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  | | Essential Papers on Jews and the Left (Essential Papers on Jewish Studies) by Ezra Mendelsohn Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1997 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-5571-6, ISBN: 0-8147-5571-2 "Historically leftist ideas and theories have had a profound impact on modern Jewish life. But, the left's impact on the Jewish community has greatly diminished today. Nonetheless, it can still be detected in the tendency of American Jews to vote for the liberal camp. This political tendency has also influenced Jewish communities actions as illustrated by the large numbers of Jews who participated in the civil rights movements of the pos ..." |
 | | Studies in Contemporary Jewry Volume XII: Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts (Vol 12) by Ezra Mendelsohn Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 1997 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-511203-0, ISBN: 0-19-511203-2 "Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts collects essays on Jewish literature which deal with "the manifold ways that literary texts reveal their authors' attitudes toward their own Jewish identity and toward diverse aspects of the 'Jewish question.'" Essays in this volume explore the tension between Israeli and Diaspora identities, and between those who write in Hebrew or Yiddish and those who write in other "non-Jewish" language ..." |
 | | Jews and the Sporting Life(1st Edition) Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII (Studies in Contemporary Jewry: An Annual) by Ezra Mendelsohn Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-538291-4, ISBN: 0-19-538291-9 "Volume XXIII of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores the role of sports in modern Jewish history. The centrality of sports in modern life--in popular and even in high culture, in economic life, in the media, in international and national politics, and in forging ethnic identities--can hardly be exaggerated, but in the field of Jewish studies this subject has been somewhat neglected, at least until recently. St ..." |
 | | Studies in Contemporary Jewry(1st Edition) Volume XV: People of the City: Jews and the Urban Challenge (Vol 15) by Ezra Mendelsohn Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2000 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-513468-1, ISBN: 0-19-513468-0 "The Jews have been an urban people par excellence, and their influence on the urban landscape is unmistakable. Who can imagine modern Vienna, Berlin, Warsaw, or New York, to name just a few examples, without their large, vibrant, and creative Jewish populations? Conversely, the urban experience has been a decisive factor in modern Jewish history. This new volume in the acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series is devoted to the t ..." |
 | | The Jews of East Central Europe between the World Wars(Reprint) (A Midland Book) by Ezra Mendelsohn Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1987 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-20418-9, ISBN: 0-253-20418-6 "..". a carefully crafted and important book... a first-class contribution to the literature on modern Europe." --American Historical Review..". valuable... the first historical work to attempt a 'synthetic sketch' of the problems indicated in the title." --Journal of Polish Jewish StudiesAn illuminating study of the demographic, cultural, and socioeconomic condition of East Central European Jewry, the book focuses on the internal life o ..." |
 | | The Revolution of 1905 and Russia's Jews(1st Edition) (Jewish Culture and Contexts) by Stefani Hoffman, Ezra Mendelsohn Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-4064-1, ISBN: 0-8122-4064-2 "The 1905 Revolution in Russia ushered in an unprecedented (though brief) period of social and political freedom in the Russian Empire. This environment made possible the emergence of mass Jewish politics and the flourishing of a new, modern Jewish culture expressed in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian. Unfortunately, 1905 also unleashed popular anti-Semitism in the shape of pogroms on a scale previously unknown. Russian Jewry, by far the la ..." |
 | | Class Struggle in the Pale(1st Edition) The Formative Years of the Jewish Worker's Movement in Tsarist Russia by Ezra Mendelsohn Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2010 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-13005-9, ISBN: 0-521-13005-0 "Beginning in the 1890s, and continuing into the twentieth century, Jewish workers in the Russian Pale of Settlement organised themselves to improve their economic and cultural situation. Their struggle was the result of an alliance with the Jewish socialist intelligentsia, which began by teaching workers in select 'circles' and ended by assuming the leadership of a mass labour movement. In this book, originally published in 1970, Dr Men ..." |
 | | The Protestant-Jewish Conundrum(1st Edition) Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Volume XXIV by Jonathan Frankel, Ezra Mendelsohn Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2010 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-974264-6, ISBN: 0-19-974264-2 "Volume XXIV of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores the question of relations between Jews and Protestants in modern times. One of the four major branches of Christianity, Protestantism is perhaps the most difficult to write about; it has innumerable sects and churches within it, from the loosely organized Religious Society of Friends to the conservative Evangelicals of the Bible Belt. Different strands of Pro ..." |
 | | Polin(Updated) Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 8: Jews in Independent Poland, 1918-1939 by Antony Polonsky, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Ezra Mendelsohn, Magda Teter Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2004 by The Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization In Association With Liverpool University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-904113-22-5, ISBN: 1-904113-22-2 "'Contains too many riches for a brief review to do them justice ...It is instructive to see how the subject of antisemitism is reflected in the pages of this volume, especially because of the number of contributions by Polish scholars, some of them young, to a field that only a few years ago was virtually taboo in Poland.' Abraham Brumberg, Times Literary Supplement In the period between the two world wars, Poland's Jewish community of ..." |
 | | Imperial Russia, 1700-1917 State, Society, Opposition by Ezra Mendelsohn, Marshall S. Shatz, Marshall Sharon Shatz Hardcover, 330 Pages, Published 1989 by Northern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87580-143-8, ISBN: 0-87580-143-9 "This collection of essays brings together important insights from some of the most distinguished scholars of Russian history. In honoring the life and the academic career of Marc Raeff, it is appropriate that the essays are not confined to one particular period or theme of imperial Russian history. Dealing with problems that evolved during more than two centuries, the volume instead is divided into three broad sections that focus on gov ..." |
