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  • Jewish Salonica

    Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece

    by Devin E. Naar ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Touted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city's incorporation into Greece in 1912 provoked a major upheaval that compelled Salonica's Jews to reimagine their community and status as citizens of a nation-state. Jewish Salonica is ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Five Chimneys

    A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz

    by Olga Lengyel ...
    Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. It is a shocking book. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Greek Revolution (Illustrated Edition)

    by John Lord ...
    The Greek War of Independence was fought against the occupying Ottoman Turks from 1821-1832. Started in part by the Filiki Eteria movement in Greece, uprising 1821 soon lead to a full scale war. By 1828, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom pledged their support to Greece and helped defeat the Turks. In 1832, Greece was recognized as an independent country. Greek Independence day is ... Read more

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  • Empress of the East

    How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire

    by Leslie Peirce ...
    The "fascinating . . . lively" story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire (New York Times).In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave traders from her Ruthenian homeland and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Murder of William of Norwich

    The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe

    by E.M. Rose ...
    In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story spread that it was a ritual murder, performed by Jews in imitation of the Crucifixion as a mockery of Christianity. The outline of William's tale eventually gained currency far beyond Norwich, and the idea that Jews ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Refuge in Hell

    How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis

    by Daniel B. Silver ...
    "Fascinating footnote to Holocaust history . . . a Jewish hospital in the heart of Berlin that treated patients to the very end of Hitler's reign" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review)"One of the most incredible stories of World War II." — Dallas Morning NewsHow did Berlin's Jewish Hospital, in the middle of the Nazi capital, survive as an institution where Jewish doctors and nurses cared for Jewish ... Read more

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  • Herod the Great

    Statesman, Visionary, Tyrant

    by Norman Gelb ...
    Herod the Great, king of ancient Judea, was a brutal, ruthless, vindictive and dangerously high-strung tyrant. He had many of his subjects killed on suspicion of plotting against him and was accused of slaughtering children in Bethlehem when informed that a new king of the Jews had been born there. Among the victims of the murderous paranoia that ultimately drove him to the brink of insanity were ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Istanbul

    City of Forgetting and Remembering

    by Richard Tillinghast ...
    Series series Armchair Traveller
    With its varied and glorious history, Istanbul remains one of the world’s perennially fascinating cities. Richard Tillinghast, who first visited Istanbul in the early 1960s and has watched it transform over the decades into a vibrant metropolis, explores its rich art and architecture, culture, cuisine, and much more in this book.Istanbul was known in Byzantine times as the “Queen of Cities” and to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History

    by Martin Gilbert ...
    Series series Routledge Historical Atlases
    '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, presenting a vivid picture of a fascinating people and the trials and tribulations which have haunted their story.The themes covered include ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Rhodes and the Holocaust

    The Story of the Jewish Community from the Mediterranean Island of Rhodes

    by Isaac Benatar ...
    Rhodes and the Holocaust is the story of La Juderia, the Jewish community that once lived and flourished on Rhodes Island, the largest of the twelve Dodecanese islands in the Mediterranean Sea near the coast of Turkey. While the focus of the accounts of the Holocaust has for the most part been on the Jewish populations of Eastern and Middle Europe, little seems to be known of the events that ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • DPs

    Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945–51

    by Mark Wyman ...
    "Wyman's book is the only one that comprehensively, and sensitively, depicts the plight of the postwar refugees in Western Europe."—M. Mark Stolarik, University of Ottawa"This is a fascinating and very moving book."—International Migration Review"Wyman has written a highly readable account of the movement of diverse ethnic and cultural groups of Europe's displaced persons, 1945-1951. An analysis ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Greece: A Jewish History

    by K. E. Fleming ...
    "This innovative, soundly researched work . . . has filled a long-standing need for the story of Greek Jewry to be told fully." — Jewish Book WorldK. E. Fleming's Greece—a Jewish History is the first comprehensive English-language history of Greek Jews, and the only history that includes material on their diaspora in Israel and the United States. The book tells the story of a people who for the ... Read more

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