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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
Written by Edward Kritzler
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $15.00
In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and Portugal. The most adventurous among them... Read more >
How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
Written by Edward Kritzler
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $15.00
In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and Portugal. The most adventurous among them... Read more >
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Fromms
How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Written by Gotz Aly and Michael Sontheimer
Translated by Shelley Frisch
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $23.95
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child... Read more >
How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Written by Gotz Aly and Michael Sontheimer
Translated by Shelley Frisch
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $23.95
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child... Read more >
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Fromms
How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Written by Gotz Aly and Michael Sontheimer
Translated by Shelley Frisch
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $18.99
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child... Read more >
How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Written by Gotz Aly and Michael Sontheimer
Translated by Shelley Frisch
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $18.99
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child... Read more >
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A Fine Romance
Jewish Songwriters, American Songs
Written by David Lehman
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $23.00
In A Fine Romance, David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook--the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs, and sound tracks to famous movies--and explores the extraordinary fact that this songbook was written almost exclusively by Jews.
An acclaimed poet, editor, and cultural critic, David Lehman hears... Read more >
Jewish Songwriters, American Songs
Written by David Lehman
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $23.00
In A Fine Romance, David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook--the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs, and sound tracks to famous movies--and explores the extraordinary fact that this songbook was written almost exclusively by Jews.
An acclaimed poet, editor, and cultural critic, David Lehman hears... Read more >
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A Fine Romance
Jewish Songwriters, American Songs
Written by David Lehman
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $23.00
In A Fine Romance, David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook--the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs, and sound tracks to famous movies--and explores the extraordinary fact that this songbook was written almost exclusively by Jews.
An acclaimed poet, editor, and cultural critic, David Lehman hears... Read more >
Jewish Songwriters, American Songs
Written by David Lehman
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $23.00
In A Fine Romance, David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook--the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs, and sound tracks to famous movies--and explores the extraordinary fact that this songbook was written almost exclusively by Jews.
An acclaimed poet, editor, and cultural critic, David Lehman hears... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Wicked Son
Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews
Written by David Mamet
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $12.95
David Mamet's interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder (the child who asks, "What does this story mean to... Read more >
Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews
Written by David Mamet
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $12.95
David Mamet's interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder (the child who asks, "What does this story mean to... Read more >
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The Girls of Room 28
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Translated by John E. Woods and Shelley Frisch
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
The... Read more >
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Translated by John E. Woods and Shelley Frisch
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
The... Read more >
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The Girls of Room 28
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
The... Read more >
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
The... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Betraying Spinoza
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Written by Rebecca Goldstein
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $13.95
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems... Read more >
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Written by Rebecca Goldstein
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $13.95
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems... Read more >
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Betraying Spinoza
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Written by Rebecca Goldstein
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $12.95
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems... Read more >
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Written by Rebecca Goldstein
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $12.95
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems... Read more >
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Stardust Lost
The Triumph, Tragedy, and Meshugas of the Yiddish Theater in America
Written by Stefan Kanfer
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $16.95
In Stardust Lost, Stefan Kanfer brings the colorful Yiddish stage roaring back to life.
Born of ancient traditions stretching back to the drama of the Old Testament, the Yiddish theater was a vibrant part of the immigrant experience. Kanfer invokes the energy, belief, and pure chutzpah it took to establish and... Read more >
The Triumph, Tragedy, and Meshugas of the Yiddish Theater in America
Written by Stefan Kanfer
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $16.95
In Stardust Lost, Stefan Kanfer brings the colorful Yiddish stage roaring back to life.
Born of ancient traditions stretching back to the drama of the Old Testament, the Yiddish theater was a vibrant part of the immigrant experience. Kanfer invokes the energy, belief, and pure chutzpah it took to establish and... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Betraying Spinoza
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Written by Rebecca Goldstein
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $13.95
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems... Read more >
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Written by Rebecca Goldstein
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $13.95
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems... Read more >
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The Jewish Body
Written by Melvin Konner
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $22.00
A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs.
Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Jewish body,” considering sex, circumcision, menstruation, and even those most elusive and controversial of microscopic markers–Jewish genes. But this is not only a book... Read more >
Written by Melvin Konner
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $22.00
A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs.
Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Jewish body,” considering sex, circumcision, menstruation, and even those most elusive and controversial of microscopic markers–Jewish genes. But this is not only a book... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Jewish Body
An Anatomical History of the Jewish People
Written by Melvin Konner
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $22.00
A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs.
Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Jewish body,” considering sex, circumcision, menstruation, and even those most elusive and controversial of microscopic markers–Jewish genes. But this is not only a book... Read more >
An Anatomical History of the Jewish People
Written by Melvin Konner
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $22.00
A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs.
Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Jewish body,” considering sex, circumcision, menstruation, and even those most elusive and controversial of microscopic markers–Jewish genes. But this is not only a book... Read more >
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hardcover.
