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  • 1
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
    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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    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 ; 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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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781501763106
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Keywords: Cultural pluralism History 20th century ; HISTORY / Jewish
    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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  • 3
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
    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
    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
    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
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781501754098
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Year of publication: 2021
    Uniform Title: Policjanci
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Person, Katarzyna Warsaw ghetto police
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    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews History 20th century ; Jewish Studies ; West European History ; History ; HISTORY / Jewish ; Geschichte ; Geschichte ; Warschau ; Getto ; Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst ; Alltag
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Establishment of the Jewish Order Service -- 2. Organization and Objectives of the Service -- 3. Violence and Corruption in the Exercise of Daily Duties -- 4. Police in the Eyes of the Ghetto Population -- 5. Policemen's Voices -- 6. Response to Violence -- 7. Spring 1942 -- 8. Umschlagplatz -- 9. After Resettlement -- 10. The Courts -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Sanitation Instructions for Precinct Patrolmen -- Appendix 2. Official Instruction for the Order Service -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index
    Abstract: In Warsaw Ghetto Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen who, in the autumn of 1940, joined the newly formed Jewish Order Service.Person tracks the everyday life of policemen as their involvement with the horrors of ghetto life gradually increased. Facing and engaging with brutality, corruption, and the degradation and humiliation of their own people, these policemen found it virtually impossible to exercise individual agency. While some saw the Jewish police as fellow victims, others viewed them as a more dangerous threat than the German occupation authorities; both were held responsible for the destruction of a historically important and thriving community. Person emphasizes the complexity of the situation, the policemen's place in the network of social life in the ghetto, and the difficulty behind the choices that they made. By placing the actions of the Jewish Order Service in historical context, she explores both the decisions that its members were forced to make and the consequences of those actions.Featuring testimonies of members of the Jewish Order Service, and of others who could see them as they themselves could not, Warsaw Ghetto Police brings these impossible situations to life. It also demonstrates how a community chooses to remember those whose allegiances did not seem clear
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  • 5
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
    ISBN: 9781501759970
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (360 p) , 12 b&w halftones, 4 maps
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: World War, 1939-1945 Moral and ethical aspects ; World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects ; World War, 1939-1945 Psychological aspects ; World War, 1939-1945 ; Holocaust Studies ; Military History ; History ; HISTORY / Military / World War II
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Terms -- Note on Names and Spelling -- Introduction -- 1. Ideology of Holy War -- 2. Army Culture, Interwar Politics, and Neutrality -- 3. 1940–1941: From Neutral to Axis -- 4. 1941: Holy War and Holocaust -- 5. 1941–1942: Doubling Down on Holy War -- 6. 1942–1944: Holy War of Defense -- 7. Propaganda and Discipline -- 8. Women and Minorities -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: Romania's Holy War rights the widespread myth that Romania was a reluctant member of the Axis during World War II. In correcting this fallacy, Grant T. Harward shows that, of an estimated 300,000 Jews who perished in Romania and Romanian-occupied Ukraine, more than 64,000 were, in fact, killed by Romanian soldiers. Moreover, the Romanian Army conducted a brutal campaign in German-occupied Ukraine, resulting in the deaths of thousands of Soviet prisoners of war, partisans, and civilians. Investigating why Romanian soldiers fought and committed such atrocities, Harward argues that strong ideology—a cocktail of nationalism, religion, antisemitism, and anticommunism—undergirded their motivation. Romania's Holy War draws on official military records, wartime periodicals, soldiers' diaries and memoirs, subsequent war crimes' investigations, and recent interviews with veterans to tell the full story. Harward integrates the Holocaust into the narrative of military operations to show that most soldiers fully supported the wartime dictator, General Ion Antonescu, and his regime's holy war against "Judeo-Bolshevism." The army perpetrated mass reprisals, targeting Jews in liberated Romanian territory; supported the deportation and concentration of Jews in camps or ghettos in Romanian-occupied Soviet territory; and played a key supporting role in SS efforts to exterminate Jews in German-occupied Soviet territory. Harward proves that Romania became Nazi Germany's most important ally in the war against the USSR because its soldiers were highly motivated, thus overturning much of what we thought we knew about this theater of war. Romania's Holy War provides the first complete history of why Romanian soldiers fought on the Eastern Front
