Not satisfied by the established roles assigned to them, Jewish women have begun to uncover their history, religion and culture using tradition and memory to inspire and transform their lives. In From Memory to Transformation, women activists, rabbis, scholars, writers and artists explore the themes of Jewish women's history; feminism, activism and social change; religion, ritual and spirituality; personal identity; and Jewish women's creativity. By editors of the prizewinning Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers, this compelling collection aims to define the ties that bind our past, present and future.

During the Second World War, Bulgaria was an unwitting accomplice to German treachery. All of Bulgaria's 50,000 Jews were to be deported and executed. Beyond Hitler's Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews by Michael Bar Zohar is the true story of a conspiracy to fool the Germans and save the Jews. Spies, the Church, a mole and a compassionate king are all part of this magnificent chapter of history.

A Living Testimony

Fifty-five years after the end of World War II, the Holocaust continues to cast a dark shadow. For the past two decades, the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University has sought to preserve the human side of this inhuman era by videotaping testimonies from those who lived through the Nazi regime, a project that has led to an acclaimed documentary film and this extraordinary book.

The Wall Street Journal called the documentary "eloquent and unsparing," and Daily Variety said it was "a staggeringly powerful record." The Washington Times said that Witness "gives new meaning to the term documentary. [It is] as pure a document as I have ever seen on television."

In Witness: Voices from the Holocaust, Joshua M. Greene and Shiva Kumar weave a single and compelling narrative from the first-person accounts of twenty-seven witnesses, including camp survivors, American military personnel, a member of the Hitler Youth, a Jesuit priest, and resistance fighters. The vivid and detailed memories of these witnesses testify to the continuing impact of this human catastrophe, and their impassioned words lend immediacy to events that resonate to this day.

" Gal... has written an impressive account of an important period in the history of political Zionism.... detailed, scholarly... " -Library Journal

"... important... " -Choice

"A provocative post-Zionist critique of the fundamental concepts of Jewish peoplehood, Zionism, and Israeli nationalism." -Choice

"The book is readable, structured and systematic, and for all its wideness of scope it maintains continuity and connections betrween the different topics discussed." -The Jerusalem Post

"This is a comprehensive and well documented study of the interaction between Ben-Gurion and other leaders between 1938 and 1942." -AJL Newsletter

"While this is an intensively detailed book, Gal always sustains his story and moves it ahead. He has written a fine study of a critical phase of Zionist and American Jewish history, as well as a revealing study of David Ben-Gurion." -Lloyd P. Gartner, Tel-Aviv University, Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Israel''s military restraint, at America''s request, during the recent Persian Gulf War is not so surprising when viewed in light of the Zionist-American bonds forged by David Ben-Gurion in 1948. Against the background of Kristallnacht and Britain''s retreat from the Jewish mandate for Palestine, Ben-Gurion shaped a new Zionist foreign policy based on the assumed rise of the United States as a world power that would determine the future of the Middle East.

Now available in paperback; ISBN 1-56368-255-9

Tells the story of the modern Jewish exodus from Arab lands, delving into what happened to trigger the transfer of whole Jewish communities from Arab lands, and reasons for the silence surrounding the painful circumstances of this exodus. Subjects include a comparison of the campaigns on behalf of Syrian and Soviet Jews, Palestinians' attitudes towards expulsion of the Jews from Arab countries, the UN and Palestinian refugees, and the integration processes of Eastern Jews into Israeli society. Appendices offer speeches and testimony. Shulewitz is a founding member of the World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This volume presents voices from a paradoxical community: the Jews of France, long assimilated yet more expressive than ever of their particular concerns. It includes the first accounts of French survivors of death camps; effects of Jewish migration from North Africa to France; and the legacy of existentialism for constructs of Jewish identity.

Most Jews who now live in Germany have lived elsewhere. They are neither the remnant of those who survived the Holocaust nor those who are in transit to Israel or the United States. They are a disparate but vibrant and growing community of over 80,000 people. Forty thousand of them are members of official Jewish communities in today''s Germany. Because of the Nazi past, this proportionately small number of individuals plays an out-of-scale role in German politics and world consciousness. As a study in the formation of minority communities within European national matrices, Cohn''s work has interest for sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists as well. It is the only published work on the Jewish community in Germany today.

Anne Frank''s The Diary of a Young Girl is the most widely read text about the Holocaust, yet it reveals only one example of the tragic consequences of the Nazi policy to eliminate the Jews. This casebook enriches Anne Frank''s remarkable personal account with a variety of historical documents that illuminate the political and social context of anti-Semitism in Germany and the Holocaust. It includes an account of the Frank family''s life in Germany before emigrating to Holland; first-person accounts of Anne''s last seven months in deportation and concentration camps; other Holocaust narratives in the form of memoirs, letters, and children''s diaries; an excerpt from Zlata''s Diary, the story of a young girl caught in the war in Bosnia which has been compared to Anne Frank''s; official Nazi pronouncements on "The Final Solution" to the Jews; and newspaper reports and editorials of the horrific events occurring between 1939 and 1945. All of these materials will help the student to better understand the historical context of Anne''s experience, and the teacher to select appropriate materials to sensitize students to this period in history. Documents and discussion materials are organized into chapters on the Frank family history, including a chronology; the Jews in Holland; children in the Holocaust and their rescuers; a narrative overview and chronology of anti-Semitism in modern Germany; the Holocaust; and other Holocaust stories. Kopf also addresses the psychological issues of adolescent development so dramatically illustrated in Anne''s diary and looks at her writing as carefully crafted literature. Each chapter contains study questions, topics for research papers and class discussions, andlists of further reading for exploring the historical as well as the personal issues leading to and culminating in the Holocaust. This is an invaluable source for interdisciplinary, English, and world history classes.