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Published October 2024 The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel
Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era
Borovaya, O.
Based on newly discovered Ottoman and Jewish sources and using a legal lens on Levantine practices, The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel argues that the acquittal of Rhodian Jews following a ritual murder charge is only adequately understood in the context of the Tanzimat and the Sublime Porte’s foreign relations, and in the context of a shared Ottoman and Jewish history.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies
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Published April 2008
Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag
Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity
Feldman, J.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Jewish Studies Memory Studies Travel and Tourism
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Published May 2017
The Absent Jews
Kurt Forstreuter and the Historiography of Medieval Prussia
Hess, C.
For nearly a century, it has been a commonplace of Central European history that there were no Jews in medieval Prussia. This groundbreaking historical investigation demonstrates the very weak foundations upon which that assumption rests, tracing it to the ideologically compromised work of a single Nazi-era historian who badly mishandled evidence.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: Medieval/Early Modern
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Published December 2023
After Liberation
Toward a Sociology of the Shoah
Selected EssaysAdler, H. G.
This collection gathers together, for the first time in English, some of H.G. Adler’s most important scholarly essays on the Shoah and connected themes. Spanning his thought across three decades they focus on the fate of the ‘coerced’ human being and reflect on freedom, enslavement, terror, dread, charisma, loneliness, and ideology.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: World War II
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Published October 2013
Against the Grain
Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times
Mendelsohn, E., Hoffman, S., & Cohen, R. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published December 1998
Aging and the Aged in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published November 2019
The Anatomy of the Holocaust
Selected Works from a Life of Scholarship
Hilberg, R.
Pehle, W. H. & Schlott, R. (eds)Historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research, personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust collects some of Hilberg’s most essential and groundbreaking writings—many of them published in obscure journals or otherwise inaccessible to nonspecialists—in a single volume.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published August 2020
Antisemitism in Galicia
Agitation, Politics, and Violence against Jews in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Buchen, T.
Antisemitism in Galicia investigates the interaction of agitation, violence, and politics against Jews on the periphery of the Danube monarchy. In its comprehensive analysis of the functions and limitations of propaganda, rumors, and mass media, it shows just how significant antisemitism was to the politics of coexistence among Christians and Jews on the eve of the Great War.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies
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Published April 2015
Anxious Histories
Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Silverstein, J.
Over the last 70 years, memories and narratives of the Holocaust have played a significant role in constructing Jewish communities. This book explores one field where these narratives are disseminated: Holocaust pedagogy in Jewish schools in Melbourne and New York.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published January 2002
'Aryanisation' in Hamburg
The Economic Exclusion of Jews and the Confiscation of their Property in Nazi Germany
Bajohr, F.
Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies
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Published November 2005
Between Two Worlds
The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933
Prawer, S. S.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Jewish Studies
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Published November 2018
Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion
Jewish Experiences of the First World War in Central Europe
Crouthamel, J., Geheran, M., Grady, T., & Köhne, J. B. (eds)
Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion recaptures the multifariousness of Central European Jewish life through the experiences of both soldiers and civilians during World War I. This collection explores rare sources and employs novel interdisciplinary methods to illuminate four interconnected themes: minorities and the meaning of military service, Jewish-Gentile relations, the cultural legacy of the war, and memory politics.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2020
Can Academics Change the World?
An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus
Shokeid, M.
Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian intifada/uprising (1987-1993).
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Jewish Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies
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Published August 2018
Carnage and Care on the Eastern Front
The War Diaries of Bernhard Bardach, 1914-1918
Bardach, B.
Care and Carnage on the Eastern Front documents the day-to-day life of a doctor serving on the Eastern Front between 1914-1918. Bardach’s meticulous records offer a personal glimpse into the critical first weeks of fighting as well as the ultimate collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Army.
Subjects: History: World War I Jewish Studies
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Published April 2017
Children in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive
Kangisser Cohen, S., Fogelman, E., & Ofer, D. (eds)
The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct challenges for researchers, requiring them to often follow simultaneous, disparate narratives. This interdisciplinary volume brings together historians, psychologists, and other scholars to explore child survivors’ accounts, with a central focus on the Kestenberg Holocaust Child Survivor Archive’s over 1,500 testimonies.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published March 2007
Continental Britons
German-Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany
Berghahn, M.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published 1994
Conversion to Judaism in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published June 2024
Courage and Compassion
A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece
Molho, T.
