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Umfang: xi, 654 Seiten : , Illustrationen, Karten.

ISBN: 978-1-59420-673-3 , 978-0-14-311099-6

Inhalt: "In May of 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, effectively putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and desperate foreigners, and attempted to repatriate them to Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and the USSR. But after exhaustive efforts, there remained over a million displaced persons who either refused to go home or, in the case of many, had no home to which to return. They would spend the next three to five years in displaced persons camps, divided by nationalities, temporary homelands in exile, with their own police forces, churches, schools, newspapers, and medical facilities.

Inhalt: The international community couldn't agree on the fate of the Last Million, and after a year of fruitless debate and inaction, an International Refugee Organization was created to resettle them in lands suffering from labor shortages. But no nations were willing to accept the 200,000 to 250,000 Jewish men, women, and children who remained trapped in Germany. In 1948, the United States, among the last countries to accept anyone for resettlement, finally passed a Displaced Persons Bill - but as Cold War fears supplanted memories of WWII atrocities, the bill only granted visas to those who were reliably anti-communist, including thousands of former Nazi collaborators, Waffen-SS members, and war criminals, while barring the Jews who were suspected of being Communist sympathizers or agents because they had been recent residents of Soviet-dominated Poland.

Inhalt: Only after the passage of the controversial UN resolution for the partition of Palestine and Israel's declaration of independence were the remaining Jewish survivors finally able to leave their displaced persons camps in Germany."--

Anmerkung: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke. - Includes bibliographical references and index , From Poland and Ukraine : Forced Laborers, 1941-1945 -- From Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Western Ukraine -- From the Concentration and Death Camps -- Alone, Abandoned, Determined, the She'erit Hapletah Organizes -- The Harrison Mission, Report, and Consequences -- The U.S., the UK, the USSR, and UNRRA -- Inside the DP Camps -- "The War Department Is Very Anxious" -- "U.S. Begins Purge in German Camps. Will Weed Out Nazis, -- Fascist Sympathizers and Criminals Among Displaced Persons," -- New York Times, March 10, 1946 -- The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Issues Its Report -- The Polish Jews Escape into Germany -- Fiorello La Guardia to the Rescue -- The Death of UNRRA -- "Send Them Here," Life Magazine, September 23, 1946 -- Fact-Finding in Europe -- "The Best Migrant Types" -- "So Difficult of Solution" Jewish Displaced Persons -- "Jewish Immigration Is the Central Issue in Palestine Today" -- "A Noxious Mess Which Defies Digestion" -- "A Shameful Victory for [the] School of Bigotry" -- "Get These People Moving" -- "The Utilization of Refugees from the Soviet Union -- in the U.S. National Interest" -- The Displaced Persons Act of 1950 -- McCarran's Internal Security Act Restricts the Entry of Communist Subversives -- "The Nazis Come In" -- The Gates Open Wide -- Aftermaths

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-69840-663-6

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Geschichte

Schlagwort(e): Flüchtling ; Vertreibung ; Umsiedlung ; Juden ; Staatenlosigkeit ; Nachkriegszeit ; History ; History

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Umfang: 1 online resource (352 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9798765108116

Inhalt: 〈b〉This book establishes the profound significance of MGM's 1940 film 〈i〉The Mortal Storm〈/i〉, the first major Hollywood production to depict the plight of Jews in Germany before the Holocaust. 〈/b〉 Based on Phyllis Bottome's best seller, also titled 〈i〉The Mortal Storm〈/i〉, the film was made amidst the bitter debate that occurred between 1938 and 1941 over whether the United States should involve itself in another European war or remain an isolationist country, as Charles Lindbergh among others urged. In 1941, the film triggered the first hostile Congressional investigation of Hollywood where the studios were accused of allegedly propagandizing for war. Lindbergh had secretly urged the Hollywood hearings, inspired by his own growing antisemitism, as his unpublished diary reveals. Hollywood studios, in turn, regarded the growing European crisis with ambivalence. They feared being accused in a film like 〈i〉The Mortal Storm〈/i〉 of using the movies to represent the fate of Europe's imperiled Jews. Louis B. Mayer, the head of MGM, insisted the word "Jew" be removed from the film and "non-Aryan" be used instead, hoping to confuse American audiences about the film's real intent. Jimmy Stewart, who starred in the film, took it on the road to urge American aid to Britain, while Lindbergh prepared his own campaign to denounce American Jews for luring the country into war. The book reveals how closely Hollywood and politics were entwined on the eve of war. It also reveals how closely the plight of Europe's Jews and American antisemitism were entwined at the same time.

