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A Cup of Tears-a diary of the Warsaw Ghetto |
| Author: |
Abraham Lewin |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
Anton Polonsky' translation of a diary by Christopher Hutton |
Copyright: |
1989 |
| Publisher: |
Basil Blackwell/Inst. for Polish-Jewish Studies, Oxford |
Place: |
Oxford |
| Description: |
Eyewitness account of what life was like before and during the roundups and in the Warsaw Ghetto. The man did not survive but his diary did. He, like many others who wrote under these inhuman circumstances were writing for posterity, to act as witnesses. |
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A Tale of Love and Darkness |
| Author: |
Amos Oz |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
2005 |
| Publisher: |
Vintage, Random House |
Place: |
20 Vauxhall Bridge Rd.,SW1V 2SA |
| Description: |
The finest and best written auto-biography I have ever read. Oz is a master writer and weaver of tales both dark and light, funny and tragic. Read this book!!! Now! Know what it is like to grow up in Israel when she and Oz both come of age. |
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As A Driven Leaf (Elisha ben Abuyah) |
| Author: |
Milton Steinberg |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1939/1996 |
| Publisher: |
Behrman House, Inc. |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
The conservative rabbi's novel as an attempt to reveal Talmudic times and the life of the famous Rabbinic Sage. Interesting and indicative of a man whose Judaic knowledge is vast and whose mind-set is open to all possibilities. |
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Days of Sorrow and Pain-Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews |
| Author: |
Leonard Baker |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1978 |
| Publisher: |
Oxford University Press |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
The plight of German Jewry and the role and leadership which Rabbi Leo Baeck played. Biography which won the Pulitzer Priss, covers the periods form the turn of the century until his death. A must read. |
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Eban |
| Author: |
Robert St. John |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1973 |
| Publisher: |
Howard and Wyndham Ltd |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
Fairly comprehensive biography of the prolific writer statesman, Abba Eban, which was approved by the subject himself. Plenty of positive information but also a fine account of a man who has done a great deal over the years both for Israel and in terms o |
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Elli, The Coming of Age in the Holocaust |
| Author: |
Livia E. Bitton Jackson |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1980 |
| Publisher: |
Times Books |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
First-person account of a woman's survival of the concentration camp of Auschwitz. Heart-rending, of course, but also an inspiration for the ability of human beings to overcome the most horrendous and create good out of the ashes. |
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For Those I Loved |
| Author: |
Martin Gray |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
Trans. (from French) Anthony White |
Copyright: |
1973 |
| Publisher: |
The Bodley Head Ltd. (Unwin Brothers Ltd.) |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
Story of a concentration camp refugee who relives his nightmares years after the war when tragedy strikes him again. First hand account of his life. Not for the faint-hearted. |
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Ghetto Diary, The Last Walk of Janusz Korczak |
| Author: |
Aaron Zeitlin |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1978 |
| Publisher: |
Holocaust Library |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
The inspiring and selfless life of Janusz Korxzak who despite the option of escaping, stated in Treblinka to care for others as head of the orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto. He died with his 200 children in the gas chambers of Treblinka. Hs diary survived a |
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GM: As Good As Golda, The warmth & wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister |
| Author: |
- |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
Israel and Mary Shenker |
Copyright: |
1970 |
| Publisher: |
McCall Publishing Company |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
Schmaltzy rendition of Golda Meir's contribution to Israel. Popular and totally biased, this is not necessary an historical document but a loving tribute to the late prime minister from two of her admirers. Can't believe this is a book and not a magazine |
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I am a Woman and a Jew |
| Author: |
Leah Morton |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
Jonathan Sarna |
Copyright: |
1926, 1986 |
| Publisher: |
Markus Wiener Publishing |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
Compelling story of a woman who tries to escape her Jewish roots and assimilate completely into gentile society but as her intellect and psyche mature, she keeps coming back to her Jewish roots and begins to celebrate being a Jew, even in a society that i |
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I Shall Bear Witness, The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1933-41 |
| Author: |
Victor Klemperer; Trans. By Martin Chalmers |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1998 |
| Publisher: |
Weidenfeld & Ni8colson, Orion Publishing Group, Ltd. |
Place: |
Orion House, 5 Upper St.Martin's Lane, London, WC2H 9EA |
| Description: |
Detailed diaries from academic man who living in Dresden to an Aryan woman, somehow managed to survive the Nazi period and live until 1960. The detail of this Jewish man's experience is what makes the book valuable though it is not light reading and the |
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In the Eye of the Storm |
| Author: |
Uri Lichter |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1987 |
| Publisher: |
Holocaust Library |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
