Kategoria BISAC: History >> Jewish - General

Anhand ausgewahlter Stucke israelischer Autoren zeigt diese Studie, wie in der Konfrontation mit den kunstkritischen Traditionen des Judentums und durch die Thematisierung der Geschichte eine Dramatik des "israelischen Realismus" (Gershon Shaked) entstanden ist, die Spuren der Auseinandersetzung mit einer hemmenden religiosen Tradition bewahrt hat und das israelische Theater auch deshalb als "verspatetes Theater" zu erkennen gibt. Da in seinem Umfeld eine "dramatische" Wahrnehmung der Wirklichkeit vorherrscht, kommt in ihm die Geschichte als ein das Dramatische fordernder Impuls zur...

This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises research monographs, collections of essays and editions of source texts dealing with German-Jewish literary and cultural history, in particular from the period covering the 18th to 20th centuries.

The closer definition of the term German-Jewish applied to literature and culture is an integral part of its historical development. Primarily, the decisive factor is that from the middle of the 18th century German gradually became the language of choice for Jews,...

Wie sich die internationalen Koordinaten auch verschieben mogen - der Nahe Osten scheint stets dazu verurteilt, einer der Brennpunkte der globalen Politik zu sein. Die vorliegende Studie analysiert eine der komplexesten und folgenreichsten Konfigurationen der hier angesiedelten Konfliktgeschichte: das Beziehungsdreieck zwischen der Sowjetunion und der zionistischen Bewegung bzw. zum Staat Israel und zu der einem zunehmend sozialistisch getonten Antikolonialismus der Republik Agypten. Das bedeutsame erste Nachkriegsjahrzehnt mit der mehrfachen Zasur von 1956 wird dabei in die weitere...

Handlich, lesbar und stets am Puls der Forschung: Im Programm der Schriftenreihe spiegelt sich seit uber 50 Jahren das gesamte Spektrum der Zeitgeschichte. Zwei Bande im Jahr, schlank im Format, Qualitatssicherung durch Peer Reviews. Die Reihe kann kostengunstig im Abonnement bezogen werden ( 34,80 zzgl. Versandkosten).

Im Auftrag des Instituts fur Zeitgeschichte Munchen-Berlin herausgegeben von Helmut Altrichter, Horst Moller, Margit Szollosi-Janze, Andreas Wirsching

Redaktion: Johannes Hurter, Thomas Raithel

From 1912 to 1914, S. An-sky and the photographer Solomon Iudovin gathered materials and took photographs of Jewish daily life in pre-Revolutionary Russia's Pale of Settlement. Photographing the Jewish Nation offers English-language readers their first look at over 170 extraordinary, recently rediscovered photographs from their expeditions. The pictures provide visual texture--in remarkable detail--that rarely appears in written sources. This volume includes a critical introduction and five chapters that document...

Ideas regarding the role of the museum have become increasingly contentious. In the last fifteen years, scholars have pointed to ways in which states (especially imperialist states) use museums to showcase looted artefacts, to document their geographic expansion, to present themselves as the guardians of national treasure, and to educate citizens and subjects. At the same time, a great deal of attention has been paid to reshaping national histories and values in the wake of the collapse of the Communist bloc and the emergence of the European Union. (Re)Visualizing National History...

In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. Scholars have long believed that the Rabbanites and Qaraites, the two major Jewish groups under Islamic rule, split decisively in the tenth century and from that time forward the minority Qaraites were deemed a heretical sect. Qaraites affirmed a right to decide matters of Jewish law free from centuries of rabbinic interpretation; the Rabbanites, in...

Ukraine is Europe's second state and this lavishly illustrated volume provides a concise and easy to read historical survey of the country from earliest times to the present. Each of the book's forty-six chapters is framed by a historical map, which graphically depicts the key elements of the chronological period or theme addressed within. In addition, the entire text is accompanied by over 300 historic photographs, line drawings, portraits, and reproductions of books and art works, which bring the rich past of Ukraine to life.

Rather than limiting his study to an examination of the...

In February 1868 Benjamin Disraeli became the fortieth prime minister of Great Britain. The tenth volume of the Benjamin Disraeli Letters series is devoted exclusively to Disraeli's copious correspondence during that momentous year. The volume contains 648 of Disraeli's letters, 510 of them never before published and all copiously annotated - often with the other side of the correspondence included.

This volume constitutes a unique record of Disraeli's rise to power and of the inner workings of the Victorian political scene, all of it recorded in intimate detail. A vast...

While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was subsequently forgotten and remained unknown to a wider public.

Dating from the weeks and months immediately after the war, Auschwitz Report details the authors' harrowing deportation to Auschwitz, and how those who disembarked from the train were selected for work or extermination. As...

This volume is devoted to the development of Jewish historiography in the three east European...