Ezra Yakhin ELNAKAM is the "nom de guerre" given to Ezra Yakhin in the LEHI. He was born in Jaffa in 1928 but his early childhood was spent in Yemin...

Upon the Doorposts of Thy House: Jewish Life in East-Central Europe, Yesterday and Today Ruth Ellen Gruber This is a multidimensional portrait of the centuries-old Jewish world of East-Central Europe,...

John CornwellBacked by a wealth of new research, John Cornwell tells for the first time the story of the World War II career of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who was...

D BahatBeginning with a brief history of the region, Israel: Past and Present features overlays of Jerusalem throughout the ages, important religious sites such as the Western Wall and the...

Rest of Us, The: The Rise of America's Eastern European JewsStephenBirmingham

Reeve Robert BrennerMany speak for and about the survivors of the Holocaust, but until now, no one has spoken to them as Rabbi Brenner has done. The Faith and Doubt...

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

Ruth ZeidmanA personal account of the Holocaust

Lucy S Dawidowicz

The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped AmericaRussell ShortoWhen the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch...

Gone to Ground: One woman's extraordinary account of survival in the heart of Nazi GermanyMarie Jalowicz SimonBerlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All...

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Set among a community of cadets in a Lima military school, it is notable for its experimental and complex employment of multiple perspectives. The novel was...