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| Title: |
Atlas of Jewish History |
| Publishing data: |
UK/USA, 1969 (, further editions, 1976, 1985, 1992 and 1993; sixth edition, Routledge, 2003), hardback and paperback |
| Pages: |
137 maps |
| Summary: |
A comprehensive map history of the Jews from Biblical times to the twenty-first century. |
| Translations: |
Dutch, French, Polish, Hungarian, Italian, Hebrew, Chinese, Russian. |
| Notes About This Book: |
Four-page bibliography. One of seven of Martin Gilbert's historical atlases that are in print. |
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| Title: |
Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict |
| Publishing data: |
UK/USA, 1974 (9th edition, Routledge, 2008) |
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205 maps |
| Summary: |
A map history of the Arab-Israeli conflict from the end of the nineteenth century to the start of the twenty-first century. Among the most recent maps are suicide
bombings, the peace process after the death of Arafat,
and the growing number of Israeli-Palestinian joint
ventures. |
| Translations: |
Hebrew |
| Notes About This Book: |
Updated every few years to include the most recent negotiations and developments. |
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| Title: |
The Jews of Arab Lands: Their History in Maps |
| Publishing data: |
UK (Board of Deputies of British Jews) 1976, paperback (maps only); reprinted 1977, with illustrations. |
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15 maps; the illustrated edition has 39 photographs. |
| Summary: |
An account of the life and status of Jews in Arab and Muslim lands from the rise of Islam to the modern era. |
| Translations: |
French, Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic. |
| Notes About This Book: |
All the maps in this atlas have now been incorporated into the most recent editions of the Jewish history Atlas |
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| Title: |
The Jews of Russia: Their History in Maps and Photographs |
| Publishing data: |
UK hardback (National Council for Soviet Jewry), 1976; UK, 1976, paperback; second edition, 1977; third edition, 1979. |
| Pages: |
78 (26 maps and 96 illustrations) |
| Summary: |
A map survey of the history of Jews in Russia from the Middle Ages until the twentieth century. |
| Translations: |
Spanish |
| Notes About This Book: |
Two-page list of sources for the illustrations. All the maps in this atlas have now been incorporated into the most recent editions of the Jewish History Atlas |
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| Title: |
Historical Atlas of Jerusalem |
| Publishing data: |
1977, UK and USA, hardback; third, revised edition, Vallentine Mitchell,1994; fourth, expanded edition, Routledge, 2008. |
| Pages: |
136 |
| Summary: |
A map history of the city of Jerusalem from ancient times until the twentieth century. |
| Translations: |
Spanish |
| Notes About This Book: |
69 maps and 119 illustrations. Bibliography of works consulted. List of sources for the illustrations. |
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| Title: |
Exile and Return: The Emergence of Jewish Statehood (American sub-title, 'The Struggle for a Jewish Homeland') |
| Publishing data: |
UK (Weidenfeld); USA (Lippincott), 1978; UK paperback, 1979. |
| Pages: |
364 |
| Summary: |
A narrative study of the Jewish national movement from the early Zionists in the nineteenth century to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. |
| Notes About This Book: |
A list of the post-1948 careers of the main protagonists; a list of archival sources cited; a bibliography of works consulted; 16 photographs; 28 maps specially prepared by the author for this volume. |
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| Title: |
Children's Illustrated Bible Atlas |
| Publishing data: |
UK (W.H. Allen), 1979,hardback. Re-issued, in paperback 1982. |
| Pages: |
56 |
| Summary: |
A journey through the lands of the Bible, with maps showing different periods and stories in the Old and New Testaments, and photographs showing the region today. |
| Notes About This Book: |
Preface, five parts each with an introductory texts; 29 colour maps prepared by the author, and 35 colour photographs, taken by the author, who was accompanied on the journey through the Holy Land by his daughter Natalie, who advised on where to take photographs. |
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| Title: |
Aushwitz and the Allies |
| Publishing data: |
UK (Michael Joseph); USA (Holt), 198l,hardback and paperback 2nd US edition, paperback, 1989, 3rd UK edition (Pimlico), paperback, 2000. |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Summary: |
A documented study of what was known about the Holocaust, and when, and how the Allies responded - or failed to respond. Tells the story of the five escapees from Auschwitz - four Jews and one Christian Pole - who brought the news of the camp to the West, and the impact that their news created. |
