1967, historian Hillel Cohen marks these bloody events as year... -
Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey by Mikhal Dekel 9781324001034
RRP: $28.37$25.55Rather than perish in Nazi-occupied Poland, more than a million Jews escaped to the Soviet Union. There they suffered deprivation in Siberian gulags and "Special Settlements" and then, once "liberated", journeyed to the Soviet Central Asian Republics... -
Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah by Yuval Harari 9780814348819
RRP: $55.41$52.93Magic 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: $100.61$95.11This 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
$39.53Jewish 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... -
I Named My Dog Pushkin (And Other Immigrant Tales): Notes from a Soviet girl on becoming an American woman by Margarita Gokun Silver
RRP: $11.60$7.62Buy 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... -
Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth by Jodi Magness 9780691167107
RRP: $32.25$25.26A 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: $23.21$17.20There 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... -
After This: Survivors of the Holocaust Speak by Alice Nelson
RRP: $21.92$14.29Apologies 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: $28.38$21.92How 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: $25.80$20.58Apologies 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: $16.76$11.73In 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: $10.31$9.77Students 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... -
In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin by Michael Berenbaum 9780742546462
RRP: $24.50$18.06The sheets of paper are as brittle as fallen leaves; the faltering handwriting changes from page to page; the words, a faded brown, are almost indecipherable. The pages are filled with recipes. Each is a memory, a fantasy, a hope for the future. Written... -
Mandate: The Palestine Crucible, 1919-1939 by Leslie Turnberg 9781912676675
RRP: $32.25$24.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912676675Author Leslie TurnbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Well-Kept Ruins by Helene Cixous
RRP: $20.63$18.65A genre-defying book from one of France's most well-known philosopher-writers. In the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany sits the city of Osnabruck. This is where, in 1648, the Peace of Westphalia was signed, bringing the Thirty Years' War and... -
Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism by Jo Glanville
RRP: $12.89$8.36"Like all the best meetings of Jewish minds, this book will make you think, argue and see the world anew." Hadley Freeman, author of House of GlassConspiracy theories about Jews are back in the mainstream. The Pittsburgh gunman who murdered 11 people in... -
The Political and Social Philosophy of Ze'ev Jabotinsky: Selected Writings by Mordechai Sarig
RRP: $25.74$24.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853033592Author Mordechai SarigFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting by Saskia Coenen Snyder
RRP: $34.82$29.41Following diamonds from African mines to the necklines of high society women, this international history shows why Jews were central to the transatlantic gem trade and its growth into a global industry. During the late nineteenth century, tens of... -
Beyond the Rivers of Babylon: My Journey of Optimism and Resilience in a Turbulent Century by Joseph Samuels 9780578671925
RRP: $19.35$14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578671925Author Joseph SamuelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Joseph SamuelsPublisher Joseph SamuelsWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Forged in America: How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation by Hasia R. Diner 9781479826070
RRP: $30.95$26.33Examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society. The story of America is the story of the unlikely groups of immigrants brought together by their shared outsider status. Urban American life took much of its shape from... -
The Four Symbols: The Black Sun Trilogy, Book 1 by Giacometti
RRP: $12.89$8.36From multi-million copy bestselling authors Giacometti & Ravenne comes a Nazi spy thriller for fans of Dan Brown, Steve Berry and Wilbur Smith"I couldn't put it down ... the authors write like Dan Brown!" -Anthony, 5-Star NetGalley reviewer*** RATED 5... -
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--And Revenge by Edward Kritzler
RRP: $24.51$15.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767919524Author Edward KritzlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm...