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AM I A JEW? : My Journey Among the Believers and Pretenders, the Lapsed and the Lost, in Searc h of Faith (Not Necessarily My Own), My Roots, and Who Knows, Even Myself

By Theodore Ross. Plume Book 2013 , Editorial Reviews Review “Theodore Ross, who may or may not be Jewish, is excellent company on the page. Whether he’s discovering secret Jews in New Mexico, attempting to discern the brighter side of Orthodox Judaism, or interrogating his family members about their own religious foibles and dodges, Am I a Jew? is always moving, heartfelt, funny, and alive. This is a terrific—and terrifically odd—memoir.” —TOM BISSELL, author of Extra Lives and Magic Hours "Am I a Jew is a brilliant American odyssey, one that is both inside and outside of traditions both national and religious; it's also often very funny, and always very empathic; Ross has written a genuinely great book." —RIVKA GALCHEN, author of Atmospheric Disturbances "[This] intelligent and altogether entertaining account of searching out the roots of identity will be of interest not only to those who've asked, 'Am I a Jew?' but also to anyone who's ever wondered, 'What am I, anyway?' One finishes this book thankful for a fuller understanding of the diverse strains within the Jewish tradition and not a little awed by the writer's compelling mix of skepticism, candor, and love." —GARRET KEIZER, author of Privacy and The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want "An elegant guide for the perplexed inhabitants of our increasingly disorienting world, Am I a Jew? is a profound meditation on the nature of modern identity." —ROGER HODGE, author of The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism About the Author Theodore Ross lives with his wife and children in Brooklyn, New York. He is a former editor of Harper’s Magazine, and his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Saveur, and Tin House. 9780142180396

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IF THIS IS A MAN THE TRUCE

By Levi,Primo. London Everyman's Library 2000 , Summary: Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. If This Is A Man describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spent working in Auschwitz. The Truce covers his long journey home to Italy at the end of the war through Russia and Central Europe. Levi never raises his voice, complains or attributes blame. By telling his story quietly, objectively and in plain language he renders both the horror and the hope of the situation with absolute clarity. Probing the themes which preoccupy all his writing - work, love, power, the nature of things, what it is to be human - he leave the reader drained, elated, apprehensive. 9781857152227

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LEEBINTE PISACHUKKAL (ലീബിന്റെ പിശാചുക്കൾ)

By Neenu Ansar. Kottayam D C Books 2016 , 2016 ലെ ഡി സി സാഹിത്യ പുരസ്‌കാരത്തിന് പരിഗണിക്കപ്പെട്ട നോവൽ. 1620 ൽ പെരുത്തൊരു ആവിക്കപ്പലിൽ കൊച്ചിയിൽ വന്നിറങ്ങി ഫോർട്ട് കൊച്ചി മുതൽ മതിലകം വരെ വ്യാപിച്ച 64 യൂദ കുടുംബങ്ങൾ. അവർക്കിടയിൽ പ്രചരിച്ചിരുന്ന പ്ലമേനപ്പാട്ടുകളിലൊന്നാണ് ലീബിന്റെ കഥ. 1945 ൽ അടക്കം ചെയ്യപ്പെട്ട ആമോസു മുത്തശ്ശി യദ്ദീശു ഭാഷയിൽകുറിച്ചിട്ട കിസ്‌തകളിൽ ഒന്നിന്റെ പുനരാഖ്യാനം. പിശാചുക്കൾ നിറഞ്ഞാടുന്ന ഈ കഥയിൽ യൂദ സംസ്കാരത്തിന്റെ വിചിത്രാചാരങ്ങൾ മാന്ത്രികസാന്നിധ്യമാകുന്നു. 9788126474196

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PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT

By Roth,Philip. London Tandem 1969 224616528

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PALESTINE-ISRAELI CONFLICT

By Cohn-Sherbok,Dan . Oneworld Publications 2015 , Giving a thorough and accessible account of the Palestine-Israeli conflict past, present and future, this introduction is jointly authored by an American rabbi and Professor of Judaism, and a Palestinian lecturer on Islam. The result is a real insight into the bitter truths at the heart of this situation, with each author giving full vent to the emotions behind the two sides of the debate without avoiding any issues, however confrontational and conflict-ridden. The conclusion is a direct exchange between the two authors, which raises many further issues, but which does see both sides holding out hope for resolution and a real solution in the future. 9781780743806

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FINAL SOLUTION : Fate of the Jews 1933-1949

By Cesarani, David. London Pan Macmillan 2016 , David Cesarani's Final Solution is an intelligent and thought-provoking short history of the Holocaust. Not only does David Cesarani draw together and engage with the latest scholarly research, making extensive use of previously untapped resources such as diaries and letters from within the ghettos and camps (many of them in Polish or Yiddish and therefore previously largely inaccessible to Anglo-American scholars) but by adopting a rigorously Judeocentric approach the whole narrative of the march to genocide and its aftermath the book presents a subtly different timeline which casts afresh the horror of the period and engenders a significant re-evaluation of the how and why. Eschewing some of the more fevered theses about the guilt of the perpetrators (and indeed recasting how wide that net should be spread), David Cesarani's measured and skilful negotiation of a crowded field is, as a result, all the more devastating. 9780330535373

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HOLOCAUST : New History

By Rees,Laurence . UK Viking - Penguin 2017 , This landmark work answers two of the most fundamental questions in history - how, and why, did the Holocaust happen? Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Now, in his magnum opus, he combines largely unpublished testimony with the latest academic research to create the first accessible and authoritative account of the Holocaust in over three decades. Rees argues that whilst hatred of the Jews was always at the epicentre of Nazi thinking - and the Holocaust was the most appalling crime in history - what happened cannot be fully understood without considering the murder of the Jews alongside other Nazi plans to kill millions of non-Jews as well. He also reveals the inner machinations of the Nazi state and shows how there was no single "decision" to start the Holocaust; instead, a series of escalations cumulatively created the horror. Through a chronological, intensely readable narrative, featuring the latest historical research and enthralling eyewitness testimony, this is the compelling story of humanity's lowest point. 9780241298183

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GENERALINTE MAKAN ജെനറാലിന്റെ മകൻ / The general's son : journey of an Israeli in Palestine

