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By Root 694 0
135,000 25,000 600,-1,200?

Belgium 90,000 20,000 41,000

Antwerp 50,000 1,000? 20,000

B I B L I O G R A P H Y


EUROPEAN HISTORY

LAQUEUR, WALTER. Europe in Our Time: AHistory, 1945-1992. New York: Viking, 1992.

THEOLLEYRE, JEAN-Marc. Les Neo-Nazis. Paris: Temps Actuels, 1982.

WALTERS, E. GARRISON. The Other Europe: Eastern Europe to J945. New York: Dorset Press, 1990.

ZEMAN, Z.A.B. Pursued by a Bear: The Making of Eastern Europe. London: Chatto & Windus, 1989.


THE END OF THE SOVIET BLOC

GOLDFARB, JEFFREY. After the Fall: The Pursuit of Democracy in Central Europe. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

GWERTZMAN, BERNARD, and MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN, ed. The Collapse of Communism. New York: Times Books, 1991 (an anthology of New York Times dispatches).

KONRAD, GEORGE. Antipolitics. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984 (an insightful look at East-West politics a few years before the fall).

TISMANEANU, VLADIMIR. Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel. New York: The Free Press, 1992.


JEWISH HISTORY

DAWIDOWICZ, LUCY S. What Is the Use of Jewish History. New York: Schocken Books, 1992 (collection of essays).

HOFFMAN, CHARLES. Grey Dawn: The Jews of Eastern Europe in the Post-Communist Era. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

JOHNSON, PAUL. A History of the Jews. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

SACHAR, ABRAM LEON. A History of the Jews. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966 (originally published in 1930).

SACHAR, HOWARD M. Diaspora: An Inquiry into the Contemporary Jewish World. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

JEWISH REFERENCE BOOKS

Encyclopaedia Judaica. 16 vols. Jerusalem: Keter, 1972.

Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures. New York: The Jewish Publication Society, 1988 (a new translation in modern idiom).

EPSTEIN, ISIDOR, ed. The Babylonian Talmud. 17 vols. London: Soncino Press, 1935.

KOLATCH, ALFRED J. The Jewish Book of Why. Middle Village, NY: Jonathan David, 1981.

PHILIPPE, BEATRICE. Les Juifs dans le monde contemporain. Paris: MA Editions, 1986.

RUNES, DAGOBERT D. Concise Dictionary of Judaism. New York: Philosophical Library, 1959.

UNTERMAN, ALAN. Dictionary of Jewish Lore and Legend. London: Thames & Hudson, 1991.


HOLOCAUST HISTORY

ARENDT, HANNAH. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. New York: Viking Press, 1965.

BREITMAN, RICHARD. The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.

DAWIDOWICZ, LUCY S. The War Against the Jews 1933-1945. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1975.

HILBERG, RAUL. The Destruction of the European Jews. 3 vols. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985.

—— Perpetrators Victims Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe 1933- 1945. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

SHIRER, WILLIAM L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.

SNYDER, LOUIS L. Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.

SPEER, ALBERT. Inside the Third Reich. New York: Macmillan, 1970.

TAYLOR, JAMES, and WARREN SHAW. The Third Reich Almanac. New York: World Almanac, 1987.


BY COUNTRY

Belgium

DUMONT, SERGE. Les Brigades noires: Uextreme-droite en France et en Belgique francophone de 1944 a nos jours. Berchem: Editions EPO, 1982.

GUTWIRTH, JACQUES. Vie juive traditionnelle: Ethnologie d'une com-munaute hassidique. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1970.

KRANZLER, DAVID, and ELIEZER GEVIRTZ. To Save a World: Profiles of Holocaust Rescue. New York, London, Jerusalem: CIS Publishers, 1991. (With strong orthodox prejudices and awkward writing, this book describes among others, the story of Recha Rottenberg Sternbuch.)


Czechoslovakia

CHAPMAN, COLIN. August list: The Rape of Czechoslovakia. London: Cassell, 1968 (Sunday Times correspondent's account of the invasion).

FIEDLER, JIRI. Jewish Sights of Bohemia and Moravia. Prague: Sefer, 1991.

KUSIN, VLADIMIR V. From Dubcek to Charter 77: A Study of “Normalization’ in Czechoslovakia. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978.

RYBAR, CTIBOR. Jewish Prague: Notes on History and Culture. Prague, 1991.

WOLCHIK, SHARON L. Czechoslovakia

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