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Journey to Vaja
'A family history that is meticulously researched, rich in personal detail and an unusual resource for those seeking to build a bridge over the holocaust between the world of Pre-War European Jewry and contemporary Jewish life.' - Helen Epstein, Author
From a Ruined Garden, Second Expanded Edition
"An indispensable sourcebook... Emphasis falls on the variegated, often joyful, culture of the Polish Jews, on what existed before the garden was ruined." --Geoffrey Hartmann, The New Republic "From these marvelous selections, one can see an entire culture unfolding." --Curt Leviant, New York Times Book Review "This newly revised version of the classic study... is a pleasure for the eye and the soul One of the seminal studies of the impact of the Shoah on European Jewry, it is even more moving in its new incarnation than in its original version. More than a collection of studies of books of remembrance and mourning, this volume asks how one can mourn for a world lost and still live in the pr...
Making History Jewish
This collection explores the different ways that intellectuals, scholars and institutions have sought to make history Jewish. While practitioners of Jewish history often assume that “the Jews” are a well-defined ethno-national unit with a distinct, continuous history, this volume questions many of the assumptions that underlie and ultimately help construct Jewish history. Starting with a number of articles on the Jews of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Poland and Hungary, continuing with several studies of Jewish encounters with the advent of nationalism and antisemitism, and concluding with a set of essays on Jewish history and politics in twentieth-century eastern Europe, pre-state Palestine and North America, the volume discusses the different methodological, research and narrative strategies involved in transforming past events into part of the larger canon of Jewish history.
The Hungarian Labor Service System, 1939-1945
Part of a collection of fundamental studies of various aspects of the Holocaust by the leading western scholar of the Holocaust.
From a Ruined Garden
In the years after World War II, Polish Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who had made their way to the Americas and Israel compiled memorial books to preserve the memory of their destroyed communities. From a Ruined Garden gathers some 77 sections from the nearly 1,000 memorial books published. The texts describe daily life in the shtetl as well as everyday life during the Holocaust and the experiences of returning survivors.
The Hungarian Jewish Catastrophe
Comprises 2,479 entries, many annotated, in the European languages, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Deals with the Holocaust and the period before and after World War II, including sections on antisemitism and racism, antisemitic literature, anti-Jewish legislation, antisemitic professional associations, the Holocaust, war criminals and war crimes trials, neo-Nazism, neo-antisemitism.
From Generation to Generation
For modern Jewish parents, a richly anecdotal and reassuring guide for helping children understand God.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Memorial Volumes to Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust
A catalogue of 306 volumes; most of them are dedicated to towns or regions in Eastern and Central Europe. Hebrew and Yiddish titles are given in the original script, transliteration, and English translation. With appendixes and indexes (pp. 57-88).
Studia Judaica
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