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ISBN: 9780871404527 - The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan
Jonathan Kirsch

ISBN10: 0871404524  ISBN13: 9780871404527
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 11 Jun 2013
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of Kristallnacht comes this untold story of a teenager whose act of defiance would have dire international consequences. On 7 November 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, walked into the... More

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ISBN: 9781616202781 - The Aleppo Codex The Aleppo Codex
Matti Friedman

ISBN10: 1616202785  ISBN13: 9781616202781
Publisher: Algonquin Books (division of Workman)
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jun 2013
Unveils the journey of a sacred text - the tenth-century annotated bible known as the Aleppo Codex - from its hiding place in a Syrian synagogue to the newly founded state of Israel. This book proposes a theory of what happened when the codex left... More

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ISBN: 9780230368743 - Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938-48 Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938-48
Jan Lanicek

ISBN10: 0230368743  ISBN13: 9780230368743
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 31 May 2013
Covering the period between the Munich Agreement and the Communist Coup in February 1948, this groundbreaking work offers a novel, provocative analysis of the political activities and plans of the Czechoslovak exiles during and after the war... More

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ISBN: 9781846681905 - On the Eve Bestseller On the Eve
Bernard Wasserstein

ISBN10: 1846681901  ISBN13: 9781846681905
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
Examines the realities of Jewish life across Europe up to the very eve of World War Two. In this book, the author presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught. It is a major... More

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ISBN: 9780802865199 - The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah

ISBN10: 0802865194  ISBN13: 9780802865199
Publisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
Foreword by Emanuel Tov; foreword by Steven Fine; introduction by James H. Charlesworth. This landmark volume presents the first-ever English translation of the ancient Israelite Samaritan version of the Pentateuch, or Torah. A text of growing... More

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ISBN: 9781781851104 - Isaac's Army 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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ISBN: 9781904113881 - Sa'adyah Gaon 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: 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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ISBN: 9780747812302 - Jews in Britain 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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ISBN: 9780230342125 - We All Wore Stars 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