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Judah L. Magnes (1877a "1948) was an American Reform rabbi, Jewish community leader, and active pacifist during World War I. In the 1920s he moved to British Mandatory Palestine, where he helped found and served as first chancellor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Later, in the 1930s and 1940s, he emerged as the leading advocate for the binational plan for Palestine. In these varied roles, he actively participated in the major transformations in American Jewish life and the Zionist movement during the first half of the twentieth century.

Kotzin tells the story of how Magnes,...

Trotz verschiedener Vertreibungsversuche im 16. Jahrhundert avancierte die Frankfurter Gemeinde in der Fruhen Neuzeit zum Zentrum der judischen Welt im deutschsprachigen Raum. Cilli Kasper-Holtkotte widmet sich der bislang kaum erforschten Geschichte der Frankfurter Juden in dieser Zeit und geht der Frage nach, wie soziale Netzwerke und Konflikte das Leben judischer Familien pragten. Die Studie stutzt sich auf bislang kaum beachtete fruhneuzeitliche Gerichtsakten, auf Ratsprotokolle und Judenschafts-Akten, die im zweiten Teil des Werkes thematisch erschlossen werden.

Judenfeindliche Ressentiments und Vorurteile sind kein Randgruppenphanomen. In den letzten Jahren ist die Hemmschwelle, antisemitische Inhalte offentlich zu auern, auch in der Mitte der Gesellschaft gesunken. Israel dient dabei haufig als Projektionsflache der Judenfeindschaft. Im offentlichen und medialen Diskurs trifft insbesondere der Verbal-Antisemitismus immer starker auf ein hohes Ma an Akzeptanz bzw. Gleichgultigkeit. Wahrend der Antisemitismus extremistischer Gruppen sanktioniert wird, stoen auf Israel bezogene antisemitische Manifestationsformen in der Zivilgesellschaft kaum auf...

Freed from their ghettos, Jews ushered in a second renaissance. Within a century Marx, Freud, and Einstein created revolutions in politics, human science, and physics that continue to shape our world. Proust, Schoenberg, Mahler, and Kafka redefined artistic expression.

Emancipation reformed the practice of Judaism, encouraged some to imagine a modern nation of their own, and...

Prophets of the Past is the first book to examine in depth how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. Michael Brenner reveals that perhaps no other national or religious group has used their shared history for so many different ideological and political purposes as the Jews. He deftly traces the master narratives of Jewish history from the beginnings of the scholarly study of Jews and Judaism in nineteenth-century Germany; to eastern European approaches by Simon Dubnow, the interwar school of Polish-Jewish historians, and the short-lived efforts of...

With only a small remnant of Jews still living in the Maghrib at the beginning of the 21st century, the vast majority of today's inhabitants of North Africa have never met a Jew. Yet as this volume reveals, Jews were an integral part of the North African landscape from antiquity. Scholars from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Israel, and the United States shed new light on Jewish life and Muslim-Jewish relations in North Africa through the lenses of history, anthropology, language, and literature. The history and life stories told in this book illuminate the close cultural affinities and...

Although overshadowed in historical memory by the Holocaust, the anti-Jewish pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were at the time unrivaled episodes of ethnic violence. Incorporating newly available primary sources, this collection of groundbreaking essays by researchers from Europe, the United States, and Israel investigates the phenomenon of anti-Jewish violence, the local and transnational responses to pogroms, and instances where violence was averted. Focusing on the period from World War I through Russia's early revolutionary years, the studies include Poland, Ukraine,...

Bar-Kochva argues that the author of this treatise belonged to the moderate conservative Jews of Alexandria, whose practices were contrary to the contemporary trends of Hellenistic Judaism. They rejected the application of Greek philosophy...