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Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship
To many, an association between Jews and sports seems almost oxymoronic--yet Jews have been prominent in boxing, basketball, and fencing, and some would argue that hurler Sandy Koufax is America's greatest athlete ever. In Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship, Jack Kugelmass shows that sports--significant in constructing nations and in determining their degree of exclusivity--also figures prominently in the Jewish imaginary. This interdisciplinary collection brings together the perspectives of anthropologists and historians to provide both methodological and regional comparative frameworks for exploring the meaning of sports for a minority population.
See You Tonight and Promise to be a Good Boy!
Salo Muller, a Jewish child, spent his time during the Second World war in hiding. 'See You Tonight...' were the last words his mother told him. He stayed in eight different locations in the Netherlands. Both of his parents were killed in Auschwitz. The couple who took Salo in for 18 months where honored with the Yad Vashem medal.
Brilliant Orange
The Netherlands has been one of the world's most distinctive and sophisticated football cultures. From the birth of Total Football in the sixties, through two decades of World Cup near misses to the exiles who remade clubs like AC Milan, Barcelona, Arsenal and Chelsea in their own image, the Dutch have often been dazzlingly original and influential. The elements of their style (exquisite skills, adventurous attacking tactics, a unique blend of individual creativity and teamwork, weird patterns of self-destruction) reflect and embody the country's culture and history. This book lays bare the elegant, fractured soul of the Dutch Masters and the culture that spawned them by exploring and analysing its key ideas, institutions, personalities and history in the context of wider Dutch society.
Luba
Barely twenty years old, Luba imagines a promising future in Kovna, Lithuania (present-day Kaunas). However, the year is 1939 and Luba is Jewish. Along with the whole Jewish community, her life changes inexplicably with the Nazi occupation. From her point of view, her “crime” is that she is Jewish and she will make her voice heard to her captors, knowing her chances of survival are slim. With candid urgency, she recounts the war years, her encounter with the commander of the camp where she is interned, and her miraculous survival against all odds.
Remembering the Holocaust and the Impact on Societies Today
The Holocaust is the most researched and written about genocide in history. Known facts should be beyond dispute. Yet Holocaust memory is often formed and dictated by governments and others with an agenda to fulfil, or by deniers who seek to rewrite the past due to vested interests and avowed prejudices. Legislation can be used to prosecute hate crime and genocide denial, but it has also been created to protect the reputation of nation states and the inhabitants of countries previously occupied and oppressed by the regime of Nazi Germany. The crimes of the Holocaust are, of course, rightly seen mainly as the work of the Nazi regime, but there is a reality that some citizens of subjugated lan...
Last Train to Auschwitz
During World War II, the French National Railways Corporation (SNCF) deported 75,000 people to Nazi death camps. Last Train to Auschwitz delves into the many roles of the French railways during the Holocaust. Poignant stories of survivors mixed with contemporary legal debates illuminate a company's amends for human rights violations.
Living among the Dead
A treasure of individual strength, family love, community solidarity and Jewish History This is the story of one remarkable young woman's unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath. Mania Lichtenstein’s dramatic story of survival is narrated by her granddaughter and her memories are interwoven with beautiful passages of poetry and personal reflection. Holocaust survivor Mania Lichtenstein used writing as a medium to deal with the traumatic effects of the war. Many Jews did not die in concentration camps, but were murdered in their lifelong communities, slaughtered by mass killing units, and then buried in pits. As a young girl, Mania w...
Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina
If you attend a soccer match in Buenos Aires of the local Atlanta Athletic Club, you will likely hear the rival teams chanting anti-Semitic slogans. This is because the neighborhood of Villa Crespo has long been considered a Jewish district, and its soccer team, Club Atlético Atlanta, has served as an avenue of integration into Argentine culture. Through the lens of this neighborhood institution, Raanan Rein offers an absorbing social history of Jews in Latin America. Since the Second World War, there has been a conspicuous Jewish presence among the fans, administrators and presidents of the Atlanta soccer club. For the first immigrant generation, belonging to this club was a way of becomin...
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
'Dag pap, tot morgen!'
Vanaf de zomer van 1942 werden joden bijeengebracht in de Hollandsche Schouwburg aan de Amsterdamse Plantage Middenlaan, om van daaruit gedeporteerd te worden. Omdat de schouwburg erg vol was, werden kinderen tot 14 jaar ondergebracht in een bestaande crèche aan de overkant. Vlak onder de ogen van de Duitsers slaagden verzetsmensen erin om zo'n 500 kinderen administratief en fysiek te laten 'verdwijnen'. Ze werden, met toestemming van hun ouders, de crèche uit gesmokkeld en ondergebracht bij gastgezinnen elders in het land. Dit prachtig geïllustreerde boek, dat verschijnt bij een tentoonstelling in het Verzetsmuseum, bevat vijftien heel verschillende maar stuk voor stuk aangrijpende verhalen van geredde 'kinderen' over hun onderduiktijd en de verwarrende periode vlak na de bevrijding. De inleiding vertelt hoe het er in de crèche aan toeging en belicht de rol van de joodse verzetsmensen.
