Research Guides: Kristallnacht and German Jewry: Find Books

Jewish Federation of Clifton/Passaic Collection

In the fall of 2011, the Jewish Federation of Greater Clifton/Passaic donated a major part of the collection that once constituted the Holocaust Resource Center to the Library. The collection when complete will consist of over 2,500 books covering the Holocaust (Personal Accounts, History, Literature, Art, Encyclopedias and Reference Titles), Jewish History (Ancient and Modern), Israel, Judaism and the Zionist movement. We will keep the University community posted on the progress we're making processing and cataloging the books.

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Use the library catalog to find books and other library materials. Begin with some basic keyword searches, combining a few terms that relate to your topic, for example:

Antisemitism--Germany
Dachau (Concentration Camp)
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
German Literature--Jewish Authors
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany
Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945
Jews--Persecutions--Germany
Judaism--Germany
Kristallnacht, 1938
Music by Jewish Composers--Germany
Nazis--Germany
Scholem, Gershom Gerhard, 1897-1982

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Between Dignity and Despair by Marion A. Kaplan
Call Number: DS135.G3315 K37 1998
Publication Date: 1998-04-23
Between Dignity and Despairdraws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany.
Einstein's Jewish Science by Steven Gimbel
Call Number: QC173.55 .G55 2012
Publication Date: 2012-04-10
Is relativity Jewish? The Nazis denigrated Albert Einstein’s revolutionary theory by calling it "Jewish science," a charge typical of the ideological excesses of Hitler and his followers. Philosopher of science Steven Gimbel explores the many meanings of this provocative phrase and considers whether there is any sense in which Einstein’s theory of relativity is Jewish.
Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture by Tina Frühauf
Call Number: ML626 .F7813 2012
Publication Date: 2012-09-01
First study of the controversial presence of the organ in synagogue music and in the general musical life of German-speaking Jewish communities in the 19th and 20th centuries
Where We Once Gathered, Lost Synagogues of Europe by Andrea Strongwater (Illustrator)
Call Number: JUV NA4690 .S77 2012
Publication Date: 2012-04-19
Includes 20 beautiful illustrations and descriptions of synagogues that were destroyed between 1935-1945 across Europe.
Kristallnacht by Martin Gilbert
Call Number: DS135 .G3315 G55 2006
Publication Date: 2006-06-13
Martin Gilbert, one of the leading historians of our time, examines Kristallnacht -- the Night of Broken Glass -- and describes how the rest of the world reacted in its wake. His narration of that night and day of terror is chilling, vividly conveying its scale and intensity through more than fifty previously unpublished eyewitness testimonies and graphic newspaper accounts of the events as they unfolded. No other attack on Jews during the course of the Second World War was as widely reported by contemporary observers. Kristallnacht marked the beginning of the systematic eradication of a people who traced their origins in Germany to Roman times and was a sinister fore-warning of the Holocaust.
Day the Holocaust Began by Gerald Schwab
Call Number: DS135.G3315 S37 1990
Publication Date: 1990-11-09
On November 7, 1938, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan shot Third Secretary Ernst von Rath in Paris, setting off the Night of Broken Glass and the Holocaust. Examining German documents never-before-revealed--including a startling coded "confession", Schwab probes the background of Grynszpan and demonstrates the power of the human spirit against overwhelming odds.
48 Hours of Kristallnacht by Mitchell G. Bard; Martin Gilbert (Foreword by)
Call Number: DS134.255 .B37 2008
Publication Date: 2008-09-02
On the night of November 9, 1938, rampaging mobs throughout Germany and the newly acquired territories of Austria and Sudetenland freely attacked Jews in the street, in their homes, and at their places of work and worship. Over the next forty-eight hours at least ninety- six Jews were killed and hundreds more injured, as many as 2,000 synagogues were burned, almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed, cemeteries and schools were vandalized, and 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. This pogrom has come to be called Kristallnacht, Night of Broken Glass.
Pity of It All by Amos Elon
Call Number: DS135.G33 E57 2002
Publication Date: 2002-11-01
Writing with a novelist's eye, Elon shows how a persecuted clan of cattle dealers and wandering peddlers was transformed into a stunningly successful community of writers, philosophers, scientists, tycoons, and activists. He peoples his account with dramatic figures: Moses Mendelssohn, who entered Berlin in 1743 through the gate reserved for Jews and cattle, and went on to become "the German Socrates"; Heinrich Heine, beloved lyric poet who famously referred to baptism as the admission ticket to European culture; Hannah Arendt, whose flight from Berlin signaled the end of the German-Jewish idyll. Elon traces how this minority-never more than one percent of the population-came to be perceived as a deadly threat to national integrity, and he movingly demonstrates that this devastating outcome was uncertain almost until the end.