By Peled,Miko . Calicut Other Books 2012 , ഇസ്രയേലി രാഷ്ട്ര സംസ്ഥാപനത്തില്‍ അനല്‍പമായ പങ്കു വഹിച്ച സയണിസ്റ്റ് നേതാവിന്‍റെ പൗത്രനും, ഈജിപ്തിനെതിരായ ഇസ്രയേല്‍ യുദ്ധത്തെ നയിച്ച സൈനിക ജനറലിന്‍റെ മകനുമാണ് മീക്കോ പെലെഡ്. ഇസ്രയേലി സേനയുടെ ഫലസ്തീനോടുള്ള അതിക്രമങ്ങള്‍ ജനറലായ തന്‍റെ പിതാവിന്‍റെ രാഷ്ട്രീയ വീക്ഷണങ്ങളില്‍ തന്നെ മാറ്റമുണ്ടാക്കുന്നതും അദ്ദേഹം ഒരു സജീവ സമാധാന പ്രവര്‍ത്തകനാകുന്നതും പെലെഡ് ചെറുപ്പത്തിലേ കാണുന്നു. മീക്കോ ഇസ്രയേലി സൈന്യത്തില്‍ സേവനമനുഷ്ഠിക്കുകയും പരുക്കേല്‍ക്കുകയും ചെയ്ത ആള്‍ കൂടിയാണ്. എിന്നിട്ടും, ജെറുസലേമിലെ ഒരു ചാവേറാക്രമണത്തില്‍ 13 വയസ്സുകാരിയായ തന്‍റെ സഹോദരീപുത്രി സ്മാദര്‍ കൊല്ലപ്പെടുന്നതോടെയാണ് മീക്കോ പെലെഡിന്‍റെ വ്യക്തി ജീവിതത്തിലേക്ക് ഇസ്രയേല്‍-ഫലസ്തീന്‍ സംഘര്‍ഷം നേരിട്ട് ആഘാതപൂര്‍വം ഇടപെടുന്നത്. അമേരിക്കയിലെ സുഖകരമായ ജീവിതത്തില്‍ നിന്നു മാറി അദ്ദേഹം ഫലസ്തീനികള്‍ക്കിടയിലേക്ക് അപായകരമായ അന്വേഷണയാത്രകള്‍ നടത്തുന്നു. അറബികള്‍ക്കും ഇസ്രയേലികള്‍ക്കും ഒരുമിച്ചിരിക്കാനും തങ്ങളുടെ പൊതുപൈതൃകങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ചും പൊതുനഷ്ടങ്ങളെപ്പറ്റിയും സംസാരിക്കാനും, ജീവകാരുണ്യ സഹായങ്ങളിലും വിഭവ പങ്കുവെപ്പിലും പരസ്പരം സഹകരിക്കാനും കഴിയുമെന്ന് അത്ഭുതപ്പെടുത്തു നിരവധി സുഹൃത്തുക്കളോടൊപ്പം പെലെഡ് അനുഭവിച്ചറിയുന്നു. പശ്ചിമേഷ്യന്‍ സംഘര്‍ഷത്തിന്‍റെ നിര്‍ദയമായ അനിശ്ചിതത്വങ്ങള്‍ക്കു മീതെ മനുഷ്യത്വത്തിന്‍റെയും സഹവര്‍ത്തിത്വത്തിന്‍റെയും അനുരഞ്ജനത്തിന്‍റെയും പ്രത്യാശ പകരുന്ന പുസ്തകം. തനിക്ക് നാളിത് വരെ അടുത്തറിയാന്‍ അവസരമുണ്ടായിട്ടില്ലാത്ത ഒരു ജനതയുടെ ശത്രുവായി നിലനില്‍ക്കുന്നതിലെ അവിവേകം പെലെഡ് തിരിച്ചറിയുന്നു. ഈ തിരിച്ചറിവ് അദ്ദേഹത്തിന് ഊര്‍ജ്ജം പകരുകയും, പ്രോത്സാഹനം നല്‍കുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു. അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര അഭിപ്രായങ്ങളെയും നിയമങ്ങളെയും കാറ്റില്‍ പറത്തിക്കൊണ്ടുള്ള ഇസ്രയേലിന്‍റെ മനുഷ്യാവകാശലംഘനങ്ങള്‍ നമ്മുടെ ഭീതിയുടെ കേന്ദ്രസ്ഥാനത്ത് നിലനില്‍ക്കുന്ന പശ്ചിമേഷ്യയിലെ സംഘര്‍ഷാവസ്ഥ നമുക്കൊക്കെയും ഭീഷണിയാണ്. ഭൂഗോളത്ത് ജീവിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നവര്‍ക്ക് അതവഗണിച്ച് കൊണ്ട് മുന്നോട്ട് പോകാം എന്ന് കരുതുന്നത് ബുദ്ധിയല്ല. -ആലീസ് വാക്കര്‍ In 1997, a tragedy struck the family of Israeli-American Miko Peled when his beloved niece Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem. That event propelled Peled onto a journey of discovery, pushing him to re-examine many of the beliefs he had grown up with as the son and grandson of leading figures in Israel's political-military elite, and transforming him into an activist in the struggle for human rights and a hopeful, lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. 9789380081571

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MISCHLING

By Konar, Affinity . London Atlantic Books 2016 , It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army, she and her companion Feliks - a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin - travel through Poland's devastation. Undeterred by injury, starvation, or the chaos around them, motivated by equal parts danger and hope, they encounter hostile villagers, Jewish resistance fighters, and fellow refugees, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world, they must try to imagine a future within it. 9781786490858

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JUSTINE

By Durrell,Lawrence. London Faber and Faber 2017 , Summary: Story of the modern Egyptian city of Alexandria, in which an Irish schoolmaster, a passionate, tormented Jewess, a Greek cabaret dancer, and a Coptic financier play out their destinies amid decadent surroundings symbolic of an erotic world. 9780571337187

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WOMEN IN THE HOLOCAUST : A FEMINIST HISTORY

By Waxman, Zoë. UK Oxford University Press, 2017 , Summary: "Despite some pioneering work by scholars, historians still find it hard to listen to the voices of women in the Holocaust. Learning more about the women who both survived and did not survive the Nazi genocide - through the testimony of the women themselves - not only increases our understanding of this terrible period in history, but makes us rethink our relationship to the gendered nature of knowledge itself. Women in the Holocaust is about the ways in which socially- and culturally-constructed gender roles were placed under extreme pressure; yet also about the fact that gender continued to operate as an important arbiter of experience. Indeed, paradoxically enough, the extreme conditions of the Holocaust - even of the death camps - may have reinforced the importance of gender. Whilst Jewish men and women were both sentenced to death, gender nevertheless operated as a crucial signifier for survival. Pregnant women as well as women accompanied by young children or those deemed incapable of hard labour were sent straight to the gas chambers. The very qualities which made them women were manipulated and exploited by the Nazis as a source of dehumanization. Moreover, women were less likely to survive the camps even if they were not selected for death. Gender in the Holocaust therefore became a matter of life and death."-- 9780199608683 | 0199608687

