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  • Jewish Masculinities

    German Jews, Gender, and History

    Edited by Benjamin Maria Baader, Sharon Gillerman, Paul Lerner ...
    Studies exploring the history of the German-Jewish male identity from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, across a myriad of societal occupations.Stereotyped as delicate and feeble intellectuals, Jewish men in German-speaking lands in fact developed a rich and complex spectrum of male norms, models, and behaviors. Jewish Masculinities explores conceptions and experiences of masculinity among ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Consuming Temple

    Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940

    by Paul Lerner ...
    Department stores in Germany, like their predecessors in France, Britain, and the United States, generated great excitement when they appeared at the end of the nineteenth century. Their sumptuous displays, abundant products, architectural innovations, and prodigious scale inspired widespread fascination and even awe; at the same time, however, many Germans also greeted the rise of the department ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America

    Edited by Paul Lerner, Uwe Spiekermann, Anne Schenderlein ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book investigates the place and meaning of consumption in Jewish lives and the roles Jews played in different consumer cultures in modern Europe and North America. Drawing on innovative, original research into this new and challenging field, the volume brings Jewish studies and the history and theory of consumer culture into dialogue with each other. Its chapters explore Jewish businesspeople ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Feuchtwanger and Judaism

    History, Imagination, Exile

    Edited by Paul Lerner, Frank Stern ...
    Series Book 6 - Feuchtwanger Studies
    This collection of essays is devoted to the Jewish themes that ran through Lion Feuchtwanger’s life, works and worlds. Beginning with a selection of Feuchtwanger’s unpublished writings, speeches, and interviews, the volume examines the author’s approaches to Jewish history, Zionism, Judaism’s relationship to early Christianity and to eastern religions, and Jewish identity through his works, above ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

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    Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places

    by Erica T. Lehrer ...
    Series series New Anthropologies of Europe
    National Jewish Book Award Finalist: "A fresh and delightful portrait of Jewish renewal in Poland . . . Highly recommended." — ChoiceSince the end of Communism, Jews from around the world have visited Poland to tour Holocaust-related sites. A few venture further, seeking to learn about their own Polish roots and connect with contemporary Poles. For their part, a growing number of Poles are ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After the Holocaust

    Challenging the Myth of Silence

    Edited by David Cesarani, Eric J. Sundquist ...
    For the last decade scholars have been questioning the idea that the Holocaust was not talked about in any way until well into the 1970s. After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence is the first collection of authoritative, original scholarship to expose a serious misreading of the past on which, controversially, the claims for a ‘Holocaust industry’ rest. Taking an international approach ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Branded by the Pink Triangle

    by Ken Setterington ...
    A history of the persecution of gay men by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • An Analysis of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners

    Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

    by Simon Taylor, Tom Stammers ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also the subject of a Macat analysis. As such, the two analyses make possible some interesting critical thinking exercises focused on evaluation of the evidence used by the two historians. For Goldhagen, a chief reason for German actions was ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Rudolf Steiner as a Spiritual Teacher

    From Recollections of Those Who Knew Him

    by Peter Selg ...
    Translated by Catherine E. Creeger ...
    "He listened extremely attentively, apparently not looking at me at all, but totally devoted to my words." --Franz Kafka"The only love that you can show me is to call me anytime, day or night, when you need me." --Rudolf Steiner (to Friedrich Rittelmeyer)For Peter Selg, if Anthroposophy to be a living reality, we must learn to know and love Rudolf Steiner as he appeared to those who knew and loved ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • Free as a Jew

    A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation

    by Ruth R. Wisse ...
    First came parents with the good sense to flee Europe in 1940 and the good fortune to reach the land of freedom. Their daughter, Ruth, grew up in the shadow of genocide—but in tandem with the birth of Israel, which remained her lodestar. She learned that although Jewishness is biologically transmitted, democracy is not, and both require intensive, intelligent transmission through education in each ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany

    by Dagmar Reese ...
    Translated by William Templer ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany explores the world of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM), the female section within the Hitler Youth that included almost all German girls aged 10 to 14. The BDM is often enveloped in myths; German girls were brought up to be the compliant handmaidens of National Socialism, their mental horizon restricted to the "three Ks" of Kinder, Küche, Kirche (children, kitchen, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • An Analysis of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands

    Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

    by Helen Roche ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    A flagbearer for the increasingly fashionable genre of "transnational history," Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is, first and foremost, a stunning example of the critical thinking skill of evaluation. Snyder's linguistic precocity allows him to cite evidence in 10 languages, putting fresh twists on the familiar story of World War II fighting on the Eastern Front from 1941-45. In doing so, he works to ... Read more

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