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Questions traditional explanations for Jewish excellence in science in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Palestine in the twentieth century. Scholars have struggled for decades to explain why……続きを見る

Menachem Begin was run out of Poland by the Nazis, imprisoned by the Soviets, hunted by the British and nearly murdered by the Jews. To have survived would have been impressive enough. To have flour……続きを見る

First published in 1930. The wandering Jew is a very real character in the great drama of history. He has travelled as nomad and settler, as fugitive and conqueror, as exile and colonist and as merc……続きを見る

Until very recently, the idea of ancient Jewish sciences would have been considered unacceptable. Since the 1990s, Early Modern and Medieval Science in Jewish sources has been actively studied, but ……続きを見る

The second and concluding volume of the definitive two-volume account of the Holocaust With THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION, Friedlander completes his work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describe……続きを見る

By regaining for the Jewish people the capacity to deploy force, Zionism posed moral dilemmas for the Jews that for many generations, living in exile, they had not had to confront. The return to ful……続きを見る

The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, beneficiaries of colonialism. But to the south, in the Sa……続きを見る

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum This invaluable work traces the role of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and SD, the core group of Himmler’s murder……続きを見る

“A brilliant look into the psyche of combat. Where he once took us into the Spartan line of battle at Thermopylae, Steven Pressfield now takes us into the sands of the Sinai, the alleys of Old Jerus……続きを見る

Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914–1938 explores how German World War I veterans from different social and political backgrounds contributed to antisemitic p……続きを見る

Investigates the socio-cultural, psychological, and philosophical aspects of the Yemenite Jewish wailing tradition in modern Israel. The term "wailing culture" includes an array of women's behaviors……続きを見る

From the Foreword: "The company of inspired men, commonly known as the prophets of Israel, were the unique product of the Jewish religious genius. They were pre-eminently preachers of righteousness.……続きを見る

The Preface begins: "The work which forms the greater part of the present volume first appeared in 1878 under the title "History of Israel. By J. Wellhausen. In two volumes. Volume I." The book prod……続きを見る

A compassionate and insightful study of Hungarian women who lived through the Holocaust, with an appendix containing their complete stories. Sister in Sorrow offers a glimpse into the world of Hunga……続きを見る

Illuminates the role that private schools for Jewish girls played in Russian Jewish society and documents their influence on contemporary political discourse and educational innovation. Though over ……続きを見る

Examines the intellectual proclivities of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Ashkenazic rabbinic culture as a whole. In The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz, author Ephrai……続きを見る

Between May 1948 and December 1951, Israel received approximately 684,000 immigrants from across the globe. The arrival of so many ethnic, linguistic, and cultural groups to such a small place in su……続きを見る

“It has ever been the boast of the Jewish people, that they support their own poor,” declared Kentucky attorney Benjamin Franklin Jonas in 1856. “Their reasons are partly founded in religious necess……続きを見る

In May 1941, Gertrude van Tijn arrived in Lisbon on a mission of mercy from German-occupied Amsterdam. She came with Nazi approval to the capital of neutral Portugal to negotiate the departure from ……続きを見る

In The Wars of the Jews Flavius Josephus gives us valuable insight into the first Jewish Roman War and the rebellions that followed thereafter. Josephus having been an agent for both sides of the co……続きを見る

I suppose that by my books of the Antiquity of the Jews, most excellent Epaphroditus, have made it evident to those who peruse them, that our Jewish nation is of very great antiquity, and had a dist……続きを見る

“Fighter pilots tell the greatest stories and the great ones tell the best stories of all…” ーPAT CONROY, bestselling author of The Great Santini and The Death of Santini “This book is not only amon……続きを見る

Esther Pinskier began life in Warsaw, Poland in January 1926 - 13 years before the start of World War II. In A Glass Half Full, Esther recounts not only her life, but documents cultural life, social……続きを見る

Als Kinder haben sie den Holocaust überlebt. Als Erwachsene in Israel meist geschwiegen. Nun erzählen sie von sich - mithilfe einer Frau, die Erinnerungsbücher mit ihnen verfasst: Miriam Dubi-Gazan ……続きを見る

Ahnte man, als Hitler vor 75 Jahren in Österreich einmarschierte, was folgen würde? Und wenn ja: Wie reagierte man? Thomas Trenkler geht dieser Frage in Interviews mit Überlebenden und Nachgeborenen……続きを見る

Lange hält er sich in der Ausstellung auf. Auf einem Dokument erkennt er die deutliche Handschrift seines Vaters, dabei geht es um die Kleidung der in Chelmno ("Kulmhof") ermordeten Juden. Er schaut……続きを見る

Der 10. Band des vom Jüdischen Museum Wien herausgegebenen "Wiener Jahrbuchs für Jüdische Geschichte, Kultur und Museumswesen" ist im Zusammenhang mit der neuen permanenten Ausstellung entstanden, d……続きを見る

Un athlète juif dans la tourmente par Helen Epstein (traduction de Cécile Nelson; 7.000 mots; 28 illustrations; publié conjointement par La Cause des Livres et Plunkett Lake Press) Helen Epstein ret……続きを見る

What if Russia had turned westward instead of east? One woman's defiance could change the fate of a nation. Red Corner is a gripping alternate history set in the fractured, war-torn lands of medieva……続きを見る

AGAINST THE GRAIN is a collection of challenging and insightful essays from a reflective American historian. Jerold Auerbach, Professor Emeritus of History at Wellesley College (where he taught for ……続きを見る