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My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants

Published: 2008-04-05

Paperback: 329 pages

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In 1942, YIVO held a contest for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant on the theme “Why I Left the Old Country and What I Have Accomplished in America.” Chosen from over two hundred entries, and translated from Yiddish, the nine life stories in My Future Is in America provide a...

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Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate: A Novel

by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Published: 2015-05-18

Kindle Edition: 296 pages

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This novel “unflinchingly confronts the issue of Jewish continuity in a diverse and changing America” (Anne Roiphe, author and journalist).   Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s second novel is the story of Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mo...

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Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi

by Thomas Weber

Published: 2017-11-07

Hardcover: 464 pages

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An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leaderIn Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitl...

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The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941

by Roger Moorhouse

Published: 2014-10-14

Hardcover: 432 pages

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History remembers the Soviets and the Nazis as bitter enemies and ideological rivals, the two mammoth and opposing totalitarian regimes of World War II whose conflict would be the defining and deciding clash of the war. Yet for nearly a third of the conflict's entire timespan, Hitler and S...

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Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust

by Joseph Berger

Published: 2010-05-08

Kindle Edition: 352 pages

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In this touching account, veteran New York Times reporter Joseph Berger describes how his own family of Polish Jews -- with one son born at the close of World War II and the other in a "displaced persons" camp outside Berlin -- managed against all odds to make a life for themselves in the ...

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Gender and Timebound Commandments in Judaism

by Elizabeth Shanks Alexander

Published: 2015-02-12

Paperback: 300 pages

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The rule that exempts women from rituals that need to be performed at specific times (so-called timebound, positive commandments) has served for centuries to stabilize Jewish gender. It has provided a rationale for women's centrality at home and their absence from the synagogue. Departing from dominant...

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The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews

by Michael N. Barnett

Published: 2016-03-15

Hardcover: 368 pages

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How do American Jews envision their role in the world? Are they tribal--a people whose obligations extend solely to their own? Or are they prophetic--a light unto nations, working to repair the world? The Star and the Stripes is an original, provocative interpretation of the effects of the...

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Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present

by Marvin Perry

Published: 2005-11-03

Paperback: 332 pages

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In this provocative book, Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer analyze the lies, misperceptions, and myths that antisemites have propagated throughout the centuries. The book examines ancient and medieval myths central to the history of antisemitism:

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Tel Aviv Noir (Akashic Noir)

Published: 2014-10-07

Paperback: 280 pages

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Gon Ben Ari's story "Clear Recent History" has been named a finalist for the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for Best P.I. Short Story!"This consistently strong collection showcases a group of Israeli writers who are not well known in the U.S. Definitely one of the highlights i...

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The Avengers: A Jewish War Story

by Rich Cohen

Published: 2013-10-02

Kindle Edition: 273 pages

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In 1944, a band of Jewish guerrillas emerged from the Baltic forest to join the Russian army in its attack on Vilna, the capital of Lithuania. The band, called the Avengers, was led by Abba Kovner, a charismatic young poet. In the ghetto, Abba had built bombs, sneaking out through the city...