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Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbrück
Who Were They?
Häftad, 2014
542 kr
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Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the site of murder by slave labour, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, medical experimentation, and gassing. In its six-year history, 132,000 women from twenty-seven countries were …
Bondage to the Dead
Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust
Häftad, 1997
225 kr
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Rather than having spent the last 50 years coming to terms with the magnitude of evil of the Holocaust, this book is about a country that, according to the author, has largely ignored its participation and attempted to minimize its national memory of the event.
New York Jews and Great Depression
Uncertain Promise
Häftad, 1999
266 kr
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Chronicling the experience of New York City's Jewish families during the Great Depression, this work tells the story of a generation of immigrants and their children as they faced an uncertain future in America.
Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel
Av Ofer Shiff
Inbunden, 2014
295 kr
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In early February 1949, American Jewry’s most popular and powerful leader, Abba Hillel Silver (1893–1963), had summarily resigned from all his official positions within the Zionist movement and had left New York for Cleveland, returning to his post as a Reform rabbi. In the immediate years prior to …
Children of La Hille
Eluding Nazi Capture During World War II
Häftad, 2015
281 kr
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Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, frightened parents were forced to find refuge for their children, far from the escalating anti-Jewish violence. To that end, a courageous group of Belgian women organized a desperate and highly dangerous rescue mission to usher nearly …
Einstein's Pacifism and World War I
Inbunden, 2017
763 kr
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To understand how Albert Einstein’s pacifist and internationalist thought matured from a youthful inclination to pragmatic initiatives and savvy insights, Holmes gives readers access to Einstein in his own words. Through his private writings, she shows how Einstein’s thoughts and feelings in …
Einstein's Pacifism and World War I
Häftad, 2017
338 kr
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To understand how Albert Einstein’s pacifist and internationalist thought matured from a youthful inclination to pragmatic initiatives and savvy insights, Holmes gives readers access to Einstein in his own words. Through his private writings, she shows how Einstein’s thoughts and feelings in …
Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland
Av Jack Jacobs
Häftad, 2021
275 kr
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In the years between the two world wars, the Jewish community of Poland—the largest in Europe—was the cultural heart of the Jewish diaspora. The Jewish Workers’ Bund, which had a socialist, secularist, Yiddishist, and anti-Zionist orientation, won a series of important electoral battles in Poland …
Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin
Häftad, 2005
281 kr
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During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few wealthy, cultivated Jewish women to discuss the events of the day. Princes, nobles, upwardly mobile writers, actors, and beautiful Jewish women flocked to the salons of Rahel …
Uneasy Relationship
American Jewish Leadership and Israel, 1948-1957
Av Zvi Ganin
Inbunden, 2005
556 kr
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Set in the first decade of modern Israel's existence, this volume offers an insightful look at the changing relationship of American Jews and the reborn Jewish nation/state. It is the first in-depth analysis of the subject during this key period. As the Cold War rages, leaders in all camps are …
"Bergson Boys" and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy
Inbunden, 2005
491 kr
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Tells the remarkable story of six young men and the organizations they founded between 1939 and 1948 that would set the stage for the militant Zionist activism of today. During and shortly after the Second World War, six young men - emissaries of the revisionist-Zionist ""Irgun"" military movement …
Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Av Margalit Bejarano, Margalit Bejarano m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
468 kr
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The Sephardic population in the Americas is formed by a large number of small groups, divided according to the communities of origin in the Iberian Peninsula, the Middle East, and North Africa, and dispersed among English-, Spanish-, Portuguese-, and French-speaking societies. While the emigration …
Children of La Hille
Eluding Nazi Capture During World War II
Inbunden, 2015
589 kr
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Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, frightened parents were forced to find refuge for their children, far from the escalating anti-Jewish violence. To that end, a courageous group of Belgian women organized a desperate and highly dangerous rescue mission to usher nearly …
We Are Jews Again
Jewish Activism in the Soviet Union
Av Yuli Kosharovsky, Ann Komaromi
Inbunden, 2017
798 kr
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Kosharovsky’s authoritative four-volume history of the Jewish movement in the Soviet Union is now available in a condensed and edited volume that makes this compelling insider’s account of Soviet Jewish activism after Stalin available to a wider audience. Originally published in Russian from 2008 …
We Are Jews Again
Jewish Activism in the Soviet Union
Av Yuli Kosharovsky, Ann Komaromi
Häftad, 2017
693 kr
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Kosharovsky’s authoritative four-volume history of the Jewish movement in the Soviet Union is now available in a condensed and edited volume that makes this compelling insider’s account of Soviet Jewish activism after Stalin available to a wider audience. Originally published in Russian from 2008 …
One Step Toward Jerusalem
Oral Histories of Orthodox Jews in Stalinist Hungary
Häftad, 2018
338 kr
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Originally published in 1997, Bacskai's powerful ethnography portrays the political, religious, and individual forces that came to bear on the Orthodox Jewish tradition as it struggled for survival in the aftermath of the Holocaust in Hungary. Jews who returned to their homes eagerly reestablished …
What! Still Alive?!
Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming
Av Monika Rice
Häftad, 2017
342 kr
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""What! Still Alive?!"" offers a powerful and deeply affecting examination of the complex memories of Jewish survivors returning to their homes in Poland after the Holocaust. These survivors left unparalleled testimonies of their first impressions with the Jewish historical commissions from 1944 to …
One Step Toward Jerusalem
Oral Histories of Orthodox Jews in Stalinist Hungary
Inbunden, 2018
705 kr
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Originally published in 1997, Bacskai's powerful ethnography portrays the political, religious, and individual forces that came to bear on the Orthodox Jewish tradition as it struggled for survival in the aftermath of the Holocaust in Hungary. Jews who returned to their homes eagerly reestablished …
What! Still Alive?!
Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming
Av Monika Rice
Inbunden, 2017
705 kr
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""What! Still Alive?!"" offers a powerful and deeply affecting examination of the complex memories of Jewish survivors returning to their homes in Poland after the Holocaust. These survivors left unparalleled testimonies of their first impressions with the Jewish historical commissions from 1944 to …
Jewish Libya
Memory and Identity in Text and Image
Av Jacques Roumani, Judith Roumani m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
647 kr
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In June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee of their complete exodus from this North African land in 1967, which began with a mass migration to Israel in 1948–49. Jews had resided in Libya since Phoenician times, seventeen centuries before their encounter with the Arab conquest in AD …
Jewish Libya
Memory and Identity in Text and Image
Av Jacques Roumani, Judith Roumani m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
281 kr
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In June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee of their complete exodus from this North African land in 1967, which began with a mass migration to Israel in 1948–49. Jews had resided in Libya since Phoenician times, seventeen centuries before their encounter with the Arab conquest in AD …
Between Persecution and Participation
Biography of a Bookkeeper at J. a. Topf & Söhne
Av Annegret Schüle, Tobias Sowade
Inbunden, 2018
727 kr
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A story of the impossible choices of vulnerable individuals living under the Third Reich and the blurred boundaries between victim, bystander, and accomplice.
Between Persecution and Participation
Biography of a Bookkeeper at J. a. Topf & Söhne
Av Annegret Schüle, Tobias Sowade
Häftad, 2018
230 kr
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This is the story of a crushingly ordinary man who had the misfortune to live in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. The son of a baptized Jewish father and a Protestant mother, Willy Wiemokli (1908–1983) was declared a half-Jew by the laws of the Third Reich, and because of this, he and …
Borderland Generation
Soviet and Polish Jews Under Hitler
Inbunden, 2020
938 kr
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Despite their common heritage, Jews born and raised on opposite sides of the Polish-Soviet border during the interwar period acquired distinct beliefs, values, and attitudes. Variances in civic commitment, school lessons, youth activities, religious observance, housing arrangements, and perceptions …
Horace Kallen Confronts America
Jewish Identity, Science, and Secularism
Inbunden, 2019
798 kr
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During his more than fifty-year writing career, American Jewish philosopher Horace Kallen (1882–1974) incorporated a deep focus on science into his pragmatic philosophy of life. He exemplified the hope among Jews that science would pave the way to full and equal integration. In this intellectual …
Borderland Generation
Soviet and Polish Jews Under Hitler
Häftad, 2020
430 kr
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Despite their common heritage, Jews born and raised on opposite sides of the Polish-Soviet border during the interwar period acquired distinct beliefs, values, and attitudes. Variances in civic commitment, school lessons, youth activities, religious observance, housing arrangements, and perceptions …
Horace Kallen Confronts America
Jewish Identity, Science, and Secularism
Häftad, 2019
420 kr
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During his more than fifty-year writing career, American Jewish philosopher Horace Kallen (1882–1974) incorporated a deep focus on science into his pragmatic philosophy of life. He exemplified the hope among Jews that science would pave the way to full and equal integration. In this intellectual …
Sound of Exile
European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai, 1938-1947
Av Tang Yating
Häftad, 2025
454 kr
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Combining diaspora studies and ethnomusicology, The Sound of Exile: European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai, 1938–1947 by Tang Yating examines how Central European Jewish refugees employed music as a means of reconstructing cultural identity amid turmoil and displacement in Shanghai. From orchestral …
Contesting Histories
German and Jewish Americans and the Legacy of the Holocaust
Inbunden, 2011
403 kr
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""Starting with popular objections to America’s entry into World War I and ending with recent academic debates between Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldhagen over the legacy and meaning of the Holocaust, Schuldiner provides readers with a longer historical context and a deeper study of the …
Unwanted Legacies
Sharing the Burden of Post-Genocide Generations
Av Gottfried Wagner, Abraham Peck
Inbunden, 2013
1027 kr
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How does a society reconcile itself in a post-genocide era? How can generations of those whose families were victims and victimizers break the cycle of hate, mistrust, shame, and guilt that characterizes their relationship? What family reactions do they face as they seek to begin the act of sitting …
