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  • Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide

    by Paul R. Bartrop, Steven L. Jacobs ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    This unique volume critically discusses the works of fifty of the most influential scholars involved in the study of the Holocaust and genocide. Studying each scholar’s background and influences, the authors examine the ways in which their major works have been received by critics and supporters, and analyse each thinker’s contributions to the field. Key figures discussed range from historians and ... Read more

    $56.33 CAD

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  • Feminism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Margaret Walters ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How much have women's lives really changed? In the West women still come up against the 'glass ceiling' at work, most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? And how does one tackle the issue of female emancipation in different cultural and economic environments - in, for ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • All the Missing Souls

    A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals

    by David Scheffer ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
    The behind-the-scenes story of how today's war crimes tribunals came to beWithin days of Madeleine Albright's confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1993, she instructed David Scheffer to spearhead the historic mission to create a war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. As senior adviser to Albright and then as President Clinton's ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate

    A Novel

    by Letty Cottin Pogrebin ...
    This novel "unflinchingly confronts the issue of Jewish continuity in a diverse and changing America" (Anne Roiphe, author and journalist).Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin's second novel is the story of Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother on her deathbed that he will marry within the tribe and raise Jewish children. When he falls for Cleo Scott, an ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shadows Behind Me

    by Willie Sterner ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    For six desperate years, Willie Sterner’s skill as a painter saved him from death at the hands of the Nazis. Faced with inhumane conditions in slave labour camps and grieving the loss of his close-knit family, Sterner relied on courage and ingenuity to hold onto his dignity. Through almost random luck, he came under the protection of the famed Oskar Schindler and became his personal art restorer. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Naked God

    The Writer and the Communist Party

    by Howard Fast ...
    Fast's book on his break with the Communist Party, and a riveting tribute to the importance of justice and beauty over dogma and rigidityThe Naked God is Howard Fast's public repudiation of the Communist Party, of which he was a devoted member for thirteen years until reading about the full scope of atrocities committed by the Soviet Union under Stalin. The bestselling author of Spartacus and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Becoming the People of the Talmud

    Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures

    by Talya Fishman ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    In Becoming the People of the Talmud, Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meaning of Jewish traditions. Although the Talmud's preeminence in Jewish study and its determining role in Jewish practice are generally taken for granted, Fishman contends that these roles were not solidified until the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. The ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Child Soldiers in Africa

    by Alcinda Honwana ...
    Series series The Ethnography of Political Violence
    Young people have been at the forefront of political conflict in many parts of the world, even when it has turned violent. In some of those situations, for a variety of reasons, including coercion, poverty, or the seductive nature of violence, children become killers before they are able to grasp the fundamentals of morality. It has been only in the past ten years that this component of warfare ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America

    by Kenneth L. Marcus ...
    Given jurisdiction over race and national origin but not religion, federal agents have had to determine whether Jewish Americans constitute a race or national origin group. They have been unable to do so. This has led to enforcement paralysis, as well as explosive internal confrontations and recriminations within the federal government. This book examines the legal and policy issues behind the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The History of a Forgotten German Camp

    Nazi Ideology and Genocide at Szmalcówka

    by Tomasz Ceran ...
    Series series Genocide and Holocaust Studies
    Although often overlooked, anti-Polish sentiment was central to Nazi ideology. At the outset of World War II, Hitler initiated a process of 'depolonization' (Entpolonisierung) which resulted in the death or displacement of a significant number of Polish people living in Nazi-occupied territories. By examining policies of indirect extermination through a detailed study of Szmalcowka, a ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Social Work and Human Rights

    A Foundation for Policy and Practice

    by Elisabeth Reichert ...
    Social Work and Human Rights has become a standard text highlighting the role of social work in protecting the rights of vulnerable populations. Through rigorous analysis, classroom exercises, and a frank discussion of the implications for practice both within and outside of the United States, the volume effectively acquaints readers with the political, economic, and social dimensions of rights ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Drawing Fire

    Investigating the Accusations of Apartheid in Israel

    by Benjamin Pogrund ...
    Benjamin Pogrund, who spent 26 years as a journalist in South Africa investigating apartheid and who has been living in Israel for the past 15 years, investigates the accusation that Israel is practicing apartheid and the motives of those who make it. His study is founded on a belief in Israel, combined with frank criticism, to provide a balanced view of Israel's strengths and problems. To ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus