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 in Transition: Politics, Economics and Society. London and New York: Pinter, 1991.
France
BENSIOMON, DORIS, and SERGIO DELLA PERGOLA. La Population juive de France: Socio-demographie et identite. Paris: Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1986.
BERG, ROGER. Histoire du rabbinat francais (XVIe-XXe stick). Paris: Cerf, 1992.
BURNS, MICHAEL. Dreyfus: A Family Affair—1789-1945. New York: HarperCollins, 1991 (important insights into the nature, origin and development of twentieth-century French anti-Semitism).
ESKENAZI, FRANK, and EDOUARD WAINTROP. Le Talmud et la republique: Enquete sur les juifs francais a Vheure des renouveaux religieux. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1991.
GREEN, NANCY L. The Pletzl of Paris: Jewish Immigrant Workers in the Belle Epoque. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1986.
HARRIS, ANDRE, and ALAIN DE SEDOUY. Juifs et frangais. Paris: Grasset & Fasquelle, 1979.
JOSEPHS, JEREMY. Swastika Over Paris: The Fate of the French Jews. London: Bloomsbury, 1989.
LACOUTURE, JEAN. De Gaulle. 3 vols. Paris: Le Seuil, 1985-86.
—— Pierre Mendes-F ranee. Paris: Le Seuil, 1981.
MORGAN, TED, An Uncertain Hour: The French, the Germans, the Jews, the Klaus Barbie Trial and the City of Lyon, 1940-1945. New York: William Morrow, 1990.
ROUSSO, HENRY, trans, by Arthur Goldhammer. The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.
SZAFRAN, MAURICE. Les Juifs dans la politique francaise: De 1945 a nos jours. Paris: Flammarion, 1990.
WINOCK, MICHEL. Edouard Drumont et Cie: Antisemitisme et fascisme en France. Paris, Seuil, 1982.
Germany
ASSHEUER, THOMAS, and HANS SARKOWICZ. Rechtsradikale in Deutsch- land: Die alte und die neue Rechte. Munich: Beck, 1990.
BORNEMAN, JOHN. After the Wall: East Meets West in the New Berlin. New York: Basic Books, 1991 (one of the first honest attempts in the West to give the Ossi viewpoint).
CKAIG, CORDON A. The Germans. New York: Penguin, 1991 (deservedly regarded as a classic study).
DEMETZ, PETER. After the Fires: Recent Writing in the Germanies, Austria and Switzerland. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.
FROHN, AXEL. Holocaust and Shilumin: The Policy of Wiedergut- machung in the Early 1950s. Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute, 1991.
CKLB, NORMAN. The Berlin Wall. New York: Dorset Press, 1990.
JASCHKE, HANS-GERD. Die Republikaner: Profd einer Rechtsaussen-Partei. Berlin: Dietz, 1990.
KRAMER, JANE. “Neo-Nazis: A Chaos in the Head.” The New Yorker, June 14, 1993.
MCELVOY, ANNE. The Saddled Cow. London: Faber and Faber, 1992.
MAOR, HARRY. Uber den Wiederaufbau der judischen Gemeinden in Deutschland seit 1945. Mainz: Universitat zu Mainz, 1961.
MOREAU, PATRICK. Les Heritiers du IIIe Reich: Uextreme droite alle- mande de 1945 a nos jours. Paris: Seuil, 1994.
RAFF, DIETHER. A History of Germany: From the Medieval Empire to the Present Oxford: Berg, 1990. (A textbook for German studies courses, this is a German view of German history.)
RANGE, PETER ROSS. German-Jewish Reconciliation? Facing the Past and Looking to the Future. Washington, D.C.: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 1991.
REINHARZ, JEHUDA, and Walter Schatzberg, ed. The Jewish Response to German Culture: From the Enlightenment to the Second World War. Hanover, N. H.: University Press of New England, 1985.
SCHMIDT, MICHAEL. The New Reich: Violent Extremism in Unified Germany and Beyond. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.
SCHNEIDER, PETER. The German Comedy: Scenes of Life After the Wall. New York: Noonday Press, 1991.
Hungary
LUKACS, JOHN. Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1988.
The Netherlands
Documents of the Persecution of the Dutch Jewry J 940-J 945. Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam: Polak & Van Gennep, 1979.
HERS, J.F. PH., and J. L. TERPSTRA, ed. Stress: Medical and Legal Analysis of Late Effects of World War II Suffering in The Netherlands. The Hague: Gegevens Koninkluke Bibliotheek, 1988.
Poland
ABRAMSKY, CHIMEN, MACIEJ JACHIMCZYK, and ANTONY POLONSKY, eds. The Jews of Poland. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
DAVIES, NORMAN. Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. (The author is a British professor considered a leading authority on Polish history, but this book is appallingly anti-Semitic.)
DOBROSZYCKI, LUCJAN, ed. The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto 1941-1944. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.
GEBERT, KONSTANTY. “Anti-Semitism in the 1990 Polish Presidential Election,” Social Research, vol. 58, no. 4 (Winter 1991).
GUTMAN, YLSRAEL, EZRA MENDELSOHN, JEHUDA REINHARZ, and CHONE SHMERUK, eds. The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1989.
HALKOWSKI, HENRYK. “Cracow, ‘City and Mother to Israel,’ “ in Cracow: Dialogue of Traditions. Cracow: Znak, 1991.
HERTZ, ALEKSANDER. The Jews in Polish Culture. Evanston, 111.: Northwestern University Press, 1988.
KLEIN, THEO. UAffaire du Carmel dAuschwitz. Paris: Jacques Bertoin, 1991.
KRALL, HANNA. Shielding the Flame: An Intimate Conversation with Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. New York:. Henry Holt, 1986 (almost unbearably artsy approach, but Edelman is fascinating).
PEASE, NEAL. Poland, the United States and the Stabilization of Europe, 1919-1933. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
TOLLET, DANIEL. Histoire des juifs en Pologne du XVIe siecle a nos jours. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris, 1992.
Soviet Union
GUELMAN, ZVI. A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union —1881 to the Present. New York: Schocken Books, 1988.
PINKUS, BENJAMIN. The Jews of the Soviet Union: The History of a National Minority. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
RAPOPORT, LOUIS. Stalin S War Against the Jews: The Doctor's Plot and the Soviet Solution. New York: The Free Press, 1990.
FICTION
KONRAD, GEORGE. A Feast in the Garden. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992 (semi-autobiographical novel of growing up in the Holocaust in Hungary through four decades of Hungarian Communism).
OZICK, CYNTHIA. The Shawl. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989 (brilliant fictional portrayal of an anguished survivor).
WEIL, GRETE. The Bride Price, translated by John Barrett. Boston: David Godine, 1992 (a novel weaving the experiences of a German Jewish survivor with the biblical story of David).
WEIL, JIRI. Mendelssohn Is on the Roof translated by Marie Winn. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1992 (a sparkling tragicomic novel about Nazi-occupied Prague).