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    The Kahans from Baku : A Family Saga (2022)
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    ISBN: 9781644697566
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (482 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dohrn, Verena, 1951 - The Kahans from Baku
    Keywords: Jewish businesspeople History 20th century ; Jewish businesspeople History 19th century ; Jewish businesspeople History 20th century ; Jewish businesspeople History 19th century ; Jewish businesspeople History 20th century ; Jews ; Jews History 19th century ; Jews History 20th century ; Petroleum industry and trade History 19th century ; Petroleum industry and trade History 20 century ; Zionism History 19th century ; Zionism History 20th century ; HISTORY / Jewish
    Abstract: The Kahans from Baku is a saga of a Russian Jewish family. Their story also provides an insight into the history of Jews in the Imperial Russian economy, especially in the oil industry. The entrepreneur and family patriarch, Chaim Kahan was a pious and enlightened man and a Zionist. His children followed in his footsteps in business as well as in policy, philanthropy and love of books. The Kahans from Baku takes us through a forced migration history in times of war and revolution and the 20th century’s totalitarian regimes telling a story of fortune and misfortune in economy and everyday life of one cohesive family over four generations in Russia, Germany, Denmark and France, ending up in Palestine and the United States of America
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Acknowledgements , Preface , In Memoriam Elijahu (Eli) Rosenberg , Translator’s Foreword , 1. Jacob Kahan. Imprisoned. Berlin , 2. Chaim Kahan. From Orlya to Brest-Litovsk , 3. Life under War Conditions. Berlin , 4. On the Move. Vilna, Warsaw, Kharkov, Saratov … , 5. Citizenship and the World of Education— Berlin, Bonn, Frankfurt, Marburg, Antwerp , 6. To Baku , 7. Zina and the Oilfields. Baku , 8. Aron and the Black Gold. Baku , 9. Summer Resorts during the War: Bad Harzburg, Bad Neuenahr, Bad Polzin , 10. Economic Management in Times of War and Revolution. Petrograd , 11. Across the Front Line—Berlin, Warsaw, Baku, Moscow, Vilna, Kharkov, Kiev , 12. Expulsion from Russia. Baku, Kharkov, Yekaterinoslav, Moscow , 13. Fresh Start in the West. Caucasian Oil Company. Copenhagen, Berlin, London, Hamburg, Wilhelmshaven , 14. Family in Exile. Berlin , 15. Nitag. Berlin , 16. Devotion to Books. Petrograd, Vilna, Berlin , 17. 36 Schlüterstrasse. Expulsion from Paradise. Berlin , 18. The Mavericks between the Wars—European Corporate Networks: Berlin, Hamburg, Copenhagen, London, Riga, Paris, Amsterdam , 19. The Third Expulsion. Paris, Lisbon , 20. Eretz Israel. Tel Aviv , 21. Sanctuaries. The Family Is Alive. New York, Tel Aviv, Ma’agan Michael , Appendix , Notes , The Family Tree , Index , In English
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    An Amateur Performance : (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s) (2022)
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    ISBN: 9798887190181
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (250 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
    Keywords: Jews Fiction ; LITERARY CRITICISM / General ; 19th century ; Jews in Eastern Europe ; Jews ; Modern Jewish literature ; Russian-Jewish ; coming-of-age ; education ; novel ; students
    Abstract: Translated for the first time in English, Lev Levanda's brilliant coming-of-age story of Russian Jewish students on the cusp of modernity in their struggle against religious chauvinism and an oppressive government.Despite being Russia's best Jewish writer of the nineteenth century, Lev Levanda (1835–1888) is barely known in the English-speaking world, with some of his most famous works, like the 1873 novel Seething Times, having yet to be published in their entirety. Another such work is An Amateur Performance (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s), which appears here in English for the first time, translated with elegance by Hugh McLean and edited by Brian Horowitz and Conor Daly. A classic in Russian-Jewish literature from 1882, An Amateur Performance describes the rush by Jews to government schools, secular education, and the lights of enlightenment, while also revealing the struggles of these Jewish students on the cusp of modernity, including keen observations on their lack of preparation, their confusion over the new ideas, and their confrontation with the repressive power of the Russian government. In short, it’s a brilliant sociological study of Russian Jewry in the 1850s as remembered by a writer who fought for progress and Jewish integration
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Acknowledgements , Preface , Introduction , An Amateur Performance (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s) , On Hugh and a Berkeley PhD: Recollections of Hugh McLean, Translator and Professor of Slavic Studies , Index , In English
    DOI: 10.1515/9798887190181
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    The Jewish Metropolis : New York City from the 17th to the 21st Century (2021)
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    ISBN: 9781644694909
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (400 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: The Lands and Ages of the Jewish People
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Jews History ; Jews Social life and customs ; New York (State) Ethnic relations ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; American history ; Ethnicity ; Immigration ; Intergroup relations ; Jewish Americans ; Jewish History ; Jewish community ; Jewish culture ; Jews ; Judaism ; New York History ; New York ; Religion ; Urban History ; Yiddish
