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Escape from the Pit by Renia Kukielka

Escape from the Pit by Renia Kukielka

A Woman’s Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939-1943 At the end of 1944, while World War II was still raging, nineteen-year-old Renia Kukielka published her Hebrew language memoir about the Holocaust. The account may well...

The Jews of Long Island by Brad Kolodny

The Jews of Long Island by Brad Kolodny

Excelsior Editions In an engaging narrative, The Jews of Long Island tells the story of how Jewish communities were established and developed east of New York City, from Great Neck to Greenport and Cedarhurst...

The Full Pome­gran­ate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever

The Full Pome­gran­ate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever

Translator: Richard J. Fein Introduction: Justin Cam­my Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever (1913–2010) was described by the New York Times as “the greatest poet of the Holocaust.” Born in present-day Belarus, Sutzkever spent his childhood...