The Tribunal of Zaragoza and crypto-judaism, 1484-1515

Poyln

my life within jewish life in Poland: sketches and images

Originally published between 1946 and 1953, "Poyln" (Poland) is one of the treasures of Yiddish literature. Despite its reputation, the book has not been fully translated into English until now. Written by Yehiel Yeshaia Trunk, a prominent Polish Jewish writer, "Poyln" is a colorful epic ...

The golden age of Aragonese Jewry

community and society in the crown of Aragon, 1213-1327

'A much needed distillation of the fruits of scholarship on the Jews in the Crown of Aragon ...conveys a sense of the variety and creativity of the Jewish experience in the Middle Ages, and of Jewish history as viewed from the inside ...an essential book ...

Un nom impérissable

Israël, le sionisme et la destruction des Juifs d'Europe (1933-2007)

Pour l'opinion commune, confortée par la proximité chronologique des deux événements, la naissance de l'État d'Israël en 1948 est une conséquence quasi directe de la Shoah. En effet, un lien essentiel relie de nos jours la catastrophe juive du XXe siècle à ...

La grande chronologie

temps et espace dans le récit bibique de l'histoire

Prolongeant son enquête initiée dans The Poetics of Biblical Narrative, Meir Sternberg s'interroge sur la temporalité dans la composition biblique, mettant en lumière les options décisives dans l'art de raconter l'histoire. Pourquoi le récit biblique relate-t-il l'histoire dans l'ordre chronologique ...

Shimon Peres et l'histoire secrète d'Israël

Shimon Peres est le dernier des " géants " qui ont #uvré à la création de l'État d'Israël et à sa survie. Prix Nobel de la paix pour sa contribution aux accords d'Oslo signés en 1993 avec les Palestiniens, deux fois Premier ministre et ...

The returns of zionism

myths, politics and scholarship in Israel

In this original and wide-ranging study, Gabriel Piterberg examines the ideology and literature behind the colonization of Palestine, from the late nineteenth century to the present. Exploring Zionism's origins in Central-Eastern European nationalism and settler movements, he shows how its texts can be placed ...

Entre dos (o más) fuegos

fuentes poéticas para la historia de los sefardíes de los balcanes

Se recogen y editan en este libro ciento ochenta y dos textos, en su mayoría inéditos y pertenecientes a diversos géneros poéticos los cuales tienen en común el reflejar los avatares históricos en los que, a través de los siglos, se ven inmersas las comunidades ...

A history of catholic antisemitism

the dark side of the Church

Michael is a top authority on anti-Semitism, particularly as it relates to Christianity. There is no book currently available that examines anti-Semitism over the entire history of the Catholic Church. Frederick M. Schweitzer, director of the Manhattan College Holocaust Center and co-author of "Anti-Semitism", wrote ...

El canto del pueblo judío asesinado

Ante el cantar de Itsjok Katzenelson al lector no le queda otra alternativa que detenerse turbado, respetuoso. No hay una obra comparable a ésta en toda la historia de la literatura: es la voz del morituro, entre los cientos de miles que van a morir ...

Writing the Holocaust

identity, testimony, representation

Arguing against the prevailing view that Holocaust survivors (encouraged by a new and flourishing culture of 'witnessing') have come forward only recently to tell their stories,Writing the Holocaust examines the full history of Holocaust testimony, from the first chroniclers confined to Nazi-enforced ghettos to ...

Miradas españolas sobre Ibn Jaldún

A narrow bridge to life

jewish forced labor and survival in the gross-rosen camp sustem, 1940- 1945

By 1944 a large part of Eastern Europe had already been liberated by the Red Army, and the Allied Forces were continuing to move in from the west after success at Normandy. Yet, in Lower Silesia, Germany more than sixty new forced labor camps were ...

Zionism anti seminitism nazi Germany

This is a study of the ideological and political relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism in modern Germany from the nineteenth century through the Third Reich, focusing on the Nazi years between 1933 and 1942. It considers this topic within the context of three contentious issues ...

Plowshares into swords

from zionism to Israel

This rich, authoritative history chronicles the Zionist Israeli quest from its origins in pre-Great War Europe. Mayer traces the development of political Zionism's primal resolve to implant a state for Jews in a Middle East of ever greater strategic importance. He provides new perspectives ...

The holocaust by bullets

a priest´s journey to uncover the truth behind the murder of 1.5 million jews

Foreword by Paul A. Shapiro 'An outstanding contribution to Holocaust literature, uncovering new dimensions of the tragedy, and should be on the shelves of even the smallest library. Highly recommended.' - Library Journal "In Jewish tradition the greatest category of acts one can perform are those ...

Under crescent and cross

the jews in the Middle Ages

With a new introduction and afterword by the author Did Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages cohabit in a peaceful "interfaith utopia"? Or were Jews under Muslim rule persecuted, much as they were in Christian lands? Rejecting both polemically charged ideas as myths, Mark ...

Jewish questions

responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern Period

In Jewish Questions, Matt Goldish introduces English readers to the history and culture of the Sephardic dispersion through an exploration of forty-three responsa--questions about Jewish law that Jews asked leading rabbis, and the rabbis' responses. The questions along with their rabbinical decisions examine all aspects ...

Of god and gods

Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism

For thousands of years, our world has been shaped by biblical monotheism. But its hallmark#a distinction between one true God and many false gods#was once a new and radical idea. Of God and Gods explores the revolutionary newness of biblical theology against a ...

A brief history of Israel

"A Brief History of Israel explores the past of this modern country and its lengthy Jewish history with an emphasis on the period since Israel's independence in 1948. It is a complex story of a people and their modern state. BERNARD REICH, Professor of ...