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A History of the Jewish Experience |
| Author: |
Leo Trepp |
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| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1962, 1973 |
| Publisher: |
- |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
A complete history of the Jewish people from Sinai to modern American Judaism and the various religious movements. Included are aspects of Zionism, Anti-Semitism, Philosophy, as we; as the rituals and festivals encompassing Judaism. |
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A History of the Jews (Revised Ed. ) |
| Author: |
Solomon Grayzel |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1984 |
| Publisher: |
New American Library [Meridian] |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
Academic and straight forward account of the history of the Jews from their early days in Jerusalem through the Diaspora and finally, to a homeland in Israel. Maps illustrate some of the wanderings through the 4, 000 year account. Whew! Small print. Not |
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Ancient Records of Egypt, Five Volumes |
| Author: |
James Henry Breasted |
Volume: |
Five Volumes One Through Five (Parts 1-5 |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1988 |
| Publisher: |
Histories & Mysteries of Man Ltd. , The Grassmill, 1 Battersea Bridge Rd. |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
Exceptionally researched and detailed account of historical documents from the First to the Twenty-Sixth Dynasties up to the Persian Conquest first published in 1905 by Breasted. Not a monument or temple unturned, or rather unread. If you ever wondered who |
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Between Arab and Israeli |
| Author: |
Lt. -Gen. E. L. M. Burns |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1962 |
| Publisher: |
Clark, Irwin, and company Ltd. |
Place: |
Toronto/Van Couver |
| Description: |
Experiences of Burns when he worked for the United Nations in the Middle East from 1954-1957. |
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Brothers in Arms |
| Author: |
Peter Duffy |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
2003 |
| Publisher: |
MacKays of Chatham, PLC |
Place: |
Chatham Kent, MacKays of Chatham, plc, by arrangement with Century, Random House Grp. Ltd. |
| Description: |
The remarkable story of the Bielski brothers who built a secret town in the heart of the forest to save Jews from the Nazis. The three Bielski brothers, Tulia, Asael and Zus, managed to save over 1200 Jews in a Belorussian forest. These heroes, until now |
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Exodus Revisited |
| Author: |
Leon Uris |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1962 |
| Publisher: |
Bantam Book, Doubleday & Co. , Inc. |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
Pictorial account of those who made it off The Exodus and settled in Israel; lovely study of the early Israelis. Also, a good 'tour' of the country and the main sites. Photographs by Dimitrious Harissiadis. |
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Forged in Fury |
| Author: |
Michael Elkins |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1971 |
| Publisher: |
Transworld Publishers Ltd. |
Place: |
Ealing, London |
| Description: |
The story of 'DIN' a group of concentration camp survivors who organized themselves into a unit whose purpose was to avenge the death of their fellow Jews at the hands of the Nazis. |
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Heritage, Civilization and the Jews |
| Author: |
Abba Eban |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1984 |
| Publisher: |
Summit books |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
The verbose and prolific Abba Eban goes through the history of our people with good illustrations. Well thought out and good overview of a very long and detailed chronology. |
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History of the Jews |
| Author: |
H. Graetz |
Volume: |
Six Volumes |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1891 |
| Publisher: |
The Jewish Publication Society of America |
Place: |
Philadelphia |
| Description: |
Vol. I: From the earliest period to the death of Simon The Maccabee[135 BCE]; Vol. II: From the Reign of Hyrcanus [135 BCE] to the completion of the Babylonia Talmud [500 CE]; Vol. V: From the Chmielnicki persecution of the Jews in Poland [1648 CE] to the |
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Islam, A Short History |
| Author: |
Karen Armstrong |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
2001 |
| Publisher: |
Phoenix Press, 5 Upper St. Martin's Lane, WC2H 9EA |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
A good historical precise of Islam from the time of The Prophet (570 CE) through the modern Islam. Tends to explain the contributions of Islam, rather than emphasise the beliefs. Armstrong, a well respected teacher at Leo Baeck College, he work has been acknowledged |
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Israel, the First Forty Years |
| Author: |
Abba Eban |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
William Frankel |
Copyright: |
1987 |
| Publisher: |
Charles Scribner's Sons |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
Lovely commentary from someone who's been there and 'done that' and can talk knowledgeably and endlessly about Israel and its history. Pictures and background make it well worth reading. |
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Israel: Pictorial Guide |
| Author: |
- |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
2000 (?) |
| Publisher: |
Israeili Museum, Jerusalem & Palphot Ltd. , P. O. B. 2, Herzila |
Place: |
Jerusalem, Israel |
| Description: |
Wonderful pictorial travelogue of the famous historical sites throughout Israel. |
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Jews and Synagogues-Venice, Florence, Rome, Leghorn |
| Author: |
Umberto Fortis |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1973 |
| Publisher: |
Edizioni Storti |
Place: |
Venezia |
| Description: |
A practical guide for tourist to these cities who want to know what the major Jewish sites are and learn a bit about the background (a bit whitewashed, but this is a tourists' guide book). Helpful if you are going to these cities. Obviously written for n |
