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  • An Uncertain Future

    Voices of a French Jewish Community, 1940-2012

    by Robert I. Weiner, Richard E. Sharpless ...
    This contemporary oral history, based on interviews conducted over an 18-year period, is the first of its kind in English. The interviews, some repeated with the same subjects over years, demonstrate how the Jewish community of Dijon has evolved over time in response to challenges both internal and external.The authors provide an introduction to the series of interviews as well as a detailed ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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    by Christopher Robbins ...
    The story of Michel Thomas reads like a thriller in which adventure and heartbreak combine to produce a unique form of wisdom. Until his death in 2005, he taught languages to ghetto kids, heads of industry and movie stars in a matter of days, succeeding even with people who considered themselves hopeless linguists. To those who have been taught by him, he seemed to be a miracle worker with a ... Read more

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  • Decoding the Conflict Between Israel and the Palestinians: The History and Terms of the Middle East Peace Process

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Decoding the Conflict Between Israel and the Palestinians cannot solve the peace process, nor does it heap credit or blame on any of the sides. This book goes about breaking down all the terms often thrown around in the Middle East that make the peace process a political minefield, and one that both beginners and sophisticated followers have a hard time keeping up with. Serving as both a glossary ... Read more

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  • Countrymen

    by Bo Lidegaard ...
    Amid the dark, ghastly history of World War II, the literally extraordinary story, never before fully researched by a historian, of how the Danish people banded together to save their fellow Jews from the Nazis—told through the remarkable unpublished diaries and documents of families forced to run for safety, leaving their homes and possessions behind, and of those who courageously came to their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Bintel Brief

    Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward

    by Isaac Metzker ...
    For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward's legendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Created in 1906 to help bewildered Eastern European immigrants learn about their new country, the column also gave them a forum for seeking advice and support in the face of problems ranging from wrenching ... Read more

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  • The Diary of a Holocaust Survivor

    A Journey of Miracles

    by Nachman Berkowitz ...
    The memoir of Rev. Nachman Berkowitz, a Holocaust survivor who lived to become a Cantor, Torah reader, B'nai Mitzvah teacher, and scribe. From his beginnings as a poor yeshiva student in Poland, he learned to be a Torah reader and survived many trials and tribulations, including a Soviet Gulag (labor camp), before emigrating to the United States. ... Read more

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  • Living Memory

    by Andor Schwartz ...
    They have no graves, no markers of ever having existed.The millions of people murdered by the Nazis live on only in the memories of the survivors. In his seventy-ninth year, Andor Schwartz was driven to record the lives of his family and friends who perished.Writing with the instincts of a born storyteller, Andor takes us back to the world of his childhood in rural Hungary in the years leading up ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Nazi Titanic

    The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II

    by Robert P. Watson ...
    "Fascinating, insightful, and dramatic. . . .Readers will be caught up in a compelling and often startling voyage." —Howard Blum, New York Times– bestselling author of The Last Goodnight and Dark InvasionBuilt in 1927, the German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the RMS Titanic. When the Nazis seized control in G... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • A Chosen Calling

    Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century

    by Noah J. Efron ...
    Series series Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context
    Questions traditional explanations for Jewish excellence in science in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Palestine in the twentieth century.Scholars have struggled for decades to explain why Jews have succeeded extravagantly in modern science. A variety of controversial theories—from such intellects as C. P. Snow, Norbert Wiener, and Nathaniel Weyl—have been promoted. Snow hypothesized an ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010

    by Robert Gordon ...
    The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010 is the first major study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed to confront, the Holocaust. Fascist Italy was the model for Nazi Germany, and Mussolini was Hitler's prime ally in the Second World War. But Italy also became a theater of war and a victim of Nazi persecution after 1943, as resistance, collaboration, and civil war raged. Many thousands ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • 2.5 Minute Ride and 101 Humiliating Stories

    by Lisa Kron ...
    * strong interest in the gay and Lesbian market. * Lisa Kron is also a leading member of theatrical troupe The Five Lesbian Brothers. * This is her first publication as a single artist ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Entangled Histories

    Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century

    Edited by Elisheva Baumgarten, Ruth Mazo Karras, Katelyn Mesler ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    From Halakhic innovation to blood libels, from the establishment of new mendicant orders to the institutionalization of Islamicate bureaucracy, and from the development of the inquisitorial process to the rise of yeshivas, universities, and madrasas, the long thirteenth century saw a profusion of political, cultural, and intellectual changes in Europe and the Mediterranean basin. These were ... Read more

    $76.49 USD