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Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity
by Primo Levi  Publisher Comments In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and Italian citizen of Jewish race, was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German...
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The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews
by Neal Karlen Publisher Comments Yiddish—an oft-considered "gutter" language—is an unlikely survivor of the ages, much like the Jews themselves. Its survival has been an incredible journey, especially considering how often Jews have tried to kill it themselves. Underlying...
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The Jewish War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Flavius Josephus Synopsis It took seven years and several Roman legions to suppress the Jewish rebellion of 66 AD. This text describes the events....
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A Threat from Within: A History of Jewish Opposition to Zionism
by Yakov M. Rabkin Publisher Comments There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. These words by the poet Leonard Cohen could aptly describe this book, which takes history as a witness to the exceptional nature of Zionism in Jewish history. It explains many points of discord...
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Homeland: The Illustrated History of the State of Israel
by Marv Wolfman Publisher Comments Gold Medal Non-fiction Young Adult Moonbeam Book Award winner Depicting the history of Israel from biblical Abraham to the present, this sophisticated, four-color graphic adaptation is academically grounded, guiding readers through highlights both...
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Outwitting History
by Aaron Lansky Publisher Comments In 1980 an entire body of Jewish literature--the physical remnant of Yiddish culture--was on the verge of extinction. Precious volumes that had survived Hitler and Stalin were being passed down from older generations of Jewish immigrants to their non...
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Yiddish Civilisation
by Paul Kriwaczek Publisher Comments From the author of In Search of Zarathustra— an illuminating chronicle of Yiddish civilization from its roots in the Diaspora to the present. Paul Kriwaczek begins his search when Jewish culture first spreads to Europe during the Roman Empire after...
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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
by Aaron Lansky 
Publisher Comments The great Yiddish scholar Max Weinreich was delivering a lecture in Finland when the Nazis invaded his native Poland. The lecture saved his life. He made his way to New York, where he opened his doors to new students. Many thought his work was...
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How Jewish Is Jewish History
by Book News Annotation In pondering theoretical questions about Jewish historiography, Rosman (Jewish history, Bar Ilan U., Ramat Gan, Israel; advanced Judaic studies, U. of Pennsylvania) concluded that a postmodern Jewish historiography is possible. He applies a critical...
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Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews
by Albert Lindemann Publisher Comments Esau's Tears explores the rise of modern racial-political anti-Semitism in Europe and the United States. Previous histories have been more concerned with description than analysis and most have lacked balance. The evidence presented in this volume...
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Holy Land Mosaic: Stories of Cooperation and Coexistence Between Israelis and Palestinians
by Daniel Gavron Publisher Comments Holy Land Mosaic chronicles the less reported side of the Middle East scene the ongoing projects of conciliation and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, and between Arabs and Jews in Israel. Daniel Gavron presents a personal journey through...
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Contraversions #14: The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible
by Ilana Pardes Publisher Comments The nation--particularly in Exodus and Numbers--is not an abstract concept but rather a grand character whose history is fleshed out with remarkable literary power. In her innovative exploration of national imagination in the Bible, Pardes highlights the...
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One Must Also Be Hungarian
by Adam Biro Publisher Comments The only country in the world with a line in its national anthem as desperate as "this people has already suffered for its past and its future," Hungary is a nation defined by poverty, despair, and conflict, but also by creativity and artistic genius...
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Revolution, Repression, and Revival: The Soviet Jewish Experience
by Zvi Gitelman and Yaacov Ro'i Synopsis Revolution, Repression and Revival The Experience of Jews in the Former Soviet Union enhances our understanding of the Russian Jewish past by bringing together some of the latest thinking by the leading scholars from the former Soviet Union, Israel and...
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Drawings for the Bible
by Marc Chagall Publisher Comments Old Testament subjects are depicted in 136 works, 24 in full color: the creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Hagar in the desert, the meeting of Ruth and Boaz, Job at prayer, more. Captions cite biblical sources of each drawing. Reprinted from a rare...
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Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans (Studies on Personalities of the New Testament)
by Peter Richardson Synopsis Peter Richardson's biographical study of Herod (73-4 BCE) offers insight into the personality of the man who served as the most prominent member of the substantial Herodian family and whose rule shaped the world in which the Christian faith arose...
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A Murder in Lemberg: Politics, Religion & Violence in Modern Jewish History
by Michael Stanislawski Synopsis "Michael Stanislawski's "Murder in Lemberg" is an extraordinarily interesting jewel of a book. It is a good read and an exciting story. More important, this in-depth account of an 1848 murder case and its legal aftermath allows Stanislawski to get at the...
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Hinges of History #2: The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
by Thomas Cahill Publisher Comments The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another enchanting journey into history, once again recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people...
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The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America
by Joyce Antler Publisher Comments Throughout the twentieth century, American Jewish women have made history, challenging the political and cultural constraints facing women in every aspect of American life. From suffrage to birth control, from trade unionism to civil rights and feminism,...
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Aliya: Three Generations of American-Jewish Immigration to Israel
by Liel Leibovitz Publisher Comments Why would American Jews---not just materially successful in this country but, perhaps for the first time in the entire 2000-year Jewish Diaspora, truly socially accepted and at home---choose to leave the material comforts, safety, and peace of the United...
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