(Part 2) Best jewish biographies according to redditors
We found 114 Reddit comments discussing the best jewish biographies. We ranked the 31 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Destruction of the Jews is official position of most of the Muslim world.
Has been since the founding of the faith.
Consider what the Palestinians thought BEFORE any occupation.
The Palestinian position was established in the early 1940s when their leader, the Grand Mufti, signed a pact with Hitler to exterminate the Jews in their respective areas of control. All Palestinian policy since then has had this goal, though to trick the useful idiot liberals in the West, it has been covered up by other slogans. Unfortunately, the Jews would not agree to commit suicide and fought back.
Inconvenient truths.
Barry Rubin & Wolfgang G. Schwanitz. Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East.(Yale, 2014). http://www.amazon.com/Nazis-Islamists-Making-Modern-Middle/dp/0300140908/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=1JMR5PVASCYJDW2EFRC3
David G. Dalin & John F. Rothmann. Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam. (Tantor Audio, 2008) http://www.amazon.com/Icon-Evil-Hitlers-Mufti-Radical/dp/1400156718
Edwin Black. The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust. (Dialog Press, 2010) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0914153145/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687622&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1400156718&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0K94YCQP3W0HRSKF52B7
Chuck Morse. The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin Al-Husseini. (WND Books, 2010) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935071033/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1944687622&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1400156718&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0K94YCQP3W0HRSKF52B
Philp Mattar. The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al-Hajj Amin Al-Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement. (Columbia University Press, 1992) http://www.amazon.com/The-Mufti-Jerusalem-Al-Husayni-Palestinian/dp/0231064632/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1JMR5PVASCYJDW2EFRC3
David Motadel. Islam and Nazi Germany's War. (Belknap Press, 2014) http://www.amazon.com/Islam-Nazi-Germanys-David-Motadel/dp/0674724607/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_7?ie=UTF8&refRID=1JMR5PVASCYJDW2EFR
You may like this book and its companion
Johanna Reiss' The Upstairs Room is a firsthand account of being a Jewish child in the Netherlands who was hidden during the war. She goes into quite a lot of detail about the process and experience so I think it might be quite helpful to you even though it's written at about a middle-school reading level.
'Wanderings', by Chaim Potok. (wiki link; Amazon link)
'My people', by Abba Eban. (Amazon link)
I haven't! I'll look it up. Another two that are quite good are The White Rabbit and Bravest of the Brave, both about an SOE operative who perservered through unbelievable torture and pain to make it back to the UK after the war was over. FFE Yeo-Thomas is actually mentioned in Between Silk and Cyanide, as he was a good friend of the author.
Oh, and anything by William L. Shirer is totally boss. I particularly like This Is Berlin-- these are all his radio broadcasts while a CBS correspondent in Germany. It's amazing to read.
And finally not to overwhelm you but In My Hands is an amazing autobiography by a young woman who risked everything and seduced an SS officer to be able to rescue her Jewish friends.
I think the problem could be; though we feel Gods love, we never knew different and thus don't appreciate it.
Just ponder what it is like to be living in the opposite, e.g. held in a concentration camp. e.g. this book: Nacht und Nebel paints a dramatic picture of darkness. The person describes that there he was closest to God, but when freed he noticed it was easier for him to feel Gods presence in the darkness.
Maybe similar like the Jews going throught he desert. They had a cloud by day and fire by night, clothes didn't wear, and still most poeple while in the middle of it didn't think much of it.
I actually prayed for wanting to have a bigger drive(not being luke-warm) by knowing better how blessed we actually are. Then a few weeks later a friend told me about the book. a day later, i found out someone put it on sale the day before, just 10 minutes bike ride from my work :)
And then there's, the fact that some people are blessed by tangeable feelings. Everyone hopes for that i guess.
I like this man's take on being in Gods presence and presenting God to people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJFMhi8f56s
> On the one hand it's just silly to be overly dramatic and get totally freaked out
I've been thinking often lately of the above point ... I definitely get the importance of not jumping to "This is fascist / this is authoritarian" conclusions, 'cause it's not a worthwhile argument most of the time ... but that's most of the time, and this situation is outside of most of the time.
Our inability/trepidation on calling out this shit once now that it has actually arrived may be one of the most crucial pieces of his victory in ruining America's democracy. The lobster comparison is important here.
Last summer I read Amos Elon's The Pity of It All which is a super-thorough history of Jews in Germany from the mid-19th century up to the beginning of WWII ... I became obsessed with the subtle parallels between pre-fascist Germany and America in the modern day. You could feel the glimmers of authoritarian rule in the mid-1700s in Germany, and through reading the book by WWII it was like "Well, duh, of course shit went that way" ... I believe we're on the cusp of something horrid and we will look back on U.S. history with the same retrospective portentousness.
I hate making the Third-Reich comparison and everything, but it's appropriate at this point. It's like how Big Tobacco set up the playbook for obfuscating a company's ills and now Big Pharma / other companies who've seen their death on the horizon have a gameplan for staying somewhat afloat ... there is an authoritarian gameplan and we're watching it play out in the U.S.
In KING OF THE JEWS By Nick Tosches, the author, while appearing to write a biography of Jewish mobster Arnold Rothstein, offers the hypothesis that Jesus was just another Jewish false messiah.
http://www.amazon.com/King-Jews-Greatest-Story-Never/dp/0060936002/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1450136229&sr=8-10&keywords=nick+tosches
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_messiah_claimants
I don't know if the author's name is genuine or a play on the Yiddish word for backside.
The author of this book...
http://www.amazon.com/Alicia-Appleman-Jurman/dp/0553282182
... actually came to our school when I was in the 7th grade.
http://www.amazon.com/Anne-Frank-Diary-Young-Girl/dp/067182449X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254375545&sr=8-4