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An Island Called Homeby Ruth Behar
Rutgers University Press 2007; US$ 21.00Yiddish-speaking Jews thought Cuba was supposed to be a mere layover on the journey to the United States when they arrived in the island country in the 1920s. They even called it Hotel Cuba. But then the years passed, and the many Jews who came there from Turkey, Poland, and war-torn Europe stayed in Cuba. The beloved island ceased to be a hotel, and Cuba eventually became home. But after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, the majority of the Jews opposed his communist regime and left in a mass exodus. Though they remade their lives in the United States, they mourned the loss of the Jewish community they had built on the island. As a child of five, Ruth Behar was caught up in the Jewish exodus from Cuba. Growing up... more...
The Brigadeby Howard Blum; Hardscrabble Entertainment
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 9.99November 1944. The British government finally agrees to send a brigade of 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine to Europe to fight the German army. But when the war ends and the soldiers witness firsthand the horrors their people have suffered in the concentration camps, the men launch a brutal and calculating campaign of vengeance, forming secret squads to identify, locate, and kill Nazi officers in hiding. Their own ferocity threatens to overwhelm them until a fortuitous encounter with an orphaned girl sets the men on a course of action—rescuing Jewish war orphans and transporting them to Palestine—that will not only change their lives but also help create a nation and forever alter the course of world history. more...
A Lucky Childby Thomas Buergenthal; Elie Wiesel
Little, Brown and Company 2009; US$ 9.99Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague , tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A LUCKY CHILD. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive on his own. Almost two years after his liberation, Buergenthal was miraculously reunited with his mother and in 1951 arrived in the U.S. to start a new life. Now dedicated to helping those subjected to tyranny throughout the world, Buergenthal writes his story with a simple clarity that highlights the stark details of unimaginable hardship. A LUCKY CHILD is a book... more...
Resistance and Conformity in the Third Reichby Martyn Housden
Routledge 1996; US$ 39.95A thematically arranged text illustrating popular resistance to Nazism in Germany from 1930-1945, and the effect of Nazism on everyday life. Housden combines a lucid, synthesised analysis with a wide range of integrated source material. more...
Israel's Wars, 1947-1993by Ahron Bregman
Routledge 2000; US$ 31.95The book provides a fascinating overview of Israel's wars with the Palestinians and the Arabs. It is an exciting and informative history which analyses the effects of fifty years of constant conflict on the lives of the Israeli people. more...
My Brother's Keeperby Antony Polonsky
Routledge 1990; US$ 125.00What responsibility do the Poles share for the mass murder of the Jews, which took place largely on Polish soil? In a major contribution to the history of the Holocaust Polonsky gathers together the most important arguments in this debate. more...
From Hitler to Trujilloby Alfredo F. Vorshirm
Boson Books 2000; US$ 7.50From Hitler to Trujillo is a memoir by a Holocaust survivor Alfredo Vorshirm. His gripping story embodies the Jewish European experience during and after World War II and dramatizes the events that impelled Vorshirm to the Dominican Republic at the height of the Trujillo dictatorship. Living in Belgium rather than Germany, the country of his birth, when World War II broke out, Vorshirm and his family found themselves imprisoned by the European Allies because they were Austrian-German enemies. Then he was imprisoned by the Germans when he was caught in a raid without legal identification papers and in possession of illegal foreign currency. After being held and tortured in a Gestapo jail for nearly a year, he joined the Italian partisans where... more...
Hitler Made Me A Jewby Nadia Gould
Boson Books 2000; US$ 7.50"In the evening they took us to the railroad station. They told us not to speak to anyone or even to one another. We were mute and deaf. There was a notice with our passports that explained we could not speak. This was the most excruciating train ride. We had to keep from talking and giving ourselves away. Every time someone opened the door of our train compartment I died of fright. This feeling has remained with me, and anything that has to do with telling an untruth to an official causes me anxiety, as if my life depends on the lie. I still fear I will be found out, uncovered and shot on the spot." I wrote this book at a time when there was much controversy over whether the Holocaust had really happened. I was so upset by articles... more...
Three Worlds of Paul of Tarsusby Richard Wallace; Wynne Williams
Routledge 1998; US$ 38.95The Three Worlds of Paul of Tarsus presents a colourful and lucid insight into the complexities of the early Christian world, arguing that the journeys of Paul are an example of the social, political and cultural heterogeneity of that world more...
Sage in Jewish Society of Late Antiquityby Richard Kalmin
Routledge 1998; US$ 42.95The Sage in Jewish Society of Late Antiquity provides an erudite and stimulating analysis of the role of the sage in late antiquity and sheds new light on rabbinic comments on diverse topics such as biblical heroes and genealogy and lineage. more...