Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army by Adam D. Mendelsohn
Offers an engaging account of the experiences of Jewish soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War What was it like to be a Jew in Lincoln’s armies? The Union army was as...
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From “Euthanasia” to Sobibor: An SS Officer’s Photo Collection
Editors: Martin Cüppers, Anne Lepper, Jürgen Matthäus The mass murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany went hand in hand with the destruction of evidence attesting to this genocide. As Holocaust survivor Jules...
Blacks and Jews in America by Terrence L. Johnson, Jacques Berlinerblau
An Invitation to Dialogue A Black-Jewish dialogue lifts a veil on these groups’ unspoken history, shedding light on the challenges and promises facing American democracy from its inception to the present In this uniquely...
Photography and Jewish History: Five Twentieth-Century Cases by Amos Morris-Reich
Jewish Culture and Contexts It is a sign of the accepted evidentiary status of photographs that historians regularly append them to their accounts, Amos Morris-Reich observes. Very often, however, these photographs are treated as...
Syndrome K: How Italy Resisted the Final Solution by Christian Jennings
For the first time, the remarkable full story of how the Holocaust was fought in Italy is told in English Rome, spring 1944. The Nazi’s persecution of Italian Jews was at its height. Giovanni...
A Death in Jerusalem by Jonathan Dunsky
He knows who did the killing. Now he needs to figure out why. Israel, 1952 – Private detective Adam Lapid tries to do the right thing. He may end up in prison because of...
Transleithanian Paradise by Howard N. Lupovitch
A History of the Budapest Jewish Community, 1738–1938 Central European Studies Transleithanian Paradise: A History of the Budapest Jewish Community, 1738–1938 traces the rise of Budapest Jewry from a marginal Ashkenazic community at the...
Running for Shelter: A True Story by Suzette Sheft
Holocaust Books for Young Adults Vienna, late 1930s. Curious, red-headed Inge Eisenger leads a privileged life with her glamorous, distant mother. When forced to flee from Nazi-occupied Austria to Switzerland, Inge sees her young...
Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II by Lia Levi
Illustrator: Jess MasonTranslator: Sylvia Notini In this award-winning memoir translated from Italian to English, a Jewish girl grows up during a difficult time of racial discrimination and war, and discovers light in unexpected places....
Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders
Editors: Heike Bauer, Andrea Greenbaum, Sarah Lightman In this groundbreaking collection of essays, interviews, and artwork, contributors draw upon a rich treasure trove of Jewish women’s comics to explore the representation of Jewish women’s...