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Jews of Britain (A Series of Biographies) |
| Author: |
Paul H. Emden |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1930's (?) |
| Publisher: |
Sampson Law, Marston & Co. , Ltd. |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
All the Jewish greats in Britain from mostly the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries; plenty of well known names here and many whom one might not have known before. Some wonderful personal anecdotes in this genealogical gem. |
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Judaism, A Hstorical Presentation |
| Author: |
Isidore Epstein |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1959 |
| Publisher: |
Penguin Books |
Place: |
Harmondsworth, Mddx. |
| Description: |
This book, having gone through many printings since, has been a basic guide to Jewish history written in succinct, clear prose for those who want to get an academic but not too detailed account. |
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Kindertransport 60th Anniversary Book |
| Author: |
Bertha Leverton and KTA associates, AJR (Assoc. of Jew. Refugees) |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
June 1999 |
| Publisher: |
KTA & AJR |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
History and background of the Kindertransport and the roles various people played in making it happen. Good historical document with fine detail. Lists of all Kinder. |
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King Soloman's Astonishing Temple Secrets & His Metallic Messiah |
| Author: |
Tony Badillo |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
2002 |
| Publisher: |
http://www. templesecrets. org/ |
Place: |
- |
| Description: |
Layout and background of the Temple and Temple Mount which diagrams and explains the floor plan, symbolism and various items in Temple. |
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Les Juifs Du Papa a Carpentras |
| Author: |
Georges Brun |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1975 |
| Publisher: |
La meme Collection |
Place: |
Carpentras |
| Description: |
Written in French, the history of the French people and their Jewish lives and buildings. A glossy, for tourists' edition, though many of the pictures are fine. Carpetras was a major centre of French Jewery prior to the war. |
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Maps of the Bible Lands, Images of Terra Sancta Through Two Millennia |
| Author: |
Kenneth Nebenzahl |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1986 |
| Publisher: |
Time Life Books Ltd. |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
Wonderfully illustrated history of areas and of map making covering the geographical knowledge from the late classical world, middle ages, renaissance, to modern map making. Wonderful way to understand how people saw their surroundings, near and far and how |
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Out of the Whirlwind, A Reader of Holocaust Literature |
| Author: |
Albert H. Friedlander |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1967 |
| Publisher: |
Union of American Hebrew Congegations |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
Highly recommended with commentaries from some of the best minds in Judaism and outside Judaism. Everyone from Anne Frank, Leo Baeck, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Alexander Donat and Emil Fackenheim. It doesn't get much better than this, other than it would |
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Scapegoat, The Jews, Israel and Women's Liberation |
| Author: |
Andrea Dworkin |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
2000 |
| Publisher: |
Virago Press, Little, Brown & Co. , Brettenha House |
Place: |
Lancaster Pl. , London, 2000 |
| Description: |
Prejudice against women throughout the history of Jews; series of essays which deal with the 'hate' literature, the state, family, Zionism and feminism. The plight of women has never been easy! |
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Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History |
| Author: |
James Picciotto |
Volume: |
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| Editor: |
Israel Finestein |
Copyright: |
1956 |
| Publisher: |
Soncino press, Ltd. |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
Book was published a part of a 300 year celebration of the Jews return to England (after their expulsion in the early part of the 13th century). The changing position of Jews, their eventual admittance into mainstream British society (legally at least), |
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The
ewish Brigade, An Army with Two Masters, 1944-45 |
| Author: |
Morris Beckman |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1998 |
| Publisher: |
Sarpedon |
Place: |
Rickville Centre, New York |
| Description: |
The origins of the Jewish brigade and its later involvement in Israel to become part of the Jewish Defence Force. The author, a veteran who fought with the Jewish Brigade during the war and was an activities before and after the war, writes the books fro |
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The Biblical and Historical Background of the Jewish Holy Days |
| Author: |
Abraham P. Bloch |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1978 |
| Publisher: |
Ktav Publishing House, Inc. |
Place: |
New York |
| Description: |
Historical & academic roundup of the reasons behind the rituals and practices of the festivals: The Sabbath, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Chanukah, Purim, Passover, Lag B'Omer, Shavuot, various Fasts (15th of Av, Esther, 17th Tammuz, Tisha B'Av). |
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The Cousinhood, The Anglo-Jewish Gentry |
| Author: |
Chaim Bermant |
Volume: |
- |
| Editor: |
- |
Copyright: |
1971 |
| Publisher: |
Eyre & Spottiswoode |
Place: |
London |
| Description: |
All the good and the great are in here from the Rothchilds to the Montefiores. The life of the Victorian and Edwardian Jews are well described h with due reverence to the Cohens, Goldsmids, Samuels and Sassoons as well as the more famous R & M. The rich, n |
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