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Captured Shadows

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The German Goldschmidts of the 17th and 18th Century

Nick, Dagmar

Dagmar Nick, a multiple literary prize-winner in her native Germany, has turned her considerable talents to researching her fascinating Jewish ancestry. She brings to life her family history through the letters, diaries and documents that they left behind, and...

How to Love a Child Volume 1

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And Other Selected Works  Volume 1

Janusz Korczak

How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak’s works translated into English. It contains his most important pedagogical writings, journal articles, as well as private texts.

Volume 1 comprises three pedagogical works, the first being...

How to Love a Child Volume 2

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And Other Selected Works  Volume 2
Korczak, Janusz 

How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak’s works translated into English. It contains his most important pedagogical writings, journal articles, as well as private texts. Volume 2 starts with extensive excerpts from two pedagogical...

Jewish Germany

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An Enduring Presence from the Fourth to the Twenty-First Century

Levinson, David

In Jewish Germany, cultural anthropologist David Levinson draws out and explores for us the expanse of the Jewish experience in Germany from the fourth century CE to the present. With the extensive use of primary sources, among others, the carefully...

Jews, Horns and the Devil

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An Illustrated History

Felton, Anton

Cartoons uniting visual representation with cultural associations, can cause devastation. One picture may save a thousand words but we will never know how many hundreds of thousands of lives were not saved, how many millions of lives were not even lived, because of the climate...

King of Children

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The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak

Lifton, Betty

This is the tragic story of Janusz Korczak (as featured in the major motion picture The Zookeeper's Wife) who chose to perish in Treblinka rather than abandon the Jewish orphans in his care. Korczak comes alive in this acclaimed biography by Betty Jean...

Opening the Drawer

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The Hidden Identities of Polish Jews

Cohen, Barry

Made up of contributions by the three generations of Polish Jews ... it gives a multi-sided and nuanced picture not only of Jewish identity in Poland but of the complex history of Poland and its Jews from the Second World War to...

Ostrava and its Jews

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'Now No-One Sings You Lullabies'

Lawson, David; Salomonovicova, Libuse; Sustkova, Hana

The story of Ostrava and its Jews encapsulates in a small space (85 square miles) and a short time (ca. 150 years) a miniaturized history of Central Europe. It covers industrialization and massive economic growth, immigration and emigration, intolerance and tolerance,...