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On Both Sides of the Wall | Vladka Meed/Translated by Dr. Steven Meed; Intro. Elie Wiesel | One woman's experiences from 1942 to the present; she survived the Warsaw Ghetto and became a witnes… |
In the Eye of the Storm | Uri Lichter | Uri's story begins in Lvov in Poland , ends up in Auschwitz and then to escape. Through the help of… |
A Cup of Tears-a diary of the Warsaw Ghetto | Abraham Lewin/Anton Polonsky' translation of a diary by Christopher Hutton | Eyewitness account of what life was like before and during the roundups and in the Warsaw Ghetto. Th… |
Surviving Treblinka | Samuel Willenbrg/Wladyslaw T. Bartoszewski; translation by Naftali Greenwood | Told by someone who survived Treblinka (very few did to act as witnesses), this eyewitness account s… |
Survival in Auschwitz | Primo Levi/Translated. from Italian by Stuart Woolf | Account of Primo Levi's experiences during the holocaust when he was a prisoner in Auschwitz. Covers… |
The Story of a Life-Aharon Appelfeld | Aharon Appelfeld | Aharon's life is a miracle. After being incarcerated in the camps he manages to escape at ten years… |
Out of the Hitler Time | Judith Kerr | Trilogy of three novels based on Kerr's personal experience: 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit,' 'Bombs… |
The Life and Times of Herod the Great | Steward Perowne | The times and life of a man who rose from obscurity to become a great influence in Israel's history… |
Somewhere To Hang My Hat | Stanley Price | Wonderful and warm account of Price's Irish-Jewish (nee Lithuania) journey from childhood to adultho… |
Recollections of a Jewish Childhood | Iris Blain, author and illustrator | Beautiful illustrations of Jewish 'rites of passage' illustrated and commented on by Iris Blaine, we… |
I Shall Bear Witness, The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1933-41 | Victor Klemperer; Trans. By Martin Chalmers | Detailed diaries from academic man who living in Dresden to an Aryan woman, somehow managed to survi… |
As A Driven Leaf (Elisha ben Abuyah) | Milton Steinberg | The conservative rabbi's novel as an attempt to reveal Talmudic times and the life of the famous Rab… |
A Tale of Love and Darkness | Amos Oz | The finest and best written auto-biography I have ever read. Oz is a master writer and weaver of tal… |
Wilfrid Israel, German Jewry's Secret Ambassador | Naomi Shepherd | One of the great unsung heroes who managed to use his power, expertise and great diplomatic skills t… |
Musical Stages | Richard Rodgers | Lovely autobiography from one of the most famous American Musical composers of all time. His contact… |
Coming Home | Chaim Bermant | Lovely autobiography of Berman's growing up in Lithuania/Latvia, and Scotland and his early life in… |
Simon Wiesenthal, The Life and Legends | Tom Segev | Highly readable biography of the famous 'Nazi hunter' who spent his life trying to bring many of the… |
The Eitingons | Mary-Kay Wilmers | Wilmer's focuses on three extraordinary members of the Eitingon family with all the intrigue of thei… |
The Life of David | Robert Pinsky/Jonathan Rosen | Pinsky creates a popular portrait of King David based on Biblical research, commentaries and legends… |
David and Solomon | Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman | Archeologists examine ruins in an attempt to uncover the true David and a true Soloman. Scholarly ap… |
Abraham | Bruce Feiler | An inter-faith approach to the father of three major religions. Feiler pieces together the life of A… |
All the Women of the Bible | M. L. del Mastro | A reference book to the names, stories an legends of women mentioned in the Torah. Not a scholarly a… |
Moses, the prince, the prophet | R. Levi Meier | Insightful handling of the life of Moses by a learned scholar and popular communicator. |
Josephus | Tessa Rajack | Scholarly and revised edition of the Josephus biography which examines his background and his histor… |
Shimon Peres | Matti Golan | Somewhat dated biography of Shimon Peres who is still going strong and has achieved 32 more years of… |
The Essential Chaim Weizmann, the man, the statesman, the scientist | Barnet Litvinoff | Good compilation of material on Weizmann which reveals the personality of the man as well as his inv… |
The Herods | F. W. Farrar, Dena of Canterbury | Detailed history of the time of the Jews from Antiochus with major emphasis on the lives of the Herr… |
Jesus the Jew | Geza Vermes | The controversial scholar who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls writes a biography from a very Christia… |
And they shall be my people (an American rabbi and his congregation | Paul Wilkes | Lively and human account of Wilke's rabbinic experiences. |
Konin A Quest | Theo Richmond (signed copy of book) | The author's search for the lost community n Poland of Konin related to his family's roots. Well reg… |
Through Darkness to Dawn | Dr. John Geller | Cynthia Hollisworth, a KK member's parents, Bllanka and John Geller experienced the worst of the hor… |
A Month in the New Old Country | Shirley Kleiman/Paul Kleiman | Diary of KK member Paul Kleiman's mother of a month spent in Israel with her husband shortly after… |
Steppig Back in Time | Kathryn Esta Berman | Kathryn Berman's journey into the paths her ancesters took leads from Eastern Europe to Israel to Fa… |
Ghetto Diary, The Last Walk of Janusz Korczak | Aaron Zeitlin | The inspiring and selfless life of Janusz Korxzak who despite the option of escaping, stated in Treb… |
Elli, The Coming of Age in the Holocaust | Livia E. Bitton Jackson | First-person account of a woman's survival of the concentration camp of Auschwitz. Heart-rending, of… |
GM: As Good As Golda, The warmth & wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister | Israel and Mary Shenker | Schmaltzy rendition of Golda Meir's contribution to Israel. Popular and totally biased, this is not… |
For Those I Loved | Martin Gray/Trans. (from French) Anthony White | Story of a concentration camp refugee who relives his nightmares years after the war when tragedy st… |
Weizmann, His Life and Times | H. M. Blumberg | Outlines the life of Weizmann with plenty of pictorials. A pro-Weizmann biography done as a tribute… |
White Nights | Menachem Begin | Menachem Begin's blow by blow description of his experience in a Siberian labour camp after his arre… |
I am a Woman and a Jew | Leah Morton/Jonathan Sarna | Compelling story of a woman who tries to escape her Jewish roots and assimilate completely into gent… |
Days of Sorrow and Pain-Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews | Leonard Baker | The plight of German Jewry and the role and leadership which Rabbi Leo Baeck played. Biography which… |
My Life, The Autobiography of Golda Meir | Golda Meir | Good personal and political reflection on one's life from one tough lady. Meir begins with her earli… |
Eban | Robert St. John | Fairly comprehensive biography of the prolific writer statesman, Abba Eban, which was approved by t… |
A Silence that Speaks | Susan Soyinka | Story of Susan Soyinka's journey to find out the history of her family whose lives stretched well be… |