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Simon Wiesenthal
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.95With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations Now in paperback, the first fully documented biography of the legendary Polish-born Nazi hunter?a revelatory account of a man whose life, though part invention, was wholly dedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible for their crimes and that their destruction of European Jewry never... more...
This Crazy Thing a Life
The University of Western Australia Publishing 2007; US$ 24.35Concentration camp, survivors of the Holocaust, autobiography of Australian Jews more...
Cultures of the Jews
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 45.00WITH MORE THAN 100 BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT Who are “the Jews”? Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their three-thousand-year-old history, are they one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to the cultures... more...
History and Folklore in a Medieval Jewish Chronicle
BRILL 2009; US$ 185.00In this book Robert Bonfil provides a detailed historical introduction and new English translation of the family chronicle of Ahima'az, one of the most important sources of medieval Jewish life in Western Europe composed in Capua, Italy in 1054. more...
Renaissance and Rebirth
BRILL 2009; US$ 154.00Through the theme of metempsychosis as discussed by scholars in Renaissance Italy, this book addresses the problematic question of the roles of Jews who lived in Italy in the development of Renaissance culture in its Jewish and its Christian dimensions. more...
In Ishmael's House
McClelland & Stewart 2010; US$ 21.00From one of the most popular historians writing today comes a book as fascinating as the bestsellers of Karen Armstrong and Reza Aslan. In this captivating chronicle, Martin Gilbert shines new light on a controversial dilemma in the modern world: the troubled relationship between Jews and Muslims. Beginning at the dawn of Islam and sweeping from the... more...
The New Joys of Yiddish
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 19.95More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten published the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. Said ?to give body and soul to the Yiddish language,? The Joys of Yiddish went on to become an indispensable tool for writers, journalists, politicians, and students, as... more...
Stalin's Last Crime
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 13.99A new investigation, based on previously unseen KGB documents, reveals the startling truth behind Stalin's last great conspiracy. On January 13, 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy had been unmasked among Jewish doctors in the USSR to murder Kremlin leaders. Mass arrests quickly followed. The Doctors' Plot, as this alleged... more...
Surviving the Holocaust
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 37.95Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland.? One brother, the author?s father, endured several concentration camps, including the infamous camp at Auschwitz, as well as a horrific winter death march; while the other brother, the author?s uncle, survived outside the... more...
How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household
Touchstone 2011; US$ 30.99Filled with practical advice as well as history, Blu Greenberg's book is a comprehensive guide to the joys and complexities of running a modern Jewish home. How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household is a modern, comprehensive guide covering virtually every aspect of Jewish home life. It provides practical advice on how to manage a Jewish home in... more...