Tony Molho tells a dramatic story of survival under the most adverse conditions during the Holocaust. A historian himself now telling his own story, Molho writes an autobiographical text that speaks of a Jewish childhood in Greece during World War II and the Axis Occupation.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History
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Published October 1999
Crime and Punishment in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published January 2007
Crime, Jews and News
Vienna 1890-1914
Vyleta, D.M.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies
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Published May 2012
Czechs, Germans, Jews?
National Identity and the Jews of Bohemia
Capkova, K.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History (General)
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Published 1995
Death and Euthanasia in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published June 2021
Do Not Forget Me
Three Jewish Mothers Write to Their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto
Saltiel, L. (ed)
Following the Axis invasion of Greece, the Nazis began persecuting the country’s Jews as they had across occupied Europe, beginning with small indignities and culminating in mass imprisonment and deportations. Among the many Jews confined to the Thessaloniki ghetto during this period were Sarina Saltiel, Mathilde Barouh, and Neama Cazes—three women bound for Auschwitz who spent the weeks before their deportation writing to their sons.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History
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Published December 2011
Dynamic Belonging
Contemporary Jewish Collective Identities
Goldberg, H. E., Cohen, S. M., & Kopelowitz, E. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Sociology
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Published December 2010
The Economy in Jewish History
New Perspectives on the Interrelationship between Ethnicity and Economic Life
Reuveni, G. & Wobick-Segev, S. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Jewish Studies
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Published May 2024
Enchanted by Cinema
Wilhelm Thiele between Vienna, Berlin, and Hollywood
Horak, J.-C. & Seyfert, A.-B. (eds)
Enchanted by Cinema explores the films of the European music film pioneer William Thiele, as well as his career as an exile in Hollywood. Examining a wide range of the director’s filmography, the contributors address a variety of political, aesthetic and cross-cultural issues.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies
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Published September 2019
Entangled Entertainers
Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Hödl, K.
Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was shaped jointly by Jews and non-Jews alike, though their relationship was not immune to bouts of anti-Semitism. The case studies in this book provide new findings in understanding what it meant to be Jewish among artists, performers and impresarios at the turn of the twentieth century.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2003
The Environment in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Environmental Studies (General)
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Published April 2007
Escape From Hell
The True Story of the Auschwitz Protocol
Wetzler, A.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Literary Studies
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Published August 2019
Escapees
The History of Jews Who Fled Nazi Deportation Trains in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands
von Fransecky, T.
Hundreds of Jewish men, women and children escaped from deportation trains bound for extermination camps by making a dangerous leap from the moving train. Drawing from extensive interviews and new sources, Tanja Fransecky sheds light on a hitherto neglected chapter of Jewish resistance to the National Socialist extermination policy.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies Mobility Studies
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Published September 2013
A Fatal Balancing Act
The Dilemma of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939-1945
Meyer, B.
“Beate Meyer has chosen to research a serious subject that is by any standard difficult and painful to confront in an honest way… The book is a careful, detailed study of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany.” · Canadian Journal of History
“[The author] keeps the focus on the individual without ever losing sight of the overall crime. This book…can be considered as an essential contribution to the history of the extermination of the German Jews.” · Bulletin of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt
“Beate Meyer succeeds in producing a nearly complete picture of procedures and decisions within the organization. In addition she describes openly but not without empathy the diverse, often narrow perspectives and possibilities of responsible individuals in their respective situation.” · Sehepunkte
Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published November 2009
The 'Final Solution' in Riga
Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944
Angrick, A., Klein, P. & Brandon R.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published October 1994
The Gate to Perfection
The Idea of Peace in Jewish Thought
Homolka, W. & Friedlander, A.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Gendarmes, Bureaucrats, and Jews
A Documentary History of the Destruction of Hungary’s Jews, Spring-Summer 1944
Schulmann, J. F., Rich, D. A., & Molnár, J. (eds)
An illuminating chronicle of the concentration, ghettoization, and deportation of Hungarian Jews in 1944-1945, Gendarmes, Bureaucrats, and Jews presents, for the first time in English, the key primary sources from the period, documenting how this genocidal program was facilitated by both the Nazi regime and the Hungarian state.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II
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Published February 2024
Gender History of German Jews
A Short Introduction
Schüler-Springorum, S.
Gender History of German Jews is a concise overview of German-Jewish gender agency and change against the “dawn of modernity” across both men and women who dealt with histories of status change, discrimination, persecution, and deportation.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2000
Gender Issues in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published November 2019
German Railroads, Jewish Souls
The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy, and the Final Solution
Browning, C. R., Hayes, P. & Hilberg, R.