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: New York as a Jewish City -- Important Note -- 1 Colonial Jews in New Amsterdam, New York, and the Atlantic World -- 2 New York Jews and the Early Republic -- 3 The Other Jews: Jewish Immigrants from Central Europe in New York, 1820-1880 -- 4 From the Pale of Settlement to the Lower East Side: Early Hardships of Russian Immigrant Jews -- 5 Yiddish New York -- 6 "Impostors": Levantine Jews and the Limits of Jewish New York -- 7 Jewish Builders in New York City, 1880-1980 -- 8 New York Jews and American Literature -- 9 "I Never Think About Being Jewish-Until I Leave New York": Jewish Art in New York City, 1900 to the Present -- 10 Jewish Geography in New York Neighborhoods, 1945-2000 -- 11 New York and American Judaism -- 12 Jews and Politics in New York City -- 13 How Are New York City Jews Different from Other American Jews? -- Contributors -- Index
    Abstract: The Jewish Metropolis: New York from the 17th to the 21st Century covers the entire sweep of the history of the largest Jewish community of all time. It provides an introduction to many facets of that history, including the ways in which waves of immigration shaped New York's Jewish community; Jewish cultural production in English, Yiddish, Ladino, and German; New York's contribution to the development of American Judaism; Jewish interaction with other ethnic and religious groups; and Jewish participation in the politics and culture of the city as a whole. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field, and includes a bibliography for further reading. The Jewish Metropolis captures the diversity of the Jewish experience in New York
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
    DOI: 10.1515/9781644694909
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    After the Holocaust (2021)
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    ISBN: 9781644696804
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Holocaust survivors Violence against ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts ; World War, 1939-1945 Refugees ; HISTORY / Holocaust ; American postwar military occupation ; Earl Harrison ; Germany ; Holocaust ; Israel ; Jews ; Nathan Rapoport ; Poland ; Truman ; V-E Day ; World War II ; antisemitism ; collective memory ; history ; politics ; racism ; survivors
    Abstract: The chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the survivors of the Holocaust contended with life after the darkest night in Jewish history. They include the Earl Harrison mission and significant report, the effort to keep Europe’s borders open to refugee infiltration, the murder of the first Jew in Germany after V-E Day and its aftermath, and the iconic sculptures of Nathan Rapoport and Poland’s landscape of Holocaust memory up to the present day. Joining extensive archival research and a limpid prose, Professor Monty Noam Penkower again displays a definitive mastery of his craft
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
    DOI: 10.1515/9781644696804
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    Voyage into Savage Europe : A Declining Civilization (2020)
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    ISBN: 9781644693384
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (254 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2020
    Keywords: Jews ; HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Map -- Introduction -- Translator’s Introduction -- Prologue -- Publisher’s Introduction -- Chapter 1. Drama -- Chapter 2. A Scattering of Exiles -- Chapter 3. A Telegram on Credit -- Chapter 4. The Dawn of Europe -- Chapter 5. The Viennese Smile -- Chapter 6. The Eye and the Ear -- Chapter 7. The Prisoner -- Chapter 8. Our Two Faces -- Chapter 9. With the Almighty’s Help -- Chapter 10. The Dust of Criticism -- Chapter 11. Sicarii -- Chapter 12. Journey to Ruin -- Chapter 13. Blond is Beautiful -- Chapter 14. The Costume Party -- Chapter 15. A Hebrew Novel -- Chapter 16. Frozen in Time -- Chapter 17. The Baptists -- Chapter 18. Mosaic -- Chapter 19. My Two Souls -- Chapter 20. The Living Scarecrow -- Chapter 21. The Messiah’s Entreaty -- Chapter 22. My Birthplace’s Agony -- Chapter 23. The Holy Operetta -- Chapter 24. The Canaanite Servant -- Chapter 25. Spain the Healer -- Chapter 26. Charoset -- Chapter 27. The Legend of Alliance -- Chapter 28. The Rear Echelon -- Chapter 29. The Beacon of Light -- Chapter 30. The Intoxicating Darkness -- Chapter 31. Conscience -- Chapter 32. Homeward Bound -- Notes
    Abstract: In this unique memoir, now in English for the first time, Israel’s first Poet Laureate Avigdor Hameiri details a trip to Europe in 1930 from the perspective of a Hungarian Jew who had served in the Habsburg Army. Upon visiting Austria, Hungary, Romania (including parts of ceded Hungarian Transylvania), and Czechoslovakia (including his Carpatho-Ruthenian homeland), he sees Europe in flux on the brink of an unknown disaster. Austria and Hungary are full of youth whose philosophy is “eat, drink and be merry; tomorrow we die.” There is fear of Bolshevism from without, but the unfelt danger is German Fascism. Jews (especially in Hungary) are assimilated but cannot escape from their Jewishness: some are Zionists. Romania is corrupt and antisemitic. In Carpatho-Ruthenia, Hameiri has two premonitions warning him to return to Israel, a prediction of the destruction soon to befall Europe. Hameiri also gives accounts of the artistic and cultural scenes of 1930s Europe, as well as the world of Carpatho-Ruthenian Hasidism, which was soon to be destroyed by the Holocaust. From the growing danger and confusion surrounding inter-war Europe, in prose at once compassionate and bitingly sarcastic, comes a sweeping account of Jewish life in 1930 from one of Israel’s prolific writers
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