"This book recounts the history of the use and abuse of Holocaust photographs and illustrates the stories it tells and the questions it explores with a wide range of photographs, including a number never published before."--Jacket.
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The chosen body: the politics of the body in Israeli society
by Weiss, Meira
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This book examines how the social and cultural paradigms of contemporary Israel are articulated through the body. The author draws upon some twenty years of ethnographic research in Israel in a range of subjects. These include premarital and prenatal screening, the regulation of…
The chosen body: the politics of the body in Israeli society
by Weiss, Meira
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"This new Seminar Study attempts to cover a complex and controversial topic - the hatred of Jews over the past three thousand years. How can we best understand anti-Semitism? Albert Lindemann suggests that there is a middle ground between blaming the Jews and blaming the non-Jew…
"This new Seminar Study attempts to cover a complex and controversial topic - the hatred of Jews over the past three thousand years. How can we best understand anti-Semitism? Albert Lindemann suggests that there is a middle ground between blaming the Jews and blaming the non-Jew…
Analyzes the position of Jews in Poland in the 16th-18th centuries, up to Poland's final partition. States that Poland was not able to modernize its backward social, economic, and political systems. Jews were blamed for failure to modernize, which contributed to economic antisem…
Analyzes the position of Jews in Poland in the 16th-18th centuries, up to Poland's final partition. States that Poland was not able to modernize its backward social, economic, and political systems. Jews were blamed for failure to modernize, which contributed to economic antisem…
The author recounts the hundred-year history of his Jewish family's residence in Vienna and its destruction at the time of Austria by Hitler in 1938.
"This book, which draws on a rich array of primary sources and archival materials, offers the first major appraisal of French responses to the Jewish refugee crisis after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. It explores French policies and attitudes toward Jewish refugees from thr…
The popularity in Japan of books about Jews has climbed to staggering proportions. Such books have sold millions of copies and often top the best-seller list. What explains the virtual obsession with Jews in Japan - a country that has no Jews? Many of the Japanese books about Je…
The popularity in Japan of books about Jews has climbed to staggering proportions. Such books have sold millions of copies and often top the best-seller list. What explains the virtual obsession with Jews in Japan - a country that has no Jews? Many of the Japanese books about Je…
In Michael Polanyi and His Generation, Mary Jo Nye investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science. This turn involved seeing science as a socially based enterprise that does no…