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  • Emerging Metropolis

    New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920

    by Annie Polland, Daniel Soyer ...
    Series Book 4 - City of Promises
    Describes New York’s transformation into a Jewish cityEmerging Metropolis tells the story of New York’s emergence as the greatest Jewish city of all time. It explores the Central European and East European Jews’ encounter with New York City, tracing immigrants’ economic, social, religious, political, and cultural adaptation between 1840 and 1920. This meticulously researched volume shows how Jews ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Jewish New York

    The Remarkable Story of a City and a People

    by Deborah Dash Moore, Jeffrey S. Gurock, Annie Polland, Howard B. Rock, Daniel Soyer ...
    The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the cityJewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups.Jewish immigrants changed New York. They built its clothing industry and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the center of the nation’s publishing industry and ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • City of Promises

    A History of the Jews of New York, 3-volume box set

    by Howard B. Rock, Deborah Dash Moore, Annie Polland, Daniel Soyer, Diana L. Linden, Jeffrey S. Gurock ...
    Series Book 3 - City of Promises
    Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award, presented by the National Jewish Book CouncilNew York Jews, so visible and integral to the culture, economy and politics of America’s greatest city, has eluded the grasp of historians for decades. Surprisingly, no comprehensive history of New York Jews has ever been written. City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, a three volume set of ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

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    Jewish New York

    The Remarkable Story of a City and a People

    by Deborah Dash Moore, Jeffrey S. Gurock, Annie Polland, Howard B. Rock, Daniel Soyer ...
    Narrated by Suzanne Toren ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 11 min

    The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city Based on the acclaimed multi-volume series, "City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York," Jewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city's most important ethnic and religious groups. Spanning three centuries, Jewish New York traces the earliest arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam to the recent ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Haven of Liberty

    New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865

    by Howard B Rock ...
    Series Book 1 - City of Promises
    Haven of Liberty chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York in 1654 and highlights the role of republicanism in shaping their identity and institutions. Rock follows the Jews of NewYork through the Dutch and British colonial eras, the American Revolution and early republic, and the antebellum years, ending with a path-breaking account of their outlook and behavior during the Civil War. ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Auschwitz

    A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

    by Miklos Nyiszli ...
    Translated by Tibere Kremer, Richard Seaver ...
    When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform “scientific research” on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous “Angel of Death”: Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele’s personal research pathologist. Miraculously, he ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • One of These Things First

    by Steven Gaines ...
    One of These Things First is a wry and poignant reminiscence of a 15 year old gay Jewish boy in Brooklyn in the early sixties, and his unexpected trajectory from a life behind a rack of dresses in his grandmother’s bra and girdle store, to Manhattan’s fabled Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, a fashionable Charenton for wealthy neurotics and Ivy League alcoholics, whose famous alumni include ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Five Chimneys

    A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz

    by Olga Lengyel ...
    Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. It is a shocking book. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Anne Frank

    The Book, the Life, the Afterlife

    by Francine Prose ...
    “Prose’s book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who will live not only in history but also in the literature she aspired to create.” — Minneapolis Star TribuneIn June, 1942, Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years, she described ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Why Are Jews Liberals?

    by Norman Podhoretz ...
    From the bestselling author of World War IV, a brilliant investigation of a central question in American politics and culture.During his career as a neoconservative thinker, Norman Podhoretz has been asked no question more often than “Why are so many Jews liberals?” In this provocative book he sets out to solve this puzzle. He first offers a fascinating account of anti-Semitism in the West to show ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Abraham's Children

    Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People

    by Jon Entine ...
    A riveting scientific detective story crossed with a provocative and controversial re-examination of the meaning of race, ethnicity, and religion.Could our sense of who we are really turn on a sliver of DNA? In our multiethnic world, questions of individual identity are becoming increasingly unclear. Now in Abraham's Children bestselling author Jon Entine vividly brings to life the profound human ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Strangers We Became

    Lessons in Exile from One of Iraq's Last Jews

    by Cynthia Kaplan Shamash ...
    Series series HBI Series on Jewish Women
    This riveting and utterly unique memoir chronicles the coming of age of Cynthia Shamash, an Iraqi Jew born in Baghdad in 1963. When she was eight, her family tried to escape Iraq over the Iranian border, but they were captured and jailed for five weeks. Upon release, they were returned to their home in Baghdad, where most of their belongings had been confiscated and the door of their home sealed ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD