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  • All Consuming

    Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of Meat

    by John M. Efron ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    An engaging 700-year history of meat at the intersection of German and Jewish culture, uniquely illuminating the rich, fraught, and tragic history of German Jewry.In Judaism, meat is of paramount importance as it constitutes the very focal point of the dietary laws. With an intricate set of codified regulations concerning forbidden and permissible meats, highly prescribed methods of killing, and ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic

    by John M. Efron ...
    In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program of cultural renewal, two key dimensions of which were distancing themselves from their fellow Ashkenazim in Poland and giving a special place to the Sephardim of medieval Spain. Where they saw Ashkenazic Jewry as insular and backward, a result of ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD

  • Medicine and the German Jews

    A History

    by John M. Efron ...
    Medicine played an important role in the early secularization and eventual modernization of German Jewish culture. And as both physicians and patients Jews exerted a great influence on the formation of modern medical discourse and practice. This fascinating book investigates the relationship between German Jews and medicine from medieval times until its demise under the Nazis.John Efron examines ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • The Jewish Enlightenment

    by Shmuel Feiner ...
    Translated by Chaya Naor ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by language, custom, and dress. By the end of the century urban, upwardly mobile Jews had shaved their beards and abandoned Yiddish in favor of the languages of the countries in which they lived. They ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • How Jews Became Germans

    The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin

    by Deborah Hertz ...
    A "very readable" history of Jewish conversions to Christianity over two centuries that "tracks the many fascinating twists and turns to this story" ( Library Journal).When the Nazis came to power and created a racial state in the 1930s, they considered it an urgent priority to identify Jews who had converted to Christianity over the preceding centuries. With the help of church officials, a vast ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why the Germans? Why the Jews?

    Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust

    by Götz Aly ...
    An analysis of why the effort to exterminate the Jews of Europe happened in Germany instead of other European nations with stronger histories of anti-Semitism."Gripping reading. . . . The lavish evidence Aly heaps on—from both self-revealing anti-Semites, and acutely prescient Jewish writers—is incredible." — The New York Times Book ReviewWhy the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Strange Glory

    A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    by Charles Marsh ...
    In the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. Now, drawing on extensive new research, Strange Glory offers a definitive account, by turns majestic and intimate, of this modern icon.The scion of a grand family that rarely ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In Hitler's Munich

    Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism

    by Michael Brenner ...
    Translated by Jeremiah Riemer ...
    From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for powerIn the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918–19, the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews with left-wing radicalism. Munich became a hotbed of right-wing extremism, with synagogues under attack and Jews physically ... Read more

    $56.09 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Demonizing the Jews

    Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany

    by Christopher J. Probst ...
    "An insightful analysis of the ways in which Protestant reformer Martin Luther's anti-Jewish writings were used by German Protestants during the Third Reich." — Contemporary Church History QuarterlyThe acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews is well documented. In this book, Christopher J. Probst demonstrates that a significant number of German ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945

    Politics, Culture, and Society

    by Michael Brenner ...
    A comprehensive account of Jewish life in a country that carries the legacy of being at the epicenter of the Holocaust.Originally published in German in 2012, this comprehensive history of Jewish life in postwar Germany provides a systematic account of Jews and Judaism from the Holocaust to the early 21st Century by leading experts of modern German-Jewish history. Beginning in the immediate ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Eve

    The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War

    by Bernard Wasserstein ...
    On the Eve is the portrait of a world on the brink of annihilation. In this provocative book, Bernard Wasserstein presents a new and disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught.In the 1930s, as Europe spiraled toward the Second World War, the continent’s Jews faced an existential crisis. The harsh realities of the age—anti-Semitic ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Complicity in the Holocaust

    Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany

    by Robert P. Ericksen ...
    In one of the darker aspects of Nazi Germany, churches and universities - generally respected institutions - grew to accept and support Nazi ideology. Robert P. Ericksen explains how an advanced, highly educated, Christian nation could commit the crimes of the Holocaust. This book describes how Germany's intellectual and spiritual leaders enthusiastically partnered with Hitler's regime, thus ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD