In June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee of their complete exodus from this North African land in 1967, which began with a mass migration to Israel in 1948-49. Jewish Libya collects the work of scholars who explore the community's history, its literature and dialect, topography and cuisine, and the difficult negotiation of trauma and memory.
In June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee of their complete exodus from this North African land in 1967, which began with a mass migrat...
Please, Mama, I don t want to live like this, pleaded twelve-year-old Estelle Glaser s older sister as they watched the bodies of friends dangle from the gibbet in the center of Warsaw s Apel Platz. I cannot take the indignities and brutalities. Let s step forward and make them kill us now. But Estelle s mother fiercely responded to her two daughters: No Life is sacred. It is noble to fight to stay alive. Their mother s indomitable will was a major factor in the trio s survival in the face of brutal odds. But Estelle recognized other heroes in the ghetto as well, righteous individuals who...
Please, Mama, I don t want to live like this, pleaded twelve-year-old Estelle Glaser s older sister as they watched the bodies of friends dangle from ...
How does a society reconcile itself in a post-genocide era? How can generations of those whose families were victims and victimizers break the cycle of hate, mistrust, shame, and guilt that characterizes their relationship? What family reactions do they face as they seek to begin the act of sitting across from each other and facing their legacies? For more than two decades, Gottfried Wagner, great-grandson of composer Richard Wagner, whose music inspired Adolf Hitler and whose family helped the Nazis rise to power, and Abraham J. Peck, the son of two survivors whose entire families were...
How does a society reconcile itself in a post-genocide era? How can generations of those whose families were victims and victimizers break the cycle o...
How does a society reconcile itself in a post-genocide era? How can generations of those whose families were victims and victimizers break the cycle of hate, mistrust, shame, and guilt that characterizes their relationship? What family reactions do they face as they seek to begin the act of sitting across from each other and facing their legacies? For more than two decades, Gottfried Wagner, great-grandson of composer Richard Wagner, whose music inspired Adolf Hitler and whose family helped the Nazis rise to power, and Abraham J. Peck, the son of two survivors whose entire families were...
How does a society reconcile itself in a post-genocide era? How can generations of those whose families were victims and victimizers break the cycle o...
Under the legal and administrative system of Nazi Germany, people categorized as Fremdvolkische (literally, foreign people ) were subject to special laws that restricted their rights, limited their protection under the law, and exposed them to extraordinary legal sanctions and brutal, extralegal police actions. These special laws, one of the central constitutional principles of the Third Reich, applied to anyone perceived as different or racially inferior, whether German citizens or not. " Non-Germans under the Third Reich" traces the establishment and evolution of these laws from the...
Under the legal and administrative system of Nazi Germany, people categorized as Fremdvolkische (literally, foreign people ) were subject to special l...
"Preserving the collective memory of a community that is no more" Seven decades after the Nazis annihilated the Jewish community of Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland, comes a gripping eyewitness narrative told by one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, as well as through first-hand accounts of other Tomaszow survivors. This unique communal memoir presents a rare view of Eastern European Jewry, before, during, and after World War II. It is both the memoir of a child and of a lost Jewish community, an unvarnished story in which disputes, controversy, and scandal all play a role in...
"Preserving the collective memory of a community that is no more" Seven decades after the Nazis annihilated the Jewish community of Tomaszow-Mazo...
"An American "Dreyfus Affair"" By all accounts, Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish commodore in the U.S. Navy, was both a principled and pugnacious man. On his way to becoming a flag officer, he was subjected to six courts-martial and engaged in a duel, all in response to antisemitic taunts and harassment from his fellow officers. Yet he never lost his love of country or desire to serve in its navy. When the navy tried to boot him out, he took his case to the highest court and won. This richly detailed historical novel closely follows the actual events of Levy s life: running away...
"An American "Dreyfus Affair"" By all accounts, Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish commodore in the U.S. Navy, was both a principled and pugna...
"Revised and updated, with previously unpublished material, and a new Introduction and Afterword" A young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer, Jan Karski joined the Polish Underground movement in 1939. He became a courier for the Underground, crossing enemy lines to serve as a liaison between occupied Poland and the free world. In 1942, Jewish leaders asked him to carry a desperate message to Allied leaders: the news of Hitler's effort to exterminate the Jews of Europe. To be able to deliver an authentic report, Karski twice toured the Warsaw Ghetto in disguise and later...
"Revised and updated, with previously unpublished material, and a new Introduction and Afterword" A young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer,...
During his long career, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise received letters with only two words written on the envelope: Rabbi USA. But the United States Postal Service was never in doubt about the intended recipient: there was only one Rabbi USA. No other rabbi before or since Wise has dominated the American and the international scene with such passion and power. Both his admirers and opponents there was no shortage of either group acknowledged him as the premier leader of the American Jewish community and a major political figure. " Pillar of Fire" goes behind the headlines and the...
During his long career, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise received letters with only two words written on the envelope: Rabbi USA. But the United States ...
Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, frightened parents were forced to find refuge for their children, far from the escalating anti-Jewish violence. To that end, a courageous group of Belgian women organized a desperate and highly dangerous rescue mission to usher nearly 1,000 children out of Germany and Austria. Of these children, ninety-three were placed on a freight train, traveling through the night away from their families and into the relative safety of Vichy France. Ranging in age from five to sixteen years, the children along with their protectors spent a...
Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, frightened parents were forced to find refuge for their children, far from the escalati...
