The Last Jews Of Eastern Europe

Author : Israel Bartal
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Yale Strom
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504077347

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The Last Jews of Eastern Europe by Yale Strom Pdf

In striking photography and informative text, this volume both celebrates and mourns Eastern European Jewish life of the early- to mid-twentieth century. From Odessa to Budapest, Warsaw, Prague, and Sarajevo, the Jews of Eastern Europe established thriving, traditional communities . And while there are still proud Jews who keep the Kehilla robust in the region, they are a shadow of their former glory. In The Last Jews of Eastern Europe, Yale Strom and photographer Brian Blue record a way of life that largely disappeared through the torment, violence, and upheaval of the twentieth century. Through the USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria, this volume records the three great blows to Eastern European Jewry: the historical persecution of the Jews who suffered the envy of their neighbors; the slaughter of millions during World War II; and the loss of those who accepted the aliyah to Israel. It also records how the Jews of Eastern Europe laugh, weep, and sing.

Author : Yale Strom,Brian Blue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802225209

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The Last Jews of Eastern Europe by Yale Strom,Brian Blue Pdf

Author : Eli Valley
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Heiko Haumann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Benjamin Nathans,Gabriella Safran
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Jonathan Kaufman
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : UOM:39076002857311

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A Hole in the Heart of the World by Jonathan Kaufman Pdf

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist ventures into postwar Eastern Europe and discovers a people rising from the ashes of Nazi genocide. Weaving together the stories of old and young, disenchanted and enthusiastic, this luminous cultural group portrait takes readers deep into the still-dark soul of Eastern Europe.

Author : Larisa Lempertienė,Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : John Howard Adeney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 024366043X

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Jews of Eastern Europe by John Howard Adeney Pdf

Author : J. H. Adeney,Central Board of Missions and Society Fo
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1010146777

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The Jews of Eastern Europe by J. H. Adeney,Central Board of Missions and Society Fo Pdf

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Author : Samuel Salzborn
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 Grill
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 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.

Author : Steven E. Aschheim
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1982-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299091132

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Brothers and Strangers by Steven E. Aschheim Pdf

Brothers and Strangers traces the history of German Jewish attitudes, policies, and stereotypical images toward Eastern European Jews, demonstrating the ways in which the historic rupture between Eastern and Western Jewry developed as a function of modernism and its imperatives. By the 1880s, most German Jews had inherited and used such negative images to symbolize rejection of their own ghetto past and to emphasize the contrast between modern “enlightened” Jewry and its “half-Asian” counterpart. Moreover, stereotypes of the ghetto and the Eastern Jew figured prominently in the growth and disposition of German anti-Semitism. Not everyone shared these negative preconceptions, however, and over the years a competing post-liberal image emerged of the Ostjude as cultural hero. Brothers and Strangers examines the genesis, development, and consequences of these changing forces in their often complex cultural, political, and intellectual contexts.

Author : Semion Goldin,Mia Spiro,Scott Ury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429590344

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Jewish Migration in Modern Times by Semion Goldin,Mia Spiro,Scott Ury Pdf

This collection examines various aspects of Jewish migration within, from and to eastern Europe between 1880 and the present. It focuses on not only the wide variety of factors that often influenced the fateful decision to immigrate, but also the personal experience of migration and the critical role of individuals in larger historical processes. Including contributions by historians and social scientists alongside first-person memoirs, the book analyses the historical experiences of Jewish immigrants, the impact of anti-Jewish violence and government policies on the history of Jewish migration, the reception of Jewish immigrants in a variety of centres in America, Europe and Israel, and the personal dilemmas of those individuals who debated whether or not to embark on their own path of migration. By looking at the phenomenon of Jewish migration from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and in a range of different settings, the contributions to this volume challenge and complicate many widely-held assumptions regarding Jewish migration in modern times. In particular, the chapters in this volume raise critical questions regarding the place of anti-Jewish violence in the history of Jewish migration as well as the chronological periodization and general direction of Jewish migration over the past 150 years. The volume also compares the experiences of Jewish immigrants to those of immigrants from other ethnic or religious communities. As such, this collection will be of much interest to not only scholars of Jewish history, but also researchers in the fields of migration studies, as well as those using personal histories as historical sources. This book was originally published as a special issue of East European Jewish Affairs.

Author : Hana Kubátová,Jan Láníček
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351668163

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Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust by Hana Kubátová,Jan Láníček Pdf

Providing diverse insights into Jewish–Gentile relations in East Central Europe from the outbreak of the Second World War until the reestablishment of civic societies after the fall of Communism in the late 1980s, this volume brings together scholars from various disciplines – including history, sociology, political science, cultural studies, film studies and anthropology – to investigate the complexity of these relations, and their transformation, from perspectives beyond the traditional approach that deals purely with politics. This collection thus looks for interactions between the public and private, and what is more, it does so from a still rather rare comparative perspective, both chronological and geographic. It is this interdisciplinary and comparative perspective that enables us to scrutinize the interaction between the individual majority societies and the Jewish minorities in a longer time frame, and hence we are able to revisit complex and manifold encounters between Jews and Gentiles, including but not limited to propaganda, robbery, violence but also help and rescue. In doing so, this collection challenges the representation of these encounters in post-war literature, films, and the historical consciousness. This book was originally published as a special issue of Holocaust Studies.