History, Jewish
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Where Sound the Cries of Race and Clan
by Carl Abbott
It is 1935 and Psychiatrist Charles Flemming has other concerns on his mind: the unfair nature of Canadian Government immigration regulations for Chinese, Jews and other minorities. He meets a Jewish medical student and by chance meets his older ...
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Who Would Believe Us?
A Memoir of a Jewish-American Family and the Holocaust by Grace G. Atwood
When the Rogaczewsky sisters crossed the Atlantic Ocean to Ellis Island in 1906, they were fleeing the horrors of the anti-Jewish pogroms in Poland that forced many people to take a chance on a new land. Their Rogaczewsky family members were not so ...
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Patriarch
The Abe Bickman Family History by David M. Bickman
Shortly before his death, Abe Bickman (the "Patriarch") gave his son, David, his modest family archive. This archive comprised: an envelope, postmarked in 1948 and with a return address in Brazil, in which were contained several black & white ...
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Dreams of Re-Creation in Jamaica
The Holocaust, Internment, Jewish Refugees in Gibraltar Camp, Jamaican Jews and Sephardim by Diana Cooper-Clark
Diana Cooper-Clark has written a book that uncovers a ‘hidden’ history in the Holocaust narrative. The stories of seventeen Holocaust survivors who escaped to Jamaica and who are among the last eyewitnesses to the Shoah are inspiring. As well, she ...
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We Shall Be Called Israel!
by Carl Steinhouse
The exciting story of how the Jews, in the face of violent opposition of five Arab armies and Palestinian Arab guerrillas, and the implacable hostility and obstructive tactics of the British, ushered the State of Israel into being. Appreciate how, ...
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