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Etty Hillesum
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 23.99On 8 March 1941, a 27-year-old Jewish Dutch student living in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam made the first entry in a diary that was to become one of the most remarkable documents to emerge from the Nazi Holocaust. Over the course of the next two and a half years, an insecure, chaotic and troubled young woman was transformed into someone who inspired those... more...
All But My Life
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1995; US$ 15.99All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in 1945, Gerda takes... more...
Surviving the Angel of Death
Tanglewood Press 2011; US$ 8.95Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Subjected to sadistic medical experiments, she was forced to fight daily for her and her twin's survival.... more...
Undigested Past
Editions Rodopi 2011; US$ 20.00This is a most honest, balanced and tactful attempt to promote self-reflection and self-understanding in two nations involved in a brutal genocide. If you are a Lithuanian or a Jew, after reading this book you have no other choice but to redefine your personal identity in order to answer the questions: What does it mean to be a Lithuanian? What... more...
Tourism and Archaeological Heritage Management at Petra
Springer 2011; US$ 39.99Once visited only by the cognoscenti of the ancient world, over the last decade Petra has drawn almost a million visitors in some years. Petra burst into popular consciousness with the release of enormously popular motion picture "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in 1981. Moviegoers all over the world were introduced to some of the spectacular scenic... more...
Pontisches Gift
Konrad Theiss Verlag 2011; US$ 28.03Hauptbeschreibung Der Hannibal des Ostens Sulla, Lucullus und Pompejus, die drei größten Feldherren ihrer Zeit, ließen sich vom König eines gar nicht so großen Reichs vorführen: Mithridates von Pontos, ihrem gefährlichsten Feind. Ein Jahrhundert nach Hannibal stellte er das Römische Reich auf eine neue harte Probe. Auf diesen Coup war das krisengeschüttelte... more...
Russia and Latin America
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 45.00Today, extensive interconnected global processes provide non-state actors with a degree of agency that a 'System of States' paradigm cannot account for alone. Using Russia-Latin America relations as a case study and applying a Complex Adaptive Systems perspective, this work explores alternative international mechanisms of order and organization. more...
Becoming Soviet Jews
Indiana University Press 2013; US$ 23.99Minsk, the present capital of Belarus, was a heavily Jewish city in the decades between the world wars. Recasting our understanding of Soviet Jewish history, Becoming Soviet Jews demonstrates that the often violent social changes enforced by the communist project did not destroy continuities with prerevolutionary forms of Jewish life in Minsk. Using... more...
Notaries of Palermo and Notaries of Trapani
BRILL 2008; US$ 334.00This volume documents the history of the Jews in Sicily based on notarial and court records. It illustrates the economic, social, and religious history of the Jewish minority and the relations with the Christian majority. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes while the introduction will appear at the end of the series. more...
Frommer's Dubai
Wiley 2010; US$ 19.99Frommer's Dubai gives you the complete overview of insider knowledge on where and what to visit in the United Arab Emirates’ largest and most exciting city, all in meticulous detail to point you towards the best that Dubai has to offer. Packed with detailed, opinionated and honest reviews, this guide gives you the low-down on what's worth your... more...









