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Author : András Koerner
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789633861769

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How They Lived 2 by András Koerner Pdf

Having presented the physical conditions among which Hungarian Jews lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—the kind of neighborhoods and apartments they lived in, and the places where they worked—this second volume addresses the spiritual aspects and the lighter sides of their life. We are shown how they were raised as children, how they spent their leisure time, and receive insights into their religious practices, too. The treatment is the same as in the first volume. There are many historical photographs-at least one picture per page-and the related text offers a virtual cross section of Hungarian society, a diverse group of the poor, the middle-class, and the wealthy. Regardless of whether they lived integrated within the majority society or in separate communities, whether they were assimilated Jews or Hasidim, they were an important and integral part of the nation. Through arduous work of archival research, Koerner reconstructs the many diverse lifestyles using fragmentary information and surviving photos

Author : András Koerner
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789633862742

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Jewish Cuisine in Hungary by András Koerner Pdf

Winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Food Writing & Cookbooks. The author refuses to accept that the world of pre-Shoah Hungarian Jewry and its cuisine should disappear almost without a trace and feels compelled to reconstruct its culinary culture. His book―with a preface by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett―presents eating habits not as isolated acts, divorced from their social and religious contexts, but as an organic part of a way of life. According to Kirshenblatt-Gimblett: “While cookbooks abound, there is no other study that can compare with this book. It is simply the most comprehensive account of a Jewish food culture to date.” Indeed, no comparable study exists about the Jewish cuisine of any country, or―for that matter―about Hungarian cuisine. It describes the extraordinary diversity that characterized the world of Hungarian Jews, in which what could or could not be eaten was determined not only by absolute rules, but also by dietary traditions of particular religious movements or particular communities. Ten chapters cover the culinary culture and eating habits of Hungarian Jewry up to the 1940s, ranging from kashrut (the system of keeping the kitchen kosher) through the history of cookbooks, the food traditions of weekdays and holidays, the diversity of households, and descriptions of food and hospitality industries to the history of some typical dishes. Although this book is primarily a cultural history and not a cookbook, it includes 83 recipes, as well as nearly 200 fascinating pictures of daily life and documents.

Author : Frank Bajohr,Andrea Löw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137569844

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The Holocaust and European Societies by Frank Bajohr,Andrea Löw Pdf

This book explores the Holocaust as a social process. Although the mass murder of European Jews was essentially the result of political-ideological decisions made by the Nazi state leadership, the events of the Holocaust were also part of a social dynamic. All European societies experienced developments that led to the social exclusion, persecution and murder of the continent’s Jews. This volume therefore questions Raul Hilberg ́s category of the ‘bystander’. In societies where the political order expects citizens to endorse the exclusion of particular groups in the population, there cannot be any completely uninvolved bystanders. Instead, this book examines the multifarious forms of social action and behaviour connected with the Holocaust. It focuses on institutions and persons, helpers, co-perpetrators, facilitators and spectators, beneficiaries and profiteers, as well as Jewish victims and Jewish organisations trying to cope with the dynamics of exclusion and persecution.

Author : Wendy Z. Goldman,Donald Filtzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190618438

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Fortress Dark and Stern by Wendy Z. Goldman,Donald Filtzer Pdf

The first history of the Soviet home front experience during World War II and of the civilians who bore the burden of total war and played a critical role in the global victory over fascism. After Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, German troops conquered the heartland of Soviet industry and agriculture and turned the occupied territories into mass killing fields. The country's survival hung in the balance. In Fortress Dark and Stern, Wendy Z. Goldman and Donald Filtzer tell the epic tale of the Soviet home front during World War II. Against the backdrop of the Red Army's early retreats and hard-fought advances after Stalingrad, they present the impact of total war behind the front lines in a chronicle of spirited defense efforts, draconian state directives, teeming black markets, official corruption, and selfless heroism. In one of the greatest wartime feats in history, Soviet workers rapidly evacuated factories, food, and people thousands of miles to the east. After long and dangerous journeys in unheated boxcars, they built a new industrial base beyond the reach of German bombers. As the Soviet state reached the height of its power, imposing military discipline and sending millions of people to work thousands of miles from home, ordinary people withstood starvation, epidemics, and horrific living conditions to supply the front and make the Allied victory possible This book examines the dark and painful war years from a new perspective, telling the stories of evacuees, refugees, teenaged and women workers, runaways from work, prisoners, and deportees. Based on a vast trove of new archival materials, Fortress Dark and Stern reveals a history of suffering, sacrifice, and ultimate triumph largely unknown to Western readers.

Author : Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR),Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231003974

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Addressing Anti-Semitism in Schools by Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR),Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),UNESCO Pdf

Author : Guenter Lewy
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780827615038

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Jews and Germans by Guenter Lewy Pdf

Jews and Germans is the only book in English to delve fully into the history and challenges of the German-Jewish relationship, from before the Holocaust to the present day. The Weimar Republic era—the fifteen years between Germany’s defeat in World War I (1918) and Hitler’s accession (1933)—has been characterized as a time of unparalleled German-Jewish concord and collaboration. Even though Jews constituted less than 1 percent of the German population, they occupied a significant place in German literature, music, theater, journalism, science, and many other fields. Was that German-Jewish relationship truly reciprocal? How has it evolved since the Holocaust, and what can it become? Beginning with the German Jews’ struggle for emancipation, Guenter Lewy describes Jewish life during the heyday of the Weimar Republic, particularly the Jewish writers, left-wing intellectuals, combat veterans, and adult and youth organizations. With this history as a backdrop he examines the deeply disparate responses among Jews when the Nazis assumed power. Lewy then elucidates Jewish life in postwar West Germany; in East Germany, where Jewish communists searched for a second German-Jewish symbiosis based on Marxist principles; and finally in the united Germany—illuminating the complexities of fraught relationships over time.

