Resisting Persecution: Jews and Their Petitions During the Holocaust, Hardcover - Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Since antiquity, European Jewish diaspora communities have used formal appeals to secular and religious authorities to secure favors or protection....

A comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, demonstrating just how central anti-semitism was to Nazi ideology and ...

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...

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...

More than seventy-five years have passed since the Holocaust and the terrors visited by German Nazis on occupied Europe. Yet this history continues...

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 Patrick Henry, working with more than one thousand unpublished autobiographical pages written by key rescuers and with documents, letters, and inte...

Reducere. DescriptionEven before Japan joined Nazi Germany in the Axis Alliance, its leaders clarified to the Nazi regime that the attitude of the Japanese g...

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 ...

Grzegorz Niziolek's The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and so...

Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust argues that humor performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. Co-editors Davi...

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. 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. Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable s...

Reducere. The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of th...

Reducere. A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrumsWhy the Germans? Why t...

Reducere. If someone who is rich and powerful comes to you for a favor, you don't persecute him - you help him. Having such a person indebted to you is a gre...

Based on fieldwork and statistical analysis, this book explains how local social organization and cohesion enable both covert and overt nonviolent ...

Reducere. DescriptionBased on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt adminis...

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...

Reducere. In this compelling book, Lithuanian author Ruta Vanagaite holds an extended conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann. His exploration ...

Reducere. The memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was 13 years old in March 1944 when the Nazis invaded Hungary. She recounts her experience in Auschwitz concentra...

Reducere. Description"There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer." H di Fried was nineteen when ...

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...

Reducere. A young Jewish boy is given a star to wear. At first he is proud of the decoration, but soon finds the star overshadowing him--no one sees the boy,...

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

Reducere. Six million-- a number impossible to visualize. Six million Jews were killed in Europe between the years 1933 and 1945. What can that number mean t...

During the Second World War, Christians from many nations and denominations stepped forward with courage, ingenuity and determination to protect an...

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One summer's night in 1946, over 1, 000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidd...

Reducere. A Holocaust memoir unlike any other: first-person accounts by nine family members, separated, disguised, and desperate to survive the Nazi occupati...

The vexed and sometimes shocking story of Martin Luther, and his increasingly vitriolic attitudes towards the Jews - as well as the ominous legacy ...

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Reducere. The Holocaust has long seemed incomprehensible, a monumental crime that beggars our powers of description and explanation. Historians have probed t...

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

Reducere. Syrian immigrant Moussa Abadi was only 33, and his future wife, Odette Rosenstock, 28, when they found themselves trapped in Nazi-occupied France. ...

A pair of silver Regency candlesticks. Pieces of well-worn family jewelry. More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs Lotte Meyerhoff...

Louis Lowy (1920 1991), an international social worker and gerontologist, rarely spoke publicly about the Holocaust. During the last months of his ...

Based on never previously explored personal accounts and archival documentation, this book examines life and death in the Theresienstadt ghetto, se...

Reducere. Yankel's simple life is upended when the Nazis invade Romania in this biographical novel. As the fascist dictator Ion Antonescu imposes increasingl...

Reducere. MARTIN LUTHER (1483-1546) was one of the greatest religious thinkers and reformers of all time. Founder of the Lutheran Church, his Protestant move...

Reducere. Charting the Sacred JourneySpiritual Tarot will take you far beyond traditional Tarot card glimpses of the future, and into the deepest recesses of...

Reducere. A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrumsWhy did the Holocaust ...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Rachel L. (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, Purdue University) EinwohnerIllustratio...

Reducere. An important classic in Christian literature due to the veracity of the historical fulfillment of the prophecy foretold by Jesus in Matthew 24. Fro...