Jewish category: 3083 books
by Suresh Shenoy
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
For the last two thousand years, the Jewish nation, true and loyal to its ancient heritage, has condemned Flavius Josephus as a traitor to the Jews and a lackey of the Flavian Romans. My research into the Jewish War by Josephus shows that the longheld perception as a traitor is quite mistaken.Josephus...
Jewish Spain
A Mediterranean Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
What is meant by "Jewish Spain"? The term itself encompasses a series of historical contradictions. No single part of Spain has ever been entirely Jewish. Yet discourses about Jews informed debates on Spanish identity formation long after their 1492 expulsion. The Mediterranean world witnessed...
Mothers and Children
Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This book presents a synthetic history of the family--the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities--in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian...
Saving One's Own
Jewish Rescuers during the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In this remarkable, historically significant book, Mordecai Paldiel recounts in vivid detail the many ways in which, at great risk to their own lives, Jews rescued other Jews during the Holocaust. In so doing he puts to rest the widely held belief that all Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe wore blinders...
The New Jewish Diaspora
Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration...
Lingering Bilingualism
Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
At the beginning of the twentieth century, ambitious young writers flocked from
Jewish towns and villages to cultural centers like Warsaw, Odessa, and Vilna
to seek their fortunes. These writers, typically proficient in both Hebrew and
Yiddish, gathered in literary salons and cafés to read, declaim,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn:
How the individual...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work has focused on what happened to Europe’s Jewish communities after the war ended. And unlike many other European nations in which the majority of the Jewish population perished, France had a significant post‑war Jewish community...
The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars
Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Calendars map time, shaping and delineating our experience of it. While the challenges to tracking Jewish conceptions of time during the Holocaust were substantial, Alan Rosen reveals that many took great risks to mark time within that vast upheaval. Rosen inventories and organizes Jewish calendars...
Predicting the Holocaust
Jewish Organizations Report from Geneva on the Emergence of the “Final Solution,” 1939–1942
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Historians long have analyzed the emergence of the “final solution of the Jewish question” primarily on the basis of German documentation, devoting much less attention to wartime Jewish perceptions of the growing threat. Jürgen Matthäus fills this critical gap by showcasing the highly insightful...
Why Should Jews Survive?
Looking Past the Holocaust toward a Jewish Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1996
In the fifty years since the Holocaust, the Jewish People have felt one overriding concern: survival. The ghosts of the murdered six million, along with the living generation of survivors, have called out the unifying chant, "never again." In 1948, this concern found a second focus in the state of...
Jewish New York
The Remarkable Story of a City and a People
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city
Based on the acclaimed multi-volume series, City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, Jewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups. Spanning...
Outwitting History
The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2005
This true story of a quest to save Jewish literature is “a detective story, a profound history lesson, and a poignant evocation of a bygone world” (The Boston Globe).
In 1980 an entire body of Jewish literature—the physical remnant of Yiddish culture—was on the verge of extinction....
by Theodor Herzl
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
"It depends on the Jews themselves whether this political pamphlet remains for the present a political romance. If the present generation is too dull to understand it rightly, a future, finer and better generation will arise to understand it. The Jews who wish for a State shall have it, and they will...