The history of Jews in cosmopolitan maritime trading centres is a field of research that is reshaping our understanding of how Jews entered the modern world. The port Jew has been identified as a social type whose characteristics dramatically pre-figured conscious efforts to modernize Jewish life in 18th-century Europe.
The history of Jews in cosmopolitan maritime trading centres is a field of research that is reshaping our understanding of how Jews entered the modern...
Why didn't the Hungarian Jews do more to resist the 'Final Solution'? Why didn't the Allies bomb the gas chambers at Auschwitz? Why did the Allies sabotage schemes to save the Jews?
In this provocative book, historians from Hungary, Israel, Britain and the United States examine one of the greatest tragedies of World War II -- the deportation and murder of 435,000 Hungarian Jews during the last months of the war when German military and diplomatic power was on the wane. Could Jews in the West have done more to help, or were they 'prisoners' of civil servants and politicians in...
Why didn't the Hungarian Jews do more to resist the 'Final Solution'? Why didn't the Allies bomb the gas chambers at Auschwitz? Why did the Allies ...
In May 1947, a Jewish teenager was mysteriously murdered in Jerusalem. A hat found at the scene was traced to Major Roy Farran, an ex-SAS officer leading a covert counter-terrorist squad. This text draws on declassified files of the Security Services to reveal the full extent of Jewish terrorist attacks on Britain in the late 1940s.
In May 1947, a Jewish teenager was mysteriously murdered in Jerusalem. A hat found at the scene was traced to Major Roy Farran, an ex-SAS officer lead...
In May 1947, a Jewish teenager was mysteriously murdered in Jerusalem. A hat found at the scene was traced to Major Roy Farran, an ex-SAS officer leading a covert counter-terrorist squad. This text draws on declassified files of the Security Services to reveal the full extent of Jewish terrorist attacks on Britain in the late 1940s.
In May 1947, a Jewish teenager was mysteriously murdered in Jerusalem. A hat found at the scene was traced to Major Roy Farran, an ex-SAS officer lead...
For the last decade scholars have been questioning the idea that the Holocaust was not talked about in any way until well into the 1970s. This collection exposes a serious misreading of the past on which rest the controversial claims for a 'Holocaust industry'.
For the last decade scholars have been questioning the idea that the Holocaust was not talked about in any way until well into the 1970s. This collect...
In 1961 Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Jerusalem for his part in the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Europe's Jews. For the first time a judicial process focussed on the genocide against the Jews and heard Jewish witnesses to the catastrophe. The trial and the controversies it caused had a profound effect on shaping the collective memory of what became 'the Holocaust'. This volume, a special issue of the Journal of Israeli History, brings together new research by scholars from Europe, Israel and the USA.
In 1961 Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Jerusalem for his part in the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Europe's Jews. For the first time a judicial...
