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    Exile

    Portraits of the Jewish Diaspora

    by Annika Hernroth-Rothstein ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Gibel ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 8 min

    An innovative and poignant exploration of diverse Jewish communities throughout the diaspora. It's been two thousand years after most Jews were exiled from Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land, and two generations since the Holocaust led to the founding of modern Israel. Still, small yet resilient Jewish communities continue to endure and thrive around the world-sometimes in the most unlikely ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    God Is in the Crowd

    Twenty-First-Century Judaism

    by Tal Keinan ...
    Narrated by Tal Keinan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 6 min

    **“Enthralling, searching, profound, an extraordinarily powerful work on Jewish identity in the twenty-first century.”—Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksA bold proposal for discovering relevance in Judaism and ensuring its survival, from a pioneering social activist, business leader, and fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force**God Is in the Crowd is an original and provocative blueprint for Judaism in the ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Antisemitism

    What It Is. What It Isn't. Why It Matters

    by Julia Neuberger ...
    Narrated by Julia Neuberger ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 54 min

    There has been a disturbing rise in antisemitism in Europe over the last fifteen years or so, with violent attacks on Jewish targets, increased verbal antisemitism, and an acceptability in many circles of what would hitherto have been condemned as outrageous antisemitic discourse. More recently, the Labour party have come under fire for engaging in antisemitic abuse. Yet despite the dramatic ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    10 Great Events of the Old Testament that Shaped Jewish and Christian Identity

    by Daniel L. Smith-Christopher ...
    Narrated by Daniel L. Smith-Christopher ...
    series Learn25: Religion

    Unabridged

    4 hours 58 min

    Ten watershed dates forever shaped Israel's history and the development of Jewish and Christian identity.The Old Testament may seem vast and at times overwhelming to even the most dedicated. By grasping the significance of these ten seminal events, you will better understand your faith and the traditions shared by billions.This unique audio course is full of gripping tales, thought-provoking ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    My Dear Ones: One Family and the Final Solution

    by Jonathan Wittenberg ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Wittenberg ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 31 min

    ‘Moving – at times almost unbearably so – and fascinating’ Antonia FraserA family’s story of human tenacity, faith and a race for survival in the face of unspeakable horror and cruelty perpetrated by the Nazi regime against the Jewish people.Growing up in the safety of Britain, Jonathan Wittenberg was deeply aware of his legacy as the child of refugees from Nazi Germany. Yet, like so many others ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman

    With an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    by Andrzej Szczypiorski ...
    series W&N Essentials

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    In the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow, possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: she has blue eyes and blond hair. With these, and a set of false papers, she has slipped out of the ghetto, passing as the wife of a Polish officer, until one day an informer spots her on the street and drags her off to the Gestapo.At times a ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Judaism, Christianity and Islam

    The Monotheists

    by Frank Peters ...
    Narrated by Frank Peters ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 22 min

    In everything that follows, "Bible" always means the Hebrew or Jewish Bible. The Christian Scriptures will always be called "New Testament" or "Gospels." Judaism, Christianity and Islam should be thought of as three faith communities rather than as three "religions." They are communities of believers, each with its own ideology, history (its ideology is often embedded in its history), its ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Lion of Judah

    How Jesus Completes Biblical Judaism and Why Judaism and Christianity Separated

    by Rabbi Kirt A. Schneider ...
    Narrated by Barry Abrams ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 3 min

    If Jesus is a Jew, why is there a wedge between Christianity and Judaism? If Jews and Christians both believe in the same God, why is there such division? Why is history littered with deathly accounts of this division, from the early Jewish persecution of Christians to the Crusades' slaughtering of Jews? The Lion of Judah unpacks the roots of this division, showing how jealousy, theology, the law, ... Read more

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    Voices of History Israel: Defending Israel

    by Rahel Yanit Ben-Zvi, Menachem Begin, Yigal Allon, Rafael Aboulafia, Ephraim Auerbach, Leon L. Gildesgame0, Rifka Aaronsohn2, Alexander M. Dushkin4, Dr. Moshe Sneh6 ...
    Narrated by Rahel Yanit Ben-Zvi, Menachem Begin, Yigal Allon, Rafael Aboulafia, Ephraim Auerbach, Leon L. Gildesgame1, Rifka Aaronsohn3, Alexander M. Dushkin5, Dr. Moshe Sneh7 ...
    Audiobook 5 - Voices of History Israel

