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A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.
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MAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress from prewar Poland Auschwitz. Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his wife.
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In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and... [ More...]
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"Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto is available now for the first time in a soft cover edition. It is the moving account of the horror of the Warsaw Ghetto — written by the recognized archivist and historian of the area while he lived through it. As a... [ More...]
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The author delivers a brilliant and comprehensive one-volume survey covering 4,000 years of Jewish history. His book is a forceful and sustained analysis of Jewish emergence and an interpretation of how Jewish history, philosophy, ethics, and social and... [ More...]
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In this bold and ambitious new book, Sand argues that the Israeli national myth has its origins in the 19th century, rather than in biblical times. The author forensically dissects the official story and demonstrates the construction of a nationalist myth.
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A powerful history that shows anti-Judaism to be a central way of thinking inthe Western tradition.
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A social history of Jewish women in Imperial Germany, this study synthesizes German, women's, and Jewish history. The book explores the private—familial and religious—lives of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie and the public roles of Jewish women in... [ More...]
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This series is published yearly by the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It is edited by Jonathan Frankel, Peter Medding, and Ezra Mendelsohn, all distinguished professors of history at The Hebrew University. The volumes... [ More...]
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"A herd of independent minds," Harold Rosenberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinating group, including literary critics Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe, Leslie Fiedler, Philip... [ More...]
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