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A History of the Jewish Experience |
| Author: |
Leo Trepp |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1962,1973(revisions) |
| Publisher: |
Behrman House, Inc. |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
A complete history of the Jewish people from Sinai to modern American Judaism and the various religious movements. Included are aspects of Zionism, Anti-Semitism, Philosophy, as we;; as the rituals and festivals encompassing Judaism. He covers an awful |
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A History of the Jews (Revised Ed.) |
| Author: |
Solomon Grayzel |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1984 |
| Publisher: |
New American Library [Meridian] |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
Academic and straight forward account of the history of the Jews from their early days in Jerusalem through the Diaspora and finally, to a homeland in Israel. Maps illustrate some of the wanderings through the 4,000 year account. Whew! Small print. Not |
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A Report on the Banality of Evil: Eichman in Jerusalem |
| Author: |
Hanah Arendt |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1963-1977 |
| Publisher: |
Penguin Books (Viking) |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
This revised edition reports on the capture, trial and aftermath of Adolph Eichman. Originally appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker and later revised. |
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A village by the Jordan, The Story of Degania |
| Author: |
Jospeh Baratz |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1960 |
| Publisher: |
Press Dept. of Ichud Habonim |
Place: |
78 Hayarkon St., Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Description: |
Autobiographical history of Baratz' life from 1910 to present on the Degania Kibbutz. If you want to know what life was like in the early days, this first-hand account gives you insights you probably never had before. Uplifting and realistic. Baratz knew |
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Ancient Cities and Temples-Jerusalem |
| Author: |
Michel Join-Lambert |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
Translator: Charlotte Haldane |
Copyright: |
1958 |
| Publisher: |
Elek Books Ltd. |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
Maps and historical background to Jerusalem: the Hebrew City, The Christian City and the Moslem City. |
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Ancient Records of Egypt, Five Volumes |
| Author: |
James Henry Breasted |
Volume: |
Five Volumes One Through Five (Parts 1-5 |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1988 |
| Publisher: |
Histories & Mysteries of Man Ltd. |
Place: |
The Grassmill, 1 Battersea Bridge Rd. London |
| Description: |
Exceptionally researched and detailed account of historical documents from the First to the twenty-sixth Dynasties up to the Persian Conquest first published in 1905 by Breasted. Not a monument or temple unturned, or rather unread. If you ever wondered w |
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Anti-Semitism, The Longest Hatred |
| Author: |
Robert S. Wistrich |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1991 |
| Publisher: |
Methuen London |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
User-friendly and informative history of anti-Semitism from its Pagan roots, through the Middle Ages, to Hitler's 'Final Solution.' This includes also the Jews in Islamic lands, and enemies of Jews in Britain, America, France and Eastern Europe. |
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Auschwitz |
| Author: |
DR. Miklos Nyiszli |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
Translated from the Hungarian by Richard Seaver and Tibere Kremer |
Copyright: |
1973-1982 |
| Publisher: |
Granada (Mayflower Book) |
Place: |
London/New York |
| Description: |
Brought to Auschwitz, Dr. Nyiszli was forced to direct the medical pathology of prisoners under the direction of the infamous Josef Mengele. This is his account. Harrowing. |
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Between Arab and Israeli |
| Author: |
Lt.-Gen. E. L. M. Burns |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1962 |
| Publisher: |
Clark, Irwin, and company Ltd. |
Place: |
Toronto/Van Couver |
| Description: |
Experiences of Burns when he worked for the United Nations in the Middle East from 1954-1957. |
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Both Sides of the Hill: Britain and The Palestine War |
| Author: |
Jon and David Kimche |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1960 |
| Publisher: |
Secker & Warburg |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
These two contemporary historians have done an in-depth analysis of the independence movement and wars that ensued in Israel. Comprehensive and pro-Israel (thank goodness; someone has to be), these two writers talked with everyone who was anyone, displaye |
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Brothers in Arms |
| Author: |
Peter Duffy |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
2003 |
| Publisher: |
MacKays of Chatham, PLC |
Place: |
Chatham Kent, MacKays of Chatham, plc, by arrangement with Century, Random House Group. Ltd. |
| Description: |
The remarkable story of the Bielski brothers who built a secret town in the heart of the forest to save Jews from the Nazis. The three Bielski brothers, Tuvia, Asael, and Zus, managed to save over 1200 Jews in a Belorussian forest. These heroes, until now |
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Churban-Jewish responses to Churban, the murder of Jews of Europe |
| Author: |
Tony Bayfield |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1981 |
| Publisher: |
Michael Goulston Ed.Foundation(1981);Garden City Press Ltd., |
Place: |
London/Letchworth, Herts |
| Description: |
A fine text to be used in teaching the holocaust, R. Bayfield's Churban covers, not the Babylonian or the Roman Churbanim, but the Nazi years, covering the time when Hitler came to power until the Nuremberg Trials and the present state of world Jewry. |
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Exodus Revisited |
| Author: |
Leon Uris |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1962 |
