epub |eng | 2010-02-17 | Author:Muller, Jerry Z.; Muller, Jerry Z. Z.; [Muller, Jerry Z.]

Aborted Revolutions in Germany In central Europe, and especially in Germany, the story differed somewhat.10 By 1918, most German Jews had already moved into the middle and even upper classes, ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-17 | Author:Derek Penslar

4 Reaching for the Stars BETWEEN 1898 AND 1901, Herzl’s Zionist career was at its zenith. The Zionist Congresses, which continued to meet regularly, were only the tip of the ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Steven R Weisman [Weisman, Steven R]

SERMONS IN CONFLICT: RABBI RAPHALL “MUST KNOW” The interregnum following Lincoln’s election in November 1860 heightened fears of war throughout the soon-to-be disunited States. President James Buchanan, hapless in the ...

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VITAL I expected to discover victims in the Levy family papers, as no Jewish family in Salonica eluded the Holocaust. What I did not expect to unearth was the tormenting ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Ilan Stavans

When the first pains impinged on her consciousness, Sylvia opened her eyes and looked around in surprise, as if she had no idea what could be causing them. It was ...

epub |eng | 1999-08-14 | Author:Leonora Leet [Leet, Leonora]

The Hexagram of Creation: Recovering the Esoteric Keys to Genesis The key to the peculiar chronological order of creation is so remarkably simple that it is a wonder it has ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-03 | Author:Ariana Neumann

Lotar and Hans must have felt a profound sadness at reading Otto’s first letter from the camp, one that echoed across the years when my father’s sobbing rocked the fence ...

epub |eng | 2017-12-12 | Author:Shari Rabin

“Strangers among Brothers” In 1844 Isaac Leeser offered his own theory of Jewish community: [Our] souls are linked together by the ties of consanguinity in faith, by the union of ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Barnett, Michael N.; [Barnett, Michael N.;]

Figure 5.3. Global Distribution of Jews by Illiberal and Liberal Countries In addition to no longer having the same need for human rights, American Jews could hardly be despondent because ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Brenner, Michael; Kronenberg, Kenneth; [Brenner, Michael; Kronenberg, Kenneth;]

“JEWS OUT” In Cologne during the night of December 24, 1959, someone desecrated a memorial to the victims of National Socialism and then the façade of the Roonstrasse synagogue.28 The ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Waxman, Dov; [Waxman, Dov;]

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epub |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Susie Linfield [Linfield, Susie]

Maxime Rodinson, Isaac Deutscher, and Albert Memmi belonged to roughly the same generation and shared many traits. Each emerged from poverty on the basis of outstanding intellectual abilities; each was ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:David Biale [Biale, David]

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epub, pdf |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:Paul Hanebrink

Czechoslovakia was not an obvious location for an antisemitic show trial. Unlike its Hungarian, Romanian, and Polish counterparts, the Czechoslovak Communist Party emerged from the war with genuine popular support. ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-22 | Author:Dan Stone

Chapter 5 The wide world of camps A percentage of the continent’s population had become quite accustomed to the thought that they were outcasts. They could be divided into two ...