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Lion Feuchtwanger über das Judentum - über Zugehörigkeit und Freiheit, Barbarei und Demokratie 

Der große Erzähler bringt uns seine fundierten Überlegungen anschaulich und oft anrührend nahe. Das Lebensthema des 1933 aus der Heimat vertriebenen Lion Feuchtwanger, der nie wieder einen Fuß auf deutschen Boden setzte, wird angesichts der bedrohlichen neuen Formen des Antisemitismus und vor dem Hintergrund eines neuen Angriffskrieges in Europa in einer Weise aktuell, die wir lange überwunden glaubten. Ein bis heute gültiger Beitrag von einem der profundesten Kenner der...

The founder of the modern British Conservative party has been described as an adventurer, a charlatan, a clever rogue and a perspicacious politician. These different characterizations have all had their ardent supporters as Benjamin Disraeli rarely inspired indifference from his contemporaries or later commentators.

This new lively study sheds light on Disraeli's controversial life and ambiguous political legacy, providing a portrait of one of the great personalities of the age and the leader of the key political movement of Victorian Britain.

Before becoming Prime Minister in...

The Nuremberg Miscellany Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nurnberg, Bibliothek, 8 Hs. 7058 (Rl. 203)] is a unique work of scribal art and illumination. Its costly parchment leaves are richly adorned and illustrated with multicolour paint and powdered gold. It was penned and illustrated in southern Germany - probably Swabia - in 1589 and is signed by a certain Eliezer b. Mordechai the Martyr.

The Miscellany is a relatively thin manuscript. In its present state, it holds a total of 46 folios, 44 of which are part of the original codex and an additional bifolio that was...

Bismarck was arguably the most important figure in nineteenth-century European history after 1815. In this biography, Edgar Feuchtwanger reassesses Bismarck's significance as a historical figure. He traces his development from a typical Junker, a reactionary and conservative, into the so-called white revolutionary who recast European affairs more drastically than anyone since Napoleon. This second edition includes a new introduction, taking into account the most recent scholarship on Bismarck, which reflects on Bismarck's legacy in modern Germany, which is once again the European...