Introduction 

 

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Heschel, Abraham Joshua. The Earth is the Lord’s. (New York: 1950).

Katz, Jacob. “Was the Holocaust Predictable?” in Commentary, May 1975, 41-48. 

Karski, Jan. Story of a Secret State. (London: 2011).

Sereny, Gitta. Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience. (New York: 1982) 

Singer, Isaac Bashevis. In My Father’s Court. (published in numerous editions).

Weigel, George. City of Saints: A Pilgrimage to John Paul II’s Kraków (New York: 2015).

Zamoyski, Adam. Poland: A History (New York: 2012). 

 

Going Deeper  

 

Davies, Norman. Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland. (Oxford and New York: 1986). 

Donat, Alexander. The Holocaust Kingdom. (London:1965).

Kershaw, Ian,  Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution (New Haven: 2009) 

Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. (Philadelphia: 2010).

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Weigel, George. Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (New York: 1999).

Wiesel, Ellie. Night. (published in numerous editions).

 

In Depth

Applebaum, Anne. Gulag: A History. (New York: 2003). 

Applebaum, Anne. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956. (New York: 2012).

Bauer, Yehuda. Rethinking The Holocaust. (New Haven: 2000). 

Bauer, Yehuda. The Death of the Shetl. (New Haven: 2010). 

Browning Christopher. The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942. ( Jerusalem: 2004) 

Buber, Martin. Tales of the Hasidim, Early Masters. (New York: 1964). 

Crombie, Kelvin. Bazyli and Anna Jocz: Jewish Christian Victims of the Holocaust. (Jerusalem: 2021). 

Davies, Norman. Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory. (London: 2006). 

Davies, Norman. God’s Playground: A History of Poland, 2 Volumes. (New York:1982). 

Dynner, Glenn. Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland Illustrated Edition (Oxford: 2013).

Eliach, Yaffa. Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust. (Oxford:1982).

Evans, Richard. Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich (London: 2024). 

Friedländer, Saul. Kurt Gerstein: The Ambiguity of Good. (New York:1969). 

Goodricke-Clark, Nicholas. The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890- 1935. (London: 2004). 

Gross, Jan. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. (Princeton: 2001). 

Grynberg, Mikołaj.  I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To: Stories  (New York: 2022).

Hoffman, Eva. Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews. (Boston and New York: 1998). 

Margolin, Julius. Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag (Oxford: 2020). 

Mendelsohn, Ezra. The Jews of East Central Europe between the Two World Wars. (Bloomington: 1987). 

O’Brien, Darcy. The Hidden Pope – The Untold Story of a Lifelong Friendship that is Challenging the Relationship between Catholics and Jews. (New York: 1998). 

Porter, Brian. When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-century Poland. (Oxford: 2000). 

Ramet, Sabrina. The Catholic Church in Polish History: From 966 to the Present  (New York: 2017).   

Roskies, David (editor). The Shtetl Book (New York:1975).

Rosman, Moshe. Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba’al Shem Tov. (Berkley: 1996). 

Sands, Philippe. East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity. (London: 2016). 

Scholem, Gershom. Sabbatai Ṣevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676. (Princeton: 1976).  

Silberklang, David. Gates of Tears: the Holocaust in the Lublin District (Jerusalem: 2013).

Singer, Isaac Bashevis. In My Father’s Court. (published in numerous editions).*

Singer, J.J. The Brothers Ashkenazy. (published in various editions). 

Snyder, Timothy. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. (New York: 2015). 

Tec, Nechama. When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland. (Oxford 1987). 

Weikart, Richard. Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich (Washington D.C. 2016).