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These previously out-of-print titles have been made available thanks to a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation through their Humanities Open Book Program. Visit WayneOpen.org to learn more.

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The Compromise of Return

Viennese Jews after the Holocaust

Elizabeth Anthony

Explores the realities that Viennese Jews faced while reestablishing their lives upon returning home after the Holocaust.

Paperback
Published: May 2021
ISBN: 9780814348383
$36.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2021
ISBN: 9780814348130

Working Detroit

Steve Babson
with Ron Alpern, Dave Elsila, and John Revitte

Working Detroit documents the events in the city's ongoing struggle to build an industrial society that is both prosperous and humane.

eBOOK
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814345092

All Our Yesterdays

A Brief History of Detroit

Frank B. Woodford and Arthur M. Woodford

All Our Yesterdays traces Detroit's history from its earliest settlement into the 1960s.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814344439
$24.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343401

Survival and Regeneration

Detroit’s American Indian Community

Edmund Jefferson Danziger, Jr.

Survival and Regeneration tells the story of Detroit's significant and oft-forgotten Native American community.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343326
$29.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343333

Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes

Mark L. Thompson

Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes traces the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry over the last three centuries.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343340
$29.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814338353

Queen of the Lakes

Mark L. Thompson

Queen of the Lakes, perfect for coffee tables, lakefront cabins, and boat lovers' bookshelves, tells the story of each of the ships that has been honored with the title "Queen of the Great Lakes."

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343364
$29.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343371

John Jacob Astor

Business and Finance in the Early Republic

John Denis Haeger

Biography of John Jacob Astor's life and his career as a merchant, fur trader, and land speculator as vehicles for examining several important themes and issues in American economic and urban development between 1790 and 1860.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343449
$24.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343432

The Troubled Origins of the Italian Catholic Labor Movement, 1878–1914

Sándor Agócs

Sándor Agócs presents an intellectual and social history of the nascent Italian labor movement, exploring the conflicts between the conservative Catholic hierarchy and Catholic activists.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343302
$22.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343319

Without Bounds

The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana

Yoram Bilu

Without Bounds illuminates the life of the mysterious Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343241
$23.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343258

Detroit on Stage

The Players Club, 1910-2005

Marijean Levering

Detroit on Stage traces the extraordinary history of Detroit’s The Players Club from its beginnings in 1910 until present.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343227
$29.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343234

Harry Bertoia, Printmaker

Monotypes and Other Monographics

June Kompass Nelson

A representative of the principle styles and themes that emerges from Harry Bertoia’s printmaking and structure work.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343692
$29.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343708

"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights"

Michigan, 1948-1968

Sidney Fine

"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights" documents an important shift in state level policy to make clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced all people.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343289
$22.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343296

American Aliya

Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement

Chaim I. Waxman

A broad analysis of the phenomenon of American migration to Israel.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343425
$29.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343418

All-American Anarchist

Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement

Carlotta R. Anderson

All-American Anarchist offers a comprehensive biography of influential Detroit labor activist Joseph A. Labadie.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343265
$24.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343272

From East to West

The Westward Migration of Jews from Eastern Europe During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Moses A. Shulvass

Covers the period of the Chmielnicki Massacre and the Thirty Years War, and the movement of impoverished Jewish refugees into Western Europe.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343463
$29.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343456

American Jewry and the Holocaust

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945

Yehuda Bauer

Focus on the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343487
$35.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343470

A Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States

Compiled and Edited by Norman Drachler

Entries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German on all aspects of Jewish education from pre-school through secondary education.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343500
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343494

Constructing Modern Identities

Jewish University Students in Germany, 1815-1914

Keith H. Pickus

By examining the lives and social dynamics of Jewish university students, Pickus shows how German Jews rearranged their self-images and redefined what it meant to be Jewish.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343524
$29.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343517

Anti-Semitic Stereotypes without Jews

Images of the Jews in England 1290-1700

Bernard Glassman

A study of the persistence of anti-Semitic stereotypes for 400 years in a society almost completely devoid of a Jewish population.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343548
$29.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343531

No Haven for the Oppressed

United States Policy Toward Jewish Refugees, 1938-1945

by Saul S. Friedman

A comprehensive analysis on the United States policy toward Jewish refugees during World War II.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343739
$22.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343746