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  • Rain of Ash

    Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust

    by Ari Joskowicz ...
    A major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justiceJews and Roma died side by side in the Holocaust, yet the world did not recognize their destruction equally. In the years and decades following the war, the Jewish experience of genocide increasingly occupied the attention of legal experts, scholars, educators, curators, and ... Read more

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  • The Modernity of Others

    Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France

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    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    The most prominent story of nineteenth-century German and French Jewry has focused on Jewish adoption of liberal middle-class values. The Modernity of Others points to an equally powerful but largely unexplored aspect of modern Jewish history: the extent to which German and French Jews sought to become modern by criticizing the anti-modern positions of the Catholic Church. Drawing attention to the ... Read more

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  • Secularism in Question

    Jews and Judaism in Modern Times

    Edited by Ari Joskowicz, Ethan B. Katz ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    For much of the twentieth century, most religious and secular Jewish thinkers believed that they were witnessing a steady, ongoing movement toward secularization. Toward the end of the century, however, as scholars and pundits began to speak of the global resurgence of religion, the normalization of secularism could no longer be considered inevitable. Recent decades have seen the strengthening of ... Read more

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  • Secularism in Question

    Jews and Judaism in Modern Times

    Edited by Ari Joskowicz, Ethan B. Katz ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    For much of the twentieth century, most religious and secular Jewish thinkers believed that they were witnessing a steady, ongoing movement toward secularization. Toward the end of the century, however, as scholars and pundits began to speak of the global resurgence of religion, the normalization of secularism could no longer be considered inevitable. Recent decades have seen the strengthening of ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Rain of Ash

    Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust

    by Ari Joskowicz ...
    Narrated by Michael Kirby ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 22 min

    Jews and Roma died side by side in the Holocaust, yet the world did not recognize their destruction equally. In the years and decades following the war, the Jewish experience of genocide increasingly occupied the attention of legal experts, scholars, educators, curators, and politicians, while the genocide of Europe's Roma went largely ignored. Rain of Ash is the untold story of how Roma turned to ... Read more

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