Ethnic Orientation/Jewish
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Logical Family: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cart“A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers.”–Neil Gaiman
“I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decad
- Author: Maupin, Armistead
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0062391259
- Language: English
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Blue Atlas
$17.95 Add to cartBlue Atlas, the sixth book of poems from award-winning poet Susan Rich, is her most original work to date.
- Author: Rich, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1636281265
- Language: English
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In the Wake of Madness: My Family’s Escape from the Nazis
$19.95 Add to cartA cache of poignant letters
A narrow escape from Nazi-occupied Europe
A family scattered and forever changed by war
In 1940, thousands of Jewish refugees descended upon sunny Lisbon, desperately scrambli
- Series: Holocaust Survivor True Stories
- Author: Denny, Bettie Lennett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: February 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9493322343
- Language: English
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Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen
$20.99 Add to cartDavid Sax’s delightful travelogue is a journey across the United States and around the world that investigates the history, the diaspora, and the next generation of delicatessen.
David Sax was alarmed
- Author: Sax, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0547386443
- Language: English
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The Jewish State
$10.95 Read more“It depends on the Jews themselves whether this political pamphlet remains for the present a political romance. If the present generation is too dull to understand it rightly, a future, finer and bett… [more below]
- Series: Jewish, Judaism
- Author: Herzl, Theodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0486258491
- Language: English
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Heinrich Himmler
$37.99 Add to cartHeinrich Himmler was an unremarkable looking man. Yet he was Hitler’s top enforcer, in charge of the Gestapo, the SS, and the so-called Final Solution. We can only wonder, as biographer Peter Longeric… [more below]
- Author: Longerich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0199651744
- Language: English
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Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartThis “tender and lyrical” memoir (New York Times Book Review) remains one of the most compelling documents of the AIDS era-“searing, shattering, ultimately hope inspiring account of a great love story… [more below]
- Author: Monette, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0156005816
- Language: English
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Becoming Jewish: The Challenges, Rewards, and Paths to Conversion
$19.99 Add to cartBecoming Jewish is an engaging, accessible, all-inclusive step-by-step guide to converting to Judaism that introduces readers to finding life’s meaning through the evolving religious civilization that… [more below]
- Author: Reuben, Rabbi Steven Carr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: March 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1796018953
- Language: English
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A Conspiracy of Decency: The Rescue of the Danish Jews During World War II
$19.99 Add to cartThe people of Denmark managed to save almost their country’s entire Jewish population from extinction in a spontaneous act of humanity — one of the most compelling stories of moral courage in the his… [more below]
- Author: Werner, Emmy E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0813342783
- Language: English
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When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
$17.95 Add to cartThe untold story of the twenty-five-year struggle to free Soviet Jews, drawing on newly released Soviet government documents as well as hundreds of oral interviews, and told from the perspective of th… [more below]
- Author: Beckerman, Gal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0547577478
- Language: English
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And the World Closed Its Doors: The Story of One Family Abandoned to the Holocaust
$21.99 Add to cartIn this masterpiece of Holocaust literature, David Clay Large tells the wrenching story of Max Schohl, a German Jew who, in the midst of the Second World War, could not find a government that would al… [more below]
- Author: Large, David Clay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: July 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0465038093
- Language: English
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
$24.00 Add to cartThe fascinating continuation of the best-selling Persepolis, “one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day” (Los Angeles Times). Marjane Satrapi dazzles with her heartrending graphic memoi… [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
- Author: Satrapi, Marjane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 31 2004
- ISBN10: 0375422889
- Language: English
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One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps
$22.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernity’s greatest tragedy: concentration camps.
For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. Firs- Author: Pitzer, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0316303569
- Language: English
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Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
$21.99 Add to cartSS Kommandant Rudolph H ss (1900-1947) was history’s greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, … [more below]
- Author: Hoss, Rudolph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: March 22 1996
- ISBN10: 0306806983
- Language: English
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For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews Against Romans, 66-74 CE
$37.50 Read moreA definitive account of the great revolt of Jews against Rome and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple
“Deeply impressive. . . . Essential for all future discussions of the subject.”–Barry Strauss- Author: Rogers, Guy MacLean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 744
- Publish Date: January 04, 2022
- ISBN10: 030024813X
- Language: English
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The Master of the Ladder: The Life and Teachings of Rabbi Yehudah Leib Ashlag
$32.95 Add to cartFor centuries, the Kabbalah had been closed to all but a few. It was Rabbi Yehudah Leib Ashlag who opened this spiritual treasure for all. He became known as Baal HaSulam, “Master of the Ladder,” afte… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Yedidah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: April 15 2020
- ISBN10: 9657222125
- Language: English
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Lucie’s Hope: George Levy Mueller’s Memoirs of the Holocaust
$18.00 Add to cartLucie’s Hope follows George Mueller’s life from a secure childhood in Germany before the Second World War, to his family’s persecution by the Nazi Party. George’s account chronicles losing both his pa
- Author: Mueller, George Levy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: March 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1930546297
- Language: English
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Shame Pudding: A Graphic Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartA celebration of the wacky and wonderful Jewish grandmothers who nurtured the author as she grew from a kid struggling with anxiety and insecurity to a teen finding her own voice.
- Author: Noble, Danny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 1951491025
- Language: English
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The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz
$20.99 Add to cartCOSTA BOOK AWARD WINNER: BOOK OF THE YEAR – #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER
“Superbly written and breathtakingly researched, The Volunteer smuggles us into Auschwitz and shows us–as if watching a movi
- Author: Fairweather, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 23 2020
- ISBN10: 0062561537
- Language: English
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All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire
$18.99 Read more“Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine…an unforgettable memoir.”–ROXANE GAY
“Wonderfully lyrical and uncomfortably honest in a way that is so rare, yet so needed.”–JENNY LAWSO
- Author: Woolf, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0063206773
- Language: English
