The Jews Of Eastern Europe

Author : Israel Bartal
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,8 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.

Author : Eli Valley
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0765760002

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The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe by Eli Valley Pdf

The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe: A Travel Guide and Resource Book to Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest is the most comprehensive guidebook covering all aspects of Jewish history and contemporary life in Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest. This remarkable book includes detailed histories of the Jews in these cities, walking tours of Jewish districts past and present, intensive descriptions of Jewish sites, fascinating accounts of local Jewish legend and lore, and practical information for Jewish travelers to the region.

Author : Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization. Symposium
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062892537

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The Jews of Eastern Europe by Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization. Symposium Pdf

Most American Jews have roots in Eastern Europe. The experiences of our nineteenth- and twentieth-century ancestors continue to influence, in one way or another, thinking about Jewish art, literature, theater, education, religious observance, and political activities. The Eastern European experience was far from monolithic for these Jews, however, and wide gaps separate the realities of their lives from the often idealized, sometimes romanticized views still popular today. This volume contains a series of lucidly written, well-argued essays that identify key features of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, provide insight into its abiding relevance, and comment on the history of related scholarship. In the process, these authors bring to life many little-known as well as prominent individuals and the communities they inhabited and influenced. With its solid scholarly foundations, full annotations, and graceful narratives, this collection should appeal to general readers as well as specialists.

Author : Heiko Haumann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112247296

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A History of East European Jews by Heiko Haumann Pdf

Presents a history of East European Jewry from its beginnings to the period after the Holocaust. It gives an overview of the demographic, political, socio-economic, religious and cultural conditions of Jewish communities in Poland, Russia, Bohemia and Moravia. Interesting themes include the story of early settlers, the 'Golden Age', the influence of the Kabbalah and Hasidism. Vivid portraits of Jewish family life and religious customs make the book enjoyable to read.

Author : Tobias Grill
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 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.

Author : Benjamin Nathans,Gabriella Safran
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812240559

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Culture Front by Benjamin Nathans,Gabriella Safran Pdf

Bringing together contributions by historians and literary scholars, Culture Front explores how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and elsewhere.

Author : Ezra Mendelsohn
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0253204186

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The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars by Ezra Mendelsohn Pdf

"... a carefully crafted and important book... a first-class contribution to the literature on modern Europe." --American Historical Review "... valuable... the first historical work to attempt a 'synthetic sketch' of the problems indicated in the title." --Journal of Polish Jewish Studies An illuminating study of the demographic, cultural, and socioeconomic condition of East Central European Jewry, the book focuses on the internal life of Jewish communities in the region and on the relationships between Jews and gentiles in a nationalist environment.

Author : Katarzyna Kornacka-Sareło,Waldemar Szczerbiński
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443887786

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Jews in Eastern Europe by Katarzyna Kornacka-Sareło,Waldemar Szczerbiński Pdf

The problem of being a stranger is present in every culture. In this context, “the Jewish question” is often discussed, since the Jews have been present in other nations for centuries, constituting the social and cultural minority and being almost always perceived as strangers. This volume presents a detailed analysis of Jewish self-perceptions and attitudes, often very complex, towards other societies and communities living in the same lands. The contributors to this book explore the lengthy discussions between both the supporters and adversaries of assimilation within the Jewish environment and also between the assimilated Jews and non-Jews, which often further complicate this issue. As the authors show here, the “methods of assimilation” of eastern European Jews were not straightforward, but were rather often rather complicated and rough. Many Jewish people were trying to find the best solution to their own, “Jewish question”, and adapt themselves reasonably to the gentile environment and to the changing realities of the world in which they had to exist, regardless of their will, or in which they freely chose to live having made autonomic and personal decisions. As such, this volume explores Jewish assimilation issues from a wide and multifaceted perspective.

Author : John Howard Adeney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Jews
ISBN : UCAL:$B290901

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The Jews of Eastern Europe by John Howard Adeney Pdf

Author : William David Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 53,9 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.

Author : Larisa Lempertienė,Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443806220

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Jewish Space in Central and Eastern Europe by Larisa Lempertienė,Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė Pdf

This volume is a compilation of articles written by renowned scholars and promising young researchers, in which the Jewish space is revealed as diverse forms of life and relations that developed in the rich context of urbanism, social life, leisure and economic activities, and coexistence with the non-Jewish world. Having undergone various transformations, the Jewish space has preserved its authenticity and individuality. In the book, the Jewish space is analysed in a wide chronological perspective from the viewpoint of literature, history, architecture and social relations. This volume will be of interest to anyone interested in various forms of entertainment (sports, leisure, cabaret parties), living, participation in social life, reading and writing of Jews in Eastern European towns and shtetls in the 19th and early 20th century.

Author : Benjamin Nathans,Gabriella Safran
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812291032

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Culture Front by Benjamin Nathans,Gabriella Safran Pdf

For most of the last four centuries, the broad expanse of territory between the Baltic and the Black Seas, known since the Enlightenment as "Eastern Europe," has been home to the world's largest Jewish population. The Jews of Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Galicia, Romania, and Ukraine were prodigious generators of modern Jewish culture. Their volatile blend of religious traditionalism and precocious quests for collective self-emancipation lies at the heart of Culture Front. This volume brings together contributions by both historians and literary scholars to take readers on a journey across the cultural history of East European Jewry from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. The articles collected here explore how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and more. The book puts culture at the forefront of analysis, treating verbal artistry itself as a kind of frontier through which Jews and Slavs imagined, experienced, and negotiated with themselves and each other. The four sections investigate the distinctive themes of that frontier: violence and civility; popular culture; politics and aesthetics; and memory. The result is a fresh exploration of ideas and movements that helped change the landscape of modern Jewish history.

Author : Paolo Bernardini,Norman Fiering
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1571814302

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The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800 by Paolo Bernardini,Norman Fiering Pdf

Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resources of the New World. Alone among the European peoples who came to the Americas in the colonial period, Jews were dispersed throughout the hemisphere; indeed, they were the only cohesive European ethnic or religious group that lived under both Catholic and Protestant regimes, which makes their study particularly fruitful from a comparative perspective. As distinguished from other religious or ethnic minorities, the Jewish struggle was not only against an overpowering and fierce nature but also against the political regimes that ruled over the various colonies of the Americas and often looked unfavorably upon the establishment and tleration of Jewish communities in their own territory. Jews managed to survive and occasionally to flourish against all odds, and their history in the Americas is one of the more fascinating chapters in the early modern history of European expansion.

Author : Samuel Salzborn
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 3631598289

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Antisemitism in Eastern Europe by Samuel Salzborn Pdf

Europe is expanding - and therewith remembers its historical basis, which was hidden beneath the shadow of the Cold War for a long time. This return of a common history which is mostly narrated as a history of success today, however contains the perception of transnational traditions at the same time which by contrast should give reason for a critical self-reflection. This volume gives an impulse through a comparative examination of the still highly actual forms of antisemitism in Europe. The focus will be on the developments in the countries from the Baltic States to South Eastern Europe, which usually are little known in Western Europe. At the same time, the specifities of antisemitism in Eastern Europe are incorporated in the theoretical insights of antisemitism research, thus filling a gap that has existed until now.

Author : Tobias Brinkmann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782380306

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Points of Passage by Tobias Brinkmann Pdf

Between 1880 and 1914 several million Eastern Europeans migrated West. Much is known about the immigration experience of Jews, Poles, Greeks, and others, notably in the United States. Yet, little is known about the paths of mass migration across “green borders” via European railway stations and ports to destinations in other continents. Ellis Island, literally a point of passage into America, has a much higher symbolic significance than the often inconspicuous departure stations, makeshift facilities for migrant masses at European railway stations and port cities, and former control posts along borders that were redrawn several times during the twentieth century. This volume focuses on the journeys of Jews from Eastern Europe through Germany, Britain, and Scandinavia between 1880 and 1914. The authors investigate various aspects of transmigration including medical controls, travel conditions, and the role of the steamship lines; and also review the rise of migration restrictions around the globe in the decades before 1914.