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Criticizes "foreshadowing" in literary works on the Shoah which view it as inevitable, as a foreordained culmination of the entire brutal history of European antisemitism. States that the Shoah was not an unavoidable tragedy, in the literary sense, because the genocide was part …
"The Price of Whiteness documents the uneasy place Jews have held in America's racial culture since the late nineteenth century. The book traces Jews' often tumultuous encounter with race from the 1870s through World War II, when they became vested as part of America's white mai…
"The Price of Whiteness documents the uneasy place Jews have held in America's racial culture since the late nineteenth century. The book traces Jews' often tumultuous encounter with race from the 1870s through World War II, when they became vested as part of America's white mai…
"Using declassified documents from Israeli archives, Alisa Rubin Peled explores the development, implementation, and reform of the state's Islamic policy from 1948 to 2000. She addresses how Muslim communal institutions developed and whether Israel formulated a distinct "Islamic…
Drawing on Israeli archival documents, Peled (public policy and administration, Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev) studies the history of jurisdictional conflicts over Muslim affairs in Israel. Includes photos of minority affairs officials and Islamic Movement protesters. Appends infor…
This is the remarkable story of the 250,000 Holocaust survivors who converged on the American Zone of Occupied Germany from 1945 to 1948. They envisaged themselves as the living bridge between destruction and rebirth, the last remnants of a world destroyed and the active agents …
To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided political decisions," like Israel's Lebanese WarBiale analyzes Jewish history from the point of view of politics and power. The author …
Argues against the accepted view of historians that the Jewish past in the Diaspora was characterized by political powerlessness. In fact, the Jews enjoyed considerable self-rule during the Middle Ages. Both Christianity and Islam held that the Jews' refusal to convert incurred …
Before widescale emigration in the early 1960s, North Africa's Jewish communities were among the largest in the world. Without Jewish emigrants from North Africa, Israel's dynamic growth would simply not have occured. North African Jews, also called Maghribi, strengthed the new …
A history of the Maghreb Jews, stressing Zionist activities and emigration to the State of Israel. Ch. 2 (pp. 55-83), "Under Vichy and the Nazi-German Menace: The Jews of North Africa during the 1930s and 1940s, " deals with anti-Jewish measures (legislation, restrictions, and i…
