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East European Jews in Switzerland

Author : Tamar Lewinsky,Sandrine Mayoraz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110300710

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East European Jews in Switzerland by Tamar Lewinsky,Sandrine Mayoraz Pdf

During the era of Jewish mass migration from Eastern Europe (from the 1880s until the First World War), Switzerland played an important role in absorbing immigrants. Though located at the periphery of the main migration routes, the federal state with its liberal policies on foreigners became a key destination for students, revolutionaries, and travelers. The micro-studies and more general papers of this volume approach the topic in its transnational, local, linguistic, gendered, and ideological dimensions and from various disciplinary angles. They interweave and facilitate a novel take on the transitory spatial history and the Lebenswelt of East European Jews in Switzerland. Topics of this volume range– among others– from the location of Switzerland on the map of East European Jewish politics (Bundism, Socialism, Yiddishism, Zionism), conflicting performative cultures of Jewish and Russian revolutionaries, the Swiss Lehr- and Wanderjahre of the Jewish public intellectual Meir Wiener, the impact of Geneva on the Zionist Hebrew writer Ben Ami, the Russian-Jewish students’ colonies in Berne and Zurich and questions of individuals' integration and acculturation.

Flight and Rescue

Author : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073507209

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Flight and Rescue by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Pdf

The story of more than 2,000 Polish Jewish refugees who fled across the Soviet Union to Japan, where they awaited entrance visas to the United States and elsewhere.

The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age

Author : William David Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521219299

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The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age by William David Davies Pdf

Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.

Rescue and Resistance

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028494446

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Rescue and Resistance by Anonim Pdf

The Macmillan Profiles series is a collection of volumes featuring profiles of famous people, places and historical events. This text profiles heroes and activists of the Holocaust, including Elie Wiesel, Oskar Schindler, Simon Wiesenthal, Primo Levi, Anne Frank and Raoul Wallenberg, as well as soldiers, Partisans, ghetto leaders, diplomats and ordinary citizens who fought German aggression and risked their lives to save Jews.

Turkish Jews and their Diasporas

Author : Kerem Öktem,Ipek Kocaömer Yosmaoğlu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030877989

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Turkish Jews and their Diasporas by Kerem Öktem,Ipek Kocaömer Yosmaoğlu Pdf

This book introduces the reader to the past and present of Jewish life in Turkey and to Turkish Jewish diaspora communities in Israel, Europe, Latin America and the United States. It surveys the history of Jews in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, examining the survival of Jewish communities during the dissolution of the empire and their emigration to America, Europe, and Israel. In the cases discussed, members of these communities often sought and seek close connections with Turkey, even if those ‘ties that bind’ are rarely reciprocated by Turkish governments. Contributors also explore Turkish Jewishness today, as it is lived in Israel and Turkey, and as found in ‘places of memory’ in many cities in Turkey, where Jews no longer exist today.

American Jewish Year Book 2019

Author : Arnold Dashefsky,Ira M. Sheskin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 303040370X

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American Jewish Year Book 2019 by Arnold Dashefsky,Ira M. Sheskin Pdf

Part I of each volume will feature 5-7 major review chapters, including 2-3 long chapters reviewing topics of major concern to the American Jewish community written by top experts on each topic, review chapters on "National Affairs" and "Jewish Communal Affairs" and articles on the Jewish population of the United States and the World Jewish Population. Future major review chapters will include such topics as Jewish Education in America, American Jewish Philanthropy, Israel/Diaspora Relations, American Jewish Demography, American Jewish History, LGBT Issues in American Jewry, American Jews and National Elections, Orthodox Judaism in the US, Conservative Judaism in the US, Reform Judaism in the US, Jewish Involvement in the Labor Movement, Perspectives in American Jewish Sociology, Recent Trends in American Judaism, Impact of Feminism on American Jewish Life, American Jewish Museums, Anti-Semitism in America, and Inter-Religious Dialogue in America. Part II-V of each volume will continue the tradition of listing Jewish Federations, national Jewish organizations, Jewish periodicals, and obituaries. But to this list are added lists of Jewish Community Centers, Jewish Camps, Jewish Museums, Holocaust Museums, and Jewish honorees (both those honored through awards by Jewish organizations and by receiving honors, such as Presidential Medals of Freedom and Academy Awards, from the secular world). We expand the Year Book tradition of bringing academic research to the Jewish communal world by adding lists of academic journals, articles in academic journals on Jewish topics, Jewish websites, and books on American and Canadian Jews. Finally, we add a list of major events in the North American Jewish Community.

