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Isaac's Army
Matthew Brzezinski

ISBN10: 1781851107 ISBN13: 9781781851104
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 May 2013
An action-packed, heroic history of the underground Jewish army in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, based on interviews with its few surviving members. 1930s Warsaw was a thoroughly cosmopolitan, even swinging city. Larger than Chicago, it was host to a rich... More

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Sa'adyah Gaon
Robert Brody

ISBN10: 1904113885 ISBN13: 9781904113881
Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
Sa'adyah Gaon was an outstanding 10th-century Jewish thinker - a prominent rabbi, philosopher, and exegete. He was a pioneer in the fields in which he toiled, and was an inspiration and basis for later Jewish writing in all these areas. More

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ISBN: 9781845194550 - Lost World of Rhodes

Lost World of Rhodes
Nathan Shachar

ISBN10: 1845194551 ISBN13: 9781845194550
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 23 Apr 2013
Focuses on the Sephardi community - Spanish-speaking Jews who arrived in Rhodes sometime after the Spanish expulsion edict of 1492 and who remained the largest single group within the old city walls until Italy adopted German racial legislation in... More

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ISBN: 9781903153444 - Christians and Jews in Angevin England

Christians and Jews in Angevin England
Sarah Rees Jones, Sethina C Watson

ISBN10: 1903153441 ISBN13: 9781903153444
Publisher: York Medieval Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 19 Apr 2013
The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through which Christian and Jewish neighbours became enemies and victims. The mass suicide and murder of the... More

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ISBN: 9788776746803 - Lessons in Contempt

Lessons in Contempt
Jonathan Adams

ISBN10: 8776746801 ISBN13: 9788776746803
Publisher: University Press of Southern Denmark
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 16 Apr 2013
Published in 1516, Poul Raeff's "Iudeorum Secreta", a translation of Johannes Pfefferkorn's The Confession of the Jews, was a landmark in the development of anti-Jewish polemics in Denmark. For the first time, Danes were presented with... More

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Jews in Britain
Michael Leventhal, Richard Goldstein

ISBN10: 0747812306 ISBN13: 9780747812302
Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Apr 2013
Tells the epic thousand-year story of Britain's Jewish community, the country's oldest minority group, replete with the dark episodes of persecution and expulsion, but also with positive periods of acceptance and toleration. This book offers an... More

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We All Wore Stars
Theo Coster

ISBN10: 0230342124 ISBN13: 9780230342125
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 Apr 2013
In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, in a class of Jewish children that the Nazis had segregated from the rest of the Dutch population. Among Theo's fellow students was a young Anne Frank. In this remarkable group... More

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FDR and the Jews
Richard Breitman, Allan J Lichtman

ISBN10: 0674050266 ISBN13: 9780674050266
Publisher: Harvard University Press The Belknap Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 19 Mar 2013
A contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler's Europe. FDR and the Jews reveals a concerned leader whose efforts on behalf of Jews were far greater than those of any other world figure... More

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The Nazi Seance
Arthur J Magida

ISBN10: 0230342043 ISBN13: 9780230342040
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Feb 2013
Erik Jan Hannussen, a popular Jewish stage magician and mentalist from Austria, wowed audiences and amassed a small fortune in the 1920's and 30's. Perhaps his greatest trick was that of becoming Hitler's personal psychic and advisor... More

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ISBN: 9781408830574 - The Dreyfus Affair

The Dreyfus Affair
Piers Paul Read

ISBN10: 1408830574 ISBN13: 9781408830574
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Feb 2013
A compelling, new and highly accessible account of one of the most high-profile and influential miscarriages of justice in French history: The Dreyfus Affair Intelligent, ambitious and a rising star in the French artillery, Captain Alfred Dreyfus... More

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