Jews and the Left: The Rise and Fall of a Political Alliance by Philip Mendes
145.00 AUD
Category: Judaica
The disproportionate historical contribution of Jews to the political Left has been well documented. It can in fact be argued that from approximately 1848 till 1970, an informal political alliance existed between Jews and the political Left. This was never an alliance of all Jews and all Left groups. Bu ...Show more
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery by Witold Pilecki
69.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and reported from inside the camp. His intelligence reports, smuggled out in 1941, were among the first ...Show more
The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel by Uri Bar-Joseph
54.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
A gripping feat of reportage that exposes-for the first time in English-the sensational life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian senior official who spied for Israel, offering new insight into the turbulent modern history of the Middle East. As the son-in-law of Egyptian president Gamal A ...Show more
Israel's Edge: Talpiot -- The Idf's Most Elite Unit by Jason Gewirtz
36.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
This book is about the most elite unit in the Israeli army, Talpiot. Instead of only being trained to fight the soldiers brought into this unit are taught how to think. The book details how this unit which specialises in teaching young cadets the military applications for computer science, physics and m ...Show more
Tales from Weird Street by Anne Fine
11.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
The children of Weir(d) Street are lazing about one sunny day when they challenge each other to tell stories of all the odd goings-on in their neighbourhood. A grandfather's guilt at the long-ago death of his twin brother, a young waiter whose rude customers get more than they bargain for, and a hard-wo ...Show more
Redemption and Utopia: Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe by Michael Lowy
19.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Description: Towards the end of the 19th century, there appeared in Central Europe a generation of Jewish intellectuals whose work was to mark modern culture. Drawing at once on the traditions of German Romanticism and Jewish messianism, their thought was organized around the cabbalistic idea of the "ti ...Show more
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe
19.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoken and radical thinkers writing on the history of Israel. In this groundbreaking and controversialbook he examines ten of the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel. Once andfor all he explodes the myths that just ...Show more
Lucia the Luchadora by Cynthia Leonor Garza
27.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Reading Level: From 5
Lucia zips through the playground in her cape just like the boys, but when they tell her 'girls can't be superheroes', suddenly she doesn't feel so mighty. That's when her beloved abuela reveals a dazzling secret: Lucia comes from a family of luchadoras, the bold and valiant women of the Mexican lucha l ...Show more
Gaza Unsilenced by ALAREER REFAAT & EL HADDAD LAILA
39.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
During Israel's lengthy 2014 assault on Gaza, voices worldwide rose in stunned protest. Using numerous creative means, Palestinians and their allies bore witness to the Israeli attacks--and to the siege that has strangled Gaza ever since. Gaza Unsilenced foregrounds the words and images with which Gaza ...Show more
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
18.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Reading Level: 9-11
A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely f ...Show more
Sons and Soldiers: The Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned for Retribution by Bruce Henderson
32.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
The story of young German Jews who escaped the Nazis, most often without their families, only to return a few years later to war-torn Europe as members of an elite secret U.S. Army unit. The young men who would become known as "The Ritchie Boys" arrived in America as "enemy aliens," and although they we ...Show more