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Jewish

  • Ereignisse, Dekrete, Kontroversenby

    De Gruyter 2011; US$ 182.00

    Volume 4 deals with events, legislative and administrative actions of discrimination as well as affairs, scandals and controversies. 207 articles explain the motives, the backdrop and the consequences of the manifestation of hatred against Jews and also examples of prevention and resistance against it. The examples include the 19th century antisemitism... more...

  • Phil ? Samuby

    De Gruyter 2011; US$ 213.00

    The Lexikon deutsch-jüdischer Autoren covers the Jewish contribution to German-speaking cultural history in some 1,300 biographical-bibliographic articles. Besides authors of literature in the broadest sense, representatives of the humanities can be found and other individuals from public life who, through their work, were influential beyond their... more...

  • Begriffe, Theorien, Ideologienby

    De Gruyter 2010; US$ 196.00

    The third volume covers terms, theories and ideologies of anti-Semitism from A as in ??Abwehr? (resistance) to Z as in ?Zwangstaufe? (forced baptism). In 150 articles 88 authors explain terms and metaphors such as ?Aryan Acts?, ?race defilers? and ?usurer-Jew?as well as stereotypes like ?well poisoning?, ?host desecration? and ?deicide?. The volume... more...

  • Personenby

    De Gruyter 2009; US$ 307.00

    The Handbuch des Antisemitismus (Handbook of Anti-Semitism) compiles existing knowledge on the phenomenon of Judaeophobia throughout the ages and across the world. The second volume contains more than 650 biographies from the late classical period up to the present day: It presents not only Anti-Semites and prominent victims, but also pioneers of the... more...

  • Nachträge und Gesamtregisterby

    De Gruyter 2013; US$ 213.00

    This final volume of supplements and indexes completes the Encyclopedia of German-Jewish Authors (Vol. 1, 1992 through Vol. 20, 2012). This volume contains entries pertaining to about 15 additional authors, including Saul Ascher, Rudolf Borchardt, and Ernst Hans Gombrich. In addition, it provides comprehensive indexes for the entire lexicon: for dates... more...

  • Magnes Co-Publicationby

    De Gruyter 2013; US$ 140.00

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  • Suffering in the Land of Sunshineby Emily Abel

    Rutgers University Press 2006; US$ 24.95

    The history of medicine is much more than the story of doctors, nurses, and hospitals. Seeking to understand the patient's perspective, historians scour the archives, searching for rare personal accounts. Bringing together a trove of more than 400 family letters by Charles Dwight Willard, Suffering in the Land of Sunshine provides a unique window... more...

  • The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State 1789-1939by David Aberbach

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 145.00

    The fragility of the liberal democratic state after 1789 is illustrated in the history of the European Jews from the French Revolution to the Holocaust. Emancipation and hope of emancipation amongst the European Jewish population created a plethora of Jewish identities and forms of patriotism. This book takes the original approach of studying European... more...

  • Major Turning Points in Jewish Intellectual Historyby David Aberbach

    Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 145.00

    This book analyzes major transformations in Jewish life and thought: from idolatry to exclusive monotheism in the biblical age, from state-based identity to cultural nationalism in the Roman empire; and, in the European Diaspora, from theology to secularism and revived political nationalism in the modern period. Fundamental questions are asked about... more...

  • Jewish Cultural Nationalismby David Aberbach

    Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95

    Jewish Cultural Nationalism explores the development of Jewish nationalism from the Bible to modern times, focusing on particular movements and places as well as texts which signified, or themselves brought about, change: the Bible (Hebrew prayer book), and the modern Hebrew literature, particularly in Tsarist Russia. While the influence of the... more...