Books

20+ results found

Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Vor Antisemitismus ist man nur noch auf dem Monde sicher	Hannah Arendt	Spätestens durch ihre Berichterstattung vom Prozess gegen Adolf Eichmann und ihr Buch „Eichmann in Jerusalem“ wurde sie weltbekannt. Doch schon die junge Hannah Arendt war in ihrem politischen Denken…	OL10460618W
Das Brandopfer	Albrecht Goes	Eine Erzählung aus der Zeit der systematischen Verfolgung und Ausmerzung der Juden im Dritten Reich. Ort der Handlung: eine Metzgerei, von der zuständigen Parteidienststelle dazu ausersehen, einmal i…	OL10477817W
Everyday life in New Testament times	Alan Coates Bouquet	“Here is a full and fascinating account of how people lived in the Mediterranean world in the first century of the Christian era. It is a book of history which tells, not of kings and battles and law…	OL1146277W
The wonderful world of life	Julian Huxley	Book about evolution. Full color illustrations. Quote from Charles Darwin on the title page. Contents: page 6 The Fact of Evolution page 22 The How of Evolution page 38 The Course of Evolution	OL1169709W
Nicholas Winton's lottery of life	Matej Mináč	Details and pictures of the so called “Czech Kindertransport” which saved 669 children from the Holocaust by Sir Nicholas Winton, the man known as “the British Schindler”.	OL11804829W
Die Geschwister Oppermann	Lion Feuchtwanger the devil in France	Die Geschwister Oppermann ist ein Zeitroman von Lion Feuchtwanger aus dem Jahr 1933, der zusammen mit den Romanen Erfolg und Exil zu Feuchtwangers „Wartesaal-Trilogie“ gehört. Die ersten beide…	OL1185297W
The pages In between	Erin Einhorn	In a unique, intensely moving memoir, Erin Einhorn finds the family in Poland who saved her mother from the Holocaust. But instead of a joyful reunion, Erin unearths a dispute that forces her to navi…	OL11929214W
Passport to freedom	Anthony Leonard Laye	Synopsis Bracha, a 19-year-old Czech farm girl, throws off the shackles of her austere orthodox Jewish life, and runs away to Antwerp in 1936. Four years later, after a failed love affair, she…	OL11964722W
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 Mortal Storm	Phyllis Bottome	Pre-World War II Ficton. It is rebellious Fraulein Freya Toiler's birthday and she does not want to spend it with her cheeky brothers. She wants to do something special; something exciting and out of…	OL1203214W
Strudel stories	Joanne Rocklin	Seven generations of a Jewish family hear stories of their family history, all told while making apple strudel.	OL121004W
Hiding from the Nazis	David A. Adler	The true story of Lore Baer who as a four-year-old Jewish child was placed with a Christian family in the Dutch farm country to avoid persecution by the Nazis.	OL121554W
Under the cover of war	Rosemarie M. Esber	"Under the Cover of War presents a critical examination of the last six months of the British Palestine mandate, November 1947 to mid-May 1948. Unpublished military and diplomatic sources and new, or…	OL12437336W
Uncle Misha's partisans	Yuri Suhl	During World War II in the Ukraine, an orphaned Jewish boy joins a band of partisans who give him an important assignment against the Nazis.	OL1245863W
Children of the Ghetto	Israel Zangwill	Joodse inwoners van de Londense wijk Whitechapel hebben moeite hun traditionele denkbeelden te verenigen met wat er uit de moderne samenleving op ze afkomt.	OL1285635W
Jewish portraits, Indian frames	Jael Miriam Silliman	With reference to India.	OL12924612W
Gauchos judíos	Alberto Gerchunoff	"Reprint, with minor changes, of the 1955 translation of Gerchunoff's 1910 classic volume about Jewish immigrants in rural Argentina. Twenty-six vignettes, with some inter-related characters, tell st…	OL1308236W
The devil's company	David Liss	From the acclaimed author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper comes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London. In Benjamin Weaver, Davi…	OL13246W
The Family Moskat	Isaac Bashevis Singer	Review in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/25/home/singer-moskat.html	OL1345096W
L' aventure séfarade	Béatrice Leroy	205 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm	OL13545002W