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  • Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma

    Islamic and Jewish Perspectives

    Edited by Daphna Ephrat, Meir Hatina ...
    Series series Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Stud
    Utah Series in Middle East StudiesThe issue of religious authority has long fascinated and ignited scholars across a range of disciplines: history, anthropology, the sociology of religion, and political science. Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma juxtaposes religious leadership in premodern and modern Islam with examples from the Judaic tradition. By illustrating various iterations of ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

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    The Heroic Story of the Jews Who Escaped from a Nazi Death Camp

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    This true story of a revolt at a Nazi death camp, newly updated, is “a memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget” (San Francisco Chronicle). On October 14, 1943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted. They killed a dozen SS officers and guards, trampled the barbed wire fences, and raced across an open ... Read more

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  • Fragments of Isabella

    A Memoir of Auschwitz

    by Isabella Leitner ...
    The deeply moving, Pulitzer Prize–nominated memoir of a young Jewish woman's imprisonment at the Auschwitz death camp.In 1944, on the morning of her twenty-third birthday, Isabella Leitner and her family were deported to Auschwitz, the Nazi extermination camp. There, she and her siblings relied on one another's love and support to remain hopeful in the midst of the great evil surrounding them.In ... Read more

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  • Simon Wiesenthal

    The Life and Legends

    by Tom Segev ...
    **With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrationsNow in paperback, the first fully documented biography of the legendary Polish-born Nazi hunter—a revelatory account of a man whose life, though part invention, was wholly dedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible for their crimes and that their destruction of European Jewry never be forgotten.**Within days of being liberated from ... Read more

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  • Aladdin's Lamp

    by John Freely ...
    Aladdin’s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, and many others. John Freely explains how, as the Dark Ages shrouded ... Read more

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  • The Brotherhood

    America's Next Great Enemy

    by Erick Stakelbeck ...
    The Brotherhoods is the chilling chronicle of the alleged crimes and betrayals of NYPD Detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, notorious rogue cops who stand charged with the ultimate form of police corruption-shielding their crimes behind their badges while they worked for the mob. These crimes included murder, kidnapping, torture, and the betrayal of an entire generation of New York ... Read more

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  • No Room for Small Dreams

    Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel

    by Shimon Peres ...
    In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. Peres would indeed go on to serve the new state as prime minister, president, foreign ... Read more

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  • As If It Were Life

    A WWII Diary from the Theresienstadt Ghetto

    by Philipp Manes ...
    In 1942 German merchant Philipp Manes and his wife were ordered by the Nazis to leave their middle class neighborhood and go live in Theresienstadt, the only so-called "showpiece" ghetto of the Third Reich. This model ghetto was set up by the Nazis as a front to show the world that the Jews were being treated humanely. The ghetto was run by a council of Jewish elders, and organized like an idyllic ... Read more

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  • Otto & Daria

    A Wartime Journey Through No Man's Land

    by Eric Koch ...
    Series series The Regina Collection
    A poignant memoir of lives cleaved by war, Otto and Daria is the first-hand account of Eric Koch, a man who once was called Otto. As a Jewish refugee from WWII Germany, Otto first left his country for England, and later arrived in Canada, where he was for a time imprisoned in a camp. The counterpoint to Otto's recollections are the letters from his long-distance love interest, Daria Hambourg, a ... Read more

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  • Beyond Expulsion

    Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg

    by Debra Kaplan ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Beyond Expulsion is a history of Jewish-Christian interactions in early modern Strasbourg, a city from which the Jews had been expelled and banned from residence in the late fourteenth century. This study shows that the Jews who remained in the Alsatian countryside continued to maintain relationships with the city and its residents in the ensuing period. During most of the sixteenth century, Jews ... Read more

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  • Holocaust Mosaic

    by Helen Weber ...
    Survivors, especially, will appreciate Weber's account of Hitler's war against the Jews; from killing Jews at the edge of the pit to Zyklon-B and the crematoria. ... Read more

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    by Evang. Promise Baker ...
    Allah, the 'God' Of Islam ExposedAlmost all Muslims unrepentantly believe that they are worshipping the same God the Christians worship only in a different way.But is Allah, the 'God' the Muslims worship, the Almighty God?This book reveals the answer to this burning question and unveils one of the greatest deceptions ever conceived in the history of the existence of mankind. ... Read more

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