Anmerkung: 〈i〉Acknowledgements〈/i〉 〈i〉Illustrations/Photos〈/i〉 〈i〉Prologue〈/i〉 Introduction 1. A Matter of Timing 2. Novelist of War 3. Selling 〈i〉The Mortal Storm〈/i〉 to Hollywood 4. In Production, 1939 5. In Production, 1940 6. June 20, 1940: Did Anyone Have Time to Go to the Movies? 7. The Response to 〈i〉The Mortal Storm〈/i〉, 1940 8. The Response to 〈i〉The Mortal Storm〈/i〉, 1941 〈i〉Epilogue: Hollywood Almost Missed the Bus, Again〈/i〉 〈i〉Essay on Sources〈/i〉 〈i〉Index〈/i〉

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.5040/9798765108116

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Umfang: 1 online resource (264 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9781438483306

Serie: SUNY Press Open Access Ser.

Inhalt: Argues that Jewishness is an essential element of Argentina's self-fashioning as a modern nation.

Anmerkung: Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Planting Wheat and Reaping Doctors: Another Way of Being Argentine -- 2 Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Anxiety -- 3 Provisional Identity -- 4 Family Stories and the Invention of Memory -- 5 Jewish Legibility and Argentine Self-Fashioning -- 6 Incidental Jewishness -- 7 Embedded Jewishness: Memory and the State in Times of Terror -- 8 Troubling Difference: Jewishness, Gender, and Transgressive Sexuality -- By Way of Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Kaminsky, Amy K. The Other/Argentina Albany : State University of New York Press,c2021 ISBN 9781438483290

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Ethnologie

Schlagwort(e): Electronic books.

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxiv, 328 Seiten, 32 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln) : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-1-5013-3617-1 , 978-1-5013-3616-4 , 978-1-5013-3615-7

Inhalt: "Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925) was one of the most important Jewish artists of modern times. As a successful illustrator, photographer, painter and printer, he became the first major Zionist artist. Surprisingly there has been little in-depth scholarly research and analysis of Lilien's work available in English, making this book an important contribution to historical and art-historical scholarship. Concentrating mainly on his illustrations for journals and books, Lynne Swarts acknowledges the importance of Lilien's groundbreaking male iconography in Zionist art, but is the first to examine Lilien's complex and nuanced depiction of women, which comprised a major dimension of his work. Lilien's female images offer a compelling glimpse of an alternate, independent and often sexually liberated modern Jewish woman, a portrayal that often eluded the Zionist imagination. Using an interdisciplinary approach to integrate intellectual and cultural history with issues of gender, Jewish history and visual culture, Swarts also explores the important fin de siècle tensions between European and Oriental expressions of Jewish femininity. The work demonstrates that Lilien was not a minor figure in the European art scene, but a major figure whose work needs re-reading in light of his cosmopolitan and national artistic genius."

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index , Dissertation University of Sydney 2015 , "We put all our hope in him" : Lilien and His Oeuvre -- "No longer art speaking but culture" : Lilien, Zionism, and Male Aesthetics -- Boundaries and Borderlines : The "New Woman" and the New Jewish Woman -- The Dangerous "Other" : Lilien's Femmes Fatales, Other Male Avant-garde Behavior, and Elsa Lasker-Schüler's Transgendered Vision -- Biblical Heroines, Biblical Illustrations, and the Search for Meaning -- Ost und West, Zionism, and the Construction of German Jewish Orientalism -- The Exotic "Other" : Lilien's Oriental Beauties and a Jewish Oriental Voice. - Mode of access: World Wide Web

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-5013-3614-0

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Kunstgeschichte

Schlagwort(e): 1874-1925 Lilien, Ephraim Mose ; Frau ; Frauenbild ; Geschlechterrolle ; Orientalismus ; Judentum ; Hochschulschrift ; Electronic books

DOI: 10.5040/9781501336171

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 300 Seiten).

ISBN: 978-0-231-55178-6

Serie: Religion, Culture, and Public Life Band 42

Inhalt: Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of the most prominent Muslims in Germany prior to World War II. He was renamed Israel by the Nazis and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp before escaping to Switzerland. He was a gay man who never called himself gay but fought for homosexual rights and wrote queer fiction under the pen name Hans Alienus during his decades of exile.In German, Jew, Muslim, Gay, Marc David Baer uses Marcus’s life and work to shed new light on a striking range of subjects, including German Jewish history and anti-Semitism, Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the history of the gay rights struggle. Baer explores how Marcus created a unique synthesis of German, gay, and Muslim identity that positioned Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an intellectual and spiritual model. Marcus’s life offers a new perspective on sexuality and on competing conceptions of gay identity in the multilayered world of interwar and postwar Europe. His unconventional story reveals new aspects of the interconnected histories of Jewish and Muslim individuals and communities, including Muslim responses to Nazism and Muslim experiences of the Holocaust. An intellectual biography of an exceptional yet little-known figure, German, Jew, Muslim, Gay illuminates the complexities of twentieth-century Europe’s religious, sexual, and cultural politics

