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  • The Holocaust In American Life

    by Peter Novick ...
    This "courageous and thought-provoking book" examines how the Holocaust came to hold its unique place in American memory ( Foreign Affairs).Prize–winning historian Peter Novick explores in absorbing detail the decisions that moved the Holocaust to the center of American life. He illuminates how Jewish leaders invoked its memory to muster support for Israel, and how politicians in turn used it to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • That Noble Dream

    The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession

    by Peter Novick ...
    Series Book 13 - Ideas in Context
    The aspiration to relate the past 'as it really happened' has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

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  • The Eichmann Trial

    by Deborah E. Lipstadt ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    *****NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST (2012)***Part of the Jewish Encounter series**The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice, and the international media ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Denying the Holocaust

    The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory

    by Deborah E. Lipstadt ...
    The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps is nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful Zionist conspiracy. Sixty years ago, such notions were the province of pseudohistorians who argued that Hitler never meant to kill the Jews, and that only a few ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Holocaust Industry

    Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

    by Norman G. Finkelstein ...
    A scathing argument against those who exploit the Holocaust for personal and political gain—by a major figure at the center of the Israel-Palestine debate.“The most controversial book of the year.” —GuardianThis iconoclastic study was one of the most widely debated books of 2000. Finkelstein indicts with both vigor and honesty those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own personal ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Antisemitism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Steven Beller ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism in the 21st century. Steven Beller reveals how Antisemitism grew as a political and ideological movement in the 19th ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Vanishing American Jew

    In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century

    by Alan M. Dershowitz ...
    In this urgent book, Alan M. Dershowitz shows why American Jews are in danger of disappearing - and what must be done now to create a renewed sense of Jewish identity for the next century. In previous times, the threats to Jewish survival were external - the virulent consequences of anti-Semitism. Now, however, in late-twentieth-century America, the danger has shifted. Jews today are more secure, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Why Are Jews Liberals?

    by Norman Podhoretz ...
    From the bestselling author of World War IV, a brilliant investigation of a central question in American politics and culture.During his career as a neoconservative thinker, Norman Podhoretz has been asked no question more often than “Why are so many Jews liberals?” In this provocative book he sets out to solve this puzzle. He first offers a fascinating account of anti-Semitism in the West to show ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Conspiracy

    How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From

    by Daniel Pipes ...
    "A solid sketch of a difficult and intriguing topic without indulging in sensationalism" (Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 1997).Was AIDS intentionally inflicted upon blacks by whites? Was JFK assassinated as part of an intricate conspiracy? Pipes traces conspiracy theories through history to show that "Conspiracism"—genuine and virulent belief in a conspiracy—dates back to the First Crusade and reached ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Free as a Jew

    A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation

    by Ruth R. Wisse ...
    First came parents with the good sense to flee Europe in 1940 and the good fortune to reach the land of freedom. Their daughter, Ruth, grew up in the shadow of genocide—but in tandem with the birth of Israel, which remained her lodestar. She learned that although Jewishness is biologically transmitted, democracy is not, and both require intensive, intelligent transmission through education in each ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881

    by Israel Bartal ...
    Translated by Chaya Naor ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale ... Read more

    $28.49 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

    $49.99 USD