Modern Jewish History

Taking as its subject Jewish life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this series continues to examine the Shoah and global Jewish diaspora, alongside neglected historical figures and moments as well as analysis of Jewish literature.
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Jewish Historical Societies
Navigating the Professional-Amateur Divide
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781682831816
Pub Date: May 2023
A scholarly examination of local and regional Jewish historical societies in the United States that considers their contribution to historical memory and suggests what they might offer to the future
Love, Norm
Inspiration of a Jewish American Fighter Pilot
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781682831243
Pub Date: July 2022
An epistolary memoir ruminating on Jewish identity, heroism, history, and inspiration.
Songs of Sonderling
Commissioning Jewish Émigré Composers in Los Angeles, 1938–1945
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781682830796
Pub Date: May 2021
The story of one Los Angeles rabbi's new vision for liturgical music.
Transcending Darkness
A Girl’s Journey Out of the Holocaust
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9780896729803
Pub Date: January 2016
A harrowing tale of destruction and loss amid the Holocaust ghetto and concentration camps of Holocaust Poland, it is also a story of the goodness that still exists in a dark world, of survival and renewal.
Pillar of Fire
A Biography of Stephen S. Wise
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780896729100
Pub Date: December 2015
During his long career, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise received letters with only two words written on the envelope: “Rabbi USA.” But the United States Postal Service was never in doubt about the intended...
The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbrück
Who Were They?
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780896728721
Pub Date: August 2014
Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the site of murder by slave labor, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, medical experimentation,...
Karski
How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780896728820
Pub Date: August 2014
A young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer, Jan Karski joined the Polish Underground movement in 1939. He became a courier for the Underground, crossing enemy lines to serve as a liaison between...
Commodore Levy
A Novel of Early America in the Age of Sail
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780896728813
Pub Date: May 2014
By all accounts, Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish commodore in the U.S. Navy, was both a principled and pugnacious man. On his way to becoming a flag officer, he was subjected to six courts-martial...
The Tailors of Tomaszow
A Memoir of Polish Jews
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780896728790
Pub Date: April 2014
Seven decades after the Nazis annihilated the Jewish community of Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland, comes a gripping eyewitness narrative told by one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, as well as...
“Non-Germans” under the Third Reich
The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany and Occupied Eastern Europe, with Special Regard to Occupied Poland, 1939-1945
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780896728370
Pub Date: January 2014
Under the legal and administrative system of Nazi Germany, people categorized as Fremdvölkische (literally, “foreign people”) were subject to special laws that restricted their rights, limited...

Jewish Historical Societies
Navigating the Professional-Amateur Divide
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781682831816
Pub Date: May 2023
Love, Norm
Inspiration of a Jewish American Fighter Pilot
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781682831243
Pub Date: July 2022
Songs of Sonderling
Commissioning Jewish Émigré Composers in Los Angeles, 1938–1945
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781682830796
Pub Date: May 2021
Transcending Darkness
A Girl’s Journey Out of the Holocaust
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9780896729803
Pub Date: January 2016
Pillar of Fire
A Biography of Stephen S. Wise
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780896729100
Pub Date: December 2015
The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbrück
Who Were They?
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780896728721
Pub Date: August 2014
Karski
How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780896728820
Pub Date: August 2014
Commodore Levy
A Novel of Early America in the Age of Sail
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780896728813
Pub Date: May 2014
The Tailors of Tomaszow
A Memoir of Polish Jews
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780896728790
Pub Date: April 2014
“Non-Germans” under the Third Reich
The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany and Occupied Eastern Europe, with Special Regard to Occupied Poland, 1939-1945
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780896728370
Pub Date: January 2014