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  • Sites of European Antisemitism in the Age of Mass Politics, 1880–1918

    by Hillel Kieval ...
    Series series The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
    This innovative collection of essays on the upsurge of antisemitism across Europe in the decades around 1900 shifts the focus away from intellectuals and well-known incidents to less-familiar events, actors, and locations, including smaller towns and villages. This “from below” perspective offers a new look at a much-studied phenomenon: essays link provincial violence and antisemitic politics with ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Blood Inscriptions

    Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe's Fin de Siècle

    by Hillel J. Kieval ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Although the Enlightenment had seemed to bring an end to the widely held belief that Jews murdered Christian children for ritual purposes, charges of the so-called blood libel were surprisingly widespread in central and eastern Europe on either side of the turn to the twentieth century. Well over one hundred accusations were made against Jews in this period, and prosecutors and government ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Blood Inscriptions

    Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe's Fin de Siècle

    by Hillel J. Kieval ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Although the Enlightenment had seemed to bring an end to the widely held belief that Jews murdered Christian children for ritual purposes, charges of the so-called blood libel were surprisingly widespread in central and eastern Europe on either side of the turn to the twentieth century. Well over one hundred accusations were made against Jews in this period, and prosecutors and government ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Prague and Beyond

    Jews in the Bohemian Lands

    Edited by Kateřina Čapková, Hillel J. Kieval ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Prague's magnificent synagogues and Old Jewish Cemetery attract millions of visitors each year, and travelers who venture beyond the capital find physical evidence of once vibrant Jewish communities in towns and villages throughout today's Czech Republic. For those seeking to learn more about the people who once lived and died at those sites, however, there has until now been no comprehensive ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Prague and Beyond

    Jews in the Bohemian Lands

    Edited by Kateřina Čapková, Hillel J. Kieval ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Prague's magnificent synagogues and Old Jewish Cemetery attract millions of visitors each year, and travelers who venture beyond the capital find physical evidence of once vibrant Jewish communities in towns and villages throughout today's Czech Republic. For those seeking to learn more about the people who once lived and died at those sites, however, there has until now been no comprehensive ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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    A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933

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  • Nazi Germany and the Jews

    The Years of Perdecution, 1933–1939

    by Saul Friedländer ...
    A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the most industrially and culturally advanced nations in the world embark on and continue along the path leading to one of the most enormous criminal enterprises in history, the extermination of Europe's Jews?Giving considerable emphasis to a wealth of new ... Read more

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    The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin

    by Deborah Hertz ...
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  • Complicity in the Holocaust

    Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany

    by Robert P. Ericksen ...
    In one of the darker aspects of Nazi Germany, churches and universities - generally respected institutions - grew to accept and support Nazi ideology. Robert P. Ericksen explains how an advanced, highly educated, Christian nation could commit the crimes of the Holocaust. This book describes how Germany's intellectual and spiritual leaders enthusiastically partnered with Hitler's regime, thus ... Read more

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  • Why the Germans? Why the Jews?

    Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust

    by Götz Aly ...
    An analysis of why the effort to exterminate the Jews of Europe happened in Germany instead of other European nations with stronger histories of anti-Semitism."Gripping reading. . . . The lavish evidence Aly heaps on—from both self-revealing anti-Semites, and acutely prescient Jewish writers—is incredible." — The New York Times Book ReviewWhy the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have ... Read more

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    Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism

    by Michael Brenner ...
    Translated by Jeremiah Riemer ...
    From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for powerIn the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918–19, the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews with left-wing radicalism. Munich became a hotbed of right-wing extremism, with synagogues under attack and Jews physically ... Read more

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  • The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph

    by Robert S. Wistrich ...
    “Robert Wistrich’s exemplary scholarly analysis of the Viennese Jewish community in the 19th century is the first well-written, reliable study of its kind... gives elegant portraits of the crucial Jewish figures of the new Viennese politics at the turn of the century... focus[es] on the internal history of the highly diversified Jewish community... [Wistrich] analyzes effectively the genesis of ... Read more

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