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Dreamer of the Ghetto
"An impressive achievement. . . . Udelson provides a trenchant analysis of Zangwill's works set within a historical context, i.e., Jewish emancipation and the dilemma of how one …
A Hebrew Chronicle from Prague, C. 1615
Translated by Leon J. Weinberger with Dena Ordan This slender anonymous work, spanning 1389 to 1611, presents the priorities and concerns of a Jewish community straddling the late …
Jewish Prince in Moslem Spain
Of all the Hebrew poets of the 'Golden Age' in Spain, Samuel Ibn Nagrela (993-1056 A.D.) remains perhaps the most fascinating personality. A leading statesman in the kingdom of …
Mothers, Sisters, Resisters
In this volume, 25 female survivors of the Holocaust give their story of experiences during the period. They describe their efforts to evade Nazi laws and subsequent …
Gone to Another Meeting
A history of the oldest religious Jewish women's organisation in the United States, ""Gone to Another Meeting"" charts the development of the National Council of Jewish Women and …
Between Home and Homeland
While the future darkened for the Jews of Germany as Hitler and his followers assumed and consolidated power in Germany, a number of efforts, at first random, uncoordinated, and …
The Land Was Theirs
The Land Was Theirs is a bout Farmingdale, New Jersey, a community of Jewish farming communities in the United States established with the help of the Jewish Agricultural Society. …
Nahum Goldmann
Militant Zionism in America
This in-depth look at a controversial faction of American Zionism fills a void in the story of American Zionism--and in the story of American Judaism. This book recounts the …
The Holocaust Odyssey of Daniel Bennahmias, Sonderkommando
Tangled Loyalties
This biography of Ilya Ehrenburg, one of the most renowned Soviet intellectuals of his generation, reveals previously unknown aspects of Stalin's regime. It also contains anecdotes …
The Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux
Describing the tensions that existed between the Sephardic community of Bordeaux and the Ashkenazic Jews of France, the author also depicts their role in the relation of the Jews …