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Revenge, argues award-winning author Laura Jockusch, was a ubiquitous coping reaction among European Jews during the Holocaust. It manifested as some acts of violence against Nazi perpetrators and t……続きを見る

For nearly two thousand years, Hebrew belonged to the realm of the sacred. A written liturgical language used primarily by rabbis and scholars, it was not spoken in everyday contexts. A revival proc……続きを見る

The Jewish Orphanage in Leiden was the last one of eight such care homes to open its doors in the Netherlands before the Second World War. After spending almost 39 years in an old and utterly inadeq……続きを見る

Jews in Gotham follows the Jewish saga in ever-changing New York City from the end of the First World War into the first decade of the new millennium. This lively portrait details the complex dynami……続きを見る

For the first time, this volume centers the rich but little known history of radical Jewish politics in the Middle East and North Africa and puts it into conversation with developments in the Americ……続きを見る

A global journey of four generations of fathers and sons as they cope with grief and loss. In 1978, Jakub Slucki passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of seventy-seven. A Holocaust survivor……続きを見る

Biography of Ludwig Lewisohn's life until 1934, an imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. An imposing literary figure in America and Europe du……続きを見る

Lenny Ackerman tells the gripping, true story of his father, Leibisch, who at age 12, is forced to flee his home in Ukraine during the upheavals of the Russian Revolution. Intending to follow in the……続きを見る

On October 16, 1943, the Jews of Rome were targeted for arrest and deportation. The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome examines whyーand more importantly howーit could have been avoided, featu……続きを見る

En 1933, le régime nazi mit en place une politique de discrimination puis de persécution des citoyens juifs du Reich, qui contraignit des milliers de personnes à la migration forcée vers diverses de……続きを見る

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In this book Kathleen Biddick investigates the fate of the enduring timelines fabricated by early Christians to distinguish themselves from their Jewish neighbors. Ranging widely across the history ……続きを見る

Seducida por el misterio que entraña la tierra de sus ancestros, Sarah abandona su acomodada vida en París dispuesta a vivir en un kibutz, en Israel, durante un año. El deseo de ahondar en su origen……続きを見る

This "courageous and thought-provoking book" examines how the Holocaust came to hold its unique place in American memory ( Foreign Affairs). Prize–winning historian Peter Novick explores in absorbin……続きを見る

Max Ungar (1850-1930) was the son of an Orthodox Jew born in Boskovice, Moravia, and pursued a scientific career in Vienna University after which he took over the failing family business. He returne……続きを見る

In 1997, on my fiftieth birthday and on the fiftieth anniversary of Dr Arthur Kassel's death, I began researching the story of his life. I knew where his life ended but I did not know where it began……続きを見る

"A true-life companion to Quentin Tarantino's. . . . WWII movie Inglorious Basterds . . . Quick-paced and immediate, with many satisfying moments." ー Publishers Weekly At the height of World War ……続きを見る

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY • From longtime New York Times and Vanity Fair writer David Margolick comes the first definitive biography of Sid Caesar: founding f……続きを見る

Ce livre est orienté vers l'eschatologie juive et le messianisme. L'idée d'un sauveur que le peuple hébreu attendait, et où il y a eu un grand nombre de débats, surtout depuis l'apparition de la fig……続きを見る

Dossier : Être juif en France, des origines à nos jours → Entretien avec Marceline Loridan-Ivens et Dominique Schnapper : « Simone Veil et le judaïsme » À travers leurs expériences intimes ou profes……続きを見る

Many authors have contended that the North American Indians were descendants of the "ten lost tribes of Israel." Prominent among them was James Adair, whose work, highly useful with regard to the cu……続きを見る

Tra maggio e giugno del 1940, l’esercito nazista marcia su Parigi, costringendo a una fuga precipitosa otto milioni di persone. È un vero e proprio esodo, che coinvolge anche gli esuli austriaci e t……続きを見る

Popular culture has mythologised the Dunera Boys but who were the real men who sailed on the infamous ship, and how did the voyage transform their lives? Art historian Tonia Eckfeld draws on a deepl……続きを見る

Who are Haredim? And why are they the source of both increasing attention and continuing misunderstanding? New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society draws on the innovative research of l……続きを見る

The Nazis needed oil. The Arabs wanted the Jews and British out of Iraq. The Mufti of Jerusalem forged a far-ranging alliance with Hitler resulting in the June 1941 Farhud, a Nazi-style pogrom in Ba……続きを見る

In "Synopsis of Jewish History," H. A. Henry offers a comprehensive exploration of the Jewish historical experience, tracing its roots from ancient times through the complexities of the modern era. ……続きを見る

In The Holocaust: History and Memory, New Edition, Jeremy Black revisits his brilliant and wrenching account of the brutal mass slaughter of Jews during World War II and the subsequent remembrance a……続きを見る

Auf riskanten Wegen verhalf der junge Wiener Anwalt Willy Perl Tausenden Jüdinnen und Juden aus Zentral- und Osteuropa Ende der 1930er Jahre zu einem neuen Leben. Per Zug durch den Balkan, mit Radda……続きを見る

One of The Washington Post's Top 10 Books of the Year A New Yorker Essential Read Long-listed for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction “Melting Point is one of the most original, enjoyable……続きを見る

The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain. David A. Wacks examines the works of Sephardic writers fro……続きを見る