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  • From Germany to Palestine

    Social Work in Germany and the Emergence of Modern Welfare Systems for Jews in Palestine 1890 – 1948

    by Franz-Michael Konrad ...
    The book deals with a historically unique case of international transfer of professionalknowledge and techniques in social care and social work.Principles of modern social work were introduced to the Jewish Jishuv (pre-statecommunity) in Palestine largely by German-Jewish welfare experts who immigratedin the 1930s. These social workers, mostly women and trained at the schools for socialwork in ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

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  • The People's State

    by Mary Fulbrook ...
    What was life really like for East Germans, effectively imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain? The headline stories of Cold War spies and surveillance by the secret police, of political repression and corruption, do not tell the whole story. After the unification of Germany in 1990 many East Germans remembered their lives as interesting, varied, and full of educational, career, and leisure ... Read more

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  • A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945

    Politics, Culture, and Society

    by Michael Brenner ...
    A comprehensive account of Jewish life in a country that carries the legacy of being at the epicenter of the Holocaust.Originally published in German in 2012, this comprehensive history of Jewish life in postwar Germany provides a systematic account of Jews and Judaism from the Holocaust to the early 21st Century by leading experts of modern German-Jewish history. Beginning in the immediate ... Read more

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  • The Dynamics of Right-Wing Extremism within German Society

    Escape into Authoritarianism

    Edited by Oliver Decker, Johannes Kiess, Elmar Brähler ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
    The Dynamics of Right-Wing Extremism within German Society explores the prevalence of right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany.The book provides a thorough psychosocial and sociological theory of general authoritarian dynamics to explain broader societal attitudes, particularly focusing on right-wing extremism. It provides a uniquely long-term perspective on the different dimensions of right-wing ... Read more

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  • Israel in History

    The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective

    by Derek Penslar ...
    Covering topical issues concerning the nature of the Israeli state, this engaging work presents essays that combine a variety of comparative schemes, both internal to Jewish civilization and extending throughout the world, such as:modern Jewish society, politics and culturehistorical consciousness in the twentieth centurycolonialism, anti-colonialism and postcolonial state-building.With its open ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • Jewish People, Yiddish Nation

    Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland

    by Kalman Weiser ...
    Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth century. Prylucki's dramatic path - from russified Zionist raised in a Ukrainian shtetl, to Diaspora nationalist parliamentarian in metropolitan Warsaw, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Germans into Jews

    Remaking the Jewish Social Body in the Weimar Republic

    by Sharon Gillerman ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Germans into Jews turns to an often overlooked and misunderstood period of German and Jewish history—the years between the world wars. It has been assumed that the Jewish community in Germany was in decline during the Weimar Republic. But, Sharon Gillerman demonstrates that Weimar Jews sought to rejuvenate and reconfigure their community as a means both of strengthening the German nation and of ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • German Colonialism

    Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany

    Edited by Volker Langbehn, Mohammad Salama ...
    More than half a century before the mass executions of the Holocaust, Germany devastated the peoples of southwestern Africa. While colonialism might seem marginal to German history, new scholarship compares these acts to Nazi practices on the Eastern and Western fronts. With some of the most important essays from the past five years exploring the "continuity thesis," this anthology debates the ... Read more

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  • Looking for an Enemy

    8 Essays on Antisemitism

    Edited by Jo Glanville ...
    Great Jewish thinkers offer salient historical commentary on the roots of antisemitism and its contemporary resurgence.From medieval accusations that Jews murder Christians for their blood to the far-right conspiracy theories animating present-day political discourse, it’s clear that the belief that Jews are plotting against society never dies—it just adapts to suit the times. In eight ... Read more

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  • In Search of Jewish Community

    Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918–1933

    by Michael Brenner, Derek J. Penslar ...
    A collection of essays interrogates the nature of Jewish identity in the time between two world wars.The history of Jews in interwar Germany and Austria is often viewed either as the culmination of tremendous success in the economic and cultural realms and of individual assimilation and acculturation, or as the beginning of the road that led to Auschwitz. By contrast, this volume demonstrates a re ... Read more

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  • West Germany and the Global Sixties

    The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962–1978

    by Timothy Scott Brown ...
    Series series New Studies in European History
    The anti-authoritarian revolt of the 1960s and 1970s was a watershed in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. The rebellion of the so-called '68ers' - against cultural conformity and the ideological imperatives of the Cold War, against the American war in Vietnam, and in favor of a more open accounting for the crimes of the Nazi era - helped to inspire a dialogue on democratization with ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Anti-Semitism and Schooling Under the Third Reich

    by Gregory Wegner ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Education
    This book investigates the anti-Semitic foundations of Nazi curricula for elementary schools, with a focus on the subjects of biology, history, and literature. Gregory Paul Wegner argues that any study of Nazi society and its values must probe the education provided by the regime. Schools, according to Wegner, play a major role in advancing ideological justifications for mass murder, and in ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD