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WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE MONTH "This is the incredible World War II saga of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive special-forces unitーbut whose story has gone un……続きを見る

An inspiring true story of hope and survival, this is the testimony of a boy who was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald and recorded his experiences through words and color drawings……続きを見る

"Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany’s mass murder of Europe’s Jews. . . . An account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel. . . . A masterpiece ……続きを見る

In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have……続きを見る

An examination of how the Jewsーreal and imaginedーso challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways In med……続きを見る

The diaspora of Portuguese Jews and New Christians, known as Gente da Nação (People of the Nation), is considered the largest European diaspora of the early modern period. Portuguese Jews not only f……続きを見る

A dramatic history of how American Jews reckoned with slaveryーand fought the Civil War. Since ancient times, the Jewish people have recalled the story of Exodus and reflected on the implications of……続きを見る

Sulla sommità di un vertiginoso altopiano situato nel cuore del deserto di Giuda, una fortezza si affaccia a strapiombo sul Mar Morto: è Masada. Qui un gruppo di ebrei, sotto la guida del leader c……続きを見る

"Del buon uso del tradimento" è il titolo di un celebre libro di Pierre Vidal-Naquet sulla figura e sulla straripante opera del comandante militare, sacerdote, storico Giuseppe Flavio (nato nel 37 d……続きを見る

In 1926 professional musicians Constantine Shaprio, born in Moscow, 1896 and Lydia Chernetsky (Odessa, 1905) met and married in Berlin, Germany, after their respective families had suffered continuo……続きを見る

In 1920, the Hungarian parliament introduced a Jewish quota for university admissions, making Hungary the first country in Europe to pass antisemitic legislation following World War I. Quotas explor……続きを見る

This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it was unpopular wit……続きを見る

It takes victims, blood, and years to rid a country of tyranny. Those are words of a Jewish Italian woman who lived during Fascism and the Holocaust. Italian Fascism was thuggish and promised order ……続きを見る

As the main spoken language of the Jews for more than a thousand years, Yiddish has had plenty to lament, plenty to conceal. Its phrases, idioms, and expressions paint a comprehensive picture of the……続きを見る

There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. Thi……続きを見る

A Fraqueza dos Anjos e as Paixões dos Homens de Elizeu A. Souza é baseado nas Lendas Judaicas uma obra monumental escrita pelo renomado estudioso judeu Louis Ginzberg. Publicado originalmente em qua……続きを見る

Accounting for the Holocaust: Enabling the Final Solution reveals how accounting practices allowed the attempted annihilation of Jews by the German Nazis and the Italian Fascists to be carried out w……続きを見る

It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally ……続きを見る

The Kidnapped and the Ransomed is the personal account of an Afro-American slave, Peter Still. He was kidnaped as a child from his home in New Jersey, and dragged to serve for more than forty years ……続きを見る

Do autor dos aclamados best-sellers Elon Musk e Steve Jobs, a biografia definitiva do maior gênio da física Como a mente de Einstein funcionava? O que fazia dele um gênio? A biografia escrita por Wa……続きを見る

In 1951, Meyer Levin’s wife gave him a copy of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, which had just been published in France. Levin was already a successful writer in his mid-forties, searching f……続きを見る