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  • 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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  • Black Earth

    The Holocaust as History and Warning

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust—conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”—The New RepublicA “gripping [and] disturbingly vivid” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of the defining tragedy of our time, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of On TyrannyONE OF THE... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Stalin's Genocides

    by Norman M. Naimark ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
    Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • 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

  • The Burden of the Past

    History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

    by Anna Wylegala, Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper ...
    Essays on how chaos, totalitarianism, and trauma have shaped Ukraine's culture: "A milestone of the scholarship about Eastern European politics of memory." —Wulf Kansteiner, Aarhus UniversityIn a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv

    A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists

    by Tarik Cyril Amar ...
    The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of Lviv into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Lviv's twentieth-century history was marked by violence, population changes, and fundamental transformation ethnically, linguistically, and in terms of its residents' self-perception. Against this background, Tarik Cyril Amar ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • 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

  • Is Russia Fascist?

    Unraveling Propaganda East and West

    by Marlene Laruelle ...
    In Is Russia Fascist?, Marlene Laruelle argues that the charge of "fascism" has become a strategic narrative of the current world order. Vladimir Putin's regime has increasingly been accused of embracing fascism, supposedly evidenced by Russia's annexation of Crimea, its historical revisionism, attacks on liberal democratic values, and its support for far-right movements in Europe. But at the same ... Read more

    $28.79 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