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Escaping Hitler

A Jewish Haven in Chile

University of Alabama Press

 

Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country’s major institutions.

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A Final Reckoning

A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah

University of Alabama Press

A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly research
 

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Between Home and Homeland

Youth Aliyah from Nazi Germany

University of Alabama Press

The emigration of Jewish teenagers to Palestine to escape Hitler’s Germany

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An American Rabbi in Korea

A Chaplain's Journey in the Forgotten War

University of Alabama Press

A firsthand account of the American Jewish experience on the front lines of the Korean War
 

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Martin Buber's Formative Years

From German Culture to Jewish Renewal, 1897–1909

University of Alabama Press

An illuminating look at an understudied, but critical, period in Buber’s early career.

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Nationalizing a Borderland

War, Ethnicity, and Anti-Jewish Violence in East Galicia, 1914–1920

University of Alabama Press

Examines the causes of the rise of xenophobic nationalism and antisemitic genocide in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia between 1914 and 1920.

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For Decades I Was Silent

A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Back to Faith

University of Alabama Press

A fascinating memoir about a Holocaust survivor's loss of and journey back to faith.

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Jewish Continuity in America

Creative Survival in a Free Society

University of Alabama Press

Jewish Continuity in America presents an overview of a life's work by a preeminent scholar and brings new insight to the challenge of American Jewish continuity.

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Escaping Hitler

A Jewish Haven in Chile

University of Alabama Press

Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country’s major institutions.

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Rabbi Max Heller

Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929

University of Alabama Press

This biography of a pioneering Zionist and leader of American Reform Judaism adds significantly to our understanding of American and southern Jewish history.

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Anna's Shtetl

University of Alabama Press

A rare view of a childhood in a European ghetto

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Twilight of a Golden Age

Selected Poems of Abraham Ibn Ezra

Edited by Leon J. Weinberger; Translated by Leon J. Weinberger; By Abraham Ibn Ezra; Preface by Leon J. Weinberger; Introduction by Leon J. Weinberger
University of Alabama Press

A collection of poems by Abraham ibn Ezra, a key scholar, thinker, and poet in twelfth-century Al-Andalus

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Paganism - Christianity - Judaism

A Confession of Faith

By Max Brod; Introduction by Eric Gottgetreu; Translated by William Wolfe
University of Alabama Press

Now remembered primarily as Franz Kafta's friend and literary executor, Max Brod was an accomplishered thinker and writer in his own right. In this volume, he considers the nature and differences between Judaism and Christianity, addressing some of the most perplexing questions at the heart of human existence.
 

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To Come to the Land

Immigration and Settlement in 16th-Century Eretz-Israel

By Abraham David; Translated by Dena Ordan
University of Alabama Press

To Come to the Land makes available in English a vast body of research,
previously available only in Hebrew, on the early history of the land now
known as Israel.

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Essays in Jewish Thought

University of Alabama Press

Examines and explores diverse topics of Jewish thought and history

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