Kategoria BISAC: History >> Jewish - General

In part one of Beyond Trochenbrod, Gold provides a brief history of Trochenbrod, the only all-Jewish town to exist outside of biblical Israel, and...

In a time of national introspection regarding the country's involvement in the persecution of Jews, Poland has begun to reimagine spaces of and for Jewishness in the Polish landscape, not as a form of nostalgia but as a way to encourage the pluralization of contemporary society. The essays in this book explore issues of the restoration, restitution, memorializing, and tourism that have brought present inhabitants into contact with initiatives to revive Jewish sites. They reveal that an emergent Jewish presence in both urban and rural landscapes exists in conflict and collaboration with...

In a time of national introspection regarding the country's involvement in the persecution of Jews, Poland has begun to reimagine spaces of and for Jewishness in the Polish landscape, not as a form of nostalgia but as a way to encourage the pluralization of contemporary society. The essays in this book explore issues of the restoration, restitution, memorializing, and tourism that have brought present inhabitants into contact with initiatives to revive Jewish sites. They reveal that an emergent Jewish presence in both urban and rural landscapes exists in conflict and collaboration with...

Ten chapters, organized chronologically, include source materials that highlight the major thematic questions of each era and tell many stories about what it...

In the decades after the Civil War, sports slowly gained a prominent position within American culture. This development provided Jews with opportunities to participate in one of the few American cultures not closed off to them. Jewish athleticism challenged anti-Semitic depictions of Jews' supposed physical inferiority and an Americanization narrative emerged that connected Jewish athleticism with full acceptance and integration into American society. This acceptance was not without struggle, but Jews succeeded and participated in the American sporting culture as athletes, coaches, owners,...

Juden waren in der Fruhen Neuzeit nicht allein Objekte obrigkeitlichen Handelns oder ausschliesslich Opfer gesamtgesellschaftlicher Repression. Das zeigen ihre Handlungs- und Argumentationsstrategien in Prozessen am kaiserlichen Reichshofrat gegen die Reichsadeligen als Elite des Alten Reiches, denen in diesem Band erstmals nachgegangen wird.

This study investigates acts of anti-Semitic violence committed by Germans and Ukrainians in several dozen locations in Western Ukraine. The study's broad consideration of contexts - the Holocaust, Soviet crimes, and Ukrainian state formation - leads to a new view of these events. The work is sure to become an indispensable resource in understanding controversies about Nazi and Soviet crimes.

Die Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Juden in Schlesien II ist Fortsetzung und Erganzung der 1995 als Band 6 dieser Reihe veroffentlichten Bibliographie. Der zweite Band umfasst mehr als 3.200 Eintrage und ist mit einem Register der Autoren und Herausgeber sowie einem Sachregister versehen. Zusammen enthalten beide Bibliographien zur Geschichte der Juden in Schlesien ca. 6.000 Eintrage.

In 1797, in what is now the Czech Republic, Pinḥas Hurwitz published one of the best-selling Hebrew books of the modern era. Nominally an extended commentary on a sixteenth-century kabbalist text, The Book of the Covenant was in fact a compendium of scientific knowledge and a manual of moral behavior. Its popularity stemmed from its ability to present the scientific advances and moral cosmopolitanism of its day in the context of Jewish legal and mystical tradition. Describing the latest developments in science and philosophy in the sacred language of Hebrew, Hurwitz argued...

A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums
Why did the Holocaust happen in Germany, of all places? How did a country known for its culture and refinement turn so rabidly anti-Semitic? Why did a nation where Jews had full civil rights and many opportunities a place that Jews had eagerly flocked to in the early twentieth century to escape racist persecution in Poland and Russia turn upon them so violently just a few decades later? Countless people have grappled with these questions, but few have come up...

The urban origins of American Judaism began with daily experiences of Jews, their responses to opportunities for social and physical mobility as well as constraints of discrimination and prejudice. Deborah Dash Moore explores Jewish participation in American cities and considers the implications of urban living for American Jews across three centuries. Looking at synagogues, streets, and snapshots, she contends that key features of American Judaism can be understood as an imaginative product grounded in urban potentials.

Jews signaled their collective urban presence through synagogue...

Erika Timm ist die erste Wissenschaftlerin in Deutschland, die auf einen Lehrstuhl fur Jiddistik berufen wurde. Mit der vorliegenden Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag wird der international Hochangesehenen fur ihr auergewohnliches Engagement in Forschung und Lehre gedankt. Der Band umfasst Beitrage zur jiddischen Sprache und Literatur des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit auf Deutsch, Englisch und Jiddisch.