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The theme of this book is the gradual emergence of the Jewish people from total political powerlessness – a development stretching over nearly 100 years and culminating in the consolidation in the S……続きを見る

Canadian Zionists of the 1930s were anxious to involve their government in the Palestine question. The pressure they brought to bear was fuelled by a new urgency when British policy in Palestine den……続きを見る

Palästina nimmt durch das Aufeinandertreffen von der Fluchtbewegung für die verfolgten Jüdinnen und Juden in der Diaspora und der Verwirklichung der zionistischen Ideen im Vergleich zu anderen Emigr……続きを見る

This exploration of the Jewish political tradition elucidates a long, rich, and diverse experience of both sovereignty and dispersed statelessness. It holds insights, as Zvi Gitelman points out in h……続きを見る

**Featured in the PBS documentary, "The US and the Holocaust" by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein "Superbly written and researched, synthesizing the classics while digging deep into a vast ……続きを見る

In 1598, at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, New Mexico became Spain’s northernmost New World colony. The censures of the Catholic Church reached all the way to Santa Fe, where in the mid-1660……続きを見る

A forgotten hero George Maduro was a household name in the Netherlands of the 1930s. He was the handsome, charismatic son of a well-to-do Jewish family from Curaçao and had garnered national fame as……続きを見る

Jewish History : An Essay in the Philosophy of History by the Jewish historian, writer and activist,Simon Dubnow.He is the father-in-law of Henryk Erlich, a famous Bundist leader.Dubnow was ambivale……続きを見る

The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin(Jacob Salmon Raisin).This book will tell you about an intellectual movement among the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, with certain influence on……続きを見る

Antiquities of the Jews is a 20-volume historiographical work composed by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus,a first-century Romano-Jewish scholar, historian and hagiographer, who was born in Jer……続きを見る

»Man erlebt und begreift ein Stück deutsche Geschichte.« Frankfurter Rundschau Lorenz Beckhardt, in einem katholischen Internat erzogen, erfährt erst als Erwachsener, dass er Jude ist und viele Verw……続きを見る

Jewish Literature and Other Essays by the German Jewish historian of literature and editor; son of Elijah, Karpeles Gustav Karpeles.Karpeles stimulated into active life the Jewish literary societies……続きを見る

Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill, a British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, he was a close associate of Theodor Herzl. He ……続きを見る

A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by the Jewish historian, translator, and student of philosophy, one of the first three individuals to serve as official faculty at Gratz College in Philadelp……続きを見る

Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 by Samuel Joseph.This brief review of the economic and social conditions in Russia, Roumania and Austria-Hungary has shown that, broadly spe……続きを見る

Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by A. H. Sayce(Archibald Henry Sayce),was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxf……続きを見る

The Required Work Service Law, or Service du Travail Obligatoire, was passed in 1943 by the Vichy government of France under German occupation. Passage of the law confirmed the French government’s w……続きを見る

Multidisciplinary essays examinig the historical and cultural history of the Sephardic experience in the Americas, from pre-expulsion Spain to the modern era, as recounted by some of the most outsta……続きを見る

Harrowing account of U.S. Army chaplain John G. Gaskill of what he witnessed in Dachau. For three months, Gaskill ministered to liberated inmates and imprisoned SS soldiers at Dachau. Every evening ……続きを見る

Prolegomena To The History Of Israel by the German biblical scholar and orientalist, Julius Wellhausen.In the course of his career, he moved from Old Testament research through Islamic studies to Ne……続きを見る

Stories of the Prophets Before the Exile by the American Reform rabbi, author and anti-Zionist activist,Isaac Landman.He was editor of the ten volume Universal Jewish Encyclopedia.He was a leader in……続きを見る

Hebrew Life and Times by Harold B. Hunting(Harold Bruce Hunting).Egypt has never been a health resort. The intensely hot summers breed germs of disease, and also the insects which often carry them. ……続きを見る

Exploring the resilience, identity, and contributions of Southern Jews in the heart of Alabama. This is the first substantial history of the Jews in any inland town or city of the industrial South. ……続きを見る

Kenneth Atkinson tells the exciting story of the nine decades of the Hasmonean rule of Judea (152 - 63 BCE) by going beyond the accounts of the Hasmoneans in Josephus in order to bring together new ……続きを見る

“Manya Shochat was a truly unusual woman, a figure of extreme complexity who might have come out of a nineteenth-century Russian novel. In her life’s story we find a full enactment ー rare in one pe……続きを見る

Please note that this edition does not include illustrations. The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories ……続きを見る

A guide to the beliefs, traditions and practices of Judaism that answers questions for both Jew and Gentile. Rabbi Kertzer answers over 100 of the most commonly asked questions about Jewish life and……続きを見る

Over fifty years after her death, Simone Weil (1909-1943) remains one of the most searching religious inquirers and political thinkers of the twentieth century. Albert Camus said she had a “madness ……続きを見る

A sweeping chronicle of Jewish life in the Tar Heel State from colonial times to the present, this beautifully illustrated volume incorporates oral histories, original historical documents, and prof……続きを見る

Between 1945 and 1948, more than a quarter of a million Jews fled countries in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and began filling hastily erected displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria. As one……続きを見る