20th Century History

Before the war, there had been 11 Jewish families, 50 people in all, in the small German town of Schmallenberg. But when Hans Frankenthal returned in 1945 at the age...

The book titled Thursday's Child Has Far to Go: A Memoir of the Journeying Years by the author Walter Laqueur. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The story of the Catholic Church's role in the persecution of the Jews. In this investigation, David Kertzer argues that the Roman Catholic Church's role in the historical hatred and...

Raised a Muslim but increasingly outraged by her religion's hostility towards women, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has now become one of today's most talked-about, admired and controversial political figures because of...

What if Islam never existed? To some, it's a comforting thought: no clash of civilizations, no holy wars, no terrorists. But what if that weren't the case at all? In...

This first full-length biography of the Jewish-German trial lawyer Hans Litten won the 2007 Fraenkel Prize for outstanding work of contemporary history. During a 1931 trial of four Nazi stormtroopers,...

Details how the Jews in Bulgaria were rescued from deportation to Nazi concentration camps by a crew of public and private individuals.

This study deals with an unusual and absorbing topic: how the Arabs see and deal with reality and the implications this has for the nature of power in the Arab...

As a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha Mounk felt like a foreigner in his own country. When he mentioned that he is Jewish, some made anti-Semitic jokes or talked about...

The book titled America, Oil & the Islamic Mind: The Real Crisis is the Gulf between by the author Michael Youssef. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

The book titled Nazi Hunter: The Wiesenthal File by the author Alan Levy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East...

Whether destined for a sultan's palace or provincial household, a vast array of functional and often luxurious metal vessels and utensils have been produced throughout the Islamic world. Although not...

Original visual material based upon exhaustive picture research from untapped archives, private collections and Jewish museums in Israel, America and Europe. Jewish studies is an area of massive interest for...

Sprinzak paints a disturbing portrait of the dark side of Israeli politics, exposing the shift from ideological dissent to violence and terrorism, culminating in the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. His...

This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to...

'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East...

First time in Modern Classics Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is...

A richly detailed account of the little-known cultural and political relationship between Elizabethan England and the Islamic world In 1570, after plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I was...

Published on the 80th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning author's birth Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration...

'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East...

The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....