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The near-annihilation of Europe’s Jews in the Second World War destroyed not only much of their history, but also knowledge of the contributions they made to the regions in which they lived. In The ……続きを見る

In Contested Treasure, Thomas Barton examines how the Jews in the Crown of Aragon in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries negotiated the overlapping jurisdictions and power relations of local lo……続きを見る

The Bible tells us that God created us in the Garden of Eden. Scientific evidence points to us evolving from lower animals. Eden Evolution analyzes the dichotomies between the two and suggests how b……続きを見る

This in-depth look at a controversial faction of American Zionism fills a void in the story of American Zionism--and in the story of American Judaism. This book recounts the fascinating and little-k……続きを見る

Winner of the 2017 Saul Viener Book Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society Although fewer American Jews today describe themselves as religious, they overwhelmingly report a strong sense o……続きを見る

With the establishment of the modern State of Israel in 1948, the world saw a new Jew arise from the ashes of the Holocaust and from millennia of persecution in Arab and Christian lands. From the fo……続きを見る

The Glosser Bros. Department Store in Johnstown, Pennsylvania has reopened, just for you, in the pages of this one-of-a-kind nonfiction book. For the first time, the whole true story of Glosser’s ha……続きを見る

The first book on Jewish humor in which individual jokes are singled out for comprehensive study, Life is Like a Glass of Tea devotes a chapter to each of eight major jokes, tracing its history and ……続きを見る

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum In December 2013, after years of exhaustive search, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum received more than four hundred pages……続きを見る

Als Helga 1939 ihr Tagebuch beginnt, ist sie noch ein Kind. Der Einmarsch der Deutschen in Prag und die antisemitische Brutalität der Nationalsozialisten reißen sie aus ihrer heilen Welt: Ihr Vater ……続きを見る

Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research Auschwitzーthe largest and most notorious of Hitler’s concentration campsーwas founded in 1940, but the Nazis had been detain……続きを見る

This volume explores literary and material representations of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Gathering leading scholars from within the field of Jewish Stud……続きを見る

Juana Bormann was one of the most tormenting and evil of the women who worked guarding female prisoners at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. From camp survivors we know that Bormann u……続きを見る

The history of modern Israel is a story of ambition, violence, and survival. Return to Zion traces how a scattered and stateless people reconstituted themselves in their traditional homeland, only t……続きを見る

Born in Haifa in 1943 to a family of Jewish refugees from Austria, after World War II Oscar Bronner grew up among the ruins of war-torn Vienna. While his father embarked on a career that would see h……続きを見る

**A profound, important book, a moving personal detective story and an uncovering of secret pasts, set in Europe’s center, the city of bright colorsーLviv, Ukraine, dividing east from west, north fr……続きを見る

The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942 offers a wealth of primary sources and insightful commentary about the little-known slaughter of Jewish residents of Kishinev (Chisinau) under the military occupation ……続きを見る

Between 1880 and 1939, a quarter of a million European Jews settled in England. Tananbaum explores the differing ways in which the existing Anglo-Jewish communities, local government and education a……続きを見る

Before the mid-fifteenth century, the Christian and Islamic governments of Europe had restricted the architecture and design of synagogues and often prevented Jews from becoming architects. Stiefel ……続きを見る

The period included in the reigns of Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian, was remarkable for two memorable events in the annals of ecclesiastical history; the first persecution of the Christ……続きを見る

This state-of-the-art account gives readers the tools to understand why antisemitism is such a controversial subject. It acquaints readers with the ambiguities inherent in the historical relationshi……続きを見る

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program of cultural renewal, two key dimensions of which we……続きを見る

"A jewel of memory."ーDorothy Canfield Fisher, Book-of-the-Month Club At the crossroads of East and West, Salonica (now Thessaloniki) was an oasis in a swirl of conflicting powers and interests, a v……続きを見る

'Der letzte Jahrestag wurde für Wien zu einem Festtag, wie ihn die lustige und leichtsinnige Stadt noch nie erlebt hatte ...' In seinem 1922 erschienenen visionären Roman zeichnet der bekannte Wiene……続きを見る

A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma’s account of his grandparents’ enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars During the almost six years England was a……続きを見る

**The compelling biography of the violinist who founded the Palestine Symphony Orchestra and saved hundreds of people from Hitlerーas seen in Josh Aronson’s documentary Orchestra of Exiles. “The tru……続きを見る

David Franks, a colonial businessman in Philadelphia, was one of the most important figures in American Jewish history in the eighteenth century. This extensively researched biography illuminates no……続きを見る

Vladimir Jabotinsky's famous autobiography, published in English for the first time. Vladimir Jabotinsky is well remembered as a militant leader and father of the right-wing Revisionist Zionist move……続きを見る

Der neueste Roman des heute 92-jährigen deutsch-argentinischen Autors Roberto Schopflocher erzählt die faszinierende Lebensgeschichte der Elvira Acostas und die dramatische Geschichte der Judenverfo……続きを見る

This book explores the “Golden Age” of Sephardic Jewry on the Iberian Peninsula and its perception in German Jewish culture during the era of emancipation. For Jews living in Germany, the history of……続きを見る