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Toronto: Dundurn. Very Good. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 1550025538 . Card covers show light shelf wear, corner curl.; A bright, solid book.; 8.82 X 5.98 X 0.71 inches; 256 pages; From the back cover: "Anti-Zionists, whose primary goal is destruction of the State of Israel, use accusations of the worst forms of human rights violations against Israel to delegitimize the state. These accusations criminalize the Jewish population worldwide for actual or presumed support of the State of Israel." "Verbal attacks against Israel for human rights violations have turned into physical attacks against the Jewish community worldwide. How has that happened? This book attempts to explain the phenomenon.Anti-Zionists, whose primary goal is destruction of the State of Israel, use accusations of the worst forms of human rights violations against Israel to delegitimize the state. These accusations criminalize the Jewish population worldwide for actual or presumed support of the State of… Read More

New York: The Jewish Publication Society. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0827603142 . DJ shows light shelf wear, with small 2cm tear to back bottom of DJ, repaired with archive-quality tape. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar. A heavy book - may require extra postage ; 10.1 X 7.8 X 2.4 inches; 652 pages; "David Roskies, in one hundred powerful selections, presents the two-thousand year history of Jewish responses to castastrophe. The cyclical nature of violent regimes and their overthrow is delineated in these recurring images of sin, martyrdom, and retribution that have sustained the Jewish people despite pogroms, massacres, and expulsions -- from the destruction of the First Temple through the Holocaust to the eventual return to their homeland." "Gathers short stories, diaries, sermons, essays, and poems written in response to the Spanish Inquisition, martyrdom, Russian pogroms, and the Holocaust" .