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Stronger than Iron
SKU: 485-2
This eyewitness account details the destruction of Vilna Jewry at the hands of the Nazis.
Its chronicle of life in the two Vilna ghettos is the only historical document describing life in the small ghetto from its formation until its liquidation.
The book is a historical document of primary importance. It is also an expression of the innermost thoughts and feelings of a single individual whose will to survive and to bring this story to the judgment of future generations was stronger than iron.
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ABOUT FACE: ASIAN ACCOUNTS OF AUSTRALIA
BROINOWSKI, ALISON
Alison Broinowski has surveyed historical and contemporary accounts of Australia in ten Asian countries. The results are clear: Australia has an image problem in the region. It is partly of AustraliaÕs own making, and partly a result of the way Asian opinion-makers choose, at different times, to represent Australia. Alison Broinowski is a visiting fellow in the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University. A former cultural attachŽ and diplomat, she is the author of five other books, including The Yellow Lady: Australian impressions of Asia .
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ARAFAT'S WAR
by Efraim Karsh
Grove Press
The Man and His Battle for Israeli Conquest
Established in 1964 with the goal of "liberating Palestine in its entirety," the Palestinian Liberation Organization has for years been led by one of its most outspoken and notorious members, Yasser Arafat.
He has undergone a radical transformation from a fugitive terrorist leader to a passionate and respected advocate for the creation of a Palestinian homeland.
But then why did he reject a plan for Palestinian statehood in 2000, after crusading for this long-standing ideal for close to forty years?
Was it a bargaining ploy or a reflection of a deeper reluctance on the part of the Palestinian leadership to genuinely commit itself to peace with Israel?
Historian Efraim Karsh argues that Arafat is less interested in the liberation of the West Bank and Gaza, or even with the establishment of a Palestinian state, than in the PLO's historic goal of Israel's destruction.
Karsh details Arafat's efforts since the historic Oslo peace accords, resulting in a level of violence unmatched in scope and intensity since 1948.
Arafat has irrevocably altered the Middle East's political landscape, and while his place in history has yet to be written, the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict will always be Arafat's war.
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Australia and Israel: An Ambiguous Relationship
by Chanan Reich
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Australian Jewish writer
Australia and Israel have always had a close relationship or so most people believe. But does the historical record support this assumption. Chanan Reich examined the official archival records of both countries from 1915 until the aftermath of the Six-Day War of 1967 and reveals the attitudes of significant Australian political figures. He gives snapshots of the key Israelis, and highlights the bridging role of the Australian Jewish community and tells the fascinating story of a surprisingly complex and ambiguous relationship.
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Australian Genesis Jewish Convicts and Settlers
by John S. Levi & G.F.J. Bergman
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Australian Jewish writer
The Australian Jewish story, from the First Fleet to the gold rushes of the 1850s, is filled with memorable characters and gripping adventures that highlight the struggle for political emancipation and religious tolerance. This updated edition tells new stories about many of the founding families of today's Jewish community. This unique social history of Australia's Jewish population filled with many illustrations makes an ideal gift.
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Battle for Jerusalem
by Lt. Gen. Modechai Gur
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A reprint of the account of events surrounding the critical battle for Jerusalem during the 1967 MidEast War by the Israeli Chief of Staff and Field Commander of the Battle.
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Captain Cook
by Vanessa Collingridge
The Life the Death and the Legacy of History's Great Explorer
A remarkable journey charting three lives over three centuries in a quest to find the truth.
Vanessa Collingridge has a passion for explorers, and for one in particular.
Quitting her comfortable job on prime-time television, she set out to traverse the globe in the wake of her all-time hero, Captain James Cook - the man who discovered more of this planet than any other person - a titan in the history of ambition, discovery, the Empire and the modern civilisation.
In producing this historical and geographical tour de force, her aim was to get underneath the public legend, to find the man behind the myth and uncover the private passions that drove him to go "farther than any other man" - but en route, she got more than she bargained for.
A chance discovery in a library led to a life changing and very personal collision with a distant, dead relative, George Collingridge.
He, too, was a geographer and journalist with a passion for discovery and an interest in our hero - but he had dared to speak a heresy that shook the British Empire: Captain Cook may have been the greatest explorer of all time -- but he didn't discover Australia.
George used as his evidence a set of beautiful sixteenth century maps showing a mysterious continent called Jave la Grande - a continent with place names in Portuguese, French and Spanish - a continent in the place where Australia should be.
His evidence was ridiculed, he was denounced as traitor and finally died in poverty and disgrace. Fifty years later, the tide of opinion is beginning to turn…
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Elvis in Jerusalem
by Tom Segev
Post Zionism and the Americanization of Israel
In his many works of history, Tom Segev challenged the entrenched understanding of crucial moments in Israel's past. Now in a short, sharp, and timely book, Segev has turned his sights from Israeli history to confront some dearly held assumptions about the country today, in the process tipping a number of sacred cows.
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Globalization & Its Discontents
Joseph Stiglitz
Our world is changing. Globalisation is not working. It is hurting those it was meant to help. And now, the tide is turning . . . Explosive and shocking, Globalization and Its Discontents is the bestselling expose of the all-powerful organisations that control our lives - from the man who has seen them at work first hand. As chief economist at the World Bank, Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Stiglitz had a unique insider's view into the management of globalisation. Now he speaks out against it: how the IMF and WTO preach fair trade yet impose crippling economic policies on developing nations; how free market 'shock therapy' made millions in East Asia and Russia worse off than they were before; and how the West has driven the global agenda to further its own financial interests. Globalisation can still be a force for good, Stiglitz argues. But the balance of power has to change. Here he offers real, tough solutions for the future.
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Inside Al Qaeda
by Rohan Gunaratana
Scribe Publications
This book is being published for the first time in Australia, New Zealand, and South-East Asia (Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc) on 9 December 2002.
This revised and corrected edition incorporates a 6200-word post-Bali preface and the full text of bin Laden's audiotaped threat to Australia and the West that was broadcast last week.
The preface includes a section on South-East Asia, and another on the threat to Australia.
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Interrupted Journeys
by Alan Gill
published by Simon & Schuster Australia
"The goodbye scenes, they'll always be there. I don't think I was crying, but lots of the other children were. I had no understanding I might never see my parents again."
....George Dreyfus, an orphan from Hitler's Reich
As the dark storm clouds of World War II threatened to engulf Europe, a small number of young German and Austrian Jews fled Nazi oppression in their homeland, leaving behind thier parents, families and everything familiar, and sought refuge in Australia.
These young refugees were followed by other groups of young people from war-torn Europe whose life journeys were 'interrupted', in fact, underwent total and permanent change, as a result of Hitler's Reich.
They included children who escaped first to Britain on the famed 'Kindertransports', teenage survivors of the Holocaust who spent the war in hiding or in Nazi concentration camps, friendly 'enemy aliens' like the Dunera Boys, who were interned in Australia, and the Vienna Mozart Boys Choir, internationally renowned child singers, trapped in Australia by the outbreak of war.
Interrupted Journeys reveals not only their remarkable wartime stories, but also describes how many of these young refugees from Nazism made Australia their permanent home after the war ended and have since added richly to the life of this country.
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Jewcentricity
Author: Adam Garfinkle
Format: Hardcover | 320 pages
SKU:978047019856
A wise and wide–ranging explanation of never–ending exaggeration–by both philo–Semites and anti–Semites–about the Jews
Hamas blames the financial crisis on Jews. Mel Gibson blamed all the wars on Jews. Jews win a disproportionate number of Nobel prizes. Dishy Danish citizen Scarlett Johansson is Jewish, Madonna is into Jewish mysticism, and some claim that Abe Lincoln was Jewish. Who cares? Nearly everyone, it seems. If it′s about Jews, it′s news. Adam Garfinkle looks deeply into the world′s obsession with Jews, positive as well as negative, to find answers about where it comes from and where it might be going. He identifies four categories of exaggeration about Jews: positive bias by Jews and non–Jews, and negative bias by Jews and non–Jews.
Combining insights from history, sociology, religion, and international politics, he explains how a misunderstanding of strategies that have kept the Jewish Diaspora going for millennia have led to distortions about Jewish influence, intelligence, and success–and to charges of chauvinism, financial manipulation, and conspiratorial lever–pulling.
Adam Garfinkle (Washington, DC) is the founding editor of the American Interest, a bimonthly magazine on politics and public affairs. Formerly a speechwriter for both Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, Garfinkle has taught international relations at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Tel Aviv University.
