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  • The Provincials

    A Personal History of Jews in the South

    by Eli N. Evans ...
    In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to the present day. Evoking the rhythms and heartbeat of Jewish life in the Bible belt, Evans weaves together chapters of recollections from his youth and early years in North Carolina with chapters that explore the experiences of Jews in many ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Anne Frank

    The Book, the Life, the Afterlife

    by Francine Prose ...
    “Prose’s book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who will live not only in history but also in the literature she aspired to create.” — Minneapolis Star TribuneIn June, 1942, Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years, she described ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Holocaust

    A New History

    by Laurence Rees ...
    “This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.”―Antony Beevor, bestselling author of StalingradLaurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines their never-before-seen eyewitness testimony with the latest ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • A History of the Jews in the Modern World

    by Howard M. Sachar ...
    The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years.Tracking their fate from Western Europe’s age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet and post-imperialist Islamic upheavals of the twenty-first century, Sachar applies his renowned ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Were We Our Brothers' Keepers?

    The Public Response of American Jews to the Holocaust, 1938–1944

    by Haskel Lookstein ...
    In this major work exploring the American Jewish response to the Holocaust as it occurred, by examining contemporary Jewish press accounts of such events as Kristallnacht, the refusal to allow the refugee ship St. Louis to land in America, the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto, and the deportation of the Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, Haskel Lookstein provides us with an important perspective on the way ... Read more

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  • The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881

    by Israel Bartal ...
    Translated by Chaya Naor ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Jews of Barnow

    by Karl Emil Franzos ...
    A fascinating look at life in the Jewish ghetto in the 19th century, written by Jewish writer and publicist Karl Emil Franzos. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred

    by Paul Reitter ...
    A new intellectual history that looks at "Jewish self-hatred"Today, the term "Jewish self-hatred" often denotes a treasonous brand of Jewish self-loathing, and is frequently used as a smear, such as when it is applied to politically moderate Jews who are critical of Israel. In On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred, Paul Reitter demonstrates that the concept of Jewish self-hatred once had decidedly ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Israel in History

    The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective

    by Derek Penslar ...
    Covering topical issues concerning the nature of the Israeli state, this engaging work presents essays that combine a variety of comparative schemes, both internal to Jewish civilization and extending throughout the world, such as:modern Jewish society, politics and culturehistorical consciousness in the twentieth centurycolonialism, anti-colonialism and postcolonial state-building.With its open ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Why Should Jews Survive?

    Looking Past the Holocaust Toward a Jewish Future

    by Michael Goldberg ...
    In the fifty years since the Holocaust, the Jewish People have felt one overriding concern: survival. The ghosts of the murdered six million, along with the living generation of survivors, have called out the unifying chant, "never again." In 1948, this concern found a second focus in the state of Israel, the ultimate refuge of Jews worldwide. But Rabbi Michael Goldberg finds that these twin ... Read more

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  • A History of Antisemitism in Canada

    by Ira Robinson, Ph.D ...
    This state-of-the-art account gives readers the tools to understand why antisemitism is such a controversial subject. It acquaints readers with the ambiguities inherent in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians and shows these ambiguities in play in the unfolding relationship between Jews and Canadians of other religions and ethnicities. It examines present relationships in light ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Jewish Peoplehood

    An American Innovation

    by Noam Pianko ...
    Series Book 6 - Key Words in Jewish Studies
    Winner of the 2017 Saul Viener Book Prize from the American Jewish Historical SocietyAlthough fewer American Jews today describe themselves as religious, they overwhelmingly report a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people. Indeed, Jewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion—as well as ethnicity and nationality—as the essence of what binds Jews around the globe to one another. In Jewish ... Read more

    $23.99 USD