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Book Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Download or read book Studies in Contemporary Jewry written by Jonathan Frankel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-05 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the Holocaust a natural product of a long German history of Anti-Semitism? Or were the Nazi policies simply a wild mutation of history, not necessarily connected to the past? Or does the truth lie somewhere in between? This latest volume in the acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series, edited by internationally known scholars at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, presents essays on the origins of the Holocaust. The works in this volume are diverse in scope and opinion, ranging from general philosophical discourses to detailed analyses of specific events, and often reflecting the divergent ideologies and methods of the contributors. But each adds to the whole, and the result is a fascinating panorama that is sure to be indispensable to all students and scholars of the subject.

Book Studies in Contemporary Jewry  XIII  The Fate of the European Jews  1939 1945

Download or read book Studies in Contemporary Jewry XIII The Fate of the European Jews 1939 1945 written by Jonathan Frankel and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series presents essays on the origins of the Holocaust. With contributions from many of the world's leading Holocaust scholars, The Fate of the European Jews, 1933-1945 provides multiple perspectives on the question of whether the Holocaust can best be explained as an inevitable result of Europe's anti-Semitic history, or as a tragic historical mutation.

Book Studies in Contemporary Jewry  IV  The Jews and the European Crisis  1914 1921

Download or read book Studies in Contemporary Jewry IV The Jews and the European Crisis 1914 1921 written by Jonathan Frankel and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 1988-06-30 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nazism, Normalcy and the German Sonderweg [by] Steven E. Aschheim (The Hebrew University). Signed by author.

Book Holocaust  Responses to the persecution and mass murder of the Jews

Download or read book Holocaust Responses to the persecution and mass murder of the Jews written by David Cesarani and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Download or read book Studies in Contemporary Jewry written by Ezra Mendelsohn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts collects essays on Jewish literature which deal with "the manifold ways that literary texts reveal their authors' attitudes toward their own Jewish identity and toward diverse aspects of the 'Jewish question.'" Essays in this volume explore the tension between Israeli and Diaspora identities, and between those who write in Hebrew or Yiddish and those who write in other "non-Jewish" languages. The essays also explore the question of how Jewish writers remember history in their "search for a useable past." From essays on Jabotinsky's virtually unknown plays to Philip Roth's novels, this book provides a strong overview of contemporary themes in Jewish literary studies.

Book Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Download or read book Studies in Contemporary Jewry written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Download or read book Studies in Contemporary Jewry written by Eli Lederhendler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-20 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together contributions from established scholars as well as promising younger academics, the seventeenth volume of this established series offers a broad-ranging view of why Judaism, a religion whose observance is more honored in the breach in most western Jewish communities, has garnered attention, authority, and controversy in the late twentieth century. The volume considers the ways in which theological writings, sweeping social change, individual or small-group needs, and intra-communal diversity have re-energized Judaism even amidst secular trends in America and Israel.

Book Czechs  Slovaks and the Jews  1938 48

Download or read book Czechs Slovaks and the Jews 1938 48 written by J. Lánicek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the period between the Munich Agreement and the Communist Coup in February 1948, this groundbreaking work offers a novel, provocative analysis of the political activities and plans of the Czechoslovak exiles during and after the war years, and of the implementation of the plans in liberated Czechoslovakia after 1945.

Book Devastation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Levene
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-01-12
  • ISBN : 0192509411
  • Pages : 1015 pages

Download or read book Devastation written by Mark Levene and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, and a host of further ethnic cleansings in Anatolia, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe. Crisis of Genocide seeks to integrate these genocidal events into a single, coherent history. Over two volumes, Mark Levene demonstrates how the relationship between geography, nation, and power came to play a key role in the emergence of genocide in a collapsed or collapsing European imperial zone - the Rimlands - and how the continuing geopolitical contest for control of these Eastern European or near-European regions destabilised relationships between diverse and multifaceted ethnic communities who traditionally had lived side by side. An emergent pattern of toxicity can also be seen in the struggles for regional dominance as pursued by post-imperial states, nation-states, and would-be states. Volume I: Devastation covers the period from 1912 to 1938. It is divided into two parts, the first associated with the prelude to, actuality of, and aftermath of the Great War and imperial collapse, the second the period of provisional 'New Europe' reformulation as well as post-imperial Stalinist, Nazi - and Kemalist - consolidation up to 1938. Levene also explores the crystallisation of truly toxic anti-Jewish hostilities, the implication being that the immediate origins of the Jewish genocides in the Second World War are to be found in the First.

Book Remembering for the Future

Download or read book Remembering for the Future written by J. Roth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 2898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on 'The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide', Remembering for the Future brings together the work of nearly 200 scholars from more than 30 countries and features cutting-edge scholarship across a range of disciplines, amounting to the most extensive and powerful reassessment of the Holocaust ever undertaken. In addition to its international scope, the project emphasizes that varied disciplinary perspectives are needed to analyze and to check the genocidal forces that have made the Twentieth century so deadly. Historians and ethicists, psychologists and literary scholars, political scientists and theologians, sociologists and philosophers - all of these, and more, bring their expertise to bear on the Holocaust and genocide. Their contributions show the new discoveries that are being made and the distinctive approaches that are being developed in the study of genocide, focusing both on archival and oral evidence, and on the religious and cultural representation of the Holocaust.

