Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History
By: Steven J. Zipperstein
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Economist Best Book of the Year Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award (History) Separating…
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1. The Romanov Prophecy
By: Steve Berry
3.94
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Ekaterinburg, Russia: July 16, 1918. Ten months have passed since Nicholas II’s reign was cut short… read more
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- russia
"The people can be forced to fear, but not to love."-Steve Berry, The Romanov Prophecy
"They’re like chocolate-chip cookies, though. Can’t have just one."-Steve Berry, The Romanov Prophecy
2. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
By: Saul Friedländer
4.24
Format: 870 pages, Hardcover
With The Years of Extermination, Saul Friedländer completes his major historical work on Nazi Germa… read more
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- history
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"Esa sensación de extrañeza me parece que refleja la percepción por parte de las desventuradas víctimas del régimen, al menos durante los años treinta, de una realidad tan absurda como ominosa, de un …"-Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
3. Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Michael Walzer , George J. Becker
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
With a new preface by Michael Walzer Jean-Paul Sartre's book is a brilliant portrait of both anti-S… read more
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4. Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region
By: Masha Gessen
2.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twe… read more
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5. Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
By: Charles King
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
"Rich and riveting, complex and compelling, powerful and poetic."--Peter M. Gianotti, Newsday In Od… read more
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- european history
6. A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
By: Alon Confino
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking reexamination of the Holocaust and of how Germans understood their genocidal proje… read more
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- history
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7. The Founding Fathers of Zionism
By: Benzion Netanyahu
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In 1893 he went together with Stephany, a Christian friend, to Borkum, a seaside summer resort. Whe… read more
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8. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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9. Tinkers
By: Paul Harding
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
An old man lies dying. Propped up in his living room and surrounded by his children and grandchildr… read more
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10. My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
By: Ariel Sabar
4.24
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kur… read more
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"Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent."-Ariel Sabar, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
"If you knew which levers to pull, you could stop time just long enough to save the things you love most."-Ariel Sabar, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
"Language lives. It inhales culture and history. It sprouts new limbs, sloughs off old ones. It goes through cycles of rapid growth, unremarkable periods of stable maturity, decay, and sometimes, as w…"-Ariel Sabar, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
11. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Doris Kearns Goodwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Team of Rivals, captures the Progr… read more
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12. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- 20th century
13. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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- race
- history
- jewish
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14. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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- jewish
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- holocaust
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
15. The Books of Jacob
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.02
Format: 965 pages, Hardcover
The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more
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"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
16. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
17. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
18. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
By: Anne Applebaum
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more
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- history
"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
19. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew
By: Emmanuel Acho
4.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking in… read more
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- jewish
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- nonfiction
20. Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic
By: Barry Meier
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter who first exposed the roots of the opioid e… read more
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- history
21. The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
By: Dan Senor
4.38
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since it… read more
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22. Limitarianism
By: Ingrid Robeyns
3.99
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’ Richard Wilkinso… read more
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23. It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable―And How We Can Stop It
By: Jonathan Greenblatt
3.80
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Refreshingly candid . . . Get off Instagram and read this book.” —Sacha Baron Cohen From the dyna… read more
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- religion
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- jewish
24. Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again
By: Robert Kagan
4.48
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radica… read more
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- history
25. Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History
By: Steven J. Zipperstein
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Economist Best Book of the Year Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award (History) Separating… read more
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- race
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- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- european history
- 20th century
- holocaust
26. In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
By: Jeffrey Veidlinger
4.34
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE “The mass ki… read more
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- jewish
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27. Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy
By: Isaac Arnsdorf
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An explosive, behind-the-scenes look at how a radical group of activists — supported by former Pres… read more
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28. The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul
By: Isabel Kershner
4.09
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
A rich, wide-ranging portrait of the Israeli people today at a critical juncture in their country’s… read more
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29. Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth
By: Jodi Magness
3.89
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A new account of the famous site and story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held o… read more
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30. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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- russia
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
31. Moldova: A History
By: Rebecca Haynes
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Moldova is a new nation-state with a long history. Despite only recently gaining independence, foll… read more
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