Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Jew, the cathedral and the medieval city	Nina Rowe	"In the thirteenth century, sculptures of Synagoga and Ecclesia - paired female personifications of the Synagogue defeated and the Church triumphant - became a favored motif on cathedral façades in F…	OL15444919W
The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos During the Holocaust	Gai Miron,Guy Miron,Shlomit Shulhani	Since the historiography on the ghettos in Europe during World War II had mainly been limited to the largest ones and that in fact most ghettos had never been systematically researched, the Internati…	OL15677853W
Harvest of a decade	Walter Laqueur	xiii, 255p	OL15921545W
Children during the Holocaust	Patricia Heberer	**Hard-hitting nonfiction and biographical study of the experiences of Jewish children from all walks of life. A deeply moving and insightful look into their experiences, struggles, displacement and …	OL16212033W
E/96	Paul-Henri Rips	The son of a diamond merchant in Antwerp's famous diamond exchange, Paul Henri Rips was ten years old when the Nazis invaded Belgium in May 1940 and ended what he calls his "golden childhood: forever.	OL17915531W
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust	Peter Hayes	xvi, 412 pages : 25 cm	OL19169117W
Virtually Jewish	Ruth Ellen Gruber	"More than half a century after the Holocaust, in countries where Jews make up just a tiny fraction of the population, products of Jewish culture (or what is perceived as Jewish culture) have become …	OL1965493W
Haunted presents	Amikam Nachmani	This is an in-depth analysis of the interrelations between Muslim minority immigrants and local European communities with an accent on Jewish communities and Judaism. The triangular investigation in …	OL19854845W
Violins of hope	James A. Grymes	"A stirring testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of music, Violins of hope tells the remarkable stories of violins owned by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust (some survivin…	OL19991301W
The archive thief	Lisa Moses Leff	"In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski stole tens of thousands of documents from France and sold them to libraries in the United States. To understand why he did it, Lef…	OL20010200W
The murder of William of Norwich	E. M. Rose	"In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story soon spread t…	OL20042673W
The wandering Jew has arrived	Albert Londres	xvii, 203 pages ; 22 cm	OL20050401W
Human Smoke	Nicholson Baker	With original and controversial insights brought about by meticulous research, 'Human Smoke' re-evaluates the political turning points that led up to the Second World War, and in so doing challenges …	OL21453198W
The victim's fortune	John Authers,Richard Wolffe	Half a century after World War II, a small group of Americans launched a campaign to confront the world with the fact that many assets looted by the Nazis had never been returned to their owners. Thi…	OL24859123W
Founder	Amos Elon	Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), patriarch of the Rothschild clan, fathered five illustrious sons who made the family name a by-word for banking, fabulous wealth, and Jewish philanthropy. Israel…	OL2928518W
City of Life, City of Death	Max Michelson	"City of Life, City of Death: Memories of Riga is Max Michelson's personal account of the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia and the Holocaust. Michelson had a serene boyhood in an upper middle-…	OL78642W
The World's Banker	Niall Ferguson	1st complete history of the Rothschild banking dynasty with full access to worldwide archives. Ever since the Rothschild's spectacular rise to preeminence in European finance during the last, turb…	OL792948W
The Bagel	Maria Balinska	This charming book recounts the remarkable journey of the bagel from the tables of seventeenth-century Poland to the freezers of middle America today. The story is one of surprising connections betwe…	OL9381344W