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A Chosen Few
The Resurrection of European Jewry
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $15.00
A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN
IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR
Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish... Read more >
The Resurrection of European Jewry
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $15.00
A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN
IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR
Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Jews and Power
Written by Ruth R. Wisse
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $19.95
Taking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself... Read more >
Written by Ruth R. Wisse
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $19.95
Taking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
Written by Edward Kritzler
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $15.00
At the end of the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition forced many Jews to flee the country. The most adventurous among them took to the high seas as freewheeling outlaws. In ships bearing names such as the Prophet Samuel, Queen Esther, and Shield of Abraham, they attacked and plundered the Spanish... Read more >
How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
Written by Edward Kritzler
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $15.00
At the end of the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition forced many Jews to flee the country. The most adventurous among them took to the high seas as freewheeling outlaws. In ships bearing names such as the Prophet Samuel, Queen Esther, and Shield of Abraham, they attacked and plundered the Spanish... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
Written by Edward Kritzler
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $26.00
At the end of the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition forced many Jews to flee the country. The most adventurous among them took to the high seas as freewheeling outlaws. In ships bearing names such as the Prophet Samuel, Queen Esther, and Shield of Abraham, they attacked and plundered the Spanish... Read more >
How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
Written by Edward Kritzler
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $26.00
At the end of the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition forced many Jews to flee the country. The most adventurous among them took to the high seas as freewheeling outlaws. In ships bearing names such as the Prophet Samuel, Queen Esther, and Shield of Abraham, they attacked and plundered the Spanish... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Wicked Son
Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews
Written by David Mamet
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2008
Price: $12.95
As might be expected from this fiercely provocative writer, David Mamet’s interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have themselves internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder–the... Read more >
Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews
Written by David Mamet
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2008
Price: $12.95
As might be expected from this fiercely provocative writer, David Mamet’s interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have themselves internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder–the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Chagall
A Biography
Written by Jackie Wullschlager
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $40.00
“When Matisse dies,” Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, “Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is.” As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune, and over the course of a long... Read more >
A Biography
Written by Jackie Wullschlager
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $40.00
“When Matisse dies,” Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, “Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is.” As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune, and over the course of a long... Read more >
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Emma Lazarus
Written by Esther Schor
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $21.95
Emma Lazarus’s most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but her remarkable life has remained a mystery until now. She was a woman so far ahead of her time that we are still scrambling to catch up with her–a feminist, a Zionist, and an internationally famous Jewish... Read more >
Written by Esther Schor
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $21.95
Emma Lazarus’s most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but her remarkable life has remained a mystery until now. She was a woman so far ahead of her time that we are still scrambling to catch up with her–a feminist, a Zionist, and an internationally famous Jewish... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Written by Adam Kirsch
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $21.00
A dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political and sexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most captivating figures of the nineteenth century. His flirtation with proto-Zionism, his ideas about power and empire, and his fantasies about the Middle East remain prophetically relevant today. How a man who... Read more >
Written by Adam Kirsch
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $21.00
A dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political and sexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most captivating figures of the nineteenth century. His flirtation with proto-Zionism, his ideas about power and empire, and his fantasies about the Middle East remain prophetically relevant today. How a man who... Read more >
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eBook.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Written by Adam Kirsch
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $21.00
A dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political and sexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most captivating figures of the nineteenth century. His flirtation with proto-Zionism, his ideas about power and empire, and his fantasies about the Middle East remain prophetically relevant today. How a man who... Read more >
Written by Adam Kirsch
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $21.00
A dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political and sexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most captivating figures of the nineteenth century. His flirtation with proto-Zionism, his ideas about power and empire, and his fantasies about the Middle East remain prophetically relevant today. How a man who... Read more >
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hardcover.
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A History of the Jews in the Modern World
Written by Howard M. Sachar
Format: eBook, 848 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $23.00
The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years.
Tracking their fate from Western Europe’s age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet and post-imperialist Islamic upheavals... Read more >
Written by Howard M. Sachar
Format: eBook, 848 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $23.00
The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years.
Tracking their fate from Western Europe’s age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet and post-imperialist Islamic upheavals... Read more >
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hardcover and a
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Hitler's Willing Executioners
Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Written by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.95
A work of the utmost importance--as authoritative as it is explosive--Hitler's Willing Executioners will fundamentally change our perception of the Holocaust and of Germany in the Nazi period. Goldhagen reaches conclusions that are both uncompromising and savage, rejecting as inadequate the conventional historical explanations for how an entire country could allow... Read more >
Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Written by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.95
A work of the utmost importance--as authoritative as it is explosive--Hitler's Willing Executioners will fundamentally change our perception of the Holocaust and of Germany in the Nazi period. Goldhagen reaches conclusions that are both uncompromising and savage, rejecting as inadequate the conventional historical explanations for how an entire country could allow... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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