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Diese packende Kulturgeschichte zeigt, wie Glaube und Exil den unerschütterlichen Überlebenswillen eines Volkes formten. Begleite eine inspirierende Spurensuche von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart, ideal für den täglichen Arbeitsweg oder fokussierte Lernphasen. Spüre die emotionale Wucht...

Explorez ce mystère historique captivant où l'archéologie et la foi s'affrontent autour d'une relique sacrée. Idéal pour enrichir votre trajet quotidien, ce récit vous transporte dans l'Antiquité pour comprendre comment un simple objet matériel a pu incarner la présence divine. Loin des...

Entschlüssle faszinierende archäologische Geheimnisse durch eine historische Spurensuche direkt in das antike Judäa. Wenn du nach einem langen Tag beim aufmerksamen Zuhören entspannen möchtest, stillt diese Reise deinen intellektuellen Wissensdurst auf fesselnde Weise. Erforsche die rauen...

The Shadow and the Flame is the sweeping and definitive history of the fight for Holocaust memory and the larger intellectual debates that raged around its memorial from the end of World War II to the present day. In 1945, the end of World War II and the liberation of the Nazi camps ended the...

This historical magnum opus covers 4,000 years of the extraordinary history of the Jews as a people, a culture, and a nation. It shows the impact of Jewish character on the world: their genius, imagination and, most of all, their ability to persevere despite severe persecutions. Compelling...

In this biography of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, Alberto Manguel examines the question of his universal appeal. Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (1138–1204), was born in Córdoba, Spain. The gifted son of a judge and mathematician, Maimonides fled Córdoba with his family when he was thirteen due to Almohad persecution of all non-Islamic faiths. Forced into a long exile, the family spent a decade in Spain before settling in Morocco. From there, Maimonides traveled to Palestine and Egypt, where he died at Saladin’s court.

Best-selling author Neal Bascomb has garnered critical acclaim for such riveting nonfiction as Higher and Red Mutiny. Based on extensive interviews and previously classified details, Hunting Eichmann is a compelling account of the relentless hunt for the nefarious Adolf Eichmann.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Holocaust by Laurence Rees, read by Jonathan Keeble. This landmark work answers two of the most fundamental questions in history - how, and why, did the Holocaust happen? Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting...

A deathbed promise leads a daughter on an incredible journey to write about her grandfather who was a famous war hero. But this journey had a terrible destination: the discovery that he was a Nazi war criminal. 

A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous...

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY ‘A must read and if you think YOU don’t need to read it, that’s just the clue to know you do’ SARAH SILVERMAN ‘A masterpiece' STEPHEN FRY How identity politics failed one particular identity. Jews Don’t Count is a book for...

Judaism is not only a religious faith but also a set of beliefs, practices, symbols, and institutions. More than that, it’s a civilization and culture of a people both diverse and united by a history of exile and perseverance. Explore the storied history, texts, and traditions of one of the...

How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this singular success as a result of divine intervention. In this engaging book, David N. Myers charts the...

In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers know that the staff were undercover spies, working for the Mossad - the Israeli secret service. Providing a front for covert night-time activities, the holiday village allowed the agents to carry out an operation unlike any seen before. What began with one cryptic message pleading for help, turned into the secret evacuation of thousands of Ethiopian Jews....

This early 20th-century translation of the Hebrew Bible by the Jewish Publication Society brings to life the history of the Jewish people in a classical way. It includes the Hebrew texts as they actually appear in the Torah scroll and bears all the hallmarks of a classic work. 

In the spring of 1933, more than 8,000 Jewish musicians, actors, and other artists were expelled from their positions with German orchestras, opera companies, and theater groups. Later that year, the Jüdische Kulturbund, or Jewish Culture Association, was created to allow Jewish artists to perform for Jewish audiences.

Part memoir, part reckoning, part argument for a different future, Peace Is the Only Final Solution for Jews asks whether Israel can survive without an external enemy and refuses to let the reader look away from the answer. Avrum Burg, a former Speaker of the Knesset raised in the shadow of the Hebron massacre and the Holocaust, traces how Israel's founding trauma hardened, over decades, into a permanent and self-justifying machinery of fear.

World War II began at Hollywood and Vine. From the moment Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, there was no American city he wanted to rule more than Los Angeles. Control the moviemaking capital of the world and Hitler could control the message that came out of it: As clear as black and white...

Was Jesus of Nazareth a real historical person or a fictional character in a religious legend? What do the Dead Sea Scrolls reveal about the origins of Christianity? Has there been a conspiracy to suppress information in the Scrolls that contradicts traditional church teaching? John Allegro...

The first and only fully restored edition, optimized for clarity and ease of reading. Unlike other versions that rely on blotchy, faded photo scans, this edition has been carefully enhanced to preserve the original text's integrity without any alterations to its content. "The study of revolutionary movements has brought us to Freemasonry; the study of Freemasonry has led us to the Jews." Freemasonry and Judaism: Secret Powers Behind Revolution compiles evidence of the significant roles Freemasonry and Judaism played in historical revolutions, including the French and Russian revolutions.