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  • Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism

    Edited by Sol Goldberg, Scott Ury, Kalman Weiser ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume is designed to assist university faculty and students studying and teaching about antisemitism, racism, and other forms of prejudice. In contrast with similar volumes, it is organized around specific concepts instead of chronology or geography. It promotes conversation about antisemitism across disciplinary, geographic, and thematic lines rather than privileging a single methodological ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Barricades and Banners

    The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry

    by Scott Ury ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time. By focusing on the tumultuous events surrounding the Revolution of 1905, Barricades and Banners argues that the metropolitanization of Jewish life led to a need for new forms of community and belonging, and that the ensuing search for ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Antisemitism and the Politics of History

    Edited by Scott Ury, Guy Miron ...
    Series series The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
    This groundbreaking anthology addresses the history and challenges of using “antisemitism” and related terms as tools for historical analysis and public discourse. Drawing together seventeen chapters by prominent scholars from Europe, Israel, and the United States, the volume encourages readers to rethink assumptions regarding the nature and meaning of Jewish history and the history of relations ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Jewish Migration in Modern Times

    The Case of Eastern Europe

    Edited by Semion Goldin, Mia Spiro, Scott Ury ...
    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 ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and the Jews of East Central Europe

    Edited by Scott Ury, Michael Miller ...
    Since ancient times, Jews have had a long and tangled relationship to cosmopolitanism. Torn between a longstanding commitment to other Jews and the pressure to integrate into various host societies, many Jews have sought a third, seemingly neutral option, that of becoming citizens of the world: cosmopolitans. Few regions witnessed such intense debates on these questions as the lands of East ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Jewish People, Yiddish Nation

    Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland

    by Kalman Weiser ...
    Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth century. Prylucki's dramatic path - from russified Zionist raised in a Ukrainian shtetl, to Diaspora nationalist parliamentarian in metropolitan Warsaw, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Antisemitism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Steven Beller ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism in the 21st century. Steven Beller reveals how Antisemitism grew as a political and ideological movement in the 19th ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies

    Edited by Peter Hayes, John K. Roth ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Few scholarly fields have developed in recent decades as rapidly and vigorously as Holocaust Studies. At the start of the twenty-first century, the persecution and murder perpetrated by the Nazi regime have become the subjects of an enormous literature in multiple academic disciplines and a touchstone of public and intellectual discourse in such diverse fields as politics, ethics and religion. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction

    by Steven Beller ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction examines and untangles the various strands of antisemitism seen throughout history, from medieval religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism in the 21st century. Steven Beller reveals how the phenomenon grew as a political and ideological movement in the 19th century, how it reached it its dark apogee in the worst genocide in modern history - the Holocaust - and how ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Czernowitz at 100

    The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective

    by Zachary Baker, David Birnbaum, Marc Caplan, Leye Lipsky, Ezra Mendelsohn, Jess Olson, Rakhmiel Peltz, Mordkhe Schaechter, Marie Schumacher-Brunhes, Kalman Weiser, Matthew Hoffman, Dr Philip Hollander, Rebecca Margolis ...
    Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the Holocaust, the birth of Israel, and the rise and fall of the Soviet bloc. They assess the achievements and ... Read more

    $78.59 USD

  • Antisemitism and the left

    On the return of the Jewish question

    by Robert Fine, Philip Spencer ...
    Universalism shows two faces to the world: an emancipatory face that looks to the inclusion of the other, and a repressive face that sees in the other a failure to pass some fundamental test of humanity. Universalism can be used to demand that we treat all persons as human beings regardless of their differences, but it can also be used to represent whole categories of people as inhuman, not yet ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • From Kabbalah to Class Struggle

    Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener

    by Mikhail Krutikov ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    From Kabbalah to Class Struggle is an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (1893–1941), an Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer. His dramatic life story offers a fascinating glimpse into the complexities and controversies of Jewish intellectual and cultural history of ... Read more

    $71.99 USD