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The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz-Birkenau
$18.99 Add to cartThe “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and k… [more below]
- Author: Hellinger, Magda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1982181230
- Language: English
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Painful Joy: A Holocaust Family Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartPainful Joy represents five years of intensive research in the US, Poland, Sweden, Israel and Germany, seeking to unearth the real life stories of Sam and Frieda Friedman in order to discover their ro
- Series: Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII
- Author: Friedman, Max J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 28 2022
- ISBN10: 9493231828
- Language: English
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In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust
$32.99 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
“The mass killings of Jews from 1918 to 1921 are a bridge between local pogroms and the extermination of the Holoc- Author: Veidlinger, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250812127
- Language: English
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Shtetl
$21.99 Add to cartIn Shtetl (Yiddish for “small town”), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture,… [more below]
- Author: Hoffman, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1586485245
- Language: English
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On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao
$20.99 Add to cartTake a delectable journey through the religious history of chocolate-a real treat!
In this new and updated second edition, explore the surprising Jewish and other religious connections to chocolate in
- Author: Prinz, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 168336676X
- Language: English
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Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz
$15.99 Add to cartThe deeply moving true account of a young Jewish woman’s imprisonment at the Auschwitz death camp
In 1944, on the morning of her twenty-third birthday, Isabella Leitner and her family were deported t- Author: Leitner, Isabella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 121
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1504049357
- Language: English
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Flower of Vlora: Growing up Jewish in Communist Albania
$24.95 Add to cartCovering the years 1938 through the present, Flower of Vlora is a funny and tense account of Anna Kohen’s Romaniote-Jewish family in Albania and how they were saved from the Nazis by Muslim Albanians.
- Series: Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII
- Author: Kohen, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 9493276252
- Language: English
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If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir
$24.00 Add to cart**WINNER of the 2018 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the 2018 Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish literature**
**2018 Natan Book Award Finalist**
**Finalist for the 2017 National Jew- Author: Kurshan, Ilana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1250215773
- Language: English
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In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea
$19.95 Read moreA major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should be
Many Zionists who advocated for the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel’s fo- Author: Brenner, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0691203970
- Language: English
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As Figs in Autumn: One Year in a Forever War
$27.00 Add to cartIn his final college semester, Ben awakens to read on his computer screen of the death of his classmate and childhood friend Avi. Avi’s death is sudden and senseless, killed by a drunk driver on his w
- Author: Bastomski, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1953002242
- Language: English
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Beyond Borders: Escaping the Holocaust and Fighting the Nazis. 1938 – 1948
$24.95 Add to cartBerlin, 1938. Sixteen-year-old Rudi is summoned by the Nazis and informed that he is “under surveillance” as an enemy of the Reich. The circle of Nazi intimidation is closing in on him, his family, an
- Series: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II
- Author: Haymann, Rudi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: August 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9493322238
- Language: English
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X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis
$17.99 Read more“Brilliantly researched, utterly gripping history: the first full account of a remarkable group of Jewish refugees–a top-secret band of brothers–who waged war on Hitler.” –Alex Kershaw, New York Ti… [more below]
- Author: Garrett, Leah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0358699312
- Language: English
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Ajax, the Dutch, the War: The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe’s Darkest Hour
$19.99 Add to cartA passionate, haunting and moving work that tells the breathtaking story of how Dutch Jews survived the unspeakable and came to play a strong role in the rise of the most exciting and revolutionary st… [more below]
- Author: Kuper, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1568587236
- Language: English
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Jewish History: An Enthralling Guide from Ancient Kingdoms to Modern Times
$28.99 Add to cartTwo manuscripts in one book:
- History of the Jews: An Enthralling Guide from Ancient Times to the Present
- Ancient Israel: An Enthralling Guide to Jewish Kingdoms and the Israelites
Despite passing throug
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887652542
- Language: English
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Unalone
$17.95 Add to cart“Make a fence, said the rabbis, around the Torah,” reads the first line of Jessica Jacobs’ unalone. By the end of this opening poem, however, Jacobs has defined her engagement with religious texts as … [more below]
- Author: Jacobs, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1954245823
- Language: English
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Building Singing Communities: A Practical Guide to Unlocking the Power of Music in Jewish Prayer
$14.99 Add to cartThis how-to guide explains how to make music a lasting and joy-filled force in shul and Jewish life. Weisenberg presents a veritable treasure house of musical opportunities.
- Author: Weisenberg, Joey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0983325308
- Language: English
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Souls on Fire
$17.99 Add to cartIn Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters, Elie Wiesel re-enters, like an impassioned pilgrim, the universe of Hasidism.
Souls on Fire is not a simple chronological history of Hasidis- Author: Wiesel, Elie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 06 1982
- ISBN10: 067144171X
- Language: English
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The Forbidden Daughter: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor
$19.99 Add to cartThe unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth.
Elida Friedman was not supposed to ha
- Author: Jakob, Zipora Klein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0063296659
- Language: English
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“Our Crowd”: The Great Jewish Families of New York
$24.95 Add to cart“Our Crowd” is Stephen Birmingham’s #1 New York Times-bestselling history of the rise of the most powerful and privileged Jewish families in America.
- Author: Birmingham, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493057758
- Language: English
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Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
$20.99 Add to cartThis lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947–the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world–is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction… [more below]
- Author: Lebrecht, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1982134267
- Language: English
