French and Italian post-war cinema could be interpreted as relatively ambivalent to the Holocaust, and Lichtner (Victoria U., Wellington) examines several films with varying attitudes toward Shoah to
Dating back to early antiquity one of the central roles of rabbinic leadership has been the ability to analyse the key issues of the day and provide an appropriate response, drawing on the depth and b
Rabbi Jacobs, with sixty years' experience of pulpit work to his credit, provides a number of homilies for each weekly portion of the modern sermon and for the chapters of Ethics of the Fathers. The t
Thanks to the might of Israel, even Diaspora Jews can hold their heads up high. So remarks Tomer in Amos Oz’s 1966 novel Elsewhere, Perhaps. This quotation speaks to the profound impact which Zi
Ernest Levy, the youngest of eight, was born into a strong Orthodox family and achieved his Bar Mitzvah as Nazism reached into Czechoslovakia and expelled Jews of Hungarian origin back across the bord
Cartoons uniting visual representation with cultural associations, can cause devastation. One picture may save a thousand words but we will never know how many hundreds of thousands of lives were not
Can we have an objective history of a modernist event such as the Holocaust? How much 'historical distance' does, can, or should a historian have? Since Hayden White's Metahistory (1973) we have becom
Cohen recounts the campaign by British Member of Parliament Rathbone (1872-1946) on behalf of Europe's Jewish refugees, and her commitment to the refugee question during the Nazi era--an effort that s
Today Raoul Wallenberg is a symbol of the ultimate Righteous Gentile, a cross between the Scarlet Pimpernel and Elijah, who was martyred for his actions. In the minds of those he saved, he was a genui
How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak’s works translated into English. It contains his most important pedagogical writings, journal a
How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak’s works translated into English. Volume 1 comprises three pedagogical works, the first being How to
In a feminine approach to Holocaust studies, Dublon-Knebel (German history, Tel Aviv U., Israel) presents the product of an Israeli-German team of female historians and sociologists on Jewish inmates
Because progressive Jewish organizations including the Anti-Defamation League and American Jewish Congress supported workers' and civil rights in the early Cold War years, and the Jewish Communist Par
Communist opposition to Zionism has a long history which pre-dates both the Russian Revolution and the Balfour Declaration of November 1917. Yet the Communist and Marxist critique of Zionism has alway
The story of Ostrava and its Jews encapsulates in a small space (85 square miles) and a short time (ca 150 years) a miniaturised history of Central Europe. It covers industrialisation and massive econ
This meticulously researched new book from author Arye Oded analyzes Israel's complex relationship with African countries from the time period of the 1950s to the present day. There are three broad ph
Heggy, a writer and international petroleum strategist, continues his focus on the need for reforms in Egypt and the Middle East so they can rejoin the progress toward modern civilization. He points o
What is a philanthropist? Why do they do what they do? What impact do they have? What makes them tick? What in their personal biographies, their communities, their backgrounds, and their moment in tim
How did United States-Iraq relations deteriorate into a double-feature war that destroyed Iraq's Ba'th regime, a secular sovereign government, and dragged the United States into an unforeseen chaos th
This book is the first comprehensive and impartial account of the ways in which people in the state of Israel grappled in the 1950s with the still fresh memory of the Holocaust and with finding a way
From the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to the Suez Crisis of 1956 Britain's strategic interests in Palestine and in the Middle East underwent radical changes. Professor Michael J. Cohen, a leading autho
On a spring day in 1277, the prominent Jewish businesswoman Licoricia of Winchester was found by her daughter, murdered, stabbed to death in her own house. Alongside Licoricia's body was that of her
Historian and political activist Forman (women's studies, U. of Toronto) was herself a child refugee in Switzerland during World War II. She was five to nine years old in 1942-46, so her memories, lik
Rabinovich (Middle Eastern history, Tel Aviv U., Israel) presents 21 essays he has penned in previous years on the topic of Syria. The essays revolve around three main themes: the evolution of the not
For many years, Israeli culture recoiled from dealing with the Holocaust from a humorous or satirical perspective. The perception was that a humorous approach might threaten the sanctity of its memory
Wartime Kindertranports were not the only case in which England permitted Jewish immigration to escape Nazi persecution. This book is presented as the first historical study of Jewish refugees from Au
Originally published in Hebrew in 1986 by Magnes Press, this edition contains additional material based on newly released Soviet archival sources. Govrin (retired diplomat; researcher, Hebrew U. of Je
Although Jews were readmitted to England in 1661, nearly 200 years later there was an election for Chief Rabbi where the short list of candidates was all German. Today the community takes its British
European and North American scholars in a wide range of social sciences and humanities gathered in Boston in May 2001 in response to a law suit over one writer calling another a Holocaust denier that
What was the concept of 'A National Home for the Jewish People', where did it come from and how was it defined? Barzilay-Yegar traces the shifting meanings of the phrase from its first coining in the
