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“jonathan dekel chen”

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  • Ritual Murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Beyond

    New Histories of an Old Accusation

    Edited by Eugene M. Avrutin, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Robert Weinberg ...
    A collection of essays exploring the history of an antisemitic accusation that haunted Jewish people in Europe and Russia, and how it spread.This innovative reassessment of ritual murder accusations brings together scholars working in history, folklore, ethnography, and literature. Favoring dynamic explanations of the mechanisms, evolution, popular appeal, and responses to the blood libel, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Jewish Diaspora

    Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany

    by Zvi Gitelman, Mark Tolts, Uzi Rebhun, Marina Sapritsky, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Hannah Pollin-Galay, Steven J. Gold, Olena Bagno-Moldavski, Yaacov Ro'i, Gur Ofer0, Eliezer Ben-Rafael1, Sveta Roberman2, Elena Nosenko-Shtein3, Nelly Elias4, Julia Lerner5, Anna Shternshis6, Mikhail Krutikov7, Stephanie Sandler8, Adrian Wanner9 ...
    In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration has made deep marks on the social, cultural, and political terrain of many countries, in ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism

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    How interwar Poland and its Jewish youth were instrumental in shaping the ideology of right-wing ZionismBy the late 1930s, as many as fifty thousand Polish Jews belonged to Betar, a youth movement known for its support of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of right-wing Zionism. Poland was not only home to Jabotinsky’s largest following. The country also served as an inspiration and incubator for ... Read more

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  • The Children of Odin

    by Padraic Colum ...
    First published in 1920, "The Children of Odin" is the retelling of famous North myths for children by the acclaimed Irish poet, novelist, playwright, and children’s author Padraic Colum. With illustrations by Willy Pogany this volume brings classic Norse literature and mythology to a wider audience and makes it accessible to children of all ages. Born in 1881 in Ireland, Colum first rose to fame ... Read more

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  • The Jews: Story of a People

    Story of a People

    by Howard Fast ...
    A vivid and eminently readable story of Jewish history covering 4,000 years, and including extensive illustrations and historical photographsHoward Fast, the bestselling author of Spartacus, tells the sweeping story of the Jewish people and Judaism over four millennia, from their nomadic beginnings and the rise of Moses, to the kings David and Solomon, through the Diaspora and the unthinkable ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust

    A New History

    by Laurence Rees ...
    “This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.”―Antony Beevor, bestselling author of StalingradLaurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines their never-before-seen eyewitness testimony with the latest ... Read more

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  • The Invention of the Jewish People

    by Shlomo Sand ...
    Translated by Yael Lotan ...
    A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe.In this ... Read more

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  • Emigration to and from the German-Russian Volga Colonies

    by D. Philipp Kaiser ...
    'Emigration to and from the German-Russian Volga Colonies' covers the emigration of the "Catherine the Great" Germans into the Volga River area in the mid to late 1700's, the movement of the Volga German-Russians further east of the Volga River into Russia's Steppes, the western exodus of the Volga German-Russians to the United States, Canada, Germany, Brazil and Argentina in the late 1800's and ... Read more

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  • When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone

    The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry

    by Gal Beckerman ...
    The "remarkable" story of the grass-roots movement that freed millions of Jews from the Soviet Union ( The Plain Dealer).At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the USSR. They lived a paradox—unwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story of their rescue.Journalist Gal ... Read more

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  • Hitler's First Victims

    The Quest for Justice

    by Timothy W. Ryback ...
    The remarkable story of Josef Hartinger, the German prosecutor who risked everything to bring to justice the first killers of the Holocaust and whose efforts would play a key role in the Nuremberg tribunal.Before Germany was engulfed by Nazi dictatorship, it was a constitutional republic. And just before Dachau Concentration Camp became a site of Nazi genocide, it was a state detention center for ... Read more

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  • A History of the Jews in the Modern World

    by Howard M. Sachar ...
    The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years.Tracking their fate from Western Europe’s age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet and post-imperialist Islamic upheavals of the twenty-first century, Sachar applies his renowned ... Read more

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  • Survivals In Belief Among The Celts

    by George Henderson ...
    Survivals in Belief Among the Celtsby George HendersonAn extensive review of evidence of pre-Christian beliefs in Celtic culture."This long out-of-print book [...] reviews the extensive literature on survivals of pre-Christian beliefs in the Celtic area. It covers customs from Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Cornwall and Brittany, and relates them to other traditional cultures world-wide. This ... Read more

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