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  • Literary Hasidism

    The Life and Works of Michael Levi Rodkinson

    by Jonatan Meir ...
    Translated by Jeffrey G. Amshalem ...
    Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
    Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845–1904) was a journalist, author, and publisher whose literary projects spanned numerous countries and continents. Hero to some and scoundrel to others, Rodkinson was a polemical figure whose beliefs underwent many transformations over the course of his life, most significantly from Hasidism to combative Haskalah to eventually anticipating the neo-Romantic trends of the ... Read more

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    Award-winning author and journalist Peter Godwin writes with pathos and intimacy about Zimbabwe's spiral into chaos—and, along with it, his family's steady collapse—in this unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present.After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from ... Read more

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  • Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America

    The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America

    by Ruth Gruber ...
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    Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

    by Marion A. Kaplan ...
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    Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the persecutors, but from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of Jews trying to navigate their daily ... Read more

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