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  • Found Treasures

    Stories by Yiddish Women Writers

    Edited by Frieda Forman, Ethel Raicus, Sarah Silberstein Swartz ...
    The first of its kind, this anthology showcases women's writing previously available only in Yiddish. A book of voices from an almost forgotten female heritage, it features eighteen writers who speak powerfully of the events that shaped their lives; the d ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Auschwitz

    True Tales From a Grotesque Land

    by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk ...
    Translated by Roslyn Hirsch ...
    “From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness.” With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her experiences while imprisoned for two years in the infamous death camp. Writing twenty years after her liberation, she recreates the events of a dark past ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A Bright Room Called Day

    by Tony Kushner ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe.“It’s brash, audacious and...intoxicatingly visionary.”—Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • As the Lilacs Bloomed

    by Anna Molnár Hegedűs ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    In the spring of 1944, as Germany occupied her native Hungary, Anna Hegedűs barely had time to notice the flowers blooming around her. One year later, as the lilacs blossomed once again, she returned to her hometown of Szatmár and set her memories, raw and vivid, to paper. Her unflinching words convey the bitter details of the Szatmár ghetto, Auschwitz, the Schlesiersee forced labour camp and a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Scattered Ghosts

    One Family's Survival through War, Holocaust and Revolution

    by Nick Barlay ...
    When two Hungarian Jewish refugees landed by accident in Britain in the winter of 1956, they had little idea what the future would hold. But they carried with them the traces of their turbulent past, just enough to provide the clues to their past. Scattered Ghosts combines memoir, investigation and travel to resurrect 200 years of wars and revolutions, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire via two ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Operation Solomon

    The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews

    by Stephen Spector ...
    "Operation Solomon" was one of the most remarkable rescue efforts in modern history, in which more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in little more than a day. In this riveting volume, Stephen Spector offers the definitive account of this incredible story, based on over 200 interviews and exclusive access to confidential documents. Written with the pace and immediacy of a novel, ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • E96: Fate Undecided

    by Paul-Henri Rips ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    The son of a diamond merchant in Antwerp's famous diamond exchange, Paul-Henri Rips was ten years old when the Nazis invaded Belgium in May 1940 and ended what he calls his "golden childhood" forever. Vividly told from a child's perspective, this fascinating account explores the diverse cast of characters who inhabited Belgium and France during the Nazi occupation and the experiences of one family ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Balancing on the Mechitza

    Transgender in Jewish Community

    Edited by Noach Dzmura ...
    Series Book 66 - Io Series
    ***WINNER, 2011 Lambda Literary Award - Transgender Non-FictionWhile the Jewish mainstream still argues about homosexuality, transgender and gender-variant people have emerged as a distinct Jewish population and as a new chorus of voices. Inspired and nurtured by the successes of the feminist and LGBT movements in the Jewish world, Jews who identify with the “T” now sit in the congregation, marry ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Women in the Hebrew Bible

    A Reader

    Edited by Alice Bach ...
    Women in the Hebrew Bible presents the first one-volume overview covering the interpretation of women's place in man's world within the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Written by the major scholars in the field of biblical studies and literary theory, these essays examine attitudes toward women and their status in ancient Near Eastern societies, focusing on the Israelite society portrayed by the ... Read more

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  • Children's Exodus

    A History of the Kindertransport

    by Vera K. Fast ...
    In the months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two, Britain rushed to evacuate nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi occupied territories. Through the unprecedented cooperation of religious and governmental organizations, the Kindertransport spared thousands of Jewish children from the terror of the Third Reich and provided them with host families in Britain. "Children's Exodus" ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Leaving Iran

    Between Migration and Exile

    by Goldin Farideh ...
    Series series Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
    In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. She sought an escape from the suffocation she felt under the cultural rules of her country and the future her family had envisioned for her. While she settled uneasily into American life, the political unrest in Iran intensified and in February of 1979, Farideh’s family was forced to flee Iran on the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture

    Edited by Judith R. Baskin ...
    The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture is an authoritative and accessible reference work for a twenty-first-century audience. Its entries, written by eminent scholars, define the spiritual and intellectual concepts and religious movements that distinguish Judaism and the Jewish experience; they discuss central personalities and places, formative events and enduring literary and ... Read more

    $208.29 USD