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What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany

by Eric A. Johnson, Karl-Heinz Reuband

Published: 2006-02-28

Paperback: 464 pages

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The horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of Germans, and how entrenched was anti-Semitism among the population? How could anyone claim, after the war, that the genocide ...

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The Censor, the Editor, and the Text: The Catholic Church and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon in the Sixteenth Century (Jewish Culture and Contexts)

by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin

Published: 2007-07-20

Hardcover: 328 pages

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In The Censor, the Editor, and the Text, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin examines the impact of Catholic censorship on the publication and dissemination of Hebrew literature in the early modern period. Hebrew literature made the transition to print in Italian print houses, most of which were owned by...

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Two Sisters: A Journey of Survival Through Auschwitz

by Livia Szabo Krancberg

Published: 2018-02-28

Kindle Edition: 238 pages

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Livia Krancberg credits her sister Rose with carrying her through and out of the depths of the Holocaust. Would she have made it on her own? Who knows, even with Livia’s remarkable resilience which she still exhibits today in her nineties. It was Rose, with her desire to protect Livia and her instincts...

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Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace

by Masha Gessen

Published: 2008-12-25

Kindle Edition: 386 pages

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In this “extraordinary family memoir,”* the National Book Award–winning author of The Future Is History reveals the story of her two grandmothers, who defied Fascism and Communism during a time when tyranny reigned.   *The New York Times Book ReviewIn the 1930s, as waves of war and ...

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Hollywood's Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)

by Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh Daniel Bernardi

Published: 2012-09-17

Kindle Edition: 224 pages

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As studio bosses, directors, and actors, Jews have been heavily involved in film history and vitally involved in all aspects of film production. Yet Jewish characters have been represented onscreen in stereotypical and disturbing ways, while Jews have also helped to produce some of the mos...

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You or Someone Like You: A Novel

by Chandler Burr

Published: 2009-06-03

Kindle Edition: 352 pages

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“Chandler Burr’s challenging first novel is many things: a glimpse into Hollywood culture, an argument about religious identity, a plea for the necessity of literature. This is a roman that needs no clefs.” —Washington Post< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> New York Magazine calls You or Someone Like You, “The h...

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Have You No Shame?: And Other Regrettable Stories

by Rachel Shukert

Published: 2008-04-29

Paperback: 272 pages

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Growing up in white-bread Omaha, Nebraska, Rachel Shukert was one of thirty-seven students (circa 1990) in Nebraska’s only Jewish elementary school. She spent her days dreaming of a fantasy Aryan boyfriend named Chris McPresbyterian, a tall blond god whose family spoke softly in public a...

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The Gallery of Vanished Husbands

by Natasha Solomons

Published: 2013-08-27

Paperback: 352 pages

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A moving story of family and a life-long love affair in 1950s London, from the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford. London, 1958. It's the eve of the sexual revolution, but in Juliet Montague's conservative Jewish community where only men can divorce women, she ­...

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We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, a Documentary History

by Gary Phillip Zola

Published: 2014-03-21

Hardcover: 480 pages

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Over the course of American history, Jews have held many American leaders in high esteem, but they maintain a unique emotional bond with Abraham Lincoln. From the time of his presidency to the present day, American Jews have persistently viewed Lincoln as one of their own, casting him as a...

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The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter

by Linda Grant

Published: 2010-04-20

Paperback: 224 pages

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“You can’t have depths without surfaces,” says Linda Grant in her lively and provocative new book, The thoughtful Dresser, a thinking woman’s guide to what we wear. For centuries, an interest in clothes has been dismissed as the trivial pursuit of vain, empty-headed women. Yet, cl...