The Bergson Boys and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy

Judith Baumel

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• During and shortly after the Second World War, six young men-emissaries of the revisionist-Zionist "Irgun" military movement in Palestine revolutioniz... Lees meer

An Uneasy Relationship

Zvi Ganin

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• Set in the first decade of modern Israel's existence, this volume offers an insightful look at the changing relationship of American Jews and the rebo... Lees meer

The Children of La Hille

Walter W Reed

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, frightened parents were forced to find refuge for their children, far from the escalating ... Lees meer

Borderland Generation

Jeffrey Koerber

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• Despite their common heritage, Jews born and raised on opposite sides of the Polish-Soviet border during the interwar period acquired distinct beliefs... Lees meer

Jewish Libya

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• In June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee of their complete exodus from this North African land in 1967, which began with a mass migrat... Lees meer

Silent No More

Henry Feingold

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• Leading scholar and author of the celebrated five-volume series, The Jewish People in America, Henry L. Feingold offers a fresh and inspiring look at ... Lees meer

Bearing Witness

Henry Feingold

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• One of America's most prominent historians probes the haunting question of why the efforts of the American government and Jewish leaders were ineffect... Lees meer

Between Persecution and Participation

Annegret Schüle, Tobias Sowade

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• This is the story of a crushingly ordinary man who had the misfortune to live in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. The son of a baptized ... Lees meer

Transcending Darkness

Estelle Glaser Laughlin

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• "Please, Mama, I don't want to live like this," pleaded twelve-year-old Estelle Glaser's older sister as they watched the bodies of friends dangle fro... Lees meer

Out of the Ghetto

Jacob Katz

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• Out of the Ghetto is an account of the developing interrelationship between the Jews and their Gentile environment unique in its breadth and objectivi... Lees meer

The Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel

Ofer Shiff

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• In early February 1949, American Jewry's most popular and powerful leader, Abba Hillel Silver (1893-1963), had summarily resigned from all his officia... Lees meer

Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin

Deborah Hertz

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few wealthy, cultivated Jewish w... Lees meer

Non-Germans Under the Third Reich

Diemut Majer

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• Under the legal and administrative system of Nazi Germany, people categorized as Fremdvölkische (literally, "foreign people") were subject to special ... Lees meer

The Sound of Exile

Yating Tang

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• Combining diaspora studies and ethnomusicology, The Sound of Exile: European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai, 1938-1947 by Tang Yating examines how Centra... Lees meer

Immigrants in Turmoil

Dvora Hacohen

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• May 1948: a dramatically reborn Israel put out the call for Jews to return to their new homeland. Between 1948 and 1951, over one million Jews from di... Lees meer

One Step Toward Jerusalem

Sándor Bacskai

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• Originally published in 1997, Bacskai's powerful ethnography portrays the political, religious, and individual forces that came to bear on the Orthodo... Lees meer

Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland

Jack Jacobs

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• In the years between the two world wars, the Jewish community of Poland--the largest in Europe--was the cultural heart of the Jewish diaspora. The Jew... Lees meer

Horace Kallen Confronts America

Matthew J Kaufman

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• During his more than fifty-year writing career, American Jewish philosopher Horace Kallen (1882-1974) incorporated a deep focus on science into his pr... Lees meer

Einstein's Pacifism and World War I

Virginia Iris Holmes

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• To understand how Albert Einstein's pacifist and internationalist thought matured from a youthful inclination to pragmatic initiatives and savvy insig... Lees meer

Commodore Levy

Irving Litvag

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• By all accounts, Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish commodore in the U.S. Navy, was both a principled and pugnacious man. On his way to becoming a ... Lees meer

Pillar of Fire

A James Rudin

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• During his long career, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise received letters with only two words written on the envelope: "Rabbi USA." But the United States Pos... Lees meer

Horace Kallen Confronts America

Matthew J Kaufman

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• During his more than fifty-year writing career, American Jewish philosopher Horace Kallen (1882-1974) incorporated a deep focus on science into his pr... Lees meer

Our Crowd

Stephen Birmingham

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• Telling the story of a group of families from emigration from Germany in the 19th century to their rise to power in the financial markets of New York ... Lees meer

We Are Jews Again

Yuli Kosharovsky

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish History
• Kosharovsky's authoritative four-volume history of the Jewish movement in the Soviet Union is now available in a condensed and edited volume that make... Lees meer