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The Binswanger House is an extraordinary and vital history, spanning the story of a Jewish family over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an enquiry into a complex betrayal with enduring consequences. When Dr Gabriel Byng was visiting the Jewish Museum in Berlin in...

The definitive and moving account of America’s only World War II Holocaust refugee shelter. Nearly eighty years ago, the residents of a small town in upstate New York welcomed a group of refugees that changed the town forever. The 982 people were the only refugees to enter the United States...

From the celebrated author of Rodinsky's Room and On Brick Lane, this is the story of Yiddish, its near destruction and astonishing survival. It is also the story of a penniless, charming writer on a mission to save his language, and a historian on a quest to follow him to the ends of a rapidly...

'A rare story that reframes the Holocaust narrative from victimhood to heroism' MITCH ALBOM, New York Times Bestselling Author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Little Liar Just two miles from where Anne Frank hid during WWII, Henriëtte Pimentel, a Jewish nursery director, plotted one of the most...

For fans of Irena's Children and The Dressmakers of Auschwitz, the never-before-told story of a Jewish daycare director who led one of the most daring rescue operations of World War II, saving 600 children from the Netherlands' Nazi occupiers—“a rare story that reframes the Holocaust...

An invitation to live a life of courageous presence. The Hebrew word hineni—“Here I am”—appears throughout the Bible at pivotal moments. Abraham says it before the greatest test of his life. Moses answers with it before leading a nation. Isaiah speaks it when he is called to serve. In...

The Bible's most difficult teachings, such as laws about slavery, patriarchy, and the death penalty, often leave Christians feeling embarrassed or confused. The Verses We Hate Audio Study invites readers to confront these passages head-on, offering a fresh perspective that reveals God's fairness...

The Bible's most difficult teachings--laws about slavery, patriarchy, and the death penalty--often leave Christians feeling embarrassed or confused. The Verses We Hate challenges readers to confront these passages head-on, offering a fresh perspective that reveals God's fairness and care for the...

An urgent inter-generational conversation between Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter—a seasoned diplomat, historian, and grieving father whose son fell in Gaza leading soldiers into battle—and Sabrina Soffer, a recent university graduate who passed through the gauntlet of antisemitism on her...

An urgent history—intimate in its telling, epic in its scope—of an argument that shaped the postwar world: how to define and remember the Holocaust. “Profoundly moving. An extraordinary book—one that I didn’t know could be written. It is essential reading.” —Edmund de Waal, New...

Romania had a catastrophic experience during the Second World War: an ally of the Axis in its invasion of the USSR, it then turned against the Nazis and joined the Allies in 1944. Its role in the Holocaust was a complex and terrible one. Dan Stone's remarkable new book tells the full story of...

A thought-provoking exploration of the roots of modern Jewish politics This is the first book to explore the nineteenth-century political movement led by Jewish leaders seeking equality―a movement that historian David Sorkin calls emancipation politics. The emancipationists, most of whom had...

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS PROVIDES UNPARALLELED NEW INSIGHT INTO THE FIRST JEWISH REVOLT Dando-Collins details the conflict from both sides of the seven-year campaign. His examination of the revolt draws upon numerous archaeological and forensic discoveries made in...

In his startling book, Gary Greenberg exposes the reality behind the greatest story ever told. Learn about the Egyptian myths and ancient folklore that survive in one of history's most sacred texts, and discover how: King David's bodyguard, not David, killed Goliath Noah's Ark did not land on...

New from N. T. Wright, an accessible introduction to Isaiah 40-55 and its implications for understanding the mission of Jesus. N. T. Wright's fresh, multilayered and compelling interpretation of Isaiah chapters 40-55 offers a masterclass in understanding how and why God's promises in the Old...

A History of Ancient Israel: Audio Lectures?tells the story of Israel's history, with the biblical record enriched by the latest historical research, archaeological discoveries, and geographical insights. Beginning with the founding of the nation in 2091 B.C., Grisanti and Bolen work through the...

From one of the country’s most visionary rabbis, a rediscovery of the potential for religious experience to transform contemporary life “Pretend You Believe offers an invitation into faith and ritual practice that both skeptics and seekers didn’t know they needed. . . . I loved this book...

A fresh, unforgettable, and deeply personal true story of World War II, the Holocaust, and the Third Reich that brings to light the vile Nazi policy under which Germans with Jewish ancestry were persecuted and condemned to death—including two young children from an ordinary working-class...

From an award-winning historian, the gripping, singular story of the destruction of Jewish Vienna as seen through the letters and diaries of an extraordinary woman who witnessed it all. In 1922, Hugo Bettauer published the novel The City Without Jews, a satirical critique of Austrian...

"Meine Klasse. Wer hat überlebt?" Es ist eine Momentaufnahme: Im Mai 1937 versammelt sich die dritte Klasse der Jüdischen Volksschule in der Herzog-Rudolf-Straße in München zu einem Klassenfoto. Ausgehend von dieser Aufnahme entwirft das Buch eine vielstimmige Kollektivbiografie all der...