Book Annihilation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Levene
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2013-12-19
  • ISBN : 0191505552
  • Pages : 554 pages

Download or read book Annihilation written by Mark Levene and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, and a host of further ethnic cleansings in Anatolia, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe. Crisis of Genocide seeks to integrate these genocidal events into a single, coherent history. Over two volumes, Mark Levene demonstrates how the relationship between geography, nation, and power came to play a key role in the emergence of genocide in a collapsed or collapsing European imperial zone - the Rimlands - and how the continuing geopolitical contest for control of these Eastern European or near-European regions destabilised relationships between diverse and multifaceted ethnic communities who traditionally had lived side by side. An emergent pattern of toxicity can also be seen in the struggles for regional dominance as pursued by post-imperial states, nation-states, and would-be states. Volume II: Annihilation covers the period from 1939 to 1953, particularly focussing on the Second World War, and its aftermath, the Holocaust and its lasting impact, and the latter part of the Stalinist regime. Levene demonstrates that while the attempted Nazi mass murder of the entirety of European Jewry represents the most thoroughgoing and extreme consequence of efforts aimed at political and social reformulation of the Rimlands' arena in particular, the accumulation and concentration of genocidal violence against many 'minority' groups would suggest that anti-Semitism or racism alone is insufficient to provide a comprehensive explanation for genocide.

Book Revisioning Ritual

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  • Author : Simon J. Bronner
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2011-09-30
  • ISBN : 1800857411
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book Revisioning Ritual written by Simon J. Bronner and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating analysis of how the study of ritual is critical to illuminating what is Jewish about Jewishness.

Book Next Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children   s Historical Fiction

Download or read book Next Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children s Historical Fiction written by Mateusz Świetlicki and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book monograph devoted to Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian children’s historical fiction published between 1991 and 2021. It consists of five chapters offering cross-sectional and interdisciplinary readings of 41 books – novels, novellas, picturebooks, short stories, and a graphic novel. The first three chapters focus on texts about the complex process of becoming Ukrainian Canadian, showcasing the experiences of the first two waves of Ukrainian immigration to Canada, including encounters with Indigenous Peoples and the First World War Internment. The last two chapters are devoted to the significance of the cultural memory of the Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932-1933, and the Second World War for Ukrainian Canadians. All the chapters demonstrate the entanglements of Ukrainian and Canadian history and point to the role Anglophone children’s literature can play in preventing the symbolical seeds of memory from withering. This volume argues that reading, imagining, and reimagining history can lead to the formation of beyond-textual next-generation memory. Such memory created through reading is multidimensional as it involves the interpretation of both the present and the past by an individual whose reality has been directly or indirectly shaped by the past over which they have no influence. Next-generation memory is of anticipatory character, which means that authors of historical fiction anticipate the readers – both present-day and future – not to have direct links to any witnesses of the events they discuss and to have little knowledge of the transcultural character of the Ukrainian Canadian diaspora.

Book Studies in the holocaust and contemporary Jewry

Download or read book Studies in the holocaust and contemporary Jewry written by Ša'ûl Eš and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Zygmunt Bauman and the West

Download or read book Zygmunt Bauman and the West written by Jack Palmer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zygmunt Bauman was both an outsider of Western modernity and one of its foremost interpreters. He was an exemplary figure in twentieth-century intellectual work on exile who experienced both Nazi and Soviet forms of totalitarianism. The first work to draw extensively on Bauman’s personal archive, Zygmunt Bauman and the West argues that the distinctive social thought that sprang from Bauman’s lived experiences of exile amounts to a sustained, sophisticated, and hitherto unappreciated problematization of Eurocentrism and the West. Through an overview of the intellectual’s thought and his contribution to sociology, Jack Palmer explores Bauman’s experience and interpretation of the West and seeks to understand his work in a broader context, outside of the Eurocentric environment from which it was born. Intervening in a resurgent sociology of intellectuals, Zygmunt Bauman and the West re-evaluates the place of the West in social and political thought.

Book Law and Memory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Uladzislau Belavusau
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2017-10-19
  • ISBN : 1108101283
  • Pages : 461 pages

Download or read book Law and Memory written by Uladzislau Belavusau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal governance of memory has played a central role in establishing hegemony of monumental history, and has forged national identities and integration processes in Europe and beyond. In this book, a range of contributors explore both the nature and role of legal engagement into historical memory in selected national law, European and international law. They also reflect on potential conflicts between legal governance, political pluralism, and fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression. In recent years, there have been numerous monumental commemoration practices and judicial trials about correlated events all over the world, and this is a prime opportunity to undertake an important global comparative scrutiny of memory laws. Against the background of mass re-writing of history in different parts of the world, this book revisits a fascinating subject of memory laws from the standpoint of comparative law and transitional justice.

Book Under His Very Windows

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  • Author : Susan Zuccotti
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2002-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300093100
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Under His Very Windows written by Susan Zuccotti and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did Pius XII do to aid Jews during World War II? This is an examination of efforts on behalf of Jews in Italy, the country where the pope was in a position to be most helpful. It finds that despite a persistent myth to the contrary, Pius and his assistants at the Vatican did very little.