"The Seventh Million is the first book to show the decisive impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology, and politics of Israel. Drawing on diaries, interviews, and thousands of declassified documents, Segev reconsiders the major struggles and personalities of Israel's pas…
"The Seventh Million is the first book to show the decisive impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology, and politics of Israel. Drawing on diaries, interviews, and thousands of declassified documents, Segev reconsiders the major struggles and personalities of Israel's pas…
On the Impossible Obligation to Be a Jew -- Between Vietnam and Israel: The Dilemma of Political Commitment -- Virtuous Antisemitism -- The New Left's Approach to "Zionism" -- Jews, Leftists, Leftist Jews: The Changing Contours of a Political Problem -- The New Antisemitism -- S…
"In April 1945, Jean Améry was liberated from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. A Jewish and political prisoner, he had been brutally tortured by the Nazis, and had also survived both Auschwitz and other infamous camps. His experiences during the Holocaust were made famous b…
"In April 1945, Jean Améry was liberated from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. A Jewish and political prisoner, he had been brutally tortured by the Nazis, and had also survived both Auschwitz and other infamous camps. His experiences during the Holocaust were made famous b…
In Deutschland versuchten etwa 10.000 bis 15.000 Juden dem nationalsozialistischen Völkermord zu entgehen, indem sie untertauchten. Sie wagten mit Hilfe von jüdischen und nicht-jüdischen Verwandten, Freunden oder ihnen gänzlich unbekannten Personen ein Leben in der Illegalität. …
Chs. 1-8 (pp. 24-230) deal with the experiences of Jews who went into hiding in München or Jews from München who went into hiding elsewhere. Chs. 9-11 (pp. 231-287) examine the situation of the Jews after the war. Notes that of the 9,000-10,000 Jews living in München in 1933, 2,…
"This volume retraces Carl Lutz's diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Together with his wife, Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, the director of the Palestine Office in Budapest, Moshe Krausz, fellow Swiss citizens Har…
This volume retraces Carl Lutz's diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Together with his wife, Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, the director of the Palestine Office in Budapest, Moshe Krausz, fellow Swiss citizens Hara…
The book focuses on the heroism of Jews throughout Europe who risked their lives to save their coreligionists under Nazi rule. The contributors discuss and analyze the actions of Jews who rescued other Jews from the hands of the Nazis. These actions took place, to different degr…
The book focuses on the heroism of Jews throughout Europe who risked their lives to save their coreligionists under Nazi rule. The contributors discuss and analyze the actions of Jews who rescued other Jews from the hands of the Nazis. These actions took place, to different degr…
Years after a prank leaves the only Catholic boy in an elite Jewish school in Porto Alegre terribly injured, one of his classmates revisits that episode, trying to come to terms with his own story, and those of his father and grandfather.
