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  • The City Without Jews: A Novel of Our Time

    by Hugo Bettauer ...
    The City Without Jews! It sounds almost like a jest, a paradox. The cosmopolitan will smile at the title; yet both Jews and Christians will prick up their ears and wonder: “Does such a thing exist?” Some will consider this book merely a clever fantasy. Still, the reading of it will make them feel that The City Without Jews is symptomatic of our time. One fine day a law is passed in the great city, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The City Without Jews A Novel Of Our Time

    by Hugo Bettauer ...
    The City Without Jews: A Novel of Our Time by Hugo Bettauer is a provocative and prescient work of social commentary that imagines a world stripped of its Jewish population, exploring the cultural, economic, and moral consequences of intolerance and exclusion. This audiobook offers listeners a striking blend of narrative fiction and powerful reflection on prejudice, society, and human nature ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The City Without Jews

    by Hugo Bettauer ...
    A prophetic satirical novel depicting the social and economic consequences of antisemitism. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The City Without Jews A Novel of our Time

    A Provocative Political Satire on Anti-Semitism and Social Injustice

    by Hugo Bettauer ...
    The City Without Jews: A Novel of Our Time by Hugo Bettauer is a bold and satirical exploration of prejudice, intolerance, and the consequences of societal exclusion. Set in a city that expels its Jewish population, the novel examines the social, economic, and moral impacts of discrimination, highlighting the dangers of bigotry and the importance of diversity. Bettauer’s sharp wit and keen ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blue Stain

    A Novel of a Racial Outcast

    by Hugo Bettauer, Kenneth R. Janken ...
    Translated by Peter Hoeyng, Chauncey J. Mellor ...
    Hugo Bettauer's The Blue Stain, a novel of racial mixing and "passing," starts and ends in Georgia but also takes the reader to Vienna and New York. First published in 1922, the novel tells the story of Carletto, son of a white European academic and an African American daughter of former slaves, who, having passed as white in Europe and fled to America after losing his fortune, resists being seen ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • They Thought They Were Free

    The Germans, 1933–45

    by Milton Mayer, Richard J. Evans ...
    National Book Award Finalist: Never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider." — The New York TImesThey Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer's book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The World of Yesterday. Illustrated

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    In The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig offers one of the most moving and luminous memoirs of the twentieth century — a farewell to a vanished era and a meditation on the fragility of civilization itself. Written in exile shortly before his death in 1942, the book stands as both personal recollection and cultural testament, a portrait of Europe before it was engulfed by war and hatred. Zweig ... Read more

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  • Reunion

    by Fred Uhlman ...
    Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the GuardianReunion is a little-known but perfect novel with fans including Ian McEwan, John Boyne, Deborah Moggach, David Nicholls, Meg Rosoff and Sarah Perry.On a grey afternoon in 1932, a Stuttgart classroom is stirred by the arrival of a newcomer. Middle-class Hans is intrigued by the aristocratic new boy, Konradin, and before long they become best ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • My German Question

    Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

    by Peter Gay ...
    "Not only a memoir, it's also a fierce reply to those who criticized German-Jewish assimilation and the tardiness of many families in leaving Germany" ( Publishers Weekly).In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939—"the story," says Peter Gay, "of a poisoning and how I dealt with it." With his customary ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1

    A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941

    by Victor Klemperer ...
    The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. "In its cool, lucid style and power of observation," said The New York Times, "it is the best written, most evocative, most observant record of daily life in the Third Reich." I Will Bear Witness is a work of literature as well as a revelation of the day-by-day horror of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Effingers

    by Gabriele Tergit ...
    Translated by Sophie Duvernoy ...
    Three generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip and incident, capturing a Germany now lost to time.Gabriele Tergit’s Effingers is a novel, at once epic and intimate, about the lives and fates of three generations of a German Jewish family. ... Read more

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  • Dream Story

    by Arthur Schnitzler ...
    Translated by J.M.Q. Davies ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and baffling novella. Dream Story tells how through a simple sexual admission a husband and wife ware driven apart into rival worlds of erotic revenge. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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