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  • Jews and Booze

    Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition

    by Marni Davis ...
    Series Book 2 - Goldstein-Goren American Jewish History
    Finalist, 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature from the Jewish Book CouncilTraces American Jews' complicated relationship to alcohol through the years leading up to and after prohibitionFrom kosher wine to their ties to the liquor trade in Europe, Jews have a longstanding historical relationship with alcohol. But once prohibition hit America, American Jews were forced to choose between ... Read more

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  • The Years of Extermination

    Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945

    by Saul Friedländer ...
    "Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany's mass murder of Europe's Jews . . . A masterpiece that will endure." — The New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearThe Years of Extermination, the completion... ... Read more

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  • In Our Hearts We Were Giants

    The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe—A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust

    by Yehuda Koren, Eilat Negev ...
    "Mesmerizing . . . no reader will fail to admire the Ovitzes," a family of Jewish performers whose dwarfism helped them survive Auschwitz ( Kirkus Reviews ).In this remarkable, never-before-told account of the Ovitz family, seven of whose ten members were dwarves, readers bear witness to the best and worst of humanity and to the terrible irony of the Ovitzes' fate: being burdened with dwarfism ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • My Silent Pledge

    A Journey of Struggle, Survival and Remembrance

    by Sidney J Zoltak ...
    Series Book 2 - MiroLand
    A child survivor, a child of survivors and a grandchild of a survivor, Sidney Zoltak is all these things. His story about a family that struggled and endured, the generosity of those who saved them against all odds, and a vow never to forget is a remarkable journey through the Holocaust into a rich and full life. At eight, Sidney loses a middle class home and goes from the slow death of the ghetto ... Read more

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  • The Warburgs

    The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

    by Ron Chernow ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biography of the Warburgs, one of the great German-Jewish banking families of the twentieth century.Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and politicians, the Warburgs stood at the pinnacle of German (and, later, of German-American) Jewry. ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Life Of Flavius Josephus

    A Jewish Historian's Memoir of Ancient Judea and the Roman Occupation

    by Flavius Josephus ...
    In "The Life of Flavius Josephus," the renowned Jewish historian offers a reflective autobiography that provides a multifaceted view of his life, set against the tumultuous backdrop of first-century Judea. Josephus'Äô literary style blends eloquent prose with vivid anecdotes, revealing both his personal experiences and the cultural milieu of Hellenistic and Roman influences surrounding him. This ... Read more

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  • Alex's Wake

    The Tragic Voyage of the St. Louis to Flee Nazi Germany-and a Grandson's Journey of Love and Remembrance

    by Martin Goldsmith ...
    Alex's Wake is a tale of two parallel journeys undertaken seven decades apart. In the spring of 1939, Alex and Helmut Goldschmidt were two of more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany aboard the St. Louis, "the saddest ship afloat" ( New York Times). Turned away from Cuba, the United States, and Canada, the St. Louis returned to Europe, a stark symbol of the world's indifference to the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Current Events: Israel and Her Enemies (Illustrated Edition)

    by Charles River Editors ...
    You don't want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs. - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Welcome to the Middle East, where Israel and her neighbors have been engaged in diplomatic and military conflicts for nearly 64 years, with roots in the disputes dating back over 2,000 years of history. Founded in May 1948, Israel faced annihilation from the moment the state declared ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide To Football Glory

    The Story of Béla Guttman

    by David Bolchover ...
    Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2017.Longlisted for the Coutts Football Writers Association Award 2018.Before Pep Guardiola and before José Mourinho, there was Béla Guttmann: the first superstar football coach, and the man who paved the way for the celebrated coaches of the modern age. More extraordinarily still, Guttmann was a Holocaust survivor. Having narrowly ... Read more

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  • Polish-Jewish Relations 1939-1945

    Beyond the Limits of Solidarity

    by Ewa Kurek ...
    The following book was translated and published in English: Ewa Kurek, YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MINE - How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland, foreword by Prof. Jan Karski, New York 1998. She has also contributed articles in English that were published in Polin (Oxford: Institute for Polish Jewish Studies), Embracing the Other (New York University Press) and From ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Forging Freedom

    The Life of Cerf Berr of Médelsheim

    by Margaret R. O’Leary ...
    Forging Freedom is the first full-length biography of Cerf Berr of Mdelsheim (17261793), the formidable eighteenth-century emancipator of the French Jews. His early business providing forage for thousands of horses of the French military garrisoned in Alsace grew into a huge military supply business that earned him the profound respect of French Kings Louis XV and XVI. After receiving his French ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Imperialism and Jewish Society

    200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.

    by Seth Schwartz ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz reaches some startling conclusions--foremost among them that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD