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Schindler's ark Schindler's ark Thomas Keneally "Keneally wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. In 1980 Pfefferberg met Keneally in his shop, and learning that he was a n… OL10619574W
The genealogical science The genealogical science Nadia Abu El-Haj ix, 311 pages ; 24 cm OL16679857W
When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr Recounts the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930's as they travel from Germany to England. OL1742390W
The Jews of Italy The Jews of Italy Shlomo Simonsohn Publisher: The history of the Jews in Italy is the longest continuous one of European Jewry and lasted for more than two millennia. It started in the days of the Roman Republic and continued through … OL17800591W
Out of Palestine Out of Palestine Hadara Lazar A prominent Israeli journalist combines her in-depth interviews and conversations with Israelis, Arabs, and British political figures to present a comprehensive account of the historic events surroun… OL17924901W
Nächstes Jahr in Jerusalem Nächstes Jahr in Jerusalem André Kaminski A humorous story about two Jewish families before, during, and after the First World War. OL17959880W
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
The new encyclopedia of Judaism The new encyclopedia of Judaism Fred Skolnick,Geoffrey Wigoder,Shmuel Himelstein The new encyclopedia of Judaism is a comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia that presents every aspect of the Jewish religion and represents current thinking among scholars in the Reform, Conservative… OL20621998W
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
Het huis in de Rothschildstraat Het huis in de Rothschildstraat Stefanie Zweig Een hardwerkende doodnormale joodse koopmansfamilie in Frankfurt koopt in 1900 een mooi huis in de Rothschildallee. Het gaat hen voor de wind totdat de Eerste Wereldoorlog uitbreekt. Jaren later, aan… OL26181314W
Between dignity and despair Between dignity and despair Marion A. Kaplan Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. This de… OL2743405W
Julek und die Dame mit dem Hut Julek und die Dame mit dem Hut Uri Orlev Kinder und Jugendliche. OL27742026W
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
Everything Is Illuminated Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is … OL5738260W
The Righteous The Righteous Martin Gilbert "Having chronicled the horrors of Nazi-dominated Europe in major works on the Holocaust and the Second World War, the distinguished historian Sir Martin Gilbert now turns his attention to the subject… OL582143W
Feivel's flying horses Feivel's flying horses Heidi Smith Hyde A Jewish immigrant who is saving money to bring his wife and children to join him in America creates ornate horses for a carousel on Coney Island, one for each member of his family. OL5842841W
The Jew in the Modern World The Jew in the Modern World Paul R. Mendes-Flohr,Jehuda Reinharz Synopsis: The last two centuries have witnessed a radical transformation of Jewish life. Marked by such profound events as the emancipation from the ghettoes of Europe, the Holocaust and the establis… OL8001991W
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