Tropical Zion

Author : Allen Wells
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822392057

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Tropical Zion by Allen Wells Pdf

Seven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sosúa in the Dominican Republic, then ruled by one of Latin America’s most repressive dictators, General Rafael Trujillo. In Tropical Zion, Allen Wells, a distinguished historian and the son of a Sosúa settler, tells the compelling story of General Trujillo, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and those fortunate pioneers who founded a successful employee-owned dairy cooperative on the north shore of the island. Why did a dictator admit these desperate refugees when so few nations would accept those fleeing fascism? Eager to mollify international critics after his army had massacred 15,000 unarmed Haitians, Trujillo sent representatives to Évian, France, in July, 1938 for a conference on refugees from Nazism. Proposed by FDR to deflect criticism from his administration’s restrictive immigration policies, the Évian Conference proved an abject failure. The Dominican Republic was the only nation that agreed to open its doors. Obsessed with stemming the tide of Haitian migration across his nation’s border, the opportunistic Trujillo sought to “whiten” the Dominican populace, welcoming Jewish refugees who were themselves subject to racist scorn in Europe. The Roosevelt administration sanctioned the Sosúa colony. Since the United States did not accept Jewish refugees in significant numbers, it encouraged Latin America to do so. That prodding, paired with FDR’s overriding preoccupation with fighting fascism, strengthened U.S. relations with Latin American dictatorships for decades to come. Meanwhile, as Jewish organizations worked to get Jews out of Europe, discussions about the fate of worldwide Jewry exposed fault lines between Zionists and Non-Zionists. Throughout his discussion of these broad dynamics, Wells weaves vivid narratives about the founding of Sosúa, the original settlers and their families, and the life of the unconventional beach-front colony.

The Extermination of the European Jews

Author : Christian Gerlach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521880787

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The Extermination of the European Jews by Christian Gerlach Pdf

A major new interpretation of the Holocaust, contextualizing the destruction of the Jews within Nazi violence against other groups.

The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881

Author : Israel Bartal
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812200812

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The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881 by Israel Bartal Pdf

In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence and the imposition in Russia of strong anti-Semitic legislation. In the years between, a traditional society accustomed to an autonomous way of life would be transformed into one much more open to its surrounding cultures, yet much more confident of its own nationalist identity. In The Jews of Eastern Europe, Israel Bartal traces this transformation and finds in it the roots of Jewish modernity.

Jüdische Schweiz/ Jewish Switzerland

Author : Caspar Battegay,Naomi Lubrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3856168478

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Jüdische Schweiz/ Jewish Switzerland by Caspar Battegay,Naomi Lubrich Pdf

Jews make up the oldest cultural minority on the territory of today?s Switzerland, having a history that extends back to Antiquity. Jews were welcomed and persecuted in Switzerland, alternately, recruited and harassed, emancipated and controlled. Fifty objects, most of them from the collection of the Jewish Museum, tell of the relations between Jews and Non-Jews from Roman times to the present. What do tiny dice, a tea service, students? beer mugs, a Torah roll, the kipa with football motifs or inconspicuous objects tell us about the history of the Jews? The histories of the objects provide insight into Swiss history that becomes high in contrast when seen from the perspective of its most-discussed minority.

Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature

Author : Jessica Ortner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640140226

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Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature by Jessica Ortner Pdf

Examines how German-Jewish writers from Eastern Europe who migrated to Germany during or after the Cold War have widened European cultural memory to include the traumas of the Gulag.

