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  • Shadows in the City of Light Shadows in the City of Light
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    Shadows in the City of Light

    Examines the place of Paris in French Jewish literary memory, a memory that, of necessity, grapples with the aftermath of the Holocaust.
    $144.00

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  • Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks
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    Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks

    Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks: Shylock Beyond the Holocaust uses Jewish theology to mount a courageous new reading of a four-hundred-year-old play, The Merchant of Venice, and propose a similar analysis of Othello and The Tempest.
    $105.00

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  • Jewish Life in Southeast Europe Jewish Life in Southeast Europe
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    Jewish Life in Southeast Europe

    This anthology brings together eight chapters which examine the life of Jews in Southeast Europe through political, social and cultural lenses. Even though the Holocaust put an end to many communities in the region, this book chronicles how some...
    $111.00

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  • Poles in India 1942-1948 Poles in India 1942-1948
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    Poles in India 1942-1948

    This Indian adventure is intrinsically linked to World War II: after the deportations to the Soviet Union a group of Poles found safe refuge in India, where they would stay until the end of the War , hoping to return to their own country. Unfortunately...
    $70.00

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  • Reading Art Spiegelman Reading Art Spiegelman
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    Reading Art Spiegelman

     The central thesis of this book is that Art Spiegelman's comics all identify deeply-rooted madness in post-Enlightenment society. Spiegelman maintains, in other words, that the Holocaust was not an aberration, but an inevitable consequence of...
    $131.00

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  • Sing This at My Funeral Sing This at My Funeral
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    Sing This at My Funeral

    In 1978, Jakub Slucki passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of seventy-seven. A Holocaust survivor whose first wife and two sons had been murdered at the Nazi death camp in Chelmno, Poland, Jakub had lived a turbulent life. Just over...
    $23.00

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    The Radical Jewish Tradition

    The claim of Israel and its apologists to represent Jews everywhere, the growth of the antisemitic far right, and the approach of the left to the Jewish question, are central issues today. A knowledge of the role of Jews in the past aids understanding of...
    $41.00

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  • Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak
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    Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak

    "In the evening I had to prepare food and cook supper, which exhausted me totally. In politics there's absolutely nothing new. Again, out of impatience I feel myself beginning to fall into melancholy. There is really no way out of this for us." This is...
    $32.00

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  • Weed Out Hate Weed Out Hate
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    Weed Out Hate

    A Jewish Spiritual Political Playbook for the 2024 Presidential Campaign CycleBefore restoring the American soul, you must get to the deepest roots of systemic racism, the origins that unscrupulous politicians try to obscure to convince their base. One...
    $34.00

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  • Let's Ask Betka Let's Ask Betka
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    Let's Ask Betka

    LET’S ASK BETKA is the page-turning story of an arduous journey of endurance tempered by luck, love, respect, and humor. Itpresents a series of events with roller-coasting emotions and anirresistible sweep of human feelings. The story unravels...
    $31.00

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  • Oy Mame! Oy Mame! Oy Mame! Oy Mame!
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    Oy Mame! Oy Mame!

    Oy Mame! Oy Mame! is the story of Holocaust survivor Abraham Gutreiman and is based on his oral recollections captured during a series of video interviews when he was 90 years old. It includes many stories that he told multiple times over the years to...
    $20.00

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  • Run to the Woods Run to the Woods
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    Run to the Woods

    This story could be one story—a child’s world, maimed by inconceivable cruelty. A child’s heart, irreparably torn.But this story is another one. In the spring of 1944 at the age of 15, Ted Winestone emerged from two years of hiding in...
    $24.00

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  • Remembering Dvinsk  - Daugavpils, Latvia Remembering Dvinsk  - Daugavpils, Latvia
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    Remembering Dvinsk - Daugavpils, Latvia

    Remembering Dvinsk is a compilation of three sources.  First is a reprint of the 1965 book Dvinsk – The Rise and Decline of a Town by Yudel Flior, translated from the Yiddish by Bernard Sachs.  Second is the translation of the 1975 class...
    $80.00

