WWII Holocaust Non-Fiction Lot, Auschwitz ARC + First Woman Rabbi + Animals

$ 17.42

Topic: WWII (1939-45) Signed: No Language: English

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WWII Holocaust Non-Fiction Lot, Auschwitz ARC + First Woman Rabbi + Animals. Regina Jonas was ordained as a rabbi in Berlin in 1935. She was the first woman in history to receive rabbinic ordination. Jonas was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944. Her papers were lost until rediscovered after the fall of the Berlin Wall, making her story one of the most remarkable recoveries in modern Jewish history. Distinctive 3-book lot spanning Holocaust history, Jewish feminist history, and Holocaust memory. All Very Good condition (clean pages, tight binding, minimal shelf wear). Publisher letters included in two of the three. THE PHARMACIST OF AUSCHWITZ: The Untold Story by Patricia Posner Crux Publishing, UK. 2016 ISBN: 9781909979413 Softcover, 243 pages Advance Uncorrected Proof (collectible review copy). Includes original publisher letter to editor/reviewer. Pre-publication review copy; may differ slightly from the final edition. Little-known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and became chief pharmacist at Auschwitz. Posner's meticulously researched account traces his reign of terror, his postwar escape from justice, and the decades-long pursuit by survivors and one courageous prosecutor that finally brought him to trial. FRÄULEIN RABBINER JONAS: The Story of the First Woman Rabbi by Elisa Klapheck, Translated by Toby Axelrod From Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2004 ISBN: 0787969877. Hardcover with dust jacket Regina Jonas was ordained as a rabbi in Berlin in 1935. She was the first woman in history to receive rabbinic ordination. This volume includes her definitive treatise arguing, from Hebrew Bible scripture, the Talmud, and centuries of halachic precedent, that women can indeed become rabbis. Jonas was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944. Her papers were lost until rediscovered after the fall of the Berlin Wall, making her story one of the most remarkable recoveries in modern Jewish history. ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust by Charles Patterson From Lantern Books, New York, 2002 ISBN: 1930051999. Softcover, 296 pages. Includes: Original publisher letter Drawing on Isaac Bashevis Singer's observation that humans treat animals as the Nazis treated their victims, Patterson examines the disturbing historical parallels between industrial animal farming and the machinery of genocide. A serious, well-documented, and intentionally provocative work. Track Page Views With Auctiva's Counter