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Book Pogromchik

    Book Details:
  • Author : Saul S. Friedman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN : 9780805511628
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book Pogromchik written by Saul S. Friedman and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sex  Violence  and the Avant garde

Download or read book Sex Violence and the Avant garde written by Richard David Sonn and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, Violence, and the Avant-Garde examines the French anarchist movement between the wars from a socio-cultural perspective, considering the relationship between anarchism and the artistic avant-garde and surrealism, political violence and terrorism, sexuality and sexual politics, and gender roles.

Book The Ukrainian Quarterly

Download or read book The Ukrainian Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life and Death in Revolutionary Ukraine

Download or read book Life and Death in Revolutionary Ukraine written by Stephen Velychenko and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1917 and 1923, Ukraine experienced an anti-colonial war for national liberation, foreign invasion, socialist revolution, and civil war simultaneously, resulting in almost unimaginable civilian casualties. In Life and Death in Revolutionary Ukraine Stephen Velychenko surveys the plight of civilians, details the socio-economic background to the political events that unfolded during this time, and documents the country’s demographic losses. Focusing specifically on two causes of civilian death, deliberate killing and appalling living conditions, Velychenko outlines prewar improvements in living conditions and describes their decline after 1917. He examines governmental culpability in civilian death and notes that while ideologies and the inability of leaders to control subordinates were undeniably causes of violence, there were other factors at play. Velychenko mines previously unused archival sources to create a picture of the social conditions leading up to and during this catastrophic period, combining this data with stories and reports from memoirs of the period. Readers familiar with the explosion of violence against Jews at this time will find here a compelling framework for understanding the context of that violence.

Book Pogroms

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Doyle Klier
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1992-02-28
  • ISBN : 9780521405324
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Pogroms written by John Doyle Klier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-02-28 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished scholars of Russian Jewish history reflect on the pogroms in Tsarist and revolutionary Russia.

Book Tears Over Russia

Download or read book Tears Over Russia written by Lisa Brahin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping saga of a family and community fighting for survival against the ravages of history. Set between events depicted in Fiddler on the Roof and Schindler’s List, Lisa Brahin’s Tears over Russia brings to life a piece of Jewish history that has never before been told. Between 1917 and 1921, twenty years before the Holocaust began, an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 Jews were murdered in anti-Jewish pogroms across the Ukraine. Lisa grew up transfixed by her grandmother Channa’s stories about her family being forced to flee their hometown of Stavishche, as armies and bandit groups raided village after village, killing Jewish residents. Channa described a perilous three-year journey through Russia and Romania, led at first by a gallant American who had snuck into the Ukraine to save his immediate family and ended up leading an exodus of nearly eighty to safety. With almost no published sources to validate her grandmother’s tales, Lisa embarked on her incredible journey to tell Channa’s story, forging connections with archivists around the world to find elusive documents to fill in the gaps of what happened in Stavishche. She also tapped into connections closer to home, gathering testimonies from her grandmother’s relatives, childhood friends and neighbors. The result is a moving historical family narrative that speaks to universal human themes—the resilience and hope of ordinary people surviving the ravages of history and human cruelty. With the growing passage of time, it is unlikely that we will see another family saga emerge so richly detailing this forgotten time period. Tears Over Russia eloquently proves that true life is sometimes more compelling than fiction.

Book In the Midst of Civilized Europe

Download or read book In the Midst of Civilized Europe written by Jeffrey Veidlinger and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE “The mass killings of Jews from 1918 to 1921 are a bridge between local pogroms and the extermination of the Holocaust. No history of that Jewish catastrophe comes close to the virtuosity of research, clarity of prose, and power of analysis of this extraordinary book. As the horror of events yields to empathetic understanding, the reader is grateful to Veidlinger for reminding us what history can do.” —Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In hundreds of separate incidents, ordinary people robbed their Jewish neighbors with impunity, burned down their houses, ripped apart their Torah scrolls, sexually assaulted them, and killed them. Largely forgotten today, these pogroms—ethnic riots—dominated headlines and international affairs in their time. Aid workers warned that six million Jews were in danger of complete extermination. Twenty years later, these dire predictions would come true. Drawing upon long-neglected archival materials, including thousands of newly discovered witness testimonies, trial records, and official orders, acclaimed historian Jeffrey Veidlinger shows for the first time how this wave of genocidal violence created the conditions for the Holocaust. Through stories of survivors, perpetrators, aid workers, and governmental officials, he explains how so many different groups of people came to the same conclusion: that killing Jews was an acceptable response to their various problems. In riveting prose, In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century.

Book Dictionary of the Holocaust

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric J. Epstein
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 1997-11-20
  • ISBN : 0313003246
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Dictionary of the Holocaust written by Eric J. Epstein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-11-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise, easy-to-use resource on the Holocaust is rich in factual and statistical information, and provides a comprehensive compilation of the people and terms that are essential for an understanding of the Holocaust. In 2,000 entries, it profiles major personalities, covers concentration and death camps, cities and countries, and significant events. Also included are important terms translated from German, French, Polish, Yiddish, and twelve other languages. Biographical entries give a brief history, the person's significance, and their historical context. Geographical entries pinpoint exact locations using other cities or countries as landmarks, and give the number of Jewish inhabitants before Nazi occupation, and the percentage of Jews killed. Historical background is provided for such events as Kristallnacht and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and entries on concentration and death camps give details on the nationalities interned, the camp's specific location, and its history. This reference is impressive in its scope and includes major perpetrators, bystanders, collaborators, victims, rescuers such as Righteous Gentiles, Jewish ghetto fighters, and partisans. It also explores the role of women and the complicity of physicians and industrialists during the Holocaust more fully than any other reference. This dictionary provides the information needed by students whose understanding of the Holocaust is limited by the absence of a single accessible research text.

