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  • Three Tearless Histories

    The Photographer of Auschwitz and Other Stories

    by Erich Hackl ...
    Translated by Mike Mitchell ...
    Stirring, poignant stories humanize great historical tragedies with interviews and accounts of individuals affected by the clashes of communism and fascism.“Powerful inquiries spurred by photos—history made flesh, the untold lives of the mostly forgotten.”—Kirkus Reviews“A missionary voice of human dignity.”—World Literature TodayErich Hackl, 2017 recipient of the internationally-reco... ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Carl E. Schorske ...
    A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born."Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Golden Harvest

    Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust

    by Jan Tomasz Gross, Irena Grudzinska Gross ...
    It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices the "crops" scattered in front of the group, what seemed innocent on first view become horrific skulls and bones. Where are we? Who are the people in the photograph, and what are they doing? The ... Read more

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  • The Vienna I Knew: Memories of a European Childhood

    by Joseph Wechsberg ...
    The Vienna I Knew: Memories of a European Childhood by Joseph Wechsberg (80,000 words, 18 illustrations)Wechsberg’s memoir of pre-World War II mittel-Europa recounts with charm and irony life in the dying Habsburg Empire, family stories of wealth gained and lost, the subtleties of coffeehouse culture and the dynamics of Viennese society where one “is at the same time an actor, his own audience, ... Read more

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  • When The World Was Whole: Three Centuries of Memories

    by Charles Fenyvesi ...
    When The World Was Whole: Three Centuries of Memories by Charles Fenyvesi (76,000 words, 40 illustrations)In this family memoir, Charles Fenyvesi brings back to life his ancestors who loved and improved the poor soil they tilled in northeastern Hungary, kept the countless rules of their Jewish faith, and trusted Providence. Unlike their co-religionists who wandered about, always on the lookout for ... Read more

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  • The Wandering Jews

    by Joseph Roth ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    The classic portrait of a vanished people.Every few decades a book is published that shapes Jewish consciousness. One thinks of Wiesel's Night or Levi's Survival in Auschwitz. But in 1927, years before these works were written, Joseph Roth (1894-1939) composed The Wandering Jews. In these stunning dispatches written when Roth was a correspondent in Berlin during the whirlwind period of Weimar ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Escape Home

    Rebuilding a Life After the Anschluss

    by Charles Paterson ...
    The story of a secular Jewish family uprooted by the Nazi occupation of Austria and Czechoslovakia who flee Europe to reunite in post-war America to rebuild their lives.Based primarily on the memoir of modern architectural designer and Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice Charles Paterson (born Karl Schanzer), who was nine years old when the Nazi invasion reached Vienna, as well as newly uncovered ... Read more

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  • Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina

    by Raanan Rein ...
    If you attend a soccer match in Buenos Aires of the local Atlanta Athletic Club, you will likely hear the rival teams chanting anti-Semitic slogans. This is because the neighborhood of Villa Crespo has long been considered a Jewish district, and its soccer team, Club Atlético Atlanta, has served as an avenue of integration into Argentine culture. Through the lens of this neighborhood institution, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation

    A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880–1955

    by Sandra McGee Deutsch ...
    In Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation, Sandra McGee Deutsch brings to light the powerful presence and influence of Jewish women in Argentina. The country has the largest Jewish community in Latin America and the third largest in the Western Hemisphere as a result of large-scale migration of Jewish people from European and Mediterranean countries from the 1880s through the Second World War. During ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Escaping Hitler

    A Jewish Haven in Chile

    by Eva Goldschmidt Wyman ...
    Series series Judaic Studies Series
    A family’s flight from Nazi terror to an unexpected refuge in Chile.Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country’s major institutions.Based primarily on interviews with German Jewish refugees and family correspondence, ... Read more

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  • The Development of the Inca State

    by Brian S. Bauer ...
    The Inca empire was the largest state in the Americas at the time of the Spanish invasion in 1532. From its political center in the Cuzco Valley, it controlled much of the area included in the modern nations of Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and Bolivia. But how the Inca state became a major pan-Andean power is less certain. In this innovative work, Brian S. Bauer challenges traditional views of Inca state ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • From Prejudice to Persecution

    A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism

    by Bruce F. Pauley ...
    According to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the population of Hitler’s Greater German Reich. Bruce Pauley’s book explains this phenomenon by providing a history of Austrian anti-Semitism and Jewish responses to it from the Middle Ages to the present, with a particular focus on the period from ... Read more

    $28.49 USD