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  • Jewish Denver

    1859-1940

    by Jeanne E. Abrams Ph.D. ...
    Series series Images of America
    In 1859, during the Pike�s Peak gold rush, at least 12 Jews joined the great migration to Colorado in search of gold and a brighter future. The unpredictability of mining and a growing demand for supplies encouraged many of these Jewish settlers to establish small businesses in Denver and in towns and mining camps across the state. By the early 1870s, Jewish benevolent societies and a congregation ... Read more

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  • But You Did Not Come Back

    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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  • 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

    $22.99 USD

  • Imperialism and Jewish Society

    200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.

    by Seth Schwartz ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz reaches some startling conclusions--foremost among them that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • 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

  • Cultural Exchange

    Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace

    by Joseph Shatzmiller ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societies where Jews and Christians coexisted for ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Jewish Community of Solano County

    by Rachel Raskin-Zrihen, Rachel Rae Moncharsh-Lessem, Shoshana Deutscher-Nurik ...
    Series series Images of America
    This book contains images and stories of some of the Jews who have impacted Solano County. It is not a record of every Jew to pass this way, some of whom may have come intending to shed their Jewish identity by changing their names or converting. Wonderful stories emerged about extraordinary people who made their marks here with few suspecting their Jewish roots, yet they were traceable often ... Read more

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  • You Never Call! You Never Write!

    A History of the Jewish Mother

    by Joyce Antler ...
    In You Never Call, You Never Write, Joyce Antler provides an illuminating and often amusing history of one of the best-known figures in popular culture--the Jewish Mother. Whether drawn as self-sacrificing or manipulative, in countless films, novels, radio and television programs, stand-up comedy, and psychological and historical studies, she appears as a colossal figure, intensely involved in the ... Read more

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  • Between Tel Aviv and Moscow

    A Life of Dissent and Exile in Mandate Palestine and the Soviet Union

    by Leah Trachtman-Palchan ...
    Leah Trachtman-Palchan was an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life. This was a life of migration, dissent, exile and survival. Born in the final years of Tsarist Russia, her family was forced to leave their small town following the repeated pogroms of the Civil War era. A two year voyage followed, bringing them all to British Mandate Palestine in 1921. Here what seems like a typical ... Read more

    $44.59 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

    $18.99 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

    $23.09 USD

  • Becoming Israeli

    National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s

    by Anat Helman ...
    Series series The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies
    With a light touch and many wonderful illustrations, historian Anat Helman investigates "life on the ground" in Israel during the first years of statehood. She looks at how citizens--natives of the land, longtime immigrants, and newcomers--coped with the state's efforts to turn an incredibly diverse group of people into a homogenous whole. She investigates the efforts to make Hebrew the lingua ... Read more

    $25.19 USD