Uri's story begins in Lvov in Poland , ends up in Auschwitz and then to escape. Through the help of one righteous Polish family, his sister manages to survive. His is a story of survival through subterfuge and deception and eventual escape. |
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Musical Stages |
| Author: |
Richard Rodgers |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1975 |
| Publisher: |
Random House |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
Lovely autobiography from one of the most famous American Musical composers of all time. His contacts, his long history in the music business, his warm Jewish background all make this delightful reading. |
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My Life, The Autobiography of Golda Meir |
| Author: |
Golda Meir |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1976 |
| Publisher: |
Futura Publications Ltd. |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
Good personal and political reflection on one's life from one tough lady. Meir begins with her earliest beginnings in Russia, America, and then Israel. Book ends with the Yom Kippur War. The term Iron Lady started with Meir, not Thatcher who pales by co |
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On Both Sides of the Wall |
| Author: |
Vladka Meed |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
Translated by Dr. Steven Meed; Intro. Elie Wiesel |
Copyright: |
1979 |
| Publisher: |
Holocaust Library |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
One woman's experiences from 1942 to the present; she survived the Warsaw Ghetto and became a witness. It's personal and insightful accounti8ng is well worth reading. |
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Out of the Hitler Time |
| Author: |
Judith Kerr |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
2002 |
| Publisher: |
Wm Collins & Sons and Co., Ltd. (Harper/Collins Publishers Ltd.) |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
Trilogy of three novels based on Kerr's personal experience: 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit,' 'Bombs on Aunt Dainty,' and 'A Small Person Far Away.' Novels are told through the eyes of a young German girl, Anna, who had to flee from the Nazis just before |
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Recollections of a Jewish Childhood |
| Author: |
Iris Blain, author and illustrator |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1987 |
| Publisher: |
Peacock Publishing Ltd. |
Place: |
Bonchurch, Isle of Wight |
| Description: |
Beautiful illustrations of Jewish 'rites of passage' illustrated and commented on by Iris Blaine, well-known London artist with introduction by Rabbi Lionel Blue. |
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Somewhere To Hang My Hat |
| Author: |
Stanley Price |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
2002 |
| Publisher: |
New Island |
Place: |
Dublin, Ireland |
| Description: |
Wonderful and warm account of Price's Irish-Jewish (nee Lithuania) journey from childhood to adulthood. Anyone with a UK background will identify with his experiences, points of reference and the sad and humorous moments of family life. Accounts the detai |
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Survival in Auschwitz |
| Author: |
Primo Levi |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
Translated. from Italian by Stuart Woolf |
Copyright: |
1958 |
| Publisher: |
Collier Books (MacMillan Pub. Co) |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
Account of Primo Levi's experiences during the holocaust when he was a prisoner in Auschwitz. Covers and refers to some of his writings which ultimately came out of that experience. Anything by Levi is worth reading. |
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Surviving Treblinka |
| Author: |
Samuel Willenbrg |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
Wladyslaw T. Bartoszewski; translation by Naftali Greenwood |
Copyright: |
1989 |
| Publisher: |
Basil Blackwell/Inst. for Polish-Jewish Studies, Oxford |
Place: |
Oxford |
| Description: |
Told by someone who survived Treblinka (very few did to act as witnesses), this eyewitness account speaks for all those who perished. His survival, like others, was based purely on luck and the help of people along the way. Valuable testimony. |
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The Story of a Life-Aharon Appelfeld |
| Author: |
Aharon Appelfeld |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
2004 |
| Publisher: |
Hamish Hamilton of Penguin Books |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
Aharon's life is a miracle. After being incarcerated in the camps he manages to escape at ten years of age and lives on berries and roots for two years in the Ukraine Forest before trekking South to Italy and finally to Israel after the war ends. As a wit |
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Weizmann, His Life and Times |
| Author: |
H. M. Blumberg |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1975 |
| Publisher: |
American Israel Publishing Co., Ltd. |
Place: |
Tel Aviv |
| Description: |
Outlines the life of Weizmann with plenty of pictorials. A pro-Weizmann biography done as a tribute rather than a critical study. |
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White Nights |
| Author: |
Menachem Begin |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1978 |
| Publisher: |
Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd. |
Place: |
Aylesbury, Bucks |
| Description: |
Menachem Begin's blow by blow description of his experience in a Siberian labour camp after his arrest in Poland during the second world war when the Russians occupied that country. |
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Wilfrid Israel, German Jewry's Secret Ambassador |
| Author: |
Naomi Shepherd |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1984 |
| Publisher: |
Weidenfeld and Nicolson |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
One of the great unsung heroes who managed to use his power, expertise and great diplomatic skills to rescue countless Jews from Germany during the Nazi era. Working under cover, this talented man, British born, not only rescued fellow Jews in Germany, bu |
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