| Translations: |
German, Hebrew |
| Notes About This Book: |
20 maps prepared for the author for this volume, including Allied bombing routes in the Auschwitz region; 34 photographs, many published here for the first time; 14-pages of biographical notes. All source materials footnoted at the bottom of the page where the document is cited. |
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| Title: |
Atlas of the Holocaust (currently The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust) |
| Publishing data: |
UK/USA, 1982; second edition, 1994; third (Routledge) edition, 2002. Hardback and paperback. |
| Pages: |
282 |
| Summary: |
A comprehensive map history of the fate of the Jews from the rise of Hitler until the liberation of the camps; 317 maps of countries and regions, refugees, slave labour camp zones, deportations, resistance, death marches, and the fate of individuals. |
| Translations: |
German, French, Japanese, Hebrew |
| Notes About This Book: |
The 317 maps are accompanied by a text, 41 illustrations, and an 8-page bibliography of sources consulted. |
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| Title: |
Jews of Hope, The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today |
| Publishing data: |
UK (Macmillan), USA (Elisabeth Sifton Books-Viking) 1984; hardback. UK paperback (Penguin), 1986 |
| Pages: |
237 |
| Summary: |
An account of the struggle of Jews inside the Soviet Union to emigrate. Based on clandestine notes kept during a two-week visit by the author to Moscow, Leningrad and Minsk. |
| Translations: |
Hebrew, Japanese |
| Notes About This Book: |
29 photographs |
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| Title: |
Jerusalem: Rebirth of a City |
| Publishing data: |
UK (Chatto and Windus); USA (Elisabeth Sifton Books-Viking), 1985 |
| Pages: |
238 |
| Summary: |
A social and political and history of Jerusalem - in its Jewish, Muslim, Christian Ottoman and European aspects - during the half-century from 1838 to 1898. |
| Notes About This Book: |
Many extracts from contemporary diaries and letters, 133 photographs (including some of the earliest taken in Jerusalem), 11 maps specially prepared for this volume by the author; 7-page bibliography of works consulted. |
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| Title: |
The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy (American title: The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War) |
| Publishing data: |
UK (Collins), USA (Holt), 1986, hardback and paperback; 15th UK paperback printing, 2006; 14th US paperback printing, 2002. |
| Pages: |
959 |
| Summary: |
A comprehensive history of the Holocaust from the rise of Hitler to power in 1933 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. |
| Translations: |
Bulgarian, Macedonian |
| Notes About This Book: |
Based on German and Jewish documentation, including material collected for the Nuremberg, Eichmann and other war crimes trials, with further personal testimony of eye-witnesses and survivors, and interviews conducted by the author; 34 photographs; 25 maps specially prepared for this volume by the author; 65 pages of notes and sources. |
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| Title: |
Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time |
| Publishing data: |
UK (Macmillan); USA (Viking-Elizabeth Sifton Books), hardback 1986; paperback 1989 (UK paperback, Penguin). |
| Pages: |
467 |
| Summary: |
The story, from birth to freedom, of a leading campaigner for the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate, who spend nine years as a prisoner of the Soviet regime. |
| Translations: |
Hebrew, Dutch |
| Notes About This Book: |
Contains the full text of many of his letters while he was a prisoner; 58 photographs; a 9-page bibliography of works consulted; 2 maps compiled for the author for this volume; list of annual emigration of Soviet Jews from 1951 to 1985; list of former Prisoners of Zion still refused exit visas in on 12 February 1986; list of all Jews held prisoner on 12 February 1986 for demanding the right to emigrated. |
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| Title: |
The Boys, Triumph Over Adversity |
| Publishing data: |
UK (Weidenfeld); USA (Holt), hardback, 1996; paperback, 1997 |
| Pages: |
511 |
| Summary: |
The story of 732 teenage survivors of the Holocaust who were brought to Britain immediately after the war for rehabilitation and education. Most had lost their parents and most or all of their immediate family in the Holocaust. The book describes, largely in their own words, their life before the war, mostly in Poland and Hungary, their wartime experiences, and their life after the war as they fought to regain the sanity and normality of life. |
| Notes About This Book: |
