Kategoria BISAC: History >> Jewish - General

American Jews' mobilization on behalf of Soviet Jews is typically portrayed as compensation for the community's inability to assist European Jews during World War II. Yet, as Pauline Peretz shows, the role Israel played in setting the agenda for a segment of the American Jewish community was central. Her careful examination of relations between the Jewish state and the Jewish diaspora offers insight into Israel's influence over the American Jewish community and how this influence can be conceptualized.

To explain how Jewish emigration moved from a solely Jewish issue to a...

Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both in aesthetic practice and in critical discourse, analyzing and theorizing symbols from Shakespeare to Bollywood as well as in critical writings of theorists of diaspora. What kinds of symbols and symbolic practices, contributors ask, are germane to the representation, both emic and etic, of diasporics and diasporas? How are specific symbols and symbolic practices analyzed across the academic fields...

Her devoted family only wants the best for their Bubbie. Mostly they want to ensure that their matriarch's twilight years are spent in comfort, safety, and serenity. But how do you manage an aging, immutably stubborn Holocaust survivor who has risen above the squalor of Poland's ghettos; fled across the war-torn German wilderness; and survived the winter-ravaged Pyrenees alone on foot with three children? You probably don't.

"Managing Bubbie" is the heartrending, hilarious family memoir by Russel Lazega that recounts the frequently hectic, ever-exhausting trials of one Jewish family in...

Dieser Supplementband versammelt Statuten, Gesetze und Konstitutionen, die uber Ziel und Zweck, Struktur und Organisation der im Handbuch portratierten Vereinigungen Auskunft geben. Wahrend die Metatexte im Handbuch analysieren und auswerten, sprechen in diesem Erganzungsband die historischen Quellentexte fur sich, sie werden erstmals in einer Gesamtschau bereitgestellt und ermoglichen so eine vergleichende Analyse.

This book is the first greater attempt to construct a dialogical theology from a Jewish point of view. It contributes to an emerging new theology that promotes the interrelatedness of religions in which encounter, openness, and permanent learning are central. Meir analyses and critically discusses the writings of great contemporary Jewish dialogical thinkers and argues that the values of interreligious theology are moored in their thoughts.

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,...

Das Handbuch bietet erstmalig in Form von Lexikonartikeln eine auf umfangreichem Quellenmaterial basierende Zusammenschau von mehr als 130 gesellig-literarischen, kunstausubenden, naturwissenschaftlichen, medizinisch-pharmazeutischen, freimaurerischen, judischen oder national-patriotischen Vereinigungen in Berlin im Zeitraum 1786-1815. Als Erganzung werden ein Gesamt-Mitgliederverzeichnis sowie die Vereins-Statuten gesondert publiziert.

Der Historiker und Religionswissenschaftler Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921 2007) gehort zu den pragenden Gestalten des deutschsprachigen Judentums nach der Schoa. 1943 gelang ihm dank christlicher Helfer die Flucht aus Berlin in die Schweiz, von wo aus der Schuler Leo Baecks Wortfuhrer im judisch-christlichen Dialog wurde. Hartmut Bomhoff beschreibt, wie die Erfahrung von Ausgrenzung, Untergrund und Flucht Ehrlich trotz allem zum Bruckenbauer machte.

Weissrussland und die Ukraine unter deutscher Besatzung gehoren zu den zentralen Tatorten des Holocaust: Hier weiteten die Einheiten der SS, der Polizei und der Wehrmacht den antijudischen Terror zum Volkermord aus und toteten in diesen Gebieten schliesslich mehr als zwei Millionen Juden. Trotz ihres gewaltigen Ausmasses war aber lange Zeit nur wenig uber diese Massaker bekannt. Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert nun erstmals die Verfolgung der Juden im Generalkommissariat Weissruthenien und im Reichskommissariat Ukraine ausschliesslich anhand von Dokumenten aus der Kriegszeit. Aus...

In late summer 1929, a countrywide outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. In contrast with those who point to the wars of 1948 and 1967, historian Hillel Cohen marks these bloody events as year zero of the Arab-Israeli conflict that persists today.

The murderous violence inflicted on Jews caused a fractious--and now traumatized--community of Zionists, non-Zionists, Ashkenazim, and Mizrachim to coalesce around a unified national consciousness arrayed against an...