Jewish History

THE AFFAIR: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus
by Jean-Denis Bredin. Condition: Gently pre-read 1986 George Braziller huge Trade Paperback [628 pages], no printing given. No major problems, just pre-read. Content: A detailed history of the shameful French military episode involving Alfred Dreyus, a Jewish scapegoat. Bredin unravels the legal aspects of the "Affair" and presents the whole conspiracy in a manner that is consistenly fascinating. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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THE GIFTS OF THE JEWS: How A Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everone Thinks and Feels
by Thomas Cahill. B&W Maps. Condition: UNREAD 1999 Anchor Books Trade Paperback, first printing. Small shelfwear to bottom front cover corner. Light tanning to page edges. Content: This a light-handed, popular account of ancient Jewish culture, the culture of the Bible. The book is written from a decidedly modern point of view. He encourages us to see the Old Testament through ancient eyes--to see its characters not as our contemporaries but as those of Gilgamesh and Amenhotep. Cahill also lingers on often-overlooked books of the Bible, such as Ruth, to discuss changes in ancient sensibility. The result is a fine, speculative, eminently readable work of history. Cahill argues that the greatest gifts of the Jews are the linear theory of history (vs. the cyclical theory of other ancients), with its implication that life can get better and avoid decline and the idea of the equality and dignity of each individual that culminated in the declaration that "All men are created equal." Other gifts include the concepts of universal brotherhood, peace, and justice. An excellent book! [1 copy available]
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THE JEW: ASSUMPTIONS OF IDENTITY
by Juliet Steyn. B&W photos and drawings illustrate. Condition: NEW 1999 Cassell (London) Trade Paperback, first printing. Tiny edgewewar. Interior clean & tight. Content: Setting out to banalize the Jew, Steyn presents case studies from Britain and America to confront the demonization of the Jew and the post-Shoah and postmodern view of the Jew as sublime. She ranges from details of a tie-pin in a 1905 photograph to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. [1 copy available]
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THE JEWISH BRIGADE: An Army With Two Masters 1944-45
by Morris Beckman. Foreword by Edmund De Rothschild. B&W photo section with B&W maps. Condition: NEW 2009 Spellmount Trade Paperback, third printing. Content: A brigade was formed in 1944 as part of the British Army and fought with distinction in Italy. It was the first all-Jewish army, and knowledge of its existence and its role in defeating the Nazis gave an immense boost to Jews everywhere. After the war the brigade helped Jewish refugees beat the British blockade of Palestine. After the war, the Brigade had a very different agenda. they tracked down and killed up to 1,500 high-ranking Nazis. It became the backbone of the IDF, providing it with 35 generals. Beckman was born in London and took part in the invasions of Sicily and Italy in the Second World War. He was a founding member of the '43 Group' of Jewish ex-servicemen, which attacked and destroyed Mosley's emergent Fascist party in a protracted campaign in the late 1940s. [1 copy available]
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THE JEWISH STATE: An Attempt at a Modern Solution of the Jewish Question
by Theodor Herzl. Condition: NEW 1993 Henry Pordes (London) Trade Paperback, Seventh Edition. Content: This reviewer (Harold Grooms) said it better than I've seen anywhere: ""The Jewish State," was the means by which author, Theodor Herzl, rallied world Jewry to the cause of establishing a national homeland for his people. Published in 1896, this little pamphlet ignited age-old passions among Jews the world over and began the drive for the establishment of the first Jewish State in 2000 years. By doing so, Herzl set in motion events that monopolize the world's attention today. Herzl outlines the plan for establishing his state. In a logical, step-by-step process he defines how the land would be colonized, financed, and administered. Palestine and Argentina are suggested as possible sites. However, Palestine emerges clearly as the desired locale for spiritual and emotional reasons. Anyone trying to establish a state could use this pamphlet as a guide. Emerson said that American colonists fired, "the shot heard 'round the world," at Lexington and Concord. Herzl fired a similar shot by publishing "The Jewish State." He, no less than the colonists, started a revolution by his actions. Both ultimately achieved their goals of establishing a state for their peoples. However, America did not have to endure a Holocaust to facilitate an exodus to our shores; unfortunately, Israel did. Today, the Jewish State exists in the form of modern Israel. Born out of controversy, this state exists as a prosperous, democratic entity, in the midst of numerically superior and extremely hostile Arab states. Jews have their home, but they have to fight daily to keep them. Is this what Herzl envisioned? Did he do the world a favor by establishing his state? The verdict is still out. One thing is clear. The roots of the current controversy that has American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan can be traced back to Israel, and Israel's roots can be traced to Herzl's pamphlet." [3 copies available]
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THE "JEWISH THREAT": Anti-Semitic Politics of the the U.S. Army
by Joseph W. Bendersky. Condition: UNREAD 2000 Basic Books Trade Paperback, first edition, first printing. Light shelfwear - no edgewear. [539 pages] Content: The author spent 10 years researching this important history of anti-Semitism in the U.S. Army. He offers evidence that vicious anti-Semitism permeated the highest ranks of the U.S. Army from the turn of the century through the 1970s. He found that the Army's Military Intelligence Division (NM) created a separate classification for Jews to accommodate pertinent reports, memoranda, and correspondence. Bendersky also discovered letters between officers, secret agents, state secretaries, and embassies abroad, in which information on Jews was exchanged, including lists of prominent Jews who supposedly dominated or influenced German banking, industry, and politics. These Jewish files, Bendersky shows, reveal that an anti-Semitic worldview persisted in the army officer corps throughout World War II. Although the presence of anti-Semitism in the army has never been a secret, Bendersky's documented study reveals for the first time the extent of this insidious policy of Judeophobia. This is truly a significant work. [1 copy available]
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WARRIORS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT: Joshua, King David, Nebuchadnezzar, Judas Maccabeus
by Mark Healy. Beautiful color plates by Richard Hook. B&W artifact photos with B&W drawings from history. Condition: UNREAD 1998 Brockhampton hardcover (pictorial boards) & DJ (in mylar jacket), first thus. Content: Wonderfully illustrated book about the heroes of Jewish history and 1 not-so-heroic Biblical warrior. [1 copy available]
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