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Book The Jew in the European Scene

Download or read book The Jew in the European Scene written by Alfred Stern and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Three Minutes in Poland

Download or read book Three Minutes in Poland written by Glenn Kurtz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author's search for the annihilated Polish community captured in his grandfather's 1938 home movie. Traveling in Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, David Kurtz, the author's grandfather, captured three minutes of ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town in Poland on 16 mm Kodachrome color film. More than seventy years later, through the brutal twists of history, these few minutes of home-movie footage would become a memorial to an entire community--an entire culture--that was annihilated in the Holocaust. Three Minutes in Poland traces Glenn Kurtz's remarkable four-year journey to identify the people in his grandfather's haunting images. His search takes him across the United States; to Canada, England, Poland, and Israel; to archives, film preservation laboratories, and an abandoned Luftwaffe airfield. Ultimately, Kurtz locates seven living survivors from this lost town, including an eighty-six-year-old man who appears in the film as a thirteen-year-old boy. Painstakingly assembled from interviews, photographs, documents, and artifacts, Three Minutes in Poland tells the rich, funny, harrowing, and surprisingly intertwined stories of these seven survivors and their Polish hometown. Originally a travel souvenir, David Kurtz's home movie became the sole remaining record of a vibrant town on the brink of catastrophe. From this brief film, Glenn Kurtz creates a riveting exploration of memory, loss, and improbable survival--a monument to a lost world"--

Book Our Courage     Jews in Europe 1945   48

Download or read book Our Courage Jews in Europe 1945 48 written by Kata Bohus and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Shoah, Jewish survivors actively took control of their destiny. Despite catastrophic and hostile circumstances, they built networks and communities, fought for justice, and documented Nazi crimes. The essays, illustrations, and portraits of people and places contained in this volume are informed by a pan-European perspective. The book accompanies the first special exhibition at the re-opened Jewish Museum in Frankfurt.

Book Fate and Faith

Download or read book Fate and Faith written by Judah Pilch and published by New York, Bloch Pub. This book was released on 1963 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Three Way Street

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jay Howard Geller
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2021-03-11
  • ISBN : 0472902571
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book Three Way Street written by Jay Howard Geller and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As German Jews emigrated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and as exiles from Nazi Germany, they carried the traditions, culture, and particular prejudices of their home with them. At the same time, Germany—and Berlin in particular—attracted both secular and religious Jewish scholars from eastern Europe. They engaged in vital intellectual exchange with German Jewry, although their cultural and religious practices differed greatly, and they absorbed many cultural practices that they brought back to Warsaw or took with them to New York and Tel Aviv. After the Holocaust, German Jews and non-German Jews educated in Germany were forced to reevaluate their essential relationship with Germany and Germanness as well as their notions of Jewish life outside of Germany. Among the first volumes to focus on German-Jewish transnationalism, this interdisciplinary collection spans the fields of history, literature, film, theater, architecture, philosophy, and theology as it examines the lives of significant emigrants. The individuals whose stories are reevaluated include German Jews Ernst Lubitsch, David Einhorn, and Gershom Scholem, the architect Fritz Nathan and filmmaker Helmar Lerski; and eastern European Jews David Bergelson, Der Nister, Jacob Katz, Joseph Soloveitchik, and Abraham Joshua Heschel—figures not normally associated with Germany. Three-Way Street addresses the gap in the scholarly literature as it opens up critical ways of approaching Jewish culture not only in Germany, but also in other locations, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

Book Europe and the Jews

    Book Details:
  • Author : Malcolm Hay
  • Publisher : Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780897333597
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Europe and the Jews written by Malcolm Hay and published by Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and moving account of the indignities and cruelties Jews have undergone at the hands of Christians and others in the West, from St John Chrysostom in the 4th century to Hitler in the 20th. Using Hitler's concentration camps as a point of departure, Hay leads us on a tour of the devilish scenes and spectacles which have been produced by Christian hatred of Jews for some 1900 years.

Book The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism

Download or read book The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism written by Daniel Greene and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Greene traces the emergence of the idea of cultural pluralism to the lived experiences of a group of Jewish college students and public intellectuals, including the philosopher Horace M. Kallen. These young Jews faced particular challenges as they sought to integrate themselves into the American academy and literary world of the early 20th century. At Harvard University, they founded an influential student organization known as the Menorah Association in 1906 and later the Menorah Journal, which became a leading voice of Jewish public opinion in the 1920s. In response to the idea that the American melting pot would erase all cultural differences, the Menorah Association advocated a pluralist America that would accommodate a thriving Jewish culture while bringing Jewishness into mainstream American life.

