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  • Jewish Masculinities

    German Jews, Gender, and History

    Edited by Benjamin Maria Baader, Sharon Gillerman, Paul Lerner ...
    Studies exploring the history of the German-Jewish male identity from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, across a myriad of societal occupations.Stereotyped as delicate and feeble intellectuals, Jewish men in German-speaking lands in fact developed a rich and complex spectrum of male norms, models, and behaviors. Jewish Masculinities explores conceptions and experiences of masculinity among ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Germans into Jews

    Remaking the Jewish Social Body in the Weimar Republic

    by Sharon Gillerman ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Germans into Jews turns to an often overlooked and misunderstood period of German and Jewish history—the years between the world wars. It has been assumed that the Jewish community in Germany was in decline during the Weimar Republic. But, Sharon Gillerman demonstrates that Weimar Jews sought to rejuvenate and reconfigure their community as a means both of strengthening the German nation and of ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

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  • Escape From Sobibor

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

    by Richard Rashke ...
    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

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Invention of the Jewish People

    by Shlomo Sand ...
    Translated by Yael Lotan ...
    A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe.In this ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

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  • This Great Escape

    The Case of Michael Paryla

    by Andrew Steinmetz ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE $60,000 HILARY WESTON WRITERS TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONWhat the hell kind of great escape is this? No one escapes!”-L.B. Mayer, on the 1963 filmHe had fifty-seven seconds of screen time in the most lavish POW film Hollywood ever produced. He was blond. A Gestapo agent. Sauntering down the aisles of a speeding train, he speaks in terse German to Richard Attenborough, Gordon ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Mischka's War

    A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    On a winter's day in 1943, 21-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight - a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. In order to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS - the authors of such atrocities - Mischka volunteered to go on a student exchange to Germany. He did not then know that he was part Jewish. Whilst in Germany, he narrowly escaped death in ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Achilles Effect

    What Pop Culture Is Teaching Young Boys About Masculinity

    by Crystal Smith ...
    A discussion of pop culture messages about masculinity, their impact on boys, and the benefits of introducing more gender balance to boys lives.When most people think about gender stereotypes and children, they envision princesses, dolls, and pink clothing. Few consider the warriors, muscle-bound action figures, and T-shirts covered in graffiti and skulls that are assumed to signify masculinity ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Before All Memory Is Lost

    Women's Voices from the Holocaust

    Edited by Myrna Goldenberg, Myrna Goldberg ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    In this first Azrieli Foundation anthology, twenty-five women reflect on their experiences of survival – from the heart-stopping fears of hiding to the extreme risks of “passing” as non-Jews, and from the terrors of the Nazi camps to the treacheries of the Soviet Union. This powerful collection, woven together by the common thread of resistance, features a wide variety of narrative styles, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Mossad

    Six Landmark Missions of the Israeli Intelligence Agency, 1960-1990

    by Marc E. Vargo ...
    This book describes the clandestine missions that were defining moments in the evolution of the Mossad, including its pursuit of the Black September terrorists who murdered Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games, its acquisition on the high seas of yellowcake uranium for Israel's undeclared nuclear weapons program, and its role in bringing to justice Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. The ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Legends of Genesis

    by Hermann Gunkel ...
    ARE the narratives of Genesis history or legend? For the modern historian this is no longer an open question; nevertheless it is important to get a clear notion of the bases of this modern position.The writing of history is not an innate endowment of the human mind; it arose in the course of human history and at a definite stage of development. Uncivilised races do not write history; they are ... Read more

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  • Family History of Fear

    A Memoir

    by Agata Tuszynska ...
    “Family History of Fear has been in me for years. Along with this secret. From the instant I found out I was not who I thought I was.”Every family has its own history. Many families carry a tragic past. Like the author’s mother, many Poles did not tell their children a complete story of their wartime exploits—of the underground Home Army, the tragedy of the Warsaw Uprising, the civil war against ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Jews and Power

    by Ruth R. Wisse ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesTaking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself into a belief that, unburdened by a military, Jews ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD