Products
-
Gender, Place and Memory in the Modern Jewish Experience
from $32.95
Replacing Ourselves
Edited by: Baumel, Judith Tydor; Cohen, Tova
This book is an expression of how the different memories of different gendered experiences affected the Jewish attitudes towards modernity. Focusing on three geographical centers - pre-war and wartime Europe, the United States and Israel, the fifteen articles provide a backdrop to understanding...
-
Generation Y
from $34.95
Generation Snowflake?
Professor Oz Almog and Dr Tamar AlmogGeneration Y (Millennials), born in the 1980s and 1990s, came of age during a period of unprecedented accelerated economic growth. These young secular women and men were shaped by a society that was fast becoming more self-critical and cynical, conflictual, entrepreneurial,...
-
Genocide, the World Wars and the Unweaving of Europe
from $32.95
Bloxham, Donald
The murder of at least one million Armenian Christians in 1915-16 and of some six million Jews from 1939-45 were the most extreme instances of mass murder in the First and Second World Wars respectively. This book examines the development and dynamics of both genocides. While bringing out the...
-
German Writers in French Exile 1933-1940
from $32.95
Mauthner, Martin
This book is an account of what happened to some of the best German writers and journalists after they fled the Nazi terror to find shelter in France. It is a tragic intellectual drama that unfolds over seven years, and features writers such as Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Stefan...
-
Giacomo Meyerbeer and his Family
$49.95
Between Two Worlds
Elaine ThorntonThornton provides a pithy family biography of the well-known Berlin Beer family that illuminates the paradoxical situation between enlightenment and antisemitism that Jews faced in the German territories in the 19th century.
Dr Susanne Korbel, University of Gratz
In the mid-nineteenth century, one name dominated the operatic... -
Good Beyond Evil
$22.95
Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
Gossman, Eva
Good Beyond Evil is the story of a handful of ordinary people who risked their lives to save the lives of one Jewish family. It begins in the spring of 1939, weaves through the post-liberation period and ends in 1997 with a ceremony at Yad...
-
Governments-in-Exile and the Jews during the Second World War
$37.95
Edited by: Jordan, James; Lanicek, Jan
New in paperback 19th November 2020
While the examination of bystanders to the Holocaust has constituted an important part of Holocaust research in the last decades, historians have focused mainly on the two major Western Allied powers, the United States and the...
-
Great Philanthropists
$84.95
Wealth and Charity in the Modern World 1815-1945
Edited by: Cesarani, David; Mandler, Peter
What is a philanthropist? Why do they do what they do? What impact do they have? What makes them tick? What in their personal biographies, their communities, their backgrounds, and their moment in time drove them to devote...
-
Haham Moses Gaster
$59.95
Wayward Genius
Derek TaylorA Zionist before Theodor Herzl, the only Ashkenazi Haham the Sephardim ever appointed, the only senior British Jewish spiritual figure to be dismissed, a world expert on the Samaritans, a collector of 2,000 manuscripts, a scholar with a 45,000 book library at its peak, Moses Gaster...
-
Hasag-Leipzig Slave Labour Camp for Women
$26.95
The Struggle for Survival told by the Women and their Poetry
Karay, Felicja
Here for the first time in the historiography of the Holocaust is the story of an international forced labour camp for women, the largest of the auxiliary women's camps attached to KZ Buchenwald in Germany. It was the place...
