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Biography and Autobiography |
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A Tale of Love and Darkness |
| Author: |
Amos Oz |
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2005 |
| Publisher: |
Vintage/Ramdom House, 20 Vauxhall Brige Rd. , SW1V 2SA |
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London |
| Description: |
The finest and best written auto-biography I have ever read. Oz is a master writer and weaver of tales both dark and light, funny and tragic. Red this book!!! Now! Know what it is like to grow up in Israel when she and z both come of age. |
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As A Driven Leaf (Elisha ben Abuyah) |
| Author: |
Milton Steinberg |
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1939/1996 |
| Publisher: |
Behrman House, Inc. |
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New York |
| Description: |
The conservative rabbi's novel as an attempt to reveal Talmudic times and the life of the famous Rabbinic Sage. Interesting and indicative of a man whose Judaic knowledge is vast and whose mind-set is open to all possibilities. |
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Eban |
| Author: |
Robert St. John |
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1973 |
| Publisher: |
Howard and Wyndham Ltd |
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London |
| Description: |
Fairly comprehensive biography of the prolific writer statesman, Abba Eban, which was approved by the subject himself. Plenty of positive information but also a fine account of a man who has done a great deal over the years both for Israel and in terms o |
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Elli, The Coming of Age in the Holocaust |
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Livia E. Bitton Jackson |
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1980 |
| Publisher: |
Times Books |
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New York |
| Description: |
First-person account of a woman's survival of the concentration camp of Auschwitz. Heart-rending, of course, but also an inspiration for the ability of human beings to overcome the most horrendous and create good out of the ashes. |
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For Those I Loved |
| Author: |
Martin Gray |
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| Editor: |
Trans. (from French) Anthony White |
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1973 |
| Publisher: |
The Bodley Head Ltd. (Unwin Brothers Ltd. ) |
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London |
| Description: |
Story of a concentration camp refugee who relives his nightmares years after the war when tragedy strikes him again. First hand account of his life. Not for the faint-hearted. |
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GM: As Good As Golda, The warmth & wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister |
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| Editor: |
Israel and Mary Shenker |
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1970 |
| Publisher: |
McCall Publishing Company |
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New York |
| Description: |
Schmaltzy rendition of Golda Meir's contribution to Israel. Popular and totally biased, this is not necessary an historical document but a loving tribute to the late prime minister from two of her admirers. Can't believe this is a book and not a magazine |
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I Shall Bear Witness, The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1933-41 |
| Author: |
Victor Klemperer; Trans. By Martin Chalmers |
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1998 |
| Publisher: |
Weidenfeld & Ni8colson, Orion Publishing Group, Ltd. |
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Orion House, 5 Upper St. Martin's Lane, London, WC2H 9EA |
| Description: |
Detailed diaries from academic man who living in Dresden to an Aryan woman, somehow managed to survive the Nazi period and l live until 1960. The detail of this Jewish man's experience is what makes the book valuable though it is not light reading and the |
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My Life, The Autobiography of Golda Meir |
| Author: |
Golda Meir |
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1976 |
| Publisher: |
Futura Publications Ltd. |
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London |
| Description: |
Good personal and political reflection on one's life from one tough lady. Meir begins with her earliest beginnings in Russia, America and then Israel. Book ends with the Yom Kippur War. The term Iron Lady started with Meir, not Thatcher who pales by co |
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Recollections of a Jewish Childhood |
| Author: |
Iris Blain, author and illustrator |
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1987 |
| Publisher: |
Peacock Publishing Ltd. |
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Bonchurch, Isle of Wight |
| Description: |
Beautiful illustrations of Jewish 'rites of passage' illustrated and commented on by Iris Blaine, well-known London artist with introduction by Rabbi Lionel Blue. |
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Somewhere To Hang My Hat |
| Author: |
Stanley Price |
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2002 |
| Publisher: |
New Isand |
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Dublin, Ireland |
| Description: |
Wonderful and warm account of Price's Irish-Jewish (nee Lithuania) journey from childhood to adulthood. Anyone with a UK background will identify with his experiences, points of reference and the sad and humorous moments of family life. Accounts the detail |
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The Story of a Life-Aharon Appelfeld |
| Author: |
Aharon Appelfeld |
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Copyright: |
2004 |
| Publisher: |
Hamish Hamilton of Penguin Books |
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London |
| Description: |
Aharon's life is a miracle. After being incarcerated in the camps he manages to escape at ten years of age and lives on berries and roots for two years in the Ukraine Forest before trekking South to Italy and finally to Israel after the war ends. As a wit |
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Weizmann, His Life and Times |
| Author: |
H. M. Blumberg |
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1975 |
| Publisher: |
American Israel Publishing Co. , Ltd. |
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Tel Aviv |
| Description: |
Outlines the life of Weizmann with plenty of pictorials. A pro-Weizmann biography done as a tribute rather than a critical study. |
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White Nights |
| Author: |
Menachem Begin |
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1978 |
| Publisher: |
Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd. |
Place: |
Aylesbury, Bucks |
| Description: |
Menachem Begin's blow by blow description of his experience in a Siberian labour camp after his arrest in Poland during the second world war when the Russians occupied that country. |
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