 | | Studies in Contemporary Jewry(1st Edition) Volume III: Jews and Other Ethnic Groups in a Multi-ethnic World (Vol 3) by Ezra Mendelsohn, Jonathan Frankel, Peter Y. Medding Hardcover, 362 Pages, Published 1987 by Institute Of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University Of Jerusalem ISBN-13: 978-0-19-504896-4, ISBN: 0-19-504896-2 "This series is published yearly by the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It is edited by Jonathan Frankel, Peter Medding, and Ezra Mendelsohn, all distinguished professors of history at The Hebrew University. Volume III, the first to be published by Oxford, includes symposia, articles, book reviews, and lists of recent dissertations by major scholars of Jewish history from around the world. This yea ..." |
 | | Zionism in Poland(1st Edition) The Formative years, 1915-1926 by Ezra Mendelsohn Hardcover, 373 Pages, Published 1982 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-02448-7, ISBN: 0-300-02448-7 |
 | | Studies in Contemporary Jewry(1st Edition) Volume XIX: Jews and the State: Dangerous Alliances and the Perils of Privilege (v. 19) by Ezra Mendelsohn Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2004 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-517087-0, ISBN: 0-19-517087-3 "In 1988, Moshe Gershuni glazed a series of porcelain plates, using the German swastika. For a detailed description of Gershuni's attitude toward the Holocaust, see Roee Rosen, “The Visibility and Invisibility of Trauma Traces of the Holocaust in the Work of Moshe Gershuni and in Israeli Art,” The Jerusalem Review (1997), 98–118. See also “Gershuni's File,” a special issue of Studio—Israeli Art Magazine 76 (Oct.-Nov. 1996). Pinchas ..." |
 | | On Modern Jewish Politics (Studies in Jewish History) by Ezra Mendelsohn Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 1993 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-503864-4, ISBN: 0-19-503864-9 "This book is a concise guide to and analysis of the complexities of modern Jewish politics in the interwar European and American diaspora. "Jewish politics" refers to the different and opposing visions of the Jewish future as formulated by various Jewish political parties and organizations and their efforts to implement their programs and thereby solve the "Jewish question." Mendelsohn begins by attempting a typology of these Jewish p ..." |
 | | The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars (A Midland Book) by Ezra Mendelsohn Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1983 by Indiana Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-253-33160-1, ISBN: 0-253-33160-9 ""... a carefully crafted and important book... a first-class contribution to the literature on modern Europe." ―American Historical Review"... valuable... the first historical work to attempt a ‘synthetic sketch’ of the problems indicated in the title." ―Journal of Polish Jewish StudiesAn illuminating study of the demographic, cultural, and socioeconomic condition of East Central European Jewry, the book focuses on the internal life of ..." |
 | | Class Struggle in the Pale(1st Edition) The Formative Years of the Jewish Workers' Movement in Tsarist Russia by Ezra Mendelsohn Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1970 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-07730-9, ISBN: 0-521-07730-3 "Beginning in the 1890s, and continuing into the twentieth century, Jewish workers in the Russian Pale of Settlement organised themselves to improve their economic and cultural situation. Their struggle was the result of an alliance with the Jewish socialist intelligentsia, which began by teaching workers in select 'circles' and ended by assuming the leadership of a mass labour movement. In this book, originally published in 1970, Dr Men ..." |
 | | The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars(Reprint) (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series) by Yisrael Gutman, Ezra Mendelsohn, Jehuda Reinharz, Chone Shmeruk, Israel Gutman, Brandeis University Press, Professor Jehuda Reinharz Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 1989 by Brandeis University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87451-555-8, ISBN: 0-87451-555-6 "Jews have long seen the interwar years as a “golden age” for Polish Jewry and hold it in special reverence because of the community’s heroic struggle against the encroaching darkness of antisemitism. During the years 1918 to 1939, Polish Jews constituted the largest Jewish community in noncommunist Europe and were the leading cultural and political force in the Jewish Diaspora. In this volume distinguished American, West European, Israe ..." |
 | | The Jews of Poland between Two World Wars(1st Edition) (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry) by Yisrael Gutman, Ezra Mendelsohn, Jehuda Reinharz, Chone Shmeruk Hardcover, 574 Pages, Published 1989 by University Press Of New England ISBN-13: 978-0-87451-446-9, ISBN: 0-87451-446-0 "Jews have long seen the interwar years as a “golden age” for Polish Jewry and hold it in special reverence because of the community’s heroic struggle against the encroaching darkness of antisemitism. During the years 1918 to 1939, Polish Jews constituted the largest Jewish community in noncommunist Europe and were the leading cultural and political force in the Jewish Diaspora. In this volume distinguished American, West European, Israe ..." |
 | | Against the Grain Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times by Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman, Richard I. Cohen 320 Pages, Published 2014 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78238-003-0, ISBN: 1-78238-003-5 "Strauss's followers argue that Strauss, a critic of liberalism and modernity, supported democracy in its battle against ... However none of the researchers try to incorporate Strauss's attitude toward Marx and Marxism as part of his anti- communist views. 8. ... The critique was expanded in Shadia Dru- ry's book The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss (New York, 1988), which ... For a similar version of the article, see Leo Strauss, “An ..." |
 | | Painting a People(1st Edition) Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry) by Ezra Mendelsohn Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2002 by Brandeis ISBN-13: 978-1-58465-179-6, ISBN: 1-58465-179-2 "Maurycy Gottlieb was born in 1856 in the small city known in Polish as Drohobycz, then attached to the province of Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the course of his very short life (he died at age 23), Gottlieb painted dozens of extraordinary works that have since found homes in museums in eastern Europe. (where he has long been honored as a Polish artist) and in Israel, where, following a major exhibition in 1991 in Tel-Aviv ..." |
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