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  • A Civil War Devotional

    Daily Inspirations with Historical Connections

    by Randy Bishop ...
    A Civil War Devotional utilizes daily incidents and facts from the American Civil War and uses scriptural passages related to those occurrences to provide inspiration for each reader. The combination of these aspects allows a person to gain a greater knowledge of the Bible as well as major facts related to the tragic years of 1861 to 1865. Each daily devotion is approximately three hundred words ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Cold War Exodus

    How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews

    by Shaul Kelner ...
    Reveals the mass mobilization tactics that helped free Soviet Jews and reshaped the Jewish American experience from the Johnson era through the Reagan–Bush yearsWhat do these things have in common? Ingrid Bergman, Passover matzoh, Banana Republic®, the fitness craze, the Philadelphia Flyers, B-grade spy movies, and ten thousand Bar and Bat Mitzvah sermons? Nothing, except that social movement ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • A Companion to the Holocaust

    Edited by Simone Gigliotti, Hilary Earl ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
    Provides a cutting-edge, nuanced, and multi-disciplinary picture of the Holocaust from local, transnational, continental, and global perspectivesHolocaust Studies is a dynamic field that encompasses discussions on human behavior, extremity, and moral action. A diverse range of disciplines – history, philosophy, literature, social psychology, anthropology, geography, amongst others – continue to ... Read more

    $171.00 USD

  • A Concise History of Nazi Germany

    This balanced history offers a concise, readable introduction to Nazi Germany. Combining compelling narrative storytelling with analysis, Joseph W. Bendersky offers an authoritative survey of the major political, economic, and social factors that powered the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Now in its fifth edition, the book incorporates significant research of recent years, analysis of the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • A Confiscated Memory

    Wadi Salib and Haifa's Lost Heritage

    by Yfaat Weiss ...
    Yfaat Weiss tells the story of an Arab neighborhood in Haifa that later acquired iconic status in Israeli memory. In the summer of 1959, Jewish immigrants from Morocco rioted against local and national Israeli authorities of European origin. The protests of Wadi Salib generated for the first time a kind of political awareness of an existing ethnic discrimination among Israeli Jews. However, before ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • A Conspiracy Of Decency

    The Rescue Of The Danish Jews During World War II

    by Emmy E Werner ...
    The people of Denmark managed to save almost their country's entire Jewish population from extinction in a spontaneous act of humanity -- one of the most compelling stories of moral courage in the history of World War II. Drawing on many personal accounts, Emmy Werner tells the story of the rescue of the Danish Jews from the vantage-point of living eyewitnesses- the last survivors of an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Convert’s Tale

    Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy

    by Tamar Herzig ...
    Series series I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    An intimate portrait, based on newly discovered archival sources, of one of the most famous Jewish artists of the Italian Renaissance who, charged with a scandalous crime, renounced his faith and converted to Catholicism.In 1491 the renowned goldsmith Salomone da Sesso converted to Catholicism. Born in the mid-fifteenth century to a Jewish family in Florence, Salomone later settled in Ferrara, ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • A Deadly Legacy

    German Jews and the Great War

    by Tim Grady ...
    Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany’s endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examines the efforts of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the German military (12,000 of whom died), as well as the various activities Jewish communities supported at home, such as ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A Delayed Life

    The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz

    by Dita Kraus ...
    A Delayed Life is the breathtaking memoir that tells the story of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of Auschwitz.Dita Kraus grew up in Prague in an intellectual, middle-class Jewish family. She went to school, played with her friends, and never thought of herself as being different—until the advent of the Holocaust. Torn from her home, Dita was sent to Auschwitz with her family.From her time in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Detail Of History: The harrowing true story of a boy who survived the Nazi holocaust

    by Arek Hersh ...
    How do you survive when you’re 11 years old and all your family have been taken from you and killed?How do you continue to live, when everything around you is designed to ensure certain death?Arek Hersh tells his story simply and honestly, a moving account of a little boy who made his own luck and survived. He takes us into the tragic world imposed on him that robbed him of his childhood.The depth ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Drizzle of Honey

    The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews

    When Iberian Jews were converted to Catholicism under duress during the Inquisition, many struggled to retain their Jewish identity in private while projecting Christian conformity in the public sphere. To root out these heretics, the courts of the Inquisition published checklists of koshering practices and "grilled" the servants, neighbors, and even the children of those suspected of practicing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Dybbuk

    and Other Tales of the Supernatural

    by Tony Kushner ...
    Translated by Joachim Neugroschel ...
    Cover art by noted artist Maurice Sendak. Major New York production of A Dybbuk scheduled for 1997. The volume also includes never-before-translated tales by S. Ansky. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Embaixada

    A EMBAIXADA AMERICANA EM JERUSALÉM. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Estatueta

    by Carlos Usín ...
    Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial muitos arriscaram a própria vida e a de suas famílias para salvar aqueles que estavam sendo perseguidos, massacrados e assassinados. Heróis anônimos. Tão anônimos que, em muitos casos, nem suas famílias ficaram sabendo das suas façanhas. Esta é a história de um herói anônimo, cuja filha descobriu depois de muitos anos o real significado de uma estatueta sem um ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Family Remembers

    German-Jewish Life from 1848 to 1926

    A Family Remembers is a collection of memories from a German-Jewish family during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Three personal narratives relate the day-to-day activities of life in stories about business, education, health, family obligations, and more, and reveal larger philosophies and tensions in the family and their world.Julius Brodnitz was a leader in Germany’s Jewish ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Fascist Decade of War

    1935-1945 in International Perspective

    Series series Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
    From the invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 through to the waning months of the World War II in 1945, Fascist Italy was at war. This Fascist decade of war comprised an uninterrupted stretch of military and political engagements in which Italian military forces were involved in Abyssinia, Spain, Albania, France, Greece, the Soviet Union, North Africa and the Middle East. As a junior partner to Nazi ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • A Fatal Balancing Act

    The Dilemma of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939-1945

    by Beate Meyer ...
    In 1939 all German Jews had to become members of a newly founded Reich Association. The Jewish functionaries of this organization were faced with circumstances and events that forced them to walk a fine line between responsible action and collaboration. They had hoped to support mass emigration, mitigate the consequences of the anti-Jewish measures, and take care of the remaining community. When ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Fetish for Men

    From cold lessons in survival to hot adventures in flesh, from the first inklings of kink to bisexual love, A Fetish for Men is the unsparing sex history of a child of Holocaust survivors who thinks sex is an antidote to the pain of life.About the Author:Dr. Gloria Brame is best known for her books Different Loving and The Truth About Sex (trilogy), which promote evidence-based, pro-diversity ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Fifty-Year Silence

    Love, War, and a Ruined House in France

    A young woman moves across an ocean to uncover the truth about her grandparents' mysterious estrangement and pieces together the extraordinary story of their wartime experiencesIn 1948, after surviving World War II by escaping Nazi-occupied France for refugee camps in Switzerland, Miranda's grandparents, Anna and Armand, bought an old stone house in a remote, picturesque village in the South of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A Fine Romance

    Jewish Songwriters, American Songs

    by David Lehman ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    In A Fine Romance, David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook—the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs, and sound tracks to famous movies—and explores the extraordinary fact that this songbook was written almost exclusively by Jews.An acclaimed poet, editor, and cultural critic, David Lehman hears America singing—with a Yiddish accent. He guides us ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Fire Burns in Kotsk

    A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland

    by Menashe Unger ...
    Translated by Jonathan Boyarin ...
    Half a century after Hasidism blossomed in Eastern Europe, its members were making deep inroads into the institutional structure of Polish Jewish communities, but some devotees believed that the movement had drifted away from its revolutionary ideals. Menashe Unger’s A Fire Burns in Kotsk dramatizes this moment of division among Polish Hasidim in a historical account that reads like a novel, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A fiú, aki követte az apját Auschwitzba

    Igaz történet Gustav Kleinmann naplója alapjánEgy megindító igaz történet egy apa és fia küzdelméről, hogy együtt maradhassanak és túléljék a Holocaustot.1939-ben Gustav Kleinmannt, a bécsi zsidó kárpitost elhurcolják a nácik. Kamasz fiával, Fritzcel együtt Németországba, Buchenwaldba küldik, ahol egy elképzelhetetlen megpróbáltatás veszi kezdetét, amikor megverik, éheztetik és a koncentrációs ... Read more

    $9.31 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Foolish Virgin

    by Ida Simons ...
    Translated by Liz Waters ...
    It is the middle of the roaring twenties, and Gittel is living The Hague with her parents, whose blazing rows are the traditional preserve of Sundays and public holidays. What luck, then, that Gittel is Jewish, and must submit to "the double helping of public holidays that is the lot of Jewish families".After every matrimonial slanging match, Gittel's mother runs off to her parents' home in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Forgotten Hero

    Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish Humanitarian Who Rescued 30,000 People from the Nazis

    The true story of Folke Bernadotte’s heroic rescue of 30,000 prisoners during WWIIIn one of the most amazing rescues of WWII, the Swedish head of the Red Cross rescued more than 30,000 people from concentration camps in the last three months of the war. Folke Bernadotte did so by negotiating with the enemy — shaking hands with Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Gestapo. Time was of the essence, as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD