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The History of Birobidzhan by Gennady Estraikh

The History of Birobidzhan by Gennady Estraikh

Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia Russian Shorts Gennady Estraikh’s book explores the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the...

The Accordion Player by Ichak K. Adizes

The Accordion Player by Ichak K. Adizes

My Journey from Fear to Love Seeing every challenge as an opportunity for growth, Dr. Ichak Adizes moved beyond a childhood marked by imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp and immigration to an unfamiliar...

The Mensch by Alan M Weber

The Mensch by Alan M Weber

The World Needs a Mensch… But Stewie Blueschwitz will have to do. A somewhat nebbishy twelve year old, Stewie would have been a curious choice to be a novel’s protagonist, were it not for...

Entangled Entertainers by Klaus Hödl

Entangled Entertainers by Klaus Hödl

Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Austrian and Habsburg Studies Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was the product of the city’s Jewish and non-Jewish residents alike. While these...

Cra­dles of the Reich by Jen­nifer Coburn

Cra­dles of the Reich by Jen­nifer Coburn

For fans of The Nightingale and The Handmaid’s Tale, Cradles of the Reich uncovers a topic rarely explored in fiction: the Lebensborn project, a Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race. Through...