Author : Charles Levinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134460762

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International Trade Unionism (Routledge Revivals) by Charles Levinson Pdf

As Secretary General of the ICF and previously Assistant General Secretary of the IMF, Charles Levinson played an important part in developing the countervailing labour response to the multinational corporations. His earlier work, Capital, Inflation and the Multinationals (Routledge Revivals, 2013) displayed the force of his insight into the dynamics of modern economics and technology. First published in 1972, this book considers the opportunities which allow unions to command an increasing share in decisions that shape the worker’s destiny. Chapters include discussions on the multinational corporations, industrial democracy and the ideas behind collective bargaining.

Author : Katerina Capková,Kamil Kijek
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978830813

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Jewish Lives under Communism by Katerina Capková,Kamil Kijek Pdf

This volume provides new, groundbreaking views of Jewish life in various countries of the pro-Soviet bloc from the end of the Second World War until the collapse of Communism in late 1989. The authors, twelve leading historians and anthropologists from Europe, Israel and the United States, look at the experience of Jews under Communism by digging beyond formal state policy and instead examining the ways in which Jews creatively seized opportunities to develop and express their identities, religious and secular, even under great duress. The volume shifts the focus from Jews being objects of Communist state policy (and from anti-Jewish prejudices in Communist societies) to the agency of Jews and their creativity in Communist Europe after the Holocaust. The examination of Jewish history from a transnational vantage point challenges a dominant strand in history writing today, by showing instead the wide variety of Jewish experiences in law, traditions and institutional frameworks as conceived from one Communist country to another and even within a single country, such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, and the Soviet Union. By focusing on networks across east-central Europe and beyond and on the forms of identity open to Jews in this important period, the volume begins a crucial rethinking of social and cultural life under Communist regimes.

Author : Diana Dumitru
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107131965

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The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust by Diana Dumitru Pdf

This book explores regional variations in civilians' attitudes toward the Jewish population in Romania and the occupied Soviet Union.

Author : Katharina Friedla,Markus Nesselrodt
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781644697511

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Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939–1959) by Katharina Friedla,Markus Nesselrodt Pdf

Winner of the 2022 PIASA Anna M. Cienciala Award for the Best Edited Book in Polish StudiesThe majority of Poland’s prewar Jewish population who fled to the interior of the Soviet Union managed to survive World War II and the Holocaust. This collection of original essays tells the story of more than 200,000 Polish Jews who came to a foreign country as war refugees, forced laborers, or political prisoners. This diverse set of experiences is covered by historians, literary and memory scholars, and sociologists who specialize in the field of East European Jewish history and culture.

Author : Zoltán Vági,László Csosz,Gábor Kádár
Publisher : AltaMira Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759122000

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The Holocaust in Hungary by Zoltán Vági,László Csosz,Gábor Kádár Pdf

The Holocaust in Hungary provides a comprehensive documentary account of one of the most brutal and effective killing campaigns in history. After Nazi Germany took control of Hungary late in World War II, Jews were rounded up with unprecedented speed and sent directly to Auschwitz. They would form the largest group of victims who perished in that camp. The complex interplay between German and Hungarian actors brought about the annihilation of a once-thriving Jewish community and the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jewish men, women, and children. The authors present extensive reports, testimonies, and other primary sources of these events accompanied by in-depth commentary that spans the years from the late 1930s to the fractured political landscape of postwar Hungary.

Author : Nicolas Apostolopoulos,Michele Barricelli,Gertrud Koch
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783981855609

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Preserving Survivors Memories by Nicolas Apostolopoulos,Michele Barricelli,Gertrud Koch Pdf

Due to the generation shift, the central challenge has become to preserve the memories of the survivors of National Socialist persecution and to anchor these within 21st century cultural memory. In this transition phase, which includes rapid technical developments within information and communications technology, high expectations are being made of the collections of survivors audio and video interviews. This publication reflects the interdisciplinary debates currently taking place on the various digital techniques of preserving eyewitness interviews. The focus is how the changes in media technology are affecting the various fields of work, which include storage/archiving, education as well as the reception of the interviews.

Author : Harold J. Goldberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216064053

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Competing Voices from World War II in Europe by Harold J. Goldberg Pdf

Obviously, there are many books written about World War II—but very few of them present 'competing voices'. Written for college-bound high-school students, first- and second-year undergraduates and general readers of military history, Competing Voices from World War II in Europe highlights the different perspectives and views of all belligerents in the military arena, as well as describing the impact of the war on daily life. The book begins in 1939 (with the invasion of Poland) and ends in 1945 (with Germany's surrender). However, an introductory chapter puts the war in perspective by examining key events preceding the invasion of Poland, and a concluding chapter looks at the controversy surrounding the Nuremberg Trials after the end of hostilities. Though well-known, the main events of the war often remain controversial, and minor events are still relatively unexplored. Though it is often assumed that Allied victory was inevitable, and that all the Allies worked together in a seamless fashion, this book provides evidence that contradicts these basic concepts. Presented with directly reported sources, together with all the contextual information, readers will be able to develop their own opinions about events such as the Munich Conference, the defeat of France, the debate over a second front, the D-Day events of 1944, the development of Soviet-American relations throughout the war and the origins of the Cold War.

Author : Lauren Granite,Fabian Rühle,Birgit Haberpeuntner,Esther Cotoarba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692245014

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The Vienna Jewish Source Book by Lauren Granite,Fabian Rühle,Birgit Haberpeuntner,Esther Cotoarba Pdf

Author : Anna Brzyski
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822340850

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Partisan Canons by Anna Brzyski Pdf

Case studies that counter the idea of a transcendent art canon by demonstrating that the content of any and every canon is historically and culturally specific.