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
    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
    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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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
    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)
    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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  • 8
    ISBN: 9781501752193
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (678 p)
    Edition: A Critical Edition and Translation
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2020
    Keywords: Hebrew language Early works to 1800 Rhetoric ; Rhetoric in the Bible Early works to 1800 ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Signs -- Introduction -- Messer Leon's Preface -- Book I -- Book II -- Book III -- Book IV -- Abraham Conat's Colophon to the Editio Princeps -- Menahem de' Rossi's Colophon to the Ambrosian Library's Manuscript -- Index of Biblical Passages -- Index of Names and Subjects
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  • 9
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
    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
    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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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
    ISBN: 9781501742415
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p) , 8 b&w halftones, 3 maps
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2019
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Anniversaries, etc ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence ; Memorialization Political aspects ; Nationalism and collective memory ; Post-communism ; HISTORY / Holocaust
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- The Big Gray Truck -- 1. The Politics of Holocaust Remembrance after Communism -- 2. At the Belgrade Fairgrounds -- 3. Croatia’s Islands of Memory -- 4. The Long Shadows of Vilna -- The Stakes of Holocaust Remembrance in the Twenty-First Century -- Index
    Abstract: Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled—ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated—throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred. As part of accession to the European Union, Jelena Subotić shows, East European states were required to adopt, participate in, and contribute to the established Western narrative of the Holocaust. This requirement created anxiety and resentment in post-communist states: Holocaust memory replaced communist terror as the dominant narrative in Eastern Europe, focusing instead on predominantly Jewish suffering in World War II. Influencing the European Union's own memory politics and legislation in the process, post-communist states have attempted to reconcile these two memories by pursuing new strategies of Holocaust remembrance. The memory, symbols, and imagery of the Holocaust have been appropriated to represent crimes of communism.Yellow Star, Red Star presents in-depth accounts of Holocaust remembrance practices in Serbia, Croatia, and Lithuania, and extends the discussion to other East European states. The book demonstrates how countries of the region used Holocaust remembrance as a political strategy to resolve their contemporary "ontological insecurities"—insecurities about their identities, about their international status, and about their relationships with other international actors. As Subotić concludes, Holocaust memory in Eastern Europe has never been about the Holocaust or about the desire to remember the past, whether during communism or in its aftermath. Rather, it has been about managing national identities in a precarious and uncertain world
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
    ISBN: 9781501736483
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 3 b&w halftones, 3 maps, 2 charts
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Year of publication: 2019
    Keywords: Intelligence service History 20th century ; HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine
    Abstract: Britain relied upon secret intelligence operations to rule Mandatory Palestine. Statecraft by Stealth sheds light on a time in history when the murky triad of intelligence, policy, and security supported colonial governance. It emphasizes the role of the Anglo-Zionist partnership, which began during World War I and ended in 1939, when Britain imposed severe limits on Jewish immigration and settlement in Palestine. Steven Wagner argues that although the British devoted considerable attention to intelligence gathering and analysis, they never managed to solve the basic contradiction of their rule: a dual commitment to democratic self-government and to the Jewish national home through immigration and settlement. As he deftly shows, Britain's experiment in Palestine shed all pretense of civic order during the Palestinian revolt of 1936–41, when the police authority collapsed and was replaced by a security state, created by army staff intelligence. That shift, Wagner concludes, was rooted in Britain's desire to foster closer ties with Saudi Arabia just before the start of World War II, and thus ended its support of Zionist policy. Statecraft by Stealth takes us behind the scenes of British rule, illuminating the success of the Zionist movement and the failure of the Palestinians to achieve independence. Wagner focuses on four key issues to stake his claim: an examination of the "intelligence state" (per Martin Thomas's classic, Empires of Intelligence), the Arab revolt, the role of the Mufti of Jerusalem, and the origins and consequences of Britain's decision to end its support of Zionism.Wagner crafts a superb story of espionage and clandestine policy-making, showing how the British pitted individual communities against each other at particular times, and why
