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1	The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels more books like this by Thomas Cahill add to wishlist A narrative history of the Jewish people, written by the best-selling author of "How the Irish Saved Civilization". Cahill understands the real significance of the Jews in world history to be not merely as the originators of monotheism, but as the first people to understand the notion of history itself--the first to view time as a linear narrative ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	War & Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust more books like this by Doris L Bergen add to wishlist In examining one of the defining events of the 20th century, Doris Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust discusses not only the persecution of the Jews, but also other segments of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.14! \| SVS
3	The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World more books like this by Kati Marton add to wishlist Author Kati Marton follows these nine over the decades as they flee fascism and anti-Semitism, seek sanctuary in England and America, and set out to make their mark. The scientists Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, and Eugene Wigner enlist Albert Einstein to get Franklin Roosevelt to initiate the development of the atomic bomb. Along with John von ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Blood Brothers more books like this by Elias Chacour add to wishlist Chacour blends his riveting life story with historical research to reveal a little-known side of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the birth of modern Israel. He touches on controversial questions, such as "What behind-the-scenes politics touched off the turmoil in the Middle East?" "What does Bible prophecy really have to say?" and "Can bitter ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil more books like this by Professor Hannah Arendt add to wishlist A BRILLIANT AND DISTURBING STUDY OF THE CHARACTER AND TRIAL OF ADOLF EICHMANN - STEPHEN SPENDER, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS. THE TASK SHE SETS FOR HERSELF FAR TRANCENDS THE CRIMES OF ONE MAN SINCE IT DEALS WITH THE GREATEST PROBLEM OF OUR TIME...THE PROBLEM OF THE HUMAN BEING WITHIN A MODERN TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM...OUR BEST PROTECTION AGAINST ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz more books like this by Lucette Matalon Lagnado, Lucette Matalon Lagnado, Sheila Cohn Dekel add to wishlist Children of the Flames is a story of unsurpassed poignancy and enduring historical interest that expresses the continuing paradox surrounding the infamous "Angel of Death". In a narrative evocative of the award-winning film Shoah, the long-lost survivors of Dr. Josef Mengele's notorious medical experiments recount their stories with ambiguity and ... see all copies from $2.61! new only from $6.98! \| first editions \| SVS
7	I have lived a thousand years : growing up in the Holocaust more books like this by Livia Bitton-Jackson add to wishlist Elli Friedmann was 13 when the Nazis invaded the town in Hungary where she lived. At first Elli and her mother were forced to relocate to a crowded ghetto, but eventually they were transported to Auschwitz. Because of her blond hair, Elli was spared from death and selected as a worker. In this memoir, she describes life in the infamous ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History more books like this by Paul R Mendes-Flohr (Editor), Professor Jehuda Reinharz (Editor) add to wishlist Most complete source book available on modern Jewish History. The second edition of The Jew in the Modern World is an expanded and highly diverse collection of primary materials that trace the Jewish experience in the modern period and illustrate the transformation of Jewish religion, culture, and identity from the 17th and 18th centuries to 1948. ... see all copies from $3.76! new only from $67.45! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Nazi Doctors more books like this by Robert Jay Lifton (Introduction by) add to wishlist A brilliant analysis and history of the crucial role that German doctors played in Nazi genocide.. see all copies from $2.83! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust more books like this by Richard Rhodes add to wishlist In this Holocaust history, Rhodes investigates the role of Hitler's Einsatzgruppen, a killer task force deployed in Eastern Europe which carried out the vicious slaughter of over one-and-a-half million people through direct bullet fire in mass graves. Rhodes's research leads him to conclude that this was the first wave of the murder of the Jews, ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $9.73! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books more books like this by Aaron Lansky add to wishlist The man who spearheaded what has been called "the greatest cultural rescue effort in Jewish history" recounts his poignant, intrepid, and often riotous quest to safeguard a vanishing civilization. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Holocaust: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation more books like this by Donald L Niewyk (Editor) add to wishlist This volume in the Problems in European Civilization series features a collection of secondary-source essays focusing on aspects of the Holocaust. The essays in this book debate the origins of the Holocaust, the motivations of the killers, the experience of the victims, and the various possibilities for intervention or rescue. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| SVS
13 view cover	Ordinary Men more books like this by Christopher R Browning add to wishlist This study is an account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews. Browning tells about such Germans, and helps the reader to understand, not only what they did to make the Holocaust happen, but also how they were transformed psychologically, from the ordinary men of the title into ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $6.23! \| SVS
14 view cover	From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine more books like this by Joan Peters add to wishlist see all copies from $2.71! new only from $18.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Wanderings more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history. Recreating great historical events, exporing Jewish life in its infinite variety and in many eras and places, here is a unique work by a singular Jewish voice. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood more books like this by Nechama Tec add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.16! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust more books like this by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen add to wishlist In this extraordinarily controversial interpretation of the Holocaust, Goldhagen proposes that virulent anti-Semitism was so ingrained in German culture that the stage was set for the mass slaughter of the Jews long before Adolf Hitler rose to power. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps more books like this by Andrea Warren add to wishlist Living in Poland, 12-year-old Jack Mandelbaum is hardly aware that he's Jewish. But when Hitler comes to power, Jack is torn from his family as they are herded to a concentration camp, and he is forced to work for the Nazis. Each day is a struggle to survive, and life in the camps is brutal as Hitler's guards are skilled at crushing a prisoner's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.15! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	This is My God more books like this by Herman Wouk add to wishlist In addition to being a novelist (he was awarded the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for his novel THE CAINE MUTINY), Herman Wouk was an observant Jew who attended synagogue and kept a kosher home where Hebrew was spoken. In THIS IS MY GOD, at the suggestion of a rabbi friend, Wouk, the son of Russian immigrants, wrote about his Jewish heritage and its ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Jew Store more books like this by Stella Suberman add to wishlist Setting up shop in Concordia, Tennessee, the Bronsons weren't just the first Jews to run a general store on Main Street, they were among the first Jews to set foot there. A small Southern town with an aggressive chapter of the KKK is the unlikely setting of this family memoir. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 more books like this by Saul Friedlander add to wishlist The result of more than 30 years of research and investigation, this important new volume presents a thorough historical study of the events beyond the usual analysis of German policies, decisions, and measures that led to this most systematic and sustained of modern genocides. see all copies from $7.88! new only from $12.66! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation more books like this by Edwin R Black add to wishlist This investigation into the collaboration between the Third Reich and International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) during Hitler's rise to power and World War II implicates the American company and its German subsidiary. The author asserts that IBM's efficiency and technology made it possible to keep stunningly accurate and voluminous records of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Survival in Auschwitz more books like this by Levi Primo Levi add to wishlist Survival in Auschwitz: If This Is a Man is a book written by the Italian author, Primo Levi. It describes his experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz before the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his shipment, Levi ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $4.99! \| SVS
24 view cover	A Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood more books like this by Raymond Scheindlin add to wishlist Concise and popularly written, this narrative account covers three thousand years of Jewish history, introducing readers to all of the major political events and individuals who have contributed to the shaping of the Jewish diaspora. Illustrations. Maps. see all copies from $8.33! new only from $13.61! \| SVS
25 view cover	The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders more books like this by Ernst Klee (Editor), Willi Dressen (Editor), Volker Reiss (Editor) add to wishlist "The Good Old Days" is the title of a photo album kept by the Camp Commandant of Treblinka, Kurt Franz. This volume contains letters, diaries, reports and photographs kept by the executioners and sympathizers of the Holocaust. see all copies from $2.01! new only from $10.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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