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Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem In 1939, the Nazi regime’s plans for redrawing the demographic map of Eastern Europe entailed the expulsion of milli……続きを見る

Collection of recipes by a seventeenth-century English nobleman. The Introduction begins: "With the waning of Sir Kenelm Digby's philosophic reputation his name has not become obscure. It stands, va……続きを見る

The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed to be positive knowledge which extended into all areas of daily life.……続きを見る

Who was “Alphabet” Browne... and why is this the first time anyone has written about him? Between his arrival in the United States during post-Civil War Reconstruction and his death at the onset of ……続きを見る

Ancient Palestine was a ferment of social and ideological conflict. Full-scale insurrectionary revolt exploded in AD 66 and took on a revolutionary character as moderate upper-class leaders were pus……続きを見る

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which……続きを見る

The dual purpose of the revision of this work has been simplification and amplification. The language has been recast in parts and there have been added sub-titles within each chapter, cross-referen……続きを見る

Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist Alice Nelson provides the introductory essay for After This, a powerful collection of narratives by fourteen Holocaust survivors. Alice worked cl……続きを見る

In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story spread that i……続きを見る

Presents an overview of a life's work by a preeminent scholar and brings new insight to the challenge of American Jewish continuity Jews have historically lived within a paradox of faith and fear: f……続きを見る

This contemporary oral history, based on interviews conducted over an 18-year period, is the first of its kind in English. The interviews, some repeated with the same subjects over years, demonstrat……続きを見る

During the Revolutionary War, Sephardic Jews fled British-occupied New York to become the first Jewish families in Connecticut. This long Jewish history is explored in a collection of essays by hist……続きを見る

Forced to flee the brutal pogroms of Europe, Jewish immigrants sought refuge in the beauty of Boston's North Shore. Drawing on their artisan skills, many found work in the tanneries of Peabody and t……続きを見る

He destroys in order to create. In a sweeping critique of the field, Benjamin Schreier resituates Jewish Studies in order to make room for a critical study of identity and identification. Displacing……続きを見る

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood has been home to a multicultural mosaic of immigrant communities: Jewish, Portuguese, Chinese, South Asian, Ca……続きを見る

Held in Germany, the 1936 Olympic Games sparked international controversy. Should athletes and nations boycott the games to protest the Nazi regime? More Than Just Games is the history of Canada’s i……続きを見る

Die ergreifenden Aufzeichnungen einer jüdischen Krankenschwester im Wien der NS-Zeit: Während Ehemann und Kinder 1939 rechtzeitig in die USA flüchten können, bleibt Mignon Langnas mit ihren gebrechl……続きを見る

"Jüdisches Leben in Tirol im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert" ist ein Auszug aus dem dreiteiligen Sammelwerk "Jüdisches Leben im historischen Tirol". Die Geschichte des jüdischen Lebens im historischen Tiro……続きを見る

"Jüdisches Leben in Tirol im Mittelalter" ist ein Auszug aus dem dreiteiligen Sammelwerk "Jüdisches Leben im historischen Tirol". Die Geschichte des jüdischen Lebens im historischen Tirol, welches d……続きを見る

"Jüdisches Leben in Nord- und Südtirol von Herbst 1918 bis Frühjahr 1938" ist ein Auszug aus dem dreiteiligen Sammelwerk "Jüdisches Leben im historischen Tirol". Die Geschichte des jüdischen Lebens ……続きを見る

"Jüdisches Leben in Nord- und Südtirol nach der Shoa" ist ein Auszug aus dem dreiteiligen Sammelwerk "Jüdisches Leben im historischen Tirol". Die Geschichte des jüdischen Lebens im historischen Tiro……続きを見る

"Jüdisches Leben in Tirol und Vorarlberg von 1700 bis 1805" ist ein Auszug aus dem dreiteiligen Sammelwerk "Jüdisches Leben im historischen Tirol". Die Geschichte des jüdischen Lebens im historische……続きを見る

"Jüdisches Leben in Tirol und Vorarlberg von 1867 bis 1918" ist ein Auszug aus dem dreiteiligen Sammelwerk "Jüdisches Leben im historischen Tirol". Die Geschichte des jüdischen Lebens im historische……続きを見る

Herod the Great, king of ancient Judea, was a brutal, ruthless, vindictive and dangerously high-strung tyrant. He had many of his subjects killed on suspicion of plotting against him and was accused……続きを見る

This book tells the little-known stories of three all-Jewish battalions formed in the British army as part of the Allies' Middle East campaign, recruiting soldiers from the United States, Canada, En……続きを見る

The Historical Dictionary of the Jews presents the history of the Jewish people and their religious culture in a way that makes clear how and why this small, ancient people have survived nearly four……続きを見る

The Other Zions tells the fascinating and little-known stories of independent Jewish states, kingdoms, and tribes throughout history. Though Israel is the only Jewish nation most people can name, th……続きを見る

Applying psychoanalytic and gender theory to selected Biblical narratives from Genesis to the Book of Ruth, Lefkovitz interprets the Bible’s stories as foundation texts in the development of sexual ……続きを見る

Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Germans of Jewish Descent in Imperial Germany examines the relationship between the colonial and antisemitic movements of modern Germany from 1871 to 1918, examining t……続きを見る

Il taglio dell'opera è storico. L'autore considera che la nota comune fra l'Antico e il Nuovo Testamento è il governo della storia da parte di Dio e che la Parola, secondo il sentire degli scrittori……続きを見る