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Night by Elie Wiesel Publisher Comments This powerful and gripping novel explores what life in the secret annex might have been like for Peter Van Pels. What it was like to be forced into hiding with Anne, first to hate her and then begin falling in love with her.To sit and... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Review Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Book I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Night by Elie Wiesel Publisher Comments Night -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary Of... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Mans Search for Meaning an Introduction To Logotherapy by Viktor E Frankl Publisher Comments Few books in recent decades have had the continuing impact of Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning -- the classic best seller now considered to be one of the most important contributions to psychiatry since the writing of Freud. In it, Dr. Frankl... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl Publisher Comments When Beacon Press first published Man's Search for Meaning in 1959, Carl Rogers called it "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years." In the thirty-three years since then, this book at once a memoir, a... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Five Books of Miriam: A Woman's Commentary on the Torah by Ellen Frankel Publisher Comments Chater one I. BERESHIT: Sexuality and Desire (GENESIS 1:1-6:8) TORAH SPEAKS: In the beginning, Shekhinah, the Holy-One who-Dwells-in-This-World, spins the world into being: light, water, earth, heavenly bodies, seed-bearing plants, sea creatures, birds... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children by Wendy Mogel Publisher Comments Every parent hopes their child will be self-reliant, optimistic, and well mannered, a challenge in our current culture. Clinical psychologist and Jewish educator Wendy Mogel distills the ancient teachings of the Torah, the Talmud, important Jewish... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Goldhagen Publisher Comments A work of the utmost importance--as authoritative as it is explosive--Hitler's Willing Executioners will fundamentally change our perception of the Holocaust and of Germany in the Nazi period. Goldhagen reaches conclusions that are both uncompromising... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie Ten Boom Publisher Comments “I pray that God forgive them...” Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner. “Oh, the poor woman,” Corrie cried. “Yes. May God forgive her,”... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana by Lawrence N Powell Publisher Comments This powerful work tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, the Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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As a Driven Leaf by Milton Steinberg Publisher Comments The age of the Talmud is brought to life in a breathtaking saga. This masterpiece of modern fiction tells the gripping tale of renegade talmudic sage Elisha ben Abuyah's struggle to reconcile his faith with the allure of Hellenistic culture. Set in Roman... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Countrymen by Bo Lidegaard Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Auschwitz: A New History by Laurence Rees Publisher Comments Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The New American Haggadah by Mordecai Men Kaplan Publisher Comments Whether at a model seder, a community seder, or a family seder, The New American Haggadah will inspire and delight participants of all ages. First developed as The New Haggadah, this Passover classic has been revised to reflect the experiences of our... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fragments :memories of a wartime childhood by Binjami Wilkomirski Book News Annotation Wilkomirski, a Latvian Jew, pieces together fragmentary memories of his childhood spent in the Nazi death camp of Majdanek, where he was taken after witnessing his father being killed and being separated from his family. Originally published in... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman Publisher Comments When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bibliographies and Indexes in World History, #72: Gender and Destiny: Women Writers and the Holocaust by Marlene E Heinemann Publisher Comments This penetrating study explores some of the critical approaches common to works written by women about an extreme situation--the Holocaust--affecting both sexes. The two novels and four fictionalized memoirs on which Heinemann's analysis is based... (read more) List Price $115.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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