Writing the Holocaust by Jean-Marc Dreyfuss
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Category: Judaica | Series: Writing History
Writing the Holocaust provides students and teachers with an accessibly written overview of the key themes and major theoretical developments which continue to inform the nature of historical writing on the Holocaust. Holocaust studies is at a paradox: while historians of the Holocaust defend it as a le ...Show more
My Name is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank by Jacqueline van Maarsen
24.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
<b>This is a fascinating and very moving account of a remarkable friendship.</b> "For years after Anne Frank's diary was published, the identity of her 'best friend' was secret. Then [author Jacqueline] van Maarsen owned up. Now she has written about the Anne she knew - vain, pretty, sexuall ...Show more
Ashes in the Wind by Jacob Presser
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Category: Judaica
Setting out the processes that allowed the Nazis to perpetuate mass murder, this detailed history documents the destruction of Dutch Jewry, from isolation to deportation and, ultimately, extermination. Focusing on a country often forgotten in Holocaust histories, this comprehensive account describes how ...Show more
When They Come for Us, We'll be Gone: the Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry by Gal Beckerman
36.00 AUD
Category: Judaica
Drawing on newly released Soviet government documents as well as hundreds of oral interviews with refuseniks, activists, Zionist "hooligans," and Congressional staffers, the author shows not only how the movement led to a mass exodus in 1989, but also how it shaped the American Jewish community.
From Palestine to Israel : A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950 by Ariella Azoulay
39.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
In this carefully curated and beautifully presented photobook, Ariella Azoulay offers a new perspective on four crucial years in the history of Palestine/Israel. The book reconstructs the processes by which the Palestinian majority in Mandatory Palestine became a minority in Israel, while the Jewish mi ...Show more
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History by Ian J. Bickerton
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Category: Judaica | Series: Contemporary Worlds S.
The proclamation of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948 was an epochal event in the history of Jews, Muslims, and Christians, and its impact resounded not only across the Middle East but also throughout the world. The resulting conflict between Arabs and Israelis for sovereignty over Palestine has been o ...Show more
The Holocaust is Over; We Must Rise from Its Ashes by Avraham Burg
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Category: Judaica
Modern day Israel, and the Jewish community, is strongly influenced by the memory and horrors of Hitler and the Holocaust. Burg argues that the Jewish nation has been traumatized and has lost the ability to trust itself, its neighbors or the world around it. He shows that this is one of the causes for t ...Show more
Death, Bereavement, and Mourning by Samuel C. Heilman
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Category: Judaica
The contributions to this volume are based on a conference held in New York on the first anniversary of September 11, 2001. Contributors include Peter Metcalf, Robert Jay Lifton, Ilana Harlow, Robert A. Neimeyer, Samuel Heilman, and Neil Gillman. This sensitive and heartfelt volume relates specifically ...Show more
Cosmopolitans and Parochials: Modern Orthodox Jews in America by Samuel C. Heilman
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Category: Judaica
Far from simply vanishing in the face of modernity, Orthodox Jews in the United States today are surviving and flourishing. Samuel C. Heilman and Steven M. Cohen, both distinguished scholars of Jewish studies, have joined forces in this pathbreaking book to articulate this vibrancy and to characterize t ...Show more
1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East by Tom Segev
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Category: Judaica
"A marvelous achievement . . . Anyone curious about the extraordinary six days of Arab-Israeli war will learn much from it."--"The Economist" Tom Segev's acclaimed "One Palestine, Complete" and "The Seventh Million" overturned accepted views of the history of Israel. Now, in "1967," he brings his maste ...Show more
1949: the First Israelis by Tom Segev
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Category: Judaica
The founding of Israel in 1948 - one of the seminal events of the century - offers a dramatic narrative with few parallels in modern history. In 1949, a controversial best-seller in Israel, Tom Segev draws on thousands of declassified documents along with personal diaries and correspondence to reconstru ...Show more
Hand in Hand: Jewish and Indigenous People Working Together by Anne Sarzin
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Category: Judaica
Hand in Hand: Jewish and Indigenous people working together is an inspiring account of a journey of care and understanding being undertaken by two very significant Australian communities - the Australian Jewish community on the one hand, and on the other, Australia's Indigenous Community - The First Aus ...Show more