Book Violent Justice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Felix Imonti
  • Publisher : Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Violent Justice written by Felix Imonti and published by Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As vulnerable minority communities, Jews in Europe developed the attitude that in their own defense the only recourse was to negotiate with those who threatened them. Three isolated individuals who lashed out in vengeance during the 1920s and 1930s are profiled here, and the responses of their families and the community they were trying to defend are detailed. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Pogromchik

    Book Details:
  • Author : Saul S. Friedman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN : 9780805511628
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book Pogromchik written by Saul S. Friedman and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Ukraine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Robert Magocsi
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2010-06-18
  • ISBN : 1442698799
  • Pages : 896 pages

Download or read book A History of Ukraine written by Paul Robert Magocsi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996, A History of Ukraine quickly became the authoritative account of the evolution of Europe's second largest country. In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Paul Robert Magocsi examines recent developments in the country's history and uses new scholarship in order to expand our conception of the Ukrainian historical narrative. New chapters deal with the Crimean Khanate in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and new research on the pre-historic Trypillians, the Italians of the Crimea and the Black Death, the Karaites, Ottoman and Crimean slavery, Soviet-era ethnic cleansing, and the Orange Revolution is incorporated. Magocsi has also thoroughly updated the many maps that appear throughout. Maintaining his depiction of the multicultural reality of past and present Ukraine, Magocsi has added new information on Ukraine's peoples and discusses Ukraine's diasporas. Comprehensive, innovative, and geared towards teaching, the second edition of A History of Ukraine is ideal for both teachers and students.

Book Encyclopedia of Ukraine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Danylo Husar Struk
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1993-12-15
  • ISBN : 1442651261
  • Pages : 2597 pages

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ukraine written by Danylo Husar Struk and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1993-12-15 with total page 2597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over thirty years in the making, the most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine is now complete: its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora.

Book Karpstein Was Hiding   Second Edition

Download or read book Karpstein Was Hiding Second Edition written by Martin A. David and published by Martin A. David. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karpstein Was Hiding is a great, dark, mythical journey. The pain of a people is written across the soul of one man. It is a haunting fusion of modern Magic Realism and the detailed story telling of ancient Jewish Mysticism.

Book Forensic Memory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Johanne Helbo Bøndergaard
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2017-10-14
  • ISBN : 331951766X
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Forensic Memory written by Johanne Helbo Bøndergaard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and analyses a particular literary mode that challenges the aesthetics of testimony by approaching the past through detection, analysis, and ‘archaeological’ digging. How does forensic literature narrate the past in terms of plot, language, narration, and use of visual media? This volume examines how forensic literature provides an important corrective to the forensic paradigm and a means of exploring the relationship between visual and material evidence and various forms of testimony. This literary engagement with the past is investigated in order to challenge a forensic paradigm that aims to eliminate the problems related to human testimony through scientific objectivity, resulting in a fresh and original text in which Bøndergaard argues literature’s potential to explore the mechanisms of representation, interpretation, and narration.

Book Avengers and Defenders

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter Roth
  • Publisher : Chicago Review Press
  • Release : 2008-04-01
  • ISBN : 0897335732
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Avengers and Defenders written by Walter Roth and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Roth delves deep into the archives of Chicago’s Jewish past, and provides a new collection of illuminating essays on its various aspects. Booklist said of his previous collection, Looking Backward: True Stories from Chicago’s Jewish Past, ‘Roth writes about the well-known and the not-so-well-known, bringing to life the peOut of Printle, events and institutions that shaped the Jewish community.” Roth is also co-author of An Accidental Anarchist, about the killing of a Jewish immigrant by Chicago’s Chief of Police in 1908. Kirkus Reviews said, “The authors have skillfully removed the dust from an obscure but troubling episode.” Roth brings his consummate skill as storyteller to bear on this new collection, which makes for entertaining and informative reading.

Book The  Russian  Civil Wars  1916 1926

Download or read book The Russian Civil Wars 1916 1926 written by Jonathan Smele and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century. Indeed, the reverberations of those decade-long wars echo to the present day - not despite, but because of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which re-opened many old wounds, from the Baltic to the Caucasus. Contemporary memorialising and 'de-memorialising' of these wars, therefore form part of the book's focus, but at its heart lie the struggles between various Russian political and military forces which sought to inherit and preserve, or even expand, the territory of the tsars, overlain with examinations of the attempts of many non-Russian national and religious groups to divide the former empire. The reasons why some of the latter were successful (Poland and Finland, for example), while others (Ukraine, Georgia and the Muslim Basmachi) were not, are as much the author's concern as are explanations as to why the chief victors of the 'Russian' Civil Wars were the Bolsheviks. Tellingly, the work begins and ends with battles in Central Asia - a theatre of the 'Russian' Civil Wars that was closer to Mumbai than it was to Moscow.

Book Austria   Hungary   Poland   Russia

Download or read book Austria Hungary Poland Russia written by Herbert A. Strauss and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: