Product Description: Part of the Jewish Encounters seriesThe first comprehensive biography of one of the most beloved authors of all time: the creator of Tevye the Dairyman, the collection of stories that inspired Fiddler on the Roof. Novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, and editor, Sholem Aleichem was one of the founding giants of modern Yiddish literature...read more

In the early 1900s, Sarah, a single mother of six children, is trapped in the bloody upheaval marking the death of Czarist Russia and the birth of the Soviet Union. Facing bigotry, poverty, and bloody revolution, Sarah determines to escape the catastrophe engulfing her and her family. She vows to bring them to America. In this memoir, author Isabelle Stamler traces her family’s roots back to the small Belarussian hamlet of Vashisht, telling their story of the journey from Russia to a new life in New York City. From the Great Depression through World War II and beyond, Sarah’s Ten Fingers narrates the trials and tribulations faced by this determined mother seeking a better existence for her family. Sarah’s Ten Fingers recalls Sarah’s tenacity, strength, and intelligence—traits that have been replicated in her progeny, who are now teachers, lawyers, doctors, accountants, business owners, and writers. It portrays fifty years in the lives of a family that was brought out of hell by a pious Jewish woman seeking to attain the Golden Land.

Product Description: A Forgotten Land is the story of one Jewish family's lives and experiences in the Russian Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, set within the wider context of pogroms, World War I, the Russian Revolution and Civil War...read more

Product Description: There was commotion everywhere. People were getting dressed or looking for things. The atmosphere was unreal, unbelievable. I know they all felt the same as I. A rope was tightening around everyone's neck-the end has come. It is like seeing the angel of death manifest in the form of a policeman...read more

Product Description: This is the story of one woman, Lola Lieber, a Hungarian-Polish Jewess who survived and has chosen during her lifetime to tell the story of the ordeals of her survival and the strength of her faith and courage against all odds. It is also the memoir of a marriage that was a true working partnership as well as a marital bond of extraordinary depth...read more

Product Description: The Holocaust has come to be known as the greatest attempt in history to destroy European Jewry. But the plight of the Jews began many years before the events of World War II. The author, Barry Fireman, compiled the stories told to him mostly by his father and expanded the events with contributions from his mother and grandmother, cousins, other family members and friends of the family who came from similar towns and villages...read more

Product Description: A remarkable and compelling story about a Jewish boy´s coming of age during World War II, his survival, and ultimately, the transformation of his life as an American. Joseph Garay´s life story is an object lesson about perseverance in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- from the loss of his entire family in the concentration camps, to his survival in the Jewish Underground in Bratislava and elsewhere; from his joining the partisan underground and his enlistment in the Czechoslovakian division of the Romanian Red Army to fight the Nazis, to his meeting and marrying his wife...read more

Product Description: This is a personal account of a young boy's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Transnistria. The descriptions are presented against the background of unfolding events, combining personal recollections with a historic overview, before, during and after the Holocaust...read more

Product Description: Mark recognized the "Hitler Era" before, in fact, it became the Hitler Era. As a Nazi basher in the early days to the prognosticator of doom, thought by many to be crazy for his radical views, he saw the unseen... - photo illustrated.

An American-born daughter chronicles the moving history of her mother's family, Ukrainian Jews whose community faces the horror of pogroms in the early 1900s, who migrate to the United States in search of a better life.

Manya Abramson and her family fight to survive the repeated pogroms and persecutions inflicted on the Jews in the Russian Ukraine in the years 1917-1921.