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  • The Jews in Siedlce     1850-1945 The Jews in Siedlce     1850-1945
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    The Jews in Siedlce 1850-1945

    This is the translation of Żydzi w Siedlcach 1850-1945 by Edward Kopówka from Polish into English.The town of Siedlce is in Warsaw province in central-eastern Poland, about 55 miles east of Warsaw. A Jewish presence in Siedlce is attested since the...
    $91.00

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  • The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945 The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945
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    The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945

    The Vienna Gestapo headquarters was the largest of its kind in the German Reich and the most important instrument of Nazi terror in Austria, responsible for the persecution of Jews, suppression of resistance and policing of forced labourers. Of the more...
    $220.00

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  • What They Didn't Burn What They Didn't Burn
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    What They Didn't Burn

    What if you uncovered a cache of buried Nazi documents that revealed your father as a man very different than the one you knew-or thought you knew? In this poignant memoir, Mel Laytner, a former reporter, peels away layers of his father's stories to...
    $30.00

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  • The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory
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    The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory

    This volume considers the uses and misuses of the memory of assistance given to Jews during the Holocaust, deliberated in local, national, and transnational contexts. History of this aid has drawn the attention of scholars and the general public alike...
    $217.00

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  • I Didn't Tell Them Anything I Didn't Tell Them Anything
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    I Didn't Tell Them Anything

    When Aleena Rieger was growing up, there were certain things she wasn't allowed to talk about. Where she was born. Her family's experiences during World War II. Her mother's illness. Against great odds, the Riegers secured a future in which...
    $28.00

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  • Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Bible Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Bible
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    Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Bible

    In this updated edition, author Joseph Keysor addresses the growing trend among secularists to label Hitler as a Christian and therefore attribute the atrocities of the second world war to the Christian religion. Keysor does not settle for simply...
    $61.00

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  • Another Planet Another Planet
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    Another Planet

    Another Planet - A photography project of  Belzec, Treblinka, Auschwitz/Birkenau and Majdanek, using a 360 Degree camera. "I was introduced to the epithet 'Another Planet' when reading the testimony ofwriter Yehiel Dinur, known by...
    $43.00

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    Seaway to the Future

    Arrows in the Dark recounts and analyzes the many efforts of aid and rescue made by the Jewish community of Palestine--the Yishuv--to provide assistance to European Jews facing annihilation by the Nazis. Tuvia Friling provides a detailed account of the...
    $95.00

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  • Surviving the Slaughter Surviving the Slaughter
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    Surviving the Slaughter

    In An Uncompromising Generation, Michael Wildt follows the journey of a strikingly homogenous group of young academics--who came from the educated, bourgeois stratum of society--as they started to identify with the Nazi concept of Volksgemeinschaft,...
    $70.00

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    Such Good Girls

    The story of the generation of hidden child survivors told through the true experiences of three Jewish girls--from Poland, Holland, and France--who transcended their traumatic childhoods to lead remarkable lives in America.Only one in ten Jewish...
    $60.00

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  • Everyday Silence and the Holocaust Everyday Silence and the Holocaust
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    Everyday Silence and the Holocaust

    Everyday Silence and the Holocaust examines Irene Levin's experiences of her family's unspoken history of the Holocaust and the silence that surrounded their war experiences as non-topics.
    $373.00

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  • Death on the Black Sea Death on the Black Sea
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    Death on the Black Sea

    On the morning of February 24, 1942, on the Black Sea near Istanbul, an explosion ripped through a decrepit former cattle barge filled with Jewish refugees. One man clung fiercely to a piece of deck, fighting to survive. Nearly eight hundred others --...
    $29.00

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  • The House in Prague The House in Prague
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    The House in Prague

    A cherished house, the family it sheltered, and the true meaning of home1939: the Nazis have invaded Prague. Little Anna huddles with her doll in the corner of a train car while a German officer shrieks, “You are Jews!” Fleeing for their...
    $26.00

