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A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history. 'I want to observe and understand how some of the great forces that determined the shape of our times affected ordinary people.' The result i...

On the Eve is the portrait of a world on the brink of annihilation. In this provocative book, Bernard Wasserstein presents a new and disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught.Based on comprehensive research, rendered with compassion and empathy, and brought alive by vibrant stories, On the Eve offers a vivid and mind-opening picture of the European Jews as the continent spiraled to...

Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history. 'I want to observe and understand how some of the great forces that determined the shape of our times affected ordinary people.' The result is an exceptional, often moving book.Wasserstein traces the arc of hist...

Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history. 'I want to observe and understand how some of the great forces that determined the shape of our times affected ordinary people.' The result is an exceptional, often moving book.Wasserstein traces the arc of hist...

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Herbert Samuel's extraordinarily long political career began in the age of Gladstone and ended in the era of Grimond. Wasserstein assesses the vital role played by Samuel in the survival of the Liberal Party and his part in translating that doctrine into legislation that laid the foundations of the welfare state. He played a central role in the history of Zionism, serving as first British High Commissioner in Palestine from 1920 to 1925. He re...

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Current projections indicate that over the course of the 21st century, Jews will become virtually extinct as a significant element of European society. In the first comprehensive social and political history of the experience and fate of European Jews during the last 50 years, the author of Britain and the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945 sheds light on the reasons for this dire demograhic projection.

Examines the realities of Jewish life across Europe up to the very eve of World War Two. In this book, the author presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught.

Kein anderer Konflikt der Gegenwart erscheint so ausweglos wie der zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern. Bernard Wasserstein schildert in diesem Buch die Ursachen des Konflikts, und er zeigt Perspektiven für seine Lösung auf. Wassersteins Buch ist ein konzises Portrait der "siamesischen Zwillingsgesellschaften" in Israel und Palästina und zugleich eine sachkundige Einführung in einen der schwierigsten politischen Konflikte unserer Zeit.

The paradise of adventurers", Shanghai during World War II was suffused with dangerous glamour. Racketeers, cutthroats and con-men jostled for advantage as secret agents of the great powers waged a complex and sinister struggle for power. In this classic account, Bernard Wasserstein draws on the files of the Shanghai Police as well as the intelligence archives of the many countries involved, to provide the definitive story of Shanghai's secret...

Als de Joodse Gertrude van Tijn in 1941 in het neutrale Lissabon aankomt, vertelt ze het bijna onwaarschijnlijke verhaal van haar onderhandelingen in opdracht van de Duitse bezetter over een grootschalig vertrek van Joden naar geallieerd of neutraal gebied. Van Tijns missie heeft weinig kans van slagen want Amerika en Engeland laten geen vluchtelingen toe. Gertrude vertrekt weer en gaat werken bij de Joodse Raad, waar zij zich bezighoudt met d...

A vibrant new history of twentieth-century Europe - covering everything from war and politics to social, cultural, and economic developments in a period of convulsive and dramatic change.

Offering a persuasive basis for optimism about the conflict in the Middle East, Wasserstein focuses not only on religious differences, but on population, fertility rates, labor, and environmental pressures that have shaped politics in the region.

In this timely book, Wasserstein offers the first authoritative history of the fraught diplomatic relations surrounding the Holy City of Jerusalem. Jews, Muslims, and Christians have all claimed the city as their own over the centuries--as have a dizzying array of foreign nations. photos.