European History

Explores the relationship between Judaism, state, and education in France from the establishment of the Jewish Consistory in 1808 until the separation of church and state in 1905.

The first annotated English edition of a classic early-twentieth-century Yiddish memoir that vividly describes Jewish life in a small Eastern European town.

A compelling firsthand account of life behind bars in Nazi Germany, from the point of view of a young member of the Polish Underground.

This compilation of articles offers unprecedented insight into the 1894–1896 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire, while exploring American perceptions of the massacres at the time and what influence this genocide had on U.S. foreign policy.

A sociohistorical analysis of the construction of Jewish life and national identity in post-Holocaust Germany.

In Reclaiming Heimat, Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian reéimigrés who provide moving accounts of the profound loss of Heimat (home/homeland) and self and the desire to recover the loss in part by returning home.

One woman’s memories of her deportation to Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women in July 1941.

An abbreviated version of the definitive work on the destruction of Hungarian Jewry.

Profiles of a Lost World is a source of information about Eastern Europe before World War II.