Anmerkung: In English

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-231-19670-3

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-231-19671-0

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Geschichte

Schlagwort(e): 1880-1966 Marcus, Hugo ; Biografie

DOI: 10.7312/baer19670

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Umfang: 1 online resource (272 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9781501359712

Serie: Comparative Jewish Literatures

Inhalt: 〈b〉Focuses on a range of Jewish and non-Jewish〈/b〉 〈b〉writers to examine the intersection of Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, and secular Jewish literatures.〈/b〉 〈i〉Kabbalah and Literature〈/i〉 shows how the Jewish mystical tradition contributes to the renewal of literature in a modern, global, and increasingly disconnected age. Kitty Millet explores Kabbalah's conceptual underpinnings, aesthetic principles, tenets, and signifiers to demonstrate how literature's absorption of kabbalistic material has altered its ontology, function, and the tasks it sets for itself. Reading writers from Europe and the Americas, Kitty Millet maps how the kabbalist's desire to "recover Eden" transforms into a latent messianic drive only intuitable through text. Thus it charts a journey of sorts, a migration of Jewish mystical material embedded surreptitiously within text in order to shift ever so slightly at times the range of the literary to encompass an aesthetic vision not easily reducible to the literal, the known, the allegorical, or even the philosophical. In this way, 〈i〉Kabbalah and Literature〈/i〉 proposes a novel, intuitive approach, shifting focus away from the Jewish text's epistemological elements to embrace its "secrets."

Anmerkung: 〈i〉Acknowledgments〈/i〉 〈b〉Introduction: Preliminary Remarks〈/b〉 - Kabbalah in Fiction - Literature, Mimesis, Fictional Genealogies - Scholem's "Metaphysics" of Kabbalah and Literature - Parsing the Kabbalah in Modern Fiction 〈b〉Part 1. The Other's Path and the Redemption of Ben Aher〈/b〉 1. Jacob Frank, "Heretic of Kabbalah" 2. Heretics and Heresies of Innovation 3. Heinrich Heine, Poet/Prophet of the "Innovated Text" 4. Kafka, Prophet of Failure 5. Being and Nothingness: The Matter of Golems 〈b〉Part 2. Letter Phenomenologies of Modernist Kabbalahs〈/b〉 6. Golems of Text and Bruno Schulz's "Interminable 〈i〉Aggadot〈/i〉" 7. The "Absolute Object" in Argentino's Basement 8. Lost Letters 9. "There Must Be Other Songs beyond Mankind" Conclusion: Literature's Messianic Moments 〈i〉Notes〈/i〉 〈i〉Bibliography〈/i〉 〈i〉Index〈/i〉

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.5040/9781501359712

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Umfang: 1 online resource (88 p.) : , 35 color illustrations

ISBN: 9780271092225 , 9783110754001

Inhalt: "Ask the beast and it will teach thee, and the birds of heaven and they will tell thee." -Job 12:7In the Middle Ages, the bestiary achieved a popularity second only to that of the Bible. In addition to being a kind of encyclopedia of the animal kingdom, the bestiary also served as a book of moral and religious instruction, teaching human virtues through a portrayal of an animal's true or imagined behavior. In A Jewish Bestiary, Mark Podwal revisits animals, both real and mythical, that have captured the Jewish imagination through the centuries.Originally published in 1984 and called "broad in learning and deep in subtle humor" by the New York Times, this updated edition of A Jewish Bestiary features new full-color renderings of thirty-five creatures from Hebraic legend and lore. The illustrations are accompanied by entertaining and instructive tales drawn from biblical, talmudic, midrashic, and kabbalistic sources. Throughout, Podwal combines traditional Jewish themes with his own distinctive style. The resulting juxtaposition of art with history results in a delightful and enlightening bestiary for the twenty-first century.From the ant to the ziz, herein are the creatures that exert a special force on the Jewish fancy.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , A JEWISH Bestiary -- , The Ant -- , The Ass -- , The Azazel-Goat -- , The Barnacle Goose -- , The Bear -- , Behemoth -- , The Cock -- , The Crab -- , The Dove -- , The Fox -- , The Frog -- , The Gazelle -- , The Gnat -- , The Golden Calf -- , The Great Fish -- , The Hare -- , The Hoopoe -- , Leviathan -- , The Lion -- , Nebuchadnezzar as a Beast -- , The Ostrich -- , The Phoenix -- , The Ram -- , The Raven -- , The Red Heifer -- , The Re'em -- , The Salamander -- , The Scorpion -- , The Serpent -- , The Snail -- , The Spider -- , The Stork -- , The Swine -- , The Unicorn -- , Ziz -- , Selected Bibliography , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780271092225

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Umfang: 1 online resource (248 p.) : , 1 b-w illus.

