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  • Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital

    Centering the Periphery

    by Zehavit Stern, Justin Cammy, Bozena Shallcross, Malgorzata Stolarska-Fronia, Naomi Seidman, Magdalena Kozlowska, Sylwia Jakubczyk-Sleczka, Marcos Silber, Alicja Maslak-Maciejewska, Eugenia Prokop-Janiec, Ela Bauer, Daniel Kupfert Heller ...
    **Shortlisted by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly VolumePIASA's 2024 Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best-Edited Multi-Authored Scholarly Volume**Polish Jewish Culture beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery is a path-breaking exploration of the diversity and vitality of urban Jewish identity and culture in ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Jewish Lives Under Communism

    New Perspectives

    by Katerina Capková, Kamil Kijek, Stephan Stach, Valery Dymshits, Diana Dumitru, Anna Shternshis, Anna Koch, Agata Maksimowska, David Shneer0, Gennady Estraikh1, Marcos Silber2, Galina Zelenina3, Kata Bohus4 ...
    This volume provides new, groundbreaking views of Jewish life in various countries of the pro-Soviet bloc from the end of the Second World War until the collapse of Communism in late 1989. The authors, twelve leading historians and anthropologists from Europe, Israel and the United States, look at the experience of Jews under Communism by digging beyond formal state policy and instead examining ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Who Will Write Our History?

    Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto

    by Samuel D. Kassow ...
    In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundereds of thousands as they suffered starvation, disease, and deportation by the Nazis ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • On the Eve

    The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War

    by Bernard Wasserstein ...
    On the Eve is the portrait of a world on the brink of annihilation. In this provocative book, Bernard Wasserstein presents a new and disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught.In the 1930s, as Europe spiraled toward the Second World War, the continent’s Jews faced an existential crisis. The harsh realities of the age—anti-Semitic ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Becoming Soviet Jews

    The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk

    by Elissa Bemporad ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    An "endlessly rewarding" contribution to the study of Jewish life in the Soviet Union: "Fascinating . . . nuanced and respectful of human limitations" ( Slavic Review).Minsk, the present capital of Belarus, was a heavily Jewish city in the decades between the world wars. Recasting our understanding of Soviet Jewish history, Becoming Soviet Jews demonstrates that pre-revolutionary forms of Jewish ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Shadow of the Shtetl

    Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine

    by Jeffrey Veidlinger ...
    A history based on interviews with hundreds of Ukrainian Jews who survived both Hitler and Stalin, recounting experiences ordinary and extraordinary.The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some four ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Erased

    Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine

    by Omer Bartov ...
    In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach--in former Eastern Galicia--carries him on a journey across the region and back through history. This ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Jewish People, Yiddish Nation

    Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland

    by Kalman Weiser ...
    Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth century. Prylucki's dramatic path - from russified Zionist raised in a Ukrainian shtetl, to Diaspora nationalist parliamentarian in metropolitan Warsaw, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies

    Edited by Peter Hayes, John K. Roth ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Few scholarly fields have developed in recent decades as rapidly and vigorously as Holocaust Studies. At the start of the twenty-first century, the persecution and murder perpetrated by the Nazi regime have become the subjects of an enormous literature in multiple academic disciplines and a touchstone of public and intellectual discourse in such diverse fields as politics, ethics and religion. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Survival on the Margins

    Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union

    by Eliyana R. Adler ...
    Co-winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust ResearchThe forgotten story of 200,000 Polish Jews who escaped the Holocaust as refugees stranded in remote corners of the USSR.Between 1940 and 1946, about 200,000 Jewish refugees from Poland lived and toiled in the harsh Soviet interior. They endured hard labor, bitter cold, and extreme deprivation. But out of reach of the Nazis, ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Yiddish and the Left

    Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish

    by Gennady Estraikh ...
    "For over a century Yiddish served as a major vehicle for expressing left-wing ideas and sensitivities. A language without country, an ""ugly jargon"" despised by assimilationist Jewish bourgeoisie and nationalist Zionists alike, it was embraced as genuine folk idiom by Jewish adherents of socialism and communism worldwide. Following the Holocaust, Yiddish was the primary language of education, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Toward Nationalism's End

    An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn

    by Adi Gordon ...
    Series series The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
    This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891–1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the twentieth century as articulated through the life and work of its leading scholar and activist. Hans Kohn was born in late nineteenth-century Prague, but his peripatetic life took him from the Revolutionary-era Russia to interwar-era Palestine under the British Empire to the United States during the Cold ... Read more

    $28.79 USD