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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diane Ackerman
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the New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded poland, stuka bombers devastated warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals... ( read more)
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Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity
by Primo Levi
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Levi's haunting memoir about his ten months in the German death camp Auschwitz is an unforgettable chronicle of systematic cruelty and miraculous survival. First published in 1947, this bestselling work now includes a new afterword--a fascinating, in... ( read more)
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Book I: My Father Bleeds History
by Art Spiegelman
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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)
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
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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)
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The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
by Tom Reiss
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Islamic prince, Hollywood intimate, Mussolini's biographer, Jewish tycoon's son, international bestselling author (Goebbels was a big fan), chummy with the Nabakovs and Pasternaks: Lev Nussimbaum (aka Kurban Said, aka Essad Bey) was all these things... ( read more)
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diane Ackerman
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Ackerman's bestselling books, including A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, are illuminating windows into the human condition, and are distinguished not only by Ackerman's graceful and exuberant prose but by her inclusion of her own... ( read more)
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I and Thou
by Martin Buber
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Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born since World War II considers Buber as... ( read more)
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began
by Art Spiegelman
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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)
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The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood
by Mark Kurzem
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One mans struggle with memory and prejudice on the way to recovering his past Mark Kurzem was happily ensconced in his academic life at Oxford when his father, Alex, showed up on his doorstep with a terrible secret to tell. When a Nazi death squad raided... ( read more)
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Oprah's Book Club #55: Night
by Elie Wiesel
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A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel... ( read more)
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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
by Simon Wiesenthal
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Robert Coles, The Dalai Lama, Matthew Fox, Mary Gordon, Harold S. Kushner, Albert Speer, Desmond Tutu, and 47 others respond to Wiesenthal's famous question: "Can evil be forgiven?"... ( read more)
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
by Corrie Ten Boom
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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, Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie... ( read more)
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Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction
by Joseph Dan
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In Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph Dan, one of the world's leading authorities on Jewish mysticism, offers a concise and highly accurate look at the history and character of the various systems developed by the adherents of the Kabbalah. Dan... ( read more)
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The Prophets (Perennial Classics)
by Abraham J Heschel
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Abraham Heschel is a seminal name in religious studies and the author of Man Is Not Alone and God in Search of Man. When The Prophets was first published in 1962, it was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of biblical scholarship.The Prophets... ( read more)
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Miriam's Kitchen: A Memoir
by Elizabeth Ehrlich
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This National Jewish Book Award winner recounts the painful stories of life in Poland, related by the author's mother-in-law, a Holocaust survivor, and of Ehrlich's new appreciation of the heritage she rejected as a young woman. 24+ Kosher recipes.... ( read more)
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Magyar Nevelestortenet Forrasai, #439: The Jews of Kurdistan
by Ora Shwartz Beeri
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Published in Israel in a Hebrew edition, this extraordinary translation brings to life the ethnic and cultural history of Kurdish Jews.... ( read more)
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King of the Jews: The Greatest Mob Story Never Told
by Nick Tosches
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Flamboyant mobster Arnold Rothstein was gambling and money. He was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls. It was rumored he masterminded the 1919 World Series fix. He was Mr. Broadway, a king of... ( read more)
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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
by Aaron Lansky
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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)
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Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire & Its Heritage
by Arthur Koestler
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This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Ghengis Khan, but evidence indicates that the... ( read more)
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The Drowned and the Saved
by Primo Levi
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Levi wrote of the moral collapse that occurred in Auschwitz and the fallibility of human memory that allows such atrocities to recur. Levi's last book published before his death in 1987.... ( read more)
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