| Publisher: |
Bantam Book, Doubleday & Co., Inc. |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
Pictorial account of those who made it off The Exodus and settled in Israel; lovely study of the early Israelis. Also, a good 'tour' of the country and the main sites. Photographs by Dimitrious Harissiadis. |
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Forged in Fury |
| Author: |
Michael Elkins |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1971 |
| Publisher: |
Transworld Publishers Ltd. |
Place: |
Ealing, London |
| Description: |
The story of 'DIN' a group of concentration camp survivors who organised themselves into a unit whose purpose was to avenge the death of their fellow Jews at the hands of the Nazis. |
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From East End to Land's End |
| Author: |
Susan Soyinka |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
2010 |
| Publisher: |
The Derby Books Publishing Co.,Ltd. |
Place: |
Derby, DE21 4SZ |
| Description: |
The good book for all the Cornish Jews to read; there will be people you know and people you wish you had known. Susan Soyinka's book covers the war years (WWII) when Jews were evacuated from the Jews Free School in London, to Mousehole, Cornwall. Their e |
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From East End to Land's End |
| Author: |
Susan Soyinka |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
2010 |
| Publisher: |
Derby Books pub. Co Ltd. |
Place: |
3 The Parker Centre, Derby DE21 4SZ |
| Description: |
Endearing local history of the evacuation of Jews' Free School in London to Mousehole, Cornwall, during World War Two. |
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Ghetto in Flames |
| Author: |
Dr. Yitzhak Arad |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1982 |
| Publisher: |
Holocaust Library |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
Based on personal experience, the story of the Jews of Vilna and the Warsaw Ghetto and what happened to so many and how the lucky ones survived to be witnesses. |
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Harvet of Hate, Nazi Program for the Destruction of Jews of Europe |
| Author: |
Leon Poliakov |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1951, 1979 |
| Publisher: |
Holocaust Library |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
An overall but readable and concise overview of the holocaust from the beginnings of the rise of Nazis in Germany in 1938, through the persecutions, ghettoes, cam, Jewish resistances, and the aftermath. A good way to start to study the holocaust. |
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Heritage, Civilisation and the Jews |
| Author: |
Abba Eban |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
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Copyright: |
1984 |
| Publisher: |
Summit books |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
The verbose and prolific Abba Eban goes through the history of our people with good illustrations. Well thought out and good overview of a very long and detailed chronology. |
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History of the Jews |
| Author: |
H. Graetz |
Volume: |
Six Volumes |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1891 |
| Publisher: |
The Jewish Publication Society of America |
Place: |
Philadelphia, PA |
| Description: |
Vol. I: From the earliest period to the death of Simon The Maccabee[135 BCE]; Vol.II: From the Reign of Hyrcanus [135 BCE] to the completion of the Babylonia Talmud [500 CE]; Vol. V: From the Chmielnicki persecution of the Jews in Poland [1648 CE] to the |
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I Came Alone |
| Author: |
Bertha Leverton and Shmuel Lowensohn |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
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Copyright: |
1990, 1996 |
| Publisher: |
The Book Guild Ltd |
Place: |
Sussex |
| Description: |
Berta Leverton's tribute to the kinders of the Kindertransport. She is the guiding light who organised and founded the reunions of those who were on the trains leaving their parents and coming to England to be saved from the Nazis. Poignant, heart-rending |
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Islam, A Short History |
| Author: |
Karen Armstrong |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
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Copyright: |
2001 |
| Publisher: |
Phoenix Press |
Place: |
5 Upper St. Martin's Lane, London WC2H 9EA |
| Description: |
A good historical precise of Islam from the time of The Prophet(570 CE) through the modern Islam. Tends to explain the contributions of Islam, rather than emphasise the beliefs. Armstrong, a well respected teacher at Leo Baeck College, he work has been ac |
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Israel and the World's Mock Trial: The Shame |
| Author: |
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Volume: |
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| Editor: |
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Copyright: |
11.09.2007 |
| Publisher: |
www.answeringislamorg/walid/israel.htm |
Place: |
Israel |
| Description: |
Book which is unbound but presents a case for Israel which few people seem to grasp in the world outside of mainstream Jewry. A good read for someone who wants to have not only knowledge but some comebacks when being criticised for the state of Israel. |
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Israel, the First Forty Years |
| Author: |
Abba Eban |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
William Frankel |
Copyright: |
1987 |
| Publisher: |
Charles Scribner's Sons |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
Lovely commentary from someone who's been there and 'done that' and can talk knowledgeably and endlessly about Israel and its history. Pictures and background make it well worth reading. |
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Israel: Pictorial Guide |
| Author: |
- |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
2000(?) |
| Publisher: |
Israeli Museum, Jerusalem & Palphot Ltd. |
Place: |
POB 2, Herzila, Israel |
| Description: |
Wonderful pictorial travelogue of the famous historical sites throughout Israel. |
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