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Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts

by Michael J. Bazyler

Published: 2005-04-01

Paperback: 411 pages

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The Holocaust was not only the greatest murder in history; it was also the greatest theft. Historians estimate that the Nazis stole roughly $230 billion to $320 billion in assets (figured in today’s dollars), from the Jews of Europe. Since the revelations concerning the wartime activitie...

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Verses for the Dead (Agent Pendergast series)

by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Published: 2018-12-31

Hardcover: 352 pages

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In this #1 New York Times bestseller, FBI Agent Pendergast reluctantly teams up with a new partner to investigate a rash of Miami Beach murders . . . only to uncover a deadly conspiracy that spans decades. After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pender...

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In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea

by Michael Brenner

Published: 2018-03-13

Hardcover: 392 pages

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A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from th...

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The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

by Norman G. Finkelstein

Published: 2015-01-06

Paperback: 304 pages

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In his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation settlements. It was not until the Arab–Israeli War of 1967, when Isr...

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Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom

by Norman Finkelstein

Published: 2018-01-09

Hardcover: 440 pages

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"In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein's study stands alone."—Noam Chomsky"No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza . . . is entitled to do so without taking into account the evidence in this book."—The InterceptThe Gaza Strip is among the most...

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Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi

by Neal Bascomb

Published: 2010-04-20

Paperback: 416 pages

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Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of a relentless and harrowing international manhunt.When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann shed his SS uniform and vanished. Following his escape from two American POW camps, his retreat into the m...

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The Invention of the Jewish People

by Shlomo Sand

Published: 2010-06-14

Paperback: 344 pages

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A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews ...

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How I Stopped Being a Jew

by Shlomo Sand

Published: 2014-10-07

Hardcover: 112 pages

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Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a “secular Jew.” With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal...

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Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do) (P.S.)

by Michael Wex

Published: 2008-09-09

Paperback: 336 pages

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In his New York Times bestseller, Born to Kvetch, author Michael Wex led readers on a hilariously edifying excursion through Yiddish culture and history. With Just Say Nu, he shows us how to use this remarkable language to spice up conversations, stories, presentations, arguments, and more...

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Israel: Is It Good for the Jews?

by Richard Cohen

Published: 2014-09-16

Kindle Edition: 289 pages

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A very personal journey through Jewish history (and Cohen’s own), and a passionate defense of Israel’s legitimacy.Richard Cohen’s book is part reportage, part memoir—an intimate journey through the history of Europe’s Jews, culminating in the establishment of Israel. A veteran, s...