Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Defy the darkness	David Kohn,Joe Rosenblum,Joe Rosenblum	This is the story of a young man caught in the whirlwind of the Holocaust, who survives a chain of events so harrowing they almost defy belief. As a boy, Joe Rosenblum watches as the Nazi overlords t…	OL12379566W
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
My father's paradise	Ariel Sabar	My Father's Paradise is Ariel Sabar's quest to reconcile present and past. As Ariel's father, Yona, travels with him to today's postwar Iraq to find what's left of Yona's birthplace, Ariel brings to …	OL13268023W
Life of Josephus	Flavius Josephus	Refocusing our attention from the personal character and psychological motives of Josephus (which we cannot know) to the work itself (which is before us), Steve Mason brings this narrative to life in…	OL137601W
Rashi	Elie Wiesel	From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi--Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki--the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the …	OL14856761W
La Nuit / L'Aube / Le Jour	Elie Wiesel	Contains: [La Nuit](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14856842W/La_Nuit) L'Aube Le Jour	OL14856828W
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	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
Janusz Korczak’s Children	Gloria Spielman	In the years between WWI and WWII, young Henryk Goldszmidt dreamed of creating a better world for children. As an adult, using the pen name Janusz Korczak, he became a writer, doctor, and an enlighte…	OL15182398W
In the Lion's Den	Nechama Tec	ew lives shed more light on the complex relationship between Jews and Christians during and after the Holocaust--or provide a more moving portrait of courage--than Oswald Rufeisen's. A Jew passing as…	OL15340278W
High Financier	Niall Ferguson	Bestselling author Niall Ferguson reveals for the first time the true extent of Siegmund Warburg's influence and the lessons we can learn in a time of crisis from the last of the high financiers. "Su…	OL15368101W
Behind The Walled Garden of Apartheid	Claire Datnow	Set against the backdrop of the draconian apartheid regime, Behind the Walled Garden of Apartheid, Datnow’s memoir of growing up in South Africa deftly conjures up the era's blatant racism and the ri…	OL15695414W
Hot pursuit	Stacia Deutsch	The story of three civil rights workers who were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964.	OL15906714W
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	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
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
Stranger in a Strange Land	George Prochnik	**Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem—the 20th century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah—Prochnik combines biography and memoir to …	OL18146831W
Journey to Ellis Island	Carol Bierman	An account of the ocean voyage and arrival at Ellis Island of twelve-year-old Julius Weinstein who, along with his mother and younger sister, immigrated from Russia in 1922.	OL1843627W
Jerusalem's traitor	Desmond Seward	When the Jews revolted against Rome in 66 CE, Josephus, a Jerusalem aristocrat, was made a general in his nation's army. Captured by the Romans, he saved his skin by finding favor with the emperor Ve…	OL1958506W
The book of separation	Tova Mirvis	The author describes how she left both Orthodox Judaism and her marriage and followed her inner compass to forge a new life for herself and her children while seeking her own path to happiness. Born…	OL19719483W