This book centers around preeminent Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg’s landmark study of Nazi railways and their roles within the Jewish genocide. Supplemented with additional writings from Hilberg, primary source materials, and a comprehensive historical survey from leading scholars Christopher Browning and Peter Hayes, this is a rich and accessible introduction to a topic in Holocaust history that remains understudied even today.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History Transport Studies
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Published October 2022
German–Jewish Studies
Next Generations
Wallach, K. & Elyada. A. (eds)
Applying current and evolving interdisciplinary scholarship to bring an original and comprehensive assessment of why German-Jewish studies as a field is vital to further our understanding of antisemitism, racism, and coloniality, German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations grounds the field’s necessity to the future of scholarship in the twenty-first century.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies
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Published November 2015
The Germans and the Holocaust
Popular Responses to the Persecution and Murder of the Jews
Schrafstetter, S. & Steinweis, A. E. (eds)
For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. This compact volume brings together six historical investigations into the subject from leading scholars, employing newly accessible and previously underexploited evidence.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published March 2006
Germans No More
Accounts of Jewish Everyday Life, 1933-1938
Limberg, M. & Rübsaat, H. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies
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Published October 2019
Germany On Their Minds
German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Their Relationships with Germany, 1938–1988
Schenderlein, A. C.
Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, the United States granted asylum to approximately ninety thousand German Jews fleeing the horrors of the Third Reich. Author Anne C. Schenderlein gives a fascinating account of these entangled histories on both sides of the Atlantic and demonstrates the remarkable extent to which German Jewish refugees helped shape the course of West German democratization.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2005
Gray Zones
Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Petropolous, J. & Roth, J. (eds)
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published November 1998
The Great Immigration
Russian Jews in Israel
Siegel, D.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Jewish Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published September 2019
The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia
Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses
Gruner, W.
After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Czech and German authorities adopted radicalized anti-Jewish policies, including depriving Jews of their property, hauling them into forced labor, and deporting them to concentration camps. In this pioneering study, Wolf Gruner demonstrates that these proceedings were not only controlled by Berlin, but also driven forward by the Czech government and local authorities.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published December 2011
Holocaust Survivors
Resettlement, Memories, Identities
Ofer, D., Ouzan, F. S., & Baumel-Schwartz, J. D. (eds)
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies Memory Studies
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Published August 2001
Ignaz Maybaum
A Reader
Lange, N. de (ed)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published October 2000
Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah
Reoccupying the Territories of Silence
Lentin, R.
Subjects: Genocide History Gender Studies and Sexuality Jewish Studies
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Published November 1997
Israel and the Diaspora in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published March 2012
Israeli Identities
Jews and Arabs Facing the Self and the Other
Auron, Y.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Sociology
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Published January 2015
Jesus Reclaimed
Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene
Homolka, W.
After centuries of persecution, oppression, forced migrations, and exclusion in the name of Christ, the development of a Jewish “Quest for the Historical Jesus” might seem unexpected. This book gives an overview and analysis of the various Jewish perspectives on the Nazarene throughout the centuries.
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Published November 1995
Jewish Explorations of Sexuality
Magonet, J. (ed)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published September 2014
Jewish Histories of the Holocaust
New Transnational Approaches
Goda, N. J. W. (ed)
For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experiences of victims and survivors, as well as the documents they left behind. This volume contains new research from internationally established scholars. It provides an introduction to and overview of Jewish narratives of the Holocaust.
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Published October 1995
Jewish Identity in Modern Times
Leo Baeck and German Protestantism
Homolka, W.
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Jewish Inclusion in Ethnic Studies Education
Issues, Obstacles, and Excuses
Rubin, D. I.
A clarifying re-examination of the issues affecting ethnic studies education in K-12 schools, this book explores how the program’s disregard for the lives of American Jews correlates with the increase in antisemitism with the U.S. Consequently, it advances a renewed framework for thinking about the Jewish experience in contemporary American education.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Educational Studies Sociology
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Published July 2010
Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
Dilemmas and Responses
Nicosia, F. & Scrase, D. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History
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Published May 1998
Jewish Religious Law
A Progressive Perspective
Rayner, J. D.
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published March 2021
Jewish Self-Hate
Lessing, T.
This new edition makes Theodor Lessing’s seminal work Der Jüdische Selbsthaß accessible to English readers for the first time, supplemented with explanatory footnotes by translator Peter Appelbaum and illustrative essays by historian Sander L. Gilman and German scholar Paul Reitter.
