My Hometown Concentration Camp tells the story of the young Bernard Offen's endurance and survival of the Krak�������³w Ghetto and five concentration camps, including Plasz�������³w an
"I would encourage anyone, of any religion (and indeed no religion) to read their stories of service and survival in some of the world's harshest seas."--Commander James Cohen QVRM RD VR RNR, formerly
This meticulously researched new book from author Arye Oded analyzes Israel's complex relationship with African countries from the time period of the 1950s to the present day. There are three broad ph
Out of the ashes of the Nazi concentration camps came an extraordinary love story which caught the public's imagination at the end of World War II. This autobiography tells how the author survived the
This book shows how Israel Mattuck was probably the most influential figure in the development of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in the UK and the wider Liberal Jewish movement through his involvement w
This collection of original essays brings together the work of both established researchers and young scholars in an area that is increasingly recognized as the crucible of post-war Europe. This new w
The Jewish journey is central to the Jewish experience but has received almost no scholarly attention. This multi-disciplinary collection is thus path-breaking and a contribution to wider scholarship
This book is the first comprehensive and impartial account of the ways in which people in the state of Israel grappled in the 1950s with the still fresh memory of the Holocaust and with finding a way
For almost fifty years the Jewish Travel Guide has been the essential reference book for all Jewish travellers worldwide a?? whether travelling on business, for pleasure or to seek their historical ro
Wartime Kindertranports were not the only case in which England permitted Jewish immigration to escape Nazi persecution. This book is presented as the first historical study of Jewish refugees from Au
On a spring day in 1277, the prominent Jewish businesswoman Licoricia of Winchester was found by her daughter, murdered, stabbed to death in her own house. Alongside Licoricia's body was that of her
This is the tragic story of Janusz Korczak (as featured in the major motion picture The Zookeeper's Wife) who chose to perish in Treblinka rather than abandon the Jewish orphans in his care. Korczak c
New Material: * New Foreword by Field Marshall The Lord Guthrie GCB LVO OBE DL * Completely updated with new profiles, data and appendices * New material on the Spanish Civil War * Extended material o
Primo Levi-chemist, Italian, Jew, survivor of Auschwitz-was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His masterpiece, If This Is a Man, is still one of the most widely read books on the H