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
Simon Winchester
On 27 August 1883 the most terrifying volcanic eruption occurred on the island of Krakatoa, five miles off the western tip of Java. The island was destroyed and almost 40,000 people were killed. The impact was truly global: ships sailing in the Red Sea were covered in ash; barometers went haywire in Washington; the seas were disturbed in Devon; stunning sunsets burned over London; immense rafts of pumice floated to Africa. In his wonderfully engaging and inimitable style, Simon Winchester brings to life the drama, the people and the science behind this iconic event. He explains how Krakatoa is the key to answering our questions about why mountains explode, how life begins and what happens beneath the earth's surface; and hence why the word 'Krakatoa' has become embedded in the consciousness of the modern world. Simon Winchester's book is the first to truly explain the eruption of Krakatoa.
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Natasha's Dance A Cultural History of Russia
by Orlando Figes
HB
From the publisher . . . . . Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St Petersburg and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself - its character, spiritual essence, history and destiny. . . . . . Orlando Figes is an internally renowned historian from the University of London whose previous book on Russia was the award winning A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924.
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Paradise & Power: America & Europe in the New Worl
Robert Kagan
After the mutual resentment and tension of recent years, there is a sudden recognition that the real interests of America and its allies are diverging sharply and that the transatlantic relationship forged during the Cold War has changed, perhaps irreversibly. Europe sees the United States as high-handed, unilateralist, and recklessly belligerent; the United States sees Europe as spent, unserious and weak. The anger and mistrust on both sides are hardening into incomprehension. In this landmark short book, Robert Kagan analyses this impasse with brilliant incisiveness, looking at each side through the eyes of the other.
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Six Days of War
by Michael B. Oren
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Michael B. Oren is a Senior Fellow at the Shalem Centre in Jerusalem and has written extensively on Middle Eastern history and diplomatic affairs. Drawing on thousands of top-secret documents, on rare papers in Russian and Arabic, and on exclusive personal interviews, Six Days of War recreates the regional and international context which, by the late 1960s, virtually assured an Arab-Israeli conflagration. Highly recommended.
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The Clinton Wars: An Insider's Account Of The Whit
Sidney Blumenthal
An invaluable first-hand history of an extraordinary presidency, and the political odyssey of a generation. When in 1997 Bill Clinton asked the writer Sidney Blumenthal to join him in the West Wing as his Assistant, Blumenthal was instantly capitulated into the front lines of the Clinton wars. From Matt Drudge's opening salvo against him on his first day in the White House to his appearance as the only presidential aide ever to testify in an impeachment trial, Blumenthal was an actor or in witness to nearly all the battles of the Clinton presidency. Here is his stunning first-hand account of the extraordinary William Jefferson Clinton. Every page of this unrivalled, authoritative book, with its intimate insights into Clinton's personality and politics, attests to Blumenthal's literary skill, profound understanding of politics, and unique perspective on crucial events of our recent past. The Clinton Wars is a lasting contribution to twentieth-century history.
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THE HOPE FULFILLED
by Leslie Stern
published by Praeger Publications
The Rise of Modern Israel
Blending an analysis of general political, diplomatic, and military trends with a description of how Zionist pioneers coped with ongoing social developments and challenges, Stein recounts the events that would ultimately lead to the formation of the State of Israel in May 1948.
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The Last Journey of William Huskisson
Simon Garfield
From the author of Mauve comes a dramatic and hugely readable account of the day which saw the dawning of the railway age - and the first railway accident. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the greatest engineering feat of its age. George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket was to become the most famous locomotive in history. William Huskisson was one of the greatest statesmen of his generation, and certainly the most accident-prone. On 15 September 1830, the three met for the first time.
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The Life & Adventures of William Buckley
John Morgan, Tim Flannery (Ed)
'At 2.00 PM on Sunday, 6 July 1835, a giant of a man shambled into the camp left by John Batman at indented Head near Geelong . he was six foot five and seven-eighths inches tall (198cm) in his bare feet. Though clearly a European, and "well proportioned with an erect military gait" the visitor spoke not a word of English. Instead, he pointed to a tattoo on his arm, which bore the initials WB alongside crudely executed figures of the sun, moon and a possum-like creature. Then, when he was given a slice from a loaf, the word "bread" broke suddenly-almost involuntarily-from his lips. 'Over the following weeks fragments of this stranger's history were revealed. His name, he said, was William Buckley, and he had been living with the Aborigines for so long he had lost track of time What he told of his life in the wilds of Victoria so amazed those who heard him that he soon became celebrated as "the wild white man".
