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| 1. |  | Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization from Simon & Schuster Price: $19.80 Customer Review:  Reading this book makes me wonder -- can the US really entertain a black president? (I hope so.) We've certainly come a long way re acceptance of Catholics, Jews, women's and black's rights. But we still have a long way to go. But what struck me after reading the book was, how would history... |
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| 2. |  | Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.20 Customer Review: This book is very informative and depressingly good. I read it twice, doing lots of underlying of important parts during the 2nd reading time. I sent the book to a friend. Everyone should read this book. A must read Ben Butler |
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| 3. |  | The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain from Back Bay Books Price: $10.19 Customer Review:  My oh my, reading some of the extremely negative reviews of this book and seeing the obvious bias of some of the reviewers makes me wish that I could come out swinging in Menocal's defense. Unfortunately, I cannot. While Menocal clearly has deep affinity and love for the subject matter she... |
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| 4. |  | The Holocaust: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation (Problems in European Civilization.) from Wadsworth Publishing Price: $34.16 Customer Review: This book is a collection of works concerning six different aspects of the Holocaust. Each chapter consists of a theme. These themes in turn are discussed and debated by a number of different authors/ historians who each share a perspective of an event or belief about the Holocaust. I really... |
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| 5. |  | Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968 from Holmes & Meier Publishers Price: $13.50 Customer Review: I read this about 6 years ago when it was assigned in one of my undergrad classes. There are enough online reviews for you to read about the plot and like. Rather I want to tell you how her voice has stuck with me. I think of her ability to see the slivering when everything is just gray, and her... |
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| 6. |  | Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (Studies in Jewish History) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $16.15 Customer Review: This book does a marvelous job of helping us to understand how such a thing as the Holocaust could occur in a supposedly "civil" society such as Germany in the mid-20th century. Kaplan shows us how the deprivations increased so incrementally that by the time people became aware of what was truly... |
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| 7. |  | Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939 from Harper Perennial Price: $13.57 Customer Review: Nazi Germany and the Jews is part one of the two set history of the Nazi reign of terror from Hitler's ascent to the chancellorship of Germany on January 30, 1933 to the regime's collapse in 1945. Volume I focuses on the years of persecution of the Jews from 1933 to the outbreak of World War II in... |
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| 8. |  | Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed from Harper Perennial Price: $11.20 Customer Review: It is said that, during World War Two, the village of Le Chambon in southern France was the safest place in Europe. It was this small village where Andre Trocme, a Protestant pastor, charged his church and his entire village with the task of protecting refugees, and primarily the Jewish refugees who... |
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| 9. |  | Number the Stars (Yearling Newbery) from Yearling Price: $6.99 Customer Review: Every few years I read this book over and love it every time. It is a great book to introduce kids to the plight of the Jews and non-Jews of German-occupied countries during WWII. My 10 year old read it and loved it too and it brought up a lot of questions. Highly recommended. |
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| 10. |  | Auschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque Land from The University of North Carolina Press Price: $12.89 Customer Review: This book is a fascinating. I enjoyed the different stories that wove this book together. I'm very pleased with my purchase. When you hear about the holocaust, you know and feel that it was horrendous, then you read this book, and realize just how horrendous it was. |
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| 11. |  | Holocaust: A History from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $12.89 Customer Review: I was looking for a readable, reasonably detailed overview of the Holocaust and this book fit the bill perfectly. I appreciate the "voice" of the authors, which enters the writing regularly. They don't shy away from making judgments of the masses of people who acquiesced in the early stages of the... |
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| 12. |  | Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Caldecott Medal Book) from Viking Juvenile Price: $11.55 Customer Review:  Checked it out from the library. *I* liked it quite a bit, from the cut-outs on every page, to the sheet music at the end, to the little cultural tidbits and little yiddish morals on every spread. My nieces weren't very enthralled, and asked to read other books instead. Can't win 'em... |
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| 13. |  | Rutka's Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust from Time / Yad Vashem Price: $13.57 Customer Review: A very worthwhile book for the historical value alone, but as has been pointed out, it's not Anne Frank. In fairness, Anne Frank is a hard act to follow; she really said it all. The diary itself is very short, and although the editors do a good job filling in the gaps, it's not the same as if it had... |
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| 14. |  | The Destruction of the European Jews from Holmes & Meier Price: $17.95 Customer Review: Professor Richard L. Rubenstein introduced me to this book. Documented meticulously. Substantiated understanding of the process of mass murder. Definitely one of those must read books. |
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| 15. |  | Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship from Holt Paperbacks Price: $11.56 Customer Review: I began with a prejudice. Winston Churchill is one of my greatest heroes. Another prejudice. Martin Gilbert is also one of my favorite authors. Gilbert writing on Churchill could be nothing but wonderful. The book was up to my expectations, and then some. I have read volumes and... |
