Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Fight against fear Fight against fear Clive Webb "In the uneasily shared history of Jews and blacks in America, the struggle for civil rights in the South may be the least understood episode. Fight against Fear is the first book to focus on Jews an… OL15326841W
Violet and Winston Violet and Winston Sonya Sones Presents three easy-to-read tales of best friends Violet, a swan, and Winston, a duck. OL18606496W
Chaucer and the Jews : sources, contexts, meanings / edited by Sheila Delany Chaucer and the Jews : sources, contexts, meanings / edited by Sheila Delany Sheila Delany "Jews were expelled from England in 1290, about half a century before Geoffrey Chaucer's birth. But Jews and their culture continued to play in important role in the English Christian imagination thr… OL18923307W
What you did not tell What you did not tell Mark Mazower "In a tribute to his late father, British historian Mark Mazower traces his family's story from the end of the nineteenth century to today, beginning with his grandfather Mordkhel Mazower's birth in … OL19718894W
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
New York's Yiddish theater New York's Yiddish theater Edna Nahshon In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticate… OL20027466W
Defiance Defiance Nechama Tec The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust years is one of helpless victims under a death sentence, unable to fight consignment to the ghettos, to the camps, and to the gas chambers. … OL2066467W
Jews in American Politics Jews in American Politics Ira N. Forman,Donald Altschiller,Louis Sandy Maisel,Joseph Lieberman "Jews in American Politics brings together for the first time a complete picture of the past, present, and future of Jewish political participation. Years in the making, this monumental work includes… OL21373312W
Paul Among Jews and Gentiles, and Other Essays Paul Among Jews and Gentiles, and Other Essays Krister Stendahl A sharp challenge to traditional ways of understanding Paul is sounded in this book by a distinguished interpreter of the New Testament. Krister Stendahl proposes-in the key title essay-new ways of e… OL467407W