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Rashi
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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 … |
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A good place to hide
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Peter Grose |
This book is the untold story of an isolated French community that banded together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3,500 Jews in the throes of World War II. Nobody asked questions, nobody dema… |
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Bag of Marbles
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Joseph Joffo |
In 1941 in occupied Paris, brothers Maurice and Joseph play a last game of marbles before running home to their father’s barbershop. This is the day that will change their lives forever. With the Ger… |
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The archive thief
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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… |
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Behind enemy lines
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Wendy Holden,Marthe Cohn |
Marthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by thei… |
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Whites, Jews, and Us
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Hedi El Kholti,Houria Bouteldja |
«Pourquoi j'écris ce livre? Parce que je partage l'angoisse de Gramsci: "le vieux monde se meurt. Le nouveau est long à apparaître et c'est dans ce clair-obscur que surgissent les monstres". Le monst… |
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Lest innocent blood be shed
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Philip Paul Hallie |
Tells of the struggle of a Protestant village in Nazi-controlled France to save Jews from persecution. Despite the obvious risks and the many sacrifices, the people of Le Chambon succeeded in hiding … |
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The Jews and the Nation
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Frederic Cople Jaher |
"This book is the first systematic comparison of the civic integration of Jews in the United States and France - specifically, from the two countries' revolutions through the American republic and th… |
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Jews and gender in liberation France
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K. H. Adler |
This book takes a new look at occupied and liberated France through the dual prism of race (specifically Jewishness) and gender - core components of Vichy ideology. The imagining of liberation, and t… |
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Beautiful Death
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Susan L. Einbinder |
"When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the … |
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Sac de billes
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Joseph Joffo |
292 p. ; 24 cm |
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