    Unabridged

    4 hours 8 min

    Never before released audio programs!Throughout the 1970's Dr. Samuel J. Citron took it upon himself to interview leading authorities on special topics in contemporary Jewish history, mostly relating to the State of Israel.Over the course of ten years of painstaking work, he completed the immense task of pulling together personal accounts of many of the more significant events of the last hundred ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Voices of History Israel: The Pioneering Years

    by Oved Ben Ami, Amram Hazanoff, Moshe Nathanson, Golda Meir, Yehudit Harari ...
    Narrated by Oved Ben Ami, Amram Hazanoff, Moshe Nathanson, Golda Meir, Yehudit Harari ...
    Audiobook 1 - Voices of History Israel

    Unabridged

    2 hours 33 min

    Never before released audio programs!Throughout the 1970's Dr. Samuel J. Citron took it upon himself to interview leading authorities on special topics in contemporary Jewish history, mostly relating to the State of Israel.Over the course of ten years of painstaking work, he completed the immense task of pulling together personal accounts of many of the more significant events of the last hundred ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Voices of History Israel: A Country with Its Institutions

    by Shlomo Goren, Abba Eban, Avraham Harman, Moshe Landau, Kalman Mann, Zvi Kaspi0, Nahum Pessin2, Sister Selma4, Meyer W. Weisgal6 ...
    Narrated by Shlomo Goren, Abba Eban, Avraham Harman, Moshe Landau, Kalman Mann, Zvi Kaspi1, Nahum Pessin3, Sister Selma5, Meyer W. Weisgal7 ...
    Audiobook 3 - Voices of History Israel

    Unabridged

    3 hours 37 min

    See Israel like you never have before with this comprehensive and fascinating guide to modern history.Never before released audio programs!Throughout the 1970's Dr. Samuel J. Citron took it upon himself to interview leading authorities on special topics in contemporary Jewish history, mostly relating to the State of Israel.Over the course of ten years of painstaking work, he completed the immense ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Invention of the Jewish People

    by Shlomo Sand ...
    Narrated by Barry Abrams ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 49 min

    A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans? Should we regard the Jewish people, throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Blessing and the Curse

    The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century

    by Adam Kirsch ...
    Narrated by Steven Jay Cohen ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 32 min

    From the vast emigration of Jews out of Eastern Europe to the Holocaust to the creation of Israel, the twentieth century transformed Jewish life. The same was true of Jewish writing: the novels, plays, poems, and memoirs of Jewish writers provided intimate access to new worlds of experience. Kirsch surveys four themes that shaped the twentieth century in Jewish literature and culture: Europe, ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    When Christians Were Jews

    The First Generation

    by Paula Fredriksen ...
    Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 59 min

    A compelling account of Christianity's Jewish beginnings, from one of the world's leading scholars of ancient religionHow did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus's prophecy—"The Kingdom of God is at ... Read more

    $52.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Unearthed

    A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

    by Meryl Frank ...
    Narrated by Erin Bennett ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 42 min

    A thrilling mystery woven into a beautifully constructed family memoir: Meryl Frank’s journey to seek the truth about a beloved and revolutionary cousin, a celebrated actress in Vilna before World War II, and to answer the question of how the next generation should honor the memory of the Holocaust.As a child, Meryl Frank was the chosen inheritor of family remembrance. Her aunt Mollie, a ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Voices of History Israel: The Six Day War and After

    by Danny Koenigstein, Teddy Kollek, Chaim Herzog, Mordechai Gur ...
    Narrated by Danny Koenigstein, Teddy Kollek, Chaim Herzog, Mordechai Gur ...
    Audiobook 7 - Voices of History Israel

    Unabridged

    2 hours 16 min

    Never before released audio programs!Throughout the 1970's Dr. Samuel J. Citron took it upon himself to interview leading authorities on special topics in contemporary Jewish history, mostly relating to the State of Israel.Over the course of ten years of painstaking work, he completed the immense task of pulling together personal accounts of many of the more significant events of the last hundred ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    "Our Crowd"

    The Great Jewish Families of New York

    by Stephen Birmingham ...
    Narrated by Mel Foster ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 51 min