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4 3 2 1

By Auster,Paul . London Faber & Faber 2017 , Shortlisted 2017 Man Booker Prize: Paul Auster's first novel in seven years - his greatest, most provocative, most heartbreaking and most satisfying work. Abstract: "Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel -- a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson's pleasures and ache from each Ferguson's pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson's life rushes on. As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to life itself that readers have never seen from Auster before. 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force."--Provided by publisher. "A sweeping family saga (with a bit of a twist) about the life and loves of Archie Ferguson, a Jewish boy born to second-generation immigrants in the United States just after World War II"--Provided by publisher. On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous paths. Four Fergusons will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and passions contrast. Each version of Ferguson's story rushes across the fractured terrain of mid-twentieth century America, in this sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself. 9780571324651

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WATERCOLOURS : a story from Auschwitz /

By Ostalowska,Lidia . New Delhi Zubban 2016 , A Czechoslovakian Jew who was imprisoned at Auschwitz, Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt (1923–2009) was saved by her artistic abilities. Gottliebova painted the walls of the children’s barracks with images of the Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. When Josef Mengele discovered her talent, he commissioned her to paint watercolor portraits of Roma prisoners. After the war, Gottliebova worked as an animator for Warner Brothers for many years, eventually marrying Walt Disney animator Art Babbitt. Many years later, Gottliebova’s Auschwitz paintings were recovered and displayed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. When the artist requested that her paintings be returned, her request was denied. The dispute escalated into an international scandal with the American and Polish governments becoming involved. Gottliebova passed away in 2009 without having her works returned. Watercolours is Gottliebova’s story. Journalist Lidia Ostałowska reconstructs Gottliebova’s time in Auschwitz, with an eye to broader issues of historical memory, trauma, racism, and the relationship between torturer and victim. Drawing on hundreds of accounts of the hellish camp, Ostałowska tells the story of one remarkable woman’s incarceration and battle for survival. 9789385932038

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INVISIBLE CITY

By Dahl,Julia . UK Faber & Faber 2018 , Fresh out of journalism school, Rebekah Roberts is working for the New York Tribune, trying to make a name for herself. Assigned a story about the murder of a woman in Brooklyn, Rebekah finds a case from inside a closed, secretive Hasidic Jewish community – the same Brooklyn neighbourhood her estranged mother was brought up in. Shocked to discover that the victim is set to be buried without an autopsy, Rebekah knows there is a story to uncover, but getting to the truth won't be easy – in the cloistered world her mother rebelled against, it's clear she's not welcome, and everyone she meets has a secret to keep, most of all from an outsider. Fresh out of journalism school, Rebekah Roberts is working for the New York Tribune, trying to make a name for herself. Assigned a story about the murder of a woman in Brooklyn, Rebekah finds a case from inside a closed, secretive Hasidic Jewish community – the same Brooklyn neighbourhood her estranged mother was brought up in.Shocked to discover that the victim is set to be buried without an autopsy, Rebekah knows there is a story to uncover, but getting to the truth won't be easy – in the cloistered world her mother rebelled against, it's clear she's not welcome, and everyone she meets has a secret to keep, most of all from an outsider. 9780571347766

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I AM DAVID

By Holm,Anne . London Modern Classics 1963 , ‘Summary: You must get away tonight,' the man had told him. David escapes from the concentration camp where he has spent his entire life and flees across Europe. He is utterly alone, who can he trust? What will await him? And all the while, how can he be sure that they won't catch up with him. This is the remarkable story of David's introduction to the world: sea, mountains and flowers, the colours of Italy, the taste of fruit, people laughing and smiling, all are new to David. David learns that his polite manner, his haunted eyes and his thin features are strange to other people. He must learn to fend for himself in this strange new world. 9781405288736