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  • A Nation Adrift A Nation Adrift
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    A Nation Adrift

    Miksa Fenyő (1877-1972) a Hungarian writer and intellectual served as member of parliament and briefly was a member of the Hungarian cabinet. He was targeted by the Hungarian fascists and Hitler and had to go into hiding in 1944 after Hungary was...
    $62.00

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  • Reconstructing the Old Country Reconstructing the Old Country
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    Reconstructing the Old Country

    The 1950s and early 1960s have not traditionally been viewed as a particularly creative era in American Jewish life. On the contrary, these years have been painted as a period of inactivity and Americanization. As if exhausted by the traumas of World War...
    $58.00

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  • The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe
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    The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe

    The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe discusses the "memory wars" in the course of the post-Communist re-narration of history since 1989 and the current authoritarian backlash.The book focuses specifically on how "mnemonic warriors" employ...
    $111.00

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  • Genocide Perspectives VI Genocide Perspectives VI
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    Genocide Perspectives VI

    Genocide Perspectives VI grapples with two core themes: the personal toll of genocide, and processes that facilitate the crime. From political choices governments and leaders make, through to denialism and impunity, the crime of genocide recurs again and...
    $48.00

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  • Polish Film and the Holocaust Polish Film and the Holocaust
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    Polish Film and the Holocaust

    During World War II Poland lost more than six million people, including about three million Polish Jews who perished in the ghettos and extermination camps built by Nazi Germany in occupied Polish territories. This book is the first to address the...
    $177.00

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  • Perspectives On The Holocaust Perspectives On The Holocaust
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    Perspectives On The Holocaust

    This volume brings together original historical, literary, and philosophical analyses of the Holocaust by some of the world's leading scholars, including Yehuda Bauer, Christopher R. Browning, George Steiner, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Richard L. Rubenstein,...
    $111.00

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  • The Holocaust and History The Holocaust and History
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    The Holocaust and History

    "A huge and hugely significant collection of much of the best Holocaust scholarship to appear in the last half-century." -Kirkus Reviews". . . magnificent . . . surely among [the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's] greatest achievements to date. ...
    $98.00

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  • ABANDONED IN BERLIN ABANDONED IN BERLIN
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    ABANDONED IN BERLIN

    Abandoned in Berlin invites the reader to decide if anti-Semitism in Germany ended after the war or was simply concealed by a new set of West German laws. The story uncovers the history of a prestigious block of Jewish-owned apartments in West...
    $28.00

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  • Wartime Vignettes Wartime Vignettes
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    Wartime Vignettes

    This is the story of a young boy and of his parents caught up in World War II and in the Holocaust. It describes the events that impressed themselves upon the boy’s memory, as remembered by him as much as 75 years later. It recounts stories of life...
    $19.00

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  • Journey to the Promised Land Journey to the Promised Land
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    Journey to the Promised Land

    Fear, drama, suspense... and hope.Amid the ruins and chaos left by the Second World War, a family sets out from a small town in Russia to escape the uncertainty of living under the iron fist of Stalin. Their arduous journey takes them through Poland and...
    $25.00

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  • Holocaust and the Stars Holocaust and the Stars
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    Holocaust and the Stars

    This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master Stanisław Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors commonly appearing in his biographies. The author...
    $113.00

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  • Kindertransport Kindertransport
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    Kindertransport

    Jennifer Craig-Norton sets out to challenge celebratory narratives of the Kindertransport that have dominated popular memory as well as literature on the subject. According to these accounts, the Kindertransport was a straightforward act of rescue and...
    $89.00

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  • Evil That Surrounds Us Evil That Surrounds Us
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    Evil That Surrounds Us

    In 1931, Gustav Becker and Erna Kohen married. He was Catholic and she was Jewish. Erna and Gustav had no idea their religious affiliations, which mattered so little to them, would define their marriage under the Nazis. As one of the more than 20,000...
    $57.00

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