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    A Small Town in Ukraine

    Bernard Wasserstein

    The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before

    Decades ago, the historian…

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    A Small Town in Ukraine: Krakowiec and the Storm of History

    Bernard Wasserstein

    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…

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    On The Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War

    Bernard Wasserstein

    A major history examining the realities of Jewish life across Europe up to the very eve of World War Two.

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    Secret War in Shanghai: Treachery, Subversion and Collaboration in the Second World War

    Bernard Wasserstein

    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…

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    Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe Since 1945

    Bernard Wasserstein

    In this first comprehensive social and political history of the experience and fate of European Jews during the last fifty years, Bernard Wasserstein warns of their disappearance as a population…

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    Herbert Samuel: A Political Life

    Bernard Wasserstein

    Herbert Samuel’s long political career began in the age of Gladstone and ended in the era of Grimond. The author assesses the role played by Samuel in the survival of…

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    The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews

    Bernard Wasserstein

    Working with the Nazi-appointed Jewish Council in Amsterdam, Gertrude van Tijn helped many Jews escape. But she faced difficult moral choices. Some called her a heroine; others, a collaborator. Bernard…

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    The Major International Treaties of the Twentieth Century: A History and Guide with Texts

    Updated, revised, expanded, The Major International Treaties of the Twentieth Century covers the period from 1900 to the present day. John Grenville and Bernard Wasserstein provide key sources as well…

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    Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time

    Bernard Wasserstein (Harriet and Ulrich Meyer Professor of History, University of Chicago)

    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.

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    Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City

    Professor of History Bernard Wasserstein (Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts)

    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…

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    On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War

    Professor of History Bernard Wasserstein (Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts)

    Wasserstein’s original and provocative book presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught. Based on vast research, written with compassion and empathy…

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