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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 $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	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 $3.90! new only from $6.47! \| SVS
3	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 $3.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	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 $4.99! new only from $25.14! \| SVS
5	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
6	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
7	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 $1.99! new only from $6.98! \| first editions \| SVS
8	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
9	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 $8.44! new only from $67.45! \| first editions \| SVS
10	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 $3.32! new only from $9.87! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	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 $3.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 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
13 view cover	Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team more books like this by George Jonas add to wishlist "Vengeance" is a true story that reads like a novel. It is the account of five ordinary Israelis, selected to vanish into "the cold" of espionage secrecy -- their mission to hunt down and kill the PLO terrorists responsible for the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. This is the account of that secret mission, as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 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
15 view cover	Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939 more books like this by Saul Friedlander add to wishlist Despite the plethora of books on Nazi Germany and its genocidal "Final Solution," there have been few sustained general studies, and none at all on the prewar period until the publication of "The Years of Persecution", the first volume of Saul Friedlander's epic study "Nazi Germany and the Jews". Covering the period from Hitler's rise to power to ... see all copies from $5.15! new only from $11.93! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York more books like this by Stephen Birmingham add to wishlist Telling the story of a group of families from emigration from Germany in the 19th century to their rise to power in the financial markets of New York in the 20th century, this text weaves together social and financial history with a portrait of these powerful and influential Jewish families. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 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
18 view cover	The Avengers: A Jewish War Story more books like this by Rich Cohen add to wishlist This World War II history tells the story of Abba Kovner and his band of Jewish guerrillas who bravely led a successful resistance against the Nazis, fighting in the forests and in the towns of Lithuania. Kovner and many of his associates later emigrated to Israel and helped form the Haganah. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Hitler's willing executioners more books like this by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen add to wishlist In this work the author asks the question "How could the Holocaust happen?" and in his response explores German society and its ingrained anti-semitism, that demands a revision of thinking of the years 1933-1945. Using testimonies from the actual perpetrators, the book shows that the killers were ordinary Germans who were not compelled to act as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.96! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945 more books like this by Lucy C Dawidowicz add to wishlist Here is the unparalleled account of the most awesome and awful chapter in the moral history of humanity. Lucid, chilling and comprehensive, Lucy S. Dawidowicz's classic tells the complete story of the Nazi Holocaust-from the insidious evolution of German Anti-Semitism to the ultimate tragedy of the Final Solution. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 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 $5.38! new only from $5.38! \| SVS
22 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 $10.00! \| first editions
23 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
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 $8.65! new only from $13.61! \| SVS
25 view cover	The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering more books like this by Norman G Finkelstein add to wishlist In this study, the author interrogates the conventional accounts of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel's evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys at the ... see all copies from $4.10! new only from $8.41! \| first editions \| SVS

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