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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

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  • The Devil That Never Dies

    The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism

    by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen ...
    A groundbreaking — and terrifying — examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century, by the prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of Hitler's Willing Executioners.Antisemitism never went away, but since the turn of the century it has multiplied beyond what anyone would have predicted. It is openly spread by intellectuals, politicians and religious ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • None Is Too Many

    Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948

    by Irving Abella, Harold Troper ...
    Winner of the National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust Category)Winner of the Canadian Historical Association John A. Macdonald PrizeFeatured in The Literary Review of Canada 100: Canada’s Most Important Books[This] is a story best summed up in the words of an anonymous senior Canadian official who, in the midst of a rambling, off-the-record discussion with journalists in 1945, was asked how many ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Jewels and Ashes

    by Arnold Zable ...
    ‘Do you ever think about those you left behind?’, I ask father.‘Not often’, he says. ‘Such memories are a luxury I can’t afford.’First his parents made a journey to the New World. It was the 1930s, and Europe was seething. As he grew up, Arnold Zable heard tales, songs, fragments of the world they had left behind. He had inherited a fractured, vibrant past which both fascinated and disturbed him. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Lies, First Person

    by Gail Hareven ...
    Translated by Dalya Bilu ...
    From the Best Translated Book Awardwinning author, a novel of revenge, insanity, lies, and Hitler. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $44.99 USD

  • Distance from the Belsen Heap

    Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp

    by Mark Celinscak ...
    Winner of the 2016 Vine Award for NonfictionThe Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation. With breathtaking thoroughness, Distance from the Belsen Heap documents what they saw and how they came to terms with those images over the course of the next seventy years. On the basis of research in more than ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Antisemitism

    A History

    Edited by Albert S. Lindemann, Richard S. Levy ...
    Antisemitism: A History offers a readable overview of a daunting topic, describing and analyzing the hatred that Jews have faced from ancient times to the present. The essays contained in this volume provide an ideal introduction to the history and nature of antisemitism, stressing readability, balance, and thematic coherence, while trying to gain some distance from the polemics and apologetics ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Jews in Manitoba

    by Arthur A. Chiel ...
    Series series Heritage
    Rabbi Chiel's history of the Jewish community in Manitoba grew out of a curiosity about the colour and vitality of Jewish life in this Canadian prairie province which was impressed upon him during a ten-year residence in Winnipeg. He was impelled as a result to record the events of that history and to try and fit the local Jewish experience into a larger historical panorama. His story has been ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Jewish Philanthropy and Enlightenment in Late-Tsarist Russia

    by Brian J. Horowitz ...
    Series series Samuel and Althea Stroum Books
    The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia (OPE) was a philanthropic organization, the oldest Jewish organization in Russia. Founded by a few wealthy Jews in St. Petersburg who wanted to improve opportunities for Jewish people in Russia by increasing their access to education and modern values, OPE was secular and nonprofit. The group emphasized the importance of the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Hasidism

    A New History

    by David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Arthur Green, Gadi Sagiv, Marcin Wodziński ...
    The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern JudaismThis is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book’s unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history offers perspectives on the movement’s leaders as well as its followers, and demonstrates that, far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Streets

    A Memoir of the Lower East Side

    by Bella Spewack ...
    "A startling, clear-eyed" memoir of an immigrant girl's childhood in early 20th century NYC from the journalist and Tony-winning co-author of Kiss Me Kate ( Booklist).Born in Transylvania in 1899, Bella Spewack arrived on the streets of New York's Lower East Side when she was three. At twenty-two, while working as a reporter with her husband in Europe, she wrote a memoir of her childhood that was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus