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Jewish History

Rosenberg's family emigrated from Sweden to Israel in 1962. This is his memoir of that time, and his subsequent grappling with the hopes, doubts, mythologies, deceptions and erasures that he... read more

Israel

Göran Rosenberg

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Born in Cardiff and now a Silicon Valley tycoon, MM explores his family's Jewish and European roots.

Auslander: One Family’s Story of Escape and Exile ...

Michael Moritz

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It wasn't until adulthood that the author discovered that his parents were Jewish and that his mother was a survivor of Auschwitz and Ravensbrück.

Himmler’s Curtains: A Memoir of Loss and Concealment ...

Simon Weisz

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A careful and even study of modern antisemitism by a leading historian, sensitive to the changing definitions of the term.

On Antisemitism: A Word in History

Mark Mazower

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The concluding volume in his thorough quartet on German history. Well illustrated, this book details the Nazi rise to power through the development of the persecution of the Jews.

The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933-1945

Frank McDonough

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Maine 1919: a return to the world of his bestselling classic The Cider House Rules. Esther, a Jewish orphan, is adopted by the Winslow family. The novel follows her life as she retraces her ... read more

Queen Esther

John Irving

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Seldon walked a thousand miles along the Western Front and wrote about it movingly in The Path of Peace. Now he's walked from where WWI ended to Auschwitz. Much anticipated.

The Path of Light: Walking to Auschwitz

Anthony Seldon

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Rey Conquer was translator-in-residence at Holocaust Centre North, where they explored the personal archives of people persecuted by the Nazis. Expecting to find instances of poetic language... read more

Conversation Time

Rey Conquer

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The story of four remarkable French women who belonged to different Resistance cells. Arrested by the Gestapo, they were sent to Ravensbr?ck. They survived - and joined forces after the war.

The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How An Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Re ...

Lynne Olson

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Literary/political account of the author's visit to Israel in 1975, in which he gives voice to those he encounters: government notables, famous writers, barbers... and offers his particular ... read more

To Jerusalem and Back

Saul Bellow

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A carefully researched account of the fifty women who made up the orchestra. A niece of Mahler's was one, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch MBE another. Friendship, coercion, collaboration, cruelty and... read more

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival ...

Anne Sebba

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By the American professor of journalism and political science.

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza

Peter Beinart

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A superb illustrated study of the buildings, gardens, art collections and inhabitants of thirteen houses and of the social contexts in which these palaces emerged. These remarkable and somet... read more

Jewish Country Houses

Juliet Carey

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A biography of the extraordinary Felix Kersten, a Finnish masseur who was co-opted by Himmler as his physician and used his position to save (it is estimated) 100,000 lives.

Kersten’s Lists: A Saviour in the Depths of Hell ...

François Kersaudy

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Besides telling the dismal, astounding story of one of the world's most notorious miscarriages of justice, this new account seeks out the life of the young French officer before he was consu... read more

Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair ...

Maurice Samuels

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Accompanies an exhibition at the Prado.

The Lost Mirror: Jews and Conversos in Medieval Spain ...

Joan Molina Figueras

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The author's investigation of her family's history and her own identity was sparked by the arrival of an anonymous postcard bearing four names that arrived over forty years after those four ... read more

The Postcard

Anne Berest

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All that remains of the Osnabruk synagogue is a small pile of stones and some chickenwire: a space of oblivion in the German city explored by Cixous, whose Jewish mother came from there.

Well-Kept Ruins

Hélène Cixous

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In the period 1917-1921, between 100,000 and 250,000 Jews were murdered across Ukraine. Brahin, a genealogist, traces her grandmother's family history through multiple sources.

Tears Over Russia: A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine’ ...

Lisa Brahin

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From the Persian sack in 614AD to the end of the Crusaders. Hosler argues that despite horrific acts of violence, the medieval period is also one of tolerance, when the city's conquerors oft... read more

Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace

John D. Hosler

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Born in Austrian Galicia in what is now Ukraine, Schulz is one of the great Eastern European writers of the C20th. Sadly - and oddly - he has been out of print for several years; we are ther... read more

Nocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories

Bruno Schulz

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The remarkable story of the author's Jewish grandmother, whose bestselling Viennese cookbook was expropriated by the Nazis after the Anschluss in 1938 and republished for decades under a fal... read more

Alice’s Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother’s Cookboo ...

Karina Urbach

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The author's Jewish father reached England from Latvia in 1939, only to be shipped to Canada as an enemy alien; his parents were deported from Bavaria to the Riga Ghetto, where they died. In... read more

The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution ...

Peter Bradley

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The story of Anna Essinger, a German Jewish teacher who smuggled her school to England in 1933 and then fielded children arriving on the Kindertransport.

The School That Escaped the Nazis

Deborah Cadbury

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An important book about historical accountability, which was sparked by the author's discovery that a convicted Nazi who had been dead for 50 years was about to have his crimes pardoned in a... read more

Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends

Linda Kinstler

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Jewish, Palestinian, African, Indian, Greek, Syriac, Armenian, Dom Gypsy, Sufi...

Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City ...

Matthew Teller

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MS is an outstanding literary voice in contemporary Russia: here she creates a portrait of three Russian-Jewish generations sifted from the detritus in a late aunt's flat. This book is diff... read more

In Memory of Memory

Maria Stepanova

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SM's parents were German Jewish refugees; he was raised a Catholic and forbidden to identify as Jewish or German or British. His maternal aunts concealed their origins too and had very diffe... read more

How to Be a Refugee: One Family’s Story of Exile and Belonging ...

Simon May

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Of the 50,000 Jews who were sent to concentration camps from Salonika, only 2,000 returned. The author is one of them. This manuscript from 1948 is presented by his grandson.

Talking Until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica, 1941-44 ...

Isaac Matarasso

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The contents of a shoebox in America led the author to discover her grandmmother's family, from Picasso in Paris, Dior and Chagall to a farmhouse in the Auvergne, Auschwitz and Long Island. ... read more

House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish fa ...

Hadley Freeman

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