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Switzerland

Author : Rafa?l Francis David Amadeus Newman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803233426

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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Switzerland by Rafa?l Francis David Amadeus Newman Pdf

This anthology features an eclectic mix of eighteen modern works by a selection of Switzerland's heterogeneous community of Jewish writers. Questions about Jewish identity and the legacy of the Holocaust remain current and controversial in Switzerland because of the country's now well-publicized economic involvement with Hitler's Germany and the scandal that erupted when the purported Holocaust memoir of Binjamin Wilkomirski was revealed to be a hoax. This collection includes an excerpt from a novel by Daniel Ganzfried, the journalist who exposed the Wilkomirski Affair; two chilling counterfactual accounts of a Nazi-occupied Switzerland by television scriptwriter Charles Lewinsky; an epistolary satire of contemporary Swiss and Jewish life by Sergue Hazanov, a Russian-Jewish immigrant; lyrical evocations of exile by Gabriele Markus; a memoir by renowned theatre director Luc Bondy; strikingly harsh portraits of contemporary European life from painter and performance artist Miriam Cahn; and a screenplay about the Holocaust and Jewish refugees in Switzerland by Swiss filmmaker Stina Werenfels. Surprising in its diversity and sometimes disturbing in its preoccupations, this anthology will make it hard to generalize about Jewish life in Switzerland or to think in polarities such as Switzerland and "the Jews."

Switzerland and the Crisis of the Dormant Assets and Nazi Gold

Author : Phillipe Braillard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317722748

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Switzerland and the Crisis of the Dormant Assets and Nazi Gold by Phillipe Braillard Pdf

First Published in 2001. Sharp criticism was recently focused on Switzerland for its doings during World War II and the Swiss banks' policies with respect to dormant assets belonging to victims of the Holocaust, in a process that lasted more than two years, from spring 1996 to fall 1998. Through the determined action of interested parties, the whole process evolved into a violent crisis with an international dimension. This crisis finally came to an end when an overall settlement was reached under which the foremost Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion to the Jewish organisations and Holocaust victims who had taken up legal action before the American courts. The aim of this book is to lay bare the mechanics of this crisis that so violently shook Switzerland and harmed its international image. It endeavours to show how and why organisations and governments heaped attack on Switzerland. The declared and perfectly legitimate cause of the crisis was that of seeing justice for the victims of the Holocaust. Behind that lay a hidden agenda only a closer look can bring to light. The proposals made here open up an important area of discussion as international policymakers seek peace and stability in the post-Cold War world.

John Calvin in Context

Author : R. Ward Holder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108621953

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John Calvin in Context by R. Ward Holder Pdf

John Calvin in Context offers a comprehensive overview of Calvin's world. Including essays from social, cultural, feminist, and intellectual historians, each specially commissioned for this volume, the book considers the various early modern contexts in which Calvin worked and wrote. It captures his concerns for Northern humanism, his deep involvement in the politics of Geneva, his relationships with contemporaries, and the polemic necessities of responding to developments in Rome and other Protestant sects, notably Lutheran and Anabaptist. The volume also explores Calvin's tasks as a pastor and doctor of the church, who was constantly explicating the text of scripture and applying it to the context of sixteenth-century Geneva, as well as the reception of his role in the Reformation and beyond. Demonstrating the complexity of the world in which Calvin lived, John Calvin in Context serves as an essential research tool for scholars and students of early modern Europe.

Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe

Author : Tobias Grill
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110492484

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Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe by Tobias Grill Pdf

For many centuries Jews and Germans were economically and culturally of significant importance in East-Central and Eastern Europe. Since both groups had a very similar background of origin (Central Europe) and spoke languages which are related to each other (German/Yiddish), the question arises to what extent Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe share common historical developments and experiences. This volume aims to explore not only entanglements and interdependences of Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe from the late middle ages to the 20th century, but also comparative aspects of these two communities. Moreover, the perception of Jews as Germans in this region is also discussed in detail.