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Items with the tag:

ghettos

Cover of Shylock's Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice's Jews and the Ghetto
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Shy­lock­’s Venice: The Remark­able His­to­ry of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto
Har­ry Freedman
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Excerpt: The For­bid­den Daughter

Zipo­ra Klein Jakob
April 28, 2024
Cover of The Forbidden Daughter: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor
Non­fic­tion
The For­bid­den Daugh­ter: The True Sto­ry of a Holo­caust Survivor
Zipo­ra Klein Jakob
Essay

Vis­it­ing Poland: Writ­ing about the Holocaust

Lau­ren Grodstein
December 5, 2023
Cover of Sarra Copia: A Locked-in Life
Fic­tion
Sar­ra Copia: A Locked-in Life
Nan­cy Ludmerer
Excerpt

The Buried Trea­sures of the Paper Brigade

Meryl Frank
June 26, 2023
Cover of Intimate Strangers: A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome
Non­fic­tion
Inti­mate Strangers: A His­to­ry of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome
Fredric Brand­fon
Cover of Saved by Schindler: The Life of Celina Karp Biniaz
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Saved by Schindler: The Life of Celi­na Karp Biniaz 
William B. Friedricks
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The 23rd Psalm: A Holo­caust Memoir
George Salton with Anna Salton Eisen
Cover of Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation
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War­saw Ghet­to Police: The Jew­ish Order Ser­vice dur­ing the Nazi Occupation
Katarzyna Person
Cover of 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
Fic­tion
28 Days: A Nov­el of Resis­tance in the War­saw Ghetto
David Safier, Helen MacCormac (trans.)
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Poet­ry
The Tale of a Niggun
Elie Wiesel; Mark Podwal, illus.
Essay

Renais­sance Revealed: The Oppres­sion of Jews in Italy in the 1500s

Cather­ine Fletcher
September 14, 2020
Cover of The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice
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The Jew­ish Ghet­to and the Visu­al Imag­i­na­tion of Ear­ly Mod­ern Venice
Dana E. Katz
Cover of The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture
Non­fic­tion
The War­saw Ghet­to in Amer­i­can Art and Culture
Saman­tha Baskind
Cover of Mister Doctor: Janusz Korczak & the Orphans of the Warsaw Ghetto
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Mis­ter Doc­tor: Janusz Kor­czak & the Orphans of the War­saw Ghetto
Irene Cohen-Janca Maurizio Quarello, illus.
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