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  • 1
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    An American Friendship : Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism (2022)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501763106
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Keywords: Cultural pluralism History 20th century ; HISTORY / Jewish ; identity politics, origins of multiculturalism, zionism in the harlem renaissance, black-jewish relations, American pragmatist philosophers
    Abstract: In An American Friendship, David Weinfeld presents the biography of an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual precursor to modern multiculturalism. He roots the origins of cultural pluralism in the friendship between two philosophers, Jewish immigrant Horace Kallen and African American Alain Locke, who advanced cultural pluralism in opposition to both racist nativism and the assimilationist "melting pot." It is a simple idea: different ethnic groups can and should coexist in America, perpetuating their cultures for the betterment of the country as whole. Cultural pluralism grew out of the lived experience of this friendship between two remarkable individuals. Kallen, a founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research, became a leading American Zionist. Locke, the first Black Rhodes Scholar, taught at Howard University, and is best known as the intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance and editor of The New Negro in 1925. Their friendship began at Harvard and Oxford in 1906-1908 and was rekindled during the Depression, growing stronger until Locke's death in 1954. To Locke and Kallen, friendship itself was a metaphor for cultural pluralism, exemplified by people who found common ground while appreciating each other's differences. Weinfeld demonstrates how their understanding of cultural pluralism as friendship offers a new vision for diverse societies across the globe. An American Friendship provides critical background for understanding the conflicts over identity politics that polarize American society today
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Acknowledgments , Author’s Note , Introduction: What Difference Does the Difference Make? Cultural Pluralism as Friendship , 1. From Berenstadt to Boston , 2. The Talented among the Tenth , 3. Locke and Kallen, Student and Teacher , 4. American Pluralists, Friends at Oxford , 5. The Plural Is Political , 6. Plural in Culture, Universal in Religion , 7. Friendship Rekindled, Pluralism Refined , 8. Locke’s Legacy, Kallen’s Memory , Conclusion: Differences Made , Notes , Index , In English
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    The Salvation of Israel : Jews in Christian Eschatology from Paul to the Puritans (2022)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501764769
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (344 p.) , 17 b&w halftones, 8 color halftones
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cohen, Jeremy, 1953 - The salvation of Israel
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    BD 1430
    Keywords: Antichrist History of doctrines ; Christianity and other religions Judaism ; End of the world History of doctrines ; Judaism (Christian theology) History of doctrines ; Judaism Relations ; Christianity ; RELIGION / Judaism / General ; judeo-centrism, christian eschatology, jews and Christianity ; Christentum ; Eschatologie ; Juden ; Geschichte -1700
    Abstract: The Salvation of Israel investigates Christianity's eschatological Jew, the role and characteristics of the Jews at the end of days in the Christian imagination. It explores the depth of Christian ambivalence regarding these Jews, from Paul's Epistle to the Romans, through late antiquity and the Middle Ages, to the Puritans of the seventeenth century. Jeremy Cohen contends that few aspects of a religion shed as much light on the character and the self-understanding of its adherents as its expectations for the end of time. Moreover, eschatological beliefs express and mold an outlook toward non-believers, situating them in an overall scheme of human history and conditioning interaction with them as that history unfolds.Cohen's close readings of biblical commentary, theological texts, and Christian iconography reveal the dual role of the Jews of the last days. For rejecting belief and salvation in Jesus Christ, they have been linked to the false messiah, the Antichrist, the agent of Satan and the exemplary embodiment of evil. Yet from its inception, Christianity has also hinged its hopes for the Second Coming on the enlightenment and repentance of the Jews; for then, as Paul prophesized, "all Israel will be saved."In its vast historical scope, from the ancient Mediterranean world of early Christianity to seventeenth century England and New England, The Salvation of Israel offers a nuanced and insightful assessment of Christian attitudes toward Jews, rife with inconsistency and complexity, thus contributing significantly to our understanding of Jewish-Christian relations
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Acknowledgments , Introduction , Part I. All Israel Will Be Saved , 1. Paul and the Mystery of Israel’s Salvation , 2. The Pauline Legacy , 3. The Latin West , Part II. The Jews and Antichrist , 4. Antichrist and the Jews in Early Christianity , 5. Jews and the Many Faces of Antichrist in the Middle Ages , 6. Antichrist and Jews in Literature, Drama, and Visual Arts , Part III. At the Forefront of the Redemption , 7. Honorius Augustodunensis, the Song of Songs, and Synagoga Conversa , 8. Jewish Converts and Christian Salvation , 9. Puritans, Jews, and the End of Days , Afterword , Notes , Bibliography , Index , In English
