Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Nahum Goldmann Nahum Goldmann Raphael Patai "This volume critically examines the State of Israel forty years after its establishment. Topics include the integration of Middle Eastern Jews in Israeli society, the Arab minority in Israel, the di… OL1305044W
La Nuit La Nuit Elie Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie… OL14856842W
Angel girl Angel girl Laurie B. Friedman Herman lives in a labor camp. It is World War II, and the Nazis have made him a prisoner. He is forced to work long hours. His only food is soup made of water. Soon he loses the will to go on. Then s… OL15053572W
A voice called A voice called Yossi Katz What is a hero? Yossi Katz sketches the biographies of his heroes. The men and women in this book stepped up to do what was needed to help the Jewish people and to make the Zionist idea into reality. OL15889827W
When a crocodile eats the sun When a crocodile eats the sun Peter Godwin After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on h… OL16027174W
Escape Escape Allan Zullo Features seven true stories of brave boys and girls who lived through the Holocaust. Their compelling accounts are based on exclusive, personal interviews with the survivors. Using real names, dates … OL16560428W
A life in letters, 1914-1982 A life in letters, 1914-1982 Gershon Scholem "Perhaps the greatest scholar of Jewish mysticism in the twentieth century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) once said of himself, "I have no biography, only a bibliography." Yet, in thousands of letters … OL17100284W
Jewish exile in India, 1933-1945 Jewish exile in India, 1933-1945 Anil Bhatti Papers presented at a symposium held in Jawaharlal Nehru University, 15-16 Mar. 1995. OL18335833W
Dossier K Dossier K Imre Kertész This book came about through a conversation the author had with his friend Zoltán Hafner over the course of 2003 and 2004. OL19966459W
The girl from Human Street The girl from Human Street Roger Cohen An expansive yet intimate memoir of modern Jewish identity, following the diaspora of the author's own family to assay the impact of memory, displacement, and disquiet. The award-winning New York Tim… OL19992671W
An orphan in history An orphan in history Paul Cowan You are about to embark on a wondrous voyage through time and culture. The journey carries you from the privileged world of Park Avenue to nineteenth-century Lithuania, turn-of-the-century Chicago, a… OL3278894W
I Am a Star--Child of the Holocaust I Am a Star--Child of the Holocaust Inge Auerbacher The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems. OL3535830W
The Tenement Writer The Tenement Writer Ben Sonder,Alex Haley,Meryl Rosner The Tenement Writer: An Immigrant’s Story follows a young Jewish immigrant from Poland as she struggles to build a new life in America and fulfill her dreams of becoming a writer. In her native Po… OL37387W
Ordinary heroes Ordinary heroes Hay, Peter Safe in Palestine during World War II, Hannah Senesh volunteered for a mission to help rescue fellow Jews in her native Hungary. She was captured by the Nazis, endured imprisonment and torture, and w… OL3904909W
Grace in the Wilderness Grace in the Wilderness Aranka Siegal A young girl's emotional struggle to come to terms with both her past spent in the camps during WW2 and leaving loved ones behind in Sweden to start a new life in America. OL3958410W
The promised land The promised land Mary Antin A vivid, idealistic and inspiring autobiography of an emotional Russian child who came as an immigrant to the Boston slums and used all the opportunities possible in “the promised land.” — A.L.A. Ca… OL67378W