The story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts - first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets - by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders
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How, and why, did the Holocaust happen? Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. This book combines their eyewitness testimony with the latest academic research
Erindringer i dagbogsform af den unge jødiske studerende Hélène Berr (1921-1945). Hun bor sammen med sin familie i Paris under 2. verdenskrig. Byen er besat af tyskerne og som følge af de mange indgreb over for jøderne bliver hendes tilværelse stadig mere presset. For at få aflø…
Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East explores the many facets associated with the questions of modernity and minority in the context of religious communities in the Middle East by focusing on inter-communal dialogues and identity con…
Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to those who have insisted that there was no meaningful connection between American and German racial repression…
"Survival on the Margins tells the story of Polish Jewish flight into Soviet Ukraine and Belarus, deportation to the Urals and Siberia, amnesty to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and subsequent repatriation to Poland after the war. It looks at what it meant for Central European shoe-…
"Until his death in 4 BCE, Herod the Great's monarchy included territories that once made up the kingdoms of Judah and Israel. Although he ruled over a rich, strategically crucial land, his royal title did not derive from heredity. His family came from the people of Idumea, anci…
Den amerikanske fotograf og internationale korrespondent for New York Herald Tribune Ruth Gruber fortæller som 95-årig om de mange begivenheder, som hun har dækket i ord og billeder i løbet af sin karriere fra 1935 til 1986
The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading hist…
