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Books You Never Knew You Wanted!

  • Writer: Donna Tarney
    Donna Tarney
  • Jan 8, 2018
  • 2 min read

Here is the list of all the books you heard mentioned during our time together. Enjoy them as you find the time!

Books about Jewish life:

Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews

Author: Eva Hoffman

The Jewish Approach to Repairing the World (Tikkun Olam)

Author: Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff

Holocaust related books:

War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust

Author: Doris L. Bergen

The Holocaust

Authors: Frank McDonough with John Cochrane

The Holocaust by Bullets

Author: Fr. Patrick Desbois

Atlas of the Holocaust

Author: MArtin Gilbert

We Are Children Just the Same

Author: Marie Rut Krizkova, Kurt Jiri Kotouc, Zdnek Ornest

Hana's Suitcase

Author: Karen Levine

The Song of the Murdered Jewish People

Author: Yitzhak Katzenelson

The Yanov Torah

Author: Erwin and Agnes Herman

The Abandonment of the Jews

Author: David Wyman

Reach for the Stars: A Little Torah's Journey

Author: Sylvia A. Rouss and Joachim Joseph

The Sunflower

Author: Simon Wiesenthal

Graphic Novels:

Defiance

Resistance

Victory

Authors: Carla Jablonski & Leland Purvis

Bag of Marbles

Authors: Joseph Joffo, Kris, Vincent Bailly

A Family Secret

Author: Eric Huevel

Karski's Mission: To Stop the Holocaust

Author: Dr. Rafael Medoff

Holocaust Resistance and Rescue:

Spiritual Resistance: Art from Concentration Camps

Author: Miriam Novitch

Fighters Among the Ruins

Author: Yisrael Gutman

A Hero and the Holocaust

Author: David A. Adler

Circles: Dialogue with the Past Series

Available through Yad Vashem

The Vatican Pimpernel

Author: Brian Fleming

Conscious and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust

Author: Eva Fogelman

Laughter in Hell:The Use of HUmor During the Holocaust

Author: Steve Lipman

Life in A Jar: The Irena Sendler Project

Author: Jack Mayer

The Last Escape

Author: Ruth Aliav-Kluger

Exodus 1947: The Ship that Launched a Nation

Author: Ruth Gruber

Miscellaneous Related:

On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I was Taught to Hate

Author: Sondra Perl

We Should All be Feminists

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Teaching for Joy and Justice

Author: Linda Christensen

Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others

Author: David Livingstone Smith

The Altruistic Personality

Author: Samuel P. Oliner

The Compassionate Beast

Author: Morton Hunt


 
 
 

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