Cites correspondence between the author and 79 'Boys' - who included several girls - and 16 of those who helped them when they reached Britain. All source notes at the bottom of the page; 39 photographs; 8 maps prepared by the author; glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew words. |
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| Title: |
Holocaust Journey: Travelling in Search of the Past |
| Publishing data: |
UK (Weidenfeld); USA (Columbia University Press) hardback, 1997; UK/USA paperback, 1998 |
| Pages: |
480 |
| Summary: |
The diary of a fourteen-day journey taken by the author with his MA students at University College, London, to some of the towns, camps and regions in which the Holocaust had been perpetrated. Includes the full text of the readings at each stage of the journey, from wartime documents, letters and diaries. |
| Translations: |
Croatian |
| Notes About This Book: |
56 photographs taken by the author during the journey; 54 maps of the journey, prepared by the author; 4-page bibliography of works consulted and quoted on the journey; Epilogue 'Remembering the Past'. |
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| Title: |
Israel, A History |
| Publishing data: |
UK (Transworld); USA (Doubleday), 1998, hardback; 1999, paperback; second, revised edition, UK paperback (Transworld), 2008; US paperback (HarperCollins), 2008; Canadian paperback (Key Porter), 2008. |
| Pages: |
750 |
| Summary: |
Examines the history of the Zionist movement and modern Jewish nationalism from the mid-nineteenth century to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, and charts the first fifty years of the history of the State of Israel. Conflict and wars, achievement and creativity, are seen through the eyes of the leading personalities and the men and women who committed their lives to turn Theodor Herzl's dream into a reality. Follows the agreements, treaties, proposals and negotiations of the first fifty years of statehood. Probes the ideals and the realities of statehood. |
| Translations: |
Hungarian, Bulgarian |
| Notes About This Book: |
72 photographs, 43 maps compiled by the author. |
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| Title: |
'Never Again': A History of the Holocaust |
| Publishing data: |
UK (HarperCollins), USA (Rizzoli-Universe), hardback, 2000; UK paperback, revised edition, 2001 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Summary: |
An illustrated history of the Holocaust, with 78 two-page spreads, each on a specific theme, each illustrated. Themes include pre-war Jewish life, Kristallnacht, Education and culture in the ghettos, the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, Escape to the partisans, Hidden Children, Jews in the Allied armies, Anne Frank. Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg, the Death Marches, the liberations of the concentration camps, 'second generation', and 'bearing witness'. |
| Translations: |
Dutch, Italian, French, Polish, Lithuanian, Czech |
| Notes About This Book: |
25 colour maps, 276 illustrations, including facsimile documents and wartime photographs; 2-page illustrated chronology; 4-page illustrated bibliography |
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| Title: |
From The Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the Twentieth Century. Published in the USA as The Jews in the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated History. |
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UK (Cassel); USA (Schocken), hardback, 2001 |
| Pages: |
376 |
| Summary: |
An illustrated history of the Jews in the twentieth century, covering the Ashkenazi and Sephardi worlds, Zionism and Israel, the Holocaust, and Jewish achievements and creativity worldwide. A celebration of Jewish life. |
| Translations: |
German, Dutch, Danish, Italian, Russian |
| Notes About This Book: |
Photographs from 62 public and private archives, researched by Sarah Jackson and Franziska Payer Crockett |
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| Title: |
Letters to Auntie Fori: The 5,000-Year History of the Jewish People and their Faith |
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UK (Weidenfeld); USA (Schocken), hardback, 2002; UK paperback, 2nd edition, 2003 |
| Pages: |
460 |
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140 letters (141 in the 2nd edition), written by the author to 'Auntie Fori' (Mrs B.K. Nehru) in India, giving a picture of Jewish history, traditions, faith and worship from Biblical times to the present day. Among the letters are those on Napoleon and the Jews, Gandhi and the Jews, Jews in Sports, the Sabbath, Philanthropy and Self Help, the State of Israel, the Jews of China, the Jews of India, and the Jews of Alaska. |
| Translations: |
Bulgarian |
| Notes About This Book: |
5-page introduction; 6-page epilogue; 3-page bibliography; 13 maps prepared by the author for this volume. |
