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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bryan edward stone”
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  • The Chosen Folks

    Jews on the Frontiers of Texas

    by Bryan Edward Stone ...
    Series series Jewish Life, History, and Culture
    An exploration of Jewish history in the Lone Star State, from the Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition to contemporary Jewish communities.Texas has one of the largest Jewish populations in the South and West, comprising an often-overlooked vestige of the Diaspora. The Chosen Folks brings this rich aspect of the past to light, going beyond single biographies and photographic histories to explore ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neither Fish nor Fowl

    A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande

    by Morris S. Riskind ...
    Series series Modern Jewish History
    Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande is the memoir of Morris Riskind, who was born and lived most of his life in the small Texas border town of Eagle Pass. Riskind’s parents, Michael and Rachel, were Russian Jewish immigrants who arrived in Eagle Pass in 1910, where Michael founded a clothing store that three generations of his family operated for nearly a century ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Memories of Two Generations

    A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas

    by Alexander Z. Gurwitz, Alexander Z. Gurwitz ...
    Translated by Rabbi Amram Prero ...
    Series series Jews and Judaism: History and Culture
    The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish historyIn 1910, at the age of fifty-one, Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the bold decision to emigrate with his wife and four children from southeastern Ukraine in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The History of Jerusalem

    Its Origins to the Early Middle Ages

    by Alan J. Potter ...
    Fascinating revelations of the parts played by David, Solomon, Judas Maccabee, Pompey, Cleopatra, Justinian, and others in the making of the city.Jerusalem is one of the oldest cities in the world, with evidence of an original settlement dating back more than 4,000 years. Vitally important was the supply of water provided by the Gihon Spring, in a land that normally experienced rainfall only from ... Read more

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  • What They Didn't Burn

    Uncovering My Father's Holocaust Secrets

    by Mel Laytner ...
    What if you uncovered a Nazi paper trail that revealed your father to be a man very different from the quiet, introspective dad you knew . . . or thought you knew?Growing up, author Mel Laytner saw his father as a quintessential Type B: passive and conventional. As he uncovered documents the Nazis didn’t burn, however, another man emerged—a black market ringleader and wily camp survivor who made ... Read more

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  • A World Without Jews

    The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide

    by Alon Confino ...
    A groundbreaking reexamination of the Holocaust and how Germans understood their genocidal project: "Insightful [and] chilling." — Kirkus ReviewsWhy exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this gripping ... Read more

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  • The Story of the Jewish People

    Letters to Auntie Fori

    by Martin Gilbert ...
    A history of Judaism written in letters from historian Martin Gilbert to his acquaintance in India, who wants to learn more about her ancestry.At her ninetieth birthday celebration in New Delhi, "Auntie Fori" revealed to her longtime acquaintance, Sir Martin Gilbert, that she was not of Indian birth but actually Hungarian—and Jewish. She did not know what this Jewish identity involved, ... Read more

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  • Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore'

    An Eleventh-Century Scottish King

    by Neil McGuigan ...
    Shortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the YearThe legendary Scottish king Máel Coluim III, also known as ‘Malcolm Canmore’, is often held to epitomise Scotland’s ‘ancient Gaelic kings’. But Máel Coluim and his dynasty were in fact newcomers, and their legitimacy and status were far from secure at the beginning of his rule. Máel Coluim’s long reign from 1058 until 1093 coincided with ... Read more

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  • Secret Agenda

    Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA

    by Jim Hougan ...
    The exposé that reveals "a prostitution ring, heavy CIA involvement, spying on the White House as well as on the Democrats, and plots within plots" ( The Washington Post)Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Hougan—then the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine—set out to write a profile of Lou Russell, a boozy private-eye who plied his trade ... Read more

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  • The Russian Civil War, 1918–1921

    An Operational-Strategic Sketch of the Red Army's Combat Operations

    by Richard W. Harrison ...
    "A wealth of knowledge . . . For every incident, chasing Kornilov or dealing with Admiral Kolchak, the reader has a 360-degree view." — Roads to the Great WarThe Russian Civil War was one of the most fateful of the 20th century's military conflicts, a bloody three-year struggle whose outcome saw the establishment of a totalitarian communist regime within the former Russian Empire. As such, it ... Read more

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  • Do Not Disclose

    A Memoir Of Family Secrets Lost and Found

    by Leora Krygier ...
    A 2021 Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Book of the YearLeora, a juvenile court judge, wife, mother, and daughter, is caught in the routine of work, taking care of her family and aging parents. But she’s also a second-generation Holocaust survivor. It’s an identity she didn’t understand was hers until she accidentally discovered a secret file of handwritten notes addressed to her father. A further ... Read more

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  • The Scandalous Hamiltons

    A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism

    by Bill Shaffer ...
    **One of the country’s most powerful families embroiled in sex, lies, bigamy, and blackmail . . . and every new, deliciously humiliating morsel splashed across every newspaper in AmericaNow in paperback, the believe-it-or-not historical true crime behind one of the greatest scandals of the Gilded Age, and the story that gave rise to the sensational tabloid journalism still driving so much of the ... Read more

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