1492. La découverte de l'Amérique. Les Maures repoussés sur leurs terres. Et les Juifs chassés d'Espagne. Prenant les routes de l'exil, en Europe, et jusque dans le Nouveau Monde, intégrés au pays d'accueil, ils n'en resteront pas moins séfarades.
This reader combines primary sources from many archival collections with contextual background on key aspects of Jewish life during the Holocaust. It calls into question prevailing perceptions of Jews as a homogenous, faceless, or passive mass of victims, helping to complicate s…
Herinneringen van de schrijver aan zijn jeugd in Berlijn in de jaren 1933-1939
"This collection of essays explores new ways of understanding the Babylonian Exile and the return to Yehud - a formative period in ancient Judaism. Drawing among others on new materials from cuneiform texts, the contributions study how Judean and other exiles interacted with the…
An analysis of the Jewish experience in Western Europe since the Emancipation. Discrimination against the Jews in pre-Emancipation society is also described. Discusses Gentile resistance to the integration of Jews in society as a result of the Christian antisemitic heritage, and…
Contains three essays (the first two were delivered as lectures at the University of Toronto in October 1975) showing the process of gradual emergence of the Jewish people from total political powerlessness in the late 19th-20th centuries. The Nazi Holocaust and its immediate af…
The Jewish-Greek tradition represents an arguably distinctive strand of Judaism characterized by use of the Greek language and interest in Hellenism. This volume traces the Jewish encounter with Greek culture from the earliest points of contact in antiquity to the end of the Byz…