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Published March 1998
A Jewish Understanding of the World
Rayner, J. D.
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Published March 2001
The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800
Bernardini, P. & Fiering, N. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published February 2003
The Journalism of Milena Jesenská
A Critical Voice in Interwar Central Europe
Hayes, K. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Literary Studies Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2013
Judging 'Privileged' Jews
Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'
Brown, A.
Subjects: Genocide History History (General) Jewish Studies
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Published October 2013
The Legacy of Liberal Judaism
Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt's Hidden Conversation
Curthoys, N.
“This is an important fresh look at modern intellectual history at the interface of philosophy and Jewish thought. It has a persuasive line of argument and illuminating discussions of the subject. It adds a crucial strand to the weave of modern intellectual history and argues that, unless close attention is paid to the dimension of Jewish thought in this project, this history remains misunderstood.” · Willi Goetschel, University of Toronto
Subjects: Jewish Studies History (General)
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Published June 2019
Making Bodies Kosher
The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England
Kasstan, B.
Analyses the ways in which Haredi Jews negotiate healthcare services using theoretical perspectives in political philosophy. This is the first archival and ethnographic study of Haredi Jews in the UK, and will allow readers to understand how reproductive care issues affect this growing minority population.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Jewish Studies Anthropology of Religion
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Published June 2012
Marginal At the Center
The Life Story of a Public Sociologist
Kimmerling, B.
Subjects: Sociology Jewish Studies
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Published November 1999
Marriage and Its Obstacles in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published December 2015
Matters of Testimony
Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
Chare, N. & Williams, D.
In 1944, a number of Sonderkommando—“special squads” of Jewish prisoners who kept the gas chambers running smoothly—buried on the grounds of Auschwitz a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts. This study reconstructs their history and textual content, revealing literary works that raise troubling questions about the nature of testimony.
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II Jewish Studies
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Published December 2016
Microhistories of the Holocaust
Zalc, C. & Bruttmann, T. (eds)
Increasingly, recent historical scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood or family. This volume brings together scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II Jewish Studies
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Published June 2008
A Narrow Bridge to Life
Jewish Forced Labor and Survival in the Gross-Rosen Camp System, 1940-1945
Gutterman, B
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II
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Published January 2000
National Socialist Extermination Policies
Contemporary German Perspectives and Controversies
Herbert, U. (ed)
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published January 2018
Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Middle East
Arab and Turkish Responses
Nicosia, F. R. & Ergene, B. A. (eds)
How was Nazism received in the Middle East? By focusing on Arab and Turkish reactions to Nazi anti-Semitism and persecution of the Jews in Germany and Europe, this collection offers a fresh perspective on institutional and popular attitudes towards Jewish communities throughout the Middle East during the 1930s and 1940s.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published September 2019
Nearly the New World
The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945
Newman, J.
In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as the Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge. Nearly the New World tells the remarkable story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the West Indies from the 1930s through the end of World War II
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published March 2021
On the Death of Jews
Photographs and History
Fresco, N.
In this trenchant meditation on photographs from an atrocity in Latvia during the Holocaust, Nadine Fresco argues for the vital importance of photographs—and nontraditional sources more broadly—for understanding the Holocaust. She confronts charged questions around guilt and testimony while teasing out the subtle implications of camera angles, photo sequencing, and body language, helping us to see anew the perspectives of victims, perpetrators, and others who witnessed the brutality of the Holocaust.
Subjects: Genocide History Media Studies Jewish Studies
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Published October 2013
Points of Passage
Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain 1880-1914
Brinkmann, T. (ed)
Subjects: Jewish Studies History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published January 2024
Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945
New Perspectives
Huener, J. & Löw, A. (eds)
Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945 explores questions of Polish-Jewish life that are rarely discussed and new methodological directions to advance debates on the complicity of Polish citizens during the mass murder of Jews under the nation’s Nazi occupation.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published April 2025
Political and Legal History of German Jews
A Short Introduction
Jensen, U.
An insightful reassessment of the political and legal history of German Jews, this book innovatively resituates German Jews as active and engaged political agents, who were invested in engaging with, resisting, and shaping policy, from the early modern period to the present day.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2018
Probing the Limits of Categorization
The Bystander in Holocaust History
Morina, C. & Thijs, K. (eds)
This volume discusses a number of case studies addressing the history of bystanding during and after the Nazi era. Combining historiographical, conceptual and empirical contributions, Probing the Limits of Categorization explores the roles and experiences of individuals caught up in the dynamics of state-sponsored genocidal violence.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2024
Quotas
The “Jewish Question” and Higher Education in Central Europe, 1880-1945
Miller, M. L. & Szapor, J. (eds)
Quotas focuses on the ideologies and practices of quota regimes in Central and Eastern Europe from the late nineteenth century throughout the 20th century, covering their origins development, and impact particularly on limiting access to higher education.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published January 1993
Rabbinic - Lay Relations in Jewish Law
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published May 2013
Race, Color, Identity
Rethinking Discourses about 'Jews' in the Twenty-First Century
Sicher, E. (ed)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published October 2024
Rag Fair
A Different Migration History of London’s East End, 1780-1850
Münch, O.
Drawing on approaches across migration history, economic history, economic anthropology, and the sociology of movements, Rag Fair uncovers the social mechanisms behind the world-famous market’s role as an intercultural contact zone where Jewish and Irish migrants mingled, entered client relationships, and forged political alliances.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies Jewish Studies
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Published August 2002
Re-examining Progressive Halakhah
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published February 2004
Re-presenting the Shoah for the 21st Century
Lentin, R. (ed)
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies Memory Studies
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Published August 2008
Rebirth of a Culture
Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria today
Herzog, H. H., Herzog, T. & Lapp, B. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published December 2020
Recognizing the Past in the Present
New Studies on Medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust
Hildebrandt, S., Offer, M., & Grodin, M. A. (eds)
This interdisciplinary collection assembles a chain of documentation on the critical role of medicine in realizing the policies of Hitler’s regime. It traces the historical legacies of National Socialist medicine from their roots in the racial theories of the 1920s, through their manifestation in the Nazi period, and on to legacies and continuities from the postwar years to the present.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published October 2001
Remembering a Vanished World
A Jewish Childhood in Interwar Poland
Hamerow, T.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies
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Published April 2020
Resettlers and Survivors
Bukovina and the Politics of Belonging in West Germany and Israel, 1945–1989
Fisher, G.
Resettlers and Survivors focuses on two groups of Bukovinians—ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews—who navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in 1945. This study gives a nuanced account of how they dealt with the difficult legacies of World War II, while exploring Bukovina’s significance for them as both a geographical location and a “place of memory.”
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies
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Published June 2020
Resisting Persecution
Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust
Pegelow Kaplan, T. & Gruner, W. (eds)
This volume offers the first extensive analysis of entreaties from persecuted Jews in the Nazi era, demonstrating their largely unappreciated value as a historical source and as an attempt to reclaim agency in increasingly desperate political circumstances.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Rethinking Holocaust Justice
Essays across Disciplines
Goda, N. J. W. (ed)
In the past two decades, the subject of post-Holocaust justice has experienced a surge of interest among historians and legal scholars. Rethinking Holocaust Justice offers a multifaceted approach to post-Holocaust justice, bringing together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the complexity of these issues.
Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies
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Published November 2020
Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema
Hales, B. & Weinstein, V. (eds)
The film industry in the Weimar Republic was a major site for German-Jewish experience that provided a sphere for Jewish "outsiders" to shape mainstream culture. The essays in Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema offer new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the significant involvement of Jewish people in Weimar cinema.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Rethinking the Age of Emancipation
Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Family, and Religion in Italy and Germany, 1800–1918
Baumeister, M., Lenhard, P., & Nattermann, R. (eds)
Rethinking the Age of Emancipation aims at a critical reassessment of the development of the two “late” nations, Italy and Germany, from a new and transnational perspective. Essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars examine the discursive relationships among nationalism, war, and emancipation as well as the ambiguous roles of historical protagonists with competing loyalties.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published August 1995
Roads to the Palace
Jewish Texts and Teaching
Rosenak, M.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Educational Studies
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Published May 2007
Robbery and Restitution
The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe
Dean, M., Goschler, C. & Ther, P. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Sacred Speakers
Language and Culture among the ultra-Orthodox in Israel
Baumel, S.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2000
Shedding Light on the Darkness
A Guide to Teaching the Holocaust
Lauckner, N. & Jokiniemi, M.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Social History of German Jews
A Short Introduction
Rürup, M.
Social History of German Jews traces the social history of modern German Jews from the end of the 18th century up to the aftermath of World War II, and focusses on the ascent of German Jews into the middle and upper-middle classes through both adversity and manifold forms of Jewish self-assertion.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published June 2017
Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History
Lässig, S. & Rürup, M. (eds)
This wide-ranging volume revisits both literal and metaphorical spaces in modern German history, working from an expansive concept of “the spatial” to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them, and what the implications have been in different eras and social contexts.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published June 2008
The Strassmanns
Science, Politics and Migration in Turbulent Times (1793-1993)
Strassmann, W. P.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History (General)
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Published September 2019
Submerged on the Surface
The Not-So-Hidden Jews of Nazi Berlin, 1941–1945
Lutjens Jr., R. N.
Between 1941 and 1945, some 6,500 Berlin Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged in Nazi Germany. This book sheds light on the daily life of those who hid and on the city that was both the source of their persecution and the site of their survival.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published December 2001
Symbiosis and Ambivalence
Poles and Jews in a Small Galician Town
Lehmann, R.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Testimonies of Resistance
Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando
Chare, N. & Williams, D. (eds)
As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the murder of their fellow Jews, the Sonderkommando comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. This interdisciplinary collection assembles careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented—both by themselves and by others—during and since the Holocaust.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published February 2024
Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough
Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York
Abt, J.
This volume explores the origins of the Jewish Museum of New York and its evolution from collecting and displaying Jewish ritual objects, to Jewish art, to exhibiting avant-garde art devoid of Jewish content, created by non-Jews. Established within a rabbinic seminary, the museum’s formation and development reflect changes in Jewish society over the twentieth century as it grappled with choices between religion and secularism, particularism and universalism, and ethnic pride and assimilation.
Subjects: Museum Studies Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2006
Turning the Kaleidoscope
Perspectives on European Jewry
Lustig, S. & Leveson, I. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 1997
An Understanding of Judaism
Rayner, J. D.
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Vanished History
The Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture
Sniegon, T.
“This book opens up important issues not dealt with extensively in the historiography so far. Unlike with some other post-Communist countries, and Poland in particular, there hasn't been that much interest in the topic of commemoration and historicisation of the Holocaust in post-Communist Czechoslovakia…The author should be praised for the critical distance with which he approaches the historical cultures in both parts of former Czechoslovakia and its actors.” · Michal Frankl, Jewish Museum in Prague
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II Jewish Studies
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Published January 2022
The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945
Crimes, Perpetrators, Victims
Boeckl-Klamper, E., Mang, T., & Neugebauer, W.
The Vienna Gestapo was the most important instrument of Nazi terror on Austrian soil. Through expert historical analysis of the Vienna Gestapo in the years 1938-1945, this volume provides a comprehensive presentation of not only the victims of persecution but also of the structures, organization and individuals actively involved on the Gestapo side.
Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies
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Published October 2011
Vienna Is Different
Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-Siècle to the Present
Herzog, H. H.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies
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Published December 2017
Visitors to the House of Memory
Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Bishop Kendzia, V.
By accompanying a range of senior high school history students before, during and after their visits to the museum, Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners from across the city experience the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Subjects: Museum Studies Jewish Studies Educational Studies Memory Studies
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Published June 2020
Voices on War and Genocide
Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town
Bartov, O. (ed)
Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov’s acclaimed recent monograph Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together three extensive and previously unknown accounts of residents from the Ukrainian town of Buczacz, covering events during and between both world wars.
Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Women’s Zionism Worldwide, 1897–1948
Katzburg-Yungman, M.
A geographically wide-ranging study of women’s Zionist history, Women’s Zionism Worldwide seeks to provide a reassessment of the activities, aims, and achievements of women-led organizations, highlighting the impact their role had on Zionist ideology and gender relations.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present History: World War II
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The Women's Camp in Moringen
A Memoir of Imprisonment in Germany 1936-1937
Herz, G.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published August 2017
World War I and the Jews
Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America
Rozenblit, M. L. and Karp, J. (eds)
World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world, allowing them to demonstrate patriotism, dispel antisemitic myths, and fight for their rights. This book provides a fascinating survey of the ways in which Jewish communities in Europe, North America, and the Middle East participated in and were changed by the Great War during and after the conflict.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War I
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Published June 2023
Yiddish Transformed
Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860-1914
Cohen, N.
Yiddish Transformed explores Jewish reading practices alongside the rise of Yiddish in Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1914 by delving into publishing policies of Yiddish books and newspapers, popular literary genres of the time, the development of Jewish public libraries, as well as reflections of reading experiences in life stories.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Literary Studies
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