The Letters Project: A Daughter's Journey by Eleanor Reissa
$59.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
In 1986, when her mother died at the age of sixty-four, Eleanor Reissa went through all of her belongings. In the back of her mother's lingerie drawer, she found an old leather purse. Inside that purse was a large wad of folded papers. They were letters. Fifty-six of them. In German. Written in 1949. Le ...Show more
Jewish Humor - What the Best Jewish Jokes Say about the Jews by Joseph Telushkin
$60.00 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Here are more than 100 of the best Jewish jokes you'll ever hear, interspersed with perceptive and persuasive insight into what they can tell us about how Jews see themselves, their families, and their friends, and what they think about money, sex, and success. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is as celebrated fo ...Show more
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger
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Category: Judaica
'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order coul ...Show more
Auschwitz A Mother's Story: How I fought to survive and see my daughter again by Rosa de Winter-Levy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Suddenly there is a blow to my face, I am hurled to one side. 'My child, I have to go with her!' I scream. But Dr Mengel is standing before me, whip raised. 'Maul halten, shut up!' His eyes gleam. Filled with fear I cower down. In 1943, as Nazi power swept across central Europe, Rosa, her husband Emanu ...Show more
Golda Meir: Israel's Matriarch by Deborah E. Lipstadt (Contribution by)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
In the eyes of millions of American Jews, she could do no wrong. For close to five decades, for better and for worse, she shaped how American Jews saw and understood Israel and its place in the world. If the laudatory works depict a woman who built a nation, sent men into battle, negotiated treaties, sp ...Show more
Dear Mutzi: A story of love, escape and finding the forgotten by Tess Scholfield-Peters
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Category: Judaica
Harry Peters — formally Hermann Ludwig Pollnow, known to his family as Mutzi — was born in Berlin in 1920. As a teenager, he fled Nazi Germany and landed in rural Australia. Harry’s parents, Max and Edith, stayed and perished in Nazi camps. This story, of forced migration, assimilation, loss, resilience ...Show more
Ancestry by Simon Mawer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
This book defies categorisation. It's a history, it's a novel, almost it's a kind of archaeology, an investigation into the reality of the past and an exploration of that uncertain borderland which lies between fact and fiction. Using archive material Mawer has picked through the traces left behind by h ...Show more
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to appease the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture ...Show more
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby
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Category: Judaica | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A "fascinating and very moving" (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most interesting countries in the world--Israel.Israel. The small strip of arid land is 5,700 miles awa ...Show more
The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand
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Category: Judaica
A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be read and reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans? Sh ...Show more
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni
$39.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps When Jozsef Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five m ...Show more
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
$24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ‘Excellent … thrilling … Freedland’s book is rich in the kind of details that haunt you long after you have turned the last page’ Sunday Times ‘A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of informat ...Show more