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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...

Dissenters, a new HarperNorth book, full description to follow when available...

A sweeping new history of the Byzantine Empire in all its power and splendor For more than a thousand years, the Byzantine Empire stood at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, shaping the course of world history. Its capital, Constantinople, was the largest and wealthiest city in the Christian...

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...

A story of lying, miracles, wonder and ways of the imagination. From the bazaars of Jerusalem in the last years of the 19th century to the monasteries of Northumbria 800 years earlier, from the gates of paradise to the end of time, The One and Only Tree travels back and forth along the great...

In the spirit of So You Want to Talk about Race and The Year of Living Biblically, a deeply personal and provocative narrative that unveils a progressive, largely ignored vision of faith and identity, revealing an Islam that is compatible with modern ideas around sex and politics—and that even...

Foreword by Paul Giamatti An exploration of the enduring worldview that has inspired individuals across time, from Ancient Greece to modern Hollywood—a sustained combination of magic, mysticism, and animism. We are experiencing a crisis of meaning. Instead of deepening our lives, religion...

'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...

"This book is a gift to all those wanting to enter into the spirit of the historical Jesus and the mystic Christ. By honoring the people of Jesus's land and their poetic language, it brings a needed balance to the historical Jesus movement." —Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing The Hidden...

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...

A stimulating and expert analysis of the unique conditions that allowed Christianity to take shape and flourish across the Roman Empire during its first three centuries, from one of our leading historians of the ancient world “How did the intersection of Roman rule, Greek culture, and Judaean...

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...

Scripture commands Christians to be a remembering people. Contemplating how God's church has prevailed throughout war, heresy, political upheaval, and more, we will begin to grasp the bigger story of his work in the world and gain bold faith for our lives today.

Eine faszinierende Reise zu den dunklen Seiten der Weihnachtszeit! Auf den Spuren dieser winterlichen Traditionen reist Sarah Clegg durch Europa und erkundet ihre düsteren Seiten: von englischen Mummers-Spielen, österreichischen Krampusläufen, dem Nikolaus und seinem Knecht Ruprecht bis hin zu modernen heidnischen Ritualen in Stonehenge und dem Luciafest in Finnland.

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...

Edouard Schuré (1841-1929), dans ce livre mythique, esquisse l'histoire secrète des religions et nous convie à un voyage dans la grande tradition ésotérique: de l'initiation brahmanique aux mystères de l'Égypte, de la mission d'Israël à celle du Christ, du mythe d'Orphée aux mystères d'Eleusis.