Staff Picks
The Selden K. Smith Holocaust Collection, Part 1
Collection
Richland Library welcomes items from the personal Holocaust collection of Dr. Selden K. Smith. Housed primarily at Richland Library Main the collection includes over 250 items.
The Dr. Selden K. Smith Holocaust Collection was donated to Richland Library by the Columbia Holocaust Education Commission. The partnership will allow the collection to be more easily available to our community – particularly educators.
500 All-time Great Recipes
Published in 2003
Ancient Israel
From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple
Published in 1999
This book examines the complete history of ancient Israel--from Abraham to the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D. Provides numerous color and black-and-white photos, maps, charts, and timelines. Adds and updates evidence, analysis, and insights of events, based on developments since the book's first edition. --From publisher's description.
Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament
Published in 1955
Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land
Published in 2001
"Spanning ten millennia from earliest prehistory to the Arab conquest, the Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land is the definitive one-volume reference to the ancient land of the Bible, combining scientific discovery and literary and religious tradition to produce a deeper understanding of human culture. Here the settings of three of the world's major religions are examined, correlating the most up-to-date archaeological information with the biblical record of the Holy Land."--Jacket
Beyond Milk & Honey
Traditional Recipes from an Israeli Kitchen
The Commentators' Bible. Deuteronomy
Published in 2015
Daniel's Story Videotape Teacher Guide.
Published in 1993
Days of Remembrance, April 7-14, 1991
Fifty Years Ago, from Terror to Systematic Murder
Published in 1991
The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible
The Oldest Known Bible, Translated for the First Time into English
Published in 1999
From the dramatic find in the caves of Qumran, The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible presents the world's most ancient version of the Bible. Prior to the discovery of the Scrolls, the oldest complete Bible was dated to the 11th century A.D. But this book translates texts more than 1,000 years older, allowing us to read the Bible it was in the time of Jesus. This volume includes all 220 of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls, preserve parts of all but one book in the Hebrew Bible. They confirm that the text of the Old Testament as it has been handed down through the ages is largely correct, yet they also reveal numerous important differences. The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible offers new and striking textual readings that clarify millennia-old puzzles, restores lost psalms, reveals previously unknown details about the lives of biblical figures, and provides new information on how the Hebrew Bible was created. The texts are translated into English by Eugene Ulrich, one of the three general editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Peter Flint and Martin Abegg Jr., the directors of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute. Commentary by the editors provides insight into the cultural and religious traditions behind the scrolls and the Bible itself.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with English Translations. Vol. 1, Rule of the Community and Related Documents
Published in 1994
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with English Translations. Vol. 2, Damascus Document, War Scroll, and Related Documents
Published in 1995
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with English Translations. Vol. 4A Pseudepigraphic and Non-masoretic Psalms and Prayers
Published in 1997
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with English Translations. Vol. 4B, Angelic Liturgy
Published in 1999
The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition
Published in 1997
The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated
The Qumran Texts in English
Published in 1996
One of the world's foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran community that produced them provides an authoritative new English translation of the two hundred longest and most important nonbiblical Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran, along with an introduction to the history of the discovery and publication of each manuscript and the background necessary for placing each manuscript in its actual historical context.
The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered
The First Complete Translation and Interpretation of 50 Key Documents Withheld for over 35 Years
Published in 1992
"Placed in caves almost 2000 years ago and not discovered until 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls provide a unique insight into Jewish and Christian origins. They have held a fascination over academics, religious leaders, and the lay public alike for the last forty-five years. From 1952, when a team of scholars was appointed and Cave 4 at Qumran was discovered - from which the materials in this book are drawn - they have been under the control of an elite and secretive clique." "However, in the autumn of 1991, this monopoly was effectively broken when the Huntington Library in California announced it would allow public access to its collection of Dead Sea Scrolls photographs. This was soon followed by the publication of a Facsimile Edition by the Biblical Archaeology Society in Washington D.C. Robert Eisenman was integrally involved in both events, and with Michael Wise had been working behind the scenes on the unpublished photographs for some time." "Their discovery of a tiny Scroll fragment of six lines referring to the execution of or by a Messianic Leader plunged them into a long-running debate. Scholars previously controlling access to the Scrolls had been publically contending that there was nothing interesting in the remaining unpublished Scrolls and nothing throwing further light on Christianity's rise in Palestine. The conclusions of Professor Eisenman and Professor Wise gainsay and challenge these views. The present work is the result."
Deaf People in Hitler's Europe
Published in 2002
Annotation Inspired by the Deaf People in Hitler's Europe, 1933-1945, conference staged at Gallaudet University in 1998, this extraordinary collection integrates key presentations with additional important work into three crucial parts. Henry Friedlander begins Part I: Racial Hygiene by disclosing that the attack upon deaf people and people with disabilities was an integral element in the Nazi theory of racial hygiene. Robert Proctor documents the role of medical professionals in deciding who should be sterilized, forbidden to marry, or murdered. In her research, Patricia Heberer details how the Nazi's eugenics theories allowed them to extend their lethal policies to those considered socially undesirable. Part II: The German Experience leads with Jochen Muhs' discoveries from interviewing deaf Berliners, both victims and active members of the Nazi Party. "The Place of the School for the Deaf in the New Reich," written by Kurt Lietz in 1934, rues the expense of educating deaf students when they could not be soldiers or, bear "healthy" children. Horst Biesold confirms the complicity of teachers who turned in their own deaf students. The last part explores the Jewish Deaf experience. John S. Schuchman discusses the plight of deaf Jews in Hungary, which complements a transcript of six survivors who described their personal ordeals. The reflections of Peter Black conclude this vital study of a little-known chapter of the Holocaust.
Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Published in 2000
Facing History and Ourselves
A Guide to the Film Schindler's List
Published in 1994
Study guide to help students make essential connections between the past and the present.
A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Published in 1991
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The Family Haggadah = [Hagadah Shel Pesaḥ]
Published in 1981
The German Jewish Source Book
Published in 2016
"The German Jewish Source Book is the first in a series of Centropa readers on Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe. With essays, timelines and general histories on twentieth century German history, this volume also offers the stories of four German Jews who describe growing up in Weimar Germany and who fled their country just in time. This volume also offers essays that delve into the complex relationship between Germans and Jews, testimonies of Czech, Hungarian and Romanian Jews who were liberated from concentration camps in Germany, as well as personal stories of Russian and American Jewish soldiers who liberated those camps." Publisher's website.
Hagadah Shel Pesaḥ = Passover Haggadah
A New English Translation and Instructions for the Seder
Published in 1984
Her Face in the Mirror
Jewish Women on Mothers and Daughters
Published in 1994
"Relationships between mothers and daughters are exceptionally complex for all women. An uneasy balance between the fear of letting go and the desire for independence, the love shared between mothers and daughters can be volatile, tender, and exasperating." "Her Face in the Mirror explores this most difficult and affirming relationship in the lives of Jewish women through poems, stories, and personal essays. Daughters, many of them first- and second-generation Americans, write of frustration with what they see as their mothers' limited lives; their mothers write of fears for their daughters whose lives seem so different from their own. For many the relationship is shaped by the feeling of being an outsider - as a Jew in America and a woman in Judaism - and it is always informed by the collective memory of the Holocaust." "With passionate and resonant words, these writers search to be reconciled with their mothers and daughters and, ultimately, with their own identities. An extraordinary collection, Her Face in the Mirror is destined to become a classic."--Jacket.
A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People
From the Time of the Patriarchs to the Present
Published in 1995
History of the Jewish people is set forth in nearly a thousand maps, drawings, photographs plus chronologies and commentaries.
The Holocaust Chronicle
Published in 2000
The Holocaust Chronicle, written and fact-checked by top scholars, recounts the long, complex, anguishing story of the most terrible crime of the 20th century. A massive, oversized hardcover of more than 750 pages, this book features more than 2000 photographs, many of which are in full color and most are published in book form for the first time. The 3000-item timeline of Holocaust-related events is unprecedented in its scope and ambition and detailed caption-text is rich with facts and human interest.
The Holocaust Survivor Cookbook. Volume 2, Miracles & Meals
Published in 2012
The title is somewhat of a misnomer. The Holocaust Survivor Cookbook, published by Caras & Associates, goes far beyond a collection of recipes, memorable though they may be.
In Memory's Kitchen
A Legacy from the Women of Terezin
Published in 1996
The heart of this book is a compilation of remembered recipes written down by malnourished women in Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The women of Terezin recorded their recipes as a way to maintain their humanity and bring them comfort in the face of almost certain death. In stark contrast to the meager food they were eating in the camp, the recipes in these pages record the rich and robust tradition of Czech Jewish life.
Index to the New York Times Articles on the Holocaust, 1933-1948
Published in 2001
Jewish Cooking
Published in 1991
The Jews of Poland
Published in 1998
Jewish Life in the Middle Ages
Published in 1911
Haym Salomon, a Gentleman of Precision and Integrity.
Published in 1976
Kabbalah
The Mystic Quest in Judaism
Published in 2006
In the wake of the renewed interest in Kabbalah comes a thoroughly updated edition of Ariel's classic best selling book, "The Mystic Quest." Ariel beautifully presents the complex elements of Jewish mysticism's major ideas in clear, understandable, and accessible language.
Asimov's Guide to the Bible
The Old and New Testaments
Published in 1981
"Explores the historical, geographical, and biographical aspects of the events described in the Old and New Testaments"--Jacket
Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust
Published in 1997
Jewish themes in American art were not very visible until the last two decades, although many famous twentieth-century artists and critics were and are Jewish. Few artists responded openly to the Holocaust until the 1960s, when it finally began to act as a galvanizing force, allowing Jewish-American artists to express their Jewish identity in their work. Baigell describes how artists initially deflected their responses by using abstract forms or by invoking biblical and traditional figures and then in more recent decades confronted directly Holocaust imagery and memory. He traces the development of artistic work from the late 1930s to the present in a moving study of a long overlooked topic in the history of American art.
Landscapes of Jewish Experience
Published in 1997
Samuel Bak (b. 1933, Vilna) is an artist and Holocaust survivor; he and his mother were among the few thousand Jews of Vilna who were liberated by the Soviet army in July 1944. His father was shot a few days before the liberation. The present album consists of 20 paintings commissioned as a project to explore the "landscapes of Jewish experience" theme - Jewish images such as the Tablets of the Law, the Magen David, the Tree of Life. These paintings capture the modern experience as defined by the Holocaust. Pp. 2-28 contain the essay by Langer, and the rest of the album presents the paintings with Langer's commentary. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).
The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881
Published in 2005
"In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence and the imposition in Russia of strong anti-Semitic legislation. In the years between, a traditional society accustomed to an autonomous way of life would be transformed into one much more open to its surrounding cultures, yet much more confident of its own nationalist identity.
Israel's Secret Wars
A History of Israel's Intelligence Services
Published in 1991
A documented, comprehensive history of all three of Israel's intelligence services, from their origins in the 1930s, up to the present.
Golda
Published in 2008
The first female head of state in the Western world and one of the most influential women in modern history, Golda Meir was one of the founders of the State of Israel, the architect of its socialist infrastructure, and its most tenacious international defender. Historian-journalist Burkett looks beyond Meir's well-known accomplishments to the complex motivations and ideals, personal victories and disappointments, of her charismatic public persona. Beginning with Meir's childhood in virulently anti-Semitic Russia and her family's subsequent relocation to the United States, Burkett places Meir within the framework of the American immigrant experience, the Holocaust, and the singlemindedness of a generation that carved a nation out of its own nightmares and dreams.--From publisher description.
The Gifts of the Jews
How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
Published in 1998
Circumcision, the Covenant of Abraham
Published in 1999
Everyman's Talmud
The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages
Published in 1995
Summarizes the teachings found in the Talmud on ethics, religion, law, and folklore.
Israel is Real
Published in 2009
In AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a handful of visionaries saved Judaism by reinventing it--by taking what had been a national religion and turning it into an idea. Jews no longer needed Jerusalem to be Jews. Whenever a Jew studied--wherever he was--he would be in the holy city. But in our own time, Zionists have turned the book back into a temple. In Rich Cohen's new history of the Zionist idea and the Jewish state--the history of a nation chronicled as if it were the biography of a person--he brings to life dozens of figures, each driven by the same impulse: to reach Jerusalem. From false messiahs to the early Zionists, to the iconic figures of David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir Cohen shows how all these lives together form a single story. He examines the myth of the wandering Jew, the paradox of Jewish power, and the triumph and tragedy of the Jewish state.--From publisher description.
The German Girl
Published in 2016
Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places that once felt like home. Hannah and her best friend, Leo Martin, make a pact: whatever the future has in store for them, they'll meet it together. Hope appears in the form of the SS St. Louis , a transatlantic liner offering Jews safe passage out of Germany. After a frantic search to obtain visas, the Rosenthals and the Martins depart on the luxurious ship bound for Havana. Life on board the St. Louis is like a surreal holiday for the refugees, with masquerade balls, exquisite meals, and polite, respectful service. But soon ominous rumors from Cuba undermine the passengers' fragile sense of safety. From one day to the next, impossible choices are offered, unthinkable sacrifices are made, and the ship that once was their salvation seems likely to become their doom. Seven decades later in New York City, on her twelfth birthday, Anna Rosen receives a strange package from an unknown relative in Cuba, her great-aunt Hannah. Its contents will inspire Anna and her mother to travel to Havana to learn the truth about their family's mysterious and tragic past, a quest that will help Anna understand her place and her purpose in the world. The German Girl sweeps from Berlin at the brink of the Second World War to Cuba on the cusp of revolution, to New York in the wake of September 11, before reaching its deeply moving conclusion in the tumult of present-day Havana.
Icon of Evil
Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam
Published in 2008
In 1921, the beneficiary of an appointment the British would live to regret, Haj Amin al-Husseini became the mufti of Jerusalem, the most eminent and influential Islamic leader in the Middle East. For years, al-Husseini fomented violence in the region against the Jews he loathed and wished to destroy. Forced out in 1937, he eventually found his way to the country whose legions he desperately wished to join: Nazi Germany. Here, with new and disturbing details, David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann show how al-Husseini ingratiated himself with his hero, Adolf Hitler, becoming, with his blonde hair and blue eyes, an "honorary Aryan," while dreaming of being installed Nazi leader of the Middle East. Al-Husseini would later recruit more than 100,000 Muslims in Europe to fight in divisions of the Waffen-SS, and obstruct negotiations with the Allies that might have allowed four thousand Jewish children to escape to Palestine. --from publisher description.
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Published in 2002
My Bones Don't Rest in Auschwitz
A Lonely Battle to Survive German Tyranny
Published in 1999
Memoirs of a Jew (nee Kaplan), born in 1923 in Siedlce, Poland, describing her and her family's experiences after the German occupation. On 7 September 1939 her father disappeared while returning from Warsaw. He traded in shoemakers' trimmings. Gitel and her three siblings continued to work in the trade up through 1942. In spring 1940, Gitel and her sister Pearl opened a shop in Warsaw; it was enclosed in the ghetto in November. Gitel returned to Siedlce, carrying on the trade in leather and rubber. In fall 1941, Gitel, her brother Chaim, her stepmother and half-brother moved to Miedzyrzec. In early 1942, they got their younger sister, Rifka, out of the Siedlce ghetto and Pearl out of the Warsaw ghetto. In the first "action" in Miedzyrzec in August 1942, the stepmother and little brother were deported. The four siblings managed to avoid four deportations by hiding, but in the fifth one Rifka was caught. In May 1943, Gitel, Pearl, and Chaim escaped to Upper Silesia, but they ended up in a Jewish ghetto, and were finally interned in the Srodula camp (a suburb of Sosnowiec). In December, Chaim was killed while trying to escape. In January 1944, when Srodula was liquidated, Gitel and Pearl escaped to the Sudetenland and survived by posing as Polish laborers. Rifka survived Majdanek and several labor camps. After the war, Pearl and Rifka emigrated to Palestine. Gitel married and emigrated to Canada with her husband in 1951. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)
The Jews of South Carolina from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Published in 1972
Accounting for Genocide
National Responses and Jewish Victimization During the Holocaust
Published in 1984
"Poses new theories concerning reasons why the genocidal campaign against the Jews started and why it differed greatly from country to country, using the diaries of Nazi victims to recreate the social and psychological history of several victimized Jewish communities."
Hitler, My Neighbor
Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939
Published in 2017
"An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor. Watching events unfold from his window, Edgar bore witness to the Night of the Long Knives, the Anschluss, and Kristallnacht. Jews were arrested; his father was imprisoned at Dachau. In 1939 Edgar was sent on his own to England, where he would make a new life, a career, have a family, and strive to forget the nightmare of his past--a past that came rushing back when he decided, at the age of eighty-eight, to tell the story of his buried childhood and his infamous neighbor"--Provided by publisher.
