"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
Class Struggle in the Pale(1st Edition) The Formative Years of the Jewish Worker's Movement in Tsarist Russia by EzraMendelsohn 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 ..."
Jews and the Sporting Life Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII by EzraMendelsohn 304 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-045238-4, ISBN: 0-19-045238-2
"... despite “diminishing [!] threats”), a reluctant peace policy (“Never Missing an
Opportunity to Miss an Opportunity”), and finally, the domination of “a centralized,
narrowminded, selfserving, and selfperpetuating security community.” Over the
course of the book, however, Maoz's central arguments lose their robust
explanatory power. Bordering on the obsessive, his unremitting criticism
becomes entirely counterproductive, detract ..."
Jews and the Sporting Life Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII by EzraMendelsohn 304 Pages, Published 2008 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-972479-6, ISBN: 0-19-972479-2
"Such discussion was led by Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, Aharon Lichtenstein, and the
late Charles Liebman; the last two later settled in Israel. Yeshiva students and the
contributors are very articulate, but those few years were probably the only time
that they could have felt part of the great American campus. The very openness of
that period, however, distressed many students and their teachers. Contributors
who lived through the 196 ..."
Painting a People Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art (The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series) by EzraMendelsohn Paperback, 279 Pages, Published 2004 by University Press Of New England ISBN-13: 978-1-58465-180-2, ISBN: 1-58465-180-6
"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 twenty-three), Gottlieb painted dozens of extraordinary works that have since found homes in museums in eastern Europe and in Israel, where, following a major exhibition in 1991 in Tel-Aviv, he achieved the status of a founding fath ..."
Studies in Contemporary Jewry Studies in Contemporary Jewry : Volume XIX: Jews and the State: Dangerous Alliances and the Perils of Privilege : Volume XIX: Jews and the State: Dangerous Alliances and the Perils of Privilege by EzraMendelsohn 336 Pages, Published 2004 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-534687-9, ISBN: 0-19-534687-4
"David Rechter, The Jews of Vienna and the First World War. London: Littman
Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001. xiii 218 pp. As time passes, the lost world of
early 20th-century Vienna grows both closer and more distant from us: closer,
insofar as the recent collapse of familiar imperial paradigms and global orders
seems to awaken shades of the chaos and uncertainty surrounding the fall of the
Habsburg and other empires at the end ..."
Jews and the State Dangerous Alliances and the Perils of Privilege by EzraMendelsohn Published 2003 ISBN-13: 978-1-4237-2063-8, ISBN: 1-4237-2063-6
Painting a People(1st Edition) Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry) by EzraMendelsohn 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 ..."
Studies in Contemporary Jewry Volume XV: People of the City: Jews and the Urban Challenge by EzraMendelsohn 288 Pages, Published 2000 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-028549-4, ISBN: 0-19-028549-4
"3. See Steven Lowenstein, “The Rural Community and the Urbanization of
German Jewry,” Central European History 13, no. 3 (Sept. 1980), 218–236; and
idem, “The 1840s and the Creation of the German-Jewish Religious Reform
Movement,” in Revolution and Evolution: 1848 in German-Jewish History, ed.
Werner E. Mosse, Arnold Paucker and Reinhard Rürup (Tübingen: 1982), 255–
297; Lisa Harries-Schumann, “Between Orthodoxy and Reform, Revoluti ..."
Studies in Contemporary Jewry Volume XV: People of the City: Jews and the Urban Challenge : Volume XV: People of the City: Jews and the Urban Challenge by EzraMendelsohn 288 Pages, Published 2000 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-535065-4, ISBN: 0-19-535065-0
"Their book does provide important details about the process of euthanasia.
Beyond this, through the diary of one doctor, Hermann Voss, and through the
letters to his wife written by another doctor, Friedrich Mennecke, it also provides a
certain insight into the minds of the perpetrators. Götz Aly is responsible for the
bulk of the book, while Christian Pross wrote the introduction and Peter Chroust
edited selected letters of Dr. Me ..."
Studies in Contemporary Jewry Volume XII: Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts: Volume XII: Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts by EzraMendelsohn 400 Pages, Published 1996 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-535468-3, ISBN: 0-19-535468-0
"... and Annette Wieviorka's insightful study of Jewish identity in the first accounts
of Holocaust survivors in France. On the whole, however, the collection is an
uneven effort that suffers from the lack of a clearly articulated unifying theme. The
volume would have benefited greatly from a foreword or an afterword that
explained the reasons for and the major components of the present-day search
for an intellectually consistent an ..."
Studies in Contemporary Jewry Volume IX: Modern Jews and Their Musical Agendas: Volume IX: Modern Jews and Their Musical Agendas by EzraMendelsohn 400 Pages, Published 1993 by Institute Of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University Of Jerusalem ISBN-13: 978-0-19-535882-7, ISBN: 0-19-535882-1
"It is enough to think of such personalities, Jews and non-Jews, as the composer
Gyorgy Kurtag, the pianist Zoltan Kocsis, the conductor Albert Simon or, among
the composers of the younger generation, Zoltan Jeney and Gyula Csapo. Jews,
who are still a vital force in this culture, feel as they did sixty years ago that this "
secularly spiritual" life is fully theirs. And while it is hard to predict how lasting
such a situation will b ..."
"My colleague Milly Heyd was of great help in the preparation of the artwork that
accompanies the text. ... I am grateful to Nancy Lane, senior editor at Oxford
University Press, for her patience and encouragement, and to her assistant,
Edward ..."
On Modern Jewish Politics (Studies in Jewish History) by EzraMendelsohn 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 ..."
"... readers had to refer to the index volume to find out that “C. L.” referred to Curt
Leviant or “G. Sch.” to Gershom Scholem. In the second edition, the introduction
informs us, full names are provided, and entries produced by the editorial staff, “
the ubiquitous 'ED.' ” of the first edition, are “unsigned, unless the second edition
update or revision was significant enough to warrant its attribution to the second
edition contrib ..."
"The seventh volume of the acclaimed annual publication of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jews and Messianism in the Modern Era: Metaphor and Meaning examines the significance and meaning of messianic metaphors, themes, and ideals in modern Jewish history and culture. In addition to the standard symposia, book reviews, and lists of recent dissertations in Jewish studies, the volume includes co ..."
Studies in Contemporary Jewry Volume VI: Art and Its Uses: The Visual Image and Modern Jewish Society: Volume VI: Art and Its Uses: The Visual Image and Modern Jewish Society by EzraMendelsohn, Richard I. Cohen 432 Pages, Published 1990 by Institute Of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University Of Jerusalem ISBN-13: 978-0-19-536286-2, ISBN: 0-19-536286-1
"R. B. Kitaj, The Divinity School Address, 1983–1985. Oil on canvas, 36 × 48 in. (
91.4 × 121.9 cm). (Photograph, R. B. Kitaj, Marlborough Fine Art, London/
Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1985–1986, cat. no. ... Marco Livingstone, R. B.
Kitaj (Oxford: 1985), 8. 2. Ibid., 9. 3. Frederic Tuten, "Neither Fool, nor Naive, nor
Poseur-Saint: Fragments on R. B. Kitaj," Artforum (January 1982), 65. 4.
Livingstone, Kitaj, 9. 5. Timothy Hyman, ..."