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The years 1926 and 1927 marked the beginning of an anti-obscenity campaign in Philadelphia. According to news accounts many publishers and distributors of illicit literature had relocated to Philly ……続きを見る

Joe Louis was the most marketable sports figure on earth at the beginning of 1937. On January 20, 1937 he fought an upstart Jewish boxer, Bob Pastor, at Yankee Stadium. The former New York Universit……続きを見る

De treinreis beschrijft een nieuw hoofdstuk in de geschiedenis van de Jodenvervolging in Nederland. Historica Aline Pennewaard ontdekte dat in 1943 met vijf transporten 89 Hongaars-Joodse gezinnen v……続きを見る

In 1935, the Russian-born Jewish architect Berthold Lubetkin and his firm Tecton designed Highpoint, a block of flats in London, which Le Corbusier called ‘revolutionary’. Three years later, Lubetki……続きを見る

Based on Gilbert's 1st-hand interviews, these remarkable true stories of the young Polish Jewish women who actively and successfully defied the Nazis provide a new perspective on women and the Holoc……続きを見る

For those unfamiliar with the many divisions within Judaism at that time or with Jewish life in other parts of the Roman Empire, this book offers an excellent introduction to a little-studied time p……続きを見る

Nationalism, War and Jewish Education explores historical circumstances leading to the emergence of a Jewish religious school system lasting to modern times and the process by which this system was ……続きを見る

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Historians long have analyzed the emergence of the “final solution of the Jewish question” primarily on the basis of German ……続きを見る

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Jewish writers have long had a sense of place in the United States, and interpretations of American geography have appeared in Jewish American literature from ……続きを見る

From the New York Times bestselling author of Rebbe comes this newly revised edition of Words That Hurt, Words That Healーan invaluable guide in how choosing the right words can enrich our relations……続きを見る

First published in 1923. This autobiographical study by Francis William Soutter, an English Radical activist and an advocate for independent labour representation in Parliament, will be of interest ……続きを見る

This book presents a multidimensional case study of international human rights in the immediate post-Second World War period, and the way in which complex refugee problems created by the war were of……続きを見る

Although remembered and even lauded in the public mind as the British prime minister during the Second World War who played a major role in Allied victory over the Axis Powers and Japan, Winston Chu……続きを見る

The question of how to preserve, construct or transform Jewish peoplehood consumed Jewish intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite a rich array of writing from Jew……続きを見る

**For fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz** Sam Pivnik is the ultimate survivor from a world that no longer exists. On fourteen occasions he should have been killed, but luck, his physical strength a……続きを見る

Kirk Douglas was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, his father a collector and seller of rags. After service in the Navy during World War II, he moved to Hollywood, oozing masculinity and charm. ……続きを見る

The book investigates the rather neglected "intellectual" collaboration between National Socialist Germany and other countries, including views on knowledge and politics among "pro-German" intellect……続きを見る

In the Zionist view of Israeli history, the Old Yishuv of Jerusalem - the Jewish community of the 19th and early 20th centuries - was "a lifeless body ruled by hypocrites, cheats and unschooled rabb……続きを見る

Until the summer of 1391, when anti-Jewish riots spread across the Iberian peninsula, the person subsequently known as Honoratus de Bonafide, a Christian physician and astrologer at the court of Kin……続きを見る

What was the Middle East like at the time of Jesus’ life? Who inhabited this area? Where did people work? How did they travel? What did people live in? Drawing upon Jewish, Roman, Greek and Christia……続きを見る

**Here are magnificent insights into the lives of biblical prophets and kings, talmudic sages, and Hasidic rabbis from the internationally acclaimed writer, Nobel laureate, and one of the world’s mo……続きを見る

Jewish and Christian authors of the High Middle Ages not infrequently came into dialogue or conflict with each other over traditions drawn from ancient writings outside of the bible. Circulating in ……続きを見る

Hasidism, a Jewish religious movement that originated in Poland in the eighteenth century, today counts over 700,000 adherents, primarily in the U.S., Israel, and the UK. Popular and scholarly inter……続きを見る

YIVO, founded in 1925 in Wilno (Vilnius), is a center for scholarship on East European Jewish history, language, and culture. During the 1920s and early 1930s a network of YIVO affiliates was establ……続きを見る

DAS STANDARDWERK ÜBER DIE DENKMÄLER ZUM NATIONALSOZIALISMUS IN TIROL Dieses UMFASSEND BEBILDERTE STANDARDWERK dokumentiert mehr als 200 ERINNERUNGSZEICHEN zu WIDERSTAND UND VERFOLGUNG IM NATIONALSOZ……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth century, Italians and Eastern European Jews joined millions of migrants around the globe who left their countries to take advantage of the demand for unskilled labor in rapidl……続きを見る

**"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it als……続きを見る

"A vital, understated contribution to the body of Holocaust literature."-Kirkus Reviews https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/andrea-von-treuenfeld/going-backy/ How many Jewish women do you kno……続きを見る

BITTERSWEET FREEDOM - A Magnificent Drama of human suffering, courage, man’s mortality, and selfless love. Gripping, funny, sad, galvanizing. Difficult to put down. A lesson inspiring each of us to ……続きを見る

The book narrates the last days of the once prominent Jewish community of Thessaloniki, the overwhelming majority of which was transported to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in 1943. Focusing on th……続きを見る