Cultural Region/Polish
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The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
$15.95 Read more1939: the Germans have invaded Poland. The keepers of the Warsaw zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, survive the bombardment of the city, only to see the occupiers ruthlessly kill many of their animals. T
- Series: Movie Tie-In Editions #0
- Author: Ackerman, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354253
- Language: English
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Of Lodz and Love
$66.58 Add to cartIn Of Lodz and Love, Chava Rosenfarb revisits her themes of the the shtetl and pre-Holocaust Poland, of economic and political oppression, and of the upheavals that would herald a new Jewish national
- Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature
- Author: Rosenfarb, Chava
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815605773
- Language: English
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Bociany
$66.58 Add to cartIn Bociany, Rosenfarb offers completely absorbing portrayals of Jews and Christians from several walks of life in the shtetl. Her primary characters are the scribe’s widow Hindele, her son Yacov, the
- Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature
- Author: Rosenfarb, Chava
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815605765
- Language: English
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In Alexa’s Shoes
$29.99 Add to cartIn Alexa’s Shoes – a dramatic, uplifting true story of a young girl’s struggle to overcome great odds to survive through WWII.
In the autumn of 1940, thirteen-year-old Alexa’s happy life is ripped from
- Author: Alexandra, Rochelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1640856153
- Language: English
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Shadows on the Hudson
$36.99 Add to cart“A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer’s masterpiece” (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times), Shadows on the Hudson traces the intertwined lives of a group of Jewish refugees
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531226
- Language: English
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The Slave
$18.00 Add to cartFour years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master’s daughter. Even after
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 311
- Publish Date: October 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0374506809
- Language: English
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The Yellow Bird Sings
$16.99 Add to cartNational Jewish Book Award Finalist
Rosner’s exquisite, heart-rending debut novel is proof that there’s always going to be room for another story about World War II….This is an absolutely beautiful- Author: Rosner, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1250179785
- Language: English
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When We Were Twins
$19.95 Add to cartFrom their privileged childhood in Egypt, the paths of once-inseparable twins Taher and Aisha diverge early: When the USSR invades Afghanistan, Taher abandons their shared plans to study medicine in E… [more below]
- Author: Hinc, Danuta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1951508319
- Language: English
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
$29.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“Extraordinary. Tokarczuk’s novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fier
“A brilliant literary murder mystery.” —Chicago Tribune- Author: Tokarczuk, Olga
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0525541330
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman
$17.00 Add to cartReissued with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a stunning and disquieting novel of heroism and cowardice
A masterful novel that was a huge bestseller in Europe, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman… [more below]
- Series: Andrze Szczypiorski
- Author: Szczypiorski, Andrzej
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0802160433
- Language: English
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The Gondola Maker
$16.49 Add to cartLaura Morelli holds a Ph.D. in art history from Yale University, where she was a Bass Writing Fellow and Mellon Doctoral Fellow. She authored a column for National Geographic Traveler called “The Genu… [more below]
- Author: Morelli, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: March 03 2014
- ISBN10: 098936710X
- Language: English
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Enemies, a Love Story
$21.99 Add to cartAlmost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; an
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0374515220
- Language: English
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Here
$17.99 Add to cartA “delectable and profound” collection of poems from Nobel Prize-winner Szymborska (Booklist).
When Here was published in Poland, reviewers marveled, “How is it that she keeps getting better?”
These tw… [more below]
- Author: Szymborska, Wislawa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0547592094
- Language: English
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Nocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories
$18.00 Add to cartA stunning new collection featuring fresh translations of Bruno Schulz’s 15 most captivating short stories, in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition
Includes a new translation of a recently discovere- Series: Essential Stories
- Author: Schulz, Bruno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1782277897
- Language: English
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Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartAn “exemplary” (Timothy Snyder, New York Times) history of the onset of World War II
For Americans, World War II began in December 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Europe, the war began
- Author: Moorhouse, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1541602617
- Language: English
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The Possessed
$17.00 Add to cartFrom “a master of
verbal burlesque [and] a connoisseur of psychological blackmail” (John Updike),
Witold Gombrowicz’s harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now
in a new, authoritative En… [more below]- Author: Gombrowicz, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0802162525
- Language: English
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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press
$22.00 Add to cartStories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the
- Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
- Author: Portnoy, Eddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 150360411X
- Language: English
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Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp
$28.99 Add to cartEmploying the rich testimony of almost three hundred survivors of the slave-labor camps of Starachowice, Poland, Christopher R. Browning draws the experiences of the Jewish prisoners, the Nazi authori
- Author: Browning, Christopher R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338878
- Language: English
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I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz
$9.99 Add to cartThe illuminating and deeply moving true story of twin sisters who survived Nazi experimentation, against all odds, during the Holocaust.
Eva and her identical twin sister, Miriam, had a mostly happy- Author: Kor, Eva Mozes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0316460605
- Language: English
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Art of Lithuanian Cooking
$16.95 Add to cart” . . . a culinary showcase of palate-pleasing regional delights.”-The Midwest Book Review
“Here is a collection of Lithuanian recipes that will be welcome on any table.”-The International Cookbook Rev
- Author: Gieysztor de Gorgey, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: July 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0781808995
- Language: English