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| Title: |
The Righteous: The Unsung Heros of the Holocaust |
| Publishing data: |
UK (Doubleday); 2002; USA (Holt) 2003; Canada (Key Porter), 2003 |
| Pages: |
460 |
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The story of non-Jews, most of them Christian, but also Muslims, who risked their lives to hide Jews during the Holocaust. Includes the refusal of the Bulgarian Church, parliament and people to alone the deportation of Bulgaria's 48,000 Jews. Looks at the role of people and resistance in Denmark and Norway. Explores the part played by Christian clergymen and women in every land to try to save Jews. The story, above all, of more than 20,000 'ordinary' men and women who acted in a decent, humane and life-saving way. |
| Translations: |
French |
| Notes About This Book: |
All source references at the bottom of each page; 17 page bibliography of works cited; 64 photographs; 18 maps specially prepared by the author for this volume. |
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| Title: |
Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction |
| Publishing data: |
HarperCollins UK (30 March 2006); HarperCollins USA (1 June 2006). |
| Pages: |
314 |
| Summary: |
An account of the devastating attacks on Jews and Jewish property, and the destruction of more than a thousand synagogues in Germany and Austria on 9/10 November 1938, and of the fate of the Jews who witnessed that destruction. A study of the German and Austrian Jewish struggle to emigrate, and the story of those diplomats and other individuals in Germany and outside it who did what they could to help Jews and to facilitate their emigration. Incorporates more than fifty eyewitness accounts that were sent to the author while he was writing the book. |
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Dutch, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Portuguese (Brazil) |
| Notes About This Book: |
Twenty-five maps compiled by the author, including the previously unmapped locations of every synagogue destroyed. Nineteen photographs. Source references at the bottom of each page. Eight pages of sources and bibliography of works cited. Index complied by the author. |
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| Title: |
Churchill and the Jews |
| Publishing data: |
Simon and Schuster, UK (2 June 2007); McLelland and Stewart, Canada (26 June 2007); Holt, USA (25 October 2007) |
| Pages: |
359 |
| Summary: |
The story of Churchill’s long relationship with Jews and Zionism; his often unpopular support for the Jewish National Home in Palestine; his wartime efforts to help the Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe; his post-war support for the State of Israel; his friendship with individual Jews; and his understanding of Jewish communal and national aspirations |
| Notes About This Book: |
Includes 30 photographs, 13 specially drawn maps, a 5-page bibliography, and a 28-page itemized index compiled by the author |
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| Title: |
The Story of Israel |
| Publishing data: |
Ingram USA (1 April 2008); Andre Deutsch UK (3 April 2008); Indigo
Books, Canada |
| Pages: |
63 |
| Summary: |
An illustrated history of the emergence of Israel and its first sixty years. The book starts with the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897, and takes the story to the first decade of the Twenty-First Century. |
| Translations: |
French (Grund) |
| Notes About This Book: |
Includes more than 350 photographs, 14 colour maps, and 40 facsimile documents (letter, posters, diaries etc), many of which can be taken out of their envelopes and pouches |
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| Title: |
In Ishmael’s House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands |
| Publishing data: |
Yale University Press (Britain and the United States) and McClelland & Stewart Ltd (Canada), August 2010. |
| Pages: |
447 |
| Summary: |
The story of 1,400 years of Jewish life in Muslim lands. |
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Starting before the advent of Islam, this book shows how the Jews and Muslims interacted in all the lands, from Afghanistan to Morocco, that came under Muslim rule. It is a story of both coexistence and conflict. It examines the impact on Jews living under Muslim rule of the rise of Zionism and the creation of the State of Israel, and looks at the situation of Jews living in Muslim lands today, and the lives in Israel and elsewhere of those Jews who left Muslim lands in the mass exodus after 1948, when Israel was established. It has twenty-nine photographs, and twenty maps drawn specially by the author, as well as an eighteen-page bibliography of works consulted, and a glossary of Arab and Hebrew terms used in the book. |
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