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LAST COUNTRY

By Leiber,Svenja . London Seagull 2017 , Winner of the 2015 Arno Reinfrank Literaturpreis Summary “Ruven Preuk stands apart from the village, on an August day in 1911, and listens.” Thus begins an epic bildungsroman about the life of Ruven Preuk, son of the wainwright, child of a sleepy village in Germany’s north, where life is both simple and harsh. Ruven, though, is neither. He has the ability to see sounds, leading him to discover an uncanny gift for the violin. When he meets a talented teacher in the Jewish quarter, Ruven falls under the spell of a prodigious future. But as the twentieth century looms, Ruven’s pursuit of his craft takes a turn. In The Last Country, Svenja Leiber spins a tale that moves from the mansions of a disappearing aristocracy to a communist rebellion, from a joyous village wedding to a Nazi official’s threats, from the First World War to the Second. As the world Ruven knows disappears, the gifted musician must grapple with an important question: to what end has he devoted himself to his art? 9780857424310

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DISOBEDIENCE

By Alderman, Naomi . UK Penguin 2018 , Winner of the Orange Prize for New Writers 2006, this is an insightful and witty novel on the search for love, tolerance and faith. By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man.But when Ronit’s father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her provocative ways. But Ronit is shocked too by the confrontation with her past. And when she meets up with her childhood girlfriend Esti, she is forced to think again about what she has left behind. 9780241984802

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ANNE FRANK'S DIARY : Graphic Adaptation

By Frank, Anne . UK Viking 2018 , The First Graphic Adaptation of the Multi-Million Bestseller '12th June, 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.' In the summer of 1942, fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation, Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse. Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, Anne Frank kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death. Adapted by Ari Folman, illustrated by David Polonsky, and authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, this is the first graphic edition of the beloved diary of Anne Frank. 'Faithful to the spirit and often the language of the diary... Mr Polonsky's beautiful artwork offers a charming and convincing view of Anne on the page' THE ECONOMIST 'Folman and Polonsky have reclaimed Anne Frank in all of her humanity, and they allow us to witness for ourselves her beauty, courage, vision and imagination. And, in doing so, they have elevated the tools of the comic book to create an astonishing work of art.' JEWISH JOURNAL 'The illustrations [. . .] retell Anne's diary with great compassion, wit and ebullience' StANDPOINT 9780241978641

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PENITENT

By Singer,Isaac Bashevis . UK Penguin 2018 , From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, "The Penitent" is the story of Joseph Shapiro, a disillusioned and aimless man who discovers a purpose to his life through the Jewish faith. Following his journey as he flees Nazi persecution in Poland in 1939, through wealth and a failed marriage in New York, and on to Israel, it charts his transformation from worldly confusion to spiritual certainty in orthodox Judaism. This powerful work is an examination of the nature of faith, the question of identity and the notion of how to lead a good life. 9780141391571

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LAST TRAIN TO LONDON : Novel

By Meg Waite Clayton. New York Harper Collins Publishers 2019 , In 1936, the Nazi are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna’s streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan’s best friend and companion is the brilliant Žofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents’ carefree innocence is shattered when the Nazis’ take control. There is hope in the darkness, though. Truus Wijsmuller, a member of the Dutch resistance, risks her life smuggling Jewish children out of Nazi Germany to the nations that will take them. It is a mission that becomes even more dangerous after the Anschluss—Hitler’s annexation of Austria—as, across Europe, countries close their borders to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape. Tante Truus, as she is known, is determined to save as many children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to take in at-risk child refugees from the German Reich, she dares to approach Adolf Eichmann, the man who would later help devise the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question,” in a race against time to bring children like Stephan, his young brother Walter, and Žofie-Helene on a perilous journey to an uncertain future abroad. 9780062989994

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BOY WHO FOLLOWED HIS FATHER INTO AUSCHWITZ : True Story

By Dronfield, Jeremy. Great Britain Penquin Random House 2019 , THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDAILY MAIL & SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEARThe inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and survive the Holocaust, for anyone captivated by The Cut Out Girl, The Choice and The Tattooist of Auschwitz. 9780241359174

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RECHNITZ AND THE MERCHANT'S CONTRACTS