    The New York Times–bestselling history of the rise of the most powerful and privileged Jewish families in AmericaThey immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Bible Doesn't Say That

    40 Biblical Mistranslations, Misconceptions, and Other Misunderstandings

    by Joel M. Hoffman ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 55 min

    A vast readership wants better access to the ancient words and ideas of the Bible. In The Bible Doesn't Say That, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman walks the reader through dozens of instances of mistranslations, misconceptions, and other misunderstandings about the Bible. In 40 short chapters, Hoffman covers fundamental theology, morality, lifestyle, and biblical imagery: *The famous New Testament quotation ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Hebrew Signs language of Adam, Volume I- The Ancient Language Master Key, Untold story of Language

    The origin of the ancient Hebrew letters, words and the roots of scripture culture and language

    by Moti Kanyavski (Kanyavsky) ...
    Narrated by Male synthesized voice ...
    series The Hebrew Signs language of Adam

    Unabridged

    6 hours 1 min

    Hebrew and English Decoded!Volume I – Book One: The Ancient Language Master Key, Untold story of LanguageThe letters: Rish, Quf, Chit, Tav, Hey, Samech, PeyThe origin of the ancient Hebrew letters, words and the roots of ancient scripture, the roots of modern culture and languageAuthor: Kanyavsky MotiHow did ancient prehistoric symbols become letters, language and Hebrew letters which evolved into ... Read more

    $31.00 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Grandees, The

    America's Sephardic Elite

    by Stephen Birmingham ...
    Narrated by Mel Foster ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 43 min

    The New World's earliest Jewish immigrants and their unique, little-known history: A New York Times bestseller from the author of Life at the Dakota.In 1654, twenty-three Jewish families arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) aboard a French privateer. They were the Sephardim, members of a proud orthodox sect that had served as royal advisors and honored professionals under Moorish rule in Spain ... Read more

    $63.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Maybe Esther

    by Katja Petrowskaja ...
    Narrated by Emma Gregory ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 28 min

    The poignant, searching, haunting story of one family’s entanglement with twentieth-century historyAN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER‘Intensely involving … a fervent meditation on love and loss, with a remarkable cast of characters’ Financial Times‘Rich, intriguing … Maybe Esther calls to mind the itinerant style of W. G. Sebald’ Guardian‘Unflinchingly potent … Revolutionaries, war heroes, teachers and ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Short History of Christian Zionism

    From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century

    by Donald M. Lewis ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 13 min

    This book is about an idea-namely, that Scripture mandates a Jewish return to the historical region of Palestine-which in turn morphed into a political movement, rallied around a popular slogan ("A country without a nation for a nation without a country"), and eventually contributed to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Christian Zionism continues to influence global politics, ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Twelve Tribes

    Promise and Peril in the New Israel

    by Ethan Michaeli ...
    Narrated by Steven Jay Cohen ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 7 min

    An "illuminating" and "richly descriptive" (New York Times Book Review) portrait of contemporary Israel, revealing the diversity of this extraordinary yet volatile nation by weaving together personal histories of ordinary citizens from all walks of life.“In Twelve Tribes, Ethan Michaeli proves he is a master portraitist – of lives, places, and cultures. His rendering of contemporary Israel ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Voices of History Israel: Building the Land

    by David Ben Gurion, Yosef Weitz, Oved Ben Ami, Jacob Tsur, Hayuta Bussel, Zvulun Paran0, Samuel W. Levine2, Annie Levine4, Colonel Jozef Nevo6, Dr. Avraham C. Nevo8 ...
    Narrated by David Ben Gurion, Yosef Weitz, Oved Ben Ami, Jacob Tsur, Hayuta Bussel, Zvulun Paran1, Samuel W. Levine3, Annie Levine5, Colonel Jozef Nevo7, Dr. Avraham C. Nevo9 ...
    Audiobook 2 - Voices of History Israel

    Unabridged

    3 hours 17 min

    Never before released audio programs!Throughout the 1970's Dr. Samuel J. Citron took it upon himself to interview leading authorities on special topics in contemporary Jewish history, mostly relating to the State of Israel.Over the course of ten years of painstaking work, he completed the immense task of pulling together personal accounts of many of the more significant events of the last hundred ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial