Kategoria BISAC: History >> Modern - 20th Century - Holocaust

In this collection of stories and essays, unexpected events of everyday life become a springboard to examine deeper layers of meaning. A bowl shattering for no apparent reason leads to musings about other abrupt endings, a chance encounter engenders a new friendship, a meeting with a Catholic nun provokes reexamination of faith. Freda Warrington’s humorous and ironic approach yields nuggets of wisdom – whether she explores her Jewish roots, relates cheese blintzes to love, reflects on old age, worries about how to enjoy her fancy Hermes scarf, or traces the amazing history of a...

Set in the deteriorating north end of Springfield, Massachusetts in the 1950s and early 60s, Surviving Remnant is Hanna Perlstein Marcus' sequel to her award-winning memoir, Sidonia's Thread. In Surviving Remnant, she recreates her childhood community of ambitious, humorous, and resilient immigrant refugees who occupy an apartment building, eager to adapt to their new homeland and build new lives for themselves and their children in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Within the backdrop of the acculturation of these new American residents, we meet the group of individuals and families...

Das Agypten des fruhen 20. Jahrhunderts war nicht nur Drehscheibe fur Agyptenbegeisterte, sondern besa auch eine deutsche Seite. Der 'deutschen Kolonie' verliehen der Agyptologe Ludwig Borchardt und seine Ehefrau Mimi Cohen uber Jahrzehnte ihre Pragung. Ebenso wie die andern Deutschen judischer Herkunft wurden sie nach der Machtubergabe an die Nationalsozialisten von der agyptendeutschen Gesellschaft, die mehrheitlich auf nationalsozialistische Linie umschwenkte, ausgegrenzt und der Verfolgung ausgesetzt. Zu Passivitat sahen sich die Betroffenen nicht verurteilt. Nicht nur das Ehepaar...

Originally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kessel's Army of Shadows is one of the first books to have been written about the French Resistance. Now available in paperback, Contra Mundum Press is proud to present the first new translation in over 70 years, and the first edition since Jean-Pierre Melville's iconic 1969 film.

"What, then, when it comes to recounting the story of France, an obscure, secret France, which is new to its friends, its enemies, and new especially to itself? France no longer has bread, wine, fire. But mainly it no longer has any laws....

Aaron Berman takes a moderate and measured approach to one of the most emotional issues in American Jewish historiography, namely, the response of American Jews to Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry.In remarkably large numbers, American Jews joined the Zionist crusade to create a Jewish state that would finally end the problem of Jewish homelessness, which they believed was the basic cause not only of the Holocaust but of all anti-Semitism. Though American Zionists could justly claim credit for the successful establishment of Israel in 1948, this triumph was not without cost....