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The Holocaust in the Soviet Union
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

The Holocaust in the Soviet Union

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

In this volume, scholars from the United States, Israel and Eastern Europe examine the history of the Holocaust on Soviet territory and its treatment in Soviet politics and literature from 1945 to 1991. Of special interest to researchers will be chapters on some of the major research sources for historical study, including census materials, memorial books, archives and recently released documents.

From a Ruined Garden, Second Expanded Edition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396

From a Ruined Garden, Second Expanded Edition

"An indispensable sourcebook... Emphasis falls on the variegated, often joyful, culture of the Polish Jews, on what existed before the garden was ruined." --Geoffrey Hartmann, The New Republic "From these marvelous selections, one can see an entire culture unfolding." --Curt Leviant, New York Times Book Review "This newly revised version of the classic study... is a pleasure for the eye and the soul One of the seminal studies of the impact of the Shoah on European Jewry, it is even more moving in its new incarnation than in its original version. More than a collection of studies of books of remembrance and mourning, this volume asks how one can mourn for a world lost and still live in the pr...

Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland

Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland serves as an effective guide to some of the most complex and controversial issues of Poland's troubled past. Fourteen original essays by a team of distinguished Polish and American scholars explore the different meanings, forms of expression, content, and social range of antisemitism in modern Poland from the late nineteenth century to the present. The contributors focus on both the variations in antisemitic sentiment and those Poles who opposed such prejudices. Central themes of this significant, balanced, and timely contribution to a contentious and often emotional debate include the deterioration of Polish-Jewish relations in the era of national awakening for both the Poles and the Jews, the meaning of the various forms of violence against the Jews, intellectual movements in opposition to antisemitism, the role of the Catholic Church in promoting antisemitism, and the prospects for the Church to atone for this shameful chapter in its recent history.

Studies in Contemporary Jewry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Bringing together contributions from established scholars as well as promising younger academics, the seventeenth volume of this established series offers a broad-ranging view of why Judaism, a religion whose observance is more honored in the breach in most western Jewish communities, has garnered attention, authority, and controversy in the late twentieth century. The volume considers the ways in which theological writings, sweeping social change, individual or small-group needs, and intra-communal diversity have re-energized Judaism even amidst secular trends in America and Israel.

Who Owns Judaism?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

Who Owns Judaism?

This collection of articles offers a broad ranging view of why Judaism has recently garnered so much attention, intellectual interest, and controversy.

Memorial Books of Eastern European Jewry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

Memorial Books of Eastern European Jewry

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-01-10
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  • Publisher: McFarland

From the Russian civil wars through the Nazi years, the Jews of Eastern Europe were targets of violence during the first half of the twentieth century. During the Holocaust especially, entire communities were wiped out. In response, survivors sometimes compiled memorial books, or Yizker books, in an attempt to preserve historical, biographical, and cultural information about their shtetls. This multipart collection provides a concise history of the memorial books and their cultural contexts; eight analytical essays on or using Yizker books; key reviews, in some cases translated from the Yiddish, from the 1950s and later; and a bibliographic overview of secondary sources and collections.

YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

This book is the first history of YIVO, an important center for Jewish culture and politics in the early twentieth century.

Catalog of the Gerald K. Stone Collection of Judaica
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 524

Catalog of the Gerald K. Stone Collection of Judaica

Gerald K. Stone has collected books about Canadian Jewry since the early 1980s. This volume is a descriptive catalog of his Judaica collection, comprising nearly 6,000 paper or electronic documentary resources in English, French, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Logically organized, indexed, and selectively annotated, the catalog is broad in scope, covering Jewish Canadian history, biography, religion, literature, the Holocaust, antisemitism, Israel and the Middle East, and more. An introduction by Richard Menkis discusses the significance of the Catalog and collecting for the study of the Jewish experience in Canada. An informative bibliographical resource, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Canadian and North American Jewish studies.

Index to Jewish Periodicals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 498

Index to Jewish Periodicals

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

An author and subject index to selected and American Anglo-Jewish journals of general and scholarly interests.

Jewish Experiences across the Americas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Jewish Experiences across the Americas

Latin American Jewish Studies Association Best Edited Volume This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere. The chapters are organized chronologically and trace four global forces: the western expansion of early modern European empires, Jewish networks across and beyond empires, migration, and Jewish activism and participation in international ideological movements. The volume weaves together i...