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  • The Incorruptibles

    A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

    by Dan Slater ...
    This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime.In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed a dense web of crime syndicates. Gangs of horse ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Eichmann in Jerusalem

    A Report on the Banality of Evil

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of TotalitarianismSparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom

    by T. E. Lawrence ...
    First published in 1926, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T. E. Lawrence is the story of the Arab Revolt against the Turkish Empire and Lawrence's role in it. Lawrence, educated at Oxford, begins by working for a museum on an archaeological dig in the Middle East at the outbreak of the First World War. He is commissioned into the British Army while at the Euphrates and is attached to the Hejaz ... Read more

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  • Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition

    A Seventeenth-Century New Mexican Drama

    by Frances Levine, Ph.D. ...
    In 1598, at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, New Mexico became Spain’s northernmost New World colony. The censures of the Catholic Church reached all the way to Santa Fe, where in the mid-1660s, Doña Teresa Aguilera y Roche, the wife of New Mexico governor Bernardo López de Mendizábal, came under the Inquisition’s scrutiny. She and her husband were tried in Mexico City for the crime of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America

    A Historical Review and Personal Reminiscences

    by Joseph Cohen, Kenyon Zimmer ...
    Translated by Esther Dolgoff ...
    Essential reading in Jewish labor history, culture, and radicalism.Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe once comprised the largest segment of the anarchist movement in the United States. Part historical excavation and part memoir, Joseph Cohen chronicles both well-known events and behind-the-scenes conflicts among radicals, as well as profiles of famous personalities like Emma Goldman and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Man's Search for Meaning

    Gift Edition

    by Viktor E. Frankl, William J. Winslade ...
    The bestselling Holocaust memoir about finding purpose and strength in times of despair—selected as a Library of Congress “10 Most Influential Books in America”This stunning gift edition of “one of the great books of our time” (Harold S. Kushner) features new photos, end papers, and Frankl’s never-before-published speeches and letters.Hailed as “an enduring work of survival literature” by the New ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Counterfeit Countess

    The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

    by Elizabeth B. White, Joanna Sliwa ...
    The “remarkable…inspiring” (The Wall Street Journal) true story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat—drawing on Mehlberg’s own unpublished memoir.World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • We All Wore Stars

    Memories of Anne Frank from Her Classmates

    by Theo Coster ...
    In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of 28 Jewish children that the Nazis had segregated from the rest of the Dutch population. Among Theo's fellow students was a young Anne Frank, whose diary would later become one of the most important documents of the Holocaust. In this remarkable group portrait, Coster and five of his fellow classmates gather their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Cold Crematorium

    Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

    by József Debreczeni, Jonathan Freedland ...
    Translated by Paul Olchváry ...
    **One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2024A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time—from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni**"As immediate a confrontation of the horrors of the camps as I’ve ever encountered. It’s also a subtle if startling meditation on what it is to attempt to confront those horrors with words…Debreczeni has preserved ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Man's Search for Meaning

    by Viktor E. Frankl, William J. Winslade ...
    Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

    by Ilan Stavans, Josh Lambert ...
    A momentous and diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America—radical, dangerous, and seductive, but also sweet, generous, and full of life—edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild ... Read more

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  • The Literary Mafia

    Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature

    by Josh Lambert ...
    An investigation into the transformation of publishing in the United States from a field in which Jews were systematically excluded to one in which they became ubiquitous“From the very first page, this book is funnier and more gripping than a book on publishing has any right to be. Anyone interested in America’s intellectual or Jewish history must read this, and anyone looking for an engrossing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Operation Last Chance

    One Man's Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice

    by Efraim Zuroff ...
    Sixty years after the end of World War II, not all those who were faithful to the Third Reich are dead—some members of the Nazi party and their collaborators are still alive, and increasingly difficult to track down. Time is rapidly running out, but Efraim Zuroff won't give up. Launching Operation Last Chance in 2002, he spearheaded a vast public campaign to locate and bring to justice the worst ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Agitator

    William Bailey and the First American Uprising against Nazism

    by Peter Duffy ...
    This story of an anti-fascist's dramatic and remarkable victory against Nazism in 1935 is an inspiration to anyone compelled to resist when signs of oppression are on the horizonBy 1935, Hitler had suppressed all internal opposition and established himself as Germany's unchallenged dictator. Yet many Americans remained largely indifferent as he turned his dangerous ambitions abroad. Not William ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

    by William L. Shirer ...
    National Book Award Winner: The definitive account of Nazi Germany and “one of the most important works of history of our time” (The New York Times).When the Third Reich fell, it fell swiftly. The Nazis had little time to destroy their memos, their letters, or their diaries. William L. Shirer’s sweeping account of the Third Reich uses these unique sources, combined with his experience living in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Garden of Beasts

    Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

    by Erik Larson ...
    Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hanns and Rudolf

    The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz

    by Thomas Harding ...
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe “compelling,” untold story of the man who captured and brought to trial Rudolf Höss—one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war criminals and subject of the Oscar-nominated film The Zone of Interest—“fascinates and shocks” (The Washington Post).May 1945. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investig... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich

    by Volker Ullrich ...
    Translated by Jefferson Chase ...
    **"[G]ripping, immaculately researched . . . In Mr. Ullrich’s account, the murderous behavior of the Reich’s last-ditch loyalists was not a reaction born of rage or of stubbornness in the face of defeat—common enough in war—but of something that had long ago tipped over into the pathological." —Andrew Stuttaford, Wall Street JournalThe best-selling author of Hitler: Ascent and Hitler: Downfall ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The House of Twenty Thousand Books

    by Sasha Abramsky ...
    Named one of Kirkus's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015The House of Twenty Thousand Books is the story of Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast collection of socialist literature and Jewish history. For more than fifty years Chimen and his wife, Miriam, hosted epic gatherings in their house of books that brought together many of the age’s greatest thinkers.The ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Jewish People

    Their History and Their Religion

    by David Goldberg, John Rayner ...
    The first part of this illustrated volume offers a survey of Jewish history and literature. The second part presents what the preface describes as "a thematic analysis of the teachings and practice of Judaism". ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Holocaust in Hungary

    Evolution of a Genocide

    by Zoltán Vági, Gábor Kádár, László Csosz ...
    Series series Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context
    The Holocaust in Hungary provides a comprehensive documentary account of one of the most brutal and effective killing campaigns in history. After Nazi Germany took control of Hungary late in World War II, Jews were rounded up with unprecedented speed and sent directly to Auschwitz. They would form the largest group of victims who perished in that camp. The complex interplay between German and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Rest Is Memory: A Novel

    by Lily Tuck ...
    **The heartbreaking story of a young Catholic girl transported to Auschwitz becomes a Rashomon-like rondo by one of our greatest novelists.Esquire • Best Books of Fall 2024"The Rest Is Memory is a literary resurrection, as shattering as it is astonishing. Lily Tuck has done the impossible; from darkness and hideous cruelty, she has woven an unforgettable paean to hope, to life, to justice." —Junot ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Holocaust by Bullets

    A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews

    by Father Patrick Desbois ...
    Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: The story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of more than a million Ukrainian Jews.Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in Ukraine in WWII. Using innovative methodology, interviews, and ballistic evidence, he has determined ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • In Search of Israel

    The History of an Idea

    by Michael Brenner ...
    A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the ashes of genocide and a long history of suffering, Israel was conceived to be unique, a model society and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD