This book is a study of a community under attack, and its goal is to describe, analyze, and illuminate the response of that community to a series of unexpected and deeply threatening developments. Just a few years after achieving full civil emancipation in 1871, the Jews of Germ…
During the first months of the First Crusade, groups of crusaders attacked the Jewish communities in the Rhineland, forcing them to choose between death and conversion. Many converted, but many others chose to die as martyrs. Among these, some were killed by the crusaders, some …
Examines three Jewish chronicles of the First Crusade: the Chronicle of Solomon ben Simson, the Chronicle of Eliezer ben R. Nathan, and the Anonymous Chronicle of Mainz, with the goal to analyze the ideology of martyrdom found in them and to trace its background. Notes the chara…
Akturk discusses how the definition of being German, Soviet, Russian and Turkish changed at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Akturk discusses how the definition of being German, Soviet, Russian and Turkish radically changed at the turn of the twenty-first century. Germany's ethnic citizenship law, the Soviet Union's inscription of ethnic origins in personal identification documents and Turkey's prohib…
Akturk discusses how the definition of being German, Soviet, Russian and Turkish changed at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Akturk discusses how the definition of being German, Soviet, Russian and Turkish radically changed at the turn of the twenty-first century. Germany's ethnic citizenship law, the Soviet Union's inscription of ethnic origins in personal identification documents and Turkey's prohib…
Seit im 19. Jahrhundert durch die Emanzipationsgesetzgebung die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen dazu geschaffen worden waren, wurden die Juden immer stärker zu einem aktiven Teil des politischen Systems in Deutschland. Das Buch zeigt, wie die Veränderungen eine solche Teilnahme er…