Book Scenes from the East  Through the Eyes of a European Traveller in the 1860s

Download or read book Scenes from the East Through the Eyes of a European Traveller in the 1860s written by Ármin Vámbéry and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scenes of Shame

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Adamson
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780791439760
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Scenes of Shame written by Joseph Adamson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the role of shame as an important affect in the complex psychodynamics of literary and philosophical works.

Book The Menorah Journal

Download or read book The Menorah Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reader s Guide to Periodical Literature Supplement

Download or read book Reader s Guide to Periodical Literature Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West  1450 1800

Download or read book The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West 1450 1800 written by Paolo Bernardini and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resources of the New World. Alone among the European peoples who came to the Americas in the colonial period, Jews were dispersed throughout the hemisphere; indeed, they were the only cohesive European ethnic or religious group that lived under both Catholic and Protestant regimes, which makes their study particularly fruitful from a comparative perspective. As distinguished from other religious or ethnic minorities, the Jewish struggle was not only against an overpowering and fierce nature but also against the political regimes that ruled over the various colonies of the Americas and often looked unfavorably upon the establishment and tleration of Jewish communities in their own territory. Jews managed to survive and occasionally to flourish against all odds, and their history in the Americas is one of the more fascinating chapters in the early modern history of European expansion.

Book The Jew Accused

    Book Details:
  • Author : Albert S. Lindemann
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780521447614
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book The Jew Accused written by Albert S. Lindemann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Jews, Alfred Dreyfus, Mendel Beilis, and Leo Frank, were charged with heinous crimes in the generation before World War I, Dreyfus of treason in France, Beilis of ritual murder in Russia, and Frank of the murder of a young girl in the United States. Quite aside from the lurid details and sensational charges, larger issues emerged, among them the power of modern anti-Semitism, the sometimes tragic conflict between the freedom of the press and the protection of individual rights, the unpredictable reactions of individuals when subjected to extreme situations, and the inevitable ambiguities of campaigns for truth and justice when political advantage is to be gained from them. In attempting to untangle myth and reality many surprises emerge; heroes appear less heroic and villains less villainous, while real factors appear more important than most accounts of the affairs have recognised.

Book The Pianist

Download or read book The Pianist written by Wladyslaw Szpilman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2000-09-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir that inspired Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film, which won the Cannes Film Festival's most prestigious prize—the Palme d'Or. Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside—so loudly that he couldn't hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw: That day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air. Though he lost his entire family, Szpilman survived in hiding. In the end, his life was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin Nocturne on a piano found among the rubble. Written immediately after the war and suppressed for decades, The Pianist is a stunning testament to human endurance and the redemptive power of fellow feeling.

Book Story of the Jew

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sheldon Cohen
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2017-12-18
  • ISBN : 1546221565
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Story of the Jew written by Sheldon Cohen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early civilizations were extremely cruel. Many wars were fought for territory and control. The concept of religion surfaced in order to establish ethical and moral standards that would bring peace, order, and civility to a violent world. The first pioneers in this effort were Abram and Sarai, who attempted to establish the Jewish religion. This book describes the four-thousand-year-old struggle to achieve this goal, a work in progress to this day, as Judaism still strives and as other religions have surfaced over time. Will civilization ever reach religions ultimate goal of bringing stable peace, order, and civility to a cruel world?

Book Racisms Made in Germany

Download or read book Racisms Made in Germany written by Wulf Dietmar Hund and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines racism in Germany and includes the following essays: Racisms Made in Germany: Without Sonderweg to a Rupture in Civilization * Between Jew-Hatred and Racism: The German Invention of Antisemitism * It Must Come from Europe: The Racisms of Immanuel Kant * Antisemitism and Colonial Racism: Transnational and Interdiscursive Intersectionality * Racist Fantasies: Africa in Austrian and German African Studies * From Disagreement to Dissension: African Perspectives on Germany * Purification of the National Body: Racial Policy and Racial Murder in the Third Reich * Between Race and Class: Elite Racism in Contemporary Germany * Racism Analysis in Germany: The Development in the Federal Republic (Series: Racism Analysis - Series B: Yearbooks - Vol. 2)

Book Imaging the Scenes of War

Download or read book Imaging the Scenes of War written by Christof Decker and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-04-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In American visual culture, the 1930s and 1940s were a key transitional period shaped by the era of modernism and the global confrontation of World War II. Christof Decker demonstrates that the war and its iconography of destruction challenged visual artists to find new ways of representing its consequences. Dealing with trauma and war crimes led to the emergence of complex aesthetic forms and media crossovers. Decker shows that the 1940s were a pivotal period for the creation of horrific yet also innovative representations that boosted American visual modernism and set the stage for debates about the ethics of visual culture in the post-9/11 era.