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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Towers of gold	Frances Dinkelspiel	Isaias Hellman, a Jewish immigrant, arrived in California in 1859 with little money in his pocket and his brother Herman by his side. By the time he died, he had effectively transformed Los Angeles i…	OL11967486W
The Gravedigger's Daughter	Joyce Carol Oates	In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he …	OL14958388W
Naharyya - Moshewet haYekkim. Sippur Dor haMeyassdim 1935-1941.	Klaus Kreppel	History of 1000 German Jewish Immigrants founding, living and working in an agricultural settlement in Palestine 1935-1941. Analysis of the economic, social and political problems and conflicts the s…	OL15874390W
Los informantes	Juan Gabriel Vásquez	When Gabriel Santoro's biography is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a public intellectual and famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel could not imagine what had pierced his icy exterior to provoke …	OL1663451W
גוסטב לנדאואר	Ya'akov Goren,Chaim Seeligmann	גוסטב לנדאואר, אשר לו מוקדש ילקוט זה, הוא מהבולטים בין פעילי הרעיון הסוציאליסטי בעידן שלפני מלחמת העולם הראשונה ומחשובי ההוגים והעושים למען האגף האנרכיסטי. אגף זה לא קיבל את הפרשנות המרקסיסטית של הר…	OL17797125W
Journey to nowhere	Eva Figes	"Eva Figes and her family fled the horror of Nazi Germany when Eva was only six, forced to leave behind them friends, relatives, and their housemaid Edith. Ten years later, Edith suddenly re-emerged …	OL17915598W
1944 diary	Hans Keilson	"An account of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands from one of Europe's most powerful chroniclers of the Holocaust. In 2010, FSG published two novels set in World War II by the German Jewish psychoanalyst …	OL19710882W
Hedwig Landauer-Lachmann	Birgit Seemann	Im Interview (2008) bekannte der US-amerikanische Filmregisseur Mike Nichols: „Ich bin vorbelastet. Meine Großmutter Hedwig Lachmann schrieb das Libretto zu ‚Salome‘. Sie übersetzte Oscar Wilde (…) i…	OL2231372W
Heimat los! Aus dem Leben eines jüdischen Emigranten	Gad Granach	"Did you come out of personal conviction or are you from Germany?" was the question German Jews were asked when they arrived in Palestine in 1933. Few came out of conviction. The majority of 60,000 G…	OL2280078W
Y a pesar de todo--	Alfredo José Schwarcz	"Valuable contribution to immigration history examines background, economic integration, degree of adaptation and/or assimilation, interaction with older Jewish groups, retention of culture and langu…	OL2399376W
The whirlwind	Carol Matas	Ben flees Nazi Germany only to find himself in a battle for his life and his soul.	OL24063214W
A Journey Back	Arnon Tamir	At the age of twenty-one, Arnon Tamir was deported to Poland from his home in Germany. A Journey Back describes Tamir’s life in Germany, his deportation, and two return trips to Germany: in 1959 to…	OL2646782W
Promises to keep	Ernest W. Michel	This Holocaust survivor tells what happened in the camps and details his life after escaping from the Nazis and making his way to the United States.	OL3917089W
Paul Mühsam, der Widerstand der Wörter	Gernot Wolfram	Der Schriftsteller und Jurist Paul Mühsam gehört zu einer Generation der doppelt Vertriebenen und Entfremdeten. Als er 1933 nach Palästina emigrierte, weil die Nazis seine Bücher verbrannten und ihm …	OL5794601W
Portraits of Our Past	Emily C. Rose	"Author Emily Rose grew up looking at two large oil portraits hanging above the fireplace mantel in her grandfather's home in New York City. Her Jewish ancestors had immigrated to America from German…	OL7832389W
Four Girls From Berlin	Marianne Meyerhoff	Lotte Meyerhoff thought she had lost everything when she came to the United States after escaping from an internment camp: her beloved Berlin home, and her past. But when a mysterious package arrived…	OL8226829W
Bitter Prerequisites	Wm Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt	"Captured in time by the Third Reich, tormented by memories of the Holocaust, a group of survivors, now members of a university community, detail their compelling story in Bitter Prerequisites."--BOO…	OL8853284W