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Hana's Suitcase
Allen & Unwin 2003; US$ 15.40An international bestseller and remarkable true story. When Hana's suitcase arrives from Germany at the small Holocaust education centre in Japan, all the children who visit want to know about Hana. When Fumiko Ishioka, the centre's curator, decides to find the answers, she embarks on a journey of discovery across Europe and North America,... more...
Qatar
Georgetown University Press 2012; US$ 29.95What role does Qatar play in the Middle East and how does it differ from the other Gulf states? How has the ruling Al-Thani family shaped Qatar from a traditional tribal society and British protectorate to a modern state? How has Qatar become an economic superpower with one of the highest per capita incomes in the world? What are the social, political,... more...
Oil and Politics in the Gulf
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 34.00This book asks why in recent years the social and economic upheavals in Kuwait and Qatar have been accompanied by a remarkable political continuity. more...
The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times
Columbia University Press 2003; US$ 34.99-- Norman A. Stillman, Middle East Quarterly more...
El olivo y la espada
De Gruyter 2003; US$ 224.00What development did anti-Semitism take in Spain when, after the Banishment Edict (1492), the country was no longer a locus of co-existence for different ethnic groups? This was the topic central to the colloquium in Konstanz (May 2000), the results of which are presented here. The colloquium united anthropologists, historians and literary scholars.... more...
Being Jewish in the New Germany
Rutgers University Press 2005; US$ 23.95Germany today boasts the fastest growing population of Jews in Europe. The streets of Berlin abound with signs of a revival of Jewish culture, ranging from bagel shops to the sight of worshipers leaving synagogue on Saturday. With the new energy infused by Jewish immigration from Russia and changes in immigration and naturalization laws in general,... more...
Türkei
Ch. Links Verlag 2012; US$ 10.85Hauptbeschreibung Es gibt kaum ein Land, mit dem die Deutschen so viel zu tun haben. Und doch bestimmen immer noch Klischees und Vorurteile die deutschen Vorstellungen von der Türkei. Welche Rolle spielt die Religion in der türkischen Gemeinschaft? Was unterscheidet das Familienleben in Deutschland von dem in der Türkei? Welche Probleme bestimmen... more...
Zionismus und Antisemitismus im Dritten Reich
Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 34.77Hauptbeschreibung Francis R. Nicosia zeigt wie sich Zionisten und Antisemiten im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland begegneten und wie erstere auf die judenfeindliche Politik des NS-Regimes reagierten. Während sich die deutschen Zionisten von einer Kooperation mit den Nationalsozialisten erhofften, günstige Bedingungen für die jüdische Auswanderung... more...
I Confess
Wild Dingo Press 2012; US$ 26.35This is a memoir by Sydney-based doctor and writer/translator, Kooshyar Karimi, who in 2000 managed to flee, with his family, certain torture and death which stalked him on a daily basis in his native Iran. Karimis sin was his Jewishness and the fact that he helped desperate girls and women who had been raped, terminate the resulting pregnancies.... more...
Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora
Brandeis University Press 2010; US$ 27.99Groundbreaking essays on Sephardic Jewish families in the Ottoman Empire and Western Sephardic communities more...