From Tim Flannery's Introduction
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The Map That Changed the World
Simon Winchester
William Smith was not rich or well connected, but his passion for rocks and fossils, and his twenty-year obsession with single-handedly mapping the geology of Britain made him one of the most significant men of the nineteenth century. However his vision cost him dear - his wife went mad, his work was stolen by jealous colleagues who eventually ruined him, and he was imprisoned for debt. Simon Winchester tells the fascinating story of 'Strata' Smith, a man who crossed boundaries of class, wealth and science to produce a map that fundamentally changed the way we view the world.
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The Other Israel
edited by Roane Carey and Jonathan Shainin
HB
These essays are an urgent and passionate intervention by Israeli citizens challenging the continued occupation of Palestinian territory and the failed policies of Ariel Sharon's government.
Against a backdrop of increasing violence on both sides, the book presents a broad range of dissenting voices that articulate practical, legal and moral objections to the occupation.
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne
Simon Winchester
The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental task involving thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest was W C Minor who corresponded with the dictionary's editor, James Murray, for nearly twenty years without meeting him. Eventually Murray travelled to Crowthorne, Berkshire, to meet Minor. What he found was incredible: a millionaire American civil war surgeon, imprisoned for murder in Broadmoor Asylum. Simon Winchester tracks down this enthralling story in all its bizarre and fascinating detail.
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These Are The Names - Jewish Lives in Australia, 1788-1850
John S Levi with a foreword by Howard Nathan
Please note this book is OUT OF PRINT
Between 1788 and 1850, more than 1500 Jewish men and women were either transported to Australia as convicts or arrived as free settlers. This important biographical dictionary presents the details--occasionally sketchy but sometimes extensive--of these pioneers.
Rabbi John Levi's painstaking research through the fragmentary and often contradictory colonial records has culminated in an invaluable reference work and resource.
A wealth of information, including birth names, extra names, nicknames, aliases and maiden names, together with details of marriages, children and occupations, makes THESE ARE THE NAMES a major contribution to an important but little-recognised aspect of Australia's settlement history. For the first time, the earliest generation of Jews to settle in Australia is named and remembered.
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Triumph Over Tyranny
by Philip Spiegel
Format: Harcover, 545 Pages
SKU: 978193444013
Triumph Over Tyranny is the most complete account to date of the remarkable stories of courageous people to change the policies of a totalitarian regime. It is a panorama of the history of the international Soviet Jewry movement and the fight for human rights in the former Soviet Union.
This is the first book in English to reveal some of the clandestine activities of the Chabad movement to keep Judaism alive in the Soviet Union during the regimes of Stalin and Khrushchev. It discloses the dramatic story of the Israeli government's secret missions to contact and aid Soviet Jews in their quest to emigrate from an oppressive regime and live as Jews in Israel. Quoting from newly translated KGB documents, the book shows how leaders in the Kremlin rationalized their brutal and repressive actions.
Motivated by their realization that European Jews had been abandoned to suffer the horrors of the Holocaust, the activists in the U.S.S.R. and abroad were determined to give meaning to the slogan "Never Again!" They waged successful campaigns to save their brethren, the Jews of the Soviet Union who courageously refused to be victims.
Philip Spiegel and his wife, Carolyn Kommel Spiegel, traveled to the Soviet Union in 1985 and 1987 as participants in the Moscow Marathon. They also visited and befriended refuseniks in Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. From 1985 to 1995 the Spiegels served on the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews. During this time the author was chairman of the Social Action Committee of Congregation Kol Emeth in Palo Alto.
In 2000, Philip wrote and published Remembering Ottynia, a 64-page book about his parents' hometown in Ukraine. The book was accepted by Yad Vashem as a Yizkor (memorial) book.
Since 2002, he has researched the history of the international Soviet Jewry movement and interviewed over 200 activists, political leaders, former refuseniks and prisoners of conscience. In 2006, Philip developed and taught "The Journey of Soviet Jewry," a five-session course for Lehrhaus Judaiaca, the Adult School for Jewish Studies in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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