ISBN: 9780300258103 , 9783110754001

Serie: Jewish Lives

Inhalt: The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip";Fast-paced and absorbing. . . . With a keen eye for the amusing, and humanizing detail, [Shnayerson] enlivens the traditional rise-and-fall narrative.";-Jenna Weissman Joselit, New York Times Book Review";[A] brisk-reading chronicle.";-Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (1906-1947) rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an early-twentieth-century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own making in Las Vegas. In this captivating portrait, author Michael Shnayerson sets out not to absolve Bugsy Siegel but rather to understand him in all his complexity. Through the 1920s, 1930s, and most of the 1940s, Bugsy Siegel and his longtime partner in crime Meyer Lansky engaged in innumerable acts of violence. As World War II came to an end, Siegel saw the potential for a huge, elegant casino resort in the sands of Las Vegas. Jewish gangsters built nearly all of the Vegas casinos that followed. Then, one by one, they disappeared. Siegel's story laces through a larger, generational story of eastern European Jewish immigrants in the early- to mid-twentieth century.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Prologue -- , 1. The Lure of the Streets -- , 2. Marriage and Murder -- , 3. Sportsman in Paradise -- , 4. The Masterminds of Murder Inc. -- , 5. Going After Big Greenie -- , 6. The Flamingo -- , 7. The Start of an Ill-Starred Romance -- , 8. Bugsy Takes Charge -- , 9. His Every Red Cent at Risk -- , 10. The Flamingo's First Flight -- , 11. Time Runs Out -- , Epilogue -- , Notes -- , Selected Bibliography -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index -- , Published titles , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Sprache: Englisch

URL: https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300258103

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Umfang: 1 online resource (284 p.)

ISBN: 9780271094670 , 9783110993899

Serie: Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

Inhalt: Alan Mintz (1947-2017) was a singular figure in the American Jewish literary landscape. In addition to publishing six authoritative books and numerous journal articles on modern and contemporary Jewish culture, Mintz contributed countless reviews and essays to literary journals, including the New Republic, the New York Times Book Review, and the Jewish Review of Books. Scattered in miscellaneous volumes and publications, these writings reveal aspects of Mintz's scholarly personality that are not evident in his monographs.American Hebraist collects fifteen of Mintz's most insightful articles and essays. The topics range from the life and work of Nobel Prize winner S. Y. Agnon-including a chapter from Mintz's unfinished literary biography of that author-to Jewish and Israeli literature, the Holocaust, and a rare autobiographical essay. The chapters are introduced and contextualized by Mintz's longtime colleague and friend David Stern, who opens the book by tracing the arc of Mintz's intellectual career; the volume concludes with a personal essay and remembrance written by Beverly Bailis, the last student to complete a doctorate under Mintz's direction.Brimming with erudition and intriguing biographical notes, American Hebraist provides new insights into the life and work of one of the twentieth century's most important scholars of modern Hebrew literature. Students and scholars alike will benefit from this essential companion to Mintz's scholarship.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , American Hebraist: An Introduction -- , 1 Agnon's Childhood -- , 2 Agnon in Jaffa: The Myth of the Artist as a Young Man -- , 3 Agnon Without End -- , 4 In the Seas of Youth -- , 5 On "The Sense of Smell" by S. Y. Agnon -- , 6 Reading Hahazanim -- , 7 Writing About Ourselves: Jewish Autobiography, Modern and Premodern -- , 8 Ahad Ha-Am and the Essay: The Vicissitudes of Reason -- , 9 Sefer Ha'aggadah: Triumph or Tragedy? -- , 10 Israeli Literature in the Minds of American Readers -- , 11 Haim Gouri at 90 -- , 12 Viva Voce: Vicissitudes of the Spoken Word in Hebrew Literature -- , 13 Knocking on Heaven's Gate: Hebrew Literature and Wisse's Canon -- , 14 Modern Hebrew Literature and Jewish Theology: Repositioning the Question -- , 15 Hebrew in America: A Memoir -- , Epilogue: Packing Up an Office; The Work of Mourning and the Creation of an Archive , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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DOI: 10.1515/9780271094670

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