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Offering a view of Jewish society and culture, the essays in this volume shed light on a little-known chapter of Jewish history. Written by scholars from Israel, Turkey, Europe and the United States, it presents a broad historical canvas that brings together different perspectives and viewpoints.

During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few wealthy, cultivated Jewish women to discuss the events of the day, creating both a new cultural institution and an example of social mixing unprecedented in the German past.

A biography of Judah L. Magnes, an American Reform rabbi, Jewish community leader, and active pacifist during World War I who helped found and served as first chancellor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He brought American ideals to Palestine, and h

Rather than having spent the last 50 years coming to terms with the magnitude of evil of the Holocaust, this book is about a country that, according to the author, has largely ignored its participation and attempted to minimize its national memory of the event.

Under the legal and administrative system of Nazi Germany, people categorized as Fremdlkische ('foreign people') were subject to special laws that restricted their rights. This book traces the evolution of these laws from the beginnings of the Third Reich through the administration of annexed and occupied eastern territories during the war.

A dialogue devoted to remembering genocide s past and preventing its future

During his more than fifty-year writing career, American Jewish philosopher Horace Kallen incorporated a deep focus on science into his pragmatic philosophy of life. In this intellectual biography, Kaufman explores Kallen's life and illumines how American scientific culture inspired not only Kallen's thought but that of an entire generation.

Traces the prewar and wartime experiences of young adult Jews raised under distinct political and social systems. Each cohort harnessed the knowledge and skills attained during their formative years to seek survival during the Holocaust through narrow windows of chance.

In June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee of their exodus from this North African land in 1967, which began with a mass migration to Israel in 1948-49. Jewish Libya collects the work of scholars who explore the community's history, its literature and dialect, topography and cuisine, and the difficult negotiation of trauma and memory.

Offers a powerful and deeply affecting examination of the complex memories of Jewish survivors returning to their homes in Poland after the Holocaust. "What! Still Alive?!," Rice investigates the transformation of survivors' memories from the first account after their initial return to Poland and later accounts, recorded at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

To understand how Albert Einstein's pacifist and internationalist thought matured from a youthful inclination to pragmatic initiatives and savvy insights, Holmes gives readers access to Einstein in his own words. Through his private writings, she shows how Einstein's thoughts in response to the war evolved from horrified disbelief, to ironic alienation, to a kind of bleak endurance.

This authoritative four-volume history of the Jewish movement in the Soviet Union is now available in a condensed and edited volume that makes this compelling insider's account of Soviet Jewish activism after Stalin available to a wider audience. Through dozens of interviews, Kosharovsky provides a vivid and intimate view of the Jewish movement and a detailed account of persecution.

A harrowing tale of destruction and loss amid the Holocaust ghetto and concentration camps of Holocaust Poland, it is also a story of the goodness that still exists in a dark world, of survival and renewal.

This text focuses on the role of the Roosevelt administration and American reaction to the Holocaust in the domestic environment of the Depression to the international scene. The constraints of the American political system in the 1930s and 1940s is also included here.

May 1948: a dramatically reborn Israel put out the call for Jews to return to their new homeland. Between 1948 and 1951, over one million Jews from disparate nations across the world converge upon Israel, doubling its population and creating a unique, exhilarating socio-cultural quilt. But ramifications upon Israeli society and nationhood would be profound and long lasting.

This work covers New York City politics and culture in the 1950s and 1960s and the inner life of one of the city's largest ethnic/religious groups. It explores the decline of secular Jewish ethnic culture, the growth of Jewish religious factions, and the rise of a more assertive ethnocentrism.

The topics of Edward Shapiro's book span the gamut of the American Jewish experience: from the politics of American Jews, the nature of American Jewish identity, relations between Jews and blacks, and Jews and American capitalism.

Set in the first decade of modern Israel's existence, this volume offers an insightful look at the changing relationship of American Jews and the reborn Jewish nation/state.

This text documents a virtually unknown chapter in the history of the refusal of Jews throughout the ages to surrender. The author employs wide-ranging scholarship to the Holocaust and the memories associated with it, in affirmation of both continuities and violent endings.

Tells the story of six young men and the organizations they founded between 1939 and 1948 that would set the stage for the militant Zionist activism. This book provides the story of the role the Bergson group played in raising American public consciousness of Jewish and Zionist concerns.

Offers an overview of the Sephardic presence in North and South America through eleven essays discussing culture, history, literature, language, religion and music.

Offers a fresh look at the Russian/Soviet Jewish emigration phenomenon. Although the author credits Israel with initiating the struggle for Soviet Jewry and fostering it within American Jewry, he maintains that it was the actions of a secure and confident American Jewry that finally delivered the Jews from the Soviet Union.