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  • Jews in Canada

    by Robert J. Brym ...
    Ethnic groups in Canada may be successful, persecuted, cohesive, or endangered; only Canada's Jews appear to embody all of these characteristics simultaneously. Canadian Jewry is enduringly fascinating, worth knowing about because the community is an archetype of multiculturalism as it confronts the difficulties and advantages of ethnicity in the modern world. By examining the achievements of the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Society, History, and the Global Human Condition

    Essays in Honor of Irving M. Zeitlin

    by Zaheer Baber, Robert J. Brym, Guang Xia, Maurice Zeitlin, Nedim Karakayali, Parvin Ghorayshi, Randall Collins, Rod Nelson, Meir Amor0, Andrew Eungi Kim1, Irving M. Zeitlin2, J.I. Bakker3, John Keane4, Professor Lord Anthony Giddens5, Michael Zeitlin6, Elijah Anderson7 ...
    This Festschrift for Irving M. Zeitlin honors a scholar whose work has influenced and continues to influence sociology, particularly classical sociological theory, sociology of religion, and historical sociology. Irving M. Zeitlin's scholarship and mentoring has also influenced and inspired a new generation of sociologists. The essays presented here address a wide range of topics that include ... Read more

    $168.99 CAD

  • Intellectuals and Politics (Routledge Revivals)

    by Robert Brym ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This essay, first published in 1980, analyses the relationship between intellectuals’ social locations and their political orientations. Dr Brym provides a critical discussion of the various sociological views of intellectuals and specifies some of the social conditions which encourage intellectuals to follow various directions on the political compass. He also demonstrates that intellectuals are ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Ever-Dying People?

    Canada’s Jews in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Robert Brym, Randal F. Schnoor ...
    Demise by assimilation or antisemitism is often held to be the inevitable future of Jews in Canada and other diaspora countries. The Ever-Dying People? shows that the Jewish diaspora, while often held to be in decline, is influenced by a range of identifiable sociological and historical forces, some of which breathe life into Jewish communities, including Canada’s.Bringing together leading ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Last Years of Polish Jewry

    Volume 2: The Permanent Pogrom, 1935–37

    by Yankev Leshchinsky, Robert Brym ...
    Translated by Eli Jany ...
    Ukrainian-born Yankev Leshchinsky (1876-1966) was the leading scholarly and journalistic analyst of Eastern European Jewish socioeconomic and political life from the 1920s to the 1950s. Known as “the dean of Jewish sociologists” and “the father of Jewish demography,” Leshchinsky published a series of insightful and moving essays in Yiddish on Polish Jewry between 1927 and 1937. Despite heightened ... Read more

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  • The Last Years of Polish Jewry

    Volume 1: At the Edge of the Abyss: Essays, 1927–33

    by Yankev Leshchinsky ...
    Translated by Robert Brym, Eli Jany ...
    Ukrainian-born Yankev Leshchinsky (1876–1966) was the leading scholarly and journalistic analyst of Eastern European Jewish socioeconomic and political life from the 1920s to the 1950s. Known as “the dean of Jewish sociologists” and “the father of Jewish demography,” Leshchinsky published a series of insightful and moving essays in Yiddish on Polish Jewry between 1927 and 1937. Despite heightened ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region

    by Masha Gessen ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    From the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the familiar narrative that begins with pogroms and ends with emigration.In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called ... Read more

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  • Who Will Write Our History?

    Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto

    by Samuel D. Kassow ...
    In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundereds of thousands as they suffered starvation, disease, and deportation by the Nazis ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism

    by Dale Stahl ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    To the dismay of many commentators – who had hoped the world was evolving into a more tolerant and multicultural community of nations united under the umbrellas of supranational movements like the European Union – the nationalism that was such a potent force in the history of the 20th-century has made a comeback in recent years. Now, more than ever, it seems important to understand what it is, how ... Read more

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  • The Tyranny of the Politically Correct

    by Keith Preston ...
    It is rare for anybody on the political "Left" to be critical of Political Correctness - it is after all a doctrine of their making - but in this book the anarchist Keith Preston is not only highly critical of the "PC" mindset, but he equates political correctness with the totalitarian regimes of Communist Russia and Nazi Germany. The banning of books, the intolerance of dissenters, and even show ... Read more

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  • Who Will Write Our History?

    Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive

    by Samuel D. Kassow ...
    In 1940, the historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine organization, code named Oyneg Shabes, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw to study and document all facets of Jewish life in wartime Poland and to compile an archive that would preserve this history for posterity. As the Final Solution unfolded, although decimated by murders and deportations, the group persevered in its work until the spring ... Read more

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  • Beyond the End of History

    Rejecting the Washington Consensus

    by Keith Preston ...
    In the quarter century that has passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, fanciful establishment intellectuals have advanced the idea that an “end of history” has somehow arrived. The model of “democratic capitalism” is said to be the final stage in the development of political economy. It is often suggested that it is simply a matter of waiting for the rest of the ... Read more

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