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  • New Beginnings

    Tommy Douglas, Maureen Forrester, Mackenzie King, Igor Gouzenko, Maurice Duplessis, Camillien Houde, Vincent Massey & Andrew Allan

    by Eric Koch ...
    Intimate stories of fascinating figures in Canadian history. New Beginnings, a sequel to The Golden Years, crafts intimate stories of Tommy Douglas, Maureen Forrester, Mackenzie King, Igor Gouzenko, Maurice Duplessis, Camillien Houde, Vincent Massey, and Andrew Allan. Eric Koch invents a new literary form, crafting engaging stories of important figures in Canadian history.Koch explores the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Otto & Daria

    A Wartime Journey Through No Man's Land

    by Eric Koch ...
    Series series The Regina Collection
    A poignant memoir of lives cleaved by war, Otto and Daria is the first-hand account of Eric Koch, a man who once was called Otto. As a Jewish refugee from WWII Germany, Otto first left his country for England, and later arrived in Canada, where he was for a time imprisoned in a camp. The counterpoint to Otto's recollections are the letters from his long-distance love interest, Daria Hambourg, a ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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    A Memoir

    by Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Judith Perrignon ...
    A French woman's heartrending account of her survival in a WWII Nazi concentration camp—and a tribute to her father who died there.A runaway bestseller in France, But You Did Not Come Back has already been the subject of a French media storm and hailed as an important new addition to the library of books dealing with the Holocaust. It is the profoundly moving and poetic memoir by Marceline Loridan ... Read more

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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

    $14.99 USD

  • The Rebbe's Army

    Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch

    by Sue Fishkoff ...
    “Excuse me, are you Jewish?” With these words, the relentlessly cheerful, ideologically driven emissaries of Chabad-Lubavitch approach perfect strangers on street corners throughout the world in their ongoing efforts to persuade their fellow Jews to live religiously observant lives. In The Rebbe’s Army, award-winning journalist Sue Fishkoff gives us the first behind-the-scenes look at this small ... Read more

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  • The Golden Age Shtetl

    A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe

    by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern ...
    A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of the shtetl as an isolated, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Early Modern Jewry

    A New Cultural History

    by David B. Ruderman ...
    A compelling history of the early modern Jewish experienceEarly Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines the historical and cultural factors unique to Jewish communities throughout Europe, and how these distinctions played out amidst the rest of society. Looking at how Jewish settlements ... Read more

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  • Lessons of the Holocaust

    by Michael R. Marrus ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Although difficult to imagine, sixty years ago the Holocaust had practically no visibility in examinations of the Second World War. Yet today it is understood to be not only one of the defining moments of the twentieth century but also a touchstone in a quest for directions on how to avoid such catastrophes.In Lessons of the Holocaust, the distinguished historian Michael R. Marrus challenges the ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Chicago's Jewish West Side

    by Irving Cutler ...
    Series series Images of America
    For nearly half a century, the greater Lawndale area was the vibrant, spirited center of Jewish life in Chicago. It contained almost 40 percent of the city's entire Jewish population with over 70 synagogues and numerous active Jewish organizations and institutions, such as the Jewish People's Institute, the Hebrew Theological College, and Mount Sinai Hospital. Its residents included "King of Swing ... Read more

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  • Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History

    Edited by Eli Lederhendler ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Jewry
    Volume XXI of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry marks sixty years since the end of the Second World War and forty years since the Second Vatican Council's efforts to revamp Church relations with the Jewish people and the Jewish faith. Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History offers a collection of new scholarship on the nature of the Jewish-Catholic encounter between 1945 ... Read more

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  • The Jewish Community Around North Broad Street

    by Allen Meyers ...
    Series series Images of America
    The cradle of Jewish life in Philadelphia began with the establishment of the first synagogue, Mikveh Israel, in 1740. With the influx of many German Jews in the 1840s, the community expanded above Spring Garden Street into the Northern Liberties neighborhood. Urban settlement of Philadelphia's Jewish population during the last quarter of the nineteenth century shifted to North Broad Street when ... Read more

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  • Jews of Tampa

    by Dr. Rob Norman, Marcia Jo Zerivitz ...
    Series series Images of America
    Spanish explorers arrived in Tampa Bay in the 16th century. Jews were first allowed to live in Florida in 1763 and less than 100 years later, Tampa became a city. The arrival of the railroad and the cigar industry in the 1890s attracted immigrants. Many were Jews, who helped propel growth, especially in Ybor City, where they owned more than 80 businesses. Over the decades, Jews participated in ... Read more

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