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A mature novel that is a fictionalized treatment of the life of the German industrialist who saved the lives of many Jews during World War II. Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers. Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's...
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©2001
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One of today's most respected scholars of biblical history and the Dead Sea Scrolls, James C. VanderKam here offers a superb new introduction to early Judaism.
Based on the best, most recent archaeological research, this illustrated volume explores the history of Judaism during the Second Temple period (516 B.C.E. - 70 C.E.), describing the body of Jewish literature written during these centuries and the most important groups, institutions, and practices...
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©2010
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Newly revised and updated, this is the eighth edition of Martin Gilbert's atlas tracing the world-wide migration of the Jews from ancient Mesopotamia to the first decade of the twenty-first century. Spanning more than four thousand years of history in 157 graphic maps, the atlas presents a vivid picture of a fascinating people and the trials and tribulations which have haunted the Jewish story, as well as Jewish achievements. The themes coverd include:...
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©2002
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"In 1944, with the Red Army rapidly closing in, an extraordinary group of fascist ideologues, thieves, civil servants and soldiers jumped onto the "Gold Train" in Budapest and headed west. On that train was carriage after carriage of loot - gold, gems, cash, furs, carpets - gleaned from one of the century's most terrible crimes." "The destruction of the Hungarian Jews happened late in the war and with a unique bureaucratic efficiency. The officials...
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2011
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"In Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit Jodi Magness unearths 'footprints' buried in both archaeological and literary evidence to shed new light on Jewish daily life in Palestine from the mid-first century b.c.e. to 70 c.e. the time and place of Jesus' life and ministry. Magness analyzes recent archaeological discoveries from such sites as Qumran and Masada together with a host of period texts, including the New Testament, the works of Josephus, and rabbinic...
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[2021]
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Guests of a Nation -- Windows on the World -- Degenerate Artists -- A Welfare State -- The Spirit of the Camp -- All the News That's Fit to Print -- Call Me by My Name -- Barbed Wire University -- Technically Speaking, a Spy -- If Music Be the Food of Love -- The Writing on the Wall -- The Art of War -- Catch and Release.
"Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill's internment of some of the most gifted Jewish refugee...
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