The Lamp Beside the Golden Door
The Story of the New York Association for New Americans
Published in 1999
Archeological Sites in Israel
Published in 1997
Israel
A History
Published in 1998
"Martin Gilbert traces Israel's history from the struggles of its pioneers in the nineteenth century up to the present day. Along the way, he describes the defining moments in the history of the Jewish people, among them the Balfour Declaration of 1917; the United Nations Partition Resolution of 1947; and the founding of the State of Israel in 1948"--Jacket.
Home in the Morning
Published in 2010
Follows the struggles of Jackson Sassaport, a Jewish man coming of age during the Civil Rights era.
The Making of the Pope 2005
Published in 2005
The story of the closed-door Vatican conclave that elevated Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to Pope Benedict XVI. In his preparation of this book, Greeley was allowed special access to College of Cardinal sources.
Jewish Art
Published in 1995
The French-Kosher Cookbook
Published in 1964
In the Trenches
Selected Speeches and Writings of an American Jewish Activist
Published in 2000
Speeches and writings of David Harris, the executive director of the American Jewish Committee. these speeches chronicle life of American and world Jewry from 1979-1999.
Courage & Defiance
Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark
Published in 2015
"Critically acclaimed Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson brings to bold life the remarkable story of the Danish resistance and rescue of over 7,000 Jews during WWII. When the Nazis invaded Denmark on Tuesday, April 9, 1940, the people of this tiny country to the north of Germany awoke to a devastating surprise. The government of Denmark surrendered quietly, and the Danes were ordered to go about their daily lives as if nothing had changed. But everything had changed. Award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson traces the stories of the heroic young men and women who would not stand by as their country was occupied by a dangerous enemy. Rather, they fought back. Some were spies, passing tactical information to the British; some were saboteurs, who aimed to hamper and impede Nazi operations in Denmark; and 95% of the Jewish population of Denmark were survivors, rescued by their fellow countrymen, who had the courage and conscience that drove them to act. With her talent for digging deep in her research and weaving real voices into her narratives, Hopkinson reveals the thrilling truth behind one of WWII's most daring resistance movements"-- Provided by publisher.
Judaism, Medicine, and Healing
Published in 1998
The Ghetto of Venice
Published in 2010
J
A Novel
Published in 2014
"In a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited, J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. After the devastation of WHAT HAPPENED, IF IT HAPPENED, all that should remain is peace and prosperity. Everyone knows his or her place; all actions are out in the open. But Esme Nussbaum has seen the distorted realities, the fissures that have only widened in the twenty-plus years since she was forced to resign from her position at the monitor of the Public Mood. Now, Esme finds something strange and special developing in a romance between Ailinn Solomons and Kevern Cohen. As this unusual pair's actions draw them into ever-increasing danger, Esme realizes she must do everything in her power to keep them together--whatever the cost."-- Provided by publisher.
The Authorized Kinot for the Ninth of Av
Including the Prayers for the Evening, Morning and Afternoon Services, Reading of the Law and the Blessing of the New Moon, According to the Ashkenazic Rite ...
Published in 1979
The "Hitler Myth"
Image and Reality in the Third Reich
Published in 1989
Few, if any, twentieth-century political leaders have enjoyed greater popularity among their own people than Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. Yet the personality of Hitler himself and his obsessive ideological fixations can scarcely explain his immense popularity and political effectiveness on his assumption of power in 1933. Hitler's hold over the German people lay rather in the hopes and perceptions of the millions who adored him: their admiration rested less on the bizarre and arcane precepts of Nazi ideology than on social and political values recognizable in many societies other than the Third Reich. Ian Kershaw charts the creation, growth, and decline of the "Hitler myth". He demonstrates how the manufactured Führer cult formed a crucial integrating force in the Third Reich and a vital element in the attainment of Nazi political aims. Masters of the new techniques of propaganda, the Nazis used them to exploit and build on the beliefs, phobias, and prejudices of the day. Their successful "deification" of the Führer in a modern industrial state carries a far from comfortable message. - Back cover.
Making Friends with Hitler
Lord Londonderry, the Nazis and the Road to World War II.
Published in 2005
Describes how one of Britain's most important aristocrats, Lord Londonderry, was ruined by his association with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and the miscalculations on the part of the British that led to the Second World War.
Echoes from the Holocaust
A Memoir
Published in 1997
The daughter of a Jewish seed exporter, the author was born Mira Ryczke in 1923 in a suburb of the Baltic seaport of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland). Her childhood was happy, and she learned to cherish her faith and heritage. Through the 1930s, Mira's family remained in the Danzig area despite a changing political climate that was compelling many friends and neighbors to leave. With the Polish capitulation to Germany in the autumn of 1939, however, Mira and her family were.
Life in Biblical Israel
Published in 2001
Complete Dictionary of English and Hebrew First Names
Published in 1984
Miraculous Living
A Guided Journey in Kabbalah Through the Ten Gates of the Tree of Life
Published in 1996
The 2nd Ave Deli Cookbook
Recipes and Memories from Abe Lebewohl's Legendary New York Kitchen
Published in 1999
Holocaust
Published in 1998
Fugitives of the Forest
The Heroic Story of Jewish Resistance and Survival During the Second World War
Published in 2009
As the Second World War and the Nazi assault on Europe ended, some 25,000 Jews, entire families in some instances, walked out of the forests of Eastern Europe. For three years, these men, women and children had miraculously survived, eluding Nazi hunts and Soviet, Polish, and Ukrainian partisans who often killed first and asked questions later. They had escaped from the Nazi ghettos and slave labor camps and formed secret partisan camps in the surrounding forests. The forest not only protected them, it also became their base for sabotage and resistance efforts against the Germans and their allies. Based on extensive research and numerous interviews with survivors, this book tells their harrowing and heroic story. Some may ask the troubling question: why did not more Jews resist? But historian Levine poses a more apt question: how, under the circumstances, was any resistance possible at all?--From publisher description.
Mere Christianity
A Revised and Amplified Edition, with a New Introduction, of the Three Books, Broadcast Talks, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality
Published in 2001
Holocaust Wall Hangings
Published in 2002
Pp. 25-58 contain facsimiles of 44 works of art by Liberman about the Holocaust. Liberman was born in Haifa, Israel in 1929, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1947. In 1988 she began to create the Holocaust Wall Hangings. The book includes the following essays: (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).
Mesillat Yesharim = The Path of the Just
Published in 1990
Hebrew Origins
Published in 1960
The Jew in the Literature of England to the End of the 19th Century.
Published in 1960
The Exodus Case
Published in 2002
"In this book you will follow a chain of events that has effected our culture far more than we believe. You must decide for yourself if there is any reason to accept these stories as truth. To help you there are more than 570 color illustrations."--Back cover
The Book of Life
Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011
Published in 2012
"(BLike many Jews, in and out of the synagogue, I wrestle with sacred tradition like Jacob wrestling the angel. The poems gathered here were born of this wrestling, which can never be over."--The Preface.
Inhuman Research
Medical Experiments in German Concentration Camps
Published in 2006
The author, a Holocaust survivor and medical school professor, first discusses the nazification of German medicine and then documents the various experiments followed by their ethical evaluation. Finally, he presents names and biographical data of the doctors actively involved in the experiments and photos of the main perpetrators.
Four Perfect Pebbles
A Holocaust Story
Published in 1996
Following Hitler's rise to power, the Blumenthal Family-father, mother, Marion and her brother Albert- were trapped in Nazi German. They managed eventually to get to Holland, but soon thereafter it was occupied by the Nazis. For the next six and a half years the Blumenthal's were forced to live in refugee, transit, and prison camps. Their story is one of the horror and hardship, but it is also a story of courage, hope, and the will to survive.
The Archives of Ebla
An Empire Inscribed in Clay
Published in 1981
When the ancient city of Ebla was unearthed, archaeologists discovered the well-preserved royal library containing more than 15,000 clay tablets and fragments. At digs in modern-day Syria, the Ebla tablets provide unique insight into the culture and and history of ancient Mesopotamia.
The Jump Artist
Published in 2009
Evocative psychological fiction based on the true story of renowned photographer Philippe Halsman, a man Adolph Hitler knew by name, who Sigmund Freud wrote about in 1931, and who put Marilyn Monroe on the cover of Life magazine. Surviving an episode that presages the horrors of WWII, Halsman transforms himself from a victim of rampant anti-Semitism into a purveyor of the marvelous.
Deathly Silence
Ordinary People During the Holocaust
Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary
A Photographic Remembrance
Published in 1993
Photographs, illustrations, and maps accompany historical essays, diary excerpts, and interviews, providing an insight to Anne Frank and the massive upheaval which tore apart her world.
The End of the Holocaust
Published in 2011
In this provocative work, Alvin H. Rosenfeld contends that the proliferation of books, films, television programs, museums, and public commemorations related to the Holocaust has, perversely, brought about a diminution of its meaning and a denigration of its memory. Investigating a wide range of events and cultural phenomena, such as Ronald Reagan's 1985 visit to the German cemetery at Bitburg, the distortions of Anne Frank's story, and the ways in which the Holocaust has been depicted by such artists and filmmakers as Judy Chicago and Steven Spielberg, Rosenfeld charts the cultural forces that have minimized the Holocuast in popular perceptions.
Fragile Branches
Travels Through the Jewish Diaspora
Published in 2000
The author describes isolated Jewish communities throughout the world, including Peru, India, and Uganda.
The Holocaust & the Jews of Marseille
The Enforcement of Anti-Semitic Policies in Vichy France
Published in 1996
One-fourth of the Jews living in France - once considered an asylum for the politically dispossessed - were identified, rounded up, and deported to the death camps of eastern Europe during World War II. In this carefully documented, gripping account of the treatment and fate of French and foreign Jews in Marseille, Donna Ryan explores the extent to which the Vichy government participated in the German plans to exterminate them. Marseille was a major French city in the Vichy Zone that had a large Jewish population; the Italians, who sometimes thwarted French administrators, never occupied Marseille; and it was a regional office of the Commissariat General aux Questions Juives and the Union Generale des Israelites de France, which could provide documentation.
Eva's Story
A Survivor's Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank
Published in 2010
From the Publisher: Many know the tragic story of Anne Frank, the teen whose life ended at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. But most people don't know about Eva Schloss, Anne's playmate and posthumous stepsister. Though Eva, like Anne, was imprisoned in Auschwitz at the age of 15, her story did not end there. Together with her mother, Eva endured daily degradation at the hands of the Nazis. She survived the prison camps, but it would be decades before Eva was able to tell her survivor's tale. Concluding with a revealing new interview with Eva, this moving memoir recounts without bitterness or hatred the horrors of war, the love between mother and daughter, and the strength and determination that helped a family overcome danger and tragedy.
Judaism and Justice
The Jewish Passion to Repair the World
Published in 2006
"Why is it that Jews are so involved in causes dedicated to justice, equality, human rights and peace? Are these trends influenced by religion, history, sociology or something else? In this provocative exploration, Rabbi Sidney Schwarz, founder and president of PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values, sheds light on the relationship between Judaism, social justice and the Jewish identity of American Jews. He traces how the idea of justice, as developed in the sacred texts of Judaism, conditions Jewish attitudes and behavior. In a fascinating portrayal of some of the major issues facing the Jewish community in the last fifty years, Schwarz explores a community torn between its instincts for self-preservation and its desire to serve as an ethical "light to the nations." This powerful and empowering book will provide you with a starting point for meaningful engagement-and a new way to understand Jewish identity. Book jacket."--Jacket.
For Two Thousand Years
Published in 2017
"Mihail Sebastian's 1934 masterpiece, now available in English for the first time, was written as the rise of fascism forced him out of his literary career and turned his friends and colleagues against him. Confronted with the violence of a recurrent anti-Semitism, Sebastian questions its causes in this perceptive testimony, illuminating the ideological debates of the interwar period with wit, simplicity and vivacity"-- Provided by publisher.
Don't Give Hate a Chance
Lessons in Responsibility, Respect, Civil Rights, and the Holocaust
Published in 1999
The Blue Mountain
Published in 2004
The Mystery and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Published in 1998
The Berlin Boxing Club
Published in 2011
Karl Stern has never thought of himself as a Jew. But the bullies at his school in Nazi-era Berlin, don't care that Karl has never been in a synagogue or that his family doesn't practice religion. Demoralized by attacks on a heritage he doesn't accept as his own, Karl longs to prove his worth. So when Max Schmeling, champion boxer and German national hero, makes a deal with Karl's father to give Karl boxing lessons, A skilled cartoonist, Karl has never had an interest in boxing, but now it seems like the perfect chance to reinvent himself. But when Nazi violence against Jews escalates, Karl must take on a new role: protector of his family. And as Max's fame forces him to associate with Hitler and other Nazi elites, Karl begins to wonder where his hero's sympathies truly lie. Can Karl balance his dream of boxing greatness with his obligation to keep his family out of harm's way?
The Black Hole in the Jewish Soul
Published in 1995
The author tries to build a new ideology underlying the future relation of Israel, American Jewry and the countries of the Third World. He calls for an ingathering of American-Jewish organizations, the Jewish Agency and representatives of Israel, in Jerusalem, to establish the new Community for Change. He assumes the idea of centrality of Israel, the idea of Jewish mission, to be "a light to the nations" and the idea of Jewish aid to the developing world
Building a Successful Volunteer Culture
Finding Meaning in Service in the Jewish Community
Published in 2009
The Jewish-American Kitchen
Published in 1993
Companion Guide to the Shabbat Prayer Service
Featuring Synopses & Explanations of Significant Prayers, Selected Transliterations Parables & Essays
Published in 1998
The Hebrew Bible
A Comparative Approach
Published in 2010
In this work, Christopher D. Stanley provides a Hebrew Bible textbook which approaches the Bible through the categories of comparative religion. It carefully distinguishes the religion of ancient Israel from the religion represented in the Bible.
Basic Judaism
Published in 1975
A rabbi introduces the origins, doctrines, traditions, practices, laws, institutions, and beliefs of the Jewish religion.
Facing History and Ourselves
Holocaust and Human Behavior
Published in 1982
"Designed to offer educators from a variety of classroom settings appropriate materials and techniques for bringing the history of 20th century genocide, the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide, to their students."--Page 18.
Facing History and Ourselves
Holocaust and Human Behavior
Published in 1994
An examination of racism, prejudice and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. Traces the historical events that led to the Holocaust and other examples of genocide to help students make the connection between history and the moral choices they will confront.
In the Lion's Den
The Life of Oswald Rufeisen
Published in 1990
A moving biography of Oswald Rufeisen, a Jew who passed as a Christian in occupied Poland, worked as a translator for the German police, and risked his life to save hundreds from the Nazis. Denounced, he escaped and found shelter in a convent, where he became a Catholic and later a priest and monk.
A History of the Jewish Experience
Eternal Faith, Eternal People.
Published in 1973
An introduction to Judaism.
Dangerous Diplomacy
The Story of Carl Lutz
Published in 2000
"Dangerous Diplomacy tells for the first time the story of Carl Lutz (1895-1975), the Swiss diplomat who single-handedly rescued 62,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps - a dating action now recognized as the largest, most successful rescue effort ever undertaken in Nazi-dominated Europe."--Jacket.
The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Their Significance for Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity
Published in 2002
Edith's Story
Published in 1999
College Yiddish
An Introduction to the Yiddish Language and to Jewish Life and Culture
Published in 1976
And God Saw That It Was Bad
A Story from the Terezin Ghetto
Published in 2010
This novella written by Otto Weiss (1898-1944), a Czech Jew, is a unique literary work and historical testimony ... was composed by the author in Terezin as a surprise for his wife, Irena, and was produced with ... artistic assistance of his young daughter Helga. Before his deportation to Auschwitz in October 1944, Otto Weiss gave the novella to a relative remaining in the ghetto, who hid it in the Magdeburg barracks ... Weiss's wife and daughter survived the Holocaust.
The Long Night
William I. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Published in 2011
"When William L. Shirer agreed to start up the Berlin bureau of Edward R. Murrow's CBS News in the 1930s, he quickly became both the most trusted and most determined reporter in all of Europe. He did not fall for the Nazi propaganda, as some of his esteemed colleagues did, and fought against both Nazi censorship and American disdain for his relentless tactics. He warned of the consequences if the Nazis were not stopped, all the while developing close ties to the party's elite and maintaining contacts whose allegiances could not be won by other reporters, thus obtaining a unique perspective of the party's rise to power. From the Night of the Long Knives to his removal at bayonet-point from the broadcast center in Vienna during Anschluss, and from the front lines of Germany's invasion of France to his coverage of the Nuremberg trials and the Nazis' demise, Shirer redefined the importance of journalism. Here, thanks to Steve Wick's unique access to Shirer's archives--including never-before-seen journals andletters--The Long Night fleshes out the details of the maverick journalist's adventures in Europe, delivering a new, rich perspective on the Third Reich"-- Provided by publisher.
Jewish Art and Civilization
Published in 1972
Detailed review of topics in the study of Jewish art and civilization. Top flight research and great illustrations.