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    Destination elsewhere : displaced persons and their quest to leave postwar Europe (2021)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501760235
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 190 Seiten, 20 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Balint, Ruth Destination elsewhere
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    NQ 2795
    Keywords: Refugees Government policy 20th century ; History ; Refugees History 20th century ; World War, 1939-1945 Refugees ; West European History ; World War II ; History ; HISTORY / Military / World War II ; Refugee history before 1951, The International Refugee Organization, Postwar migration to australia, The international tracing service and displaced persons, modern refugee crisis ; Europa ; Internationale Flüchtlingsorganisation ; Displaced Person ; Flüchtlingspolitik ; Auswanderung ; Geschichte 1945-2020
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Author’s Note -- Introduction -- 1. Telling the Truth in Postwar Europe -- 2. “There Has Been a Lot of Dirt Here” -- 3. Housewives and Opportunists -- 4. Unaccompanied Children and Unfit Mothers -- 5. The Children Left Behind -- 6. “The Top-Heavy Slow-Turning Wheel” -- 7. Address Unknown -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
    Abstract: In this unique "history from below," Destination Elsewhere chronicles encounters between Displaced Persons in Europe and the Allied agencies who were tasked with caring for them after the Second World War. The struggle to define who was a Displaced Person and who was not was a subject of intense debate and deliberation among humanitarians, international law experts, immigration planners, and governments. What has not adequately been recognized is that Displaced Persons also actively participated in this emerging refugee conversation. Displaced Persons endured war, displacement, and resettlement, but these experiences were not defined by passivity and speechlessness. Instead, they spoke back, creating a dialogue that in turn helped shape the modern idea of the refugee. As Ruth Balint shows, what made a good or convincing story at the time tells us much about the circulation of ideas about the war, about the Holocaust, and about the Jews. Those stories depict the emerging moral and legal distinction between economic migrants and political refugees. They tell us about the experiences of women and children in the face of new psychological and political interventions into the family. Stories from Displaced Persons also tells us something about the enduring myth of the new world for people who longed to leave the old. Balint focuses on those whose storytelling skills became a major strategy for survival and escape out of the Displaced Persons' camps and out of the Europe. Their stories are brought alive in Destination Elsewhere, alongside a new history of immigration, statelessness, and the institution of the postwar family
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
    DOI: 10.1515/9781501760235
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    Regular Soldiers, Irregular War : Violence and Restraint in the Second Intifada (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501750458
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p) , 1 b&w line drawing, 1 map, 3 charts
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2020
    Keywords: Soldiers Attitudes ; Palestinian Arabs Violence against ; Soldiers Social conditions ; Palestinian Arabs Violence against ; Military offenses ; Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000- Atrocities ; Command of troops Psychological aspects ; Military ethics ; Soldiers Moral conditions ; HISTORY / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other) ; Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Civil war, military, counterinsurgency ; Political violence
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Translations and Pseudonyms -- Introduction: The Production and Restraint of Military Violence -- 1. Participation in Counterinsurgency -- 2. Narrating Conflict and Violence: Ex-Combatant Accounts as Data -- 3. IDF Counterinsurgency in the Second Intifada -- 4. The Production of Strategic Violence -- 5. The Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Violence -- 6. The Production and Control of Opportunistic Violence -- 7. Beyond Israel: Counterinsurgent Violence and Restraint in Comparative Perspective -- Conclusion: Violence and Restraint in Counterinsurgency -- Appendix: Characteristics of the Sample -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Abstract: What explains differences in soldier participation in violence during irregular war? How do ordinary men become professional wielders of force, and when does this transformation falter or fail? Regular Soldiers, Irregular War presents a theoretical framework for understanding the various forms of behavior in which soldiers engage during counterinsurgency campaigns—compliance and shirking, abuse and restraint, as well as the creation of new violent practices.Through an in-depth study of the Israeli Defense Forces' repression of the Second Palestinian Intifada of 2000–2005, including in-depth interviews with and a survey of former combatants, Devorah Manekin examines how soldiers come both to unleash and to curb violence against civilians in a counterinsurgency campaign. Manekin argues that variation in soldiers' behavior is best explained by the effectiveness of the control mechanisms put in place to ensure combatant violence reflects the strategies and preferences of military elites, primarily at the small-unit level.Furthermore, she develops and analyzes soldier participation in three categories of violence: strategic violence authorized by military elites; opportunistic or unauthorized violence; and "entrepreneurial violence"—violence initiated from below to advance organizational aims when leaders are ambiguous about what will best serve those aims. By going inside military field units and exploring their patterns of command and control, Regular Soldiers, Irregular War, sheds new light on the dynamics of violence and restraint in counterinsurgency
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    Decolonizing Palestine : Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501752766
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (186 p) , 12 b&w halftones
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2020
    Keywords: Israelis Colonization ; Palestinian Arabs Politics and government 21st century ; HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine ; Liberation, Hamas, Coexistence of the antocolonial and postcolonial, colinization, settler colonialism
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Decolonizing Palestine -- 2. On the Settler Colonial Elimination of Palestine -- 3. Palestinian Postcoloniality -- 4. Anticolonial Violence and the Palestinian Struggle to Exist -- 5. Postcolonial Governance -- 6. The Palestinian Moment of Liberation -- 7. On Liberation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized. Instead, he considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation from its settler colonial condition as a complex psychological and empirical mix of the colonial and the postcolonial. Specifically, he examines the two seemingly contradictory, yet coexistent anticolonial and postcolonial modes of politics adopted by Hamas following the organization's unexpected victory in the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council election.Despite the expectations of experts, Hamas has persisted as both an armed resistance to Israeli settler colonial rule and as a governing body. Based on ethnographic material collected between 2013 and 2016 in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Israel, and Egypt, Decolonizing Palestine argues that the puzzle Hamas presents is not rooted in predicting the timing or process of its abandonment of either role. The challenge instead lies in explaining how and why it maintains both, and what this implies for the study of liberation movements and postcolonial studies more generally
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    Comrades Betrayed : Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501751035
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (312 p) , 22 b&w halftones, 1 map
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
    Keywords: World War, 1914-1918 Veterans ; Masculinity Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Jewish veterans Social conditions 20th century ; Antisemitism History 20th century ; Jews, German History 20th century ; World War, 1939-1945 Jews ; HISTORY / Jewish ; Antisemitism, comradeship, front experience, Frontkämpfer, German Jewish veterans, Wannsee Conference, Theresienstadt
    Abstract: At the end of 1941, six weeks after the mass deportations of Jews from Nazi Germany had begun, Gestapo offices across the Reich received an urgent telex from Adolf Eichmann, decreeing that all war-wounded and decorated Jewish veterans of World War I be exempted from upcoming "evacuations". Why this was so, and how Jewish veterans were able to avoid the fate of ordinary Jews under the Nazis – at least, initially – is the subject of Comrades Betrayed.Michael Geheran deftly illuminates how the same values that compelled Jewish soldiers to demonstrate bravery in the front lines in World War I made it impossible for them to accept passively, let alone comprehend, persecution under Hitler. After all, they upheld the ideal of the German fighting man, embraced the Fatherland, and cherished the bonds that had developed in military service. Through their diaries and private letters, as well as interviews with eyewitnesses and surviving family members, and police, Gestapo, and military records, Michael Geheran presents a major challenge to the prevailing view that Jewish vets were left isolated, neighborless, and had suffered a social death by 1938.Tracing the path from the trenches of the Great War to the extermination camps of the Third Reich, Geheran exposes the painful dichotomy that, while many Jewish former combatants believed that Germany would never betray them, the Holocaust was nonetheless a horrific reality. In chronicling Jewish veterans' appeal to older, traditional notions of comradeship and national belonging, Comrades Betrayed forces reflection on how this group made use of scant opportunities to defy Nazi persecution and, for some, to evade becoming victims of the Final Solution
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Reappraising Jewish War Experiences, 1914–18 -- 2. The Politics of Comradeship: Weimar Germany, 1918–33 -- 3. “These Scoundrels Are Not the German People”: The Nazi Seizure of Power, 1933–35 -- 4. Jewish Frontkämpfer and the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft -- 5. Under the “Absolute” Power of National Socialism, 1938–41 -- 6. Defiant Germanness -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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