A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile by Marjorie Agosin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Garnet World Fiction S.
In this unique memoir, renowned poet, fiction writer, critic, and activist Marjorie Agosin writes in the voice of her mother, Frida, the daughter of European Jewish immigrants, living in Chile in the years before, during, and after World War II. Frida recounts stories from her family's Jewish/Chilean hi ...Show more
Mosaic : A chronicle of five generations by Diane Armstrong
$27.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
This remarkable true story begins in the Polish city of Krakow in 1890 and spans one hundred years and four continents. God blessed Lieba and the devout Jewish patriarch Daniel Baldinger with eleven children, and this richly textured portrait follows their lives down the decades, through the terrifying ...Show more
An Exclusive Love by Johanna Adorjan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
A couple who have been united through the horrors of 20-century Europe and the joys of love and family, cannot live up to the vows they made nearly 50 years ago to stay together 'until death do us part'. In 1991, they take their own lives, together. Their granddaughter Johanna Adorjan digs through her f ...Show more
My Mother Was a Bag Lady by Josiane Behmoiras
$27.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
When Dora and her eight year old daughter are arrested in France they are unable to produce on demand a one franc coin, legal proof they are not vagrants. Penniless, unwanted, itinerant and Jewish, they are shipped back to the Promised Land. Dora's hostile neighbours are soon persecuting her openly for ...Show more
Voyage of Their Life by Diane Armstrong
$24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
In August 1948, 545 passengers boarded an overcrowded, clapped-out vessel in Marseilles to face an uncertain future in Australia and New Zealand.They came from displaced persons camps in Germany, death camps in Poland, labour camps in Hungary, gulags in Siberia and stony Aegean islands. There were those ...Show more
Scars of War, Wounds of Peace by Shlomo Ben-Ami
$29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
This book is about the pendulous movement of Arabs and Israelis between war and peace, in one of the most protracted conflicts of modern times. It is written from the perspective of a professional historian who was also a major participant at key junctures of the peace process.
Winter Journey by Diane Armstrong
$24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
A mother's silence a village with a terrible secret and an Australian woman who travels to Poland to uncover the truth ...When forensic dentist Halina Shore arrives in Nowa Kalwaria to take part in a war crimes investigation she finds herself at the centre of a bitter struggle in a community that has be ...Show more
Dora Behmoiras: A Memoir of My Mother by Behmoiras Josiane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Puts forward the childhood memories of life of the author with her Turkish born Jewish mother. It was a shifting hand to mouth existence, and in the early 1960s, they were arrested for vagrancy and expatriated to Israel.
Don't Ever Let Them Get You! by George Dreyfus
$29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Don't Ever Let Them Get You! is a book about the Holocaust, reconciliation and faith in the face of commercial pressures, the imperative of instant appeal and the moral vacuum of the post-modern age. George Dreyfus provides answers to the question of survival as a composer in the face of life's slings a ...Show more
The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz by Denis Avey & Rob Broomby
$24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two Ser.
THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality me ...Show more
Bear Boy, The by Ozick Cynthia
$49.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
The Bear Boy is a story specific to time and place, and about the dislocation of time and place too. It is set in 1935 at the only moment in history when the idea of socialism flickered to life in the United States, when Jewish intellectuals were fleeing out of the country where they were once respected ...Show more
Wine of Solitude by Irene Nemirovsky
$29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Introspective, intense and poignant, "The Wine of Solitude" is the most autobiographical of all Irene Nemirovsky's novels, now available in English for the first time. Imbued with melancholy, and regret, it explores the troubled relationship between a young girl, her distant, self-absorbed mother and he ...Show more