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  • Carl Goerdeler and the Jewish Question, 1933–1942

    by Peter Hoffmann ...
    In the 1930s, Carl Goerdeler, the mayor of Leipzig and, as prices commissioner, a cabinet-level official, engaged in active opposition against the persecution of the Jews in Germany and in Eastern Europe. He did this openly until 1938 and then secretly in contact with the British Foreign Office. Having failed to change Hitler's policy against the Jews, Goerdeler joined forces with military and ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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    Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

    by Marion A. Kaplan ...
    Series series Studies in Jewish History
    Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the persecutors, but from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of Jews trying to navigate their daily ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Butcher's Tale

    Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

    by Helmut Walser Smith ...
    One of the most dramatic explorations of a German town in the grip of anti-Semitic passion ever written.In 1900, in a small Prussian town, a young boy was found murdered, his body dismembered, the blood drained from his limbs. The Christians of the town quickly rose up in violent riots to accuse the Jews of ritual murder—the infamous blood-libel charge that has haunted Jews for centuries. In an ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • As the Lilacs Bloomed

    by Anna Molnár Hegedűs ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    In the spring of 1944, as Germany occupied her native Hungary, Anna Hegedűs barely had time to notice the flowers blooming around her. One year later, as the lilacs blossomed once again, she returned to her hometown of Szatmár and set her memories, raw and vivid, to paper. Her unflinching words convey the bitter details of the Szatmár ghetto, Auschwitz, the Schlesiersee forced labour camp and a ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Antisemitism Explained

    by Steven K. Baum ...
    "Beneath the surface [of our society]," writes historian Robert Wistrich, are "ancient myths, dark hatreds, and irrational fantasies [that] continue to nourish antisemitism." But the larger question has to do with why we are so prone to believe them. To that end, Steven K. Baum has an answer. In this book, Baum carefully guides the reader through the social mind and explains how the formation of ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • E96: Fate Undecided

    by Paul-Henri Rips ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    The son of a diamond merchant in Antwerp's famous diamond exchange, Paul-Henri Rips was ten years old when the Nazis invaded Belgium in May 1940 and ended what he calls his "golden childhood" forever. Vividly told from a child's perspective, this fascinating account explores the diverse cast of characters who inhabited Belgium and France during the Nazi occupation and the experiences of one family ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance

    Translated by Naftali Greenwood ...
    by Shlomo Aronson ...
    This book offers a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's role in Jewish-Israeli history from the perspective of the twenty-first century, in the larger context of the Zionist 'renaissance', of which he was a major and unique exponent. Some have described Ben-Gurion's Zionism as a dream that has gone sour, or a utopia doomed to be unfulfilled. Now - after the dust surrounding Israel's founding father ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • You Never Call! You Never Write!

    A History of the Jewish Mother

    by Joyce Antler ...
    In You Never Call, You Never Write, Joyce Antler provides an illuminating and often amusing history of one of the best-known figures in popular culture--the Jewish Mother. Whether drawn as self-sacrificing or manipulative, in countless films, novels, radio and television programs, stand-up comedy, and psychological and historical studies, she appears as a colossal figure, intensely involved in the ... Read more

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  • The Beginning of Politics

    Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel

    by Moshe Halbertal, Stephen Holmes ...
    New insights into how the Book of Samuel offers a timeless meditation on the dilemmas of statecraftThe Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author was also an uncannily astute observer of political life and the moral compromises and contradictions that the ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Greece: A Jewish History

    by K. E. Fleming ...
    "This innovative, soundly researched work . . . has filled a long-standing need for the story of Greek Jewry to be told fully." — Jewish Book WorldK. E. Fleming's Greece—a Jewish History is the first comprehensive English-language history of Greek Jews, and the only history that includes material on their diaspora in Israel and the United States. The book tells the story of a people who for the ... Read more

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  • Bound for Theresienstadt

    Love, Loss and Resistance in a Nazi Concentration Camp

    by Vera Schiff, Jeff McLaughlin ...
    Originally constructed in the 18th century as a military barracks by Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Theresienstadt (now Terezin) was used as a ghetto and concentration camp by the Nazis early in World War II in their ruse of peaceful resettlement of the Jews of Europe. Tens of thousands of inmates perished at the camp and many more were sent from there to die at Auschwitz and Treblinka.Presented in a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Anti-Semitism on the Campus: Past and Present

    by Eunice G. Pollack ...
    Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present, edited by Eunice G. Pollack, is the first book of a multidisciplinary series on Antisemitism in America to be published by Academic Studies Press. In this volume, twenty-one leading scholars explore the roots and manifestations of antisemitism and anti- Zionism and the efforts to combat them at American, British, and South African colleges and ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD