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Was the Holocaust a natural product of a long German history of Anti-Semitism? Or were the Nazi policies simply a wild mutation of history, not necessarily connected to the past? Or does the truth lie somewhere in between? This latest volume in the acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series, edi...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
424
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0195119312
EAN Code
9780195119312
ISBN #
12
The seventh volume of the acclaimed annual publication of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jews and Messianism in the Modern Era: Metaphor and Meaning examines the significance and meaning of messianic metaphors, themes, and ideals in modern Jewish history a...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
464
Publisher
Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ISBN #
0195066901
EAN Code
9780195066906
ISBN #
9
This series is published yearly by the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It is edited by Jonathan Frankel, Peter Medding, and Ezra Mendelsohn, all distinguished professors of history at The Hebrew University. The volumes include symposia, articles, book reviews, ...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
448
Publisher
Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ISBN #
0195051130
EAN Code
9780195051131
ISBN #
8
In February of 1840, an Italian monk and his servant disappeared in Damascus. Many Jews in that city were charged with ritual murder and tortured until they confessed. The case turned into a cause célèbre across much of the Western world and produced an explosion of polemics, fantastic theories, and...
Author
Jonathan Frankel
Binding
Paperback
Pages
512
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN #
0521483964
EAN Code
9780521483964
ISBN #
2
Insiders and Outsiders: Dilemmas of East European Jewry examines problems of Jewish cultural and political orientations, associations, and self-identification within a broad framework. The contributors approach the predicament of east European Jews in various settings: some focus primarily on the Je...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
256
Publisher
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press
ISBN #
190676400X
EAN Code
9781906764005
ISBN #
11
Volume XXIV of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores relations between Jews and Protestants in modern times. Far from monolithic, Protestantism has innumerable groupings within it, from the loosely organized Religious Society of Friends to the conservative Evangelicals of t...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
312
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199742642
EAN Code
9780199742646
ISBN #
10
The newest volume of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features essays on the varied and often controversial ways Communism and Jewish history interacted during the 20th century. The volume's contents examine the relationship between Jews and the Communist movement in Poland, Russia, A...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
410
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0195182243
EAN Code
9780195182248
ISBN #
6
This collection of essays examines the politicization and the politics of the Jewish people in the Russian empire during the late tsarist period. The focal point is the Russian revolution of 1905, when the political mobilization of the Jewish youth took on massive proportions, producing a cohort of ...
Author
Jonathan Frankel
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
336
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN #
0521513642
EAN Code
9780521513647
ISBN #
5