By Elfriede Jelinek. London Seagull 2015 , For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust and her provocative deconstructions of pornography. Despite this, her central role in shaping contemporary literature was finally recognized in 2004 with the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The committee acknowledged Jelinek's groundbreaking work that offers a "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power." Although she is an internationally recognized playwright, Jelinek's work is difficult to find in English, which makes this new volume, which includes Rechnitz: The Exterminating Angel and The Merchant's Contracts, all the more valuable. In Rechnitz, a chorus of messengers reports on the circumstances of the massacre of 180 Jews, an actual historical event that took place near the Austrian/Hungarian border town of Rechnitz. More than a docudrama, this work explores the very transmission of historic memory and has been called Jelinek's best performance text to date. In The Merchant's Contracts, Jelinek brings us a comedy of economics, where the babble and media spin of spectators leave small investors alienated and bearing the brunt of the economic crisis. In the age of the global economy, Jelinek turns the story of a merchant of Vienna into a universal comedy of errors, making this her most accessible work. Along with an extensive introduction by the translator that both contextualizes and analyzes the two brilliant texts, a DVD of performances of both plays accompanies this volume. 9780857422255

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CHILDREN'S BLOCK : Based on a True Story by an Auschwitz Survivor

By Kraus, Ota B. London Ebury Press 2019 , An autobiographical novel about the children’s block in Auschwitz-Birkenau by Otto B Kraus, holocaust survivor, with an introduction by his wife, Dita Kraus. 'We lived on a bunk built for four but in times of overcrowding, it slept seven and at times even eight. There was so little space on the berth that when one of us wanted to ease his hip, we all had to turn in a tangle of legs and chests and hollow bellies as if we were one many-limbed creature, a Hindu god or a centipede. We grow intimate not only in body but also in mind because we knew that though we were not born of one womb, we would certainly die together.' Alex Ehren is a poet, a prisoner and a teacher in block 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the children’s block. He spends his days trying to survive while illegally giving lessons to his young charges while shielding them as best he can from the impossible horrors of the camp. But trying to teach the children is not the only illicit activity that Alex is involved in. Alex is keeping a diary… Originally published as THE PAINTED WALL, Otto Kraus’s autobiographical novel, tells the true story of 500 Jewish children who lived in the Czech Family Camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau between September 1943 and June 1944. 9781529105568

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WHEN TIME STOPPED : Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

By Ariana Neumann. London Scribner 2020 , "In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid in plain sight under the Gestapo's eyes. What Hans experienced was so unspeakable that, when he built an industrial empire in Venezuela, he couldn't bring himself to talk about it. All his daughter Ariana knew was that something terrible had happened. When Hans died, he left Ariana a small box filled with letters, diary entries, and other memorabilia. Ten years later, Ariana finally summoned the courage to have the letters translated, and she began reading. What she discovered launched her on a worldwide search that would deliver indelible portraits of a family loving, finding meaning, and trying to survive amid the worst that can be imagined. When Time Stopped is a powerful detective story and an epic family memoir, spanning nearly ninety years and crossing oceans. Neumann brings each relative to vivid life. In uncovering her father's story after all these years, she discovers nuance and depth to her own history and liberates poignant and thought-provoking truths about the threads of humanity that connect us all." 9781471179419

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GIFT : 12 Lessons to Save Your Life

By Edith Eger. London Rider 2020 , In the end, it's not what happens to us that matters most - it's what we choose to do with it. We all face suffering - sadness, loss, despair, fear, anxiety, failure. But we also have a choice; to give in and give up in the face of trauma or difficulties, or to live every moment as a gift. Celebrated therapist and Holocaust survivor, Dr Edith Eger, provides a hands-on guide that gently encourages us to change the imprisoning thoughts and destructive behaviours that may be holding us back. Accompanied by stories from Eger's own life and the lives of her patients, her empowering lessons help you to see your darkest moments as your greatest teachers, and find freedom through the strength that lies within. 9781846046278

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FINKLER QUESTIONS

By Jacobson, Howard . London Bloomsbury 2010 , 'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a Czechoslovakian always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor's grand, central London apartment. It's a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all because that way you had less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears enough for the unbearable sadness of both his friends' losses. And it's that very evening, at exactly 11:30pm, as Treslove hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country as he walks home, that he is attacked. After this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change. The Finkler Question is a scorching story of exclusion and belonging, justice and love, ageing, wisdom and humanity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best. 9781408809105

