A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture After the Holocaust - Elisabeth Gallas

DescriptionThe astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the HolocaustIn March 1946 the ...

After the Holocaust's near complete destruction of European Yiddish cultural centres, the Yiddish language was largely viewed as a remnant of the p...

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Marianne HirschIllustration(s): B&W Illus.: 57, Number of pages: 320Collection: Gender and Culture S...

Reducere. Patrick Henry, working with more than one thousand unpublished autobiographical pages written by key rescuers and with documents, letters, and inte...

Nathan A. Kurz charts the fraught relationship between Jewish internationalism and international rights protection in the second half of the twenti...

This edited volume brings together key articles and documents about the unique role Albanians played in saving 100% of Jews who lived in Albania or...

Publisher: Smokestack BooksAuthor(s): Thomas Orszag-LandNumber of pages: 94Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 198 x 131 x 9Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. "You can't let people be treated in an inhuman way around you....Otherwise you start to become inhuman." So declares rescuer Hetty Vo te in this up...

Reducere. Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losse...

For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experi...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Ben BraberNumber of pages: 162Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 19Cover type: HardbackRedescopera far...

Designed as an introduction to the Holocaust, this book presents the origins and history of anti-Semitism, beginning with the year 70 A.D., when th...

Reducere. When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come instantly to mind. Yet the history of the Holocaust extends be...

"Suddenly two pairs of black boots appeared in the shrubbery near us... I looked up very, very slowly, from the boots to the uniforms and all the w...

Reducere. In 1977, Israel s Mossad spy agency was given an assignment far different from its usual cloak and dagger activities. It was ordered by then Prime ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Thoroughly researched, this study highlights the historical scholarship that is one of the lasting legacies of interwar Polish Jewry and analyses i...

Reducere. Eighty-five percent of Italy's Jews survived World War II. Nevertheless, more than six thousand Italian Jews were destroyed in the Holocaust and th...

Reducere. A moving World War II memoir that uncovers a forgotten naval catastrophe. Ideal for readers of Evan Mawdsley, Max Hastings and Iain Ballantyne. On ...

Reducere. In a stirring chronicle, Doreen Rappaport brings to light the courage of countless Jews who organized to sabotage the Nazis and help other Jews dur...

New essays exploring Jewish cultural trends of the past two decades, interspersed with choice material from the Jewish Renaissance magazine archive...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jason (a Lecturer and Israel Institute Teaching Fellow at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studie...

This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduc...

Contributor(s): Author: Yolanda a. Willis"Your story deserves to be widely heard." --Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor...

Reducere. Robbing the Jews reveals the mechanisms by which the Nazis and their allies confiscated Jewish property, demonstrating the close relationship betwe...

This is the inspiring story of a Highland estate, which was rescued from the catastrophic effects of decades of human interference, and is now one ...

Reducere. This enchanting Irish tale is filled with fairies, leprechauns, and a sinister Banshee. Author Deirdre McCarthy and illustrator Jim O'Farrell, both...

The idea which I shall present here came to me more or less out of the blue. I was on a train some fives years ago, on my way to spend a day at Hea...

Publisher: Triumph BooksAuthor(s): Dan GrunfeldNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Reducere. The rescue of Boxer 22 was a highly secret operation. It occurred in a forgotten country, Laos, during the Vietnam War. An international agreement ...

The first book on a British effort to save lives, as important as the well known kindertransport, but this was only men - their wives and children ...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Laura Hobson FaureIllustration(s): 3 Tables, black and white; 16 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of ...

Reducere. Escaping on the Danube River is their only hope for survival.Europe, 1939: Hanne is an adolescent boy, born into a wealthy family from Belgrade. Re...

The Wombles have just gratefully returned to their burrow on Wimbledon Common. They had needed to leave because heavy lorries thundering up and dow...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the aftermath of the Holocaust, the Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski stole tens of thousands of archival documents related to French ...

When did the Allies know about the Holocaust and why didn't they act earlier.

Using Germany as a case study of the impact of American culture throughout a period characterized by a totalitarian system, two destructive wars, e...

Reducere. The Turin Shroud is an intriguing scientific journey exploring one of the greatest mysteries of the world. It has captivated the curiosity of inter...

Reducere. 782The Turin Shroud is an intriguing scientific journey exploring one of the greatest mysteries of the world. It has captivated the curiosity of in...

Reducere. In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of he...

This is the inspiring story of a Highland estate, which was rescued from the catastrophic effects of decades of human interference, and is now one ...

Reducere. Povestea doctorului Korczak a cunoscut numeroase ecranizari de-a lungul timpului, probabil cea mai reusita fiind realizata in 1990 de Andrzej Wajda...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Darrel D. WhitcombWhen his electronic warfare plane--call sign Bat 21--was shot down on 2 April 1972, fifty-three-year-old ...

Reducere. In this gentle, poetic young graphic novel, Dounia, a grandmother, tells her granddaughter the story even her son has never heard: how, as a young ...

Reducere. As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How sh...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Barbara HahnNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 201 x 18Cover type: ...

Reducere. DescriptionCadavers can be deadly . . . Unregistered corpses are showing up amongst the cadavers in the mortuary of the London School of Medicine f...

Reducere. DescriptionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ● From the bestselling author of The Survivor comes a touching novella of the unrelenting force of love, the p...

Reducere. After the Holocaust brings together scholarship, activism, poetry, and personal narratives from some of the last living survivors of the Holocaust ...