Studies in Jewish History – serie
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Between Dignity and Despair
Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
Häftad, 1999
393 kr
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Between Dignity and Despair draws 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.Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor from the vantage of …
The Making of the Jewish Middle Class
Women and German-Jewish Identity in Imperial Germany
Inbunden, 1991
2517 kr
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This comprehensive study of Jewish women in Imperial Germany (1871-1918) addresses the complex interrelationships of ethnicity, sex, and class. It examines the changing lives and roles of women who were part of an urbanizing, economically mobile, but socially spurned minority group, and also looks …
Wilhelm Marr
The Patriarch of Antisemitism
Inbunden, 1987
2348 kr
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The creation of the term "anti-Semitism" a century ago signalled a turning point in the history of Jew-hatred, marking the division between the classical, Christian hatred of Jews and the modern, politically-rooted racist attitudes. This is the first biography of radical writer and politician …
A Clash of Heroes
Brandeis, Weizmann, and American Zionism
Av Ben Halpern
Inbunden, 1987
2045 kr
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This book examines the conflict between Louis D. Brandeis and Chaim Weizmann, two dominant personalities, each credited by devoted followers as the hero of a crucial era in recent Jewish history. The author considers how each man confronted the problem of his Jewish identity and the extent to which …
For Whom Do I Toil?
Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry
Inbunden, 1989
2139 kr
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This is the first full-length biography, in any language, of Judah Leib Gordon, one of the pivotal intellectual and cultural figures in Russian Jewry, and the most important Hebrew poet of the nineteenth century. Setting Gordon's life and work amidst the political, cultural, and religious upheavals …
The Jews of Paris and the Final Solution
Communal Response and Internal Conflicts, 1940-1944
Häftad, 1991
1173 kr
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In this work a former member of the French Resistance, Jacques Adler, examines the diverse Jewish organizations that existed in Paris during the German occupation from 1940 to 1944. Showing how they combated gradual anti-Jewish measures, he presents an important portrait of communal solidarity and …
The Road to Modern Jewish Politics
Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction in the Jewish Community of Tsarist Russia
Inbunden, 1989
2765 kr
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In this innovative study, Eli Lederhandler explores the previously ignored antecedents to the political awakening of Jewish intellectuals and their break with the traditional, religion-centred culture in Tsarist Russia. Only in the last few years have scholars begun to consider the place of …
Escape from the Holocaust
Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel, 1939-1944
Av Dalia Ofer
Inbunden, 1991
3248 kr
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Illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine prior to the founding of the State of Israel forms one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of Zionism and modern Jewish history. Bringing Jews from Europe to Palestine by land and by sea in defiance of restrictive British immigration policies was …
Jews in Christian America
The Pursuit of Religious Equality
Inbunden, 1992
2047 kr
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This book examines how American Jews from colonial times to the present have contended with living in a fundamentally Christian state. Separation of church and state has become a veritable creed in the American Jewish community, and the focus of the work is the way in which Jewish actions have …
The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840
Av David Sorkin
Häftad, 1991
686 kr
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In the period from 1780 to 1840 German Jewry underwent a twofold revolution that set the basic patterns of its experience for the century to follow: the end of the Jews's feudal status as an autonomous community forced them to face a protracted process of political and civic emancipation and a …
Unwelcome Strangers
East European Jews in Imperial Germany
Häftad, 1991
1140 kr
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When East European Jews migrated westward in ever larger numbers between 1870 and 1914, both German government officials and the leaders of German Jewry were confronted by a series of new challenges. What policies did government leaders devise to cope with the seemingly unending tide of Jews …
On Modern Jewish Politics
Av Mendelsohn
Häftad, 1994
787 kr
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This engagingly written study provides a very useful analysis of modern Jewish politics in the interwar European and American diaspora. Mendelsohn, a distinguished historian of modern Jewry, discusses the opposing visions of the Jewish future as formulated by various political parties and …
The Berlin Jewish Community
Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770-1830
Inbunden, 1994
3177 kr
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The Berlin Jewish community was both the pioneer in intellectual modernization and the first to experience a crisis of modernity. This original and imaginative book connects intellectual and political transformation with the social structures and daily activities of the Jewish community. Steven M. …
Zionism and the Creation of a New Society
Av Ben Halpern, Jehuda Reinharz
Inbunden, 1998
2123 kr
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Zionism and the Creation of a New Society is the history of the development of the Jewish State from the early idea of Jewish nationalism. Ranging from the Zionist movements in the late nineteenth century to the establishment of Israel in 1948, this study clearly demonstrates the continuity between …
The Making of the Jewish Middle Class
Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany
Häftad, 1995
885 kr
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A social history of Jewish women in Imperial Germany, this study synthesizes German, women's, and Jewish history. The book explores the private--familial and religious--lives of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie and the public roles of Jewish women in the university, paid employment and social service. …
Reconstructing National Identity
The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I
Inbunden, 2001
3109 kr
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This book explores the impact of war and political crisis on the national identity of Jews, both in the multinational Habsburg monarchy and in the new nation-states that replaced it at the end of the First World War. Jews enthusiastically supported the Austrian war effort because it allowed them to …
Reconstructing a National Identity
The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I
Häftad, 2004
1408 kr
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This book explores the impact of war and political crisis on the national identity of Jews, both in the multinational Habsburg monarchy and in the new nation-states that replaced it at the end of World War I. Jews enthusiastically supported the Austrian war effort because it allowed them to assert …
