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Stephen C Reif Explains how Cairo came to have its important Genizah archive, how Cambridge developed its interests in Hebraica, and how a number of colourful figures brought about the...

A Journey of Survival: A Young Boy's Odyssey from Hungary through Auschwitz and Jaworznow to Eretz Yisrael

David Crystal Now in paperback, in the tradition of E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World , a lively journey through the story of languageWith a language disappearing...

EH GombrichIn 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of...

Laurel Tharcher Ulrich PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and...

Benjamin NetanyahuIn a passionate, meticulously researched work, Israel's most charismatic spokesperson traces the origins, history, and politics of his country's relationship with the Arab world and the West--and offers for...

Gayatri DeviShe is the daughter of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar and the widow of the Maharaja of Jaipur. She was raised in a sumptuous palace staffed with 500 servants...

Manning Clarkn 1688 William Dampier found the aboriginal inhabitants on the west coast of New Holland "the miserablest people in the world… setting aside their human shape, they differ but...

Bill BrysonIn Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything...

Author: James L Stokesbury James L Stokesbury A comprehensive but concise chronicle of the battles, weaponry, economics, politics and personalities of the Civil War also analyzes the larger issues it...

Alison Leslie Gold A biography of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese consul in Lithuania, explains how he saved the lives of thousands of Jews during World War II by issuing visas...