Terrence C. Petty is a writer and retired journalist. He worked for the Associated Press for thirty-five years. Based in Bonn, Germany, from 1987 to 1997, he covered German and European affairs, the pro-democracy movement that toppled the Berlin Wall, … Continue reading From the Desk of Terrence C. Petty: Nazis at the Watercooler
Jacob Flaws is an assistant professor of history at Kean University. His latest book Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (Nebraska, 2024) was published this month. Have you ever visited a place that you felt was haunted? That basic … Continue reading From the Desk of Jacob Flaws: Spaces of Treblinka
Waitman Wade Beorn is an associate professor of history at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle, UK. He is the author of Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus and The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final … Continue reading Excerpt: Between the Wires
The following is from the University of Nebraska Press Spring 2021 newsletter, i.e. Ari Kohen is a professor of political science, Schlesinger Professor of Social Justice, and director of the Harris Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He … Continue reading UNL Professors Join Forces with Press to Publish Contemporary Holocaust Studies Series
Joseph Siegman is a Los Angeles–based entertainment executive and author of Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (Nebraska, 2020). He founded the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1979 and is its past chairman. WHO KNEW? … Continue reading From the Desk of Joseph Siegman: Jewish Sports Legends
Save 40% off these books in commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 21. Enter 6HRD20 in the promotion code field of your shopping cart and click “Add Promotion Code.” Offer expires April 30, 2020 and is good for U.S. … Continue reading Holocaust Remembrance Day
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Birthday to Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Bargain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Save My Mother … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Stanley A. Goldman
Rafael Medoff’s new book The Jews Should Keep Quiet (Jewish Publication Society, 2019) is receiving wonderful media attention. Below read more about the book, its reviews, and additional articles written by the author. About the Book: Based on recently discovered … Continue reading The Jewish Publication Society’s Rafael Medoff in the Media
Books A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Journal and Description of Jean-Baptiste Truteau, 1794–1796 Jean-Baptiste Truteau Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie, Douglas R. Parks, and Robert Vézina Praise from Anthropological Lingustics: “This magnificent edition is the fruit of many … Continue reading News and Reviews
We love to hear what our readers have to say about our books! Check out these comments from readers on Amazon and Goodreads. “By the final chapter, the reader is experienced in the events with crystal detail and … Continue reading A Word From Our Readers
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