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  • The Holocaust and the Germanization of Ukraine

    by Eric C. Steinhart ...
    Series series Publications of the German Historical Institute
    The German invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War was central to Nazi plans for territorial expansion and genocidal demographic revolution. To create 'living space', Nazi Germany pursued two policies. The first was the systematic murder of millions of Jews, Slavs, Roma, and other groups that the Nazis found undesirable on racial, religious, ethnic, ideological, hereditary, or ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • Striking Back

    The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response

    by Aaron J. Klein ...
    The first full account, based on access to key players who have never before spoken, of the Munich Massacre and the Israeli response–a lethal, top secret, thirty-year-long antiterrorism campaign to track down the killers.1972. The Munich Olympics. Palestinian members of the Black September group murder eleven Israeli athletes. Nine hundred million people watch the crisis unfold on television, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Rise of Israel

    A History of a Revolutionary State

    by Jonathan Adelman ...
    Series Book 10 - Israeli History, Politics and Society
    The state of Israel is one of the most controversial countries in the world. Yet, its unique creation and rise to power in 1948 has not been adequately explained either by its friends (mainstream Zionists) nor by its detractors (Arabists and post-Zionists).Using a variety of comparative methodologies; from contrasting the Jewish state to other minorities in the Ottoman Turkish Empire to the rise ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Tenuous Threads / One of the Lucky Ones

    by Judy Abrams, Eva Felsenberg Marx ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Two Jewish girls born six months apart — Judy Abrams in Hungary and Eva Felsenburg Marx in Czechoslovakia — are only children when they are thrown into the turmoil and terror of World War II. At seven, Judy’s mother leaves her at a convent where she must adopt a new Christian identity. Eva is first sent away at two, then again at six, in disguise and tearful. Separated from their parents, forced ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • If Home is Not Here

    by Max Bornstein ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Max Bornstein’s epic account of a poor Jewish boy born in 1920s Poland is breathtaking in scope. Not quite two when he immigrates to Canada, he returns to Europe in 1933, the year that Adolf Hitler came to power. Barely surviving as a stateless refugee in 1930s Paris, he manages to escape as France falls to the Nazis only to be interned in a Spanish concentration camp. Rich in details of pre-war ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Distance from the Belsen Heap

    Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp

    by Mark Celinscak ...
    Winner of the 2016 Vine Award for NonfictionThe Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation. With breathtaking thoroughness, Distance from the Belsen Heap documents what they saw and how they came to terms with those images over the course of the next seventy years. On the basis of research in more than ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire

    Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism

    by Sarah Pessin ...
    Drawing on Arabic passages from Ibn Gabirol's original Fons Vitae text, and highlighting philosophical insights from his Hebrew poetry, Sarah Pessin develops a 'theology of desire' at the heart of Ibn Gabirol's eleventh-century cosmo-ontology. She challenges centuries of received scholarship on his work, including his so-called Doctrine of Divine Will. Pessin rejects voluntarist readings of the ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Unlocked Memories

    Young Russians under German Rule

    by Alexey Vinogradov, Albert Pleysier ...
    Unlocked Memories is a collection of memories that were shared by Russians who witnessed the German invasion of the Leningrad region in 1941. All were children or young people during World War Two and nearly all were natives of Luga, Oredezh, or villages that were clustered around these two towns. Each lived under German rule after the Leningrad region was overrun and occupied by the enemy.The ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • The Jews of Islam

    Updated Edition

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    This landmark book probes Muslims' attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit, Bernard Lewis demolishes two competing stereotypes: the Islamophobic picture of the fanatical Muslim warrior, sword in one hand and Qur'ān in the other, and the overly romanticized depiction of Muslim ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Jews and Genes

    The Genetic Future in Contemporary Jewish Thought

    Edited by Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, Dr. Laurie Zoloth ...
    Well aware of Jews having once been the victims of Nazi eugenics policies, many Jews today have an ambivalent attitude toward new genetics and are understandably wary of genetic forms of identity and intervention. At the same time, the Jewish tradition is strongly committed to medical research designed to prevent or cure diseases. Jews and Genes explores this tension against the backdrop of ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Unfinalized Moments

    Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative

    Edited by Derek Parker Royal ...
    Series series Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
    Focusing on a diversely rich selection of writers, the pieces featured in Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative explore the community of Jewish American writers who published their first book after the mid-1980s. It is the first book-length collection of essays on this subject matter with contributions from the leading scholars in the field. The ... Read more

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  • Studying the Jewish Future

    by Calvin Goldscheider ...
    Series series Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
    Studying the Jewish Future explores the power of Jewish culture and assesses the perceived threats to the coherence and size of Jewish communities in the United States, Europe, and Israel. In an unconventional and provocative argument, Calvin Goldscheider departs from the limiting vision of the demographic projections that have shaped predictions about the health and future of Jewish communities ... Read more

    $26.99 USD