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SMALL TOWN IN UKRAINE : Place We Came From the Place We Went Back To

By Wasserstein,Bernard . UK Allen Lane 2023 , The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before. Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history. 'I want to observe and understand how some of the great forces that determined the shape of our times affected ordinary people.' The result is an exceptional, often moving book. Wasserstein traces the arc of history across centuries of religious and political conflict, as armies of Cossacks, Turks, Swedes, and Muscovites rampaged through the region. In the age of enlightenment, the Polish magnate Ignacy Cetner built his palace at Krakowiec and, with his vivacious daughter, Princess Anna, created an arcadia of refinement and serenity. Under the Habsburg emperors after 1772, Krakowiec developed into a typical shtetl, with a jostling population of Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews. In 1914, disaster struck. 'Seven years of terror and carnage' left a legacy of ferocious national antagonisms. During the Second World War the Jews were murdered in circumstances harrowingly described by Wasserstein. After the war the Poles were expelled and the town dwindled into a border outpost. Today, the storm of history once again flows through Krakowiec as hordes of refugees flee for their lives from Ukraine to Poland. At the beginning and end of the book we encounter Wasserstein's own family, especially his grandfather Berl. In their lives and the many others Wasserstein has rediscovered, the people of Krakowiec become a prism through which we can feel the shocking immediacy of history. Original in conception and brilliantly achieved, Krakowiec is a masterpiece of recovery and insight. 9780241632703

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WHERE MEMORY LEADS : My Life

By Friedländer,Saul . New York Other Press 2016 , "A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's return to memoir, a tale of intellectual coming-of-age on three continents, published in tandem with his classic work of Holocaust literature, When Memory Comes Forty years after his acclaimed, poignant first memoir, Friedlander returns with WHEN MEMORY COMES: THE LATER YEARS, bridging the gap between the ordeals of his childhood and his present-day towering reputation in the field of Holocaust studies. After abandoning his youthful conversion to Catholicism, he rediscovers his Jewish roots as a teenager and builds a new life in Israeli politics. Friedlander's initial loyalty to Israel turns into a lifelong fascination with Jewish life and history. He struggles to process the ubiquitous effects of European anti-Semitism while searching for a more measured approach to the Zionism that surrounds him. Friedlander goes on to spend his adulthood shuttling between Israel, Europe, and the United States, armed with his talent for language and an expansive intellect. His prestige inevitably throws him up against other intellectual heavyweights. In his early years in Israel, he rubs shoulders with the architects of the fledgling state and brilliant minds such as Gershom Scholem and Carlo Ginzburg, among others. Most importantly, this memoir led Friedlander to reflect on the wrenching events that induced him to devote sixteen years of his life to writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945"-- 9781635420494

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YEHUDA SAHITYACHARITHRAM

By Krishna Chaitanya. Kottayam Sahitya Pravarthaka Co-operative Society Ltd. 1963

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WORLD ENEMY NO.1 : Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of thr Jews

By Hellbeck, Jochen. London Picador 2025 , The shocking number of Soviet citizens who lost their lives between 1941 and 1945 – 26 million, more than any other country – is widely known. But the faces and the voices of these victims of Nazism are conspicuously absent. In a pathbreaking new work of history, Jochen Hellbeck restores the USSR to its proper place in the history of the Second World War, arguing that to truly understand the conflict, we must set its axis firmly in Soviet territory. It was not the Western powers but Communist Russia that Nazi Germany viewed as the greatest threat to its existence. The German crusade against ‘Judeo-Bolshevism’ was the driving force of the Nazis’ most extreme violence, and Soviet territory became ground zero for systematic extermination. Only later was this shocking regime of killing extended to all Jews, igniting the Holocaust. Using newly declassified archives, testimonies, diaries and dispatches from soldiers and civilians both Soviet and German, Hellbeck reveals the sheer, untold breadth of terror the Nazis inflicted. This eye-opening masterwork is an astonishing new reading both of the Second World War and of how its history has been told. 9781035083893

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MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING :Classic Tribute to Hope From the Holocaust

By Frankl, Viktor E.. UK Imprint of Ebury Publishing 2004 , A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest – and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. The sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp’s degenerating influence – while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph. Frankl came to believe that man’s deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living. 9781846041242

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