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Life and Death of Joseph Davidescu -- 1. Britain’s Wartime Policies: Perceptions of Jewish Power and Arab Conspiracy -- 2. Intelligence, Policy, and the Emerging Modern Middle East -- 3. Cause for Peace: The Establishment of a Civil Government -- 4. Security, Air Control, and the 1929 (Attempted) Revolt -- 5. British Intelligence, the Mufti, and Nationalist Youth -- 6. Intelligence, Security, and the Road to Rebellion -- 7. The Arab Revolt: Intelligence and Politics -- 8. Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt -- 9. Intelligence, Ibn Saʿud, and the White Paper Policy -- 10. The Consequences of the White Paper -- Conclusion: Britain’s “Intelligence State” and the Failure of the Palestinian Independence Movement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
    ISBN: 9781501739439
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 10 b&w halftones, 3 maps
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2019
    Keywords: Riots History 20th century ; Ethnic conflict History 20th century ; Jews History ; HISTORY / Europe / France
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Map 1. Northern Algeria during the colonial period -- Map 2. The city of Constantine in 1934 -- Introduction -- Part 1: Algerian Histories of Empire -- 1. Constantine in North African History -- 2. “Native,” “Jewish,” and “European” -- 3. The Crucible of Local Politics -- Part 2: Colonial Society in Motion -- 4. The Postwar Moment -- 5. French Algeria’s Dual Fracture -- 6. Provocation, Difference, and Public Space -- 7. Rehearsals for Crisis -- Part 3: A Riot in France -- 8. Friday and Saturday, August 3–4, 1934 -- 9. Sunday, August 5, 1934 -- 10. Shock and Containment -- Part 4: Making the Riot Algerian -- 11. Empire of Fright -- 12. The Police Investigation -- 13. The Agitator -- 14. The Trials -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index
    Abstract: Part murder mystery, part social history of political violence, Lethal Provocation is a forensic examination of the deadliest peacetime episode of anti-Jewish violence in modern French history. Joshua Cole reconstructs the 1934 riots in Constantine, Algeria, in which tensions between Muslims and Jews were aggravated by right-wing extremists, resulting in the deaths of twenty-eight people. Animating the unrest was Mohamed El Maadi, a soldier in the French army. Later a member of a notorious French nationalist group that threatened insurrection in the late 1930s, El Maadi became an enthusiastic supporter of France's Vichy regime in World War II, and finished his career in the German SS. Cole cracks the "cold case" of El Maadi's participation in the events, revealing both his presence at the scene and his motives in provoking violence at a moment when the French government was debating the rights of Muslims in Algeria. Local police and authorities came to know about the role of provocation in the unrest and killings and purposely hid the truth during the investigation that followed. Cole's sensitive history brings into high relief the cruelty of social relations in the decades before the war for Algerian independence
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
    ISBN: 9781501747335
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p) , 15 b&w halftones
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2019
    Keywords: Jews History 20th century ; Jewish criminals History 20th century ; Organized crime History 20th century ; Jewish criminals Biography ; Gangsters History 20th century ; Jews Social conditions 20th century ; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. CONNECTING THE DOTS -- 1. THE END, OR ZUKIE’S BAD DAY -- 2. BEYOND SCARFACE, A KOSHER CAPONE FOR MAXWELL STREET -- 3. THE SUNSET OF 1974: LENNY PATRICK’S CHANGING WORLD -- 4. LANDING IN LAWNDALE -- 5. RISING IN THE RANKS -- 6. ROOTS OF THE LAWNDALE MACHINE -- 7. ARVEY’S BALANCING ACT -- 8. SYNDICATE HAMMER -- 9. SIZING UP THE OUTFIT -- 10. TENTACLES -- 11. WHEN SCARFACE MET RICO -- 12. LENNY’S CIRCUS TURN -- Afterword. A QUESTION ANSWERED -- CAST OF CHARACTERS -- NOTE ON SOURCES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
    Abstract: The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin "Zuckie the Bookie" Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate's "Jewish wing."These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale to the notorious Chicago Outfit that emerged from Al Capone's criminal confederation. Focusing on the murder of Zuckerman by Patrick, Kraus introduces us to the different models of organized crime they represented, a raft of largely forgotten Jewish gangsters, and the changing nature of Chicago's political corruption. Hard-to-believe anecdotes of corrupt politicians, seasoned killers, and in-over-their-heads criminal operators spotlight the magnitude and importance of Jewish gangsters to the story of Windy City mob rule.With an eye for the dramatic, The Kosher Capones takes us deep inside a hidden society and offers glimpses of the men who ran the Jewish criminal community in Chicago for more than sixty years
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