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| 16. |  | Ghettostadt: Lódz and the Making of a Nazi City from Belknap Press Price: $19.77 Customer Review: A unique and highly descriptive volume on the ghetto in Lodz. This book gives both the Jewish and German perspectives of the creation of the ghetto, and goes into excellent detail of the Nazi intentions in regard to the city and region itself. The setup and functioning of the Chelmno death camp are... |
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| 17. |  | The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933 from Picador Price: $10.88 Customer Review: "The Pity of It All" is a masterful accomplishment of scholarship, insight and tone. It describes the world and history of German Jews before the Holocaust in ways that illuminate the catastrophe that follwed, but with a wise restraint that holds back from glib or pat theories. For instance, Elon is... |
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| 18. |  | Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union (Eighth Edition) from University of Nebraska Press Price: $26.45 Customer Review: An interesting book. The first section describes the gradual tightening of legal restrictions on the Jewish people of Germany. Each decree gradually stripping another layer of civil protection by defining them as second class citizens. The final legal step was to define what a Jew was, and how they... |
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| 19. |  | The Third Reich in Power from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $13.60 Customer Review: This second book in the series goes from 1933 - when Hitler assumed power - to September 1939 at the onset of the Second World War II. The author shows how Hitler manipulated the system, seizing power in an ever widening grasp. He then began to infiltrate and subvert every aspect of German society.... |
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| 20. |  | A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $11.53 Customer Review: A vanished world tells the true story of the medival times where Muslims, Jews and Christians lived together in peace and harmony. This was a time of religeous tolerance. |
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| 21. |  | A Holocaust Reader (Library of Jewish Studies) (Library of Jewish Studies) from Behrman House Price: $20.25 Customer Review: This book was expertly compiled from primary source documents concerning Jews, Nazis, and the Holocaust. The types of documents range from personal accounts to govt. papers. There is a very wide variety of types and subject matter. The reading level varies from piece to piece. This book is good for... |
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| 22. |  | They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (Phoenix Books) from University Of Chicago Press Price: $21.60 Customer Review: I was required to read this book in 1973 for a history class at University of Wisconsin - Marathon campus. And I kept it all these years, even though I majored in science not history, because it was such an amazing book. I recently went to the Holocaust Museum in DC and rented the German movie "The... |
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| 23. |  | The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World from Simon & Schuster Price: $10.20 Customer Review: The Great Escape by Kati Marton. The book is about the lives of amazing Jewish Hungarians who fled Hitler and impacted the world. The character that I enjoyed reading about was Leo Szilard because he was one of the scientists that help create the atom bomb. The book also references the dramatic poem... |
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| 24. |  | No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War from HarperTrophy Price: $6.99 Customer Review: Born into a comfortable home in Krakow, Poland during the 1930s, Hanusia finds her childhood abruptly ripped from her at age five, when she must flee from the Nazis simply because she is a Jew. Hanusia's father left in the middle of the night, and no one has heard from him since; while her mother is... |
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| 25. |  | The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories from Indiana University Press Price: $23.07 Customer Review: A very sad commentary involving the killing and mutilation of many thousands of innocent people. A book that must be read although at times it will be difficult to continue due to the very nature of the material presented. |
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| 26. |  | Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience from Free Press Price: $19.35 Customer Review: I came to this volume as part of a project to further my education about Islam and its relationship with the rest of the world, which had led me to an interest in the Golden Age of ha Sefarad, and to inform myself further about Judaism, about which I have had too little information to understand its... |
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| 27. |  | The Ghost of Hannah Mendes from St. Martin's Griffin Price: $10.17 Customer Review:  I really wanted to like this book. This book had a lot of potential - it was about a family trying to understand the actions of a heroic anscestor (Gracia Mendes) at the time of the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitions. Naomi Ragen could hardly have found a better backdrop for this novel. Gracia... |
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| 28. |  | Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 from Vintage Price: $11.53 Customer Review:  The writer is living out quite a lot of important information. Book is biased and incorrect. Should check historical documents, especially New York Times archives about who exactly lived in Salonica in that time. It is correct that after the Balkan wars, a large Greek population... |
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| 29. |  | Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz from Random House Trade Paperbacks Price: $10.85 Customer Review: Many of the reviews, and the responses to it are full of logical errors. Here is just one constantly repeated: "Poles could not have been so antisemitic, since so many Poles have risked their lives to save Jews." Indeed Poland leads the Righteous Among Nations with 6066 hero's! |
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| 30. |  | The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara from Vintage Price: $10.85 Customer Review: Interesting, detailed story. Typical Kertzer. A must read for students of Italian, Church and/or Jewish history. |
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