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Describes antisemitism and xenophobia in Switzerland in the 1930s-40s. After World War I immigration laws discriminated against Jews. The Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund (SIG) was increasingly defensive under attacks of Swiss Nazis and the fascist Fronts as well as d…
This book focuses on the Iberian Jews and conversos, Jews who converted to Christianity. it explores the idea of the "other" in both Jewish and Christian traditions, the differences between the perspectives of the "persecuted" and "persecutors", and the vision of modernity among…
Focuses on the Iberian Jews and conversos, Jews who converted to Christianity, exploring the idea of the Christian traditions, the differences between the perspectives of the of the Iberian Jews of the period. Special attention is devoted to da Costa and Spinoza, offering a new …
Washington Heights in located in New York City.
Washington Heights in located in New York City.
This is the first full-length biography of Judah Leib Gordon (1830-92), the most important Hebrew poet of the 19th century, and one of the pivotal intellectual and cultural figures in Russian Jewry. Setting Gordon's life and work amidst the political, cultural, and religious uph…
A study of the effects of antisemitism, the Holocaust, and the search for Jewish identity on Anglo-Jewish writers. Pre-World War II literature reflected the antisemitism of working-class Jewish districts, while many postwar writers describe the inability of middle-class Jews to …
