The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and ...
 a good read about an enigmatic writer: I wanted to read this autobiography for two reasons: 1)I very much enjoyed the novel, 'Ali and Nino' by Essad Bey; and 2) I am fascinated with the history of the Caucuses and Central Asia. Tom Reiss thoroughly [... more]
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Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story
simply fascinating: Ann Kirschner meticulously weaves the story of her mother's survival with the overwhelming accounts of the Holocaust...a fine balance between biography and history lesson. Truly stellar: The story of Polish Jews who were lucky enough [... more]
$11.99
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Defy the Darkness: A Tale of Courage in the Shadow of ...
Remarkable Man, Amazing Story: Defy The Darkness is the story of the author's (Joe Rosenblum) life before, during, and after World War II. After the Germans invaded Poland, he was, due to his Aryan looks, able to survive by working on the farm of a [... more]
$35.00
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Jean Moulin, 1899-1943: The French Resistance and the ...
Book Description: Jean Moulin is a universally recognized French hero, celebrated as the delegate of General de Gaulle to Nazi-occupied France in 1942-43 and founder of the National Resistance Council in May 1943. He is known for defiance of the German [... more]
$120.00
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Destined to Witness
Remarkably Destined: It seems impossible that a boy of noticeably dark skin could have survived the period during which the Third Reich reigned. And yet here we have Mr. Massaquoi's account of his personal experiences, candidly and eloquently told. Most [... more]
$11.95
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Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
Amazon.com Review: This devastating account of the ecclesiastical career of Eugenio Pacelli (1876-1958), who became Pope Pius XII in 1939, is all the more powerful because British historian John Cornwell maintains throughout a measured though strongly [... more]
$15.00
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The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the ...
The Power of Music: author of Cooking Jewish: 532 Great Recipes from the Rabinowitz Family from the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles August 30, 2002 Vienna, 1938. In the city of Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Strauss, 14-year-old musical prodigy [... more]
$9.99
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To Wear the Dust of War: From Bialystok to Shanghai to ...
Book Description: On the eve of World War I, ten-year-old Samuel Iwry and his family joined other Jewish refugees in fleeing Poland for Russia. At age twenty-nine, Iwry was forced to flee again--this time from the Soviets--and ended up in Shanghai, [... more]
$26.95
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The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and ...
Amazon.com Review: Writing this book must have required enormous courage; reading it is overwhelming, especially for anyone personally connected to the events it describes. Martin Goldsmith, best known as the host of NPR's Performance Today, is the [... more]
$9.77
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Taken Captive: A Japanese POW's Story
Amazon.com Review: This is an extraordinary true-life POW story, told by a Japanese soldier captured by American forces during World War II. Ooka's concern with his imprisonment was not fear of brutality, but with how capture would look back home in [... more]
$32.50
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Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust
Amazon.com Review: The dozens of vignettes in Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust provide personal perspective on one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century. Editors Anita Brostoff and Sheila Chamovitz solicited written [... more]
$17.95
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Remembering Judith
Author: Ruth Joseph Binding: Kindle Edition Dewey Decimal Number: 362.196852620092 Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: 2005-09-01 Release Date: 2005-09-01 [... more]
$14.99
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